The Girl Detective

by Kelly Link
46 minutes, 45 seconds
Unabridged Short SF Story
1999

"Think of the underworld as the back of your closet, behind all those racks of clothes that you don't wear anymore. Things are always getting pushed back there and forgotten about. The underworld is full of things that you've forgotten about."

First published in Event Horizon in 1999. Later reprinted in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection and Link's short story collection Stranger Things Happen, a Salon Book of the Year and one of the Village Voice's 25 Favorite Books of 2001.

Read by Alex Wilson.



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Each month ChristianAudio gives away one free audio book download. The books given away are free for only one month. After that they are sold at the regular price. So make sure that you check back regularly and download these great Christian Classics for FREE! www.ChristianAudio.com

The Art of War, by Sun Tzu

"If you know both yourself and your enemy, you will come out of one hundred battles with one hundred victories."

Written by Sun Tzu in the 6th Century BC, the Art of War now stands as a definitive distillation of ancient military Strategy. Over the many centuries since it was written, the rules of engagement detailed in this work have been applied by famous military leaders in helping to guide their campaigns and utilized by modern business men as a way of staying competitive. Valued highly as a source of tactical planning, LearnOutLoud is pleased to present this it to you on audio.

Translated from the Chinese by Lionel Giles, M.A. (1910)

Free from LearnOutLoud.com. Click the "add to cart" button. The price is $0.

Library Downloads

Here’s something I’ve known about for a while, but haven’t posted it because I’m not eligible to download.

The library systems in many states (not mine, unfortunately), offer downloadable audiobooks to their patrons. These are first quality books and new releases. They have a licensing agreement that basically gives them the same right to allow patrons to check out audiobooks online just as though they were checking them out at their local branch library.

You must be a registered library patron residing in the service area of the library. You’ll be asked to enter the card number from your library card.

Do a Google search for your state’s library system, and see what they offer.

Free Audiobook of the Month

LearnOutLoud.com is offering a free audiobook every month. You have to have a free membership. Here's a snippet from their site:

LearnOutLoud.com is proud to announce the launch of The Free Audiobook of the Month Club. The Free Audiobook of the Month Club is a new service that gives you the opportunity to receive a free, professionally narrated audiobook each month...no strings attached. Titles are released once a month and available for free during the month they are released in (and available for a very reasonable price thereafter).

Browse the rest of the site while you're there. There's lots of free content mixed in with the pay stuff too.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

I created this short story audiobook using TextAloud, a text2speech program.

I made a torrent file for it, and I'd like to see if you guys are able to download it.

Please test it for me and let me know what you think. I can create more if you have any requests.

I chose this text because I had recently seen the movie, and the story is in the public domain.

Typee, By Herman Melville

I'm being a little redundant here, referring you to Librivox again, but I just finished "reading" Typee yesterday, and wanted to recommend it.

I've listened to a few Librivox recordings, and they're all good, but it's a special treat when they offer a book done entirely by the same narrator, rather than different voices for different chapters. Not only that, this narrator, Michael Scherer, is especially good at what he does. He has narrated many books, and donated the Typee recordings to Librivox.

Here's the book description from the Librivox site:

Typee is Herman Melville’s first book, recounting his experiences after having jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands in 1842, and becoming a captive of a cannibal island tribe. It was an immediate success in America and England, and was Melville’s most popular work during his lifetime. It was not until the end of the 1930’s that it was surpassed in popularity by Moby Dick, more than thirty years after his death. The story provoked harsh criticism for its condemnation of missionary efforts in the Pacific Islands. Many sought to discredit the book, claiming that it was a work of fiction, but this criticism ended when the events it described were corroborated by Melville’s fellow castaway, Richard T. Greene, who appears in the story as the character Toby (Summary by Michael)

I love books of a seafaring nature, and especially true life stories. I came to love the Typee people, and envy anyone who had been captured by cannibals.

For another Librivox sea tale, see Treasure Island.

Bit Torrent

I've been reluctant to post this, but here goes.

If you don't know what a torrent file is, it's time to learn. Go to BitTorrent.com and read about it, and download their software.

Torrent files are small text files that allow the software to find data on the web. By "data" I mean computer files in the form of software, music, and yes, audiobooks.

I've known about torrents or quite a while, but it seemed like I could never get them to download anything. Maybe I was choosing bad files (some will never work), or maybe there just weren't enough other users at that time (it's P2P and relies on user participation), but it works great now. I've downloaded about ten gigabytes this week (no joke).

From the BitTorrent site you can type in a search query for the titles you want, or you can go to The Pirate Bay, where there's a category devoted to audiobooks.

Bear in mind that not all of these books are in the public domain, so you're on your honor to download legally. They have all the Harry Potter books, as well as Douglas Adams books. In some cases, you would be legally allowed to download them. I trust you to do the right thing.

FreeAudio.org

This is a strange concept. The aim of FreeAudio.org is to use traffic jams as a means of facilitating liberty. I can't say that's likely to happen, but they do offer audiobooks on the topics of liberty and history.

Lots of Children's Stories

Here's a church website that offers downloadable children's stories in MP3 format.

Burn them to a CD for your next long car trip.

The Koran

Here are two sites that offer the Koran online.

This one only works with Internet Explorer (boo).

This one is a software download that seems to include Islamic instruction.

I haven't downloaded either one. Let me know if there's a problem.