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  The Poet And His Book and Other...

  Edna St. Vincent Millay, A. M. Bly

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Step into the fierce lyric beauty of Edna St. Vincent Millay in this immersive audiobook collection featuring 20 of her most compelling poems. Each poem is brought vividly to life through a sensitive narration, followed by a thoughtful literary analysis that illuminates Millay’s themes of love, defiance, mortality, and artistic independence. 
   
  Enhancing the experience is an original piano underscore composed specifically for each poem, weaving music and meaning into a unified emotional landscape. The piano does not merely accompany the verse; it listens, responds, and deepens the poem’s inner life, echoing shifts in mood, rhythm, and voice. 
   
  Designed for both longtime admirers and new readers, this audiobook invites you to hear Millay as she demands to be heard—passionate, incisive, and unmistakably modern. Whether encountered for study, reflection, or pure enjoyment, this collection offers a richly layered encounter with one of America’s great poetic voices, where word, insight, and music converge.

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  Shangri LaTitude

  Sean O'Cahillane

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  The Shangri LaTitude of the title are not some imaginary abodes in the clouds, above and beyond ordinary reality. These latitudes are the ones which lie where the paths of Truth and Beauty cross, forming quadrants where each sub-subject comingles to form fresh ruminations, not unlike those from Rumi, not unlike Four Quartets by Eliot, though using forms unfamiliar to either poet. There are four rooms in the human heart, each one its own experiential zone where passions move around, up down and around within the stream of consciousness, as well as stirring the subconsciousness. Perhaps the latter ruminations form the greater portion of the poems in this selection. This is a book of brief poems deliberately constructed for easy reading, brief pieces that can be picked up and put down within a few moments. One or two poems may take longer to digest, but hopefully the same intensity of feeling will be there, like a bonsai arriving at your coffee table, all trim, newly in flower.

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  Voyagers - History of Some of...

  Kelly Mass

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  This is a bundle of titles that shows you historical facts about voyagers and explorers in history. A small selection of significant events and biographies has been made, which contains the following topics: 
  Christopher Columbus: The Famous Explorer and His Voyages Across the Atlantic Ocean 
  Galileo Galilei: History, Discoveries, and Scientific Revolution 
  James Cook: His First Voyage, His Accomplishments, and His Death 
  Mayflower: Its History, Passengers, and Voyage to the New Land 
  Titanic: The True History of North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912

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  Back - Essays on the Soul and...

  Lauren Michele Jackson

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  Acclaimed New Yorker contributor Lauren Michele Jackson delivers an essay collection devoted to the back—and the conflicting ideas we load upon it. 
  Moving across literature, film, sport, visual art, and U.S. history, Jackson probes how the back carries powerful ideas about beauty, gender, labor, race, and political solidarity. Here the back emerges as a site of vulnerability and desire, embodiment and rhetoric, dependence and resistance. 
  Jackson’s prose effortlessly shifts between conversational and intellectual, inviting readers into digressions that illuminate rather than distract in a set of ranging essays, alighting upon subjects such as bodybuilding, ballet, portrait photography, Gone With the Wind, horse racing, copyright law, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. 
  Back opens a broad door onto the body as both structure and metaphor, linking artistic and political representation through a mutual attention to what—and who—is made to bear weight. 
  Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

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  Understanding Hitler and the...

  François Roux

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  The internal logic of the Nazi movement and the Third Reich is intertwined with that of Hitler: one cannot be understood without first considering the other.
  
  How did an individual with little education or culture, whose life until the age of 30 had been a series of failures, manage to impose his will on a large modern country before leading it into a military and moral catastrophe unique in history?
  
  The answer to this question begs another: can what happened in Germany happen again?

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  America’s Greatest Engineering...

  Editors Charles River

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  The Transcontinental Railroad, laid across the United States during the 1860s, remains the very epitome of contradiction. On the one hand, it was a triumph of engineering skills over thousands of miles of rough terrain, but on the other hand, it drained the natural resources in those places nearly dry. It “civilized” the American West by making it easier for women and children to travel there, but it dispossessed Native American civilizations that had lived there for generations. It made the careers of many men and destroyed the lives from many others. It was bold and careless, ingenious and cruel, gentle and violent, and it enriched some and bankrupted others. In short, it was the best and worst of 19th century America in action. 
  Traveling around the tip of South America was fraught with danger, and European explorers and settlers had proposed building a canal in Panama or Nicaragua several centuries before the Panama Canal was actually built. Taking about 10 years to build, workers had to excavate millions of cubic yards of earth and fight off hordes of insects to make Roosevelt’s vision a reality. Roosevelt also had to tie up the U.S. Navy in a revolt in Colombia to ensure Panama could become independent and thus ensure America had control of the canal. 
  During the 1930s, at the height of the Great Depression, thousands of workers began work on the Hoover Dam, built in the Black Canyon, which had been cut by the powerful Colorado River. The Colorado River was responsible for the Grand Canyon, and by the 20th century, the idea of damming the river and creating an artificial lake was being explored for all of its potential, including hydroelectric power and irrigation. By the time the project was proposed in the 1920s, the contractors vowing to build it were facing the challenge of building the largest dam the world had ever known. As if that wasn’t enough, the landscape was completely unforgiving.

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