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  Inhabitant of Carcosa An

  Ambrose Bierce

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.  
  In a mysterious and unsettling realm where reality blends with hallucination, a lost wanderer discovers the ancient ruins of the legendary city of Carcosa. Surrounded by ominous landscapes and inexplicable phenomena, the protagonist comes face to face with their own identity and destiny. 
  Is what we see the truth? Can we trust our own senses? Uncover the secrets of Carcosa and immerse yourself in a world where the boundaries between life and death, past and present, become blurred.

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  The Villa - An innocent viewing...

  Elinor Mordaunt

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  Evelyn May Clowes was born on 7th May 1872 in Cotgrave, Nottinghamshire.  
   
  Growing up in genteel circumstances, her early childhood was spent at Charlton Down House near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, and her teenage years near Heythrop in the Cotswolds.  
   
  She was educated at home by governesses, excelling at German, Latin, Greek, shorthand, landscape painting, and fabric and wallpaper design. 
   
  In 1897 she went to Mauritius as companion to her cousin Caroline and in 1898 married Maurice Wilhemn Wiehe, the owner of a sugar plantation. She gave birth to two stillborn children. After a few years of marriage, she found life difficult and returned to England. Shortly afterwards she went by herself to Australia, arriving in June 1902 and gave birth to a son a few months later.   
   
  She lived in Melbourne for about eight years.  To earn a living she took on a wide and varied range of jobs; she edited a woman's fashion paper, wrote short stories and articles, made blouses, designed embroideries, tilled gardens, acted as a housekeeper, and did other artistic work. Her health was not strong, but she undertook any kind of work which would provide a living for herself and her infant son. This gained her an experience of life which was readily put to use in her literary works. 
   
  Her first book, ‘The Garden of Contentment’, was published in 1902 under her pen-name Elinor Mordaunt. It was the first of many works that covered fiction, short stories, travel and autobiography. 
   
  She changed her name by deed poll to Evelyn May Mordaunt on 1st July 1915 and gained a further reputation as a writer of short stories for magazines which display both her humour and sense of tragedy. Travel was always high on her priority and the experiences used not only for pleasure but in her writings and, as travel books, ideas in themselves.  
   
  On 27th January 1933 at Tenerife, in the Canary Islands, she married a retired barrister from Gloucestershire. In her own words, the marriage ‘ended in tragedy.’ 
   
  Elinor Mordaunt died on 25th June 1942 at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. She was 70. 
   
  In this story Mordaunt takes a house and a wish and reveals a very troubling family history.

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  The Alchemist

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  Presented by Aetherborne Creations, this audiobook edition of The Alchemist offers H.P. Lovecraft’s early Gothic tale as it was always implied. Not as a sensational horror, but as a measured testament set down by an aged hand. 
  Written in Lovecraft’s youth, yet steeped in ancestral decay and the quiet tyranny of time, The Alchemist unfolds as a first-person account of lineage, inheritance, and a fate long prepared. Within the ruins of a once-noble château, the last heir of an ancient family records the history of a curse that has claimed each generation before its prime. 
  This production is newly recorded and crafted expressly for attentive listening. The narration is delivered as the final memoir of an elder scholar, penning his reckoning by candlelight — unhurried, restrained, and dignified. No musical underscore intrudes upon the telling; the voice alone bears the weight of memory, stone, and years endured. 
  Faithful to the sombre beauty of Lovecraft’s early style, this edition favours atmosphere over excess, and reflection over spectacle. It is an audiobook for listeners who value literary horror, gothic restraint, and the quiet power of a story told as it must finally be told. 
  The Alchemist endures — not as a tale of monsters, but as a meditation upon time, ancestry, and the inescapable reckoning of the past.

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  The Apartment - A Novel

  Ana Menendez

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  From the critically acclaimed author of In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd comes a new novel about the search for freedom and the power of community that spans decades of residents in one Florida apartment 
   
   
   
  The Helena is an art deco apartment building that has witnessed the changing face of South Miami Beach for seventy years, observing the lives housed within. Among those who have called apartment 2B home are a Cuban concert pianist who performs in a nursing home; the widow of an intelligence officer raising her young daughter alone; a man waiting on a green card marriage to run its course so that he can divorce his wife and marry his lover, all of whom live together; a Tajik building manager with a secret identity; and a troubled young refugee named Lenin. Each tenant imbues 2B with energy that will either heal or overwhelm its latest resident, Lana, a mysterious woman struggling with her own past. 
   
   
   
  Examining exile, homesickness, and displacement, The Apartment asks what—in our violent and lonely century—do we owe one another? If alone we are powerless before sorrow and isolation, it is through community and the sharing of our stories that we may survive and persevere.

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  Far Removed

  C B Lansdell

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  On the moon of Knyadrea, the sea yields intelligent life. For a species shaped by tides, change is the only constant.
  
  Little can be hidden in the glare of a spotlight.
  
  Charismatic and innovative, Oklas Sayve has risen to prominence in Apidecca, the moon's capital city. A politician and college director, he has the resources to effect the changes he envisions for the world. But the sovereigns he serves oppose him at every turn and his status cannot protect the low-strata students attending his college. After a young knyad is wrongly linked to insurgent activity, Oklas must find a way to smuggle her out of the city while hiding his involvement from the authorities.
  
  A spark in the dank depths.
  
  Below the grand Assembly Chambers, a knyad in a mask sculpts, grasping for scraps of beauty in her shrinking world. Years ago, Prismer made a costly mistake and now has only her job at the projection booth and a few special interests to fill her days. But it is not her sculptures that draw the attention of a powerful client, and she is soon met with a request to undertake a dangerous mission. Will she answer the call and risk losing the little she has left?
  
  Mysteries surface. A supernatural substance is used in corrupt ways. As identities shift and predicaments are reshuffled, what alliances might be forged?

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  Toxic Femininity: Karma's a Bitch

  Clare Castleberry

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  Nikki and Emma are out for blood, but it's not necessarily your life that they'll be taking from you! 
  Picking up directly after the events of 2020's "Toxic Femininity", Nikki and Emma's attempt at making a clean getaway becomes dangerously complicated. But as the toxicity of the men they encounter get cut down to size, they set their sights on confronting a despicable ghost from Nikki's past. 
  Toxic Femininity: Karma's a Bitch is a fun, brutal female revenge story, that may be especially freighting to some and could potentially cause a koro anxiety in male readers. 18+ only.

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