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The Daredevil by Maria Thompson Daviess audiobook. Genre: romance In the shadow of the Great War, Roberta Carruthers - the bold, quick-witted daughter of an American soldier and a French marquise - sails into New York carrying grief, responsibility, and one urgent hope: help for her frail younger brother, Pierre. But a clerical mistake and an iron-willed, woman-hating uncle in Tennessee turn her homecoming into a high-wire act. Mistaken for the long-awaited nephew, Roberta makes a reckless, loving choice: she becomes 'Robert' to secure Pierre's care and keep their future intact. What begins as a disguise quickly becomes a dangerous education in power, politics, and desire, as Roberta navigates Southern society, suspicious household allies, and wartime intrigue that reaches from American drawing rooms to the needs of France itself. With German espionage whispers in the air and patriotic duty at stake, she must keep her secret, outmaneuver those who would exploit the war, and decide what kind of life - and love - she can claim when the mask fits too well. Clever, romantic, and suspenseful, The Daredevil is a story of daring identity, sacrifice, and the freedom to redefine oneself. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:23:53) Chapter 02 (00:49:15) Chapter 03 (01:11:47) Chapter 04 (01:27:35) Chapter 05 (01:41:06) Chapter 06 (01:56:20) Chapter 07 (02:05:27) Chapter 08 (02:22:53) Chapter 09 (02:39:32) Chapter 10 (03:02:12) Chapter 11 (03:22:15) Chapter 12 (03:41:29) Chapter 13 (04:01:33) Chapter 14 (04:18:49) Chapter 15 (04:35:55) Chapter 16 (04:51:59) Chapter 17 (05:10:32) Chapter 18 (05:28:48) Chapter 19 (05:50:58) Chapter 20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Castle of Twilight by Margaret Horton Potter audiobook. Genre: fantasy For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:30:23) Chapter 02 (01:13:36) Chapter 03 (01:53:25) Chapter 04 (02:27:11) Chapter 05 (03:09:14) Chapter 06 (03:36:56) Chapter 07 (04:11:45) Chapter 08 (04:41:23) Chapter 09 (05:13:23) Chapter 10 (05:53:08) Chapter 11 (06:24:06) Chapter 12 (06:59:24) Chapter 13 (07:37:28) Chapter 14 (08:14:09) Chapter 15 (08:36:53) Chapter 16 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An American in the Making, the Life Story of an Immigrant by Marcus Eli Ravage audiobook. Genre: biography For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:08:41) Chapter 01 (00:33:30) Chapter 02 (00:58:03) Chapter 03 (01:11:46) Chapter 04 (01:34:35) Chapter 05 (01:55:07) Chapter 06 (02:15:19) Chapter 07 (02:32:49) Chapter 08 (02:59:48) Chapter 09 (03:39:33) Chapter 10 (04:05:36) Chapter 11 (04:28:09) Chapter 12 (04:56:41) Chapter 13 (05:14:47) Chapter 14 (05:40:00) Chapter 15 (06:07:36) Chapter 16 (06:27:09) Chapter 17 (06:54:25) Chapter 18 (07:22:27) Chapter 19 (07:50:15) Chapter 20 (08:19:55) Chapter 21 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Emily of New Moon by Lucy Maud Montgomery audiobook. Genre: family Emily Starr never knew what it was to be lonely -- until her beloved father died. Now Emily's an orphan, and her mother's snobbish relatives are taking her to live with them at New Moon Farm. She's sure she won't be happy Emily deals with stiff, stern Aunt Elizabeth and her malicious classmates by holding her head high and using her quick wit. Things begin to change when she makes friends: with Teddy, who does marvelous drawings; with Perry, who's sailed all over the world with his father yet has never been to school; and above all, with Use, a tomboy with a blazing temper. Amazingly, Emily finds New Moon beautiful and fascinating. With new friends and adventures, Emily might someday think of herself as Emily of New Moon. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:15:03) Chapter 02 (00:38:29) Chapter 03 (01:06:49) Chapter 04 (01:28:51) Chapter 05 (01:45:02) Chapter 06 (02:08:53) Chapter 07 (02:41:34) Chapter 08 (03:06:51) Chapter 09 (03:19:56) Chapter 10 (03:38:49) Chapter 11 (03:56:26) Chapter 12 (04:15:14) Chapter 13 (04:34:31) Chapter 14 (04:50:32) Chapter 15 (05:11:03) Chapter 16 (05:26:29) Chapter 17 (05:52:54) Chapter 18 (06:23:04) Chapter 19 (06:53:35) Chapter 20 (07:32:22) Chapter 21 (07:42:13) Chapter 22 (08:06:49) Chapter 23 (08:32:28) Chapter 24 (08:51:04) Chapter 25 (09:15:02) Chapter 26 (09:32:10) Chapter 27 (09:47:09) Chapter 28 (10:15:20) Chapter 29 (10:41:19) Chapter 30 (11:00:27) Chapter 31 (11:29:53) Chapter 32 (11:57:44) Chapter 33 (12:29:17) Chapter 34 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Emily Climbs by Lucy Maud Montgomery audiobook. Genre: family Emily Byrd Starr longs to attend Queen's Academy to earn her teaching license, but her tradition-bound relatives at New Moon refuse. She is instead offered the chance to go to Shrewsbury High School with her friends, on two conditions. The first is that she board with her disliked Aunt Ruth, but it is the second that causes Emily difficulties. Emily must not write a word during her high-school education. From the author of Anne of Green Gables, Emily Climbs carries forward the story of the lovable little heroine whom a multitude of readers met in Emily of New Moon. This story covers Emily's happy years from 14 to 17. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:21:56) Chapter 02 (01:03:01) Chapter 03 (01:40:08) Chapter 04 (02:14:46) Chapter 05 (02:39:57) Chapter 06 (03:03:41) Chapter 07 (03:37:36) Chapter 08 (04:06:30) Chapter 09 (04:17:51) Chapter 10 (04:52:51) Chapter 11 (05:29:11) Chapter 12 (05:59:29) Chapter 13 (06:35:09) Chapter 14 (06:52:59) Chapter 15 (07:14:09) Chapter 16 (07:51:15) Chapter 17 (08:08:34) Chapter 18 (08:24:53) Chapter 19 (08:58:09) Chapter 20 (09:14:31) Chapter 21 (09:45:55) Chapter 22 (10:14:00) Chapter 23 (10:26:08) Chapter 24 (10:49:27) Chapter 25 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tales of War by Lord Dunsany audiobook. Genre: history In Tales of War, Lord Dunsany turns his lyrical imagination toward the mud, wire, and sudden terror of the First World War, shaping a sequence of short sketches that feel like dispatches, parables, and haunted memories all at once. From the men of the small village of Daleswood, who carry thoughts of home into the trenches, to solitary sentries listening to the dark beyond the parapet, these pieces follow soldiers as they endure boredom, fear, and bursts of violence, then try to make sense of what remains. Dunsany moves through ruined roads and fields in Picardy, the strange etiquette of No Man's Land, and the brittle humor that surfaces when survival depends on it. Alongside moments of stark realism are flashes of the uncanny and satiric: sudden shifts in perspective, dreams that feel truer than waking, and bitter commentary on the forces that send ordinary people to suffer. Woven throughout is a longing for England and for spring returning to a wounded landscape, even as the war threatens to erase everything familiar. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:12:33) Chapter 02 (00:17:35) Chapter 03 (00:22:38) Chapter 04 (00:27:48) Chapter 05 (00:32:26) Chapter 06 (00:38:22) Chapter 07 (00:41:17) Chapter 08 (00:49:01) Chapter 09 (00:54:23) Chapter 10 (00:58:11) Chapter 11 (01:01:10) Chapter 12 (01:04:44) Chapter 13 (01:08:23) Chapter 14 (01:13:09) Chapter 15 (01:16:02) Chapter 16 (01:19:12) Chapter 17 (01:27:11) Chapter 18 (01:32:46) Chapter 19 (01:40:09) Chapter 20 (01:44:05) Chapter 21 (01:48:38) Chapter 22 (01:53:25) Chapter 23 (01:55:41) Chapter 24 (02:00:37) Chapter 25 (02:05:18) Chapter 26 (02:10:55) Chapter 27 (02:17:21) Chapter 28 (02:24:31) Chapter 29 (02:29:01) Chapter 30 (02:33:30) Chapter 31 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Thoughts on Art and Life by Leonardo da Vinci audiobook. Genre: philosophy Thoughts on Art and Life gathers Leonardo da Vinci's own words into a vivid portrait of a mind that refused to separate beauty from truth. Drawn from his notebooks, these short observations, reflections, and practical notes move between the studio and the wider world: how a painter should study light and shadow, why perspective matters, what careful drawing teaches the eye, and how nature's patterns can guide an artist's hand. Leonardo writes as both craftsman and philosopher, urging discipline, patience, and relentless curiosity, while also capturing the wonder that comes from looking closely at water, clouds, plants, faces, and motion. As the entries unfold, listeners meet Leonardo not through a conventional life story, but through his working methods and inner questions - what it means to learn, to see, to invent, and to pursue excellence when perfection always feels one step away. The central tension is timeless: balancing imagination with observation, and ambition with the hard, daily practice required to turn insight into art. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:27:16) Chapter 01 (00:48:00) Chapter 02 (01:01:14) Chapter 03 (01:18:54) Chapter 04 (01:38:40) Chapter 05 (01:52:01) Chapter 06 (02:08:23) Chapter 07 (02:27:42) Chapter 08 (02:47:09) Chapter 09 (03:03:54) Chapter 10 (03:20:27) Chapter 11 (03:38:27) Chapter 12 (03:55:00) Chapter 13 (04:13:59) Chapter 14 (04:33:53) Chapter 15 (04:54:32) Chapter 16 (05:15:40) Chapter 17 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Impossibles by Laurence M. Janifer audiobook. Genre: scifi In 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: adventure Bunny 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: family If 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