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Billie Bradley and Her Classmates by Janet D. Wheeler ~ Full Audiobook [mystery] Sep 20, 2024

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Billie Bradley and Her Classmates by Janet D. Wheeler audiobook.

Genre: mystery

At Three Towers Hall, Billie Bradley and her best friends, Violet Farrington and Laura Jordon, expect a winter term filled with skating parties, lessons, and laughter. But when an afternoon on Lake Molata turns into a desperate rescue of three little children who have fallen through thin ice, Billie is drawn into the hardships of a struggling local family and a mystery that refuses to stay outside the school gates. Rumors swirl about a valuable missing invention, and soon Three Towers Hall itself seems touched by trouble: petty thefts, uneasy secrets, and the ominous, long-locked tower that the girls have been warned never to enter. As jealousy and rivalry flare among the students, Billie also faces an enemy in sneaky classmate Amanda Peabody, whose schemes threaten to turn friends against one another and place blame where it does not belong. Following scattered clues through snowstorms, midnight corridors, and the shadowy upper reaches of the school, Billie must rely on courage, quick thinking, and loyal friendship to protect the innocent and uncover the truth behind the locked tower's secret.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:11:31) Chapter 02

(00:25:02) Chapter 03

(00:41:49) Chapter 04

(00:51:20) Chapter 05

(01:03:25) Chapter 06

(01:15:17) Chapter 07

(01:24:51) Chapter 08

(01:36:19) Chapter 09

(01:47:17) Chapter 10

(01:57:58) Chapter 11

(02:07:46) Chapter 12

(02:17:33) Chapter 13

(02:27:46) Chapter 14

(02:38:13) Chapter 15

(02:48:27) Chapter 16

(03:02:15) Chapter 17

(03:12:34) Chapter 18

(03:22:24) Chapter 19

(03:32:28) Chapter 20

(03:42:29) Chapter 21

(03:51:20) Chapter 22

(04:02:30) Chapter 23

(04:12:39) Chapter 24

(04:26:05) Chapter 25

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Pomes Penyeach by James Joyce ~ Full Audiobook [poetry] Sep 19, 2024

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Pomes Penyeach by James Joyce audiobook.

Genre: poetry

Pomes Penyeach is James Joyce's compact, meticulously crafted collection of thirteen poems - a small book with an outsized emotional reach. Moving through city streets, coastal landscapes, and intimate rooms, Joyce traces the shifting weather of desire, memory, and loneliness with a lyric voice that is at once musical and sharply observant. These poems linger on brief encounters and private reckonings: a lover glimpsed and lost, a marriage shadowed by distance, a mind haunted by what it cannot recover, and a self trying to name its own restless hungers. Joyce's language is spare but resonant, balancing tenderness with irony, and clarity with unsettling ambiguity. Across the collection, recurring motifs of song, seasons, and light on water bind the pieces together, while each poem stands as a distinct moment - a note struck cleanly and allowed to ring. For listeners who want a concentrated dose of Joyce's artistry outside his longer fiction, Pomes Penyeach offers a swift, evocative journey into modernist lyricism and the complicated currents of the human heart.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:02:52) Chapter 02

(00:06:49) Chapter 03

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A Token for Children by James Janeway ~ Full Audiobook [religion] Sep 18, 2024

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A Token for Children by James Janeway audiobook.

Genre: religion

First published in the late seventeenth century, James Janeway's A Token for Children is a classic work of Puritan devotion written to speak directly to young listeners and their families. Framed as a series of brief accounts, the book gathers stories of boys and girls whose short lives are marked by earnest faith, searching self-examination, and a steadying hope in Christ. Janeway writes as a pastor and teacher, using plain language and vivid scenes to show how children can wrestle with fear, temptation, sickness, and the certainty of death, while also learning prayer, repentance, and trust in God's promises. Parents, ministers, and caregivers appear alongside the children, offering counsel, asking probing questions, and urging a life shaped by Scripture. The central tension is not outward adventure but inward: how a child, aware of sin and mortality, can find assurance, comfort, and a sense of purpose. Both sobering and tender, A Token for Children aims to form the conscience, awaken spiritual seriousness, and encourage a household faith that holds fast under trial.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:04:31) Chapter 01

(00:18:46) Chapter 02

(00:24:38) Chapter 03

(00:34:03) Chapter 04

(00:37:06) Chapter 05

(00:42:12) Chapter 06

(00:46:35) Chapter 07

(00:59:32) Chapter 08

(01:09:59) Chapter 09

(01:13:55) Chapter 10

(01:17:30) Chapter 11

(01:49:49) Chapter 12

(01:53:06) Chapter 13

(02:09:54) Chapter 14

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Captives of the Thieve-Star by James H. Schmitz ~ Full Audiobook [scifi] Sep 17, 2024

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Captives of the Thieve-Star by James H. Schmitz audiobook.

Genre: scifi

Newly married and newly rich in trouble, Peer and Channok are small-time space operators with a talent for finding the wrong kind of salvage. A simple plan to spirit away their latest haul turns into a nightmare when they grapple a drifting derelict, the Ra-Twelve, and discover they have latched onto a prize someone else is desperate to claim. Word of stolen treasure and a missing ship spreads fast across the fringe, drawing predators, opportunists, and a shadowy group known only as the Mysterious Nine. But the worst danger may already be aboard. The Ra-Twelve is linked to the Yomm, an uncanny alien presence that warps fear into something immediate and lethal, turning corridors and cargo holds into traps. Hunted in open space and hemmed in by a ship that does not feel entirely dead, Peer and Channok must rely on quick thinking, hard-earned street skills, and the stubborn strength of their partnership to stay alive long enough to learn what the Ra-Twelve really carries. James H. Schmitz blends pulp-speed adventure with eerie alien menace in a tight, high-stakes chase among the stars.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:21:21) Chapter 02

(00:33:47) Chapter 03

(00:54:48) Chapter 04

(01:15:42) Chapter 05

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The Green Girl by Jack Williamson ~ Full Audiobook [scifi] Sep 16, 2024

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The Green Girl by Jack Williamson audiobook.

Genre: scifi

On May 4, 1999, the sun goes dark at noon and Earth begins to slide toward a new Ice Age. In a quiet Florida cottage, young Melvin Dane has only one refuge from the panic spreading across the world: his brilliant foster father, Dr. Samuel Walden, a scientist who has been preparing for an attack no one else believes is possible. Walden has built a strange, all-terrain machine capable of traveling by land, air, and sea, and his calculations point to an impossible source for the catastrophe - a hostile intelligence hidden far beneath the ocean in the abyssal depths. Together they plunge toward the Magyar Deep, descending into a buried, otherworldly realm of alien landscapes, uncanny vegetation, and creatures that challenge every boundary between plant and animal. But the greatest shock is personal: the mysterious Green Girl Melvin has seen in dreams since childhood may be real, and her presence ties the fate of their expedition to a question larger than survival - whether two utterly different worlds can understand each other before the darkness above becomes permanent.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:08:08) Chapter 02

(00:16:55) Chapter 03

(00:23:37) Chapter 04

(00:32:17) Chapter 05

(00:40:38) Chapter 06

(00:49:12) Chapter 07

(00:58:08) Chapter 08

(01:05:15) Chapter 09

(01:12:59) Chapter 10

(01:19:57) Chapter 11

(01:27:48) Chapter 12

(01:36:34) Chapter 13

(01:44:23) Chapter 14

(01:51:20) Chapter 15

(01:58:47) Chapter 16

(02:06:38) Chapter 17

(02:16:04) Chapter 18

(02:23:20) Chapter 19

(02:32:54) Chapter 20

(02:40:27) Chapter 21

(02:49:25) Chapter 22

(02:58:06) Chapter 23

(03:04:42) Chapter 24

(03:12:29) Chapter 25

(03:19:11) Chapter 26

(03:26:53) Chapter 27

(03:35:19) Chapter 28

(03:43:17) Chapter 29

(03:52:52) Chapter 30

(04:02:32) Chapter 31

(04:12:31) Chapter 32

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You Cant Win by Jack Black ~ Full Audiobook [biography] Sep 14, 2024

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You Cant Win by Jack Black audiobook.

Genre: biography

First published in 1926, You Cant Win is the hard-edged, darkly funny autobiography of Jack Black, a drifter and career thief who came of age in the American West during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Told in a blunt, conversational voice, Black traces his early fascination with the underworld, the mentors who school him in the craft of stealing, and the shifting code of honor that governs the road. From boxcars and flophouses to saloons, gambling rooms, and prison yards, he moves through a world where hunger, pride, and quick thinking decide who survives the night. But every score carries a cost: betrayals come fast, the law closes in without mercy, and the habits that keep him afloat also keep him trapped. As Black cycles between fleeting freedom and confinement, he begins to question whether a different kind of life is possible and what it would take to claim it. Part social history, part confession, You Cant Win is a vivid portrait of poverty, temptation, and the fight to outgrow the story you have been living.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:09:00) Chapter 01

(00:19:23) Chapter 02

(00:31:41) Chapter 03

(00:56:00) Chapter 04

(01:34:18) Chapter 05

(02:05:46) Chapter 06

(02:31:15) Chapter 07

(02:53:45) Chapter 08

(03:20:25) Chapter 09

(04:04:54) Chapter 10

(04:22:03) Chapter 11

(04:50:26) Chapter 12

(05:16:56) Chapter 13

(05:51:27) Chapter 14

(06:04:55) Chapter 15

(06:47:29) Chapter 16

(07:08:19) Chapter 17

(07:48:10) Chapter 18

(08:31:52) Chapter 19

(09:17:16) Chapter 20

(09:51:35) Chapter 21

(10:25:59) Chapter 22

(10:48:59) Chapter 23

(11:26:39) Chapter 24

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The Hampdenshire Wonder by J. D. Beresford ~ Full Audiobook [scifi] Sep 13, 2024

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The Hampdenshire Wonder by J. D. Beresford audiobook.

Genre: scifi

In a quiet English village in Hampdenshire, the birth of Victor, the son of humble farm laborers, should be an ordinary event. Instead, from his earliest days Victor displays a strange, unsettling difference - a mind that seems to operate on a level no one around him can name, explain, or comfortably accept. As the boy grows, local figures including sympathetic friends and cautious professionals try to make sense of what they are witnessing, while neighbors and authorities respond with a volatile mix of wonder, suspicion, and moral panic. J. D. Beresford builds the story through observation and testimony, turning a small rural community into a pressure chamber for big questions: What does society owe to someone who does not fit its definitions of childhood, intelligence, or even humanity? Is Victor a miracle, a warning, or simply a new kind of person? As curiosity hardens into fear and private lives become public property, Victor's family is pulled between love, confusion, and the crushing demands of a world determined to label him. Part psychological study and part speculative thought experiment, the novel explores empathy, conformity, and the costs of being truly different.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:16:09) Chapter 02

(01:12:49) Chapter 03

(01:28:24) Chapter 04

(02:00:16) Chapter 05

(02:21:41) Chapter 06

(02:38:00) Chapter 07

(03:15:07) Chapter 08

(03:27:47) Chapter 09

(04:01:37) Chapter 10

(04:22:15) Chapter 11

(04:57:48) Chapter 12

(05:01:43) Chapter 13

(05:17:25) Chapter 14

(05:46:28) Chapter 15

(06:10:11) Chapter 16

(06:30:01) Chapter 17

(06:36:55) Chapter 18

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White Jacket by Herman Melville ~ Full Audiobook [adventure] Sep 02, 2024

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White Jacket by Herman Melville audiobook.

Genre: adventure

Herman Melville's White-Jacket plunges listeners into the cramped, wind-whipped world of a U.S. Navy frigate at sea, where discipline is as relentless as the ocean. The story follows an intelligent, observant sailor known for the makeshift white coat he wears, a small act of individuality that quickly becomes a mark of identity in a floating city ruled by hierarchy and tradition. Aboard the warship, he learns the routines of reefing sails, standing watch, and enduring storms, but he also confronts the harsher weather of shipboard power: arbitrary authority, petty rivalries, and the ever-present threat of public punishment. As the crew cycles through drills, battles boredom, and navigates port calls and perilous passages, White-Jacket records the jokes, superstitions, and solidarities that keep sailors alive, while steadily questioning the moral cost of obedience. Part sea chronicle, part social indictment, the novel builds toward a tense struggle over what justice should look like when there is nowhere to escape and the law is enforced on an open deck.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:07:02) Chapter 02

(00:11:56) Chapter 03

(00:25:42) Chapter 04

(00:39:11) Chapter 05

(01:09:41) Chapter 06

(01:17:17) Chapter 07

(01:28:49) Chapter 08

(01:40:26) Chapter 09

(01:52:06) Chapter 10

(02:07:09) Chapter 11

(02:15:04) Chapter 12

(02:44:39) Chapter 13

(03:04:43) Chapter 14

(03:12:14) Chapter 15

(03:16:17) Chapter 16

(03:25:10) Chapter 17

(03:32:09) Chapter 18

(03:40:33) Chapter 19

(03:52:01) Chapter 20

(04:10:00) Chapter 21

(04:20:44) Chapter 22

(04:31:38) Chapter 23

(04:47:59) Chapter 24

(05:01:28) Chapter 25

(05:10:37) Chapter 26

(05:20:04) Chapter 27

(05:29:33) Chapter 28

(05:40:49) Chapter 29

(05:46:41) Chapter 30

(06:00:08) Chapter 31

(06:11:34) Chapter 32

(06:23:15) Chapter 33

(06:36:54) Chapter 34

(06:43:00) Chapter 35

(06:53:49) Chapter 36

(07:08:54) Chapter 37

(07:13:21) Chapter 38

(07:20:17) Chapter 39

(07:38:12) Chapter 40

(07:53:36) Chapter 41

(08:20:46) Chapter 42

(08:25:10) Chapter 43

(08:38:30) Chapter 44

(08:55:21) Chapter 45

(09:03:33) Chapter 46

(09:10:31) Chapter 47

(09:18:39) Chapter 48

(09:26:37) Chapter 49

(09:41:02) Chapter 50

(09:48:21) Chapter 51

(10:01:57) Chapter 52

(10:07:54) Chapter 53

(10:20:08) Chapter 54

(10:26:10) Chapter 55

(10:30:53) Chapter 56

(10:39:26) Chapter 57

(10:44:16) Chapter 58

(10:55:56) Chapter 59

(11:03:31) Chapter 60

(11:31:37) Chapter 61

(11:38:01) Chapter 62

(11:52:46) Chapter 63

(12:01:13) Chapter 64

(12:14:12) Chapter 65

(12:24:23) Chapter 66

(12:36:45) Chapter 67

(12:50:09) Chapter 68

(12:58:01) Chapter 69

(13:14:47) Chapter 70

(13:27:58) Chapter 71

(13:49:49) Chapter 72

(14:02:33) Chapter 73

(14:11:41) Chapter 74

(14:30:50) Chapter 75

(14:37:04) Chapter 76

(14:45:39) Chapter 77

(14:53:32) Chapter 78

(14:56:22) Chapter 79

(14:59:37) Chapter 80

(15:12:38) Chapter 81

(15:26:36) Chapter 82

(15:47:28) Chapter 83

(15:52:35) Chapter 84

(16:05:11) Chapter 85

(16:15:24) Chapter 86

(16:23:50) Chapter 87

(16:50:59) Chapter 88

(17:05:54) Chapter 89

(17:17:30) Chapter 90

(17:25:00) Chapter 91

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The Encantadas Or Enchanted Isles by Herman Melville ~ Full Audiobook [adventure] Aug 31, 2024

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The Encantadas Or Enchanted Isles by Herman Melville audiobook.

Genre: adventure

Herman Melville's The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles is a sequence of vivid, sea-borne sketches that carries listeners to the Galapagos Islands, a place sailors call enchanted not for comfort, but for the way it unsettles the mind. Guided by a narrator who moves between travelogue, legend, and meditation, the book surveys bleak lava fields, blasted coves, and a wildlife kingdom ruled by giant tortoises, iguanas, and predatory birds. Each island becomes its own moral climate, and the tales that cling to them are as sharp as the volcanic rock: castaways and runaways, roaming seamen, hard-eyed hunters, and solitary figures like the sorrowful Hunilla, whose life on the margins reveals what isolation can do to hope. Melville mixes maritime observation with a searching, sometimes darkly comic imagination, asking what 'civilization' means at the edge of the charted world, and how cruelty, chance, and endurance shape human fate. Part adventure narrative, part haunted geography, The Encantadas turns a remote archipelago into a mirror for ambition, loneliness, and the brutal indifference of nature.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:13:50) Chapter 02

(00:23:58) Chapter 03

(00:37:19) Chapter 04

(00:54:58) Chapter 05

(00:59:37) Chapter 06

(01:07:25) Chapter 07

(01:20:37) Chapter 08

(01:57:39) Chapter 09

(02:23:24) Chapter 10

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The Confidence-Man - His Masquerade by Herman Melville ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy] Aug 30, 2024

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The Confidence-Man - His Masquerade by Herman Melville audiobook.

Genre: philosophy

On April Fool's Day, a steamboat pushes off from St. Louis and heads down the Mississippi, carrying a cross-section of antebellum America: merchants, widows, gamblers, clerks, reformers, and dreamers, all enclosed together in a floating marketplace of stories and schemes. As the day unfolds, a series of persuasive strangers appears among the passengers, each offering a different pitch - charity for the afflicted, investment opportunities, moral causes, miracle cures, and friendly counsel - and each demanding, in one form or another, an act of belief. Faces blur and identities shift as conversations turn into contests of trust, and small social rituals become high-stakes negotiations. Herman Melville builds the novel as a restless masquerade of voices: sharp satire, philosophical debate, and darkly comic encounters that expose how easily language can flatter, confuse, or compel. At its center is an unsettling question: what is confidence, and what happens to a society that treats it as both currency and weapon? As the steamboat drifts onward, the passengers must decide whom to believe, what their convictions are worth, and whether sincerity can survive in a world of performance.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:16:51) Chapter 02

(00:55:36) Chapter 03

(01:24:50) Chapter 04

(01:54:49) Chapter 05

(02:20:39) Chapter 06

(02:35:22) Chapter 07

(02:56:21) Chapter 08

(03:30:20) Chapter 09

(03:53:14) Chapter 10