Your Portable Library of Free Audiobook

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free

ID: 483333

Title: Wonder Book for Girls and Boys

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrator: James Joy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:05:10

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Fiction, Teen

Summary:

A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys is a children's book by Nathaniel Hawthorne, which retells several Greek myths. The frame story is that a Williams College student, Eustace Bright, is telling these tales to a group of children. All the tales are modified from the original myths: The Gorgon's Head - recounts the story of Perseus killing Medusa at the request of the king of the island, Polydectes. The Golden Touch - recounts the story of King Midas and his 'Golden Touch'. The Paradise of Children - recounts the story of Pandora opening the box filled with all of mankind's Troubles. The Three Golden Apples - recounts the story of Heracles procuring the Three Golden Apples from the Hesperides' orchard, with the help of Atlas. The Miraculous Pitcher - recounts the story of Baucis and Philemon providing food and shelter to two strangers who were Zeus and 'Quicksilver' (Hermes) in disguise. The Chimra - recounts the story of Bellerophon taming Pegasus and killing the Chimra.

Contact: [email protected]

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free

ID: 483368

Title: Little Fuzzy

Author: H. Beam Piper

Narrator: Katharine Brooks

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:35:07

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

Little Fuzzy is a science fiction novel by H. Beam Piper. Protagonist Jack Holloway lives a solitary life in a wilderness of planet Zarathustra, itself 'owned' by the Chartered Zarathustra Corporation, which installed basic services and colonial outposts initially, and now reaps the benefits of new discoveries, such as the valuable 'sunstones' mined by Holloway until he befriends a tiny, golden-furred humanoid that he names 'Little Fuzzy.' Little Fuzzy brings his family/tribe to meet Holloway and the lot of them promptly adopt Holloway as well. Upon discovery that the Fuzzies' intelligence may qualify them as a sapient species, the Company moves against them. The reason for such an action, which if carried through to conclusion would be genocide, is that such a discovery would turn the planet a protected aboriginal zone, install a proper government there, and deprive the Chartered Zarathustra Company of its complete control of the resources there.

Contact: [email protected]

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free

ID: 483351

Title: Cloud of Unknowing

Author: Anonymous

Narrator: Thomas Collins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:18:52

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Kids, Non-Fiction

Summary:

The Cloud of Unknowing is a spiritual guide on contemplative prayer in the late Middle Ages. The underlying message of this work suggests that the way to know God is to abandon consideration of God's particular activities and attributes, and be courageous enough to surrender one's mind and ego to the realm of 'unknowing', at which point one may begin to glimpse the nature of God. The text is an anonymous work of Christian mysticism written in Middle English in the latter half of the 14th century.

Contact: [email protected]

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free

ID: 483704

Title: Roughing It

Author: Mark Twain

Narrator: John Howels

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17:33:11

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Travel Tips

Summary:

Roughing It follows the travels of young Mark Twain through the Wild West during the years 18611867. After a brief stint as a Confederate cavalry militiaman, he joined his brother Orion Clemens, who had been appointed Secretary of the Nevada Territory, on a stagecoach journey west. Twain consulted his brother's diary to refresh his memory and borrowed heavily from his active imagination for many stories in the novel. Roughing It illustrates many of Twain's early adventures, including a visit to Salt Lake City, gold and silver prospecting, real-estate speculation, a journey to the Kingdom of Hawaii, and his beginnings as a writer.

Contact: [email protected]

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free

ID: 483221

Title: Woodcraft

Author: Nessmuk

Narrator: Walter Norris

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3:28:38

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Travel Tips

Summary:

Woodcraft is a quite poetic guide to the wild by Nessmuk. Canoeing had been popularized by Scottish lawyer John MacGregor in the 1860s, but the typical canoe trip of the day employed expert guides and heavy canoes. Nessmuk, who was 1.60 m tall and 47 kg, had a 2.7 m long, 4.8 kg solo canoe. He named it the Sairy Gamp (the name of a Dickens character) and in it he completed a 428 km journey through the central Adirondacks. He was 62 years old and in frail health (tuberculosis and asthma) at the time. Excerpt: Woodcraft is dedicated to the Grand Army of 'Outers,' as a pocket volume of reference on woodcraft. For brick and mortar breed filth and crime, With a pulse of evil that throbs and beats; And men are withered before their prime By the curse paved in with the lanes and streets. And lungs are poisoned and shoulders bowed, In the smothering reek of mill and mine; And death stalks in on the struggling crowd But he shuns the shadow of oak and pine.

Contact: [email protected]

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free

ID: 483359

Title: Ronicky Doone

Author: Max Brand

Narrator: Lucy Fletcher

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:26:54

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Western

Summary:

Ronicky Doone is a western novel by Max Brand. Excerpt from the book: 'He came into the town as a solid, swiftly moving dust cloud. The wind from behind had kept the dust moving forward at a pace just equal to the gallop of his horse. Not until he had brought his mount to a halt in front of the hotel and swung down to the ground did either he or his horse become distinctly visible. Then it was seen that the animal was in the last stages of exhaustion, with dull eyes and hanging head and forelegs braced widely apart, while the sweat dripped steadily from his flanks into the white dust on the street. Plainly he had been pushed to the last limit of his strength. The rider was almost as far spent as his mount, for he went up the steps of the hotel with his shoulders sagging with weariness, a wide-shouldered, gaunt-ribbed man. Thick layers of dust had turned his red kerchief and his blue shirt to a common gray. Dust, too, made a mask of his face.'

Contact: [email protected]

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free

ID: 483708

Title: Uncle Tom's Cabin

Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe

Narrator: John Howels

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18:55:33

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Black Literature

Summary:

Uncle Tom's Cabin is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in 1852. After the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Southerners accused Stowe of misrepresenting slavery. In order to show that she had neither lied about slavery nor exaggerated the plight of enslaved people, she compiled The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin. The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin was published to document the veracity of the depiction of slavery in Stowe's anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. First published in 1853, the book also provides insights into Stowe's own views on slavery. The book was subtitled 'Presenting the Original Facts and Documents upon Which the Story Is Founded, Together with Corroborative Statements Verifying the Truth of the Work'.

Contact: [email protected]

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free

ID: 483237

Title: Cruise of the Dazzler

Author: Jack London

Narrator: Ben Hill

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3:36:52

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Teen, Action & Adventure

Summary:

The Cruise of the Dazzler is an early adventure novel for boys by Jack London, set in his home city of San Francisco. In the novel, Joe Bronson, instead of studying for a school exam, goes out kite-flying with his school friends; on their way back he gets involved in fights with gang members in a poor part of the city. After he fails the exam the next day, he walks out of school and takes a ferry across the bay to Oakland. Looking at the boats on the wharf, he imagines the exciting life on a boat. His father, a businessman, has a liberal attitude to his son; but, critical of his recent behavior and poor school report, tells him that he might send him to a military academy. Joe runs away and joins the crew of a sloop he sees in San Francisco Bay. He finds the captain is involved in criminal activities. The nautical activities on board a sailing boat are authentically described, and there are convincing descriptions of boats enduring stormy weather at sea.

Contact: [email protected]

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free

ID: 483653

Title: His Grace of Osmonde

Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett

Narrator: Helen Smith

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:19:33

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Summary:

His Grace of Osmonde (1897) is a historical satire by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Excerpt from the book: Upon the village of Camylott there had rested since the earliest peep of dawn a hush of affectionate and anxious expectancy, the very plough-boys going about their labours without boisterous laughter, the children playing quietly, and the good wives bustling less and modulating the sharpness of their voices, the most motherly among them in truth finding themselves falling into whispering as they gossiped of the great subject of the hour. 'The swallows were but just beginning to stir when I heard the horses' hoofs a-clatter,' said Dame Watt to her neighbour as they stood in close confab in her small front garden. 'Lord's mercy! though I have lain down expecting it every night for a week, the heart of me leapt up in my throat and I jounced Gregory with a thump in his back to wake him from his snoring. 'Gregory,' cries I, 'tis sure begun. God be kind to her young Grace this day.''

Contact: [email protected]

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free

ID: 483338

Title: Shortstop

Author: Zane Grey

Narrator: Lucy Fletcher

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:10:53

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Romance, General

Summary:

The Shortstop is a novel by Zane Greya baseball insiderabout a 17 years old boy, who fights his way to success, and saves his mother and brother out of poverty. Excerpt from the book: 'I am going to be a baseball player.' He waited quietly for her refusal, her reproach, her arguments, ready to answer them one by one. 'I won't let you be a ball player.' 'Mother, since father left us to shift for ourselves I've been the head of the house. I never disobeyed you before, but nowI've thought it out. I've made my plan.' 'Bah. Players are good-for-nothing loafers, rowdies. I won't have my son associate with them.' 'They've a bad name, I'll admit; but, mother, I don't think it's deserved. I'm not sure, but I believe they're not so black as they are painted. Anyway, even if they are, it won't hurt me. I've an idea that a young man can be square and successful in baseball as in anything else. I'd rather take any other chance, but there isn't any.'

Contact: [email protected]