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Galopoff, the Talking Pony by Tudor Jenks ~ Full Audiobook [fantasy] Dec 13, 2023

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Galopoff, the Talking Pony by Tudor Jenks audiobook.

Genre: fantasy

In Tudor Jenks' Galopoff, the Talking Pony, an ordinary stable yard becomes the doorway to the extraordinary when, for one day each year, the animals are able to speak. Galopoff, a spirited pony with a sharp mind and a flair for drama, finally gets his chance to tell the humans in his life what he has seen and survived. Gathered close are his young mistress and her visiting cousin, eager to hear why this small pony carries himself like a seasoned traveler. What follows is a fast-moving chain of tales that sweeps from quiet domestic life into far-flung exploits: a journey into Russia, the shock of being bought and sold, the strange rules of show business, and the glittering danger of the circus ring. Along the way Galopoff crosses paths with larger-than-life strangers, brushes up against high society, and faces tests that demand courage, quick thinking, and loyalty to friends old and new. By turns funny, tense, and tender, Jenks' story celebrates imagination, self-reliance, and the power of a good yarn to turn an ordinary afternoon into an adventure.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:11:39) Chapter 02

(00:20:42) Chapter 03

(00:31:11) Chapter 04

(00:41:10) Chapter 05

(00:50:15) Chapter 06

(00:58:06) Chapter 07

(01:06:57) Chapter 08

(01:16:23) Chapter 09

(01:32:36) Chapter 10

(01:53:47) Chapter 11

(02:09:48) Chapter 12

(02:22:06) Chapter 13

(02:34:20) Chapter 14

(02:49:48) Chapter 15

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On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus ~ Full Audiobook [poetry] Dec 13, 2023

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On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus audiobook.

Genre: poetry

On the Nature of Things, written in the first century BCE by Titus Lucretius Carus, is one of the principle expositions on Epicurean philosophy and science to have survived from antiquity. Far from being a dry treatise on the many topics it covers, the original Latin version (entitled De Rerum Natura) was written in the form of an extended poem in hexameter, with a beauty of style that was admired and emulated by his successors, including Ovid and Cicero. The version read here is an English verse translation written by William Ellery Leonard. Although Leonard penned his version in the early twentieth century, he chose to adhere to both the vocabulary and meter (alternating between pentameter and hexameter) of Elizabethan-era poetry.

While the six untitled books that comprise On the Nature of Things delve into a broad range of subjects, including the physical nature of the universe, the workings of the human mind and body, and the natural history of the Earth, Lucretius repeatedly asserts throughout the work that his chief purpose is to provide the reader with a means to escape the 'darkness of the mind' imposed by superstition and ignorance. To this end he offers us his enlightening verses, that through them might be revealed to us 'nature's aspect, and her laws'

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:10:37) Chapter 02

(00:24:22) Chapter 03

(00:36:41) Chapter 04

(00:49:44) Chapter 05

(01:05:56) Chapter 06

(01:19:58) Chapter 07

(01:33:06) Chapter 08

(01:47:41) Chapter 09

(02:01:14) Chapter 10

(02:14:55) Chapter 11

(02:28:44) Chapter 12

(02:46:15) Chapter 13

(02:58:16) Chapter 14

(03:10:25) Chapter 15

(03:16:25) Chapter 16

(03:26:40) Chapter 17

(03:32:04) Chapter 18

(03:38:46) Chapter 19

(03:52:22) Chapter 20

(04:08:31) Chapter 21

(04:25:43) Chapter 22

(04:35:10) Chapter 23

(04:48:28) Chapter 24

(05:05:53) Chapter 25

(05:23:21) Chapter 26

(05:40:31) Chapter 27

(05:58:34) Chapter 28

(06:16:44) Chapter 29

(06:33:25) Chapter 30

(06:48:37) Chapter 31

(07:06:27) Chapter 32

(07:22:10) Chapter 33

(07:37:02) Chapter 34

(07:52:32) Chapter 35

(08:07:45) Chapter 36

(08:22:56) Chapter 37

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The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad by Thornton W. Burgess ~ Full Audiobook [family] Dec 13, 2023

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The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad by Thornton W. Burgess audiobook.

Genre: family

In The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad, Thornton W. Burgess invites listeners into the Green Meadows and the Smiling Pool, where a small, warty, wide-mouthed fellow becomes the center of big curiosity and bigger trouble. Old Mr. Toad is not fast like Peter Rabbit, not fierce like Reddy Fox, and not flashy like some of the birds, but he has his own quiet strengths and a stubborn determination to live his life in peace. When newcomers and old neighbors begin to wonder about his strange looks, his nighttime wanderings, and his mysterious ways, Old Mr. Toad finds himself misunderstood, teased, and sometimes hunted. As he searches for food, avoids sharp-eyed enemies, and navigates the shifting dangers of meadow and roadside, he must rely on patience, caution, and a few surprising tricks. Along the way, familiar friends and rivals from Burgess' woodland world appear, turning each chapter into a lively episode of close calls, clever escapes, and hard-earned wisdom. Warm, playful, and gently instructive, this classic tale celebrates nature, resilience, and the value of being judged by character rather than appearance.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:05:17) Chapter 02

(00:09:50) Chapter 03

(00:13:59) Chapter 04

(00:18:15) Chapter 05

(00:21:50) Chapter 06

(00:25:56) Chapter 07

(00:30:41) Chapter 08

(00:35:07) Chapter 09

(00:40:52) Chapter 10

(00:45:01) Chapter 11

(00:49:39) Chapter 12

(00:53:41) Chapter 13

(01:00:34) Chapter 14

(01:06:47) Chapter 15

(01:13:15) Chapter 16

(01:17:20) Chapter 17

(01:21:40) Chapter 18

(01:26:00) Chapter 19

(01:31:17) Chapter 20

(01:36:27) Chapter 21

(01:40:32) Chapter 22

(01:45:28) Chapter 23

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Man's Restoration by Grace by Thomas Goodwin ~ Full Audiobook [religion] Dec 12, 2023

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Man's Restoration by Grace by Thomas Goodwin audiobook.

Genre: religion

In Mans Restoration by Grace, Puritan pastor and theologian Thomas Goodwin traces the heart of the Christian message: that humanity, ruined by sin and unable to repair itself, is restored only by the free and powerful grace of God. With the clarity of a seasoned preacher, Goodwin sets the scene by describing the depth of the fall and the futility of self-salvation, then turns to the hope announced in the gospel - a restoration accomplished through Christ and applied to the sinner by the Spirit. Along the way he presses searching questions that still feel modern: What does true conversion look like? How can a troubled conscience find peace? What is the difference between outward religion and inward renewal? Goodwin explores themes of mercy, faith, repentance, and spiritual transformation, urging listeners to examine their hearts while also offering strong comfort to those who fear they are beyond help. Both doctrinal and deeply pastoral, this work invites you to see grace not as a vague sentiment, but as Gods deliberate remedy for real guilt, real weakness, and real need.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:06:01) Chapter 02

(00:28:42) Chapter 03

(00:37:46) Chapter 04

(00:48:06) Chapter 05

(01:08:55) Chapter 06

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The Astonishing History of Troy Town by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch ~ Full Audiobook [comedy] Dec 12, 2023

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The Astonishing History of Troy Town by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch audiobook.

Genre: comedy

In the genteel Cornish harbor town of Troy - a thinly veiled portrait of Fowey - respectability is measured by a single shibboleth: being 'cumeelfo' (as Troy pronounces comme il faut). Into this snug world of drawing-room evenings, gossip, and small tyrannies comes a thrilling disturbance: the arrival of the apparently aristocratic Frederic and Geraldine Goodwyn-Sandys, tenants of the house called The Bower across from the prim Misses Limpenny and the blustering Admiral Hornaby Buzza. Their glamour dazzles the town's self-appointed elite, even as quiet rivalries, infatuations, and moral posturing begin to surface. Meanwhile Philip Fogo - absent-minded, wounded by an old love, and seeking solitude - arrives by train and is promptly mistaken for the newcomer, only to slip away upriver to rent the secluded Kit's House with the help of the dockworker Caleb Trotter and the plainspoken Dearlove family. As Troy's 'best' society strains to imitate its fashionable guests, Fogo is drawn back toward community and conscience, and a darker undercurrent gathers around the visitors' secrets and a dangerous cargo expected in the harbor.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:01:44) Chapter 01

(00:12:40) Chapter 02

(00:24:59) Chapter 03

(00:37:29) Chapter 04

(00:53:39) Chapter 05

(01:05:07) Chapter 06

(01:22:11) Chapter 07

(01:36:33) Chapter 08

(01:51:59) Chapter 09

(02:10:42) Chapter 10

(02:28:54) Chapter 11

(02:56:18) Chapter 12

(03:16:29) Chapter 13

(03:33:57) Chapter 14

(03:56:18) Chapter 15

(04:14:00) Chapter 16

(04:26:05) Chapter 17

(04:40:34) Chapter 18

(05:00:56) Chapter 19

(05:21:49) Chapter 20

(05:36:56) Chapter 21

(05:49:02) Chapter 22

(06:01:49) Chapter 23

(06:15:31) Chapter 24

(06:33:59) Chapter 25

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Round The Fire Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ~ Full Audiobook [horror] Dec 12, 2023

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Round The Fire Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle audiobook.

Genre: horror

In Round The Fire Stories, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle gathers a set of unsettling tales meant to be told in the flicker of lamplight, when a familiar room can suddenly feel strange. Across these stories, respectable doctors, scholars, and travelers are drawn into encounters that test the limits of reason: a medical case that seems to defy anatomy, a creature glimpsed where no creature should be, a relic that carries a lingering stain of the past, and remote landscapes where old fears still have teeth. Doyle writes with the calm confidence of a man who understands evidence and argument, which only makes the unexplained feel more plausible - and more disturbing. Some narratives lean toward the supernatural, others toward the psychological, but all share a steady build of dread and a fascination with what people will do when confronted by the unknown. By turns eerie, adventurous, and quietly macabre, this collection showcases the darker corners of Doyle's imagination beyond his famous detective, delivering classic fireside chills with sharp Victorian clarity.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:01:08) Chapter 01

(00:30:15) Chapter 02

(01:08:41) Chapter 03

(01:50:57) Chapter 04

(02:23:53) Chapter 05

(02:55:19) Chapter 06

(03:39:24) Chapter 07

(04:10:46) Chapter 08

(04:58:14) Chapter 09

(05:42:43) Chapter 10

(06:23:54) Chapter 11

(06:53:07) Chapter 12

(07:41:53) Chapter 13

(08:16:55) Chapter 14

(08:53:19) Chapter 15

(09:22:04) Chapter 16

(09:37:50) Chapter 17

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A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud ~ Full Audiobook [science] Dec 11, 2023

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A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud audiobook.

Genre: science

These twenty-eight lectures to laymen are elementary and almost conversational. Freud sets forth with a frankness almost startling the difficulties and limitations of psychoanalysis, and also describes its main methods and results as only a master and originator of a new school of thought can do. A text like this is the most opportune and will naturally more or less supersede all other introductions to the general subject of psychoanalysis. It presents the author in a new light, as an effective and successful popularizer, and is certain to be welcomed not only by the large and growing number of students of psychoanalysis in this country but by the yet larger number of those who wish to begin its study here and elsewhere.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:08:44) Chapter 01

(00:33:25) Chapter 02

(01:06:53) Chapter 03

(01:53:00) Chapter 04

(02:46:15) Chapter 05

(03:29:00) Chapter 06

(04:00:31) Chapter 07

(04:31:05) Chapter 08

(04:56:53) Chapter 09

(05:22:46) Chapter 10

(06:14:47) Chapter 11

(06:45:07) Chapter 12

(07:19:15) Chapter 13

(07:51:10) Chapter 14

(08:29:12) Chapter 15

(09:00:54) Chapter 16

(09:36:14) Chapter 17

(10:17:49) Chapter 18

(10:50:50) Chapter 19

(11:31:15) Chapter 20

(12:12:32) Chapter 21

(12:59:27) Chapter 22

(13:41:39) Chapter 23

(14:30:10) Chapter 24

(15:03:33) Chapter 25

(15:46:36) Chapter 26

(16:29:41) Chapter 27

(17:12:29) Chapter 28

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The Wishing Horse of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson ~ Full Audiobook [fantasy] Dec 11, 2023

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The Wishing Horse of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson audiobook.

Genre: fantasy

Magic wishing emeralds mysteriously arrive in the little kingdom of Skampavia. King Skamperoo immediately confiscates them and wishes to become the Emperor of Oz, with his magic horse Chalk as his advisor. All the residents of Oz are enchanted to forget Ozma and their own rulers, except for Dorothy and Pigasus the flying pig. Can Dorothy and Pigasus break the enchantment and rescue Princess Ozma? Will they forge an unlikely alliance with the Gnome King? And who is the real owner and possessor of the secret of the wishing emeralds?

The Wishing Horse of Oz is the twenty-ninth in the series of Oz books created by L. Frank Baum.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:02:23) Chapter 01

(00:20:20) Chapter 02

(00:37:37) Chapter 03

(00:51:08) Chapter 04

(01:02:10) Chapter 05

(01:17:54) Chapter 06

(01:32:07) Chapter 07

(01:38:17) Chapter 08

(01:49:34) Chapter 09

(02:05:19) Chapter 10

(02:21:26) Chapter 11

(02:38:17) Chapter 12

(02:43:42) Chapter 13

(02:59:46) Chapter 14

(03:12:17) Chapter 15

(03:24:26) Chapter 16

(03:37:26) Chapter 17

(03:52:55) Chapter 18

(04:10:35) Chapter 19

(04:24:45) Chapter 20

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Policy and Passion by Rosa Campbell Praed ~ Full Audiobook [drama] Dec 09, 2023

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Policy and Passion by Rosa Campbell Praed audiobook.

Genre: drama

Set in the rough-edged boomtowns and parliamentary backrooms of colonial Queensland, Policy and Passion follows the Longleat family as private desire collides with public ambition. Thomas Longleat, a self-made political leader on the rise, is determined to shape the young colony's future and to secure a place among its powerful men. But the closer he comes to office, the more vulnerable he becomes to scandal, rivals, and the pull of a dangerous attachment that could undo everything he has built.At home, his daughter Honoria chafes against a society she finds narrow and material, dreaming instead of the culture and glamour she associates with England. When an English gentleman, Barrington, turns his charm on her, Honoria is drawn into a romance charged with fascination and control, even as steadier affections and colonial loyalties press their claim.Moving between hotel verandahs, drawing rooms, and the legislative arena, Rosa Campbell Praed blends political maneuvering with intimate emotional stakes, exposing how class, gender expectations, and the colony's uneasy relationship to Britain shape what love and power can cost. The result is a vivid saga of a community, and a family, tested by policy and passion.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:04:19) Chapter 01

(00:17:45) Chapter 02

(00:34:30) Chapter 03

(01:01:59) Chapter 04

(01:29:00) Chapter 05

(01:48:31) Chapter 06

(02:12:40) Chapter 07

(02:48:38) Chapter 08

(03:09:46) Chapter 09

(03:25:12) Chapter 10

(03:49:29) Chapter 11

(04:14:38) Chapter 12

(04:29:34) Chapter 13

(05:00:54) Chapter 14

(05:15:59) Chapter 15

(05:29:35) Chapter 16

(05:56:04) Chapter 17

(06:16:17) Chapter 18

(06:29:31) Chapter 19

(06:44:44) Chapter 20

(07:01:14) Chapter 21

(07:17:39) Chapter 22

(07:29:01) Chapter 23

(07:51:06) Chapter 24

(08:10:32) Chapter 25

(08:26:14) Chapter 26

(08:51:03) Chapter 27

(09:10:09) Chapter 28

(09:36:46) Chapter 29

(09:57:09) Chapter 30

(10:20:01) Chapter 31

(10:32:53) Chapter 32

(10:49:51) Chapter 33

(11:03:23) Chapter 34

(11:21:43) Chapter 35

(11:41:08) Chapter 36

(12:00:42) Chapter 37

(12:14:13) Chapter 38

(12:33:31) Chapter 39

(12:49:23) Chapter 40

(13:14:15) Chapter 41

(13:44:40) Chapter 42

(14:11:16) Chapter 43

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The Hound From the North by Ridgwell Cullum ~ Full Audiobook [thriller] Dec 08, 2023

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The Hound From the North by Ridgwell Cullum audiobook.

Genre: thriller

Set against the wind-scoured prairie of southern Manitoba and the ice-hard reaches of the Yukon trail, The Hound From the North follows Prudence, a capable young woman helping her mother keep a struggling ranch afloat. Trouble rides in with her brother, back from his northern gold hunt changed, broke, and shadowed by whatever he saw in the mountains - and trailed by a vicious, three-legged husky with a reputation that seems larger than life. Prudence is already promised to Leslie Grey, a determined Customs officer whose work keeps him on the edge of danger as he tracks an opium smuggler moving silently by canoe through the border country. When violence strikes close to home, the quiet routines of ranch life fracture into suspicion, fear, and a grim vow: Prudence will not let the crime go unanswered. As storms roll in off the plains and secrets tighten like a noose, Prudence is pulled between love and duty, justice and vengeance, while the ominous 'hound' of the North haunts every step toward the truth.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:22:25) Chapter 02

(00:45:29) Chapter 03

(01:13:04) Chapter 04

(01:44:36) Chapter 05

(02:08:07) Chapter 06

(02:34:44) Chapter 07

(03:01:29) Chapter 08

(03:31:44) Chapter 09

(04:10:50) Chapter 10