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  Oakland Noir

  Jerry Thompson, Various Authors

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  Brand-new stories by: Nick Petrulakis, Kim Addonizio, Keenan Norris, Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder, Katie Gilmartin, Dorothy Lazard, Harry Louis Williams II, Carolyn Alexander, Phil Canalin, Judy Juanita, Jamie DeWolf, Nayomi Munaweera, Mahmud Rahman, Tom McElravey, Joe Loya, and Eddie Muller. 
  In the wake of San Francisco Noir, Los Angeles Noir, and Orange County Noir—all popular volumes in the Akashic Noir Series—comes the latest California installment, Oakland Noir. Masterfully curated by Jerry Thompson and Eddie Muller, the “Czar of Noir,” this volume will shock, titillate, provoke, and entertain. The diverse cast of talented contributors will not disappoint. 
  From the introduction: 
  Jerry Thompson: “Discovering the wang-dang-doodle jams of the Pointer Sisters shifted my entire focus. Stunning black women were scatting and bebopping all the way into my soul. I think what we’ve put together in Oakland Noir is a volume where this city is a character in every story. He’s a slick brother strutting over a bacon-grease bass line and tambourine duet. She’s a white chick with a bucket of hot muffins heading to farmer and flea markets, to sell crafts and get hooked up with some fine kat with dreadlocks and a criminal record. And it’s in the faces of young fearless muthafuckers pounding keyboards and snapping fingers, lips, Snapchats, and Facebook timelines. It’s the core of not only Black Lives Matter but all lives matter. We are the children of fantasy and of the funk.” 
  Eddie Muller: “These days, writers and readers aren’t denying the darker parts of our existence as much as they used to, especially in crime fiction. Some writers just do it for fun because it’s become the fashionable way to get published. You know, ‘gritty violence’ and all that bullshit. The genuine darkness in noir stories comes from two places—the cruelty of the world’s innate indifference and the cruelty that people foster within themselves. If you’re not seriously dealing with one, the other, or both, then you’re not really writing noir.”

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  MS Found in a Bottle

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  More classic horror narrations on Jonathan's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@JonathanDunneHorrorAudiobooks 
  Title: MS. Found in a Bottle 
  Author: Edgar Allan Poe 
  Narrator: Jonathan Dunne 
  Original Publication: 1833 
  Public Domain: Yes 
  Series Placement: Timeless Terrors No. 94 
  Description: 
  MS. Found in a Bottle is one of Edgar Allan Poe’s earliest and most haunting explorations of cosmic dread and maritime terror. The story follows an unnamed narrator who survives a catastrophic storm at sea, only to find himself aboard a mysterious vessel crewed by ancient, silent figures who appear wholly unaware of his presence—a journey that carries him ever deeper into icy waters and existential uncertainty. 
  The tale’s horror is vast and philosophical. The storm-torn ocean, the unnatural ship, and the ghostly crew create mounting tension through isolation, inevitability, and the relentless pull southward into darkness. Every moment aboard the vessel blurs the boundary between life and death, reality and nightmare, reminding readers that knowledge offers no protection against the infinite. 
  Unlike tales driven by physical confrontation, the story’s fear emerges from atmosphere, insignificance, and the crushing immensity of the unknown. The horror is existential, atmospheric, and inescapable—a reflection of humanity’s fragility when faced with forces that dwarf comprehension. 
  Narrated by Amazon-bestselling horror author Jonathan Dunne, this performance captures the mounting dread and vast, indifferent terror of Poe’s vision, bringing to life its tension, philosophical unease, and spiraling descent into oblivion. MS. Found in a Bottle endures as a foundational work of gothic and cosmic horror, where curiosity leads not to discovery, but to annihilation.

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  These Foolish Things & Other...

  Yeo Wei Wei

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  This debut collection by Yeo Wei Wei explores the realms between private selves, past and present, through vivid and haunting motifs—a singing bird, a lost soul in a yellow umbrella, an ivory carving, the diary of an ex-boyfriend's father. Revealing the regrets, obsessions, loss and sorrow of events in everyday life, These Foolish Things &Other Stories is a compelling piece of work ready to haunt, delight and touch its readers. 
   
  A wife returns home to find that her husband has remarried ... 
  An old woman in a nursing home is visited by a mynah that sings a Beatles song ... 
  An artist remembers the time he was harangued by rambutans, magoes and other fruits in his studio ... 
   
  “No word is out of place in Yeo Wei Wei’s exacting prose. The reader’s expectations and positions of empathy are put to the test in ways that both delight and shatter the heart.” 
  -Cyril Wong, author of Tilting Our Plates to Catch the Light and The Dictator's Eyebrow 
   
  “Yeo Wei Wei weaves a purgatorial web of men and women caught between guilt, loss and unbearable longing. Her stories are intelligent, haunting, carefully composed yet deeply felt.” 
  -Clarissa Oon, arts editor, The Straits Times 
   
  “Yeo Wei Wei is set on uncovering whole realms between private past and present and between private selves; in the process, she justifies the incidence of art. Let each tale here walk your mind as though it were a painting 
  -Gwee Li Sui, literary critic, graphic artist and author of One Thousand and One Nights: Love Poems

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  3 Stories - War at Home - A trio...

  Luigi Pirandello, Winifred...

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  There is something about the number 3.    
   
  The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.   
   
  Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois.  It seems good things usually come in threes. 
   
  Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating. 
   
  From their pens to your your ears.   
   
  01 - 3 Stories - War At Home 
  02 - War by Luigi Pirandello 
  03 - Them Others by Stacy Aumonier 
  04 - The Casualty List by Winifred Holtby

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  Mari Pyari Maa - By Mtdox

  Mtdox

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  In the heartwarming novel Mari Pyari Maa follow the poignant journey of Kiran, a spirited young woman navigating the complexities of life, love, and family in a vibrant Indian village. Aasha's world, rich with tradition and vibrant with festivals, is anchored by the unwavering strength of her mother, Pramod. Known for her resilience and unwavering kindness, Pramod becomes Mother's guiding light through life's darkest storms.

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  Simple Recipes - Stories

  Madeleine Thien

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  A stunning collection of short stories, newly reissued, from a Booker–shortlisted and international best-selling author. 
  Longing, familiarity, and hope suffuse these stories as they mine the charged territory of relationships—subtly weaving in conflicts between generations and cultures. Madeleine Thien’s characters in some way want to make amends, to understand the events that have shaped their lives. A young woman searches back in time for the pivotal moment when her family lost faith in itself. Two sisters keep a vigil outside their former house, hoping their long-absent mother will appear one last time. A wife helps her husband grieve for the woman he has loved since childhood. A daughter remembers the simple ritual she once shared with her father and the moment when her unconditional love for him was called into question. 
   
  Compassionate and revealing, delicate and wise, the stories in Simple Recipes chart the uneven progress of love and lay bare the heartbreaking truths at the core of our closest bonds.

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