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  Victims and Perpetrators - Light...

  John Gentry

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  Dive into the mischievous world of Victims and Perpetrators: Light Verse Judgement on the Criminally Inclined, where the lines between lawbreakers and law enforcers blur in the most whimsical ways. Through the masterful pen of John Gentry, a humorist poet with a penchant for the peculiar, this collection of poems invites readers on a rollicking journey through the underbelly of society, all from the safety of their armchairs.
  From the tale of Felony Fred, whose criminal escapades are as endearing as they are egregious, to the saga of a hapless diner in Hard Rock, Idaho, Gentry crafts a universe where crime does indeed pay – in laughter and wit. Each poem is a vignette, a snapshot of life on the other side of the law, told with a twinkle in the eye and a tip of the hat to the absurd.
  So, whether you're a seasoned criminal mastermind looking to take a break from your nefarious activities, or a law-abiding citizen with a love for the lyrical, Victims and Perpetrators offers something for everyone. It's a reminder that, in the end, we're all just characters in the grand, ridiculous story of life – some of us just have better alibis than others.

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  Paradise Lost - Adapted to...

  John Milton

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In 1667, John Milton — blind, aging, politically disgraced after the collapse of England's republican revolution — completed Paradise Lost. He had spent years defending regicide and press freedom; when the Restoration returned monarchy, his political project ended catastrophically. He turned to poetry and produced an epic explaining humanity's first disobedience: why an omnipotent, benevolent God would permit the Fall. 
   
  The poem creates a cosmos of extraordinary imaginative power: Hell as "darkness visible," Heaven with its angelic hierarchies, Eden rendered with sensuous detail. Satan possesses psychological depth that makes him literature's most compelling villain — the fallen angel who declares "Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven." His magnificent defiance in the early books systematically degrades until by Book IX he is a serpent crawling on his belly. 
   
  The central question is whether Satan is the hero. The Romantic poets thought so — Blake claimed Milton was "of the Devil's party without knowing it." Yet careful reading reveals a deliberate strategy: Satan's soliloquies expose not heroic defiance but psychological torture, the inability to repent, envy driving him to destroy what he cannot enjoy. 
   
  This presents modernization rather than translation. Milton's rhythms, his syntactic architecture, his learned vocabulary cannot be simplified without fundamental transformation. What modernization offers is access to narrative and themes for readers who find seventeenth-century English insurmountable — an introduction, not a substitute for the original.

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  Steel

  Lee Mattinson

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  Two lads. Twelve hours. One million pounds.
  On the rain-drenched West Cumbrian coast, James and Kamran have been mates for more than a decade. They're seventeen, so the world should be theirs – but Workington is a ghost town, an unemployment blackspot where lasses drink Bacardi by the pint and boys don't cry.
  When James discovers he is heir to a single mile of the British railway network, the lads set out on a high-stakes chase through town, where annihilated aunties, Snakebite-drenched drag queens and a zombie Princess Diana are lying in wait.
  Lee Mattinson's Steel is a hilarious and heartfelt play about first loves, forging identities and the wild, wild hearts of teenage boys. It was first performed at Theatre by the Lake, Keswick, in 2024 followed by a UK tour.

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  Sir Thomas More

  William Shakespeare

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if the most dangerous words in a kingdom are spoken not by rebels, but by a conscience that refuses to bend? 
   
  *Sir Thomas More* is one of the most fascinating and politically charged works connected to William Shakespeare: a dramatic portrait of law, mercy, power, public disorder, and moral resistance in Tudor England. Unlike Shakespeare’s most familiar plays, this is a collaborative Elizabethan drama, originally associated with Anthony Munday and Henry Chettle and later revised by several writers, with a famous manuscript section widely attributed to Shakespeare himself. 
   
  The play follows Thomas More as he rises through public life, confronts civil unrest, speaks for mercy toward strangers, and faces the terrible cost of remaining faithful to conscience when royal authority demands obedience. Its world is unstable, crowded, and dangerous: London riots, political ambition, religious pressure, and the fragile boundary between justice and power. 
   
  Its cultural importance is unusual and powerful. *Sir Thomas More* is valued not only as a historical drama, but also because the surviving manuscript contains a passage known as “Hand D,” widely accepted by scholars as Shakespeare’s handwriting—possibly the only surviving literary manuscript in his own hand. 
   
  This AI-narrated audiobook offers a clear, polished, and immersive listening experience, helping the listener follow the play’s political tension, historical atmosphere, moral argument, and Renaissance dramatic language with precision. 
   
  Enter a world where conscience faces the state, mercy challenges fear, and power demands silence. Begin listening to *Sir Thomas More* today.

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  More American

  Sharon Hashimoto

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  Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Winner of the 2021 Off the Grid Poetry Prize. In MORE AMERICAN, poet Sharon Hashimoto reconstructs a collective memory, conjuring the voices of grandparents, children, soldiers, and "those left to tell." In moving detail, these poems convey the realities of assimilation, service, and internment as experienced by Japanese Americans during, and in the decades following, the Second World War. In this stunning second collection, Hashimoto reckons with the limitations of language, and by extension, notions of citizenship. She deftly sounds the dissonances in the language of loyalty and allegiance.

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  Duanaire na Sracaire: Songbook...

  Wilson McLeod

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  Duanaire na Sracaire is the first anthology to bring together Scotland's Gaelic poetry from the millenium c.600-1600 AD, when Scotland shared its rich culture with Ireland. It includes a huge range of diverse poetry: prayers and hymns of Iona, Fenian lays, praise poems and satires, courtly songs and lewd rants, songs of battle and death, incantations and love poems.
  All poems appear with facing-page translations which capture the spirit and beauty of the originals and are accompanied by detailed notes. A comprehensive introduction sets the context and analyses the role and functions of poetry in Gaelic society. This collection will appeal to poetry lovers, Gaelic speakers and those keen to explore a vital part of Scotland's literary heritage.

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