Verlag: Babelcube
A book to discover new imaginative borders, subtle and unfathomable, mysterious and ecstatic; where the mission is to imagine the facts with a different vision and with sapient nuances.
Pillow and Case is a gripping audio drama that explores love, desire, betrayal, and the emotional complexities of modern relationships. Set against an intimate and relatable backdrop, the story follows two individuals, Chris and Cindy, nicknamed Pillow and Case, whose connection blurs the lines between passion and consequence. As secrets unfold and boundaries are tested, what begins as a seemingly simple relationship quickly spirals into a web of emotional tension, vulnerability, and life-altering decisions. With each episode, the characters are forced to confront their deepest truths, navigating love, lust, and the weight of their choices. Raw, engaging, and emotionally charged, Pillow and Case takes listeners on a compelling journey into the realities of human connection—where every moment comes with a cost.Zum Buch
Mark Lemon had a natural talent for journalism and the stage, and, at twenty-six, retired from less congenial business to devote himself to the writing of plays. More than sixty of his melodramas, operettas and comedies were produced in London, whilst at the same time he was contributing to a wide variety of magazines and newspapers, and was founding editor of both Punch and The Field. (Summary form Wikipedia)Zum Buch
"All fire and surprise, sadness and forgiveness...I could never say enough about the beauty of this work." —Jericho Brown "Cameron's poems are wonderfully full, energetic, and ardent." —Vijay Seshadri "McGill skillfully navigates the mysteries of relationship, memory, and regret as the best poets do." —Dorianne Laux "It’s been a long time since I have heard the 'god of small thunder' echo so powerfully in a collection." —Campbell McGrath Cameron McGill’s debut collection of poetry, In the Night Field, spotlights the effects of memory: its startling artistry, varied discontents, and casual fallibility. These poems chart the complex relationship between mental health and place; the difficult paths home can be lonely and circuitous, the emotional coordinates we map along the way a reminder of those intimate regions that hold and haunt us. These can be isolating passages, but are just as often fertile: “I walk further each day toward the strange / austerity my heart makes of reason.” Between the attentive, persistent self and the longed-for, absent other arises a fragmented conversation, an exchange that’s in a constant state of arrival. As McGill shows us, memories are a corrective, carrying back to us occasions for instruction, reconciliation, or in those astonishing flashes of clarity, what again hopes to be loved.Zum Buch
In this third book of the Maria series, young attorney Luke Smith enlists the help of Maria, now 16, to find his ex-fiancée Becca and her baby daughter who he thinks may be his. Mother and daughter are in the Philippines with the rogue federal agent Brent Danes, the man who broke up Luke's engagement to Becca through a series of missteps and accidental encounters. Are Brent and Becca now together, together, or are they just two friends with big troubles helping each other out? Maria arranges a missionary trip to Manila to give Luke cover to travel discreetly. Luke needs to find Becca without outing Danes' location to the authorities. Luke's hunt for his ex-fiancée and possible daughter begin to merge with events of the missionary trip raising the stakes for several of the players. Can Luke stay out of the crosshairs of the feds looking to catch Danes, while at the same time not break Becca's rules that he must follow if he wants to meet his possible child? Meanwhile, Brent Danes needs to walk the tightrope of working with a Russian operative who is his current benefactor, without being forced to work for him. If you've read books one and two, The Timing of Maria and The Gone Side of the Fence, this third installment will bring the excitement and suspense to even greater levels. Valentyna: The Foreign Connection, is also a thrilling stand-alone book.Zum Buch
Written after two years of artistic silence, during which the world came to a halt due to the COVID-19 pandemic and Minneapolis became the epicenter of protest following the murder of George Floyd, Bluff is Danez Smith's powerful reckoning with their role and responsibility as a poet and with their hometown of the Twin Cities. This is a book of awakening out of violence, guilt, shame, and critical pessimism to wonder and imagine how we can strive toward a new existence in a world that seems to be dissolving into desolate futures. Smith brings a startling urgency to these poems, their questions demanding a new language and a deep self-scrutiny. A series of ars poetica gives way to "anti poetica" and "ars america" to implicate poetry's collusions with unchecked capitalism. A poem makes clear the consequences of America's acceptance of mass shootings. Another offers the history of Saint Paul's vibrant Rondo neighborhood before and after officials decided to run an interstate directly through it. Bluff is a kind of manifesto about artistic resilience, even when time and will can seem fleeting, when the places we most love—those given and made—are burning. In this soaring collection, Smith turns to honesty, hope, rage, and imagination to envision futures that seem possible.Zum Buch
This is a collection of 20 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for November 2013.Zum Buch
