Publisher: Sanzani
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.
What if your Bible was missing many books of sacred scripture? The Complete Ethiopian Bible brings to life the ancient 88-book canon preserved by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church—a collection that includes all the traditional scriptures plus apocryphal, deuterocanonical, and mystical writings lost to most of the world. This audiobook offers a powerful encounter with one of the oldest and most comprehensive Bibles in history, newly translated into clear, modern language. What you’ll discover inside: • The Entire Old Testament in its Ethiopian Form – With added chapters and expanded passages not found in Western canons • The Books of Enoch, Jubilees & Meqabyan – Ancient writings on angels, time cycles, cosmic battles, and redemption • Forgotten Deuterocanonical Books – Including Sirach, Baruch, Wisdom, Tobit, and Judith • An Expanded New Testament – Featuring eight additional texts, including Sinodos and Ethiopic Didascalia • Modern, Accessible Language – Clear translations that honor the spiritual gravity of each book Whether you’re a Bible scholar, theologian, or spiritual explorer, this audiobook will broaden your understanding of divine scripture. Experience the Bible as it was preserved in the highlands of Ethiopia—and uncover a world of sacred truth hidden in plain sight.Show book
This haunting collection of 15 spoken word pieces penned by a widely published poet interweaves with sound design to create evocative and richly colored works of the imagination. Surreal, with a hint of the fairy tale, crossing grittiness and darkness with sweetness and light, the stories and images seem to emerge from the dream state. The sound design includes original music, found sound, field recordings and electronics, providing a soundscape for the poetry.This highly original, multi-layered confluence of language and sound can be experienced intimately for the depth of its content, or enjoyed lightly for its strange dreamy atmosphere.Show book
Imagine that Isaac Babel’s Cossacks wassail together with Runyonesque Liverpool Jews outside the plate-glass window of a Hampstead café where a Klezmer band is playing to a packed and tea-drinking congregation of jazzmen, Hasidic scholars, surrealists, old soldiers, and retired strippers; and you have the tone and temperature of this unique and unclassifiable memoir – no, not memoir, more a stream-of-consciousness novella – no, not a novella but a piece of autobiographical fiction – no, not autobiography but a picaresque drama conquered from the unreliable and fertile brain of the eponymous Fastovski.And who is Fastovski? Is he real or invented? Is he perhaps the alter-ego of real-life jazz pianist, Klezmer swinger, big band leader and flaneur, Wallace Fields, who stares at us from the book’s frontispiece in shades, Diaghilev coat and moustache, over a cup of strong black coffee? Fastovski’s not telling and anyway, who cares.This is a book to be devoured, disseminated, denounced, and delighted in. It belongs to all who think art and life are one and that the Arch-Savant of Canterbury, Issy Bonn, Rashid the Manic Berber Chef of NW3, and Mrs Karl Popper, have an equal claim on history. I haven’t had such a good time since I shared Sir Ralph Richardson’s motorbike with a parrot and a striking grandmother clock.Piers PlowrightAugust 2008Show book
"Melanie Brooks is that rare writer who can delve as deeply into the world of ideas as she can the pitted terrain of the human heart." Andre Dubus III, author of Such Kindness and Townie "Quite simply, unforgettable." Monica Wood, author of When We Were the Kennedys In the mid 1980s, Canada's worst public health disaster was unfolding. Catastrophic mismanagement of the country's blood supply allowed contaminated blood to be knowingly distributed, infecting close to two thousand Canadians with HIV. Among them was Melanie Brooks's surgeon father who, after receiving a blood transfusion during open-heart surgery in 1985, learned he was HIV positive. At a time when HIV/AIDS was misunderstood and public perception was shaped by fear, prejudice, and homophobia, victims of the disease faced ostracism and persecution. Wanting to protect his family from this stigma, Melanie's father decided his illness would be a secret they'd all keep. They did not know that her father would live past that first year, but he did. And for ten years before his death in 1995, from the time she was thirteen until she was twenty-three, Melanie's family lived in the shadow of AIDS. She carried the weight of the uncertain trajectory of her father's health and the heartbreaking anticipation of impending loss silently and alone. It became a way of life. A Hard Silence is an intimate glimpse into Melanie's memories of coping with the tragedy of her father's illness and enduring the loneliness and isolation of not being able to speak. With candor and vulnerability, she opens her grief wounds and brings her reader inside her journey, twenty years after her father died, to finally understand the consequences of her family's silence, to interrogate the roots of stigma and discrimination responsible for the ongoing secret-keeping, and to show how she's now learned to be authentic.Show book
"A lively and dramatic account of greed, corruption, and scandal that will captivate you from start to finish." —FRANK W. ABAGNALE, subject of Catch Me If You Can "Everything you feared was true about crypto and much worse are laid bare in this gripping and infuriating insider account . . . Funny, illuminating and beautifully written." —LIAM VAUGHAN, author of Flash Crash: A Trading Savant, a Global Manhunt and the Most Mysterious Market Crash in History Crypto Confidential tells the salacious story of the industry everyone is talking about right now. In doing so, it sheds light on some of the most scandalous financial crimes of the twenty-first century. From billion-dollar fraud cases to international money laundering cartels, political bribery, and even faked deaths, it lifts the lid on the intricate and immense web of malpractice that crypto founders spin to trap ordinary investors. Written by a prominent and well-connected insider, Crypto Confidential provides a first-hand account of how the industry truly operates, and how every aspect is engineered for one purpose: to make vast amounts of fast money for those on the inside, by any means necessary.Show book
Being acknowledged for what you do is always very welcome. When it comes to Oscar’s, Emmy’s, Pulitzer’s and Nobel’s it’s also international news and for many, the pinnacle of their career. The Nobel Prize is much lauded and very difficult to secure. In this volume we list ten of its winners over the decades who were famed for their literature. The prize is given with an emphasis on its contribution to literature and its influence in the world and for the individual, more usually, for the body of work created. So, whilst none of the stories in this volume were winners in their own right, their authors most certainly were. They perfectly illustrate both the nature and mastery of the writing and the power and the purpose set within its storied prose. 1 - The Nobel Prize - Ten Winners - An Introduction 2 - The Father by Bjornstjerne Bjornson 3 - The Phantom Rickshaw by Rudyard Kipling 4 - The Victory by Rabindranath Tagore 5 - An Arch Rascal by Knut Hamsun 6 - The Daughter of Lilith by Anatole France 7 - Dhoya by W B Yeats 8 - Speed by Sinclair Lewis 9 - The Salvation of a Forsythe - Part 1 by John Galsworthy 10 - The Salvation of a Forsythe - Part 2 by John Galsworthy 11 - Son by Ivan Bunin 12 - Sicilian Limes by Luigi PirandelloShow book
