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The Tarzan Twins by Edgar Rice Burroughs ~ Full Audiobook [adventure] Jul 22, 2025

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The Tarzan Twins by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook.

Genre: adventure

When fourteen-year-old cousins Dick and Doc discover that one of them is distantly related to the legendary Lord Greystoke, they earn a new nickname at school: the Tarzan Twins. Now they have the chance of a lifetime - a holiday on Tarzan's African estate. But before they can even reach their hero, disaster strikes. A rail mishap and a wrong turn plunge the boys into the vast, unforgiving jungle, where every mile is a lesson and every shadow could mean danger. Separated from safety and armed with little more than grit and quick thinking, the Twins must survive hostile terrain, wild beasts, and a deadly human threat when they fall into the hands of a brutal tribe. Their ordeal becomes more than a test of endurance: it is a chance to prove they can live up to the name they have claimed. As the boys fight to escape and find their way back, the jungle draws them into a larger mystery tied to ancient ruins, strange foes, and an innocent captive whose fate may depend on two determined boys - and the sudden appearance of the ape-man himself.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:05:34) Chapter 01

(00:17:00) Chapter 02

(00:28:32) Chapter 03

(00:37:59) Chapter 04

(00:46:50) Chapter 05

(00:55:02) Chapter 06

(01:05:13) Chapter 07

(01:17:26) Chapter 08

(01:28:12) Chapter 09

(01:30:26) Chapter 10

(01:38:41) Chapter 11

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Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas ~ Full Audiobook [history] Jul 21, 2025

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Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas audiobook.

Genre: history

In turbulent 16th-century France, the royal court of the Valois is a glittering trap: a place where weddings are arranged like treaties, faith is weaponized, and a careless word can cost a life. At the center stands Marguerite de Valois - clever, observant, and determined to shape her own fate even as her family uses her as a pawn. Her political marriage to the Protestant Henry of Navarre is meant to calm a kingdom split by religious war, but it instead pulls both of them into a tightening web of plots spun by Queen Mother Catherine de Medici and rival noble factions hungry for power. As Paris turns volatile and the palace corridors fill with secret messages, sudden arrests, and shifting alliances, Marguerite must decide whom to trust: her dangerous brothers, her husband whose survival depends on silence and strategy, or the passionate young men drawn into her orbit, including La Mole and the swaggering Coconnas. Alexandre Dumas blends romance, satire, and suspense into a vivid portrait of a court where love is never merely personal and survival demands both courage and cunning.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:28:29) Chapter 02

(00:52:41) Chapter 03

(01:17:39) Chapter 04

(01:34:26) Chapter 05

(01:53:18) Chapter 06

(02:15:20) Chapter 07

(02:45:35) Chapter 08

(03:07:55) Chapter 09

(03:35:56) Chapter 10

(04:03:47) Chapter 11

(04:26:47) Chapter 12

(04:42:54) Chapter 13

(05:04:43) Chapter 14

(05:23:19) Chapter 15

(05:55:03) Chapter 16

(06:20:42) Chapter 17

(06:36:30) Chapter 18

(06:56:32) Chapter 19

(07:22:30) Chapter 20

(07:37:02) Chapter 21

(07:56:42) Chapter 22

(08:08:45) Chapter 23

(08:35:56) Chapter 24

(09:00:31) Chapter 25

(09:21:16) Chapter 26

(09:37:07) Chapter 27

(09:49:09) Chapter 28

(10:02:21) Chapter 29

(10:14:38) Chapter 30

(10:24:18) Chapter 31

(10:41:55) Chapter 32

(10:58:05) Chapter 33

(11:12:08) Chapter 34

(11:33:58) Chapter 35

(11:49:46) Chapter 36

(12:02:01) Chapter 37

(12:24:29) Chapter 38

(12:43:25) Chapter 39

(13:11:42) Chapter 40

(13:34:57) Chapter 41

(13:50:43) Chapter 42

(14:12:37) Chapter 43

(14:26:34) Chapter 44

(14:44:53) Chapter 45

(15:07:47) Chapter 46

(15:25:27) Chapter 47

(15:39:17) Chapter 48

(16:03:26) Chapter 49

(16:18:10) Chapter 50

(16:36:34) Chapter 51

(16:53:00) Chapter 52

(17:12:56) Chapter 53

(17:27:02) Chapter 54

(17:40:50) Chapter 55

(18:04:35) Chapter 56

(18:18:31) Chapter 57

(18:38:26) Chapter 58

(18:56:29) Chapter 59

(19:06:15) Chapter 60

(19:17:07) Chapter 61

(19:35:46) Chapter 62

(19:46:02) Chapter 63

(19:55:50) Chapter 64

(20:05:29) Chapter 65

(20:17:18) Chapter 66

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The Forty-Five Guardsmen by Alexandre Dumas ~ Full Audiobook [adventure] Jul 19, 2025

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The Forty-Five Guardsmen by Alexandre Dumas audiobook.

Genre: adventure

In The Forty-Five Guardsmen, Alexandre Dumas plunges listeners into the perilous politics of late 16th-century France, where the throne is weak, factions sharpen their knives, and loyalty is bought at a terrible price. King Henry III, besieged by rivals and public unrest, forms an elite corps of forty-five Gascon gentlemen - hard-bitten soldiers hired to serve as his personal shield and secret instrument. Into this volatile court steps a young nobleman drawn into a web of intrigue that stretches from the Louvre's corridors to shadowed streets and provincial strongholds. As conspiracies multiply, Dumas follows messengers, spies, and swordsmen as they navigate shifting alliances between royal favorites, the powerful Catholic League, and those who would reshape the kingdom by force. Duels, coded letters, midnight arrests, and narrow escapes build toward a struggle where honor clashes with ambition and where private passions can ignite public catastrophe. Rich with period detail and Dumas' trademark momentum, the novel explores power, faith, betrayal, and the cost of serving a king when the nation is tearing itself apart.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:09:19) Chapter 02

(00:20:48) Chapter 03

(00:26:46) Chapter 04

(00:36:16) Chapter 05

(00:48:04) Chapter 06

(01:07:41) Chapter 07

(01:15:47) Chapter 08

(01:23:38) Chapter 09

(01:31:20) Chapter 10

(01:41:05) Chapter 11

(01:49:13) Chapter 12

(01:57:29) Chapter 13

(02:04:57) Chapter 14

(02:20:28) Chapter 15

(02:32:42) Chapter 16

(02:41:51) Chapter 17

(02:46:23) Chapter 18

(02:52:45) Chapter 19

(03:01:01) Chapter 20

(03:05:51) Chapter 21

(03:13:05) Chapter 22

(03:21:02) Chapter 23

(03:26:41) Chapter 24

(03:35:59) Chapter 25

(03:41:25) Chapter 26

(03:47:11) Chapter 27

(03:54:50) Chapter 28

(04:00:19) Chapter 29

(04:07:59) Chapter 30

(04:18:11) Chapter 31

(04:27:54) Chapter 32

(04:34:02) Chapter 33

(04:39:32) Chapter 34

(04:45:34) Chapter 35

(04:54:11) Chapter 36

(05:00:48) Chapter 37

(05:10:35) Chapter 38

(05:21:14) Chapter 39

(05:30:41) Chapter 40

(05:45:03) Chapter 41

(05:54:52) Chapter 42

(06:06:33) Chapter 43

(06:17:40) Chapter 44

(06:26:46) Chapter 45

(06:32:32) Chapter 46

(06:38:43) Chapter 47

(06:49:48) Chapter 48

(06:59:03) Chapter 49

(07:12:32) Chapter 50

(07:22:22) Chapter 51

(07:37:20) Chapter 52

(07:48:41) Chapter 53

(08:00:10) Chapter 54

(08:14:34) Chapter 55

(08:23:47) Chapter 56

(08:32:55) Chapter 57

(08:50:47) Chapter 58

(09:00:48) Chapter 59

(09:11:59) Chapter 60

(09:18:52) Chapter 61

(09:28:35) Chapter 62

(09:42:33) Chapter 63

(09:48:27) Chapter 64

(09:58:16) Chapter 65

(10:13:01) Chapter 66

(10:21:57) Chapter 67

(10:32:07) Chapter 68

(10:42:24) Chapter 69

(10:56:07) Chapter 70

(11:04:12) Chapter 71

(11:15:42) Chapter 72

(11:24:55) Chapter 73

(11:36:28) Chapter 74

(11:54:45) Chapter 75

(12:09:18) Chapter 76

(12:17:13) Chapter 77

(12:33:48) Chapter 78

(12:47:05) Chapter 79

(12:53:46) Chapter 80

(12:58:47) Chapter 81

(13:26:43) Chapter 82

(13:44:36) Chapter 83

(13:59:51) Chapter 84

(14:21:58) Chapter 85

(14:32:06) Chapter 86

(14:48:17) Chapter 87

(15:05:22) Chapter 88

(15:19:27) Chapter 89

(15:38:07) Chapter 90

(15:44:37) Chapter 91

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An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy] Jul 18, 2025

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An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope audiobook.

Genre: philosophy

Alexander Pope's An Essay on Man is a philosophical poem that wrestles with one of humanity's oldest questions: how can a world filled with suffering, limitation, and contradiction still make moral and spiritual sense? Written in a series of tightly argued, brilliantly crafted epistles, the work guides the listener through a grand survey of the human condition - our place in the universe, the boundaries of our knowledge, the pulls of passion and reason, and the social forces that shape our lives. Pope speaks to the restless mind that wants certainty, reminding us that perspective is partial and that pride can masquerade as wisdom. With vivid imagery and memorable lines, he examines the chain of being that links all creatures, the temptations of ambition and self-love, and the fragile balance between individual desire and the common good. At once devotional and skeptical, elegant and confrontational, An Essay on Man invites you to consider what it means to be human, why humility matters, and how acceptance, responsibility, and compassion might coexist in an imperfect world.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:05:00) Chapter 01

(00:28:05) Chapter 02

(00:50:59) Chapter 03

(01:16:42) Chapter 04

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Pamphilia to Amphilanthus by Lady Mary Wroth ~ Full Audiobook [poetry] Jul 17, 2025

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Pamphilia to Amphilanthus by Lady Mary Wroth audiobook.

Genre: poetry

Pamphilia to Amphilanthus is Lady Mary Wroth's groundbreaking early modern sonnet sequence, spoken in the voice of Pamphilia, a woman caught between her vow of constancy and the painful knowledge that her beloved, Amphilanthus, is changeable. Through tightly wrought sonnets and interwoven songs, Pamphilia turns the conventions of courtly love inside out: instead of a silent lady adored from afar, she becomes the thinking, desiring, self-questioning center of the story. The poems trace her private battle as she tries to govern passion with reason, protect her dignity in a world of rumor and political display, and make meaning out of longing that refuses to end. Along the way, Wroth explores how love can be both a source of identity and a kind of captivity, especially for a woman whose choices are constrained by court, reputation, and expectation. Intimate, intellectually sharp, and emotionally relentless, this sequence offers a rare, sustained portrait of female interiority, where devotion, jealousy, hope, and endurance collide in language as precise as it is aching.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:29:17) Chapter 02

(00:55:44) Chapter 03

(01:03:56) Chapter 04

(01:17:38) Chapter 05

(01:30:24) Chapter 06

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Moving the Mountain by Charlotte Perkins Gilman ~ Full Audiobook [scifi] Jul 16, 2025

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Moving the Mountain by Charlotte Perkins Gilman audiobook.

Genre: scifi

When John Robertson returns to the United States after three decades away, he expects to find familiar streets, old habits, and the same social battles he once knew. Instead, he steps into a nation quietly transformed by a sweeping, practical reorganization of everyday life. Taken in by relatives and new acquaintances, John becomes a curious outsider in his own homeland, touring workplaces, homes, schools, and public spaces that run with striking efficiency and unexpected warmth. As he struggles to make sense of what has changed, he meets people who embody the new order: women and men reshaping family life, labor, health, and civic responsibility around cooperation rather than competition. But John's amazement soon turns to unease as he realizes that progress has a price, and that not everyone welcomes a society built on shared standards, public planning, and a redefined idea of freedom. Moving the Mountain is Charlotte Perkins Gilman's visionary utopian novel, mixing satire and earnest social critique to ask what a modern nation might become if it treated care, work, and equality as core infrastructure.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:23:25) Chapter 02

(00:46:43) Chapter 03

(01:08:39) Chapter 04

(01:35:18) Chapter 05

(02:04:09) Chapter 06

(02:25:45) Chapter 07

(02:49:32) Chapter 08

(03:14:46) Chapter 09

(03:49:17) Chapter 10

(04:04:14) Chapter 11

(04:36:02) Chapter 12

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Maude by Christina Rossetti ~ Full Audiobook [drama] Jul 15, 2025

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Maude by Christina Rossetti audiobook.

Genre: drama

Written as a 'tale for girls' and threaded with early poems, Christina Rossetti's Maude follows fifteen-year-old Maude Foster, a pale, clever, quietly intense London girl whose private writing-book is part diary, part sketchbook, and part confession. Praised for her verses yet unsettled by the attention they draw, Maude is pulled between the warmth and bustle of social life and an inward discipline shaped by religious devotion and relentless self-examination. When her mother brings her into the country to visit relatives for a birthday gathering, Maude steps into a world of lively cousins, youthful games, polite compliments, and the unspoken pressures of what a young woman should be: modest, domestic, agreeable. But Maude cannot stop measuring every thought and impulse, questioning whether her talents are vanity, whether her friendships are sincere, and whether she is truly worthy of the spiritual ideals she longs to live by. As days of pleasant activity give way to sharper moments of conscience, Maude must decide what kind of person she will become - and whether faith and feeling, duty and desire, can be held together without breaking her.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:28:07) Chapter 2

(00:55:00) Chapter 3

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Victory by Joseph Conrad ~ Full Audiobook [tragedy] Jul 14, 2025

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Victory by Joseph Conrad audiobook.

Genre: tragedy

Set in the Dutch East Indies at the edge of empire, Joseph Conrad's Victory follows Axel Heyst, a wealthy, disillusioned European who retreats from the world to a remote island, convinced that detachment is the only safe philosophy. His self-imposed solitude is disrupted when he intervenes to help Lena, a young musician trapped in a seedy touring troupe. Bringing her to his island refuge, Heyst discovers that withdrawal does not cancel responsibility - or desire - and that intimacy can be both a sanctuary and a vulnerability. Meanwhile, the island becomes a magnet for danger: a failing business venture, old resentments, and a trio of predatory outsiders converge, sensing opportunity in Heyst's isolation and in the couple's precarious position. As pressure mounts, the novel tests the limits of Heyst's ideals against the demands of love, loyalty, and action. Victory is a tense, atmospheric study of moral paralysis and sudden courage, where Conrad's seascape of heat and shadow frames a clash between conscience and cruelty.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:03:01) Chapter 02

(00:20:58) Chapter 03

(00:33:18) Chapter 04

(00:52:43) Chapter 05

(01:05:10) Chapter 06

(01:17:54) Chapter 07

(01:46:25) Chapter 08

(01:56:22) Chapter 09

(02:05:25) Chapter 10

(02:26:44) Chapter 11

(02:53:16) Chapter 12

(03:05:20) Chapter 13

(03:16:52) Chapter 14

(03:39:52) Chapter 15

(04:08:45) Chapter 16

(04:39:59) Chapter 17

(05:08:35) Chapter 18

(05:25:30) Chapter 19

(05:30:30) Chapter 20

(05:58:12) Chapter 21

(06:24:50) Chapter 22

(06:39:42) Chapter 23

(06:54:16) Chapter 24

(07:14:33) Chapter 25

(07:22:23) Chapter 26

(07:38:30) Chapter 27

(08:10:36) Chapter 28

(08:26:08) Chapter 29

(08:41:44) Chapter 30

(08:52:50) Chapter 31

(09:06:49) Chapter 32

(09:36:39) Chapter 33

(09:46:56) Chapter 34

(09:55:27) Chapter 35

(10:19:16) Chapter 36

(10:40:03) Chapter 37

(10:52:47) Chapter 38

(11:25:25) Chapter 39

(11:40:48) Chapter 40

(11:48:55) Chapter 41

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The Stolen Brain by Nicholas Carter ~ Full Audiobook [mystery] Jul 12, 2025

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The Stolen Brain by Nicholas Carter audiobook.

Genre: mystery

In a quiet stretch of the Bronx, not far from the New York Zoological Park, a feared surgeon has turned his rambling home into a private hospital - and whispers say the screams are not only animal. Dr. Hiram A. Grantley is brilliant, ruthless, and obsessed with pushing surgery beyond accepted limits. When antivivisectionist John D. Wallace brings alarming suspicions to famed detective Nick Carter, Carter decides the only way to learn the truth is to move in next door under an assumed name. Disguised as an ordinary family, Carter, his quick-witted assistant Patsy Garvan, and Patsy's intuitive wife Adelina begin a round-the-clock watch on Grantley's visitors: poor East Side patients who cannot pay, young doctors arriving after dark, and furtive movements that suggest something is being carried out at night.As the stake grows from rumor to imminent danger, Carter must balance stealth with urgency, risking exposure to catch Grantley in the act. With an allied surgeon ready to testify and a desperate plan to force an opening into the guarded house, the investigation drives toward a confrontation where medical ambition, human morality, and cold-blooded crime collide.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:09:56) Chapter 02

(00:21:15) Chapter 03

(00:28:48) Chapter 04

(00:35:27) Chapter 05

(00:42:48) Chapter 06

(00:48:49) Chapter 07

(00:57:01) Chapter 08

(01:04:51) Chapter 09

(01:14:18) Chapter 10

(01:25:02) Chapter 11

(01:35:18) Chapter 12

(01:41:27) Chapter 13

(01:49:55) Chapter 14

(01:58:10) Chapter 15

(02:06:28) Chapter 16

(02:13:15) Chapter 17

(02:21:34) Chapter 18

(02:29:16) Chapter 19

(02:36:47) Chapter 20

(02:44:43) Chapter 21

(02:52:37) Chapter 22

(02:59:50) Chapter 23

(03:12:05) Chapter 24

(03:20:03) Chapter 25

(03:28:48) Chapter 26

(03:38:51) Chapter 27

(03:47:33) Chapter 28

(03:56:42) Chapter 29

(04:04:31) Chapter 30

(04:13:05) Chapter 31

(04:23:29) Chapter 32

(04:31:12) Chapter 33

(04:38:50) Chapter 34

(04:46:25) Chapter 35

(04:55:06) Chapter 36

(05:01:11) Chapter 37

(05:08:50) Chapter 38

(05:15:20) Chapter 39

(05:18:53) Chapter 40

(05:23:35) Chapter 41

(05:28:59) Chapter 42

(05:35:48) Chapter 43

(05:40:35) Chapter 44

(05:46:35) Chapter 45

(05:50:13) Chapter 46

(05:58:15) Chapter 47

(06:05:41) Chapter 48

(06:08:16) Chapter 49

(06:11:08) Chapter 50

(06:14:39) Chapter 51

(06:19:30) Chapter 52

(06:24:25) Chapter 53

(06:30:05) Chapter 54

(06:37:13) Chapter 55

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Sinister House by Leland Hall ~ Full Audiobook [horror] Jul 11, 2025

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Sinister House by Leland Hall audiobook.

Genre: horror

In an ordinary American suburb, Pierre and his practical wife, Annette, try to welcome new neighbors, Eric and Julia Grier, into the community. But the Griers' home is anything but ordinary: an aging, unfashionable house that seems to drink in light and warmth, leaving behind a chill that Pierre cannot explain. Julia insists the place comforts her, yet bruises and strange injuries begin to appear on her body, and Eric starts to change in ways that unsettle everyone who meets him. When a stormy night forces Pierre's family to seek shelter under the Griers' roof, a child's terror and a series of small, impossible incidents push neighborly concern into outright dread. Annette's cousin Giles, a determined skeptic, digs into the house's earlier owners and the pious reputation that may hide something far darker, while Pierre struggles to protect his family from an influence that feels both intimate and inhuman. As whispers of a locked, forbidden room grow louder, Sinister House builds a slow, psychological haunt in which comfort curdles into suspicion, and the safest place in town becomes the one doorway you should never enter.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:12:51) Chapter 02

(00:22:53) Chapter 03

(00:33:50) Chapter 04

(00:56:51) Chapter 05

(01:19:44) Chapter 06

(01:44:17) Chapter 07

(02:10:18) Chapter 08

(02:41:20) Chapter 09

(03:08:02) Chapter 10