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Bealby; A Holiday by H. G. Wells audiobook. Genre: comedy Bealby: A Holiday is a brisk, mischievous comic tale from H. G. Wells that turns a simple seaside vacation into a sharp-eyed satire of Edwardian respectability. The hero, young Bealby, is no swashbuckling adventurer - he is an ordinary boy with an inconvenient talent for drifting into trouble at exactly the wrong moment. Sent away for a holiday under the watchful care of his formidable Aunt Bridget and a circle of well-meaning adults, Bealby discovers that the grown-up world is full of rules, appearances, and anxious social judgments that do not leave much room for curiosity or high spirits. As the days unfold, small misunderstandings and impulsive decisions snowball into escalating embarrassments, reprimands, and frantic attempts to restore order, all while Bealby tries to defend his own sense of fairness and fun. With quick scenes, sly narration, and a steadily tightening tangle of complications, Wells delivers a humorous portrait of youth pushing against authority, and of adults whose moral certainty often makes matters worse. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:31:33) Chapter 02 (01:38:02) Chapter 03 (02:00:24) Chapter 04 (02:40:31) Chapter 05 (03:19:34) Chapter 06 (03:44:14) Chapter 07 (04:32:22) Chapter 08 (05:22:36) Chapter 09 (06:05:51) Chapter 10 (06:28:36) Chapter 11 (07:09:46) Chapter 12 (07:23:02) Chapter 13 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Arizona Argonauts by H. Bedford-Jones audiobook. Genre: adventure Imagine it's early 1900's and you want to get away from it all. So you head to Two Palms, Arizona. Where for entertainment, people await the arrival of the daily stage coach. Gold mining is an avocation. There is desert everywhere, deadly rattlers, no paved roads, some people travel in model T's which they call flivvers. They must carry their own water, gasoline and tire patch kits for the many blowouts they encounter. The heat is blinding! The nearest 'big' town is Meteorite which has an ice cream shop, a post office and a stage coach head office. Here's where it gets interesting! Three misfits, a disgraced surgeon, an ex bank robber and a former prominent businessman type all meet on the road to nowhere to team up and head to Two Palms to turn their lives around. Already there is a wealthy San Francisco businessman and his beautiful daughter the apple of everyone's eyes. Arizona Argonauts would make a great movie! There's intrigue, murder, mayhem, mystery and of course romance. Try it - you'll like it! For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:13:14) Chapter 02 (00:36:31) Chapter 03 (01:00:34) Chapter 04 (01:27:48) Chapter 05 (01:50:07) Chapter 06 (02:12:17) Chapter 07 (02:30:00) Chapter 08 (02:48:29) Chapter 09 (03:14:00) Chapter 10 (03:32:07) Chapter 11 (03:57:30) Chapter 12 (04:14:54) Chapter 13 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Voice in the Wilderness by Grace Livingston Hill audiobook. Genre: romance When Margaret Earle leaves the East to take a teaching post in the Arizona Territory, she expects hardship, but not to step off the train into darkness at a lonely desert stop and watch the cars vanish into the night. Alone in unfamiliar country, with coyotes crying and danger close at hand, Margaret must rely on courage, quick thinking, and the faith that carried her west in the first place. Her desperate flight from a threatening stranger leads to an unexpected protector: Lance Gardley, a young cowboy with steady eyes, quiet strength, and questions he does not easily answer. Brought to safety, Margaret enters a frontier community where rough living, rumor, and spiritual emptiness press in on every side, and where a determined schoolteacher may be the only clear voice calling people back to what is right. As Margaret builds a life among the mesas and sagebrush, her growing bond with Lance is tested by distance, misunderstanding, and the cost of choosing integrity in a place that rewards compromise. Tender, suspenseful, and deeply rooted in Christian conviction, this classic western romance follows two outsiders as they search for home in a wilderness of both land and heart. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:14:08) Chapter 02 (00:26:36) Chapter 03 (00:38:41) Chapter 04 (00:53:45) Chapter 05 (01:07:15) Chapter 06 (01:22:50) Chapter 07 (01:40:50) Chapter 08 (01:57:22) Chapter 09 (02:14:48) Chapter 10 (02:29:33) Chapter 11 (02:50:51) Chapter 12 (03:05:05) Chapter 13 (03:31:22) Chapter 14 (03:45:24) Chapter 15 (03:57:55) Chapter 16 (04:16:01) Chapter 17 (04:43:35) Chapter 18 (04:59:09) Chapter 19 (05:14:11) Chapter 20 (05:30:05) Chapter 21 (05:52:44) Chapter 22 (06:15:22) Chapter 23 (06:33:58) Chapter 24 (06:51:34) Chapter 25 (07:15:56) Chapter 26 (07:45:17) Chapter 27 (08:08:01) Chapter 28 (08:27:34) Chapter 29 (08:56:12) Chapter 30 (09:13:46) Chapter 31 (09:28:20) Chapter 32 (09:40:17) Chapter 33 (10:02:27) Chapter 34 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Elect Lady by George MacDonald audiobook. Genre: drama Set in rural Scotland, George MacDonald's The Elect Lady follows the collision of class, conscience, and faith in a small community where everyone knows their place - until a few unlikely friendships begin to challenge it. Andrew Ingram, the tenant's son, is poor, bookish, and quietly devout, more interested in truth and service than status. Dawtie, a humble servant girl with a tender care for animals and the overlooked, becomes an unexpected measure of what real goodness looks like. Over them stands Alexa Fordyce, the landlord's intelligent, forceful daughter, whose confidence in her own judgment and position puts her at odds with the plain integrity she encounters in the Ingrams' world. When a sudden train accident draws new people and pressures into their lives, the village's assumptions about worth, piety, and power are tested. As Andrew grows into adulthood, MacDonald uses everyday labor, sharp conversation, and hard choices to explore what makes a person truly 'chosen' - and whether the church is best found in institutions, reputations, or lives shaped by humility, honesty, and love. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:09:11) Chapter 02 (00:12:48) Chapter 03 (00:18:49) Chapter 04 (00:25:37) Chapter 05 (00:35:33) Chapter 06 (00:42:54) Chapter 07 (00:47:16) Chapter 08 (00:51:32) Chapter 09 (00:58:29) Chapter 10 (01:29:48) Chapter 11 (01:46:52) Chapter 12 (01:55:11) Chapter 13 (02:07:10) Chapter 14 (02:16:04) Chapter 15 (02:23:34) Chapter 16 (02:38:24) Chapter 17 (02:53:54) Chapter 18 (03:16:01) Chapter 19 (03:24:37) Chapter 20 (03:33:20) Chapter 21 (03:40:45) Chapter 22 (03:54:51) Chapter 23 (04:10:15) Chapter 24 (04:21:28) Chapter 25 (04:33:25) Chapter 26 (04:37:00) Chapter 27 (04:41:19) Chapter 28 (04:45:56) Chapter 29 (04:56:38) Chapter 30 (05:13:52) Chapter 31 (05:21:14) Chapter 32 (05:30:10) Chapter 33 (05:34:45) Chapter 34 (05:42:01) Chapter 35 (05:50:58) Chapter 36 (05:56:49) Chapter 37 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood by George MacDonald audiobook. Genre: family This delightful story begins in a little town called Marshmallows, where a young man, the new vicar, Harry Walton, has just arrived. As he begins his work Harry realizes that everything is not quite 'right' in his little parish and it all seems to center around Oldcastle Hall. As he wins the affection of the people secrets begin to unfold, and Harry Walton attempts to free them from guilt of the past, help them overcome pride and while he is at it, he falls in love with a woman whose past is the most mysterious yet, and whose tyrannical mother is the mistress of Oldcastle Hall. This Is a wonderful, heartwarming romance and a unique mystery, told from the viewpoint of the young vicar. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:26:11) Chapter 02 (00:36:29) Chapter 03 (00:55:59) Chapter 04 (01:16:07) Chapter 05 (01:37:20) Chapter 06 (02:12:44) Chapter 07 (02:38:43) Chapter 08 (03:16:08) Chapter 09 (03:28:47) Chapter 10 (03:51:09) Chapter 11 (04:23:12) Chapter 12 (04:51:19) Chapter 13 (05:31:15) Chapter 14 (06:14:24) Chapter 15 (06:32:24) Chapter 16 (07:09:28) Chapter 17 (07:41:46) Chapter 18 (08:05:11) Chapter 19 (08:46:52) Chapter 20 (08:55:16) Chapter 21 (09:17:52) Chapter 22 (09:30:48) Chapter 23 (09:54:32) Chapter 24 (10:19:19) Chapter 25 (10:29:19) Chapter 26 (10:53:43) Chapter 27 (11:13:49) Chapter 28 (11:30:49) Chapter 29 (11:52:24) Chapter 30 (12:17:19) Chapter 31 (12:38:02) Chapter 32 (13:09:03) Chapter 33 (13:27:49) Chapter 34 (13:59:44) Chapter 35 (14:18:40) Chapter 36 (14:37:20) Chapter 37 (14:52:15) Chapter 38 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Angels of the Battlefield by George Barton audiobook. Genre: history Angels of the Battlefield is George Barton's sweeping Civil War history of the Catholic sisterhoods who became some of the era's most indispensable nurses, organizers, and steady hands in the midst of mass suffering. Drawing on interviews, letters, official records, and community archives, Barton reconstructs how orders such as the Sisters of Charity, Sisters of Mercy, Sisters of St. Joseph, and Sisters of Holy Cross moved from convent routines into makeshift wards, overcrowded military hospitals, and field stations where disease spread as fast as bullets. The book travels from Richmond to Washington, from St. Louis to New Orleans, and onto major flashpoints like Shiloh, Antietam, and Gettysburg, introducing vivid figures including the formidable Sister Anthony and the capable administrator Sister Mary Gonzaga, as well as church leaders navigating wartime politics and practical logistics. At the center is a single urgent conflict: how to preserve life and dignity when resources are scarce, prejudice is real, and the wounded keep coming, regardless of whether they wore blue or gray. Both a tribute and a documentary record, Barton's narrative highlights faith translated into action, and the often-uncredited labor that held thousands of soldiers together long enough to heal, reconcile, or simply be comforted. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:06:30) Chapter 01 (00:12:38) Chapter 02 (00:26:04) Chapter 03 (00:37:27) Chapter 04 (00:52:24) Chapter 05 (01:05:42) Chapter 06 (01:20:40) Chapter 07 (01:34:28) Chapter 08 (01:50:56) Chapter 09 (02:05:02) Chapter 10 (02:17:22) Chapter 11 (02:34:10) Chapter 12 (02:50:07) Chapter 13 (03:06:04) Chapter 14 (03:16:50) Chapter 15 (03:28:23) Chapter 16 (03:50:04) Chapter 17 (04:10:02) Chapter 18 (04:24:50) Chapter 19 (04:38:19) Chapter 20 (04:53:59) Chapter 21 (05:11:10) Chapter 22 (05:29:48) Chapter 23 (05:49:12) Chapter 24 (06:06:32) Chapter 25 (06:27:37) Chapter 26 (06:47:38) Chapter 27 (06:57:50) Chapter 28 (07:10:52) Chapter 29 (07:29:31) Chapter 30 (07:44:36) Chapter 31 (08:11:44) Chapter 32 (08:26:41) Chapter 33 (08:41:00) Chapter 34 (09:15:22) Chapter 35 (09:32:55) Chapter 36 (09:48:45) Chapter 37 (09:50:13) Chapter 38 (09:51:59) Chapter 39 (09:55:29) Chapter 40 (09:57:25) Chapter 41 (10:04:54) Chapter 42 (10:18:43) Chapter 43 (10:28:09) Chapter 44 (10:40:24) Chapter 45 (10:45:22) Chapter 46 (10:56:51) Chapter 47 (11:03:03) Chapter 48 (11:10:30) Chapter 49 (11:17:00) Chapter 50 (11:31:55) Chapter 51 (11:40:14) Chapter 52 (11:42:41) Chapter 53 (11:47:28) Chapter 54 (11:50:39) Chapter 55 (12:07:34) Chapter 56 (12:19:03) Chapter 57 (12:32:05) Chapter 58 (12:44:52) Chapter 59 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Everlasting Man by G. K. Chesterton audiobook. Genre: religion This book needs a preliminary note that its scope be not misunderstood. The view suggested is historical rather than theological, and does not deal directly with a religious change which has been the chief event of my own life; and about which I am already writing a more purely controversial volume. It is impossible, I hope, for any Catholic to write any book on any subject, above all this subject, without showing that he is a Catholic; but this study is not specially concerned with the differences between a Catholic and a Protestant. Much of it is devoted to many sorts of Pagans rather than any sort of Christians; and its thesis is that those who say that Christ stands side by side with similar myths, and his religion side by side with similar religions, are only repeating a very stale formula contradicted by a very striking fact. To suggest this I have not needed to go much beyond matters known to us all; I make no claim to learning; and have to depend for some things, as has rather become the fashion, on those who are more learned. As I have more than once differed from Mr. H. G. Wells in his view of history, it is the more right that I should here congratulate him on the courage and constructive imagination which carried through his vast and varied and intensely interesting work; but still more on having asserted the reasonable right of the amateur to do what he can with the facts which the specialists provide. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:27:30) Chapter 2 (01:06:34) Chapter 3 (01:45:18) Chapter 4 (02:48:31) Chapter 5 (03:32:59) Chapter 6 (04:10:40) Chapter 7 (05:02:52) Chapter 8 (05:36:42) Chapter 9 (06:11:56) Chapter 10 (06:52:08) Chapter 11 (07:26:40) Chapter 12 (07:54:52) Chapter 13 (08:36:17) Chapter 14 (09:17:31) Chapter 15 (09:45:10) Chapter 16 (10:07:40) Chapter 17 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

G.K. Chesterton in The Open Road by G. K. Chesterton audiobook. Genre: religion In G.K. Chesterton in The Open Road, the great English essayist turns two short book reviews into a brisk, brainy ride through the controversies of his day. Originally published in 1911 in The Open Road, these pieces show Chesterton at his most playful and provocative as he tests fashionable ideas against common sense, history, and the stubborn facts of human nature. In 'The Dulness of New Religions,' he pokes at spiritual movements that promise novelty but often recycle the same old human impulses, asking what a faith is worth if it cannot surprise, challenge, or enlarge the soul. In 'Broken Backed History,' he takes aim at tidy, secondhand versions of the past, arguing that history becomes lifeless when it is reduced to slogans, dates, and convenient moral lessons. Moving with paradox, humor, and sudden seriousness, Chesterton invites listeners to reexamine what they think they know about belief, progress, and the stories societies tell about themselves. This compact collection is ideal for anyone who enjoys sharp criticism, big questions, and a narrator who can turn an argument into entertainment. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:10:32) Chapter 02 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Great Inventors and Their Inventions by Frank Puterbaugh Bachman audiobook. Genre: biography This book is about Great inventors and what they created. It has different stories like Alexander Bell, Wrights, Morse, Gutenberg, and Edison. ON August 17, 1807, a curious crowd of people in New York gathered at a boat landing. Tied to the dock was a strange-looking craft. A smokestack rose above the deck. From the sides of the boat, there stood out queer shaped paddle wheels. Of a sudden, the clouds of smoke from the smokestack grew larger, the paddle wheels turned, and the boat, to the astonishment of all, moved. It was 'Fulton's Folly,' the Clermont, on her first trip to Albany. The first boat used by man was probably the trunk of a fallen tree, moved about by means of a broken branch or pole. Then some savage saw that a better boat could be made by tying a number of logs together to make a raft. But rafts are hard to move, so the heart of a log was hollowed out by means of a stone ax or fire, to make a still better boat, or strips of birch bark were skillfully fastened together to form a graceful cano For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:01:49) Chapter 01 (00:25:29) Chapter 02 (00:56:32) Chapter 03 (01:27:33) Chapter 04 (01:47:23) Chapter 05 (02:06:17) Chapter 06 (02:31:13) Chapter 07 (02:57:28) Chapter 08 (03:20:32) Chapter 09 (03:59:17) Chapter 10 (04:28:58) Chapter 11 (05:00:39) Chapter 12 (05:26:09) Chapter 13 (05:33:41) Chapter 14 (05:42:54) Chapter 15 (05:48:41) Chapter 16 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Billy Whiskers Jr. by Frances Trego Montgomery audiobook. Genre: adventure Restless after only a few quiet weeks back on the farm, Night - Billy Whiskers Jr. - decides that ordinary pasture life is not for him. Brimming with swagger and curiosity, the young goat dreams of the wide-open West, where tough herds, long trails, and bigger dangers promise the kind of fame a born troublemaker thinks he deserves. When an unexpected change of owners sends him toward ranch country, Billy Jr. takes every new fence, corral, and camp as a personal invitation to test his luck and his wits. Before long he is dodging threats on the range, tangling with wary animals and watchful humans, and learning that freedom on the frontier comes with real consequences. His journey carries him beyond open country and into the bustle of San Francisco, where he finds an unlikely ally in Stubby, a scrappy yellow dog with a talent for getting into (and out of) trouble. Together they set off on a fast, funny chain of misadventures that turns Billy Jr.'s hunger for excitement into a crash course in friendship, courage, and what it truly means to lead. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:09:35) Chapter 02 (00:18:34) Chapter 03 (00:29:24) Chapter 04 (00:38:01) Chapter 05 (00:50:59) Chapter 06 (01:05:42) Chapter 07 (01:23:00) Chapter 08 (01:43:29) Chapter 09 (01:55:01) Chapter 10 (02:07:07) Chapter 11 (02:14:54) Chapter 12 (02:24:05) Chapter 13 (02:35:54) Chapter 14 (02:43:59) Chapter 15 (02:55:09) Chapter 16 (03:10:10) Chapter 17 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices