Through the Magic Door by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ~ Full Audiobook [biography]

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09/28/22

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299m

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Through the Magic Door by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle audiobook.

Genre: biography

In Through the Magic Door, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle invites you to step past an ordinary doorway and into the private kingdom that shaped his mind: his library. Framed as a warm, witty tour of his own bookshelves, this reflective memoir follows Doyle as he traces the reading life that carried him from curious boyhood through medical training and into the demanding work of a writer. Each shelf becomes a portal to the voices that challenged him, consoled him, and sharpened his sense of adventure and ethics. As he recalls the authors and stories that left lasting marks, Doyle also wrestles with a quiet tension: life is short, duties are real, yet the world of books is endless and urgently alive. Part celebration, part personal history, and part defense of the imagination, this book explores how reading builds character, expands empathy, and offers companionship across time. Through the Magic Door is a brisk, companionable listen for anyone who has ever felt that opening a book can change the size of a life.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:21:16) Chapter 02

(00:48:32) Chapter 03

(01:09:08) Chapter 04

(01:34:43) Chapter 05

(01:58:20) Chapter 06

(02:21:14) Chapter 07

(02:53:05) Chapter 08

(03:27:40) Chapter 09

(03:47:01) Chapter 10

(04:04:17) Chapter 11

(04:22:25) Chapter 12

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The Poison Belt by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

September 28, 2022

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205m

The Poison Belt by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle audiobook.

Genre: scifi

Three years after the events that took place in The Lost World , Professor Challenger urgently summons his fellow explorers (Professor Summerlee, Lord John Roxton, and reporter E.D. Malone) to a meeting. Oddly, he requires each to bring an oxygen cylinder with him.

What he soon informs them is that from astronomical data and just-received telegraphs of strange accidents on the other side of the world, he has deduced that the Earth is starting to move through a region of space containing something poisonous to humankind.

Shutting themselves tightly up in Challenger's house, they start to consider what may be done. But as their countrymen start to drop, will their oxygen last long enough to determine and implement a solution?

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:38:53) Chapter 2

(01:17:12) Chapter 3

(01:55:08) Chapter 4

(02:22:47) Chapter 5

(02:57:18) Chapter 6

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War Is a Racket by Smedley Butler ~ Full Audiobook [history]

September 28, 2022

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64m

War Is a Racket by Smedley Butler audiobook.

Genre: history

War Is a Racket is Smedley D. Butler's blunt, fast-moving indictment of modern warfare as a business enterprise disguised as patriotism. Drawing on his career as a decorated U.S. Marine Corps major general, Butler speaks as an insider who has seen interventions and campaigns up close, and he argues that the true winners of war are rarely the soldiers who fight it. In vivid, plain language, he traces how bankers, arms makers, and major industries can prosper from mobilization, contracts, debt, and wartime price controls, while ordinary citizens pay in taxes, inflation, and grief. Butler challenges listeners to look past slogans and recruiting posters to the machinery that sells war to the public, then lays out practical proposals aimed at stripping profit from conflict and forcing democratic accountability before troops are sent abroad. Part memoir, part political warning, and part call to action, this short classic confronts the uneasy relationship between power, money, and national sacrifice, and asks what it would take to make war truly the last resort.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:12:39) Chapter 02

(00:30:51) Chapter 03

(00:43:54) Chapter 04

(00:53:35) Chapter 05

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