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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin ~ Full Audiobook [family] Jan 22, 2024

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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin audiobook.

Genre: family

Orphaned young but brimming with imagination, Rebecca Rowena Randall is sent from her quiet country home in Maine to live with her two aunts in the village of Riverboro. Aunt Miranda rules her household with strict economy and firm expectations, while Aunt Jane offers gentleness and quiet support. Rebecca, determined to be useful and to win affection without losing her sparkle, must learn the rhythms of a new home where rules feel sharper and approval is hard-earned. At school she meets spirited friends, faces embarrassing missteps, and discovers the pleasures and perils of being noticed for her quick mind and expressive ways. As she grows, Rebecca finds outlets for her creativity in writing, recitation, and performance, and she begins to imagine a future beyond what her circumstances seem to allow. Warm, funny, and heartfelt, this classic coming-of-age story follows a bright girl's struggle to balance duty and dreams, independence and belonging, as she works to shape a life of her own in a world that keeps trying to shape her first.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:02:58) Chapter 01

(00:30:54) Chapter 02

(00:42:37) Chapter 03

(00:59:52) Chapter 04

(01:06:14) Chapter 05

(01:25:59) Chapter 06

(01:41:05) Chapter 07

(01:54:51) Chapter 08

(02:06:15) Chapter 09

(02:20:08) Chapter 10

(02:33:17) Chapter 11

(02:45:35) Chapter 12

(03:04:00) Chapter 13

(03:15:45) Chapter 14

(03:28:40) Chapter 15

(03:41:48) Chapter 16

(03:59:20) Chapter 17

(04:13:06) Chapter 18

(04:29:04) Chapter 19

(04:43:10) Chapter 20

(04:57:01) Chapter 21

(05:16:34) Chapter 22

(05:37:37) Chapter 23

(05:50:32) Chapter 24

(06:05:15) Chapter 25

(06:23:32) Chapter 26

(06:37:43) Chapter 27

(06:54:39) Chapter 28

(07:13:45) Chapter 29

(07:26:45) Chapter 30

(07:37:20) Chapter 31

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The Trial of a New Society by Justus Ebert ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy] Jan 20, 2024

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The Trial of a New Society by Justus Ebert audiobook.

Genre: philosophy

In 1912 textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, mostly immigrants, went on strike in response to a pay cut, speedups, and unsafe working conditions. Representatives from the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW/Wobblies) came in to help organize the strike. The city declared martial law and a tense standoff went on for weeks. National newspapers provided breathless coverage of the strike and painted drastically different pictures of what was happening and who was to blame. When a woman was shot in ambiguous circumstances, strike leaders were tried for murder--not for shooting her, but for purportedly inciting mob violence leading to her death. They were acquitted.

This book by an ardent IWW member, which seems to have been written in haste as well as in great enthusiasm, gives a vivid journalistic account of labor conditions, of the strike which was afterward known as the Bread and Roses strike, of the trial of strike leaders Joseph Ettor and Arturo Giovanitti, and of the general strike organized to support them.

The linked text includes reproductions of various cartoons, posters, and leaflets from the strike, which have not been read aloud. It also includes many footnotes, detailed citations of sources for quotes, which also have not been read aloud--only those footnotes required to explain quotes which had no attribution in the main text have been included

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:05:32) Chapter 01

(00:37:27) Chapter 02

(00:57:40) Chapter 03

(01:45:57) Chapter 04

(02:10:57) Chapter 05

(02:45:40) Chapter 06

(03:19:46) Chapter 07

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Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu ~ Full Audiobook [horror] Jan 19, 2024

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Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu audiobook.

Genre: horror

In a lonely Styrian castle, sheltered young Laura lives a quiet life with her father, attended only by servants and the hush of surrounding woods. Everything changes when a carriage accident brings a mysterious girl to their doorstep: Carmilla, elegant, languid, and strangely familiar. As the two form an intense friendship, Laura is drawn into a world of whispered confidences, unsettling dreams, and a growing sense that something in the house is not what it seems. Nearby villages speak of an illness that leaves its victims pale and weakened, and a local investigation begins to circle ever closer to Laura's home. With the help of a blunt-spoken doctor and a determined former soldier, Laura's family must piece together fragments of folklore, half-remembered encounters, and disturbing clues that point to an ancient, predatory secret. Told with a lingering, gothic atmosphere and a steady rise of dread, Carmilla explores desire, identity, and the peril that can hide behind tenderness. As Laura's strength fades, the question becomes whether anyone can name the danger in time - and whether love itself may be part of the trap.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:02:13) Chapter 01

(00:14:11) Chapter 02

(00:31:26) Chapter 03

(00:49:03) Chapter 04

(01:13:33) Chapter 05

(01:22:46) Chapter 06

(01:33:03) Chapter 07

(01:46:10) Chapter 08

(01:54:36) Chapter 09

(02:06:03) Chapter 10

(02:12:54) Chapter 11

(02:22:55) Chapter 12

(02:33:07) Chapter 13

(02:43:56) Chapter 14

(02:53:51) Chapter 15

(03:02:22) Chapter 16

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Chance by Joseph Conrad ~ Full Audiobook [drama] Jan 19, 2024

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Chance by Joseph Conrad audiobook.

Genre: drama

In Chance, Joseph Conrad turns his maritime world into a tense study of reputation, power, and the precariousness of love. The story is framed by Marlow, who pieces together the fate of Flora de Barral, a young woman left socially stranded after her financier father is disgraced. With few allies and many watchers, Flora becomes vulnerable to exploitation and rumor in a society that treats a woman's future as a negotiable commodity. Her path crosses Captain Roderick Anthony, a principled seaman whose blunt integrity draws him into a conflict he only half understands, and whose ship becomes both refuge and pressure cooker. Around them swirl men who interpret events through pride, jealousy, self-interest, and a desire to control the narrative: protectors who may also be possessors, friends who may become adversaries. Moving between drawing rooms, docks, and the claustrophobic quarters of a vessel at sea, Conrad builds a suspenseful moral drama about what people will sacrifice for security, what they will invent to preserve face, and how a single misjudgment can set lives on a dangerous course.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:39:36) Chapter 02

(00:55:00) Chapter 03

(01:28:09) Chapter 04

(01:54:29) Chapter 05

(02:34:59) Chapter 06

(02:52:46) Chapter 07

(03:14:22) Chapter 08

(03:44:14) Chapter 09

(04:03:03) Chapter 10

(04:32:04) Chapter 11

(04:56:07) Chapter 12

(05:33:18) Chapter 13

(05:55:29) Chapter 14

(06:27:40) Chapter 15

(07:12:24) Chapter 16

(07:37:26) Chapter 17

(08:04:16) Chapter 18

(08:29:44) Chapter 19

(08:46:42) Chapter 20

(09:14:10) Chapter 21

(09:38:17) Chapter 22

(10:23:00) Chapter 23

(10:43:52) Chapter 24

(11:03:31) Chapter 25

(11:16:09) Chapter 26

(11:42:10) Chapter 27

(12:04:36) Chapter 28

(12:29:31) Chapter 29

(12:44:17) Chapter 30

(13:09:46) Chapter 31

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Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad ~ Full Audiobook [drama] Jan 18, 2024

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Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad audiobook.

Genre: drama

In a remote river settlement in the Malay Archipelago, Dutch trader Kaspar Almayer clings to a single dream: striking it rich and escaping the humid, decaying outpost that has swallowed his youth. Propped up by the lingering promises of his seafaring patron Captain Lingard, Almayer builds a grand, unfinished house the locals mock as his 'folly' - a monument to ambition in a place governed by shifting alliances, rumor, and power. But the fortunes he chases remain out of reach, and the life he has made becomes a tangle of cultural mistrust and private bitterness. Bound to a marriage that has turned into a war of resentment, Almayer pours his hopes into his daughter Nina, believing she will be the bridge to a European future. When Nina is drawn toward the charismatic Dain Maroola and the dangerous currents of local politics, Almayer is forced to confront how little control he has over the people he loves - or over the world he thought he could master. Joseph Conrad's debut novel is a haunting study of colonial illusion, pride, and the slow unraveling of a man living on the edge of someone else's country.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:32:32) Chapter 02

(00:58:02) Chapter 03

(01:26:16) Chapter 04

(01:49:25) Chapter 05

(02:19:16) Chapter 06

(02:47:31) Chapter 07

(03:21:05) Chapter 08

(03:58:54) Chapter 09

(04:37:40) Chapter 10

(05:13:32) Chapter 11

(05:56:54) Chapter 12

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The Voice and Public Speaking by John Poole Sandlands ~ Full Audiobook [self help] Jan 18, 2024

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The Voice and Public Speaking by John Poole Sandlands audiobook.

Genre: self help

I write for public speakers. I wish to take them into my confidence. I feel I can do them good. My object is to help them to speak with greater ease and efficiency.

When the voice is developed and in a condition to answer the calls made upon it, then it will naturally seek to put its powers into operation.... Develop the powers of the voice and it will not be satisfied till it find scope for their exercise. This is a marvellous feature of the human voice, and yet, perhaps, it is more or less common to all the powers we possess. Whenever we develop a power, whatever it be, nothing gives us greater pleasure than the exercise of it. Every artist thinks his own art the most sublime. The painter prefers painting, and the musician music; yet there does seem a diviner charm and more real pleasure in exercising the powers of the voice. Holding the opinion as I do, that if the voice be developed it will perform its work aright, it will be my object to notice and dilate upon those principles which, when worked out,

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:36:14) Chapter 02

(01:06:10) Chapter 03

(01:16:30) Chapter 04

(01:40:41) Chapter 05

(02:04:03) Chapter 06

(02:19:34) Chapter 07

(02:45:20) Chapter 08

(03:04:47) Chapter 09

(03:30:12) Chapter 10

(03:39:57) Chapter 11

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The History of Britain by John Milton ~ Full Audiobook [history] Jan 17, 2024

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The History of Britain by John Milton audiobook.

Genre: history

Written by the poet and polemicist John Milton, The History of Britain is an ambitious attempt to trace the story of the British Isles from legendary beginnings through the arrival of the Saxons and into the early medieval period. Drawing on classical writers, medieval chronicles, and national tradition, Milton moves from mythic founders and heroic battles to the hard questions of governance, succession, and the making of a people. Along the way he weighs the reputations of rulers, examines the tension between liberty and kingship, and challenges easy patriotic storytelling by pointing out contradictions in his sources. More than a simple chronicle, this work reveals Milton's larger concerns: how histories are written, how power is justified, and how language shapes national memory. Readers will hear a learned mind at work, balancing scholarship with sharp judgment and moral intensity, as the island's past becomes a stage for enduring debates about authority, faith, and civic responsibility. Ideal for listeners who enjoy foundational narratives and the craft of early modern historiography, The History of Britain offers a vivid, opinionated tour through Britain before it became Britain as we know it.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(01:02:38) Chapter 02

(02:10:20) Chapter 03

(03:17:33) Chapter 04

(03:47:51) Chapter 05

(04:18:08) Chapter 06

(04:50:37) Chapter 07

(05:32:33) Chapter 08

(06:14:15) Chapter 09

(06:50:44) Chapter 10

(07:44:58) Chapter 11

(08:40:59) Chapter 12

(09:24:48) Chapter 13

(10:01:58) Chapter 14

(10:58:26) Chapter 15

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Cinnamon and Angelica by John Middleton Murry ~ Full Audiobook [drama] Jan 17, 2024

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Cinnamon and Angelica by John Middleton Murry audiobook.

Genre: drama

First published in 1920, John Middleton Murry's Cinnamon and Angelica is a four-act verse play that turns romance into a glittering fable of rival houses and restless desire. In a world where even the names taste of spice, Cinnamon, Prince of the Peppercorns, finds his imagination and his fate pulled toward Angelica, Princess of the Cloves - a meeting that threatens to ignite more than private longing. Around them gather vivid attendants and officers: Vanilla Bean keeps watch over Cinnamon's household, Caraway guards Angelica's confidence, and the martial voices of Mace and Marjoram speak for the duties of rank, loyalty, and war. As the forces of the Peppercorns and the Cloves press against each other, the lovers are asked to choose what kind of people they will be, and what kind of future their realms can survive. Lyrical, symbolic, and deliberately heightened, the play explores love as a transforming power set against pride, tradition, and the claims of public life - asking whether a single voice can change the course of a conflict that has begun to feel inevitable.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:30:53) Chapter 2

(00:50:32) Chapter 3

(01:39:26) Chapter 4

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All That Glitters Is Not Gold by John Maddison Morton ~ Full Audiobook [romance] Jan 16, 2024

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All That Glitters Is Not Gold by John Maddison Morton audiobook.

Genre: romance

Set in a bustling Victorian world of cotton mills and drawing rooms, All That Glitters Is Not Gold follows wealthy factory owner Jasper Plum as he tries to steer his family safely through the treacherous waters of love, status, and money. His sensible son Stephen risks his father's disapproval by courting Martha Gibbs, an earnest factory worker whose lack of fortune makes her an easy target for suspicion. Meanwhile, Jasper is far more impressed by titles and polish, especially when his other son, Frederick, becomes captivated by the dazzling Lady Valeria - a woman whose charm raises an unsettling question: is she in love, or in pursuit of the Plum inheritance? Into this swirl steps Sir Arthur Lassell, a confident gentleman whose attentions and flirtations complicate both romances and expose the social games everyone is playing. As gossip spreads and motives are questioned, Jasper must decide whom to trust, and the young lovers must prove that sincerity can outshine glittering appearances. Blending romantic entanglements with sharp observations about class and ambition, the story tests whether true worth is found in wealth and titles, or in character.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:55:07) Chapter 2

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Money and Trade Considered by John Law ~ Full Audiobook [business] Jan 16, 2024

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Money and Trade Considered by John Law audiobook.

Genre: business

Written at the dawn of modern finance, John Law's Money and Trade Considered sets out a bold claim: a nation's prosperity depends less on hoarded metal than on the smart circulation of credit. Speaking to the chronic shortages of coin and the economic stagnation he saw in Britain, Law builds an accessible, argumentative case that money is not merely treasure but a tool - one that can be redesigned. Moving from first principles to practical policy, he critiques how scarce cash suppresses wages, trade, and enterprise, then proposes a new system to expand the money supply through paper credit backed by land and administered through a national bank. Along the way, he tackles interest rates, prices, and the relationship between liquidity and growth, insisting that well-structured credit can unlock industry without collapsing trust. Part manifesto, part economic reasoning, the book invites listeners into the high-stakes debate over what gives money value and how governments can shape commerce. For anyone curious about the origins of central banking ideas and the perennial tension between stability and expansion, this is a foundational and provocative starting point.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:14:49) Chapter 02

(00:27:50) Chapter 03

(00:40:35) Chapter 04

(00:57:10) Chapter 05

(01:10:58) Chapter 06

(01:25:00) Chapter 07

(01:38:52) Chapter 08

(01:54:25) Chapter 09

(02:09:18) Chapter 10