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The Complete Golfer by Harry Vardon audiobook. Genre: self help Written by legendary champion Harry Vardon, The Complete Golfer is a clear, practical guide to learning and improving the game from the perspective of one of its great masters. Blending instruction with hard-won experience, Vardon breaks down golf into understandable parts: choosing clubs, building a reliable grip and stance, and shaping a repeatable swing that holds up under pressure. He walks listeners through the full range of shots, from confident driving and controlled iron play to the delicate demands of pitching, chipping, putting, and escaping bunkers and rough. Along the way, he addresses strategy and course management, explaining how to play for position, read conditions, and make smart decisions in both match play and stroke play. More than a mechanics manual, the book explores the mindset of scoring well: concentration, nerves, rhythm, and the discipline to practice with purpose. Whether you are a beginner seeking sound fundamentals or an experienced player looking to sharpen technique, Vardon's straightforward advice and timeless principles offer a complete foundation for better golf. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:03:48) Chapter 01 (00:25:32) Chapter 02 (00:57:01) Chapter 03 (01:21:00) Chapter 04 (01:48:08) Chapter 05 (02:10:26) Chapter 06 (02:36:33) Chapter 07 (02:47:37) Chapter 08 (03:14:53) Chapter 09 (03:39:25) Chapter 10 (03:49:52) Chapter 11 (04:13:54) Chapter 12 (04:37:11) Chapter 13 (05:00:26) Chapter 14 (05:18:02) Chapter 15 (05:46:34) Chapter 16 (06:07:25) Chapter 17 (06:24:49) Chapter 18 (06:39:12) Chapter 19 (07:03:04) Chapter 20 (07:27:14) Chapter 21 (07:53:39) Chapter 22 (08:19:38) Chapter 23 (08:38:22) Chapter 24 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Stainless Steel Rat by Harry Harrison audiobook. Genre: scifi In a future where most worlds have engineered crime out of existence, James Bolivar diGriz - better known as Slippery Jim - makes a career out of being the one exception. Smart, charming, and always three steps ahead, Jim lives for the perfect con: the kind that humiliates smug authorities and leaves him richer, freer, and grinning. But when a job goes wrong, he is cornered by an elite, off-the-books law enforcement unit whose agents are as ingenious as the criminals they chase. Their offer is simple: prison, or a new life using his talents on the other side. Thrown into a high-stakes hunt across the stars, Jim must infiltrate a world where order is absolute, uncover a plot that threatens more than just his own skin, and stay alive long enough to decide what kind of man he wants to be. Along the way he faces impossible security, rival masterminds, and a brilliant woman who refuses to be impressed by his ego. Fast, funny, and packed with clever reversals, this is a caper story set in a bright, dangerous galaxy. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:26:52) Chapter 02 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mobilizing Woman-Power by Harriot Stanton Blatch audiobook. Genre: history In Mobilizing Woman-Power, suffrage leader and reformer Harriot Stanton Blatch lays out a bold, practical argument for turning women's daily work into organized public power. Writing in the tense, fast-changing America of the early twentieth century, Blatch moves from kitchens, factories, farms, schools, and offices to city streets and legislative halls, insisting that the nation cannot afford to treat half its people as political bystanders. With the eye of a strategist, she examines how women already sustain families, industries, and communities, then asks what would happen if that scattered energy were coordinated through unions, civic associations, and the ballot. Blatch highlights the realities of wage work, the constraints of tradition, and the ways economic dependence is enforced, while also celebrating the ingenuity and resilience women show in the face of limited options. Part manifesto, part social analysis, the book is driven by a central conflict between entrenched legal customs and a rising demand for full citizenship. Clear, urgent, and grounded in lived experience, Mobilizing Woman-Power speaks to themes of labor, democracy, and the hard work of building collective change. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:08:13) Chapter 01 (00:23:39) Chapter 02 (00:45:54) Chapter 03 (01:00:32) Chapter 04 (01:14:54) Chapter 05 (01:37:05) Chapter 06 (01:52:49) Chapter 07 (02:06:07) Chapter 08 (02:19:00) Chapter 09 (02:42:36) Chapter 10 (03:03:05) Chapter 11 (03:17:10) Chapter 12 (03:29:51) Chapter 13 (03:44:19) Chapter 14 (04:00:36) Chapter 15 (04:13:45) Chapter 16 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Technical Error by Hal Clement audiobook. Genre: scifi When a human spacecraft is forced into an emergency landing on a lonely asteroid, the crew watches their own ship fail beyond repair and realizes the real countdown is not fuel or distance, but breathable air. Salvation appears in the least likely form: an ancient derelict vessel of unmistakably alien design, sealed and silent, its controls built around sound engineering principles but executed with methods no Terran manual ever imagined. As the crew splits between caution and desperation, they begin a methodical, engineer's investigation - mapping corridors, testing materials, tracing power paths, and arguing over what each baffling mechanism might do. Every discovery offers a new chance to escape and a new way to die, because the alien ship is not simply unfamiliar; it carries hints of a past disaster that may repeat itself if the wrong component is forced, overheated, or activated out of sequence. Hal Clement turns the problem of survival into a tight, technical mystery: how do you operate a machine when you can only infer its purpose from structure, physics, and the ticking of your own life-support? The result is classic hard science fiction about ingenuity under pressure, teamwork under strain, and the thin line between a clever fix and a fatal mistake. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:20:32) Chapter 02 (00:40:16) Chapter 03 (00:58:53) Chapter 04 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Allan's Wife and other Tales by H. Rider Haggard audiobook. Genre: adventure In 1885, H. Rider Haggard introduced Allan Quatermain, elephant hunter extraordinaire, in his best-selling African adventure novel 'King Solomon's Mines'. Haggard went on to publish twelve Quatermain novels and several novellas and short stories, including the four in this collection. 'Allan's Wife' explains how Quatermain became a hunter early in life and recounts the tragedy of his brief marriage to Stella, his childhood sweetheart. The three shorter tales are hunting yarns narrated by Quatermain as an old man. In 'Hunter Quatermain', Allan is faced with a raging wounded buffalo and in 'A Tale of Three Lions' and 'Long Odds', he takes on no less than seven lions. First published in 1889, this collection was re-published as the twenty-fourth volume of the celebrated Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library series in 1980. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:03:38) Chapter 01 (00:23:20) Chapter 02 (00:46:47) Chapter 03 (01:14:37) Chapter 04 (01:43:12) Chapter 05 (02:12:47) Chapter 06 (02:46:53) Chapter 07 (03:08:42) Chapter 08 (03:28:27) Chapter 09 (03:48:21) Chapter 10 (04:18:04) Chapter 11 (04:36:21) Chapter 12 (04:58:52) Chapter 13 (05:17:54) Chapter 14 (05:37:21) Chapter 15 (06:20:17) Chapter 16 (06:42:15) Chapter 17 (07:05:57) Chapter 18 (07:35:17) Chapter 19 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft audiobook. Genre: horror An ambitious Antarctic expedition sets out to claim scientific glory at the coldest edge of the world - but what the team uncovers beneath the ice will challenge every assumption they have about life on Earth. Narrated by a shaken survivor, At the Mountains of Madness follows Professor William Dyer of Miskatonic University as he tries to warn the world away from a return to the polar wastes. When a secondary party makes a startling discovery of strange fossils and impossibly ancient evidence of biology, Dyer and his graduate student Danforth fly out to investigate. Their journey leads them to a vast, cyclopean mountain range and a ruined city whose alien architecture hints at intellects older than humanity. As storm, isolation, and dwindling supplies press in, the true danger proves not only the brutal environment but the implications of what once lived - and may still endure - in the darkness below. Blending scientific detail with creeping dread, Lovecraft crafts a tale of awe and terror in which curiosity becomes a liability, and knowledge itself threatens sanity. The central question is not simply what happened in Antarctica, but whether humankind can survive the truth of its own insignificance. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:21:32) Chapter 02 (00:58:09) Chapter 03 (01:20:08) Chapter 04 (01:39:14) Chapter 05 (02:06:05) Chapter 06 (02:22:12) Chapter 07 (02:42:59) Chapter 08 (03:00:24) Chapter 09 (03:22:48) Chapter 10 (03:39:18) Chapter 11 (04:00:47) Chapter 12 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Twelve Stories and a Dream by H. G. Wells audiobook. Genre: mystery In Twelve Stories and a Dream, H. G. Wells gathers a dozen vivid tales and one longer, moodier piece that showcase his gift for turning ordinary moments into unsettling questions about human nature and the unknown. Moving from everyday streets and domestic settings to strange encounters and uncanny possibilities, these stories follow clerks, dreamers, scientists, and wanderers who find their routines disrupted by sudden accidents, peculiar visitors, moral temptations, or a glimpse of something just beyond explanation. Wells blends wit and compassion with sharp observation, often placing his characters under quiet pressure: pride versus humility, curiosity versus caution, comfort versus change. Some narratives lean toward eerie mystery, others toward social satire, and several flirt with speculative ideas without sacrificing the immediacy of lived experience. Tying the collection together is an atmosphere of restless imagination and a sense that the world is bigger, stranger, and less predictable than it appears. Whether the turning point arrives through a small choice or a remarkable event, each story invites listeners to consider what people do when the familiar slips, and what they discover about themselves in the process. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:49:58) Chapter 02 (01:15:21) Chapter 03 (01:38:59) Chapter 04 (02:09:41) Chapter 05 (02:43:56) Chapter 06 (03:12:13) Chapter 07 (03:50:48) Chapter 08 (04:26:34) Chapter 09 (05:06:53) Chapter 10 (05:46:29) Chapter 11 (06:04:24) Chapter 12 (06:52:47) Chapter 13 (07:17:08) Chapter 14 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Nikola's Experiment by Guy Boothby audiobook. Genre: thriller Guy Boothby's fourth novel of five about the svelte mysterious anti-hero Dr Nikola sees him progress further on his search for immortality. Here we find him deep in the wilds of Northumbria conducting an experiment of longevity and restoration of youth with another somewhat naive assistant. He is pursued by his Chinese enemies who will stop at nothing to achieve his demise. In this novel he displays a slight hint of emotion regarding his assistant's love affair with a beautiful Spaniard. Once again you are left wondering whether you like him or detest him, his relentless pursuit of arcane knowledge at all cost continues. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:38:24) Chapter 02 (01:13:43) Chapter 03 (01:47:33) Chapter 04 (02:19:20) Chapter 05 (02:54:01) Chapter 06 (03:26:08) Chapter 07 (04:07:30) Chapter 08 (04:43:35) Chapter 09 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Baseball Ballads by Grantland Rice audiobook. Genre: poetry Baseball Ballads (originally published as Base-ball Ballads) gathers Grantland Rice's early twentieth-century verse into a spirited celebration of Americas game, written by a sportswriter who understood both the box score and the crowds heartbeat. Across quick, musical poems and longer narrative ballads, Rice turns innings into scenes, players into larger-than-life figures, and ordinary afternoons into contests of nerve, luck, and pride. The collection ranges from rousing calls to the first pitch to wry portraits of fans, umpires, and hard-luck clubs, capturing the humor, heartbreak, and bragging rights that hang on a single swing. Familiar baseball mythmaking runs through the book, including Rice's own riffs on the Mudville tradition and other tales of pressure at the plate, where confidence can become calamity in a breath. With vivid imagery and a performers sense of rhythm, these poems preserve a bygone ballpark atmosphere while still speaking to anyone who has lived through a tight ninth inning. Baseball Ballads is both a time capsule of the sports golden age and a lively reminder of why the game keeps producing legends. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:00:51) Chapter 02 (00:02:15) Chapter 03 (00:04:34) Chapter 04 (00:09:29) Chapter 05 (00:11:48) Chapter 06 (00:14:10) Chapter 07 (00:16:31) Chapter 08 (00:18:00) Chapter 09 (00:19:46) Chapter 10 (00:21:25) Chapter 11 (00:24:23) Chapter 12 (00:26:38) Chapter 13 (00:28:05) Chapter 14 (00:30:04) Chapter 15 (00:32:02) Chapter 16 (00:33:19) Chapter 17 (00:35:36) Chapter 18 (00:39:09) Chapter 19 (00:41:45) Chapter 20 (00:44:02) Chapter 21 (00:45:44) Chapter 22 (00:47:20) Chapter 23 (00:49:35) Chapter 24 (00:51:56) Chapter 25 (00:53:41) Chapter 26 (00:55:22) Chapter 27 (00:57:09) Chapter 28 (00:58:49) Chapter 29 (01:01:59) Chapter 30 (01:03:59) Chapter 31 (01:06:53) Chapter 32 (01:12:10) Chapter 33 (01:13:16) Chapter 34 (01:15:31) Chapter 35 (01:17:13) Chapter 36 (01:19:12) Chapter 37 (01:20:24) Chapter 38 (01:22:30) Chapter 39 (01:24:14) Chapter 40 (01:26:11) Chapter 41 (01:27:42) Chapter 42 (01:30:42) Chapter 43 (01:32:43) Chapter 44 (01:34:46) Chapter 45 (01:36:22) Chapter 46 (01:38:47) Chapter 47 (01:44:31) Chapter 48 (01:45:40) Chapter 49 (01:47:51) Chapter 50 (01:49:42) Chapter 51 (01:53:33) Chapter 52 (01:55:19) Chapter 53 (01:58:17) Chapter 54 (01:59:34) Chapter 55 (02:02:04) Chapter 56 (02:04:35) Chapter 57 (02:08:09) Chapter 58 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Not Under The Law by Grace Livingston Hill audiobook. Genre: romance After the death of the only relative who ever offered her shelter, Joyce Radway finds herself trapped in a house where grief quickly turns into cruelty. Her aunt's family expects her to earn her keep as an all-but-unpaid servant, and they mock her quiet determination to become a teacher and build an independent life. When Joyce slips out to take the examinations that could change her future, she sets off a dangerous chain of consequences that leaves her with few possessions, no safe home to return to, and no one she can fully trust. Alone and on the run, she stumbles into the path of lawless men and recognizes one of them: a boyhood acquaintance whose feelings for her have never faded, and whose conscience is suddenly awakened by what he has become. As Joyce tries to start over in a new town with stubborn ingenuity and hard work, threats from the past keep closing in. Not Under the Law blends suspense, practical courage, and a deeply rooted message of faith and redemption, as two wounded lives are tested by fear, forgiveness, and the hope of a new beginning. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:19:32) Chapter 02 (00:35:40) Chapter 03 (00:53:17) Chapter 04 (01:09:12) Chapter 05 (01:28:34) Chapter 06 (01:40:12) Chapter 07 (01:55:11) Chapter 08 (02:11:38) Chapter 09 (02:27:09) Chapter 10 (02:41:51) Chapter 11 (02:51:32) Chapter 12 (03:11:20) Chapter 13 (03:26:43) Chapter 14 (03:43:01) Chapter 15 (03:58:19) Chapter 16 (04:17:42) Chapter 17 (04:32:07) Chapter 18 (04:55:40) Chapter 19 (05:06:12) Chapter 20 (05:26:51) Chapter 21 (05:46:25) Chapter 22 (06:05:35) Chapter 23 (06:17:49) Chapter 24 (06:28:29) Chapter 25 (06:43:25) Chapter 26 (06:55:14) Chapter 27 (07:10:02) Chapter 28 (07:18:19) Chapter 29 (07:29:55) Chapter 30 (07:45:02) Chapter 31 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices