Aunt Crete's Emancipation by Grace Livingston Hill ~ Full Audiobook [family]

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06/15/23

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Aunt Crete's Emancipation by Grace Livingston Hill audiobook.

Genre: family

In Aunt Crete's Emancipation, Grace Livingston Hill introduces Miss Lucretia 'Crete' Ward, a gentle, capable maiden aunt who has spent years making herself indispensable in her sister Carrie's household. Crete cooks, cleans, mends, and manages quietly in the background, while Carrie and her spoiled daughter, Luella, take her sacrifices for granted and treat her more like unpaid help than family. The fragile peace of their small-town respectability is jolted by the announcement that a relative from the West, Donald Grant, is coming to visit. Carrie and Luella dread the possibility of a so-called backwoods cousin embarrassing them in polite society, and they scramble to protect Luella's social ambitions. Crete, however, dares to hope that the visitor might be the first person in years to see her kindness and worth. When Donald arrives, old assumptions are tested, loyalties shift, and Crete is offered something she has almost forgotten to want: a life with room for joy, confidence, and self-respect. Part Cinderella tale, part moral domestic drama, this story explores gratitude, pride, and the quiet courage it takes to step out of a lifetime of being overlooked.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:17:17) Chapter 02

(00:33:48) Chapter 03

(01:01:14) Chapter 04

(01:24:31) Chapter 05

(01:44:53) Chapter 06

(02:10:29) Chapter 07

(02:27:46) Chapter 08

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The Island by George Gordon Byron ~ Full Audiobook [poetry]

June 15, 2023

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The Island by George Gordon Byron audiobook.

Genre: poetry

In The Island, Lord George Gordon Byron turns a famous act of rebellion at sea into a lush, urgent tale of exile, desire, and survival. Loosely inspired by the aftermath of the mutiny on the HMS Bounty, the poem follows Torquil, a young sailor cast adrift from the rigid world of the British navy and thrust into the blazing freedom and peril of the Pacific. On an island that seems at first like paradise, Torquil encounters Neuha, a woman whose intelligence and courage match the wild beauty of her home. Their growing bond offers refuge from the pursuit closing in around them, but it also forces Torquil to confront what he has escaped and what he is willing to risk for a life not governed by empire and command. Byron blends sweeping seascapes, romantic intensity, and sharp moral skepticism, asking whether innocence can exist under the shadow of power, and whether love can be a shelter when the wider world insists on possession and punishment. Vivid, sensual, and restless, The Island is both an adventure and a meditation on freedom's cost.

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(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:13:47) Chapter 2

(00:43:34) Chapter 3

(00:56:32) Chapter 4

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A Guide to Men by Helen Rowland ~ Full Audiobook [comedy]

June 15, 2023

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99m

A Guide to Men by Helen Rowland audiobook.

Genre: comedy

A series of occasionally witty one-liners, poems and considerations on the subject of Men, Women and their Conjunction. By turns tender, bland, sexist (in both directions!) and funny.

From the text:

A man is like a park squirrel; if you fling your favors or your charms at his head he will never come up and eat out of your hand.

Even Satan could find a woman to call him 'Dearie,' if he would simply tell her that all he needed was 'a beautiful woman's uplifting influence.'

Every bride fancies that she married the original 'cave-man' until she tries to persuade him to go out and argue with the furniture-movers.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:05:20) Chapter 02

(00:15:40) Chapter 03

(00:22:07) Chapter 04

(00:30:21) Chapter 05

(00:41:54) Chapter 06