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The Brooklyn Murders by G. D. H. Cole ~ Full Audiobook [mystery] Nov 22, 2025

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The Brooklyn Murders by G. D. H. Cole audiobook.

Genre: mystery

On the night Sir Vernon Brooklyn turns seventy, his country-house birthday dinner is meant to be a triumph: the celebrated theatrical manager gathers relatives, friends, and a future son-in-law under one roof, and the talk turns to money, marriages, and the shape of the Brooklyn legacy. But old resentments simmer beneath the toasts, especially around Joan Cowper, Sir Vernon's strong-willed niece, whose unwanted engagement to the smooth John Prinsep has become a family battleground. By morning, celebration curdles into shock when Prinsep is found brutally murdered in his study, and a second death soon follows, raising the chilling possibility of an impossible crime. Superintendent Henry Wilson of Scotland Yard is called in, and what begins as a straightforward inquiry quickly becomes a meticulous unpicking of alibis, inheritances, and private grudges inside a household where everyone has something to gain and something to hide. As Wilson pressures witnesses and tests theories, Joan and other members of the family are forced to confront how far greed and pride can warp loyalty, love, and truth.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:15:42) Chapter 02

(00:25:14) Chapter 03

(00:44:03) Chapter 04

(01:03:44) Chapter 05

(01:23:24) Chapter 06

(01:44:46) Chapter 07

(01:58:17) Chapter 08

(02:09:23) Chapter 09

(02:16:41) Chapter 10

(02:38:58) Chapter 11

(02:59:15) Chapter 12

(03:16:06) Chapter 13

(03:32:10) Chapter 14

(03:44:51) Chapter 15

(03:54:15) Chapter 16

(04:13:03) Chapter 17

(04:28:08) Chapter 18

(04:41:49) Chapter 19

(04:53:31) Chapter 20

(05:02:38) Chapter 21

(05:20:37) Chapter 22

(05:31:33) Chapter 23

(05:46:08) Chapter 24

(06:07:57) Chapter 25

(06:28:03) Chapter 26

(06:40:38) Chapter 27

(07:00:01) Chapter 28

(07:10:03) Chapter 29

(07:21:38) Chapter 30

(07:33:54) Chapter 31

(07:51:12) Chapter 32

(08:01:08) Chapter 33

(08:13:53) Chapter 34

(08:28:26) Chapter 35

(08:33:35) Chapter 36

(08:50:56) Chapter 37

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Bunce, the Bobby and the Broads by Fritz Zorn ~ Full Audiobook [comedy] Nov 21, 2025

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Bunce, the Bobby and the Broads by Fritz Zorn audiobook.

Genre: comedy

A genial holiday on England's Norfolk Broads is meant to be quiet, restorative, and properly planned - until the plans collapse and chance companions turn the trip into a rolling comedy of misunderstandings. Narrated as a breezy, postcard-like yarn, Fritz Zorn drops you aboard The Shamrock, a small hired sailing boat, where the storyteller is soon joined by Mr Bradley, a capable East End policeman - the 'Bobby' of the title. Then Bunce arrives: a well-meaning, easily impressed friend whose imagination runs faster than his judgment. When Bunce convinces himself that Bradley must be a high-ranking Foreign Office diplomat, the temptation to let the mistake stand proves irresistible, and a harmless joke begins to shape the entire holiday. As the trio drifts between riverside villages, inns, and impromptu singalongs with locals, small practical troubles - strange breakfasts, awkward travel moments, and the ever-present risk of embarrassment - threaten to tip the adventure into outright farce. Warm, witty, and sharply observant about class pretensions and male camaraderie, this is a classic turn-of-the-century ramble where the scenery is lovely, the company is loud, and the simplest lie can steer the whole boat.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:18:27) Chapter 02

(00:49:24) Chapter 03

(01:16:55) Chapter 04

(01:50:36) Chapter 05

(02:22:29) Chapter 06

(02:57:44) Chapter 07

(03:24:27) Chapter 08

(03:57:21) Chapter 09

(04:23:29) Chapter 10

(04:53:47) Chapter 11

(05:22:59) Chapter 12

(05:53:26) Chapter 13

(06:19:57) Chapter 14

(06:49:31) Chapter 15

(07:07:45) Chapter 16

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The Sea Mystery by Freeman Wills Crofts ~ Full Audiobook [mystery] Nov 20, 2025

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The Sea Mystery by Freeman Wills Crofts audiobook.

Genre: mystery

When a quiet fishing trip in the Burry Inlet off the South Wales coast turns up a heavy cargo crate snagged from the seabed, local manager Mr. Morgan and his son Evan expect nothing more than a nuisance. Instead, they haul ashore a gruesome discovery: a battered, decomposed body packed for transport, with no clear clue to the victim's name, the killer's motive, or even how the crate reached these waters. With the case already drifting toward a dead end, the local police call in Inspector Joseph French of Scotland Yard, a man whose reputation rests not on brilliance in the drawing room, but on relentless, practical investigation.French approaches the mystery like an engineer, treating tides, shipping routes, and railway timetables as evidence as tangible as fingerprints. Following the faintest hints, he traces the crate's journey and the victim's last movements from the Welsh shore toward Devon, where respectable towns and ordinary businesses begin to look uncomfortably connected to an extraordinary crime. As French tests each theory against time tables and tide tables, the stakes rise: someone planned this murder carefully, and someone is still free. The Sea Mystery is a classic of methodical detection, where patience, procedure, and hard facts become the sharpest tools of all.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:25:56) Chapter 02

(00:54:02) Chapter 03

(01:21:29) Chapter 04

(01:47:16) Chapter 05

(02:06:00) Chapter 06

(02:23:17) Chapter 07

(02:54:09) Chapter 08

(03:19:35) Chapter 09

(03:44:25) Chapter 10

(04:09:20) Chapter 11

(04:27:42) Chapter 12

(04:58:06) Chapter 13

(05:28:30) Chapter 14

(05:53:01) Chapter 15

(06:18:21) Chapter 16

(06:38:38) Chapter 17

(07:07:39) Chapter 18

(07:32:25) Chapter 19

(08:13:43) Chapter 20

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Little Johannes by Frederik van Eeden ~ Full Audiobook [fantasy] Nov 19, 2025

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Little Johannes by Frederik van Eeden audiobook.

Genre: fantasy

In Little Johannes, Frederik van Eeden turns a child's first questions about life into a luminous fairy tale with an adult's bite. Johannes is a dreamy boy growing up in a comfortable country house, half in love with moonlight, gardens, and the idea that the world must have a single, beautiful secret at its heart. On a strange night, he is lured beyond the safety of home by Windekind, an airy, mischievous spirit of the woods who promises to show him what things really mean. Johannes follows, and his wonder quickly becomes a journey: through enchanted landscapes, talking creatures, and symbolic figures who each claim to hold the key to happiness and truth. But as he moves farther from childhood, he also meets hunger, cruelty, loneliness, and the confusing demands of human society. Pulled between ideal beauty and hard compassion, Johannes must decide what kind of understanding is worth seeking, and what it costs to grow up. Part fable, part philosophical coming-of-age, Little Johannes is a haunting exploration of innocence, suffering, faith, and the longing to make sense of the world.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:16:09) Chapter 01

(00:25:35) Chapter 02

(00:59:01) Chapter 03

(01:21:59) Chapter 04

(01:53:48) Chapter 05

(02:09:53) Chapter 06

(02:20:40) Chapter 07

(02:31:30) Chapter 08

(02:52:49) Chapter 09

(03:18:32) Chapter 10

(03:37:03) Chapter 11

(04:07:09) Chapter 12

(04:24:30) Chapter 13

(04:55:49) Chapter 14

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Abraham Lincoln - The Practical Mystic by Francis Grierson ~ Full Audiobook [biography] Nov 18, 2025

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Abraham Lincoln - The Practical Mystic by Francis Grierson audiobook.

Genre: biography

Francis Grierson's Abraham Lincoln - The Practical Mystic is a brief, provocative portrait of the 16th president that shifts the spotlight from policy and battlefield headlines to the inner life behind them. Writing in the early twentieth century, Grierson argues that Lincoln's greatest strength was a rare fusion of hardheaded realism and spiritual perception: a leader who could weigh men and events with a lawyer's precision, yet remain guided by a profound sense of moral law, destiny, and the unseen forces shaping history. Through vignettes, character sketches, and reflections on Lincoln's words and habits, the book follows Lincoln from his frontier simplicity into the pressures of national leadership, examining how patience, humor, and empathy became tools of statecraft. Grierson explores themes such as the divine will, premonition and intuition, the tension between material power and conscience, and the way Lincoln's quiet reserve could conceal deep contemplation. Part biography, part philosophical essay, this is an interpretive study that invites listeners to reconsider Lincoln not only as a master politician, but as a man whose faith in higher principles informed every practical choice.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:14:19) Chapter 2

(00:28:07) Chapter 3

(00:45:47) Chapter 4

(01:02:31) Chapter 5

(01:13:55) Chapter 6

(01:28:59) Chapter 7

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Last Post by Ford Madox Ford ~ Full Audiobook [drama] Nov 17, 2025

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Last Post by Ford Madox Ford audiobook.

Genre: drama

Set in the uneasy calm after World War I, Last Post brings Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End to its final movement, where the battles are no longer fought in trenches but in memory, conscience, and the brittle rituals of English country life. At the center is Christopher Tietjens, once the model of duty and integrity, now returned to a changed nation and a changed self, as war's aftershocks reshape his mind, his work, and his place in society. Around him gather the people who have defined his fate: Valentine Wannop, the clear-eyed woman who offers the possibility of a life built on truth; Sylvia Tietjens, his aristocratic wife, brilliant and destructive, determined to keep power over his name and legacy; and a circle of family and observers whose private motives and public loyalties collide in drawing rooms and sickrooms alike. As old hierarchies crumble and new values rise, the novel probes what survives of honor, love, and identity when the past will not stay buried and the future demands reinvention. Taut, intimate, and sharply observed, Last Post is a portrait of a society learning to live with its wounds.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:07:14) Chapter 01

(00:40:34) Chapter 02

(01:16:21) Chapter 03

(01:46:30) Chapter 04

(02:32:27) Chapter 05

(03:19:58) Chapter 06

(03:47:24) Chapter 07

(04:22:57) Chapter 08

(05:01:00) Chapter 09

(05:37:53) Chapter 10

(06:25:07) Chapter 11

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The Diamond Lens with Other Stories by Fitz-James OBrien ~ Full Audiobook [horror] Nov 15, 2025

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The Diamond Lens with Other Stories by Fitz-James OBrien audiobook.

Genre: horror

Fitz-James O'Brien's The Diamond Lens with Other Stories gathers eerie, inventive tales from a pioneer of American weird fiction, where ordinary city life brushes up against the uncanny. In the title story, a brilliant but restless student becomes consumed by the hidden universe revealed through microscopy. When his curiosity turns into fixation, he hunts for a legendary lens said to surpass all others, convinced it will let him finally see nature's ultimate secrets. As his pursuit intensifies, friendships, ethics, and sanity begin to fray under the pressure of a single overwhelming desire. Surrounding this centerpiece are additional stories that shift from dark humor to outright dread: mysterious phenomena in familiar rooms, unsettling encounters that challenge what the senses can trust, and narrators who discover that knowledge can be as dangerous as ignorance. Across the collection, O'Brien blends scientific wonder, psychological obsession, and supernatural menace, asking what happens when imagination and ambition outpace human limits - and whether the most frightening discoveries are the ones that cannot be neatly explained.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:23:48) Chapter 01

(01:19:11) Chapter 02

(02:33:00) Chapter 03

(03:28:50) Chapter 04

(04:09:42) Chapter 05

(04:58:24) Chapter 06

(05:38:37) Chapter 07

(06:16:50) Chapter 08

(06:48:56) Chapter 09

(07:15:39) Chapter 10

(07:45:00) Chapter 11

(08:13:48) Chapter 12

(08:59:07) Chapter 13

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With Trumpet and Drum by Eugene Field ~ Full Audiobook [poetry] Nov 14, 2025

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With Trumpet and Drum by Eugene Field audiobook.

Genre: poetry

With Trumpet and Drum is Eugene Field's classic 1892 collection of verse devoted to the music, make-believe, and quiet mysteries of childhood. Opening with the title poem, Field listens as children march in with a tin trumpet and a red drum, and the simple parade becomes a doorway into an older narrator's heart - hearty, welcoming, and touched by longing. From there, the book moves through lullabies, play-songs, and miniature story-poems that drift between bright humor and gentle melancholy, capturing the way a nursery can feel like an entire universe. Field peoples his pages with drowsy sailors and dream voyagers, mischievous youngsters, tender parents and grandparents, and the small, beloved objects of a child's world: toys, bedtime shadows, garden corners, and imagined kingdoms. Familiar favorites such as Wynken, Blynken, and Nod, The Sugar-Plum Tree, and Little Boy Blue appear alongside verses inspired by folk songs and lullabies from different lands, all written to be read aloud with a steady rhythm and a warm, singing tone. It is a book for listeners who want comfort, nostalgia, and the timeless cadence of a bedtime tale.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:02:18) Chapter 01

(00:04:30) Chapter 02

(00:07:13) Chapter 03

(00:09:28) Chapter 04

(00:11:33) Chapter 05

(00:14:25) Chapter 06

(00:17:22) Chapter 07

(00:18:57) Chapter 08

(00:22:19) Chapter 09

(00:23:59) Chapter 10

(00:25:59) Chapter 11

(00:28:52) Chapter 12

(00:30:55) Chapter 13

(00:32:33) Chapter 14

(00:33:27) Chapter 15

(00:35:01) Chapter 16

(00:39:53) Chapter 17

(00:41:57) Chapter 18

(00:44:26) Chapter 19

(00:46:24) Chapter 20

(00:48:24) Chapter 21

(00:51:43) Chapter 22

(00:53:11) Chapter 23

(00:55:14) Chapter 24

(00:57:17) Chapter 25

(00:58:56) Chapter 26

(01:02:29) Chapter 27

(01:04:34) Chapter 28

(01:06:28) Chapter 29

(01:07:53) Chapter 30

(01:09:03) Chapter 31

(01:10:16) Chapter 32

(01:11:58) Chapter 33

(01:16:39) Chapter 34

(01:18:20) Chapter 35

(01:22:30) Chapter 36

(01:24:21) Chapter 37

(01:26:06) Chapter 38

(01:27:55) Chapter 39

(01:30:41) Chapter 40

(01:32:17) Chapter 41

(01:34:02) Chapter 42

(01:36:00) Chapter 43

(01:37:47) Chapter 44

(01:39:51) Chapter 45

(01:41:41) Chapter 46

(01:44:02) Chapter 47

(01:45:28) Chapter 48

(01:47:56) Chapter 49

(01:50:07) Chapter 50

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A Text-book of Assaying by Cornelius Beringer ~ Full Audiobook [science] Nov 13, 2025

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A Text-book of Assaying by Cornelius Beringer audiobook.

Genre: science

A Text-book of Assaying is a practical guide to one of mining and metallurgy's most exacting arts: determining, by careful experiment, what valuable metals and compounds are truly present in an ore, alloy, or industrial material. Written as an instructional manual for students and working analysts, Cornelius Beringer leads the listener from foundational laboratory habits and essential apparatus into the core techniques of assay work, emphasizing accuracy, repeatability, and clear calculation. Along the way, the book explains how samples are prepared and weighed, how fluxes and reagents are selected, and how heat, time, and furnace conditions can change results. It then develops the classic methods used in the assay office, including fire-assay procedures and complementary wet-chemical operations, with close attention to the kinds of errors that can mislead even a careful operator. As the chapters move through common targets of analysis - especially precious and base metals - the central tension remains constant: how to turn messy, variable natural materials into trustworthy numbers that can guide payment, process decisions, and engineering judgment. Part craft manual, part disciplined laboratory philosophy, this textbook captures assay work as both a science and a responsibility.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:35:55) Chapter 02

(01:11:23) Chapter 03

(01:30:32) Chapter 04

(02:09:48) Chapter 05

(02:32:00) Chapter 06

(03:19:56) Chapter 07

(03:41:31) Chapter 08

(04:16:51) Chapter 09

(04:49:26) Chapter 10

(05:22:55) Chapter 11

(05:46:11) Chapter 12

(06:18:36) Chapter 13

(06:41:11) Chapter 14

(07:10:04) Chapter 15

(07:37:07) Chapter 16

(08:11:15) Chapter 17

(08:43:45) Chapter 18

(08:58:50) Chapter 19

(09:27:58) Chapter 20

(09:55:24) Chapter 21

(10:30:47) Chapter 22

(10:58:03) Chapter 23

(11:27:49) Chapter 24

(12:00:48) Chapter 25

(12:35:03) Chapter 26

(13:11:46) Chapter 27

(13:45:48) Chapter 28

(14:16:26) Chapter 29

(14:46:43) Chapter 30

(15:26:14) Chapter 31

(15:42:39) Chapter 32

(16:13:31) Chapter 33

(16:34:05) Chapter 34

(17:07:44) Chapter 35

(17:36:15) Chapter 36

(18:04:36) Chapter 37

(18:29:59) Chapter 38

(18:49:37) Chapter 39

(19:14:29) Chapter 40

(19:59:29) Chapter 41

(20:45:36) Chapter 42

(21:18:22) Chapter 43

(21:51:10) Chapter 44

(22:19:13) Chapter 45

(22:47:45) Chapter 46

(23:04:14) Chapter 47

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Army Mental Tests by Clarence Stone Yoakum ~ Full Audiobook [science] Nov 12, 2025

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Army Mental Tests by Clarence Stone Yoakum audiobook.

Genre: science

Written in the wake of World War I, Army Mental Tests by Clarence Stone Yoakum explores one of the most ambitious experiments in psychological measurement ever attempted: the mass testing of soldiers to gauge aptitude, literacy, and problem-solving ability. Yoakum guides listeners through how these examinations were designed, administered, and scored at unprecedented scale, translating the practical demands of mobilization into a new kind of organized assessment. Along the way, he introduces the key ideas behind group intelligence testing, the challenge of building fair questions for recruits from different educational and cultural backgrounds, and the logistical realities of testing hundreds of thousands of men under pressure. More than a technical report, this book examines what the results were believed to mean, how they shaped decisions about training and assignments, and why the testing program quickly became a model for schools and industry. With an eye toward both promise and controversy, Yoakum raises enduring questions about what tests can truly measure, how statistics can clarify or mislead, and how institutions use numbers to classify human ability.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:13:54) Chapter 01

(00:33:36) Chapter 02

(01:19:02) Chapter 03

(02:16:19) Chapter 04

(02:44:01) Chapter 05

(03:34:30) Chapter 06

(04:20:52) Chapter 07

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