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Classic Audiobook Collection - A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada by Stephen Leacock ~ Full Audiobook [history]
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A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada by Stephen Leacock ~ Full Audiobook [history]

Classic Audiobook Collection

10/24/22

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A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada by Stephen Leacock audiobook.

Genre: history

Stephen Leacock's The Dawn of Canadian History: A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada (often referenced by its subtitle, A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada) opens Canada's story long before the familiar era of colonies and Confederation. Written as part of the Chronicles of Canada series, Leacock begins with the land itself - ancient rock, ice, rivers, and the immense timescale that shaped the continent - and then turns to the first human presence in North America. With a brisk, storyteller's pace, he surveys the origins that nineteenth- and early twentieth-century writers debated, then introduces the diverse Indigenous peoples encountered by later newcomers, outlining major cultural groupings and lifeways across forests, plains, and the far north. From there the narrative follows the earliest European shadows on the Atlantic edge: the Norse sagas and their uncertain geography, the seafaring rumors that tempted later adventurers, and the Bristol voyages associated with John Cabot. The book builds toward the threshold moment just before sustained French exploration, showing how myth, commerce, and misunderstanding prepared the way for contact that would reshape the continent forever.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:13:25) Chapter 02

(00:30:32) Chapter 03

(00:55:27) Chapter 04

(01:21:08) Chapter 05

(01:51:02) Chapter 06

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The Life of St. Teresa by St. Teresa of Jesus audiobook.

Genre: religion

Written in the voice of one of Christianity's most influential mystics, The Life of St. Teresa is St. Teresa of Jesus' own account of how a restless, imaginative girl in 16th-century Spain became a Carmelite nun and a fearless reformer. Teresa recounts her early love of stories and honor, the tug of worldly comforts, and the slow, demanding turn toward a life shaped by prayer, discipline, and obedience. As illness, doubt, and scrutiny press in, she describes an interior battle between distraction and devotion, and the hard-won practices that helped her persevere: honest self-knowledge, humility, spiritual friendship, and steady attention to God. Teresa also speaks plainly about extraordinary moments of contemplation and the challenges of discerning them, offering a candid look at how spiritual experience can bring both consolation and controversy. Part memoir, part confession, and part guide for the soul, this classic invites listeners into a deeply personal journey where courage is measured not only by public deeds, but by the daily choice to begin again.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:08:49) Chapter 02

(00:19:48) Chapter 03

(00:27:03) Chapter 04

(00:42:26) Chapter 05

(00:59:20) Chapter 06

(01:14:09) Chapter 07

(01:45:58) Chapter 08

(02:02:27) Chapter 09

(02:13:28) Chapter 10

(02:28:07) Chapter 11

(02:50:59) Chapter 12

(03:01:03) Chapter 13

(03:28:51) Chapter 14

(03:44:18) Chapter 15

(04:06:58) Chapter 16

(04:18:32) Chapter 17

(04:31:32) Chapter 18

(04:50:19) Chapter 19

(05:14:00) Chapter 20

(05:48:14) Chapter 21

(06:04:22) Chapter 22

(06:30:56) Chapter 23

(06:52:53) Chapter 24

(07:02:55) Chapter 25

(07:31:47) Chapter 26

(07:41:14) Chapter 27

(08:07:52) Chapter 28

(08:32:15) Chapter 29

(08:50:50) Chapter 30

(09:19:28) Chapter 31

(09:50:00) Chapter 32

(10:11:31) Chapter 33

(10:33:01) Chapter 34

(10:58:09) Chapter 35

(11:15:10) Chapter 36

(11:48:18) Chapter 37

(12:05:46) Chapter 38

(12:38:16) Chapter 39

(13:08:34) Chapter 40

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Fidelity by Susan Glaspell audiobook.

Genre: drama

In the small Midwestern town of Freeport, Iowa, people still whisper about Ruth Holland, the young woman who shocked everyone by running away to Colorado with a married man. More than a decade later, Ruth returns home at a moment she cannot avoid: her father is dying, and the life she left behind is waiting to judge her. As she steps back into familiar streets and strained family rooms, Ruth finds that time has not softened the town's certainty about right and wrong, or repaired the quiet damage her choice set in motion. Old friends weigh their affection against their reputations, relatives measure loyalty by obedience, and Ruth must decide what she truly owes to her family, her community, and herself. Moving between past and present and told through shifting perspectives, Susan Glaspell's Fidelity explores how easily love becomes a public trial, and how a single act can ripple through an entire town. At its heart is one fierce question: what does it mean to be faithful, and to whom?

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:08:40) Chapter 02

(00:18:09) Chapter 03

(00:31:40) Chapter 04

(00:41:34) Chapter 05

(00:58:06) Chapter 06

(01:04:26) Chapter 07

(01:13:32) Chapter 08

(01:27:00) Chapter 09

(01:44:17) Chapter 10

(01:56:00) Chapter 11

(02:12:11) Chapter 12

(02:40:54) Chapter 13

(02:56:06) Chapter 14

(03:13:30) Chapter 15

(03:32:09) Chapter 16

(03:53:06) Chapter 17

(04:13:16) Chapter 18

(04:33:40) Chapter 19

(04:55:55) Chapter 20

(05:12:48) Chapter 21

(05:26:24) Chapter 22

(05:36:31) Chapter 23

(05:47:52) Chapter 24

(06:03:16) Chapter 25

(06:17:40) Chapter 26

(06:34:21) Chapter 27

(06:49:32) Chapter 28

(07:20:03) Chapter 29

(07:33:02) Chapter 30

(08:11:02) Chapter 31

(08:27:29) Chapter 32

(08:39:13) Chapter 33

(08:53:43) Chapter 34

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