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The Courage of the Commonplace by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews ~ Full Audiobook [drama]
Classic Audiobook Collection
03/01/23
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The Courage of the Commonplace by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews audiobook.
Genre: drama
Set against the pageantry and pressure-cooker rituals of early-20th-century Yale, The Courage of the Commonplace follows Johnny McLean, a likable, athletic junior who discovers that the verdict of his classmates can feel like a verdict on his whole life. As Tap Day approaches - the moment when a select few are chosen for the elite senior societies - Johnny measures himself against rivals who seem effortlessly destined for honor, and against a family legacy that leaves little room for ordinary outcomes. When the campus celebration turns into a private reckoning, Johnny must decide whether to keep chasing approval or to rebuild his sense of worth from the inside out. Pushing himself into demanding work and tougher standards than he has ever lived by, he carries those hard-won habits beyond New Haven and into the industrial world, where status means nothing and responsibility can be immediate and unforgiving. In a community shaped by engines, ore, and risk, Johnny is tested by leadership, loyalty, and fear - and learns what kind of bravery lasts when the cheering stops. A poignant coming-of-age story, it asks what success really is, and whether quiet, daily discipline can be its own form of heroism.
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(00:00:00) Chapter 01
(00:24:40) Chapter 02
(00:42:58) Chapter 03
(01:02:59) Chapter 04
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The Planet Savers by Marion Zimmer Bradley ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]
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The Planet Savers by Marion Zimmer Bradley audiobook.
Genre: scifi
On the isolated world of Darkover, a terrifying epidemic returns like clockwork: Trailmen's fever, a disease that flares every forty-eight years and can sweep through the human settlements with catastrophic speed. The Terran Trade City is desperate for a cure, and Dr. Randall Forth believes the key lies not only in medicine but in understanding the planet's elusive indigenous people, the tree-dwelling Trailmen of the Hellers. His best hope may be the brilliant but dangerously ill Dr. Jay Allison, a man whose mind has been split by hypnosis into two competing selves: the cold, scientific Jay and the daring, charismatic Jason, who has the survival skills and childhood ties needed to reach the Trailmen. Sent into the mountains with a mixed party of Terrans and Darkovans, including the politically powerful Regis Hastur and the formidable guide Kyla Raineach, Allison must navigate perilous terrain, armed hostility, and deep cultural mistrust. As the expedition pushes toward first contact and fragile negotiation, Allison's inner war becomes as urgent as the plague itself, raising the question of what it will cost to save an entire planet.
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(00:43:40) Chapter 2
(01:34:07) Chapter 3
(02:22:50) Chapter 4
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The Children’s Life of the Bee by Maurice Maeterlinck audiobook.
Genre: science
In The Childrens Life of the Bee, Nobel Prize-winning writer Maurice Maeterlinck turns the beehive into a living, breathing city that young listeners can understand and marvel at. Written as a simpler, more accessible companion to his famous The Life of the Bee, this classic 1901 work guides you from the first excitement of a swarm to the daily rhythm of a settled colony. Maeterlinck introduces the hive's central figures, the queen, the tireless workers, and the languid drones, and explains what each is for, how the community is organized, and why its rules can seem both strict and strangely beautiful. Along the way, he describes wax-building and comb-making, the gathering of nectar and pollen, the making of honey, and the constant push and pull between safety, hunger, weather, and instinct. Blending clear natural observation with a storyteller's lyricism, Maeterlinck invites children (and curious adults) to see how cooperation, sacrifice, and mystery shape life inside the hive, and to wonder what this tiny society might reflect about our own.
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(00:00:00) Chapter 1
(00:11:26) Chapter 2
(01:02:57) Chapter 3
(01:46:39) Chapter 4
(02:07:02) Chapter 5
(02:17:10) Chapter 6
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