The Return of the Soul by Robert Smythe Hichens ~ Full Audiobook [horror]

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04/20/23

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145m

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The Return of the Soul by Robert Smythe Hichens audiobook.

Genre: horror

In The Return of the Soul, Robert Smythe Hichens spins a gothic psychological tale in which a long-buried act of cruelty refuses to stay in the past. Ronald, now a grown man with wealth, education, and a carefully built sense of control, cannot forget a boyhood incident at his grandmother's house, when spite and boredom led him to kill her beloved Persian cat. Years later, Ronald marries Margot, a woman of striking beauty and intelligence, and for a time their life together seems to soften his harsher instincts. But after they return to his family home on the northern coast, small disturbances begin to gather: Margot develops peculiar aversions, sudden fascinations, and an uncanny, feline edge to her manner that Ronald cannot explain away. When a scholarly acquaintance speaks confidently about reincarnation and the migration of souls, Ronald's private guilt turns into a terrifying suspicion: what if the cat has come back, not as a ghost in the corridor, but as a presence inside the person he loves most? As Ronald watches Margot change and his own fear deepen, the novel becomes a chilling study of conscience, obsession, and the unstable boundary between human reason and primal instinct.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:29:15) Chapter 2

(00:57:40) Chapter 3

(02:00:19) Chapter 4

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The Judas Valley by Robert Silverberg ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

April 20, 2023

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82m

The Judas Valley by Robert Silverberg audiobook.

Genre: scifi

A scout ship returns from the far system of Fomalhaut with a story no one wants to believe: on a quiet, breathable world, eight men stepped out into a sunlit valley and simply died. Now the Interstellar Exploration Service has a second reason to go back. Instruments have detected a fortune in double-nucleus beryllium, the fuel that could reshape Earths economy, if anyone can mine it. Captain Peter Wayne, a meticulous survey officer and trained climber, is assigned to the heavy cruiser Lord Nelson to investigate the valley, recover the truth, and keep his crew alive. At his side is Lieutenant Sherri James, sharp, disciplined, and more personally entwined with Wayne than regulations would prefer. Guided by the lone survivor of the first expedition, the team lands under strict quarantine rules, only to find that caution is not enough. As the planet closes in with subtle dangers and mounting tension, Wayne and Sherri must solve a lethal mystery where the landscape itself seems to betray them and where fear, greed, and suspicion can be as deadly as anything alien.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:14:41) Chapter 2

(00:26:51) Chapter 3

(00:38:43) Chapter 4

(00:54:08) Chapter 5

(01:01:56) Chapter 6

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Fundamentals of Prosperity by Roger Babson ~ Full Audiobook [business]

April 21, 2023

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85m

Fundamentals of Prosperity by Roger Babson audiobook.

Genre: business

Written in the wake of Americas post-World War I boom, Roger W. Babsons Fundamentals of Prosperity asks a blunt question: what happens when a nation stacks story after story of profits and expansion on a foundation that is too thin to hold it? A pioneering statistician and business forecaster, Babson speaks directly to business leaders and working citizens, arguing that lasting prosperity is not built first from raw materials or clever finance, but from inner and civic fundamentals - honesty, faith, industry, cooperation, thrift, imagination, vision, and a renewed commitment to service. Moving from practical observations about production, opportunity, and human resources to pointed challenges about leadership and character, Babson insists that the strongest investments in any community are ultimately secured by trust and by the moral habits that make people dependable partners, employees, and neighbors. He also examines the role religion and the church can play in sustaining those habits, not as a sermon, but as a diagnosis of what a modern economy quietly depends on. The result is a compact, provocative blueprint for rebuilding the foundations beneath commerce before the structure begins to crack.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:04:21) Chapter 2

(00:11:36) Chapter 3

(00:19:25) Chapter 4

(00:26:37) Chapter 5

(00:34:04) Chapter 6

(00:41:23) Chapter 7

(00:46:23) Chapter 8

(00:51:25) Chapter 9

(00:57:40) Chapter 10