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El Dorado by Baroness E. Orczy ~ Full Audiobook [adventure] Sep 03, 2022

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El Dorado by Baroness E. Orczy audiobook.

Genre: adventure

In El Dorado, Baroness Emmuska Orczy returns to the perilous world of Revolutionary France, where the guillotine is a daily spectacle and suspicion can be a death sentence. Sir Percy Blakeney - outwardly a frivolous English aristocrat, secretly the daring Scarlet Pimpernel - is drawn back across the Channel when news reaches him of innocent prisoners trapped in the iron grip of the new regime. But this time the stakes are personal: his enemies have learned to strike not only at his daring rescues, but at the people who love him. As the calculating Citizen Chauvelin tightens his net, Percy's wife, Marguerite, must navigate a maze of divided loyalties, coded messages, and relentless political terror, never certain whom she can trust or what a single mistake might cost. From shadowed Parisian streets to grim prison corridors, El Dorado builds a tense contest of wits and courage, testing whether devotion and honor can survive in a world ruled by fear, and whether one masked hero can still outplay a nation determined to unmask him.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:05:11) Chapter 01

(00:19:22) Chapter 02

(00:40:38) Chapter 03

(00:48:00) Chapter 04

(01:04:15) Chapter 05

(01:20:39) Chapter 06

(01:31:08) Chapter 07

(01:47:36) Chapter 08

(01:57:44) Chapter 09

(02:19:32) Chapter 10

(02:33:08) Chapter 11

(02:57:42) Chapter 12

(03:14:36) Chapter 13

(03:25:49) Chapter 14

(03:36:33) Chapter 15

(03:45:17) Chapter 16

(04:09:45) Chapter 17

(04:21:11) Chapter 18

(04:30:16) Chapter 19

(04:40:57) Chapter 20

(04:48:43) Chapter 21

(05:10:32) Chapter 22

(05:29:50) Chapter 23

(05:33:57) Chapter 24

(05:53:07) Chapter 25

(06:03:47) Chapter 26

(06:24:38) Chapter 27

(06:35:36) Chapter 28

(06:45:38) Chapter 29

(07:08:56) Chapter 30

(07:20:12) Chapter 31

(07:25:14) Chapter 32

(07:42:02) Chapter 33

(07:48:11) Chapter 34

(07:55:41) Chapter 35

(08:19:59) Chapter 36

(08:34:49) Chapter 37

(08:42:39) Chapter 38

(08:58:26) Chapter 39

(09:10:59) Chapter 40

(09:15:07) Chapter 41

(09:27:53) Chapter 42

(09:42:24) Chapter 43

(09:51:30) Chapter 44

(10:05:13) Chapter 45

(10:16:18) Chapter 46

(10:29:36) Chapter 47

(10:42:55) Chapter 48

(10:52:16) Chapter 49

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David Copperfield by Charles Dickens ~ Full Audiobook [drama] Sep 02, 2022

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David Copperfield by Charles Dickens audiobook.

Genre: drama

Charles Dickens' David Copperfield is a richly detailed coming-of-age tale told in the voice of its own hero, who looks back on the joys and wounds that shaped him. Orphaned into uncertainty and raised under shifting guardianship, young David must navigate a world where affection can be fragile and power often belongs to the cruel or the careless. Along the way he encounters a vivid cast: steadfast friends who offer refuge, charismatic figures whose charm masks danger, and mentors who test what he truly values. As David struggles to claim an education, a livelihood, and a sense of self, he is forced to confront questions of loyalty, ambition, love, and integrity - and to decide which influences will define his future. Moving from bleak childhood circumstances to the crowded theaters of adulthood, the story balances hardship with humor, social critique, and moments of hard-won kindness. At its heart is one young man's fight to become the author of his own life, even as the past keeps reaching forward to rewrite the present.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:02:20) Chapter 01

(00:32:34) Chapter 02

(01:10:41) Chapter 03

(01:49:50) Chapter 04

(02:40:01) Chapter 05

(03:25:21) Chapter 06

(03:44:40) Chapter 07

(04:31:17) Chapter 08

(05:08:21) Chapter 09

(05:38:22) Chapter 10

(06:29:47) Chapter 11

(07:09:02) Chapter 12

(07:30:51) Chapter 13

(08:14:56) Chapter 14

(08:48:12) Chapter 15

(09:08:51) Chapter 16

(09:56:08) Chapter 17

(10:33:28) Chapter 18

(10:51:39) Chapter 19

(11:26:36) Chapter 20

(11:44:36) Chapter 21

(12:30:16) Chapter 22

(13:20:07) Chapter 23

(13:52:54) Chapter 24

(14:11:58) Chapter 25

(14:53:53) Chapter 26

(15:30:26) Chapter 27

(15:53:53) Chapter 28

(16:35:33) Chapter 29

(16:53:24) Chapter 30

(17:13:23) Chapter 31

(17:32:23) Chapter 32

(18:14:25) Chapter 33

(18:53:55) Chapter 34

(19:12:57) Chapter 35

(19:54:18) Chapter 36

(20:33:26) Chapter 37

(20:53:56) Chapter 38

(21:29:40) Chapter 39

(22:13:52) Chapter 40

(22:32:58) Chapter 41

(23:07:35) Chapter 42

(23:53:08) Chapter 43

(24:11:35) Chapter 44

(24:46:50) Chapter 45

(25:19:43) Chapter 46

(25:49:52) Chapter 47

(26:14:00) Chapter 48

(26:37:32) Chapter 49

(27:05:22) Chapter 50

(27:27:28) Chapter 51

(28:04:25) Chapter 52

(29:00:43) Chapter 53

(29:12:31) Chapter 54

(29:46:07) Chapter 55

(30:11:59) Chapter 56

(30:27:03) Chapter 57

(30:52:29) Chapter 58

(31:07:45) Chapter 59

(31:42:19) Chapter 60

(32:01:21) Chapter 61

(32:27:04) Chapter 62

(32:46:01) Chapter 63

(33:03:16) Chapter 64

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The Battle of Life by Charles Dickens ~ Full Audiobook [romance] Sep 02, 2022

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The Battle of Life by Charles Dickens audiobook.

Genre: romance

While 'The Battle of Life' is one of Charles Dickens' Christmas Books - his annual release of a story just before Christmas - this one breaks the tradition by not being concerned with Christmas. Rather, its subtitle, 'A Love Story', reveals more of the plot.

The major events of this book take place on land that once was a battleground. That is just a backdrop for Dickens' idea of the real battle of life - finding and winning the right partner, so that life will go on to the next generation. The family that lives there is rather confused in its affections and intentions regarding who should end up with whom. We are thrust into the fight to make things work out, and, happily for a Christmas book, Dickens leads us on to a happy ending.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:28:44) Chapter 2

(01:00:29) Chapter 3

(01:25:35) Chapter 4

(01:49:36) Chapter 5

(02:22:09) Chapter 6

(02:57:40) Chapter 7

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Over the Top by Arthur Empey ~ Full Audiobook [biography] Sep 01, 2022

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Over the Top by Arthur Empey audiobook.

Genre: biography

In Over the Top, Arthur Guy Empey, an American who volunteered to serve with the British Army in World War I, gives a direct, ground-level account of life and fighting on the Western Front. Writing with a mix of blunt realism and soldier humor, Empey brings listeners into the trenches: the mud and cold, the constant danger from shells and snipers, the tense night watches, and the sudden, terrifying rush of going 'over the top' into No Man's Land. Along the way he introduces the routines and improvisations that kept men alive, from digging and wiring parties to coping with gas attacks and navigating the maze of dugouts and communication trenches. The book also functions as a practical guide to the slang, equipment, and unwritten rules of trench warfare, translating the daily experience of infantrymen for readers far from the front. More than a battlefield chronicle, it is a portrait of comradeship under pressure and a window into how ordinary soldiers endured extraordinary conditions, one shift, one raid, and one attack at a time.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:47:19) Chapter 02

(01:28:59) Chapter 03

(01:58:23) Chapter 04

(02:08:55) Chapter 05

(02:23:51) Chapter 06

(02:40:30) Chapter 07

(02:51:10) Chapter 08

(03:13:14) Chapter 09

(03:31:56) Chapter 10

(04:06:43) Chapter 11

(04:38:31) Chapter 12

(05:00:05) Chapter 13

(05:31:38) Chapter 14

(06:07:29) Chapter 15

(06:40:54) Chapter 16

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How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day by Arnold Bennett ~ Full Audiobook [self help] Sep 01, 2022

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How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day by Arnold Bennett audiobook.

Genre: self help

'Which of us lives on twenty-four hours a day? And when I say 'lives,' I do not mean exists, nor 'muddles through.'' -- Arnold Bennett knew a 'rat race' when he saw one. Every day, his fellow white-collar Londoners followed the same old routine. And they routinely decried the sameness in their lives.-- So Bennett set out to explain how to inject new enthusiasm into living. In this delightful little work, he taught his fellow sufferers how to set time apart for improving their lives. Yes, he assured them, it could be done. Yes, if you want to feel connected with the world, instead of endlessly pacing the treadmill (or, 'exceeding your programme', as he called it), you must do so.-- For time, as he gleefully notes, is the ultimate democracy. Each of us starts our day with 24 hours to spend. Even a saint gets not a minute more; even the most inveterate time-waster is docked not a second for his wastrel ways. And he can choose today to turn over a new leaf! -- Bennett believed that learning to discern cause and effect in the world would give his readers an endless source of enjoyment and satisfaction. Instead of only being able to discuss what they had heard, they could graduate to what they thought... and lift themselves completely from the deadening influence of a day at the office.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:11:16) Chapter 2

(00:18:42) Chapter 3

(00:25:47) Chapter 4

(00:32:50) Chapter 5

(00:40:03) Chapter 6

(00:47:48) Chapter 7

(00:54:32) Chapter 8

(01:01:30) Chapter 9

(01:08:48) Chapter 10

(01:15:32) Chapter 11

(01:22:10) Chapter 12

(01:29:33) Chapter 13

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Mark Twain by Archibald Henderson ~ Full Audiobook [biography] Sep 01, 2022

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Mark Twain by Archibald Henderson audiobook.

Genre: biography

Many writers have penned studies of Mark Twain's life and work through the years. Twain authorized this biography, having met and hosted the writer, Archibald Henderson, on a few occasions. Henderson considered this work to be an homage to one of his biggest idols, who guided him through his youth and adolescence. He writes, 'It is an appreciation originating in the heart of one who loved Mark Twain’s works for a generation before he ever met Samuel L. Clemens. It is an interpretation springing from the conviction that Mark Twain was a great American who comprehensively incorporated and realized his own country and his own age as no American has so completely done before him.'

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:06:14) Chapter 01

(00:22:23) Chapter 02

(01:23:24) Chapter 03

(01:44:10) Chapter 04

(02:42:45) Chapter 05

(03:22:18) Chapter 06

(04:11:08) Chapter 07

(04:40:17) Chapter 08

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The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas ~ Full Audiobook [adventure] Aug 31, 2022

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The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas audiobook.

Genre: adventure

In The Man in the Iron Mask, Alexandre Dumas returns to the glittering and dangerous court of France under Louis XIV, where power is absolute, secrets are deadly, and loyalty can cost a life. The aging musketeers - d'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis - find themselves pulled back into intrigue when whispers spread of a mysterious prisoner hidden away in the Bastille, forced to wear a mask that conceals more than a face. As rival factions maneuver for influence and the king tightens his grip on the realm, old friendships strain under competing vows to crown, church, and conscience. D'Artagnan struggles to serve honorably in a world where truth is treated as treason, while Aramis moves in shadows with a plan that could reshape France itself. From clandestine meetings and coded messages to daring escapes and tense confrontations, the story weaves swashbuckling action with political suspense, asking what a man owes to his king, his comrades, and his own sense of justice.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:17:51) Chapter 1

(00:51:50) Chapter 2

(01:25:52) Chapter 02

(01:45:28) Chapter 03

(02:01:21) Chapter 04

(02:25:46) Chapter 05

(02:40:57) Chapter 06

(03:03:27) Chapter 07

(03:21:21) Chapter 08

(03:42:36) Chapter 09

(04:04:51) Chapter 10

(04:24:39) Chapter 11

(04:37:59) Chapter 12

(04:51:31) Chapter 13

(05:02:50) Chapter 14

(05:33:36) Chapter 15

(05:49:15) Chapter 16

(06:05:32) Chapter 17

(06:28:53) Chapter 18

(06:46:22) Chapter 19

(07:27:41) Chapter 20

(07:48:49) Chapter 21

(08:30:17) Chapter 22

(08:49:15) Chapter 23

(09:10:00) Chapter 24

(09:35:02) Chapter 25

(09:48:09) Chapter 26

(10:01:19) Chapter 27

(10:22:07) Chapter 28

(10:43:15) Chapter 29

(10:56:37) Chapter 30

(11:11:57) Chapter 31

(11:30:27) Chapter 32

(11:53:52) Chapter 33

(12:22:55) Chapter 34

(12:43:57) Chapter 35

(13:01:20) Chapter 36

(13:20:22) Chapter 37

(13:38:17) Chapter 38

(13:52:34) Chapter 39

(14:12:50) Chapter 40

(14:31:50) Chapter 41

(14:56:34) Chapter 42

(15:20:37) Chapter 43

(15:47:35) Chapter 44

(15:54:15) Chapter 45

(16:04:35) Chapter 46

(16:19:05) Chapter 47

(16:34:35) Chapter 48

(16:54:51) Chapter 49

(17:07:39) Chapter 50

(17:23:50) Chapter 51

(17:40:58) Chapter 52

(17:55:03) Chapter 53

(18:15:27) Chapter 54

(18:32:18) Chapter 55

(18:47:07) Chapter 56

(19:01:08) Chapter 57

(19:17:10) Chapter 58

(19:30:29) Chapter 59

(19:46:13) Chapter 60

(20:01:47) Chapter 3

(20:33:22) Chapter 4

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The Boys Life of Mark Twain by Albert Bigelow Paine ~ Full Audiobook [biography] Aug 31, 2022

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The Boys Life of Mark Twain by Albert Bigelow Paine audiobook.

Genre: biography

In The Boys Life of Mark Twain, Albert Bigelow Paine tells the true story of how Samuel Langhorne Clemens became the writer the world would later know as Mark Twain. Written with young listeners in mind, this brisk biography follows Clemens from his boyhood on the Mississippi River frontier through the hard knocks and odd jobs that shaped his voice: apprentice printer, riverboat dreamer, wandering traveler, and sharp-eyed reporter learning how to turn everyday adventures into unforgettable tales. Along the way, Paine introduces the people and places that left their mark on him - family, friends, bustling river towns, and the larger-than-life characters he met while chasing work and opportunity. As Clemens struggles to find direction, earn a living, and prove he can do more than merely get by, his humor and stubborn curiosity become tools for survival. The book traces the early turning points of his career and the experiences that fed his imagination, showing how a restless young man with a quick wit gradually discovered the path that would make him famous.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:01:08) Chapter 01

(00:09:27) Chapter 02

(00:17:45) Chapter 03

(00:23:45) Chapter 04

(00:36:56) Chapter 05

(00:55:43) Chapter 06

(01:04:28) Chapter 07

(01:11:24) Chapter 08

(01:18:09) Chapter 09

(01:31:00) Chapter 10

(01:39:48) Chapter 11

(01:46:16) Chapter 12

(01:53:59) Chapter 13

(02:05:55) Chapter 14

(02:19:22) Chapter 15

(02:23:24) Chapter 16

(02:33:02) Chapter 17

(02:37:13) Chapter 18

(02:45:13) Chapter 19

(02:51:44) Chapter 20

(03:10:01) Chapter 21

(03:17:06) Chapter 22

(03:24:12) Chapter 23

(03:34:43) Chapter 24

(03:45:33) Chapter 25

(03:52:43) Chapter 26

(04:07:48) Chapter 27

(04:16:37) Chapter 28

(04:23:04) Chapter 29

(04:29:47) Chapter 30

(04:36:13) Chapter 31

(04:42:11) Chapter 32

(04:47:03) Chapter 33

(04:51:29) Chapter 34

(04:58:23) Chapter 35

(05:02:49) Chapter 36

(05:06:59) Chapter 37

(05:13:14) Chapter 38

(05:18:13) Chapter 39

(05:29:14) Chapter 40

(05:34:13) Chapter 41

(05:39:22) Chapter 42

(05:44:58) Chapter 43

(05:49:29) Chapter 44

(05:55:36) Chapter 45

(05:59:06) Chapter 46

(06:04:03) Chapter 47

(06:08:31) Chapter 48

(06:23:51) Chapter 49

(06:33:17) Chapter 50

(06:48:11) Chapter 51

(07:01:31) Chapter 52

(07:07:41) Chapter 53

(07:13:31) Chapter 54

(07:17:29) Chapter 55

(07:23:15) Chapter 56

(07:29:45) Chapter 57

(07:36:41) Chapter 58

(07:46:50) Chapter 59

(07:56:33) Chapter 60

(08:03:36) Chapter 61

(08:08:05) Chapter 62

(08:14:05) Chapter 63

(08:19:09) Chapter 64

(08:22:49) Chapter 65

(08:29:15) Chapter 66

(08:35:08) Chapter 67

(08:38:31) Chapter 68

(08:43:59) Chapter 69

(08:47:21) Chapter 70

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The Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln ~ Full Audiobook [speeches] Aug 31, 2022

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The Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln audiobook.

Genre: speeches

After having written and released an initial draft of this proclamation in September of 1862, minor changes were made and Lincoln signed it on January 1st, 1863. It declared free the slaves in 10 states not then under Union control, with exemptions specified for areas already under Union control in two states. Lincoln spent the next 100 days preparing the army and the nation for emancipation, while Democrats rallied their voters in the 1862 off-year elections by warning of the threat freed slaves posed to northern whites.

Once the abolition of slavery in the rebel states became a military objective, as Union armies advanced south, more slaves were liberated until all three million of them in Confederate territory were freed. Lincoln's comment on the signing of the Proclamation was: 'I never, in my life, felt more certain that I was doing right, than I do in signing this paper.'

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

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The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln ~ Full Audiobook [speeches] Aug 30, 2022

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The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln audiobook.

Genre: speeches

It was a cloudy November day in 1863 when thousands gathered to hear renowned orator Edward Everett dedicate a national cemetery at the site of a pivotal battle early in July of that year. Also present to deliver 'a few appropriate remarks' was the President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln spoke but 278 words; Everett later wrote to the President, 'I should be glad, if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes.' Though there are surviving transcripts of Everett's lengthy speech, it is Lincoln's words which have come to be known as 'The Gettysburg Address'

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

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