The Confessions of a Daddy by Ellis Parker Butler ~ Full Audiobook [comedy]

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12/26/22

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63m

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The Confessions of a Daddy by Ellis Parker Butler audiobook.

Genre: comedy

The wry humor of Ellis Parker Butler, who gave us the classic Pigs Is Pigs, takes us into his own married life where Marthy and Hiram live quietly in their Colorado town. They don't have trouble with anyone of their neighbors. Why should they, as they don't have any kids that could cause the neighbors trouble? And oh, luckily they don't have kids because how could Hiram otherwise afford to give his wife, Marthy a new silk dress? Really lucky. The neighbors kids are cute and all but ugh, they are much better off without kids and their expenses and sicknesses and trouble. Except that one boy, well, he's cool, Hiram wouldn't mind having him around and teaching him how to fish. Or maybe the neighbors youngest daughter, shes so nice. All of this superiority changes when they expect a child of their own and then the poor little thing is born. Funny, poignant and oh, so true!

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:18:02) Chapter 02

(00:36:32) Chapter 03

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The Master-Knot of Human Fate by Ellis Meredith ~ Full Audiobook [fantasy]

December 26, 2022

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268m

The Master-Knot of Human Fate by Ellis Meredith audiobook.

Genre: fantasy

When a spring hike along a rugged Rocky Mountain trail turns into the unthinkable, two strangers are cut off from everything they ever knew. Adam, a capable, reflective man, and Robin, a sharp-witted woman with a fierce moral imagination, watch the world below them vanish in a sudden, overwhelming cataclysm. With no city lights to return to and no voices answering their calls, they take shelter in an isolated cabin and begin the hard work of staying alive: finding food, making tools, learning old skills the modern world made easy to forget. Yet survival is only the first test. In the silence after disaster, Adam and Robin are forced to confront the questions civilization usually drowns out: what makes a life meaningful, what love and companionship require, what duty remains when society is gone, and whether humanity deserves another beginning at all. Part philosophical fable, part intimate survival story, Ellis Merediths novel turns the end of the world into a searching debate about conscience, faith, and the fragile knot that binds two people - and an entire species - to hope.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:25:06) Chapter 02

(00:36:18) Chapter 03

(00:49:33) Chapter 04

(01:04:33) Chapter 05

(01:14:10) Chapter 06

(01:24:14) Chapter 07

(01:38:19) Chapter 08

(01:45:59) Chapter 09

(01:59:08) Chapter 10

(02:06:10) Chapter 11

(02:12:15) Chapter 12

(02:22:00) Chapter 13

(02:33:17) Chapter 14

(02:45:21) Chapter 15

(02:52:16) Chapter 16

(03:07:23) Chapter 17

(03:19:49) Chapter 18

(03:34:25) Chapter 19

(03:45:35) Chapter 20

(03:56:55) Chapter 21

(04:08:29) Chapter 22

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The Jack-Knife Man by Ellis Parker Butler ~ Full Audiobook [family]

December 26, 2022

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359m

The Jack-Knife Man by Ellis Parker Butler audiobook.

Genre: family

Ellis Parker Butler's The Jack-Knife Man is a warm, quietly comic story of unlikely family and hard-won belonging along the Mississippi River. Peter Lane is an aging drifter who lives alone on a battered houseboat, passing his days with a jack-knife in hand, whittling small wooden figures and keeping to himself. But on a stormy night, a desperate woman arrives at his door with her young son, Buddy - and by morning Peter finds himself with a child to feed, protect, and somehow claim as his own. As Peter and Buddy settle into life on the river, a ragged wanderer named Booge drifts into their orbit, and the three form a makeshift household held together by simple decency, improvised joy, and the little toys Peter carves. Their fragile peace is tested by suspicious townspeople and well-meaning authorities who believe Buddy would be better off anywhere else, forcing Peter to prove he can offer more than shelter - he can offer a future. Tender, humorous, and deeply humane, Butler's novel explores charity without sentimentality and the stubborn courage it takes to love when the world says you should let go.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:26:09) Chapter 02

(00:37:02) Chapter 03

(00:57:41) Chapter 04

(01:26:32) Chapter 05

(01:55:12) Chapter 06

(02:23:42) Chapter 07

(02:43:00) Chapter 08

(02:53:35) Chapter 09

(03:05:26) Chapter 10