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A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada by Stephen Leacock ~ Full Audiobook [history] Oct 24, 2022

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A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada by Stephen Leacock audiobook.

Genre: history

Stephen Leacock's The Dawn of Canadian History: A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada (often referenced by its subtitle, A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada) opens Canada's story long before the familiar era of colonies and Confederation. Written as part of the Chronicles of Canada series, Leacock begins with the land itself - ancient rock, ice, rivers, and the immense timescale that shaped the continent - and then turns to the first human presence in North America. With a brisk, storyteller's pace, he surveys the origins that nineteenth- and early twentieth-century writers debated, then introduces the diverse Indigenous peoples encountered by later newcomers, outlining major cultural groupings and lifeways across forests, plains, and the far north. From there the narrative follows the earliest European shadows on the Atlantic edge: the Norse sagas and their uncertain geography, the seafaring rumors that tempted later adventurers, and the Bristol voyages associated with John Cabot. The book builds toward the threshold moment just before sustained French exploration, showing how myth, commerce, and misunderstanding prepared the way for contact that would reshape the continent forever.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:13:25) Chapter 02

(00:30:32) Chapter 03

(00:55:27) Chapter 04

(01:21:08) Chapter 05

(01:51:02) Chapter 06

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The Life of St. Teresa by St. Teresa of Jesus ~ Full Audiobook [religion] Oct 24, 2022

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The Life of St. Teresa by St. Teresa of Jesus audiobook.

Genre: religion

Written in the voice of one of Christianity's most influential mystics, The Life of St. Teresa is St. Teresa of Jesus' own account of how a restless, imaginative girl in 16th-century Spain became a Carmelite nun and a fearless reformer. Teresa recounts her early love of stories and honor, the tug of worldly comforts, and the slow, demanding turn toward a life shaped by prayer, discipline, and obedience. As illness, doubt, and scrutiny press in, she describes an interior battle between distraction and devotion, and the hard-won practices that helped her persevere: honest self-knowledge, humility, spiritual friendship, and steady attention to God. Teresa also speaks plainly about extraordinary moments of contemplation and the challenges of discerning them, offering a candid look at how spiritual experience can bring both consolation and controversy. Part memoir, part confession, and part guide for the soul, this classic invites listeners into a deeply personal journey where courage is measured not only by public deeds, but by the daily choice to begin again.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:08:49) Chapter 02

(00:19:48) Chapter 03

(00:27:03) Chapter 04

(00:42:26) Chapter 05

(00:59:20) Chapter 06

(01:14:09) Chapter 07

(01:45:58) Chapter 08

(02:02:27) Chapter 09

(02:13:28) Chapter 10

(02:28:07) Chapter 11

(02:50:59) Chapter 12

(03:01:03) Chapter 13

(03:28:51) Chapter 14

(03:44:18) Chapter 15

(04:06:58) Chapter 16

(04:18:32) Chapter 17

(04:31:32) Chapter 18

(04:50:19) Chapter 19

(05:14:00) Chapter 20

(05:48:14) Chapter 21

(06:04:22) Chapter 22

(06:30:56) Chapter 23

(06:52:53) Chapter 24

(07:02:55) Chapter 25

(07:31:47) Chapter 26

(07:41:14) Chapter 27

(08:07:52) Chapter 28

(08:32:15) Chapter 29

(08:50:50) Chapter 30

(09:19:28) Chapter 31

(09:50:00) Chapter 32

(10:11:31) Chapter 33

(10:33:01) Chapter 34

(10:58:09) Chapter 35

(11:15:10) Chapter 36

(11:48:18) Chapter 37

(12:05:46) Chapter 38

(12:38:16) Chapter 39

(13:08:34) Chapter 40

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On Loving God by St. Bernard of Clairvaux ~ Full Audiobook [religion] Oct 24, 2022

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On Loving God by St. Bernard of Clairvaux audiobook.

Genre: religion

In On Loving God, St. Bernard of Clairvaux, the great 12th-century Cistercian abbot and preacher, offers a clear, searching guide to the most essential question of the spiritual life: why and how a human being comes to love God. Written as a brief treatise for fellow Christians seeking deeper prayer and truer freedom, the work begins with the realities of ordinary life - need, weakness, and self-interest - and turns them into the starting point for grace. Bernard traces the slow transformation of the heart through recognizable stages, from loving oneself for one's own sake, to loving God for what God gives, to learning to love God for God's own goodness. Along the way he confronts the tensions that keep love divided: pride, distraction, fear, and the desire to control. With warm pastoral candor and disciplined monastic wisdom, Bernard argues that genuine love is not a mood but a reorientation of desire, shaped by humility and sustained by contemplation. The result is both a spiritual map and an invitation: to let love mature until it becomes steadier, purer, and more like the love that first sought us.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:04:56) Chapter 02

(00:13:36) Chapter 03

(00:20:55) Chapter 04

(00:28:32) Chapter 05

(00:34:03) Chapter 06

(00:36:33) Chapter 07

(00:48:40) Chapter 08

(00:54:07) Chapter 09

(00:57:36) Chapter 10

(01:03:49) Chapter 11

(01:12:26) Chapter 12

(01:17:38) Chapter 13

(01:20:57) Chapter 14

(01:24:37) Chapter 15

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Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott ~ Full Audiobook [history] Oct 24, 2022

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Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott audiobook.

Genre: history

In medieval England, the long-absent King Richard is rumored to be returning, but the country is tense with rival loyalties, private vendettas, and the lingering divide between Norman rulers and Saxon subjects. Wilfred of Ivanhoe, a disinherited Saxon knight, comes home from crusade determined to restore his honor and win the hand of the high-born Lady Rowena, even as his estranged father Cedric pursues a different future for their people. When a grand tournament draws nobles, outlaws, and opportunists into the open, Ivanhoe is pulled into a web of feuds and kidnappings that tests his courage and his code of chivalry. Alongside him stand unlikely allies: the enigmatic pilgrim who seems to know more than he should, the bold yeoman Locksley and his forest band, and Rebecca, a brilliant healer whose compassion places her in grave danger in a world ruled by prejudice and power. With clashes of swords and clashes of conscience, Ivanhoe explores loyalty, justice, faith, and the price of belonging.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:24:54) Chapter 02

(00:58:12) Chapter 03

(01:19:06) Chapter 04

(01:40:17) Chapter 05

(02:04:33) Chapter 06

(02:40:21) Chapter 07

(03:13:42) Chapter 08

(03:44:05) Chapter 09

(04:08:26) Chapter 10

(04:35:11) Chapter 11

(04:54:45) Chapter 12

(05:25:55) Chapter 13

(05:49:40) Chapter 14

(06:13:48) Chapter 15

(06:28:07) Chapter 16

(06:59:03) Chapter 17

(07:12:14) Chapter 18

(07:34:18) Chapter 19

(07:53:38) Chapter 20

(08:10:46) Chapter 21

(08:32:38) Chapter 22

(08:57:21) Chapter 23

(09:18:21) Chapter 24

(09:49:18) Chapter 25

(10:12:20) Chapter 26

(10:31:47) Chapter 27

(11:19:09) Chapter 28

(11:52:44) Chapter 29

(12:20:54) Chapter 30

(12:46:47) Chapter 31

(13:23:17) Chapter 32

(13:54:19) Chapter 33

(14:23:07) Chapter 34

(14:42:13) Chapter 35

(15:14:10) Chapter 36

(15:35:53) Chapter 37

(16:11:48) Chapter 38

(16:33:26) Chapter 39

(17:04:26) Chapter 40

(17:45:04) Chapter 41

(18:05:35) Chapter 42

(18:35:15) Chapter 43

(19:01:49) Chapter 44

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Reflections on War and Death by Sigmund Freud ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy] Oct 21, 2022

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Reflections on War and Death by Sigmund Freud audiobook.

Genre: philosophy

Anyone, as Freud tells us in Reflections on War and Death, forced to react against his own impulses may be described as a hypocrite, whether he is conscious of it or not. One might even venture to assert—it is still Freud's argument—that our contemporary civilisation favours this sort of hypocrisy and that there are more civilised hypocrites than truly cultured persons, and it is even a question whether a certain amount of hypocrisy is not indispensable to maintain civilisation. When this travesty of civilisation, this infallible state that has regimented and dragooned its citizens into obedience, goes to war, Freud is pained but not surprised that it makes free use of every injustice, of every act of violence that would dishonour the individual, that it employs not only permissible cunning but conscious lies and intentional deception against the enemy, that it absolves itself from guarantees and treaties by which it was bound to other states and makes unabashed confession of its greed and aspiration to power. For conscience, the idea of right and wrong, in the Freudian sense, is not the inexorable judge that teachers of ethics say it is: it has its origin in nothing but 'social fear,' and whereas in times of peace the state forbids the individual to do wrong, not because it wishes to do away with wrongdoing but because it wishes to monopolise it, like salt or tobacco, it suspends its reproach in times of war. The suppression of evil desires also ceases, and men, finding the moral ties loosened between large human units, commit acts of cruelty, treachery, deception and brutality the very possibility of which would have been considered incompatible with their degree of culture.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:40:52) Chapter 02

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This Crowded Earth by Robert Bloch ~ Full Audiobook [scifi] Oct 21, 2022

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This Crowded Earth by Robert Bloch audiobook.

Genre: scifi

Robert Bloch (1917 – 1994) was a prolific writer in many genres. As a young man he was encouraged by his mentor H. P. Lovecraft, and was a close friend of Stanley G. Weinbaum. Besides hundreds of short stories and novels he wrote a number of television and film scripts including several for the original Star Trek. In 1959 Bloch wrote the novel Psycho which Alfred Hitchcock adapted to film a year later. He received the Hugo Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and he is a past president of the Mystery Writers of America. Published in Amazing Stories in 1958, This Crowded Earth is a thriller set on an overpopulated Earth of the future.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:29:26) Chapter 02

(01:09:47) Chapter 03

(01:17:04) Chapter 04

(01:23:39) Chapter 05

(01:31:43) Chapter 06

(02:00:10) Chapter 07

(02:11:06) Chapter 08

(02:32:48) Chapter 09

(02:49:36) Chapter 10

(03:05:31) Chapter 11

(03:11:23) Chapter 12

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Stamped Caution by Raymond Z. Gallun ~ Full Audiobook [scifi] Oct 21, 2022

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Stamped Caution by Raymond Z. Gallun audiobook.

Genre: scifi

When a strange spacecraft slams into a Missouri hillside, the Army moves in fast, sealing the site behind barbed wire and unanswered questions. Colonel Miller and a small team of investigators and scientists pick through scorched metal, radioactive fuel residue, and baffling machinery that looks unsettlingly familiar in places and utterly alien in others. Then they find the most troubling piece of evidence of all: a living Martian infant, sealed in a protective capsule, too fragile to send back and too unprecedented to ignore.Nicknamed Etl, the creature becomes the focus of a long, secret experiment in care, observation, and communication. As Etl grows from a helpless oddity into a curious, thinking being, the team faces escalating pressures from military protocol, scientific ambition, and the fear of what first contact might cost. Is Etl a guest, a specimen, or the opening move in an interplanetary encounter? And if humanity cannot even agree on what he is, how can they hope to meet his people on honest terms?Stamped Caution is a tense, humane classic of first contact science fiction, asking who the real monsters are when the unknown arrives.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:40:48) Chapter 2

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Love Among the Chickens by P. G. Wodehouse ~ Full Audiobook [comedy] Oct 20, 2022

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Love Among the Chickens by P. G. Wodehouse audiobook.

Genre: comedy

P. G. Wodehouse's Love Among the Chickens is a bright, fast-talking comedy of friendship, optimism, and spectacularly bad planning. The story is related by steady, long-suffering Jeremy Garnet, a struggling writer who is persuaded to join his irrepressible school friend, Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, in a bold new venture: chicken farming. Ukridge has the confidence of a born entrepreneur and the attention span of a man chasing the next great idea, and he is certain their farm will make them rich in no time. What Jeremy gets instead is a rural crash course in unpaid bills, improvised business strategy, and the daily chaos of keeping both poultry and creditors at bay. Complicating matters is Jeremy's growing attachment to a sensible young woman whose good opinion is hard to maintain when your closest companion treats common sense as an optional extra. As the farm wobbles from one misadventure to another, Jeremy must decide how far loyalty should stretch, what it costs to keep the peace, and whether any scheme can survive on charm alone.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:07:36) Chapter 2

(00:24:07) Chapter 3

(00:38:00) Chapter 4

(00:53:23) Chapter 5

(01:07:09) Chapter 6

(01:20:43) Chapter 7

(01:36:17) Chapter 8

(01:53:43) Chapter 9

(02:05:24) Chapter 10

(02:25:33) Chapter 11

(02:39:52) Chapter 12

(02:56:03) Chapter 13

(03:11:13) Chapter 14

(03:29:56) Chapter 15

(03:47:36) Chapter 16

(04:03:04) Chapter 17

(04:13:33) Chapter 18

(04:34:37) Chapter 19

(04:50:02) Chapter 20

(05:10:13) Chapter 21

(05:21:31) Chapter 22

(05:42:18) Chapter 23

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The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ~ Full Audiobook [scifi] Oct 20, 2022

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The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley audiobook.

Genre: scifi

When Lionel Verney looks back on the vanished world that raised him, he remembers an England poised between old hierarchies and revolutionary hopes. Orphaned and proud, Lionel grows up on the margins until fate draws him into the orbit of Adrian, the idealistic son of a deposed ruler, and Raymond, a dazzling leader whose ambition and charisma can ignite a nation. Friendships deepen into rivalries as love, duty, and political vision collide, and the fate of Britain seems to hinge on the choices of a few extraordinary individuals. But beyond parliament and passion, an ominous threat begins to spread across borders - a mysterious plague that ignores class, talent, and power. As society strains under fear and scarcity, Lionel must decide what it means to remain human when institutions fail and familiar certainties dissolve. Sweeping, intimate, and eerily prophetic, Mary Shelley's The Last Man blends political drama, romance, and apocalyptic dread into a meditation on companionship, loss, and the fragile story civilization tells itself to survive.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:11:53) Chapter 01

(00:43:00) Chapter 02

(01:18:18) Chapter 03

(01:43:14) Chapter 04

(02:23:14) Chapter 05

(03:03:25) Chapter 06

(03:32:25) Chapter 07

(04:09:31) Chapter 08

(04:44:38) Chapter 09

(05:34:23) Chapter 10

(06:20:25) Chapter 11

(06:48:33) Chapter 12

(07:27:42) Chapter 13

(08:10:05) Chapter 14

(08:39:41) Chapter 15

(09:07:28) Chapter 16

(09:36:07) Chapter 17

(10:07:20) Chapter 18

(10:31:27) Chapter 19

(11:34:31) Chapter 20

(12:20:22) Chapter 21

(12:46:52) Chapter 22

(13:18:26) Chapter 23

(14:03:19) Chapter 24

(14:51:59) Chapter 25

(15:19:23) Chapter 26

(15:50:08) Chapter 27

(16:23:35) Chapter 28

(16:55:12) Chapter 29

(17:26:33) Chapter 30

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The Child’s Book of American Biography by Mary Stoyell Stimpson ~ Full Audiobook [biography] Oct 19, 2022

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The Child’s Book of American Biography by Mary Stoyell Stimpson audiobook.

Genre: biography

The Child's Book of American Biography by Mary Stoyell Stimpson introduces young listeners to the lives that helped shape the United States, told in clear, story-forward portraits designed to spark curiosity rather than overwhelm with dates. Moving from the earliest days of the nation into later generations, the book gathers a gallery of Americans - leaders and lawmakers, explorers and inventors, writers, reformers, and builders of communities - and shows what each person cared about, what obstacles stood in the way, and what choices set them apart. Stimpson writes with an educator's eye for what children want most: human moments, vivid scenes, and the moral questions behind public achievements. Each chapter stands on its own as a short, readable life story, yet together they form a wider picture of a growing country and the ideals, arguments, and experiments that defined it. Whether heard in the classroom, on family trips, or at bedtime, these biographies invite listeners to consider how courage, persistence, and imagination can ripple outward into history - and how ordinary beginnings can lead to lasting influence.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:09:30) Chapter 02

(00:18:08) Chapter 03

(00:29:35) Chapter 04

(00:39:19) Chapter 05

(00:50:23) Chapter 06

(00:59:40) Chapter 07

(01:08:59) Chapter 08

(01:23:20) Chapter 09

(01:30:14) Chapter 10

(01:41:42) Chapter 11

(01:49:29) Chapter 12

(01:58:23) Chapter 13

(02:09:07) Chapter 14

(02:18:26) Chapter 15

(02:27:09) Chapter 16

(02:37:26) Chapter 17

(02:46:47) Chapter 18

(02:53:34) Chapter 19

(03:04:11) Chapter 20

(03:14:34) Chapter 21

(03:23:19) Chapter 22

(03:31:28) Chapter 23

(03:41:10) Chapter 24

(03:49:10) Chapter 25

(04:01:06) Chapter 26

(04:08:56) Chapter 27

(04:17:11) Chapter 28

(04:25:03) Chapter 29

(04:32:23) Chapter 30

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