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  A Bit Much - Poems

  Lyndsay Rush

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  This program is read by the author.The debut poetry collection from Lyndsay Rush (aka @maryoliversdrunkcousin) is a humorous and joyful celebration of big feelings, tender truths, and hard-won wisdom, for fans of Maggie Smith, Kate Baer, and Kate Kennedy.At long last, a book of poetry for people who didn’t even know they liked poetry. And they’re in good company: author Lyndsay Rush didn’t know she liked it either. That is, until she embarked on an internet experiment under the Instagram username @MaryOliversDrunkCousin that turned into a body of work that struck a chord with women across the country; thanks to her signature wordplay, witticisms, and—against all odds—wisdom.With titles like "Shedonism", "Someone to Eat Chips With", "It’s Called Maximalism, Babe", and "Breaking News: Local Woman Gets Out of Bed", Rush’s debut collection of poetry uses humor to grapple with the female experience—from questioning whether or not to have children, to roasting the patriarchy, to challenging what it means to "age gracefully"—and each piece delivers gut-punching truths alongside gratifying punchlines. Readers walk away from Lyndsay’s work feeling seen, celebrated, and wholly convinced that joy is an urgent, worthwhile pursuit.With over 140 convention-bending poems—most of which are never-before-seen—this book is quite literally A Bit Much.A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.

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  The Rain Drinkers

  G. Finan

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  “That is what you get, my friend. That… is what you get." 
  Set in Long Island, NY, in the little town of Bay Shore at the beginning of the twentieth century, “The Rain Drinkers” is the story of a young man’s passage to adulthood. 
  Sent to stay with an abusive relative he has never met and the man’s unfortunate young wife, the younger man is forced to learn lessons of life, friendship, love, and loss. 
  The story touches on many topics, such as racism, immigration, and the American experience at the beginning of a new age.

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  Are Women People?

  Alice Duer Miller

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  Are women people? 
   
  With that deceptively simple question, Alice Duer Miller delivers a witty, fearless assault on the contradictions used to deny women the right to vote. 
   
  Written during the American women’s suffrage movement, this lively collection of satirical poems, parodies, dialogues, and political observations turns the arguments of anti-suffragists against themselves. Miller exposes the absurdity of claiming that women are too delicate for politics yet strong enough to endure exhausting labor, too easily influenced to vote independently yet powerful enough to corrupt the entire political system. 
   
  No contradiction escapes her attention. 
   
  From legislators who praise women while refusing them basic rights to social customs that confine women to the home only when their labor is not needed elsewhere, Miller dismantles discrimination with playful rhymes, sharp logic, and devastating humor. The title itself responds to President Woodrow Wilson’s call to return government to “the people”—while women remained excluded from the ballot. 
   
  First published in 1915, *Are Women People?* is both an important work of American suffrage literature and a remarkably entertaining example of political satire. Clever, irreverent, and still strikingly relevant, it demonstrates how humor can challenge injustice, expose hypocrisy, and help change public opinion. 
   
  Narrated by Mary Ellin Kurtz.

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  I Swallowed the Cosmos and Spit...

  Michael Carignan

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  Words flow fluently through a poetic stream where the muse paddles in both directions, where he deems most rewarding. His intention is to capture an audience full of dreams where the author can captivate his own. There are many turns and bends in the water, but somehow the shore beckons him on solid ground. Mike invites his audience to open up the pages and become familiar with the author's visions of friends, family and experiences in life.

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  Hide Me Under the Blood and I...

  Keith Jarrett

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  Poetry Book Society Recommendation
  Keith Jarrett's dazzlingly lyrical new collection asks how we process violence when it's lionised in our language, on city street signs, in the edicts of a vengeful god. Its title borrowed from an unknown songwriter, this book is a palimpsest, layering known and unknown verses: those sung in Pentecostal churches or whispered in silent worship, texted to a 3am suitor or redacted from a eulogy. These poems are requiem and carnival: for the dead, the buried, the erased, the forgotten. They are magnetic, musical, scorched in glitter, skanking on the offbeat. With courage, insight and mischief, Jarrett invites the reader to look sideways, to consider the absurd, messy and problematic with a playfulness that feels, in itself, slyly revolutionary.
  "A virtuosic collection in which Jarrett tests and revivifies language, willing to bend and even break it in search of something new." Victoria Adukwei Bulley
  "There is an erotics, a rage, a prayer, a love, a figuring-out, a making-up, a throw-down, a challenge, a confession and a summons. Delicious." Pádraig Ó Tuama
  "Keith Jarrett is one of London's most radiantly living bards, the embodied poet as storyteller, historian and one-man archive. In Hide Me Under the Blood and I Shall Be Satisfied, Jarrett channels a voice and a chant of "the undocumented history of this Empire" where spirits, saints and literary ancestors are summoned to carnivals and holy communions. There is much defiance, queering and inquiry in these poems, a "reckoning with sorrow" as only a poet can put it. As well as formal inventiveness, there is playful bilingual lyricism and humour. I love this poet. He is important. To know why, you must hear his hymns." Raymond Antrobus

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  Complete Novels and Novellas of...

  Leo Tolstoy

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  What if literature could reveal the truth of human life?
  
  The Complete Novels and Novellas of Leo Tolstoy brings together the major long-form works of one of the greatest writers in world literature. With unmatched psychological insight and moral seriousness, Tolstoy explored love and suffering, faith and doubt, violence and compassion—capturing the full complexity of the human condition.
  
  This comprehensive collection includes Tolstoy's monumental novels alongside his powerful novellas, where intimate personal struggles unfold against sweeping social and historical backdrops. From the chaos of war to the quiet crises of the soul, Tolstoy's stories confront the deepest questions of how to live, love, and act justly.
  
  Profound, humane, and timeless, Tolstoy's writing continues to challenge and transform readers across generations.
  
  Inside this eBook, you'll explore:
  
  All major novels and novellas by Leo Tolstoy in one collection
  
  Iconic works such as War and Peace, Anna Karenina, and The Death of Ivan Ilyich
  
  Deep psychological realism and moral philosophy
  
  A cornerstone of Russian and world literature
  
  Studied worldwide and revered for over a century, Tolstoy's works remain essential reading for anyone seeking truth, depth, and enduring literary power.
  
  Read deeply. Reflect honestly. Buy now and experience the complete novels and novellas of Leo Tolstoy.

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