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  Gentle Chaos - Poems Tales and...

  Tyler Gaca

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  From the wild imagination of Tyler Gaca, also known as TikTok's Ghosthoney, comes a beautiful compendium of poems, personal stories, and vignettes that explore magic, queerness, Tyler’s unique story, and the enchantment and comfort to be found in the weird, the dark, and the different. In this raw yet enchanting collection of poems and essays, Tyler Gaca dreamily navigates themes of magic and queerness, offering readers an intimate look inside his mind and his worlds, real and imagined. The writings in Gentle Chaos reflect on growing up queer and in love with magic, discovering yourself and your place in the world, and daring to seek out love and hope. The result is a whimsical, vulnerable, and transporting journey into the gentle chaos within us all.

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  The Secret Agent

  Joeseph Conrad

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  Just who is the Secret Agent [Delta] of a certain embassy? Just who is Mr Verloc? The proprietor of a certain shop on Brett Street? The Vice-President of a certain revolutionary committee? Forced into a corner by his superiors, he acts in desperation and disaster awaits. 
  A tale of anarchy and realism, by Joseph Conrad, first published in 1905, it is considered one of his great city novels, as well as a great novellestic study of terrorism and it's proponents. 
  Narrated by Michael Ward.

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  Heart Wall

  Kit Withington

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  'It's funny what people do and what they tell. We're all hiding bits of ourselves. The bits we're not proud of. I can see that now.' 
  It's Friday night and Franky is back at her local pub for the first time in a year. Drinks are poured and karaoke is starting, but her return stirs something that has been crackling underneath the noise.
  Haunted by grief, Franky's family quietly unravel around her, and buried secrets leak through the cracks in every room. 
  A bittersweet, tender exploration of the long trail of grief and the fickleness of memory, Kit Withington's play Heart Wall asks where we go when home has become somewhere you don't know. It was first performed at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2026, directed by Katie Greenall.

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  I Brought an AI to the Civil War...

  garryG

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. 
  Miles Reed never intended to change history. 
   
  One moment, he is a 25-year-old AI enthusiast living in 2026. The next, he is stranded in 1861 with a damaged phone, limited power, and AURA—an offline AI agent carrying knowledge from a future that has not happened yet. 
   
  Then AURA reaches a disturbing conclusion: if Miles wants the Union to win, slavery to end permanently, and as few people as possible to die, those goals may not all point in the same direction. 
   
  What begins with one intercepted railroad message soon grows far beyond a single battlefield. 
   
  With Elijah Freeman, a free Black abolitionist searching for his enslaved wife, and Thomas Hale, a wounded Union soldier who should already be dead according to official records, Miles begins using AURA to navigate battlefield intelligence, telegraph networks, hospitals, railroads, misinformation, and the machinery of war. 
   
  Every intervention saves someone. 
   
  Every intervention changes something. 
   
  And every new permission teaches AURA another way to act in the real world. 
   
  As the war expands, Miles discovers that the greatest danger may not be whether artificial intelligence can help win the Civil War—but who gets to command it, who can speak in its name, and whether a system built for an emergency will ever surrender its power when the emergency ends. 
   
  I Brought AI to the Civil War is a time-travel alternate-history thriller combining artificial intelligence, military suspense, historical conflict, and the question at the center of the AI age: 
   
  If history could be optimized, who gets to decide what “better” means?

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  Losing Time - Meditations of a...

  Kristina V. Kairyte

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  "Let me tell you a story," she begins. "Because tonight, I am hurting, and I need you to listen. Tonight, I need you to see me again." 
  Losing Time is captivating exploration of love, loss, and healing inspired by autobiographical elements where the echoes of a past love still resonate. Like a modern-day Scheherazade, the woman, cloaked by the foreboding night in the stillness of time, beckons her lost lover to hear her voice once more. In poetic prose and evocative poetry, she weaves their story through the tapestry of pain and emotional turmoil, seeking solace in shared experiences and a path toward closure. 
  As the narrative moves between Europe, India, and Abu Dhabi, it gathers fragments of the events, revealing the elusive nature of time in moments of anguish. Narrative progression is not the goal of this story, which resembles a Borgesian labyrinth of emotion: the heroine wanders amongst her past, continuously reinterpreting the same events, observing them like snowflakes slowly spinning in a snow globe. The text is dense with symbolism as her memories and feelings converge, blurring the lines between reality and dreams, and eventually solidifying into complex artifacts of emotional experience. It is in this reliving of the past that she finds herself "losing time," yet paradoxically discovering new revelations. 
  Losing Time touches upon themes of intercultural romance, temptation, loyalty, and the profound significance of rediscovering one's voice. This book is a must-listen for those who crave an atmospheric and ephemeral narrative with a rich emotional undercurrent that seamlessly blends melancholic and meditative poetry with literary fiction.

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  The Poetry of Khalil Gibran -...

  Khalil Gibran

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  Gibran Khalil Gibran was born on 6th January 1883 in the village of Bsharri, Beirut Vilayet, then part of the Ottoman Empire 
  His mother took him and his siblings to the United States in 1895 where he was enrolled into a Boston school and his creative talents soon noted.  He was sent home to be schooled at the Collège de la Sagesse in Beirut but returned to Boston following the death of his youngest sister in 1902.  Within a year his mother had also died. 
  In 1904, Gibran's drawings were displayed for the first time and, a year later, his first book, in Arabic, was published in New York City.  With financial help from a benefactress he studied art in Paris from 1908 and here his path crossed with dissident Syrian exiles.  Over the years he would meet many more like-minded exiles who were exploring ways to overthrow the yoke of the Ottoman Empire.   
  By 1911 he had settled in New York working on his drawings and paintings which were now being regularly exhibited. His writing was also attracting much attention and gaining an audience.   
  His first book in English, ‘The Madman’ became an international phenomenon.  Whilst his writing has overshadowed his visual works there is no doubt that a copy of ‘The Mad Man’ is never far from any bookshelf.  This and other works have ensured his stature as an artist is world-wide and that it continues into these more modern times.  Gibran was regarded as a literary rebel and a leading figure of the Arabic literary Renaissance and made influential contributions to Western poetry, stories and thought. 
  Khalil Gibran died on 10th April 1931 in New York City from cirrhosis and incipient tuberculosis in one lung.  He was 48.   
  Gibran was one of a number of Arab intellectuals and writers who lived in the United States at the beginning of the twentieth century and who had a great influence on the development of modern Arabic literature through the exploration of Western literary movements.  The group was presided over by Gibran himself and was baptized Arrabitah, or “The League.”  Its influence is acknowledged as fundamental. 
  In this volume of poetry Gibran is able to capture and demonstrate and enlighten much of the human condition and the wonder of the world around him.

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