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Les Miserables Volume 2 by Victor Hugo ~ Full Audiobook [drama] Mar 03, 2025

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Les Miserables Volume 2 by Victor Hugo audiobook.

Genre: drama

In Volume 2 of Victor Hugo's Les Miserables, the city of Paris becomes a pressure cooker where private lives collide with public unrest. Jean Valjean, still carrying the weight of his past, struggles to build a quiet, honorable future while protecting Cosette, the young girl whose safety and happiness have become his purpose. But peace is fragile: the relentless inspector Javert remains convinced that Valjean can never truly change, and his pursuit tightens as Valjean's path crosses new faces in the capital. Among them are idealistic students and revolutionaries gathering in cafes and back streets, dreaming of justice and dignity for the poor, even as the machinery of law and inequality grinds on. Love, sacrifice, and moral duty are tested in crowded tenements, grand boulevards, and shadowed alleys, where a single choice can echo across many lives. Sweeping and intimate at once, this volume deepens the novel's central questions: Can a person be redeemed, what is owed to the suffering, and when does obedience to the law become its own kind of injustice?

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Les Miserables Volume 1 by Victor Hugo ~ Full Audiobook [drama] Mar 01, 2025

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Les Miserables Volume 1 by Victor Hugo audiobook.

Genre: drama

In Les Miserables Volume 1, Victor Hugo introduces a sweeping portrait of France in the early 19th century through the life of Jean Valjean, a man marked by years of imprisonment and struggling to rebuild his identity in a world that refuses to forget his past. After an unexpected act of mercy alters his course, Valjean attempts to create an honest life, only to find himself hunted by rigid inspector Javert, who believes the law must be obeyed without exception. As Valjean rises toward respectability, he becomes entangled in the desperate fate of Fantine, a young mother pushed to the edge by poverty and social cruelty. Her child, Cosette, becomes the focus of a promise that will test Valjean's courage, conscience, and capacity for love. Moving from cathedral towns to harsh streets and shadowed rooms, Volume 1 lays the foundation for an epic conflict between justice and compassion, sin and redemption, and individual responsibility within an unequal society. Hugo blends intimate human drama with bold moral questions, illuminating how one life can be transformed - and how that transformation can ripple outward into the lives of others.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:01:03) Chapter 01

(00:08:07) Chapter 02

(00:19:47) Chapter 03

(00:24:42) Chapter 04

(00:42:31) Chapter 05

(00:49:20) Chapter 06

(01:02:27) Chapter 07

(01:10:40) Chapter 08

(01:19:38) Chapter 09

(01:28:29) Chapter 11

(01:39:22) Chapter 12

(01:47:00) Chapter 13

(01:57:42) Chapter 14

(02:04:51) Chapter 15

(02:32:56) Chapter 16

(02:43:50) Chapter 17

(02:58:19) Chapter 18

(03:07:18) Chapter 19

(03:11:04) Chapter 20

(03:25:28) Chapter 21

(03:43:54) Chapter 22

(03:51:35) Chapter 23

(03:55:21) Chapter 24

(04:04:03) Chapter 25

(04:15:28) Chapter 26

(04:24:32) Chapter 27

(04:50:08) Chapter 28

(05:09:59) Chapter 29

(05:21:19) Chapter 30

(05:30:11) Chapter 31

(05:36:29) Chapter 32

(05:43:40) Chapter 33

(05:47:23) Chapter 34

(06:02:24) Chapter 35

(06:08:14) Chapter 36

(06:15:06) Chapter 37

(06:34:06) Chapter 38

(06:39:18) Chapter 39

(06:45:32) Chapter 40

(06:49:35) Chapter 41

(06:58:27) Chapter 42

(07:05:46) Chapter 43

(07:11:41) Chapter 44

(07:25:48) Chapter 45

(07:32:41) Chapter 46

(07:36:57) Chapter 47

(07:44:26) Chapter 48

(07:50:55) Chapter 49

(08:03:31) Chapter 50

(08:06:35) Chapter 51

(08:13:02) Chapter 52

(08:39:17) Chapter 53

(08:49:47) Chapter 54

(09:13:21) Chapter 55

(09:23:04) Chapter 56

(09:35:30) Chapter 57

(10:24:26) Chapter 58

(10:32:59) Chapter 59

(10:55:41) Chapter 60

(11:10:22) Chapter 61

(11:20:09) Chapter 62

(11:27:19) Chapter 63

(11:48:18) Chapter 64

(12:09:53) Chapter 65

(12:20:39) Chapter 66

(12:27:13) Chapter 67

(12:38:28) Chapter 68

(12:49:00) Chapter 69

(12:58:56) Chapter 70

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The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson ~ Full Audiobook [drama] Feb 28, 2025

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The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson audiobook.

Genre: drama

In the aftermath of the 1745 Jacobite rising, the proud Durie family of Scotland makes a fateful choice to protect its estate: one brother, James Durie, outwardly supports the Crown, while the other, Henry, is sent to join the doomed rebellion. But when James, the charismatic and dangerous 'Master of Ballantrae,' returns from presumed death, the household is plunged into a long, bitter contest that stretches from bleak Scottish moors to the rough edges of colonial America and beyond. Told largely through the wary eyes of Ephraim Mackellar, the Duries' loyal steward, the story becomes a study in obsession, loyalty, and the corrosive power of rivalry. As James and Henry struggle for inheritance, influence, and identity, those around them are pulled into a tightening web of deception and escalating stakes. Stevenson blends historical detail with gothic intensity, exploring how pride and resentment can hollow out a family from within, and how the line between heroism and villainy can shift depending on who is speaking. What begins as a pragmatic split of allegiance grows into a relentless duel of wills, with the future of Ballantrae - and the souls of those bound to it - hanging in the balance.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:10:32) Chapter 01

(00:35:39) Chapter 02

(01:10:17) Chapter 03

(02:18:41) Chapter 04

(03:32:35) Chapter 05

(04:15:48) Chapter 06

(05:00:27) Chapter 07

(05:08:51) Chapter 08

(05:55:59) Chapter 09

(06:39:18) Chapter 10

(07:21:15) Chapter 11

(08:14:39) Chapter 12

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Kidnapped in London by Sun Yat-sen ~ Full Audiobook [biography] Feb 27, 2025

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Kidnapped in London by Sun Yat-sen audiobook.

Genre: biography

In Kidnapped in London, revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen recounts a tense, true-life episode that turned his political exile into an international incident. Living abroad while plotting the downfall of the Qing dynasty, Sun finds himself shadowed by agents determined to silence him. What begins as an ordinary day in London abruptly narrows into a confined struggle for time, nerve, and survival as he is seized and hidden away, cut off from friends and the public. With calm clarity and mounting urgency, Sun details the methods used to isolate him, the psychological pressure meant to force his compliance, and the improvised strategies he uses to keep hope alive. Around him, a web of diplomats, police, journalists, and sympathetic allies must decide what to do when an act of political coercion unfolds on British soil. More than a personal escape narrative, the book reveals how publicity, law, and international opinion can become weapons for the powerless, and how one man s determination can ignite a cause far beyond a locked door.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:30:32) Chapter 02

(01:01:45) Chapter 03

(01:31:23) Chapter 04

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The Seven Temporary Moons by Murray Leinster ~ Full Audiobook [scifi] Feb 26, 2025

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The Seven Temporary Moons by Murray Leinster audiobook.

Genre: scifi

When seven strange objects take up station around Earth like brand-new moons, panic spreads fast: are they a freak of astronomy, or an enemy's first move? Dr. Murfree, a practical scientist with too many urgent problems and too little time, turns to the one person who keeps producing impossible answers - Bud Gregory, a backwoods tinkerer whose homespun manner hides a terrifying intuition for high technology. Bud has already shocked the respectable world with inventions that can do the unthinkable: pull specific materials from a distance, turn raw physics into profitable industry, and even stop incoming fire in its tracks. Now, with the so-called temporary moons looming overhead and world authorities demanding certainty, Bud and Murfree must figure out what the objects really are, what they are designed to do, and how to keep Earth from being bullied - or blasted - into submission. Fast, funny, and packed with pulp-era ingenuity, The Seven Temporary Moons is a high-stakes science-fiction adventure about unconventional genius, scientific improvisation, and the thin line between a bright idea and a world-changing weapon.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:19:07) Chapter 02

(00:40:58) Chapter 03

(00:59:56) Chapter 04

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The Grandfather's War by Murray Leinster ~ Full Audiobook [scifi] Feb 25, 2025

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The Grandfather's War by Murray Leinster audiobook.

Genre: scifi

On the interstellar frontier, war is supposed to be obsolete. Distance, physics, and modern technology have made the old-style clash of fleets and armies effectively impossible. So when the Med Service receives an urgent call from the colony world Phaedra II, warning of casualties from a war about to erupt, the request sounds like a misunderstanding - until Dr. Calhoun is dispatched in a small Med Ship to find out what is really happening. Traveling with his sharp-eyed, furred companion Murgatroyd, Calhoun expects to solve a public health problem, not enter a political minefield. But Phaedra II is a society splitting along a frightening fault line: a conflict of generations where children and parents are lining up as enemies, each side convinced the other is destroying their future. As tensions harden into open violence, Calhoun must do what the Med Service does best - treat the wounded, trace the true cause of the crisis, and outthink forces that prefer panic to cure. In a story that blends action, invention, and social commentary, Leinster turns a medical mission into a race to prevent a world from tearing itself apart.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:18:44) Chapter 02

(00:44:51) Chapter 03

(01:04:54) Chapter 04

(01:28:14) Chapter 05

(01:45:34) Chapter 06

(02:05:43) Chapter 07

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Ribbon in the Sky by Murray Leinster ~ Full Audiobook [scifi] Feb 24, 2025

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Ribbon in the Sky by Murray Leinster audiobook.

Genre: scifi

Calhoun is a Med Service man, trained to carry medicine and public health to far-flung human worlds, and he is proud of doing a job where mistakes can cost lives. Then a simple human blunder in the navigation system punches his small ship off course into uncharted space, leaving him and his sharp-tempered, tree-climbing companion Murgatroyd with no clear route home. Their forced landing drops them onto a bleak colony world where a strange, glowing ribbon stretches across the sky, warming a narrow band of habitable land like an artificial sunrise. The settlers below are not united by their miracle of survival: they are split into rival communities, sealed off by terror of infection and obsessed with keeping outsiders away. As Calhoun investigates, he finds that the real danger is not only physical illness but a creeping social sickness born of isolation, rumor, and panic. When a desperate young couple tries to cross forbidden boundaries, Calhoun is pulled into a volatile clash of fear, medicine, and politics, and must use science, empathy, and nerve to keep a fragile world from breaking apart.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:20:35) Chapter 02

(00:50:25) Chapter 03

(01:23:40) Chapter 04

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If You Was a Moklin by Murray Leinster ~ Full Audiobook [scifi] Feb 22, 2025

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If You Was a Moklin by Murray Leinster audiobook.

Genre: scifi

Forty years after the first Earth ship settled the lush world called Moklin, the tiny human colony thinks it has won the jackpot of first contacts: the Moklins are friendly, helpful, and openly fascinated by everything human. They admire Earthmen so much that they copy our clothes, our speech, our habits, even our ideas about business and trade. And on Moklin, imitation is not just a hobby. Their strange biology lets each new generation change with startling speed toward whatever traits their people most strongly want.For Brooks and the other long-term colonists, it is flattering at first, then unsettling. A new trading post appears with suspicious efficiency. Human mannerisms spread too perfectly, too quickly. When an off-world investigator, Inspector Caldwell, arrives to look into rumors of unethical competition, the colony is forced to ask a question no one wants to voice: what if the Moklins are not only learning from humans, but becoming them? As friendship shades into fear, the settlers must untangle what the Moklins truly intend and decide how to protect a civilization that might be copied right out from under them.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:23:45) Chapter 02

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Be Young Again by Murray Leinster ~ Full Audiobook [scifi] Feb 21, 2025

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Be Young Again by Murray Leinster audiobook.

Genre: scifi

In Be Young Again!, Murray Leinster blends a fast-talking con game with a startling scientific gamble when a streetwise teenage narrator gets pulled into one of old Jode's biggest schemes yet. Jode, a seasoned swindler with a taste for big scores and bigger risks, teams up with the cash-strapped Professor Henry Barr, who claims to have recreated an ancient alchemical process that produces an actual Elixir of Youth. Their target is Mr. Vachti, an aging bootleg king with money, muscle, and a hobby of collecting proof that every confidence trick can be punished. If the elixir is fake, Vachti wants the satisfaction of watching the pitchmen go down. If it is real, he wants the chance to buy back his future. As the trio circles each other in wary negotiations, the narrator is sent to handle the practical details and verify what the professor can really do, setting off a chain of tests, close calls, and escalating pressure. With danger tightening by the hour, the story becomes a lively chase through greed, hope, and the high price of cheating time.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:14:19) Chapter 02

(00:33:53) Chapter 03

(00:47:52) Chapter 04

(01:01:20) Chapter 05

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The Serious Family by Morris Barnett ~ Full Audiobook [comedy] Feb 20, 2025

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The Serious Family by Morris Barnett audiobook.

Genre: comedy

Set in the drawing rooms of Victorian society, The Serious Family is a sharp comedy of manners that punctures the respectable facade of the Torrens household. Mr. Charles Torrens prides himself on order, propriety, and the image of unimpeachable domestic virtue, but the atmosphere in his home is already brittle, crowded with watchful relatives, eager advisers, and a steady hum of judgment from the outside world. Into this carefully managed scene strides Captain Murphy Maguire, a charmingly reckless visitor whose presence threatens to turn polite conversation into open scandal. As the family scrambles to control what is said, seen, and suspected, the house becomes a stage for hurried cover stories, shifting alliances, and moral posturing that says more about social ambition than genuine principle. With a lively cast that includes the smooth-talking Mr. Amindab Sleek, the observant Emma Torrens, and the formidable Mrs. Ormsby Delmaine, Barnett builds a fast-moving tangle of misunderstandings and pressures, asking what respectability is worth when it is mainly a performance. The result is a spirited satire of hypocrisy, reputation, and the absurd lengths people will go to in order to appear serious.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:39:45) Chapter 2

(01:07:39) Chapter 3

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