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The Royal Book of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson ~ Full Audiobook [fantasy] Sep 28, 2022

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The Royal Book of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson audiobook.

Genre: fantasy

In The Royal Book of Oz, the Emerald City is bustling with celebrations, but the peace of Oz is shaken by rumors of a mysterious figure who claims a startling right to the throne. Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, the Cowardly Lion, Princess Ozma, and their friends are drawn into a tangle of royal questions, secret histories, and far-flung journeys across the many odd and wonderful countries that surround the Emerald City. As messages go missing and loyalties are tested, the travelers must separate truth from trickery and protect Oz from being reshaped by ambition. Along the way, they encounter strange courts, curious creatures, and comical hazards that turn every road into a new puzzle, where courage and kindness matter as much as cleverness. Ruth Plumly Thompson blends brisk adventure with playful humor, building a story about identity, legitimacy, and what it really means to be royal. With danger brewing behind pageantry, the fate of Oz may depend on whether its friends can uncover the real story before a false claim becomes a real catastrophe.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:17:22) Chapter 02

(00:32:09) Chapter 03

(00:43:53) Chapter 04

(01:02:50) Chapter 05

(01:21:08) Chapter 06

(01:32:12) Chapter 07

(01:48:17) Chapter 08

(02:06:26) Chapter 09

(02:22:49) Chapter 10

(02:26:47) Chapter 11

(02:37:47) Chapter 12

(02:58:17) Chapter 13

(03:13:03) Chapter 14

(03:24:27) Chapter 15

(03:35:30) Chapter 16

(03:48:45) Chapter 17

(03:54:15) Chapter 18

(04:09:49) Chapter 19

(04:16:05) Chapter 20

(04:29:46) Chapter 21

(04:38:30) Chapter 22

(04:41:07) Chapter 23

(04:49:59) Chapter 24

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The Nature and Authority of Conscience by Rufus Jones ~ Full Audiobook [religion] Sep 28, 2022

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The Nature and Authority of Conscience by Rufus Jones audiobook.

Genre: religion

In this 1920 Swarthmore Lecture, Quaker thinker and philosopher Rufus M. Jones tackles a question at the crossroads of ethics and faith: what is conscience, and why should it command our allegiance when custom, church, and state all claim authority? Beginning with familiar moral tensions, Jones widens the lens to consider the idea of a moral universe and the place of the individual within it. He argues that conscience is more than a passing emotion or simple social conditioning: it is a deep, active capacity that can be awakened, educated, clarified, and also misled. Along the way, he probes how moral insight develops through experience and disciplined inner life, and he tests the power of external voices - law, tradition, public opinion, and institutional religion - against the inward summons to truth and goodness. With a distinctly Quaker emphasis on the Inner Light, Jones challenges listeners to examine the roots of their moral judgments and to form a conscience strong enough to resist coercion, yet humble enough to learn. Part philosophical inquiry and part spiritual counsel, this concise classic speaks to anyone wrestling with duty, freedom, and the demands of integrity.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:01:50) Chapter 01

(00:12:24) Chapter 02

(00:22:28) Chapter 03

(01:03:53) Chapter 04

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Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling ~ Full Audiobook [adventure] Sep 28, 2022

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Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling audiobook.

Genre: adventure

Real men don't take guff from snotty kids. Neither does Disko Troop, skipper of the 'We're Here', a fishing schooner out of Gloucester, Massachusetts, when his crew fishes Harvey Cheyne out of the Atlantic. There's no place on the Grand Banks for bystanders, so Harvey is press-ganged into service as a replacement for a man lost overboard and drowned. Harvey is heir to a vast fortune, but his rescuers believe none of what he tells them of his background. Disko won't take the boat to port until it is full of fish, so Harvey must settle in for a season at sea. Hard, dangerous work and performing it alongside a grab-bag of characters in close quarters is a life-changing experience.

And when Harvey at last is reunited with his parents, who have thought him dead for months, he must face the hard decisions of how he will allow his experience to change his life.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:28:45) Chapter 02

(01:07:05) Chapter 03

(01:50:33) Chapter 04

(02:25:09) Chapter 05

(02:57:11) Chapter 06

(03:17:03) Chapter 07

(03:34:30) Chapter 08

(04:20:03) Chapter 09

(05:10:18) Chapter 10

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The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson ~ Full Audiobook [adventure] Sep 27, 2022

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The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson audiobook.

Genre: adventure

In the unsettled years of England's War of the Roses, where a man stood on the issue of kingship could make his fortune... or end his life. Dick Shelton, a nobly-born lad, is on the cusp of manhood, and he is thrust bodily into this stew where allegiances shift under one's feet. Circumstances cause him to fall in with a gentlemaiden in boy's disguise. Until he learns of the deception, Dick is unaware that the young lady is an heiress whom his guardian Sir Daniel had kidnapped. And the introduction of an outlaw with a penchant for putting black arrows into the bodies of the men who had wronged him affords Dick a worrying hint - that Sir Daniel might have been the man that had murdered Dick's father!

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:37:03) Chapter 01

(00:56:41) Chapter 02

(01:09:58) Chapter 03

(01:26:28) Chapter 04

(01:43:49) Chapter 05

(02:02:12) Chapter 06

(02:17:35) Chapter 07

(02:36:55) Chapter 08

(02:55:50) Chapter 09

(03:12:56) Chapter 10

(03:27:38) Chapter 11

(03:38:22) Chapter 12

(03:56:26) Chapter 13

(04:11:41) Chapter 14

(04:25:17) Chapter 15

(04:32:29) Chapter 16

(04:50:56) Chapter 17

(05:04:19) Chapter 18

(05:16:32) Chapter 19

(05:33:12) Chapter 20

(05:53:43) Chapter 21

(06:10:06) Chapter 22

(06:30:43) Chapter 23

(06:38:53) Chapter 24

(07:02:46) Chapter 25

(07:17:27) Chapter 26

(07:31:46) Chapter 27

(07:41:05) Chapter 28

(08:02:04) Chapter 29

(08:19:10) Chapter 30

(08:39:26) Chapter 31

(08:48:27) Chapter 32

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Amusement Only by Richard Marsh ~ Full Audiobook [mystery] Sep 27, 2022

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Amusement Only by Richard Marsh audiobook.

Genre: mystery

Amusement Only is a spirited Edwardian collection of twelve tales by Richard Marsh, each built to entertain while keeping a faint edge of danger just out of sight. In The Lost Duchess, London society is jolted when the Duke of Datchet learns his wife has seemingly vanished from a sealed carriage, and a brazen ransom demand turns a glittering dinner engagement into a race against time. In The Strange Occurrences in Canterstone Jail, a routine morning becomes a crisis when an entire prison finds its cell doors mysteriously refusing to open, testing order, authority, and nerves. Twins! spins a brisk comedy of confusion as lookalike brothers become entangled in other people's grudges and debts, while A Vision of the Night drifts into uncanny territory when an artist paints a face from a dream and is confronted by the living woman behind it. Between the shocks and puzzles, Marsh threads sly social satire: patent-medicine schemes, domestic misadventures, and romances that feel like traps. By turns witty, suspenseful, and eerie, these stories ask how easily identity, reputation, and reality can be swapped for sheer amusement.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:18:16) Chapter 02

(00:36:05) Chapter 03

(00:56:28) Chapter 04

(01:23:11) Chapter 05

(01:49:29) Chapter 06

(02:14:29) Chapter 07

(02:30:59) Chapter 08

(02:36:15) Chapter 09

(02:51:51) Chapter 10

(03:01:56) Chapter 11

(03:09:00) Chapter 12

(03:14:46) Chapter 13

(03:40:37) Chapter 14

(03:59:36) Chapter 15

(04:21:08) Chapter 16

(04:34:19) Chapter 17

(04:55:30) Chapter 18

(05:02:00) Chapter 19

(05:09:47) Chapter 20

(05:22:42) Chapter 21

(05:45:22) Chapter 22

(06:07:00) Chapter 23

(06:18:57) Chapter 24

(06:40:08) Chapter 25

(06:48:37) Chapter 26

(06:56:42) Chapter 27

(07:12:17) Chapter 28

(07:18:52) Chapter 29

(07:33:47) Chapter 30

(07:39:00) Chapter 31

(08:10:36) Chapter 32

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Vagabond Adventures by Ralph Keeler ~ Full Audiobook [biography] Sep 27, 2022

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Vagabond Adventures by Ralph Keeler audiobook.

Genre: biography

First published in 1870, Vagabond Adventures is Ralph Keeler's fast-moving memoir of how an orphaned, restless American boy turns himself into a wanderer long before he is old enough to understand the price of freedom. At eleven, Keeler flees an unhappy life in Buffalo and plunges into the rough schooling of docks, cabins, and lake steamers, where quick wits matter as much as hard work and luck. Just as he begins to find his footing, he is swept into the bright, precarious world of traveling entertainment, spending formative years on the road with minstrel companies and learning how performers survive backstage rivalries, bad management, and unpredictable audiences. In early manhood, the roaming continues with a shoestring journey through Europe, where Keeler adopts local disguises and habits to stretch a tiny budget, trading comfort for experience and discovery. By turns humorous, candid, and sharply observant, Keeler chronicles the constant tug between hunger and hope, belonging and independence, and the question that follows every escape: what kind of life is he actually running toward?

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:03:49) Chapter 02

(00:15:59) Chapter 03

(00:29:19) Chapter 04

(00:45:27) Chapter 05

(00:53:11) Chapter 06

(01:03:20) Chapter 07

(01:14:16) Chapter 08

(01:25:19) Chapter 09

(01:36:57) Chapter 10

(01:48:23) Chapter 11

(01:57:20) Chapter 12

(02:07:34) Chapter 13

(02:23:13) Chapter 14

(02:42:26) Chapter 15

(02:55:54) Chapter 16

(03:17:59) Chapter 17

(03:35:36) Chapter 18

(03:57:34) Chapter 19

(04:08:47) Chapter 20

(04:17:28) Chapter 21

(04:26:11) Chapter 22

(04:40:42) Chapter 23

(04:55:59) Chapter 24

(05:09:47) Chapter 25

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Phaedo by Plato ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy] Sep 27, 2022

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Phaedo by Plato audiobook.

Genre: philosophy

Plato's Phaedo is one of the great dialogues of his middle period, along with the Republic and the Symposium. The Phaedo, which depicts the death of Socrates, is also Plato's seventh and last dialogue to detail the philosopher's final days (the first six being Theaetetus, Euthyphro, Sophist, Statesman, Apology, and Crito).

In the dialogue, Socrates discusses the nature of the afterlife on his last day before being executed by drinking hemlock. Socrates has been imprisoned and sentenced to death by an Athenian jury for not believing in the gods of the state and for corrupting the youth of the city. The dialogue is told from the perspective of one of Socrates' students, Phaedo of Elis. Having been present at Socrates' death bed, Phaedo relates the dialogue from that day to Echecrates, a fellow philosopher. By engaging in dialectic with a group of Socrates' friends, including the Thebans Cebes and Simmias, Socrates explores various arguments for the soul's immortality in order to show that there is an afterlife in which the soul will dwell following death. Phaedo tells the story that following the discussion, he and the others were there to witness the death of Socrates.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:17:37) Chapter 02

(00:37:25) Chapter 03

(01:01:50) Chapter 04

(01:23:37) Chapter 05

(01:56:51) Chapter 06

(02:14:53) Chapter 07

(02:36:32) Chapter 08

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Ten From Infinity by Paul W. Fairman ~ Full Audiobook [scifi] Sep 27, 2022

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Ten From Infinity by Paul W. Fairman audiobook.

Genre: scifi

It began when a pedestrian got hit by a cab in New York City. No doubt it was the only motor mishap in the history of creation that reached out among the stars—for far out in space a signal was registered: Something has gone wrong....

And something had gone wrong, for the doctors discovered their accident patient had two hearts. It was the beginning of the discovery that the Earth had been invaded by 10 such creatures from Outer Space.

Every effort was made to learn their purpose. An orbital flight was launched to spot alien bodies—only to be destroyed in space. One of the alien men was captured—but no threat of pain or death could unlock the secret in his brain.

Something had gone wrong. And somehow, some way had to be found to make it right—before the threat of danger overwhelmed all mankind.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:17:53) Chapter 2

(00:41:27) Chapter 3

(00:50:44) Chapter 4

(01:02:54) Chapter 5

(01:28:34) Chapter 6

(01:47:14) Chapter 7

(02:04:41) Chapter 8

(02:22:10) Chapter 9

(02:44:04) Chapter 10

(02:57:07) Chapter 11

(03:12:08) Chapter 12

(03:36:09) Chapter 13

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Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death by Patrick Henry ~ Full Audiobook [speeches] Sep 27, 2022

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Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death by Patrick Henry audiobook.

Genre: speeches

Set on the eve of the American Revolution, Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death captures Patrick Henry's electrifying address to the Second Virginia Convention in March 1775, when the colonies were still divided over whether reconciliation with Britain remained possible. As delegates weigh petitions, boycotts, and patience against the rising pressure of royal power, Henry steps forward with a fierce, urgent argument: the time for hoping and waiting has passed, and Virginia must prepare to defend its rights. Moving from measured analysis to blazing conviction, he challenges his listeners to confront hard realities about freedom, security, and the cost of resistance. More than a political appeal, the speech is a masterclass in persuasion, blending moral clarity, vivid imagery, and relentless logic to rally a hesitant audience toward action. Ideal for listeners interested in the founding era and the power of oratory, this short but monumental work explores the themes of liberty versus tyranny, courage under uncertainty, and the moment when private doubt becomes public resolve.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

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The First Battle of Bull Run by P. G. T. Beauregard ~ Full Audiobook [history] Sep 26, 2022

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The First Battle of Bull Run by P. G. T. Beauregard audiobook.

Genre: history

In this first-person military narrative, Confederate General P. G. T. Beauregard reconstructs the tense weeks that led to the Civil War's first great clash at Manassas, known in the North as the First Battle of Bull Run. Beginning with the aftermath of Fort Sumter and his sudden call to defend the rail junction at Manassas, Beauregard explains why the ground mattered, what his army lacked, and how geography, rail lines, and supply shaped every decision. As pressure builds in Richmond and Washington, he describes the intelligence he gathered about Union plans, the arguments over strategy with Confederate leaders, and the urgent effort to concentrate scattered forces in time. When the Federal advance finally comes, the account follows the rapid shifts of initiative, the confusion of coordinating inexperienced troops, and the race to reinforce threatened points before the line breaks. Part campaign study and part memoir, the book highlights the fog of war, the friction between politics and command, and the hard lessons learned at the opening of a conflict neither side yet understood.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:26:54) Chapter 2

(01:13:13) Chapter 3

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