Classic Audiobook Collection

The World I Live In by Helen Keller audiobook. Genre: biographyThe World I Live In by Helen Keller is a collection of essays that poignantly tells of her impressions of the world, through her sense of touch, smell, her imagination and dreams.My hand is to me what your hearing and sight together are to you. In large measure we travel the same highways, read the same books, speak the same language, yet our experiences are different. All my comings and goings turn on the hand as on a pivot. It is the hand that binds me to the world of men and women. The hand is my feeler with which I reach through isolation and darkness and seize every pleasure, every activity that my fingers encounter. With the dropping of a little word from another's hand into mine, a slight flutter of the fingers, began the intelligence, the joy, the fullness of my life. Helen Keller, quoted from her essay, The Seeing Hand For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 00(00:02:25) Chapter 01(00:14:30) Chapter 02(00:24:17) Chapter 03(00:33:09) Chapter 04(00:45:46) Chapter 05(00:56:07) Chapter 06(01:07:57) Chapter 07(01:13:18) Chapter 08(01:20:48) Chapter 09(01:29:57) Chapter 10(01:38:08) Chapter 11(01:45:56) Chapter 12(01:56:35) Chapter 13(02:15:55) Chapter 14(02:24:34) Chapter 15(02:39:15) Chapter 16 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Repairman by Harry Harrison audiobook. Genre: scifiIn a sleek, automated future where machines run nearly everything, the people who can still fix those machines have become an afterthought. The Repairman follows one of the last true troubleshooters, a working-class specialist who spends his days crawling through service ducts, hunting down faults in systems that most citizens no longer understand and no longer want to think about. When a critical breakdown ripples outward from a seemingly minor failure, he is pulled from routine calls into the bright, bureaucratic world that depends on uninterrupted technology. There, corporate rules, spotless control rooms, and complacent managers collide with the messy reality of maintenance: things wear out, connections fail, and somebody has to get their hands dirty. As pressure mounts to restore operations quickly and quietly, the repairman must rely on his practical ingenuity, hard-won instincts, and a stubborn sense of professional pride to navigate a society that values convenience over competence. Witty, sharp, and unsettlingly plausible, Harry Harrison's story explores status, responsibility, and what happens when progress leaves essential people behind.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 1(00:19:14) Chapter 2(00:34:55) Chapter 3(00:46:31) Chapter 4 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Misplaced Battleship by Harry Harrison audiobook. Genre: scifiSomething the size of a battleship should be hard to misplace. In interstellar space, it is just another missing object with the potential to start a war. When a powerful warship goes unaccounted for in a supposedly peaceful region, the Special Corps sends its most unusual investigator: James Bolivar diGriz, better known as Slippery Jim, the Stainless Steel Rat, a master thief who now uses his talents on the side of the law. Jim follows a trail of quiet rumors and carefully hidden paperwork to the planet Cittanuvo, where an illegal shipbuilding project may be underway behind a mask of respectability. The deeper he digs, the more he runs into professional-grade misdirection, a web of bribes and false fronts, and the unsettling possibility that someone plans to steal the battleship and sell its firepower to the highest bidder. Facing the criminal genius Pepe Nero and aided and hindered by the brilliant and unpredictable Angelina, Jim must rely on charm, nerve, and a thief's instincts to find the ship before it becomes the spark for galaxy-wide chaos. Fast, witty, and twisty, this caper blends crime, adventure, and classic space opera suspense.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 1(00:16:41) Chapter 2(00:38:45) Chapter 3(00:54:11) Chapter 4 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The K-Factor by Harry Harrison audiobook. Genre: scifiIn Harry Harrison's The K-Factor, humanity has tried to make war obsolete by turning it into a measurable, manageable risk. The key tool is Societics, a hard-nosed, data-driven science that treats whole cultures like systems and watches for the smallest shift that can trigger a runaway chain reaction. When the frontier planet Himmel begins showing a sudden, inexplicable rise in its k-factor - the war factor - veteran field operative Neel Sidorak is pulled from routine work and sent to find out why. Working under the weary guidance of Societics' aging founder and partnered with his assistant Adao Costa, Neel is dropped into a tense colonial society where independence movements, political pride, and old resentments are building pressure by the hour. But the numbers do not lie, and they hint at something worse than local unrest: someone may be feeding dangerous knowledge to the wrong hands, pushing Himmel toward a catastrophic point of no return. As Neel races to map the real forces shaping the planet, he must decide how far a supposedly peaceful civilization should go to prevent a war before it starts.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 1(00:16:05) Chapter 2(00:29:09) Chapter 3(00:46:01) Chapter 4 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Planet of the Damned by Harry Harrison audiobook. Genre: scifiOn the ice-bound world of Anvhar, society survives a brutal climate by channeling ambition into the Twenties - a planet-wide contest that crowns the most capable mind and body of a generation. Brion Brandd has just won, and he expects rest, acclaim, and a quiet recovery. Instead, a former champion named Ihjel pulls him into an off-world emergency: on the desert planet Dis, the ruling magter have provoked a crisis so extreme that neighboring Nyjord is preparing to stop them with nuclear force. With millions of lives poised on a countdown, Brion is recruited for a mission no diplomat or soldier has been able to solve. His edge is unusual: an amplified empathy that lets him read people and situations with unsettling clarity - a gift that becomes as dangerous as it is useful once he is trapped amid Dis's heat, scarcity, and violence. To prevent catastrophe, Brion must navigate blockades, hostile factions, and the alien logic of a world that seems to reward only aggression, while racing to understand what is really driving Dis toward self-destruction.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:12:04) Chapter 02(00:21:30) Chapter 03(00:56:01) Chapter 04(01:10:29) Chapter 05(01:25:34) Chapter 06(01:40:32) Chapter 07(02:10:37) Chapter 08(02:38:38) Chapter 09(03:06:23) Chapter 10(03:27:44) Chapter 11(03:49:50) Chapter 12(04:06:29) Chapter 13(04:32:16) Chapter 14(04:55:42) Chapter 15(05:20:18) Chapter 16(05:36:52) Chapter 17(06:01:18) Chapter 18(06:16:06) Chapter 19 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Arm of the Law by Harry Harrison audiobook. Genre: scifiOn the dusty margins of Mars, Nineport is a place people pass through, not a place they build. Its police station reflects that truth: a bored, graft-friendly chief, a couple of unreliable patrolmen, and one seasoned sergeant trying to keep the town from sliding completely into chaos. Then a coffin-sized crate arrives from Earth, addressed to the department with no warning and a promise of 'field testing.' Inside is Ned, a police experimental robot in a crisp, blue-painted uniform and armed with a literal-minded zeal for duty. At first, Ned is treated like expensive maintenance equipment, sweeping floors and sorting paperwork while the human cops get on with surviving Nineport. But when an armed robbery call comes in and the chief takes the lazy way out, Ned is sent into the street to do a cop's job. In a town where criminals operate under protection and everyone knows the name China Joe, one perfectly efficient machine is enough to upset every fragile arrangement. As violence flares and authority is challenged, the sergeant must decide what law enforcement means when the 'arm of the law' is made of metal, wiring, and unbreakable logic.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 1(00:13:48) Chapter 2(00:28:51) Chapter 3 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Brand of Silence by Harrington Strong audiobook. Genre: mysteryHarrington Strong was a pseudonym used by author Johnston McCulley, creator of the character Zorro and many others. The Brand of Silence - A Detective Story finds Sidney Prale returning to New York after ten years during which he sought his fortune. But he finds New York a very changed place, and even more distressing, he finds that his old friends are now turning their backs on him, his old haunts no longer welcome him, and there seems to be a conspiracy against him.Why can't he receive service in hotels, restaurants, and theaters that he once frequented? Who is working against him? And just as importantly, why? And what is the meaning of the notes he receives which remind him of 'retribution'?For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:16:50) Chapter 02(00:29:00) Chapter 03(00:47:37) Chapter 04(01:02:42) Chapter 05(01:16:58) Chapter 06(01:36:36) Chapter 07(01:55:42) Chapter 08(02:14:45) Chapter 09(02:31:00) Chapter 10(02:52:52) Chapter 11(03:11:06) Chapter 12(03:26:39) Chapter 13(03:42:36) Chapter 14(03:57:38) Chapter 15(04:11:51) Chapter 16(04:20:10) Chapter 17(04:33:56) Chapter 18(04:53:08) Chapter 19(05:02:59) Chapter 20(05:19:10) Chapter 21(05:36:38) Chapter 22(05:53:37) Chapter 23(06:11:30) Chapter 24(06:24:07) Chapter 25(06:42:03) Chapter 26 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Janet of the Dunes by Harriet T. Comstock audiobook. Genre: familyKnown primarily for her children's books, Harriet T. Comstock would occasionally depart from that genre and showcase her writing talent in adult prose as well. Janet of the Dunes is one such departure wherein she masterfully takes us into the lives of the bold men and women who tended those life saving stations along the seaboard which many a ship relied upon for their safety. They were simple people, large of heart and as close-knit as a tiny community can and must ever be, and they, above all else, took their duties very seriously. The story revolves primarily around Janet and her 'Cap'n Billy Daddy' and how their lives and their devotion to one another are touched by the others within the small circle of people of the dunes, the hills, and the light. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:26:25) Chapter 02(00:42:52) Chapter 03(01:07:57) Chapter 04(01:39:21) Chapter 05(02:11:08) Chapter 06(02:40:00) Chapter 07(03:31:40) Chapter 08(03:57:36) Chapter 09(04:24:45) Chapter 10(04:51:02) Chapter 11(05:20:11) Chapter 12(06:04:13) Chapter 13(07:05:59) Chapter 14 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Wailing Octopus by Harold L. Goodwin audiobook. Genre: adventureRick Brant and his best friend, Don 'Scotty' Scott, expect an easygoing trip to the Caribbean: sunshine, diving, and a shot at a legend. Off Clipper Cay in the Virgin Islands lies the wreck of a pirate ship rumored to have gone down with a priceless prize - a golden Spanish statue lost for centuries. Joining the boys are two very different scientists: archaeologist Dr. Tony Briotti, eager to explore submerged artifacts, and physicist Dr. Hobart Zircon, who would be perfectly happy to fish and relax. But the moment they arrive, a chance meeting with JANIG security agent Steve Ames hints that someone else is watching the island and the waters around it. Soon, strange harassment escalates into real danger, fueled by whispers of a terrifying 'wailing octopus' that drives people away from the cay. As Rick and Scotty press on with their underwater search, they find themselves caught between science, treasure hunters, and shadowy foreign operatives - and with a hurricane brewing, time and safety are running out. Fast, clever, and packed with hands-on tech and diving detail, this installment tests how far bravery and clear thinking can go when the sea turns hostile.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:18:20) Chapter 02(00:34:12) Chapter 03(00:55:37) Chapter 04(01:10:11) Chapter 05(01:21:05) Chapter 06(01:32:54) Chapter 07(01:51:30) Chapter 08(02:09:46) Chapter 09(02:30:18) Chapter 10(02:50:18) Chapter 11(03:08:38) Chapter 12(03:18:31) Chapter 13(03:27:44) Chapter 14(03:46:32) Chapter 15(03:56:06) Chapter 16(04:06:49) Chapter 17(04:12:39) Chapter 18(04:20:25) Chapter 19(04:41:22) Chapter 20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet by Harold L. Goodwin audiobook. Genre: scifi'Foster, Lieutenant, R. I. P.,' blared the voice horn, and five minutes later Rip Foster was off into space on an assignment more exciting than any he had ever imagined. He could hardly believe his ears. Could a green young Planeteer, just through his training, possibly carry out orders like these? Sunny space, what a trick it would be! From the moment Rip boards the space ship Scorpius there is a thrill a minute. He and his nine daring Planeteers must cope with the merciless hazing of the spacemen commanding the ship, and they must outwit the desperate Connies, who threaten to plunge all of space into war. There are a thousand dangers to be faced in high vacuum—and all of this while carrying out an assignment that will take every reader's breath away.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:18:33) Chapter 02(00:38:28) Chapter 03(00:57:19) Chapter 04(01:15:31) Chapter 05(01:33:11) Chapter 06(01:53:50) Chapter 07(02:13:55) Chapter 08(02:32:38) Chapter 09(02:52:37) Chapter 10(03:13:17) Chapter 11(03:34:29) Chapter 12(03:46:28) Chapter 13(04:02:37) Chapter 14(04:17:56) Chapter 15(04:35:30) Chapter 16(04:45:45) Chapter 17(05:00:58) Chapter 18(05:23:33) Chapter 19(05:30:56) Chapter 20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices