The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children by Charles Kingsley ~ Full Audiobook [folklore]

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11/04/22

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334m

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The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children by Charles Kingsley audiobook.

Genre: folklore

In The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children, Charles Kingsley invites young listeners into the bright, perilous world of ancient Greece through a warm, fireside style that treats mythology as a treasury of moral adventure. Framed as stories told for children, the book retells classic legends with clear, vigorous prose and a storyteller's sense of wonder. You will meet Perseus, a determined youth set against monsters and dark magic; Jason, drawn into a daring voyage in search of glory; and Theseus, who must prove himself amid treachery, strange roads, and an enemy hidden at the heart of a maze. Kingsley keeps the gods, heroes, and creatures vivid, but he is just as interested in courage, self-control, loyalty, and the cost of pride. Across sea-journeys, riddling prophecies, and encounters with fearsome beasts, each tale asks what it means to be brave for the right reasons, and how a person can hold to honor when the world is full of temptations and terror. It is both an accessible introduction to Greek myth and a spirited meditation on character.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:14:23) Chapter 01

(00:22:44) Chapter 02

(00:41:36) Chapter 03

(01:02:53) Chapter 04

(01:29:51) Chapter 05

(01:38:50) Chapter 06

(01:53:41) Chapter 07

(02:12:20) Chapter 08

(02:20:32) Chapter 09

(03:07:54) Chapter 10

(04:02:21) Chapter 11

(04:08:42) Chapter 12

(04:18:38) Chapter 13

(05:09:17) Chapter 14

(05:19:24) Chapter 15

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November 4, 2022

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Kentucky’s Famous Feuds and Tragedies by Charles G. Mutzenberg audiobook.

Genre: history

In Kentucky's Famous Feuds and Tragedies, Charles G. Mutzenberg assembles a hard-edged tour through the violent vendettas and public calamities that helped shape Kentucky's reputation in the late 1800s. Beginning with the infamous Hatfield-McCoy conflict, Mutzenberg traces how ordinary disputes over property, politics, and personal honor could harden into years of retaliation, ambushes, and courtroom drama. From there, he turns to other, less widely remembered wars between neighbors and kin - including the French-Eversole feud and other regional clashes that drew newspapers, officials, and outsiders into communities already divided by loyalty and fear. Told as a sequence of tightly focused episodes, the book places listeners close to the people living inside these storms: family patriarchs trying to hold a side together, hotheaded young men eager to prove themselves, and local authorities struggling to enforce law where allegiance often mattered more than statutes. At once social history and cautionary tale, Mutzenberg's account examines how pride, rumor, and grievance can ignite a cycle of violence that outlives its original cause.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:23:44) Chapter 02

(00:38:56) Chapter 03

(00:54:18) Chapter 04

(01:12:02) Chapter 05

(01:32:35) Chapter 06

(01:59:17) Chapter 07

(02:18:22) Chapter 08

(02:32:56) Chapter 09

(02:46:34) Chapter 10

(03:01:34) Chapter 11

(03:17:46) Chapter 12

(03:35:34) Chapter 13

(03:49:43) Chapter 14

(04:07:17) Chapter 15

(04:29:23) Chapter 16

(04:44:02) Chapter 17

(04:54:55) Chapter 18

(05:13:03) Chapter 19

(05:31:05) Chapter 20

(05:43:27) Chapter 21

(05:56:48) Chapter 22

(06:15:10) Chapter 23

(06:46:46) Chapter 24

(07:07:18) Chapter 25

(07:27:48) Chapter 26

(07:46:23) Chapter 27

(07:59:29) Chapter 28

(08:14:53) Chapter 29

(08:24:50) Chapter 30

(08:45:05) Chapter 31

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Rebels of the Red Planet by Charles Louis Fontenay audiobook.

Genre: scifi

Dark Kensington had been dead for twenty-five years. It was a fact; everyone knew it. Then suddenly he reappeared, youthful, brilliant, ready to take over the Phoenix, the rebel group that worked to overthrow the tyranny that gripped the settlers on Mars.

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And now the rebels realized they were in double jeopardy. Not only from the government's desperate hatred of their movement, but also from the growing possibility that the new breed of mutated monsters would get out of hand and bring terrors never before known to man.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:30:22) Chapter 2

(01:05:51) Chapter 3

(01:45:05) Chapter 4

(02:24:42) Chapter 5

(02:59:20) Chapter 6

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