As A Thief in the Night
By R. Austin Freeman
Narrated by Graham Scott
When irascible clergyman Amos Monkhouse, visiting from the North, finds the condition of his invalid brother Harold so much worse than he had expected, he calls in a specialist. But when Harold then suddenly dies an investig...
Haematomyelia from Gunshot Wounds of the Spine. A Report of Two Cases, with Recovery following Symptoms of Hemilesion of the Cord.
by Harvey Cushing, MD.
Read by Edison McDaniels
Listen to history's first-ever account of a gunshot wound to the spine.
On January 1st, 1896, Wilhelm Roentgen pr...
Caliban Upon Setebos (or Natural Theology in the Island) by Robert Browning. Narrated by Denis Daly.
Caliban is a major character in The Tempest by Shakespeare. He is a deformed monster, the offspring of Sycrorax, a witch. Prospero, a magician who presides over the island where Caliban dwells, has...
What is there to celebrate when you turn thirty-two? You’re still desperately single and thousands of miles away from home.
As Ashley contemplates her life as a lesbian stuck in the middle of the Syrian oil fields surrounded by more men than there is sand, a blast from the past brings with it the...
A Dusty Tomes Audio Book In Cooperation with Spoken Realms
THE RISE OF SPORT by FREDERIC L. PAXSON. The Mississippi Valley Historical Review 1917.
FREDERIC L. PAXSON
Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin.
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER IN HISTORY 1925.
He had undergraduate and PhD deg...
First published in 1910, this classic tale of three very different and socially distant families, whose lives intertwine through chance encounter, still has the power to move and entertain us. The passionate and artistic Schlegels, with their idealism and compassion find themselves inextricably link...
From the February 1960 issue of Manhunt Magazine, Mike Vendetti has taken four short stories that appeared in that issue and turned them into an audiobook. An Empty Threat by Donald E Westlake, No Place to run by Carroll Mayers, the Worm Turns by R. D'Ascoli, and The Idiot's Tale.
Patricia Schuster acquires both independence and furniture polish after inheriting her grandmother’s house and antique business. Her new life in the Northern California town of Lakeville is in jeopardy, however, when she is falsely arrested for stealing a rare 1950s Cadillac and is blackmailed by Ji...
Just be Glad
By Christian D. Larson
Narrated by Lyndal Curran Doolan
In this brief treatise, prolific New Thought author Christian Larson explores the sheer power of maintaining a positive attitude.
As the author says: "Resolve to please yourself by being glad, and you can add immeasurably t...
Miss Morris and the Stranger'-- a 'Little Novel' by Wilkie Collins.
Nancy Morris, a shopkeeper's daughter from Sandwich, becomes a governess with the help of a benefactor, Sir Gervase Damian. One day she helps a stranger whose advances she gently rebuffs, only to meet him again when she takes a ne...
Laura Temple faces the predicaments of many British middle-class wives and mothers living in country villages between the World Wars. Her too-large house, inherited by her husband Alfred, requires three servants to keep it running: generally unsatisfactory servants whom she is perpetually concerned...
Escaping the mafia should have been simple. A new life with a new identity in a new location. But that plan was conceived long before Simone captured Maria’s heart. Maria’s love for Simone changes everything.
When Maria receives devastating news that sends her world into turmoil, she must overcome...
