Classic Audiobook Collection

The Impossibles by Laurence M. Janifer audiobook. Genre: scifiIn this classic, tongue-in-cheek science-fiction mystery co-written by Laurence M. Janifer (with Randall Garrett), FBI agent Kenneth Malone is assigned a case that sounds like a bad joke and quickly turns into a national-security headache. A wave of thefts targets one oddly specific prize: flashy red Cadillacs. Witnesses cannot agree on what they saw, suspects seem to vanish at the worst possible moments, and the evidence points toward something the Bureau is not supposed to admit exists - people with psionic talents. Malone already knows that telepaths and other psi-powered operatives can be more dangerous than any gun, but this time the trail is littered with contradictions, missing teenagers, and an unsettling pattern that suggests someone is testing the limits of what is possible. Ordered around by a maddeningly cryptic FBI Director and aided by fellow agents (and the unforgettable Rose Thompson, nicknamed Queen Elizabeth I), Malone has to separate prankish chaos from a carefully engineered plot before an impossible crime becomes an unstoppable one.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:21:25) Chapter 02(01:00:04) Chapter 03(01:26:43) Chapter 04(02:08:49) Chapter 05(02:38:45) Chapter 06(03:10:25) Chapter 07(03:34:24) Chapter 08(03:56:58) Chapter 09(04:25:44) Chapter 10(04:48:37) Chapter 11(05:06:52) Chapter 12(05:38:42) Chapter 13(05:56:36) Chapter 14 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Big Woods by Laura Lee Hope audiobook. Genre: adventureBunny Brown and his little sister, Sue, have been having adventures and fun, and getting into scrapes, since the early 1900s. From Chapter One: 'Bunny Brown and his sister Sue were at Camp Rest-a-While with their father and their mother. They had come from their home in Bellemere to live for a while in the forest, on the shore of Lake Wanda, where they were all enjoying the life in the open air. They had journeyed to the woods in an automobile, carrying two tents which were set up under the trees. One tent was used to sleep in and the other for a dining room. There was also a place to cook...' This is Volume 6 of the Bunny Brown series.This book contains racial prejudices that were once commonplace. They are retained, as originally written in this recording, because to do otherwise would be to deny they existed.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:11:07) Chapter 02(00:23:51) Chapter 03(00:33:01) Chapter 04(00:45:21) Chapter 05(00:57:27) Chapter 06(01:08:02) Chapter 07(01:23:52) Chapter 08(01:33:13) Chapter 09(01:41:02) Chapter 10(01:52:48) Chapter 11(01:59:39) Chapter 12(02:12:48) Chapter 13(02:21:22) Chapter 14(02:30:20) Chapter 15(02:39:31) Chapter 16(02:46:30) Chapter 17(02:57:14) Chapter 18(03:12:12) Chapter 19(03:20:14) Chapter 20(03:28:15) Chapter 21(03:35:17) Chapter 22(03:42:31) Chapter 23(03:50:17) Chapter 24(03:58:50) Chapter 25 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A World of Girls - The Story of a School by L. T. Meade audiobook. Genre: familyIf you are a fan of Girl's School tales this one will definitely not disappoint. Filled with fantastic adventures of midnight feasts, gypsy sightings and naughty pranks, this charming story centers on two very opposite characters. Hester Thornton, very proud, mourning the recent loss of her mother and the separation of her beloved little sister is determined to hate the school to which her father has sent her. Annie Forest, a very pretty, rather wild yet kind hearted girl who has been a resident of the school the last 4 years is the school favourite in spite of her many pranks and scrapes. Miscommunication and envy causes a strong mutual dislike between them, and the addition of mean-spirited actions by a 3rd party leads to many exciting and dramatic events as well as touching moments.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:25:18) Chapter 02(00:48:21) Chapter 03(01:15:50) Chapter 04(01:44:34) Chapter 05(02:13:30) Chapter 06(02:38:27) Chapter 07(03:10:48) Chapter 08(03:37:37) Chapter 09(04:12:12) Chapter 10(04:44:19) Chapter 11(05:08:37) Chapter 12(05:37:12) Chapter 13(06:00:57) Chapter 14(06:27:15) Chapter 15(06:52:22) Chapter 16(07:21:01) Chapter 17 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Dough and the Cherub by L. Frank Baum audiobook. Genre: fantasyAn evil Arabian sorcerer loans a golden flask full of the Great Elixir - a magic liquid that endows a person with pronounced health, strength, and longevity - to a colorblind baker's wife to stop it falling into the wrong hands. Unfortunately, the woman mixes up the Elixir with her rheumatism medicine, which, through even more misunderstanding, then ends up being used in batch of gingerbread. Out of this dough comes John Dough, a six-foot novelty gingerbread man who promptly comes to life and runs away, in an echo of an old nursery rhyme. Pursued by the evil sorcerer, who wants to eat him to gain the power of immortality, and children, who want to eat him because he's made of cake, John Dough and his sidekick the Cherub flee through a variety of strange fantasy lands and bizarre scenarios, including an encounter with 'The King of Fairy Beavers,' an animated Wooden Indian, a girl executioner who never gets to kill anybody and weeps over the fact, a two-legged talking horse that bullies its rider, and the youthful and tyrannical 'Kinglet' of Phreex. Will John Dough escape those who want him eaten?Though the novel (published in 1906) is not considered part of the Oz canon, its main characters make cameo appearances in The Road to Oz (1909).For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:12:15) Chapter 02(00:16:05) Chapter 03(00:24:40) Chapter 04(00:39:02) Chapter 05(01:30:50) Chapter 06(01:47:42) Chapter 07(02:00:54) Chapter 08(02:13:28) Chapter 09(02:18:38) Chapter 10(02:36:18) Chapter 11(02:47:32) Chapter 12(03:00:43) Chapter 13(03:17:26) Chapter 14(03:29:41) Chapter 15(03:48:34) Chapter 16(03:58:59) Chapter 17(04:08:41) Chapter 18(04:22:12) Chapter 19 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Drummer, or, The Haunted House by Joseph Addison audiobook. Genre: comedyIn Joseph Addison's stage comedy The Drummer, or, The Haunted House, Lady Truman is trying to rebuild her life after devastating news: her husband, Sir George Truman, has been reported killed in battle, leaving her a wealthy widow in possession of a prized country estate. Grief, however, quickly becomes only one of her problems. Two persistent would-be husbands, the fashionable Mr. Tinsel and the theatrically melancholy Mr. Fantome, circle her household with competing plans to secure her fortune. Then the nights turn strange. A relentless, unseen drum begins to beat through the house after dark, unsettling servants, rousing rumors of a ghost, and throwing every courtship scheme into confusion. With the practical steward Vellum attempting to keep order and a colorful staff of household attendants caught between fear and opportunism, Lady Truman is pushed toward a desperate solution when a mysterious old man arrives, claiming he can put the disturbance to rest. Part satire, part haunted-house farce, Addison uses the phantom drumming to test courage, expose hypocrisy, and ask what people will believe when self-interest is at stake.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 0(00:04:58) Chapter 1(00:33:47) Chapter 2(00:55:12) Chapter 3(01:17:27) Chapter 4(01:41:16) Chapter 5 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All for Love; or, The World Well Lost by John Dryden audiobook. Genre: tragedyAll for Love is widely considered to be John Dryden's finest work, dramatic or otherwise. A tragedy written in blank verse, it retells the story of Roman general Marc Antony's love affair with the alluring Egyptian queen Cleopatra and their eventual double-suicide. Compared to the more famous rendition of the tale by William Shakespeare, however, which is grand and hectic in terms of setting, Dryden chooses instead to focus in on the lovers' last days in Alexandria as the threat of their defeat looms and their legacies are contested. The result is a swelling, elegant, emotional drama that perceptively considers such themes as loyalty and love, fidelity in marriage, the lasting endurance of friendship, and even the tenuous construct of masculinity. In short, it's truly a gem of the Restoration repertoire.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 1(00:33:10) Chapter 2(01:01:15) Chapter 3(01:31:31) Chapter 4(02:06:57) Chapter 5 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kitchener's Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army by James Norman Hall audiobook. Genre: biographyIn 1914, as Europe slides into war, young American James Norman Hall makes an impulsive decision that will reshape his life: he crosses the Atlantic to enlist in the British Army. Thrown into the swelling ranks of Kitchener's New Army - the citizen volunteers nicknamed 'Kitchener's Mob' - Hall moves from recruiting offices and drilling grounds to the hard routine of camps, transport, and finally the grim logic of the Western Front. With a reporter's eye and a soldier's growing awareness, he captures the odd mix of comedy and terror that defines military life: the bureaucratic tangles, the relentless marching, the small kindnesses between strangers, and the sudden, intimate dangers of trench warfare. As he learns to live by orders, luck, and loyalty to the men beside him, Hall also wrestles with what it means to fight for a country that is not his own. Part memoir, part battlefield sketchbook, this vivid account explores courage, disillusionment, and the thin line between adventure and catastrophe in the first years of World War I.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:08:48) Chapter 02(00:17:56) Chapter 03(00:44:59) Chapter 04(01:04:07) Chapter 05(01:20:45) Chapter 06(01:48:23) Chapter 07(02:08:03) Chapter 08(02:32:40) Chapter 09(02:49:45) Chapter 10(03:29:00) Chapter 11 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Arabian Art of Taming and Training Wild and Vicious Horses by Kincaid audiobook. Genre: self helpA practical, old-school manual of horsemanship, The Arabian Art of Taming and Training Wild and Vicious Horses sets out to answer a question that has tested riders and stablehands for centuries: how do you take an animal built on speed and fear, sometimes made dangerous by mishandling, and bring it safely into partnership with a human? Writing in the direct, instructive style of a working horseman, Kincaid presents a method associated with Arabian practice and applies it to the hardest cases - unbroken horses, confirmed kickers and biters, and animals that bolt, rear, or refuse the harness. The book walks the listener through preparation, safe handling, and the first critical encounters, emphasizing calm control, timing, and the careful use of restraint so that force does not become a substitute for understanding. Along the way, it offers guidance on reading a horse's signals, correcting fear-based resistance, and building obedience without destroying spirit. Part training guide and part window into a historical approach to animal behavior, it is aimed at anyone who wants practical principles for turning chaos in the stall or on the lead rope into steadier, safer work.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 00(00:12:08) Chapter 01(00:19:34) Chapter 02(00:45:41) Chapter 03(01:08:11) Chapter 04(01:28:02) Chapter 05 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The End Of The Tether by Joseph Conrad audiobook. Genre: tragedyIn a humid corner of the Malay Archipelago, Captain Henry Whalley is a celebrated seaman at the end of his long career - respected, proud, and quietly desperate. Age has begun to strip away the one thing he cannot admit losing: his ability to see clearly enough to command a ship. With money needed to secure his daughters future and his reputation hanging by a thread, Whalley takes charge of a small coastal steamer and tries to hide his failing eyesight from officers, owners, and crew. Among those closest to him is the hard-edged, observant first mate, a man whose loyalty is tested by the risks Whalley insists on taking and the compromises he asks others to share. As the vessel moves through rivers, ports, and shadowy trading outposts, routine voyages become charged with dread, pride, and moral pressure. Joseph Conrad turns a seafaring predicament into an intense study of dignity, duty, and the terrifying cost of self-deception - when a mans last tether to identity and honor is stretched to its limit.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:08:29) Chapter 02(00:27:15) Chapter 03(00:40:17) Chapter 04(00:58:42) Chapter 05(01:21:43) Chapter 06(01:34:47) Chapter 07(01:47:11) Chapter 08(02:05:43) Chapter 09(02:29:10) Chapter 10(02:52:00) Chapter 11(03:21:41) Chapter 12(03:53:05) Chapter 13(04:31:37) Chapter 14 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Andiron Tales by John Kendrick Bangs audiobook. Genre: fantasyIn Andiron Tales, John Kendrick Bangs invites listeners to the warm edge of a fireplace, where an ordinary household object becomes an unlikely master of ceremonies. Framed as a set of fireside stories, the book gathers a playful assortment of short fantasies and comic fables, each spun with Bangs' trademark wit and gentle mischief. As the narrator settles into the comfort of the hearth, the andiron's voice ushers him into a parade of imagined worlds: courtly adventures that refuse to behave like proper legends, modern intrusions that upset old-fashioned fairy-tale expectations, and characters who argue, bargain, and blunder with thoroughly human vanity. Beneath the lightness is a sharp but affectionate satire of manners, ambition, and the stories people tell themselves to feel important. The central pleasure is the tug-of-war between cozy domestic reality and the unruly imagination that keeps breaking in, turning the familiar glow of home into a stage for wonder and laughter. Andiron Tales is a celebration of storytelling itself: quick, clever, and designed to be shared aloud by the fire.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:10:33) Chapter 02(00:19:20) Chapter 03(00:36:51) Chapter 04(00:46:02) Chapter 05(00:54:34) Chapter 06(01:07:45) Chapter 07(01:19:56) Chapter 08(01:32:29) Chapter 09(01:45:25) Chapter 10 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices