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  The Timeless Love of Billy B for...

  David Moore

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  Balthazar dreams of the perfect woman, one he can summon or dismiss at will on his computer screen. But as time passes, he becomes ensnared in his own creation, consumed by an obsession with this non-existent figure. As Balthazar spirals downward, losing everything from his identity to the use of his body, reduced to just his mind and the fingers tapping at the keyboard, she, in contrast, rises. She transforms into a modern-day Scheherazade, learning to command her prince.
  Baltha B was unaware,
  
  No more sits he upon the chair.
  
  The relics of his body's ruin,
  
  Are the one last bastion
  
  Of his undoing.
  
  Death beckons when the hands they clap,
  
  To say, 'Enough! Your time is up'

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  The Red Shoes

  Nancy Harris

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  'What's wrong with wanting to dance?'
  When an orphaned young woman is taken in by some local do-gooders, she is expected to be seen and not heard.
  Dazzled by a pair of beautiful shoes, she sees in them an opportunity to shine – but soon her feet betray her, taking her to places she does not wish to go.
  Nancy Harris's version of The Red Shoes is a contemporary retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's extraordinary fairytale of dance, desire and destruction. It was first performed at the Gate Theatre, Dublin, in 2017 and revived in the version published here in 2024 at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, by the Royal Shakespeare Company, directed by Kimberley Rampersad.

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  Lost Bodies: Poems between...

  Heng Siok Tian, Phan Ming Yen,...

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  Four writers. 
   
  Three travelling in Portugal. 
   
  One staying behind to care for his ailing mother. 
   
  One long-distance writing affair. 
   
  The passing of the mother together with memories of other losses and absences come together in Lost Bodies, a meditation on the transience of time and love and an invitation to get away—physically or spiritually—from worldly concerns to explore a different history, a different culture, a different light, laced with dreamy scents and the faint calls of fado.

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  My Powerful Poems

  Jaime David

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  This book is a compilation of my poems that I have written on my blog site over the years.

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  50 Masterpieces you have to read...

  George Eliot, Charles Dickens,...

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  This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!
  Novels
  Jerome, Jerome K.: "Three Men in a Boat"
  Joyce, James: "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
  Joyce, James: "Ulysses"
  Kingsley, Charles: "The Water-Babies"
  Kipling, Rudyard: "Kim"
  La Fayette, Madame de: "The Princess of Clèves"
  Laclos, Pierre Choderlos de: "Dangerous Liaisons"
  Lawrence, D. H.: "Sons and Lovers"
  Lawrence, D. H.: "The Rainbow"
  Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan: "In a Glass Darkly"
  Lewis, Matthew Gregory: "The Monk"
  Lewis, Sinclair: "Main Street"
  London, Jack: "The Call of the Wild"
  Lovecraft, H. P.: "At the Mountains of Madness"
  Mann, Thomas: "Royal Highness"
  Maugham, W. Somerset: "Of Human Bondage"
  Maupassant, Guy de: "Bel-Ami"
  Melville, Herman: "Moby-Dick"
  Poe, Edgar Allan: "The Fall of the House of Usher"
  Proust, Marcel: "Swann's Way"
  Radcliffe, Ann: "The Mysteries of Udolpho"
  Richardson, Samuel: "Clarissa"
  Sand, George: "The Devil's Pool"
  Scott, Walter: "Ivanhoe"
  Shelley, Mary: "Frankenstein"
  Sienkiewicz, Henryk: "Quo Vadis"
  Sinclair, May: "Life and Death of Harriett Frean"
  Sinclair, Upton: "The Jungle"
  Stendhal: "The Red and the Black"
  Stendhal: "The Chartreuse of Parma"
  Sterne, Laurence: "Tristram Shandy"
  Stevenson, Robert Louis: "Treasure Island"
  Stoker, Bram: "Dracula"
  Stowe, Harriet Beecher: "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
  Swift, Jonathan: "Gulliver's Travels"
  Tagore, Rabindranath: "The Home and the World"
  Thackeray, William Makepeace: "Vanity Fair"
  Tolstoy, Leo: "War and Peace"
  Tolstoy, Leo: "Anna Karenina"
  Troloppe, Anthony: "The Way We Live Now"
  Turgenev, Ivan: "Fathers and Sons"
  Twain, Mark: "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
  Verne, Jules: "Journey to the Interior of the Earth"
  Wallace, Lew: "Ben-Hur"
  Wells, H. G.: "The Time Machine"
  West, Rebecca: "The Return of the Soldier"
  Wharton, Edith: "The Age of Innocence"
  Wilde, Oscar: "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
  Xueqin, Cao: "The Dream of the Red Chamber"
  Zola, Émile: "Germinal"

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  Asleep in Spring's Embrace

  Kate Cassia

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. "For the child enduring a long winter of the heart, here is Spring’s gentlest whisper." 
   
  Winter felt endless, and the world outside seemed painted in shades of cold gray. For the child hiding behind the heavy curtains, stepping out felt like an impossible journey. But Spring doesn't knock loudly; it whispers. 
   
  From the quiet cracking of the frozen earth to the "ticklish" touch of the warm breeze, and the sudden, joyous explosion of yellow flowers, Asleep in Spring's Embrace follows the tender journey of a child learning to trust the world again. Through the soothing rhythm of nature, the protagonist discovers that the warmth they were searching for was waiting right outside the window.

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