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The Duke of Chimney Butte by George W. Ogden audiobook. Genre: adventure Jeremiah (Jerry) Lambert comes to the Bad Lands on a battered bicycle with a suitcase of All-in-One kitchen gadgets and a plan to sell his way into a better life. The country is harsher than any sales pitch, and Jerry is close to giving up when he blunders into a cow camp, wins a meal, and then shocks seasoned riders by staying aboard Whetstone, an outlaw horse no one else will handle. Overnight, a drifting peddler becomes a talked-about figure: the Duke of Chimney Butte. The nickname is half joke, half challenge, and it follows him straight into real trouble when he is hired by Vesta Philbrook, the boss lady of a sprawling, fenced ranch under constant pressure from fence cutters, rustlers, and hostile neighbors who hate the very idea of wire on open range. With only his wits, his nerve, and his loyal, sharp-tongued side partner Taterleg, the Duke rides the line between law and vengeance, testing how far a man can go in defense of a woman, a herd, and a hard-won reputation. As threats close in, unexpected feelings complicate every decision, and the Bad Lands demand to know what kind of man the Duke will become. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:19:21) Chapter 02 (00:41:56) Chapter 03 (00:50:37) Chapter 04 (01:15:05) Chapter 05 (01:28:56) Chapter 06 (01:44:48) Chapter 07 (01:58:43) Chapter 08 (02:05:01) Chapter 09 (02:22:36) Chapter 10 (02:40:25) Chapter 11 (03:02:37) Chapter 12 (03:22:20) Chapter 13 (03:36:02) Chapter 14 (03:57:38) Chapter 15 (04:20:29) Chapter 16 (04:39:15) Chapter 17 (04:56:03) Chapter 18 (05:01:26) Chapter 19 (05:15:20) Chapter 20 (05:28:56) Chapter 21 (05:47:21) Chapter 22 (05:57:12) Chapter 23 (06:01:45) Chapter 24 (06:15:11) Chapter 25 (06:32:05) Chapter 26 (06:44:41) Chapter 27 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Arabella Stuart by George Payne Rainsford James audiobook. Genre: history Set in the dangerous glare of the Jacobean court, George Payne Rainsford James' Arabella Stuart reimagines the fate of a young noblewoman whose bloodline makes her a political problem and a prize. Lady Arabella Stuart is brilliant, poised, and keenly aware that her royal descent places her uncomfortably close to the English throne - close enough to attract whispers, schemes, and watchful eyes. As King James I consolidates power, courtiers maneuver for advantage, alliances shift overnight, and every conversation may carry a hidden meaning. Against this backdrop, Arabella must navigate the demands of duty, personal freedom, and a heart drawn toward a love that could be interpreted as treason. From candlelit chambers and crowded audience halls to secret messages and sudden summons, the novel follows Arabella and those around her - loyal friends, ambitious rivals, and calculating advisers - as affection collides with statecraft. Rich in period detail and suspense, James explores how reputation can be weaponized, how power polices desire, and how one woman's choices reverberate through a kingdom balanced on rumor and succession. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:07:20) Chapter 01 (00:25:10) Chapter 02 (00:49:39) Chapter 03 (01:14:25) Chapter 04 (01:31:56) Chapter 05 (01:57:53) Chapter 06 (02:21:02) Chapter 07 (02:47:00) Chapter 08 (03:16:32) Chapter 09 (03:55:48) Chapter 10 (04:15:22) Chapter 11 (04:40:07) Chapter 12 (04:57:24) Chapter 13 (05:12:32) Chapter 14 (05:33:10) Chapter 15 (05:49:46) Chapter 16 (06:09:06) Chapter 17 (06:36:05) Chapter 18 (06:54:10) Chapter 19 (07:18:40) Chapter 20 (07:47:39) Chapter 21 (08:04:07) Chapter 22 (08:27:55) Chapter 23 (08:45:28) Chapter 24 (09:15:53) Chapter 25 (09:34:37) Chapter 26 (10:04:21) Chapter 27 (10:19:16) Chapter 28 (10:42:22) Chapter 29 (11:03:58) Chapter 30 (11:17:10) Chapter 31 (11:35:30) Chapter 32 (11:55:16) Chapter 33 (12:15:07) Chapter 34 (12:36:11) Chapter 35 (13:01:00) Chapter 36 (13:15:44) Chapter 37 (13:32:16) Chapter 38 (13:56:02) Chapter 39 (14:10:14) Chapter 40 (14:33:10) Chapter 41 (14:52:27) Chapter 42 (15:14:55) Chapter 43 (15:31:32) Chapter 44 (15:49:33) Chapter 45 (16:05:46) Chapter 46 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An Unwilling Guest by Grace Livingston Hill audiobook. Genre: romance Evelyn Rutherford has everything New York society is supposed to want: beauty, polish, and a calendar full of glittering invitations. But when she is sent to the country for a summer visit with her aunt, the trip feels like exile from the life she knows best. Then her aunt falls ill, and Evelyn finds herself staying, almost against her will, with the neighboring Greys - a warm, steady family whose quiet joy is rooted in a faith Evelyn has never understood. As days of simple routines replace late nights and empty compliments, Evelyn begins to see the cost of the image she has built, and the hunger underneath it. Drawn into the Greys' circle, she grows especially close to their son, Maurice, whose kindness and integrity awaken both her conscience and her hopes. But Evelyn's past, her pride, and an unsettling truth about who she really is threaten everything she is beginning to cherish. With time running short and choices closing in, Evelyn must decide what love, belonging, and faith will mean for the rest of her life. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:19:07) Chapter 02 (00:35:51) Chapter 03 (00:53:13) Chapter 04 (01:11:06) Chapter 05 (01:27:57) Chapter 06 (01:42:59) Chapter 07 (02:02:36) Chapter 08 (02:19:27) Chapter 09 (02:38:25) Chapter 10 (02:59:22) Chapter 11 (03:17:54) Chapter 12 (03:38:14) Chapter 13 (03:58:30) Chapter 14 (04:18:31) Chapter 15 (04:38:30) Chapter 16 (05:00:28) Chapter 17 (05:16:35) Chapter 18 (05:40:22) Chapter 19 (05:56:43) Chapter 20 (06:15:53) Chapter 21 (06:37:45) Chapter 22 (06:59:02) Chapter 23 (07:17:36) Chapter 24 (07:35:04) Chapter 25 (07:58:20) Chapter 26 (08:13:57) Chapter 27 (08:34:08) Chapter 28 (08:54:30) Chapter 29 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Mind And Its Education by George Herbert Betts audiobook. Genre: science 'We are to study the mind and its education; but how? It is easy to understand how we may investigate the great world of material things about us; for we can see it, touch it, weigh it, or measure it. But how are we to discover the nature of the mind, or come to know the processes by which consciousness works? For mind is intangible; we cannot see it, feel it, taste it, or handle it. Mind belongs not to the realm of matter which is known to the senses, but to the realm of spirit, which the senses can never grasp. And yet the mind can be known and studied as truly and as scientifically as can the world of matter.' This book of over a hundred years is full of useful and practical information. The author's elegant use of referencing poetry and literature in forming mental images as a way of educating our creative minds makes for a most pleasurable read For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:03:28) Chapter 01 (00:28:15) Chapter 02 (00:52:33) Chapter 03 (01:31:53) Chapter 04 (02:01:18) Chapter 05 (02:32:50) Chapter 06 (03:05:34) Chapter 07 (03:27:55) Chapter 08 (03:55:13) Chapter 09 (04:26:25) Chapter 10 (04:48:44) Chapter 11 (05:31:24) Chapter 12 (06:13:37) Chapter 13 (07:07:44) Chapter 14 (07:41:49) Chapter 15 (08:13:23) Chapter 16 (08:53:50) Chapter 17 (09:53:59) Chapter 18 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Olga Romanoff by George Griffith audiobook. Genre: scifi In a near-future world reshaped by revolution, the skies belong to the Aerians, a brotherhood whose mastery of unprecedented flying machines has ended old empires and imposed a hard, watchful peace across the globe. But history is not so easily buried. From the wreckage of the Russian dynasty rises Olga Romanoff, proud, charismatic, and relentless, determined to reclaim a throne the world has declared extinct. With her kinsman Serge at her side, Olga moves through salons and strongholds alike, gathering allies, trading on loyalty and fear, and turning nostalgia for the old order into a weapon against the new.Set against a panorama of aerial navies, secret councils, and continent-spanning politics, George Griffith's Olga Romanoff pits revolutionary idealism against dynastic vengeance, asking what peace is worth when it is enforced from above. As factions fracture and rival ambitions collide, the Aerian leaders must decide whether their utopia can survive a foe who fights not only with strategy and steel, but with the intoxicating promise of restoration. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:16:32) Chapter 01 (00:30:16) Chapter 02 (01:01:38) Chapter 03 (01:20:39) Chapter 04 (01:45:00) Chapter 05 (01:58:30) Chapter 06 (02:29:21) Chapter 07 (02:50:54) Chapter 08 (03:09:18) Chapter 09 (03:33:48) Chapter 10 (03:53:32) Chapter 11 (04:10:47) Chapter 12 (04:53:34) Chapter 13 (05:12:50) Chapter 14 (05:32:24) Chapter 15 (06:02:23) Chapter 16 (06:40:38) Chapter 17 (07:17:21) Chapter 18 (07:51:32) Chapter 19 (08:25:54) Chapter 20 (08:52:49) Chapter 21 (09:31:52) Chapter 22 (09:54:15) Chapter 23 (10:37:28) Chapter 24 (11:18:18) Chapter 25 (11:51:49) Chapter 26 (12:17:13) Chapter 27 (12:26:12) Chapter 28 (12:38:55) Chapter 29 (13:06:23) Chapter 30 (13:35:06) Chapter 31 (13:53:15) Chapter 32 (14:15:41) Chapter 33 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Mayfair Magician by George Griffith audiobook. Genre: scifi On a storm-lashed Christmas Eve in the Scottish border hills, a visiting researcher is snowed in at H. M. Prison at Nether-moor. Over supper, the prison's brilliant medical officer - a devoted student of criminal psychology - points out a singular inmate: a cultivated man forced to wear a mask and motoring goggles, not to shield his eyes, but to shield others from them. To explain why, the doctor begins a tale that reaches from bleak prison corridors to country estates and the glittering world of London society. At Enstone Manor, wealthy Sir Godfrey Enstone and his adopted heir, Harold, welcome the renowned Professor Jenner Halkine and Halkine's enchanting niece, Grace Romanes. Harold is swiftly drawn to Grace, yet he cannot shake the uneasy sense that the professor's luminous gaze is more than a striking feature - that it is a tool. As Sir Godfrey and Halkine pursue a revolutionary breakthrough in the science of the mind, Harold suspects their work could become a weapon: a way to strip away privacy, bend will, and turn love, honor, and human life into variables in an experiment. In a world where thought itself can be invaded, the question is not only what can be done, but who can be trusted to do it. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:07:26) Chapter 01 (00:25:19) Chapter 02 (00:38:32) Chapter 03 (00:53:36) Chapter 04 (01:11:46) Chapter 05 (01:31:42) Chapter 06 (01:48:56) Chapter 07 (02:06:15) Chapter 08 (02:24:30) Chapter 09 (02:39:49) Chapter 10 (02:54:10) Chapter 11 (03:09:55) Chapter 12 (03:26:27) Chapter 13 (03:42:35) Chapter 14 (03:59:02) Chapter 15 (04:14:49) Chapter 16 (04:28:42) Chapter 17 (04:45:32) Chapter 18 (05:02:56) Chapter 19 (05:14:37) Chapter 20 (05:37:31) Chapter 21 (05:51:47) Chapter 22 (06:13:25) Chapter 23 (06:27:41) Chapter 24 (06:42:08) Chapter 25 (06:57:35) Chapter 26 (07:18:04) Chapter 27 (07:30:06) Chapter 28 (07:43:46) Chapter 29 (07:59:49) Chapter 30 (08:11:55) Chapter 31 (08:28:41) Chapter 32 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Splendid Outcast by George Gibbs audiobook. Genre: romance _What else?_—What else had happened? Something to do with the remarkable likeness between himself and Harry? The likeness,—so strong that only their own mother had been able to tell them apart. Memory came to him with a rush. He remembered now what had happened in the darkness, what he had done. Taken Harry’s lieutenant’s uniform, giving the coward his own corporal’s outfit. Then he, Jim Horton, had gone on and carried out the Major’s orders, leaving the coward writhing in the ditch. By George!——the fight—he, Jim Horton, had won the victory at Boissière Wood for the —th Infantry—_for Harry!—as Harry_! Perhaps, he was really Harry and not Jim Horton at all? He glanced around him curiously, as though somewhat amused at the metempsychosis. And then thoughtfully shook his head. No. He was Jim Horton, all right—Jim Horton. There was no mistake about that. (Excerpt from chapter 1) For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:29:18) Chapter 02 (00:52:57) Chapter 03 (01:27:34) Chapter 04 (01:59:12) Chapter 05 (02:25:31) Chapter 06 (02:56:48) Chapter 07 (03:20:21) Chapter 08 (03:50:18) Chapter 09 (04:27:05) Chapter 10 (04:50:26) Chapter 11 (05:18:58) Chapter 12 (05:46:52) Chapter 13 (06:12:33) Chapter 14 (06:40:14) Chapter 15 (07:10:20) Chapter 16 (07:41:20) Chapter 17 (08:06:09) Chapter 18 (08:31:43) Chapter 19 (09:04:18) Chapter 20 (09:28:53) Chapter 21 (09:57:40) Chapter 22 (10:22:19) Chapter 23 (10:55:45) Chapter 24 (11:30:42) Chapter 25 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Incredulity of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton audiobook. Genre: mystery In The Incredulity of Father Brown, G. K. Chesterton returns to his unlikely sleuth: Father Brown, a quiet Catholic priest whose plain clothes and unassuming manner invite underestimation. Moving through drawing rooms, country lanes, and shadowed city streets, Father Brown encounters baffling crimes that leave sharper minds chasing elaborate theories. What sets him apart is not laboratory science or official authority, but an intimate understanding of conscience, temptation, and the small missteps that lead ordinary people into extraordinary wrongdoing. As each case unfolds, Father Brown listens more than he speaks, noticing the human details others dismiss and probing motives where others focus only on evidence. Along the way, he faces skeptical police, clever criminals, and confident amateurs who mistake cynicism for insight. With wit, moral tension, and a steadily tightening sense of puzzle and peril, this collection offers mysteries that challenge appearances and reward careful attention, blending intellectual gamesmanship with compassion for flawed souls. Each story stands alone, yet together they deepen the portrait of a detective whose faith and humility become his most surprising tools. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:47:28) Chapter 02 (01:52:07) Chapter 03 (02:46:07) Chapter 04 (03:42:13) Chapter 05 (04:46:56) Chapter 06 (05:35:51) Chapter 07 (06:24:54) Chapter 08 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fancies Versus Fads by G. K. Chesterton audiobook. Genre: philosophy In Fancies Versus Fads, G. K. Chesterton turns his exuberant wit on the passing crazes and grand theories of the early twentieth century, arguing that the newest ideas often become the narrowest prisons. This lively collection of short essays moves restlessly from poetry and free verse to psychoanalysis, prohibition, modern journalism, feminism, film, legal reforms, popular history, and even debates about evolution, treating each topic as a clue to a larger question: what do we lose when fashion replaces tradition and slogans replace common sense? Chesterton writes as a jovial contrarian, delighted to puncture pretension but equally determined to defend ordinary pleasures, humane limits, and the kind of wonder that survives in nursery rhymes and everyday talk. Across these brisk, paradox-laced pieces, he portrays the modern world as full of serious sects that cannot laugh at themselves, and he offers laughter, imagination, and moral clarity as a form of freedom. Part cultural critique, part literary meditation, and part political provocation, this book is an energetic introduction to Chesterton's distinctive voice and his battle against the tyranny of the latest thing. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:07:32) Chapter 02 (00:46:55) Chapter 03 (01:19:02) Chapter 04 (01:40:22) Chapter 05 (01:56:17) Chapter 06 (02:07:03) Chapter 07 (02:17:55) Chapter 08 (02:28:38) Chapter 09 (02:41:06) Chapter 10 (02:51:38) Chapter 11 (03:05:00) Chapter 12 (03:15:47) Chapter 13 (03:25:27) Chapter 14 (03:34:09) Chapter 15 (03:45:33) Chapter 16 (03:58:32) Chapter 17 (04:09:32) Chapter 18 (04:22:32) Chapter 19 (04:34:12) Chapter 20 (04:46:42) Chapter 21 (04:56:36) Chapter 22 (05:07:35) Chapter 23 (05:18:46) Chapter 24 (05:30:22) Chapter 25 (05:40:17) Chapter 26 (05:53:49) Chapter 27 (06:07:48) Chapter 28 (06:30:46) Chapter 29 (06:41:48) Chapter 30 (06:53:29) Chapter 31 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Golden Canyon by G. A. Henty audiobook. Genre: adventure In August, 1856, times were hard in San Diego. Dick, who worked on the ship, 'Northampton', was attacked by a ruthless gang - the next morning he found that his ship had sailed off without him. In no time, his closest friends came to him and nursed him back to health. In talking about the events, they decided it was time for a change, to make a better life for themselves, and that meant they would plan to leave and travel together in the quest to find gold in the 'Gold Canyon'. Along the way, they find themselves on the most dangerous adventure they will ever encounter in their lifetime, which includes a whole lot of 'the unexpected' throughout the journey, and meeting up with savagely brutal Apache's. Will there be casualties in this quest? And does there really exist a 'Golden Canyon'? A quick paced action adventure awaits! For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:10:56) Chapter 02 (00:18:48) Chapter 03 (00:28:17) Chapter 04 (00:34:47) Chapter 05 (00:40:58) Chapter 06 (00:49:34) Chapter 07 (00:55:52) Chapter 08 (01:02:42) Chapter 09 (01:08:54) Chapter 10 (01:16:54) Chapter 11 (01:24:30) Chapter 12 (01:29:56) Chapter 13 (01:36:49) Chapter 14 (01:43:26) Chapter 15 (01:50:47) Chapter 16 (01:56:03) Chapter 17 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices