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  The Orange-Yellow Diamond

  J. S. Fletcher

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  A novelist finds himself struggling to make ends meet. In his effort to raise a bit of money to get him by, he finds himself in the middle of a mystery. Murder, theft, and love, all the ingredients for a wonderful reading. Please note: There is some stereotyping of ethnic groups however it is presented without malice but rather a sign of the times. (Summary by Linette Geisel)Cast list:Narrator (chapter 1-5): Linette GeiselNarrator (chapter 6 onwards): MaryAnnAndrew Lauriston: Max KörlingeMrs. Flitwick (landlady); Grayson, Mr. Levendales butler and Scotland Yard Official: TriciaGMr. Melchior (Melky) Rubinstein; Martin James Gardiner, turf commission agent and Man from tea room: ToddHWZillah Wildrose: Kristin GjerløwMrs. Goldmark and Chinese man 2: MJ FranckDetective Ayscough: AnthonyDoctor and Coroner: Anna SimonInspector, Superior Official and Chief Official: balaJohn Prudie: Chuck WilliamsonCoffee shop girl: Elizabeth KlettMr. Spencer Levendale: Ernst PattynamaSecond police officer: Lucy PerryThird police officer: Amanda FridayBenjamin Hollinshaw (Shop owner): David OlsonMr. Parminter, lawyer: MartyMr. Goodyer, landlord to Parslett: April GonzalesMiss Elsie Bennett, Governess: Patti CunninghamMr. Penniket, sollicitor and Chang Li: Marty KrisStuyvesant Guyler, a New York man: Mark ChulskyDr. Mirandolet; Stephen Purvis and Elder Pilmansey: asterixDr. John Sperling-Lawson: SeepferdchenMr. Killick, retired solicitor: Brett W. DowneyMr. John Purvis, brother of Stephen Purvis: Ric FDr. Pittery - Young surgeon: Emily FeukaMr. Mori Yada: CaprishaPageGeorge, mortuary night watchman: Charlotte DuckettWaiter: Nathanial W.C. HigginsCab driver: Bev J StevensHotel servant: MichaelH-SYounger Pilmansey: Amy GramourChinese Man 1: Margaret EspaillatEdited by: Linette Geisel, Kimberly Krause, <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/65

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  The Carrying - Poems

  Ada Limón

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  WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD 
  FINALIST FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD 
  From U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón comes The Carrying—her most powerful collection yet. 
  Vulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the grace of acceptance. A daughter tends to aging parents. A woman struggles with infertility—“What if, instead of carrying / a child, I am supposed to carry grief?”—and a body seized by pain and vertigo as well as ecstasy. A nation convulses: “Every song of this country / has an unsung third stanza, something brutal.” And still Limón shows us, as ever, the persistence of hunger, love, and joy, the dizzying fullness of our too-short lives. “Fine then, / I’ll take it,” she writes. “I’ll take it all.” 
  In Bright Dead Things, Limón showed us a heart “giant with power, heavy with blood”—“the huge beating genius machine / that thinks, no, it knows, / it’s going to come in first.” In her follow-up collection, that heart is on full display—even as The Carrying continues further and deeper into the bloodstream, following the hard-won truth of what it means to live in an imperfect world.

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  Iphigenia in Tauris

  Euripides

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  Orestes, coming into Tauri in Scythia, in company with Pylades, had been commanded to bear away the image of Diana, after which he was to meet with a respite from the avenging Erinnyes of his mother. His sister Iphigenia, who had been carried away by Diana from Aulis, when on the point of being sacrificed by her father, chances to be expiating a dream that led her to suppose Orestes dead, when a herdsman announces to her the arrival and detection of two strangers, whom she is bound by her office to sacrifice to Diana. On meeting, a mutual discovery takes place, and they plot their escape. - Summary by Theodore BuckleyCast List:Iphigenia: Elizabeth KlettOrestes: Ashur GharaviPylades: Rob BoardHerdsman: Jeffrey ChurchThoas: alanmapstoneMessenger: Beth ThomasMinerva: LydiaChorus: Kristin GjerløwNarrator: Availle

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  At The Movies

  Lee Brady

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.  
  A married woman recalls her obsession with movies and movie stars in her earlier days but then comes to realize she is much happier with reality.

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  War and Peace

  Leo Tolstoy

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  "A world at war, a nation in flux, and the lives of five families caught in the tide of history."
  
  In War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy intertwines the lives of private individuals with the grand scale of public history. As Napoleon's army marches toward Moscow, the fates of the idealistic Pierre Bezukhov, the spirited Natasha Rostova, and the cynical Prince Andrei Bolkonsky become inextricably linked. This novel is not just a story of military campaigns and ballroom dances; it is a profound search for meaning in a world dominated by chaos. From the bloody fields of Borodino to the intimate drawing rooms of St. Petersburg, Tolstoy explores the forces that drive history and the small, personal moments that define our humanity.
  
  A Masterpiece of Immense Scope: Tolstoy's genius lies in his ability to shift from the minute details of a young girl's first ball to the grand strategies of emperors and generals. With over 500 characters, the novel creates a complete world, capturing the essence of Russian life—its nobility, its peasantry, and its enduring soul.
  
  History and Philosophy: Beyond the narrative, War and Peace serves as a vehicle for Tolstoy's unique philosophy of history. He challenges the "Great Man" theory, suggesting that the course of events is determined not by kings and commanders, but by the collective will of thousands of ordinary individuals.
  
  Why It Is a Must-Read: War and Peace is often called the "Book of Life" because it contains everything: youth and age, peace and war, life and death. It is a transformative reading experience that demands patience and rewards it with a deeper understanding of what it means to be alive.
  
  Embark on the journey of a lifetime. Purchase "War and Peace" today.

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  Disorderly Magic and Other...

  Richard Cabut

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  Disorderly Magic and Other Disturbances is a pop meditation on a number of themes: speed, delirium and distance, disillusion, urbanity, various manifestations of the idea of the wilderness and the wasteland, madness, dissolution, memory, mourning, forgetting, hauntology, hauntings, rapid transits, the non-existent, and conjuring the future. The work mixes magic, culture, mystery, memoir, history, melodrama - it is an invocation, an evocation, with dreamlike freedom of movement between past and present, from personal to universal. 
  This special edition of Soundscapes is credited as follows: 
  All Selections Written & Read by Richard Cabut | Credits – soundscapes/electronics: Chelsea Girls by P.T.Kirk/Akatombo | Disorderly Magic by Necessary Animals (Ryan Bollard - drums, Fritz Catlin - synth, wooden flute, Keith Rodway - synths, Amanda - lx piano, Mixed by Fritz Catlin) | In the Cities by Simon Beesley | Tenth Floor by Band Of Holy Joy (Peter Smith, James Stephen Finn, Johny Brown) | Aniol by Keith Rodway (Written, performed, mixed) | Ghost Music by Anthony Moore - guitar, electronics, Keith Rodway - synth, field recordings, Amanda Thompson - electric piano, Recorded by Anthony Moore, Mixed by Anthony Moore and Keith Rodway. All tracks engineered by Luke Chaudhry at Kingship Studios, south east London. Magic and thanks to all. Audio and print publication by Far West Press. ©2023 (Print) ©2025 (Audio)

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