Dive Into a Story With the Power of Full Audiobook

Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day free trial :
https://esound.space/full

ID: 426254

Title: Poetry of Kabir

Author: Kabir

Narrator: Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:59:24

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-20

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Summary:

Kabir, meaning Great and one of the 99 names of God in Arabic, was a mystic and poet, born around 1440 in Varanasi to poor Muslim parents. Another account claims he was the child of a Brahmin widow. He himself said he was "at once the child of Allah and Ram."Kabir grew up learning his fathers craft of weaving and overcame many obstacles to become a disciple of Saint, or Swami, Ramananda, the leading pioneer of the Bhakti movement, which promoted salvation for all. Kabir did not renounce his worldly life; he married, had children, and was disdainful of professional piety, which led to his later persecution by religious authorities. His progressive philosophy spoke of social equality and his spiritual synthesis combined Hindu tenets of karma and reincarnation with Muslim beliefs of one god and no idolatry or caste system. We know that Kabir had no formal education and was almost illiterate. He expressed his poems as bs meaning utterances in Hindi. His songs and couplets were part of a strong oral tradition in the region and spread across northern India but were also written down by two of his disciples; Bhgods and Dharmads. His inventive and imaginative style captured wide attention and provided a path to spiritual awakening which for Kabir was mainly the path of love and brotherhood and not to be divorced from daily life: All our actions performed anywhere are our duties, and work is worship, he said. His works are still revered today by Muslims, Sufis, Sikhs and Hindus and Kabir remains one of the most quoted mystic poets of all time. Kabir is thought to have lived an exceptionally long life and probably died in 1518. It is said that his Hindu followers wanted him cremated and his Muslim followers wanted his body buried and a fight therefore ensued. When they finally lifted the cloth that covered his body they found not flesh but flowers.

Contact: [email protected]

Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day free trial :
https://esound.space/full

ID: 493982

Title: Creating a Drama-Free Workplace: The Insider's Guide to Managing Conflict, Incivility & Mistrust

Author: Anna Maravelas

Narrator: Cynthia Farrell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:48:07

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-20

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Management & Leadership, HR & Office Administration

Summary:

“Maravelas is the best source on workplace irritability and tension.” ―Matt Villano, New York Times

The human longing for respect and dignity is deep and pervasive. Yet, while resolving more than 300 workplace conflicts, author Anna Maravelas has met thousands of individuals struggling with tension and mistrust.

Creating a Drama-Free Workplace contains strategies to avoid and reverse these troubling trends. Learn why trust and connectedness slip through our fingers despite our yearnings for workplaces that are grounded in collaboration and success.

Stop common missteps before they walk out the door with your most valuable assets―trust, morale, and productivity. You can create the environments you desire and deserve with these proven skills grounded in neuroscience.

In this book you will learn how to:

- Take the drama out of disagreement and enhance your ability to problem solve.

- Eliminate the 5 root causes of workplace tension.

- Be hard on the problem and soft on the people and create lasting alliances.

- Preserve your integrity by talking to people rather than about them.

- Replace bitterness about the past with a shared responsibility for the future.

Knowing how to transform conflict into collaboration affects the outcome of every interaction, challenge, and opportunity.

Contact: [email protected]

Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day free trial :
https://esound.space/full

ID: 426233

Title: Lurking Fear

Author: H.P. Lovecraft

Narrator: David Healy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:04:24

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-20

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories

Summary:

H P Lovecraft, even the name has a sliver of the night about it. Born in 1890 in Providence, Rhode Island he was a prodigious youth but a sickly one. Raised mainly by his Grandfather and Aunts at 14 he contemplated suicide on the death of his grandfather and the crushing financial blow that brought to himself and his mother. A set of literary spats in a newspaper brought him attention away from his poetry writings. But until the last decade of his life the works for which we is so well know did not arrive. That last decade, writing again in Providence was prolific but with little income his life downgraded rented house by rented house and in 1936, often malnourished he was diagnosed with cancer and succumbed to it the following year.

Contact: [email protected]

Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day free trial :
https://esound.space/full

ID: 493968

Title: Unspeakable Things

Author: Jess Lourey

Narrator: Caitlin Kelly

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:34:54

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-20

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

Inspired by a terrifying true story from the author’s hometown, a heart-pounding novel of suspense about a small Minnesota community where nothing is as quiet—or as safe—as it seems.

Cassie McDowell’s life in 1980s Minnesota seems perfectly wholesome. She lives on a farm, loves school, and has a crush on the nicest boy in class. Yes, there are her parents’ strange parties and their parade of deviant guests, but she’s grown accustomed to them.

All that changes when someone comes hunting in Lilydale.

One by one, local boys go missing. One by one, they return changed—violent, moody, and withdrawn. What happened to them becomes the stuff of shocking rumors. The accusations of who’s responsible grow just as wild, and dangerous town secrets start to surface. Then Cassie’s own sister undergoes the dark change. If she is to survive, Cassie must find her way in an adult world where every sin is justified, and only the truth is unforgivable.

Contact: [email protected]

Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day free trial :
https://esound.space/full

ID: 426255

Title: Short Stories of William Pett Ridge

Author: William Pett Ridge

Narrator: David Shaw-Parker, Ghizela Rowe, Jake Urry

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:32:23

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-20

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories

Summary:

William Pett Ridge was born at Chartham, near Canterbury, Kent, on 22nd April 1859.His familys resources were certainly limited. His father was a railway porter, and the young Pett Ridge, after schooling in Marden, Kent became a clerk in a railway clearing-house. The hours were long and arduous, but self-improvement was Pett Ridges goal. After working from nine until seven oclock he would attend evening classes at Birkbeck Literary and Scientific Institute and then to follow his passion; the ambition to write. He was heavily influenced by Dickens and several critics thought he had the capability to be his successor.From 1891 many of his humourous sketches were published in the St James's Gazette, the Idler, Windsor Magazine and other literary periodicals of the day.Pett Ridge published his first novel in 1895, A Clever Wife. By the advent of his fifth novel, Mord Em'ly, a mere three years later in 1898, his success was obvious. His writing was written from the perspective of those born with no privilege and relied on his great talent to find humour and sympathy in his portrayal of working class life.Today Pett Ridge and other East End novelists including Arthur Nevinson, Arthur Morrison and Edwin Pugh are being grouped together as the Cockney Novelists. In 1924, Pugh set out his recollections of Pett Ridge from the 1890s: I see him most clearly, as he was in those days, through a blue haze of tobacco smoke. We used sometimes to travel together from Waterloo to Worcester Park on our way to spend a Saturday afternoon and evening with H. G. Wells. Pett Ridge does not know it, but it was through watching him fill his pipe, as he sat opposite me in a stuffy little railway compartment, that I completed my own education as a smoker.With his success, on the back of his prolific output and commercial success, Pett Ridge gave generously of both time and money to charity. In 1907 he founded the Babies Home at Hoxton. This was one of several organisations that he supported that had the welfare of children as their mission. His circle considered Pett Ridge to be one of life's natural bachelors. In 1909 they were rather surprised therefore when he married Olga Hentschel. As the 1920s arrived Pett Ridge added to his popularity with the movies. Four of his books were adapted into films. Pett Ridge now found the peak of his fame had passed. Although he still managed to produce a book a year he was falling out of fashion and favour with the reading public and his popularity declined rapidly. His canon runs to over sixty novels and short-story collections as well as many pieces for magazines and periodicals.William Pett Ridge died, on 29th September 1930, at his home, Ampthill, Willow Grove, Chislehurst, at the age of 71.He was cremated at West Norwood on 2nd October 1930.

Contact: [email protected]

Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day free trial :
https://esound.space/full

ID: 426258

Title: Poetry of the 17th Century - Volume 1

Author: Aphra Behn, John Donne, John Dryden

Narrator: Ghizela Rowe, Gideon Wagner, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:59:13

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-20

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Summary:

The Elizabethan age had almost departed and the world had seen the rise of great European empires that continued to hunt with mischief between themselves as they traversed the globe in search of more spoils and territories. In England the Civil War had brought about the Will of Parliament and the replacement of the Crown as the governing body. But with these Puritan times, and the subsequent Restoration, Poetry had entered a golden age. John Milton, John Dryden, Ben Jonson are but a few of the luminaries whose great verse followed in the wake of the immortal William Shakespeare.

Contact: [email protected]

Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day free trial :
https://esound.space/full

ID: 426247

Title: Terribly Strange Bed

Author: Wilkie Collins

Narrator: Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:44:43

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-20

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories

Summary:

Wilkie Collins was born on January 8th, 1824 at 11, New Cavendish Street in Marylebone, London. A novelist, playwright and author of short stories, William Wilkie Collins was a hugely popular and influential figure in Victorian literature, and this was further enhanced by his charm and flamboyant lifestyle. He was a friend of Charles Dickens and eventually they collaborated on several projects and magazines. His own vast talents outshone most other literary figures of the day and he is credited with the introduction of the modern detective story with his work The Woman in White. Other notable achievements were The Moonstone, All Year Round and Amadale. In all Wilkie Collins wrote some 30 novels, 14 plays, over 60 short stories and at least 100 non-fiction essays. He died from a paralytic stroke on September 23rd, 1889, at 82 Wimpole Street, and was buried at Kensal Green Cemetery in West London.

Contact: [email protected]

Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day free trial :
https://esound.space/full

ID: 426276

Title: Beware of the Dark - The Creepy Chronicles

Author: Anatol France, Edith Nesbit, Rudyard Kipling

Narrator: Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:53:08

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-20

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories

Summary:

The problem with the dark is you dont really know whats lurking in there. Something hiding? Something menacing? Or just an inky dome for the stars to twinkle on? Writers rarely let us dwell on the latter. No, they would much rather they put our nerves on edge, that our skin would begin to crawl and that the cold sweat of fear propels our pulse and heartbeat to nightmare inducing trauma. I think theyre ready.

Contact: [email protected]

Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day free trial :
https://esound.space/full

ID: 429214

Title: Baa Baa Black Sheep

Author: Rudyard Kipling

Narrator: Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:03:13

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-20

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories

Summary:

Rudyard Kipling was one of the most popular writers of prose and poetry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1907.Born in Bombay on 30th December 1865 both he and his sister were sent back to England when he was five, as was the custom of the British ruling elite in India. The ill-treatment and cruelty by the couple they boarded with in Portsmouth had one useful effect that Kipling himself suggested; it gave him an early impetus for a literary life.This was further enhanced by his return to India at the age of sixteen to work on a local paper. Not only did this result in him writing constantly but also gave him the opportunity to explore issues of identity and national allegiance which pervade much of his work.Whilst he is best remembered for his many classic childrens stories and a host of popular poems including If. he is also regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story.

Contact: [email protected]

Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day free trial :
https://esound.space/full

ID: 426277

Title: Body of Horrific Evidence - A Short Story Collection

Author: Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Wilkie Collins

Narrator: Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:27:40

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-20

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories

Summary:

The human form is familiar to all of us. We like limbs connected to bodies. Writers of the dark and macabre are not too concerned if that remains the case. Indeed limbs, or rather pieces of the body, sometimes are best written about when not connected. Its one of our greatest fears. It quite rightly riddles us with a very unsettling feeling. So why then do we turn the page? Were about to find out.

Contact: [email protected]