Classic Audiobook Collection

The Will and the Way Stories by Jessie Benton Fremont audiobook. Genre: self help In The Will and the Way Stories, 19th-century American writer Jessie Benton Fremont gathers nine brief, essay-like tales that turn a familiar proverb into lived experience: where there's a will, there's a way. Moving from small-town classrooms and snowy evening walks to seafaring labor and far-flung travel, each vign...

The Valley of Silent Men by James Oliver Curwood audiobook. Genre: adventure James Kent has learned that he is terminally ill with perhaps only days to live, and so decides to confess to a murder and thus save an innocent man. Nobody believes his confession, particularly Marette, a mysterious girl who had shown up at Athabasca Landing only weeks before. Kent’s illness takes a turn and his death is...

The Honor of the Big Snows by James Oliver Curwood audiobook. Genre: adventure In the far Canadian North, where winter can swallow a trading post whole, John Cummins loses the one warmth in his life: his young wife, Melisse, who dies just after giving birth to their daughter. On the same night, a starving boy stumbles out of the spruce forest with a violin and a name, Jan Thoreau, and the music he...

The Golden Snare by James Oliver Curwood audiobook. Genre: adventure With but two years of service in the RNMP Philip Raine finds himself somewhat unwillingly on the trail of Bram Johnson, wanted for murder and a wild, untamed and savage man who commands a pack of wolves as his brethren. But most peculiar of all is the snare which Bram had had in his possession and had somehow lost. It was a golde...

The Gold Hunters by James Oliver Curwood audiobook. Genre: adventure Roderick Drew has come north for one last season of hard travel and harder lessons, running the traplines with his closest friend, Wabigoon, and their grizzled guide, Mukoki. In the frozen wilds around Hudson Bay posts and endless lakes, the three stumble onto a mystery older than any of them: a forgotten cabin, ancient bones, an...

The Flaming Forest by James Oliver Curwood audiobook. Genre: adventure In the far northern wilderness of Canada, Sergeant David Carrigan of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police rides alone on a clear-cut mission: track down and bring in the feared outlaw known as Black Roger Audemard. But the North has its own rules, and Carrigan's certainty is shattered when an ambush leaves him wounded and at the...

The Danger Trail by James Oliver Curwood audiobook. Genre: adventure Chicago engineer Jack Howland is sent to the edge of the Canadian barren lands north of Prince Albert to establish a train route through some of the most treacherous terrain in North America. He would soon learn that it was not only the terrain that was forbidding, as he begins to understand why the previous engineers sent on the...

The Country Beyond by James Oliver Curwood audiobook. Genre: adventure In the spring thaw of Canadas north country near Lake Superior, a homely, big-footed puppy named Peter Pied-Bot tumbles into a story far larger than himself. Peter belongs to Nada, a young woman trapped in an isolated lakeside clearing where beauty and brutality live side by side - and where the cruel, one-eyed Jed Hawkins keep...

Nomads of the North by James Oliver Curwood audiobook. Genre: adventure An unlikely pair were Neewa, the black bear cub who had been orphaned at a young age, and Miki, part Mackenzie hound, part Airedale and Spitz who had become separated from his master in the frozen reaches of northern Canada. But the two befriended one another, and these nomads fended for themselves until they too became separa...

Isobel by James Oliver Curwood audiobook. Genre: adventure Action, intrigue, and a touch of romance in the farthest reaches of northern Canada. Sergeant Billy MacVeigh of the Canadian Northwest Mounted, with his only partner Pelliter are the only official representatives in the lonely and desolate reaches of Point Fullerton, hundreds of miles from the next nearest outpost, and from any civilizatio...

Flower of the North by James Oliver Curwood audiobook. Genre: adventure On a routine business journey up the Churchill River, Philip Whittemore expects the North to feel familiar. Instead, the farther he travels into the raw, river-cut wilderness of northern Canada, the more the land seems to shift under his feet, as if the map in his mind no longer matches what lies ahead. Drawn by rumor and by a...

The Thirteenth - Greatest of Centuries by James Joseph Walsh audiobook. Genre: history It cannot but seem a paradox to say that the Thirteenth was the greatest of centuries. To most people the idea will appear at once so preposterous that they may not even care to consider it. A certain number, of course, will have their curiosity piqued by the thought that anyone should evolve so curious a notion...

No Clue by James Hay audiobook. Genre: mystery “No Clue! A Mystery Story” finds detective Jefferson Hastings at the home of wealthy but eccentric Arthur Sloane one hot summer night, when two other guests at Sloanehurst stumble across the body of young Mildred Brace lying dead on the lawn. Sloane’s daughter Lucille asks Hastings to help solve the crime, but Hastings gets surprisingly little help fr...

The Great Taxicab Robbery by James H. Collins audiobook. Genre: mystery In 1912, $25,000 was stolen during a bank transfer in New York City in broad daylight. In what may appear astonishing in today's world, the transfer occurred in a New York City taxicab. This factual account brings true crime of the early twentieth century to life. The various methods used by the detectives and police in their...

The Trawler by James Brendan Connolly audiobook. Genre: drama In Gloucester, Massachusetts, the news comes ashore like a breaker in the night: Arthur Snow, a young bank fisherman, has been swept from the deck of the trawler Arbiter and lost at sea. His father, John Snow, and his niece, Mary, receive the story with grief - and with anger aimed at the vessel's skipper, Hugh Glynn, a towering, fierce...

Snowdrift by James B. Hendryx audiobook. Genre: adventure The story revolves around Carter Brent, an alcoholic and gambler who had struck gold many times in the Yukon, but gambled and drank it away in Dawson; and Snowdrift, the half-breed who had spent her life with a wandering band of Indians in the frozen north country. Snowdrift had been raised by Wananebish, yet never knew who her father was,...

The Thing in the Attic by James B. Blish audiobook. Genre: scifi Honath the Pursemaker has committed the worst crime in his people’s tree-top civilization: he has doubts. In a culture of small, tail-bearing folk shaped by ancient science and ruled by the Book of Laws, faith is not a private matter, but the glue that keeps order. When Honath and a few like-minded friends question the existence of t...

The Black Fawn by James Arthur Kjelgaard audiobook. Genre: adventure Bud Sloan was an orphan who had been 'sold out' of the orphanage to work on a farm once he'd been old enough to labor. The farm where he was to work was owned by an aging farmer and his wife who had raised a large family and were now left alone. One day, after his chores were done, Bud wandered into the woods nearby and with mout...

Six Feet Four by Jackson Gregory audiobook. Genre: adventure A hotel is robbed one night, and a cowboy makes his getaway with but few witnesses. When a young woman is also robbed, suspicion falls on one particular man who matches the description of the former thief. The robber is without a doubt a tall man; six feet four inches tall. Buck Thornton, at six feet four, in the area, and acting a bit p...

Salvage in Space by Jack Williamson audiobook. Genre: scifi In the lonely reaches of the asteroid belt, Thad Allen makes a bare living as a meteor miner, welding scavenged iron into a tiny drifting 'planet' he hopes to trade for a better life. Then his battered instruments pick up the impossible: a rocket ship, the Red Dragon, dead in space and drifting without a beacon. To a salvager, it is a for...

The Shaggy Man of Oz by Jack Snow audiobook. Genre: fantasy 'During the past few years, several readers have written me asking: 'What ever happened to the Nome King's tunnel under the Deadly Desert?' The answer will be found in this book. Everyone who has read the Oz books knows and loves Shaggy. He first met Dorothy in 'The Road To Oz,' and from that time on had a number of adventures in which he...

The Magical Mimics in Oz by Jack Snow audiobook. Genre: fantasy The land of OZ is the happiest fairyland anywhere, but there are evil creatures whose only ambition is to destroy that happiness. Lurking inside Mount Illuso, just south of the Deadly Desert, live the Magic Mimics, a race devoted to causing the maximum chaos and unhappiness everywhere, but mainly in the land of OZ. Until now they have...

Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev audiobook. Genre: drama The fathers and children of the novel refers to the growing divide between the two generations of Russians, and the character Yevgeny Bazarov has been referred to as the 'first Bolshevik', for his nihilism and rejection of the old order. Turgenev wrote Fathers and Sons as a response to the growing cultural schism that he saw between liberal...

Silas Strong by Irving Bacheller audiobook. Genre: drama Per the author: 'The book has one high ambition. It has tried to tell the sad story of the wilderness itself—to show, from the woodsman's view-point, the play of great forces which have been tearing down his home and turning it into the flesh and bone of cities.' But this story is much more than that. It revolves around Silas Strong and his...

Eben Holden by Irving Bacheller audiobook. Genre: family Eben Holden - A Tale of the North Country. Having lost both parents and his home in northern Vermont, orphan Willie Brower is taken in by Eben Holden, 'Uncle Eb' who transports him westward to save him from being sent to an orphanage. Through the Adirondacks and into the St. Lawrence valley they travel. Eben is kind, happy, and loves to tell...