Enter the world of a slave, with all the pathos, brutal honesty, and striving of the heart to breathe free.  Frederick Douglass was born in slavery in Talbot County, Maryland. During service to masters cruel and kind, he nevertheless learned to read ...

Frederick Douglass

Most people are unaware that Mark Twain spent over a decade researching Saint Joan of Arc and wrote what he considered to be his greatest work - Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc - originally published in Harper's Magazine in 1895 as chapters att...

Joan of Arc

Harriet Tubman was born a slave. She and her brothers, Ben and Henry, escaped from slavery on September 17, 1849. When her brothers later decided to return to slavery, she followed, but not for long for she soon escaped again.  Once free, she brought...

Harriett Tubman

Bring history back to life through Jim Hodges' historically accurate, exciting, and edifying audio recordings.  Mr. Henty weaves a story of the life and times of King Richard the Lion-hearted that is yet to be equaled. Cuthbert de Lance, the hero of ...

Winning His Spurs

Bring history back to life through Jim Hodges' historically accurate, exciting, and edifying audio recordings.  Beric, a boy chief of a British tribe, takes a prominent part in the insurrection against Rome under Queen Boadicea. These efforts are use...

Beric the Briton

Bring history back to life through Jim Hodges' historically accurate, exciting, and edifying audio recordings.  Liberty or death - this was the choice the people of 14th-century Scotland faced if they rose up against their English ruler. Most would s...

In Freedom's Cause

Bring history back to life through Jim Hodges' historically accurate, exciting, and edifying audio recordings.  When Harold Godwinson is crowned king of England in 1066, William of Normandy contests his right to be king because of an oath Harold had ...

Wulf the Saxon

Bring history back to life through Jim Hodges' historically accurate, exciting, and edifying audio recordings.  The story begins during the War of the Roses in England, but our hero, Gervaise Tresham, soon joins the Knights of St. John in Rhodes. Ded...

A Knight of the White Cross

Master storyteller Jim Hodges has partnered with Todd Wilson, the Familyman, to bring you these beloved Christmas stories, The Familyman's Christmas Treasury, in audiobook format. These wonderful stories will give your children hours of listening enj...

The Familyman's Christmas Treasury

In this, the Henty novel covering the oldest time period of any, listeners will learn much about the domestic life, customs, religion, and military system of ancient Egypt. Amuba, a prince of the Rebu nation on the shores of the Caspian Sea, with his...

The Cat of Bubastes

Bring history back to life through Jim Hodges' historically accurate, exciting, and edifying audio recordings. The Saxons and Vikings fought many fierce battles in Britain in the eighth and ninth centuries. During the struggle, 23-year-old Alfred asc...

The Dragon and the Raven

Bring history back to life through Jim Hodges’ historically accurate, exciting, and edifying audio recordings. Shortly before the United States Revolutionary war against England, most inhabitants were her loyal subjects. France had control of much of...

With Wolfe in Canada

In the 1990s, Jim Brewster put his sons, Ben and Luke, to bed each night with an "Uncle Rocky, Fireman" story. During each story, they enjoyed making truck engine sounds, blasting the siren, and testing the air horn. They also developed hand and body...

The Adventures of Uncle Rocky, Fireman

Bring history back to life through Jim Hodges' historically accurate, exciting, and edifying audio recordings.  Australia in the 1830s was a wild place. Reuben Whitney, escaping an inaccurate perception of him in England, enjoys an adventurous passag...

A Final Reckoning

Bring history back to life through Jim Hodges' historically accurate, exciting, and edifying audio recordings.  On August 24, 1572, more than 2,000 French Huguenots - men, women, and children - were massacred for their faith. In St. Bartholomew's Eve...

St. Bartholomew’s Eve

Bring history back to life through Jim Hodges' historically accurate, exciting, and edifying audio recordings.  The storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789, ushered in the French Revolution. Within four years, the king was executed and a revolution...

In the Reign of Terror

Bring history back to life through Jim Hodges' historically accurate, exciting, and edifying audio recordings.  With hearty singing of Psalms, Drake and his crew greeted the Pomo Indians who resided in an area known today as San Francisco. Sir Franci...

Under Drake's Flag

Bring history back to life through Jim Hodges' historically accurate, exciting and edifying audio recordings.  Recognizing God's mighty hand in his own life, Richard "Little Bear" Wheeler compiled stories of impossible triumph despite a losing battle...

God's Mighty Hand

Bring history back to life through Jim Hodges' historically accurate, exciting, and edifying audio recordings.  In the Heart of the Rockies is packed with adventure! In 1860, 16-year-old Tom Wade leaves England for the American Far West to find his u...

In the Heart of the Rockies

Bring history back to life through Jim Hodges' historically accurate, exciting, and edifying audio recordings.  Beginning with Queen Anne's visit to Scrooby Inn, Stories of the Pilgrims tells of the everyday life of the Pilgrims in England and Hollan...

Stories of the Pilgrims

Bring history back to life through Jim Hodges' historically accurate, exciting, and edifying audio recordings.  The Battles of Lexington and Concord, Bunker Hill, the Declaration of Independence, Washington crossing the Delaware, Saratoga, and the fi...

True to the Old Flag

G.A. Henty novels are highly researched as well as drawn from his first-hand experiences of people, places, and events.  From 1413-1415 the butcher’s guild, otherwise known as the “White Hoods” of Paris, kept that city in a state of near anarchy. Wit...

At Agincourt

In 1380, Venice is a world power. She is mistress of the sea, had checked the rising power of the Turks, conquered Constantinople, and successfully defied all the attacks of her jealous rivals. But now her strength and splendor are put to the severes...

The Lion of St. Mark

Bring history back to life through Jim Hodges' historically accurate, exciting, and edifying audio recordings.  In 1381, Wat, the Tyler, and the peasants he represented urged of the king of England that serfdom should be abolished, the right of all t...

A March on London

Bring history back to life through Jim Hodges' historically accurate, exciting, and edifying audio recordings.  Dwight Lyman Moody was one of the most famous Evangelists of the 19th century, giving thousands of sermons in hundreds of cities throughou...

Moody's Great Sermons

Bring history back to life through Jim Hodges' historically accurate, exciting, and edifying audio recordings.  Out on the Pampas was the exciting story overheard by a friend who encouraged Mr. Henty to have it published, launching his amazing career...

Out on the Pampas

Few wars have been fought by each side with greater intensity of conviction in the rightness of its cause or with more abundant personal heroism than the War Between the States.  The story begins with a great responsibility falling on Vincent Wingfie...

With Lee in Virginia

Bring history back to life through Jim Hodges' historically accurate, exciting, and edifying audio recordings.  The conquest of the Aztec Empire by Hernando Cortez and a mere handful of Spaniards is one of the greatest romances of history. A writer o...

By Right of Conquest

Bring history back to life through Jim Hodges' historically accurate, exciting, and edifying audio recordings.  It's the time of the English Civil War in 1642. Harry Furness is a Cavalier fighting for the king; his friend, Herbert Rippinghall, sides ...

Friends Though Divided

The 1660s were a time of turmoil in England: Cromwell had been defeated and Charles II, who was sympathetic to the Catholics, was restored to the throne; the Dutch declared war on England; the Plague raged; and the Great Fire of London destroyed half...

When London Burned

Bring history back to life through Jim Hodges' historically accurate, exciting and edifying audio recordings.  The Young Carthaginian chronicles the struggle of the Second Punic War (218-203 BC) and the attempt of Hannibal to conquer Rome. At first, ...

Young Carthaginian

Mr. Henty tells an exciting story from the record of Josephus. The troubles in the district of Tiberias, the march of the legions, the sieges of Jotapata, of Gamala, and of Jerusalem all come to life. In this impressive and carefully studied historic...

For the Temple

Bring history back to life through Jim Hodges' historically accurate, exciting, and edifying audio recordings.  Frank Norris, accused of theft and unable to prove his innocence, leaves for excitement and adventure in the California gold fields of 185...

Captain Bayley’s Heir

The Bandit of Ashley Downs: Introducing George Müller By the time Curly Roddy was 12 years old, he’d already survived six years as a homeless orphan on the cruel streets of London in the 1870s. He slept in dustbins and ate orange peels when he could ...

The Bandit of Ashley Downs: Introducing George Müller

Bring history back to life through this historically accurate and edifying program read by Jim Hodges. The story is laid in Yorkshire in 1812, when the introduction of machinery and high price of food induced by the Napoleonic Wars, drove the working...

Through the Fray

Sarah Poyntz is the daughter of an English merchant who operates a shipping business from Antwerp, Belgium, in 1535. Her father is very interested in the ideas of William Tyndale, who has fled England as a condemned outlaw for refusing to stop his tr...

The Queen's Smuggler: Introducing William Tyndale

Spy for the Night Riders - Introducing Martin Luther Karl Schumacher was 15 when he came to the German city of Wittenberg in 1520 seeking an education. He had been very fortunate that the esteemed university professor, Doctor Martin Luther, had taken...

Spy for the Night Riders: Introducing Martin Luther

Won by the Sword describes the conclusion of the Thirty Years’ War (1640s) recounting the years after the deaths of generals Gustavus Adolphus and Wallenstein when France took the lead in the struggle. The appointment of young Hector Campbell, orphan...

Won by the Sword

Hedyn held an old sheet iron helmet and a mail tunic up in the starlight to see them better. The breast of the mail bore a ragged hole. The mail was sticky. It took a moment for Hedyn to realize it was soaked in drying blood.  "A bascinet and hauberk...

The Archer's Son

Shangaied to China: Introducing Hudson Taylor  Neil Thompson had promised his grandmother that he would wait for his grandfather to bring him to see the great oceangoing ships at the docks in Liverpool, England. But when he convinced himself that it ...

Shanghaied to China: Introducing Hudson Taylor

Treasure maps! Pirates! Double crossings and ships at sea! Treasure Island, the adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, is the swashbuckling tale of "buccaneers and buried gold", universally known for its atmosphere, characters, and action, mostly focused on the quintessential pirate, the unforgettable Long John Silver. You will love this story! 

Treasure Island

Bring history back to life through Jim Hodges' historically accurate, exciting, and edifying audio recordings. The 200 chapters cover all of American History from the time of the explorers through the end of the Civil War - stories of conflicts over ...

American History Stories

The year is 1659. You've been stranded on a desert island. How would you survive? Stay for 28 years and deal with cannibals, heartfelt spiritual awakenings, mutineers, goats, crops, and human visitations, and you have one of the most widely published...

Robinson Crusoe

It's 1864, and 12-year-old Jem Coulter knows that Goldtown, California, has seen the last of the gold rush. But the flecks of gold he, his sister Ellie, and an old prospector Strike find in their played-out claim on Cripple Creek spur their hopes of ...

Badge of Honor (Goldtown Adventures)

Bring history back to life through Jim Hodges' historically accurate, exciting, and edifying audio recordings.  This is the compelling and historically accurate story Richard of Jamestown, by the incredible 19th-century author James Otis. The tale is...

Richard of Jamestown

Bring history back to life through this historically accurate and edifying program narrated by Jim Hodges. An engaging introduction to four of the greatest Americans: George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Daniel Webster, and Abraham Lincoln. Their li...

Four Great Americans

Bring history back to life through this historically accurate and edifying program read by Jim Hodges. A terrific addition to your Henty audiobook collection! This collection of short stories contains narratives that continue the Henty tradition of h...

Short Stories

When Jem Coulter is caught in a miners' riot, he learns the worst: The Midas mine is no longer producing the gold the town relies on to stay alive. Will, the son of the mine's owner, tells Jem the only way to get the Midas working again is to blast d...

Tunnel of Gold

Uncle Wiggily has been a reassuring friend to millions of children since early in the 20th century. He is a cheerful "bunny rabbit gentleman" who understands people-talk and has dedicated his life to helping animals and children with his wonderful kn...

Uncle Wiggily and the Littletails

Bring history back to life through Jim Hodges' historically accurate, exciting, and edifying audio recordings.  If you want facts about our forefathers, get any history text; this book is more interested in the personalities and character traits and ...

True Stories of Famous Americans

Bring history back to life through Jim Hodges' historically accurate, exciting, and edifying audio recordings.  An ideal introduction to the stories of the Bible for young children, including those stories best suited for the youngest listeners, reto...

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