By Dorothy L. Sayers
Narrated by Graham Scott
In the second adventure of the aristocratic sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey returns to England when his brother, the Duke of Denver, is accused of murdering the fiancé of their sister, Lady Mary, at the family shooting box in Yorkshire. The dead man was sh...
In savage Pellucidar—the land within the hollow center of the Earth—there are a million ways to meet one's end. It's a world of vicious men, prehistoric beasts, untamed wilderness, and hideous Buried People. And it's the scene of this exciting novel from Edgar Rice Burroughs, the greatest name in 20...
'Peter the Whaler' by W.H.G. Kingston, published in 1851, with introduction on the whaling industry in the mid-19th century by Steven Ritz-Barr (who also narrates). Whale oil was a premiere source of energy at this time and hunting was a right of passage for many young men.
Peter LeFroy is fifteen...
Despite attempts to suppress its publication and the advertising ban placed on it, 'The President’s Daughter' enjoyed bestseller rankings after its eventual publication in 1927. Written so that Britton could raise enough funds to support her (and Harding’s) daughter and thus argue for the true legit...
Two young pademelons fall into trouble and find themselves swept away. They are saved by Dewey, the sugar glider, and her friend Stripe, a possum, with the help of a friendly white-tailed uromys.
'First Moonshine', the first book in the Just Oz series, tells of their adventures as the little band...
T.S. Elliot was likely the best read of any of his contemporaries. In his poetry, we often find an allusion to the works of other great writers. In "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" he makes reference to Dante Shakespeare and "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvel.
Prufrock, as the name implie...
When a Terran outpost is destroyed by the menacing insectoid Throgs, two human (and two wolverines) survivors must find a way to survive being hunted on a hostile planet. Only an unlikely alliance with the telepathic saurian inhabitants—and the wisdom to distinguish between dreams and reality—will l...
You Are Your Own Best Teacher! provides a remarkable variety of teachable antidotes to the punishing forces bearing down on youngsters from harmful marketing, the insidious grip of “virtual reality,” and the tyranny of peer groups.
Apprehensive parents and burdened teachers will delight in the les...
A Lesson to Fathers
By F. Anstey
Narrated by Jennie Litt
This comic novel, which first appeared in 1882, is one of the earliest examples of a story in which personalities are swapped from one body to another.
The pompous businessman Paul Bultitude is farewelling his son who is about to set o...
A Dusty Tomes Audio Book
In Cooperation with Spoken Realms
Preliminaries of the Revolution, 1763-1775 by George Eliot Howard, PhD, Professor of Institutional History at the University of Nebraska
Narrated by Joseph Tabler
Volume 8 of 27 in The American Nation: A History published by Harper B...
By Manly P. Hall
Narrated by Denis Daly
Manly Palmer Hall was a lecturer and author, whose particular interest was in arcane spirituality and esoteric religious traditions. He was associated with a number of universalist religious groups, like the Rosicrucians, and, in later life, the Freemasons...
"The Wood Beyond the World" is perhaps the first modern fantasy novel to unite an imaginary world with the element of the supernatural and is thus the precursor of much of present-day fantasy literature. The protagonist, (Golden Walter), gets married when he is a young man. His wife betrays him with...
