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ID: 564550

Title: Points in Time

Author: Paul Bowles

Narrator: Raphael Corkhill

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1:15:51

Language: English

Release date: 09-13-22

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Literary Fiction, Classics

Summary:

In this intense and brilliant book, Bowles focuses on Morocco, condensing experience, emotion, and the whole history of a people into a series of short, insightful vignettes. He distills for us the very essence of Moroccan culture. With extraordinary immediacy, he takes the reader on a journey through the Moroccan centuries, pausing at points along the way to create resonant images of the country, it's landscapes, and the beliefs and characteristics of its inhabitants.

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ID: 563598

Title: Bindle Punk Bruja: A Novel

Author: Desideria Mesa

Narrator: Frankie Corzo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:10:16

Language: English

Release date: 09-13-22

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Summary:

Boardwalk Empire meets The Vanishing Half with a touch of earth magic in this sexy and action-packed historical fantasy set in the luminous Golden Twenties from debut author Desideria Mesa, where a part-time reporter and club owner takes on crooked city councilmen, mysterious and deadly mobsters, and societys deeply rooted sexism and racism, all while keeping her true identity and magical abilities hiddeninspired by an ancient Mexican folktale.

Yo soy quien soy. I am who I am.

Lunaor depending on whos asking, Roseis the white-passing daughter of an immigrant mother who has seen what happens to people from her culture. This world is prejudicial, and she must hide her identity in pursuit of owning an illegal jazz club. Using her cunning powers, Rose negotiates with dangerous criminals as she climbs up Kansas Citys bootlegging ladder. Luna, however, runs the risk of losing everything if the crooked city councilmen and ruthless mobsters discover her ties to an immigrant boxcar community that secretly houses witches. Last thing she wants is to put her entire family in danger.

But this bruja with ever-growing magical abilities can never resist a good fight. With her new identity, Rose, an unabashed flapper, defies societal expectations all the while struggling to keep her true self and witchcraft in check. However, the harder she tries to avoid scrutiny, the more her efforts eventually capture unwanted attention. Soon, she finds herself surrounded by greed and every brand of bigotryfrom local gangsters who want a piece of the action and businessmen who hate her diverse staff to the Ku Klux Klan and Al Capone. Will her earth magic be enough to save her friends and family? As much as she hates to admit it, she may need to learn to have faith in othersand learning to trust may prove to be her biggest ambition yet.

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ID: 564551

Title: Delicate Prey

Author: Paul Bowles

Narrator: Courtney Patterson, Raphael Corkhill

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:17:15

Language: English

Release date: 09-13-22

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Literary Fiction, Classics

Summary:

Paul Bowless classic collection of short stories

All the tales are a variety of detective story, wrote Bowles of this, his first short story collection, in which the reader is the detective; the mystery is in the motivation for the charcters behavior. In such stories as A Distant Episode and How Many Midnights, Bowles pushes human character beyond socially defined limits and maps a transformed (often horribly transformed) reality.

Bowles captures the duality of human frailty and cruelty in these seventeen taut and atmospheric tales, written between 1939 and 1949. Brutal and gorgeous, visceral yet profound, this timeless collection is one of the most profound, beautifully wrought, and haunting collections in our literature. . . at once austere, witty, violent, and sensuous. . . . His language has a purity of line, a poise and authority entirely its own, capable of instantly modulating from farce to horror without a ruffle (Tobias Wolff).

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ID: 564555

Title: Days

Author: Paul Bowles

Narrator: Richard Trinder

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2:09:01

Language: English

Release date: 09-13-22

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Africa, Essays & Travelogues, History & Culture

Summary:

Between 1987 and 1989, Paul Bowles, at the suggestion of a friend, kept a journal to record the daily events of his life. What emerges is not only just a record of the meals, conversations, and health concerns of the author of The Sheltering Sky but also a fascinating look at an artist at work in a new medium. Characterized by a refreshing informality, clear-sightedness, and passages of exquisite prose, these pages record with equal fascination the behavior of an itinerant spider, a brutal episode of violence in a Tangier marketplace, and the pageantry and excess of Malcolm Forbes's seventieth birthday party. In Days, a master observer of the foreign and obscure turns his attentions toward his own daily existence, giving us a startlingly candid portrait of his life in late twentieth-century Tangier.

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ID: 564549

Title: Travels

Author: Paul Bowles

Narrator: Mike Ortego, Raphael Corkhill, Tom Zahner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17:40:11

Language: English

Release date: 09-13-22

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Essays & Anthologies, Africa, Essays & Travelogues

Summary:

Bowles is at his best when writing about places. He can evoke a place with a few sure strokes. New York Times

His work is art. At his best, Bowles has no peer. Time

Travels is a thrilling anthology of the travel writings of Paul Bowles, author of the era-defining post-war novel The Sheltering Sky. The acclaimed essays in Travelnever before collected in a single volumespan more than sixty years and range from Bowless early days in Paris to his time spent in Ceylon, Thailand, Kenya, and his expatriate life in Morocco. Insightful, exciting, and evocative, Travels is a stunning collection of rarely seen shorter worksa showcase of the literary artistry of one of the truly great American writers of the twentieth century.

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ID: 564547

Title: Stories of Paul Bowles

Author: Paul Bowles

Narrator: Mike Ortego, Raphael Corkhill

Format: Unabridged

Length: 28:37:51

Language: English

Release date: 09-13-22

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Essays & Anthologies, Short Stories, Literary Fiction

Summary:

Bowless tales are at once austere, witty, violent, and sensuous. They move with the inevitability of myth. His language has a purity of line, a poise and authority entirely its own. Tobias Wolff

An American cult figure, Paul Bowles has fascinated such disparate talents as Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Truman Capote, William S. Burroughs, Gore Vidal, and Tobias Wolff. From The Delicate Prey to Too Far from Home, this definitive collection celebrates the Bowless masterful artistry in short fiction.

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ID: 564553

Title: Without Stopping

Author: Paul Bowles

Narrator: Tom Zahner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:59:56

Language: English

Release date: 09-13-22

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Literary, Travel Tips

Summary:

Paul Bowles, the acclalmed author of The Shelterlng Sky, offers movlng, powerful, subtle, and fasclnatlng lnslghts lnto hls llfe, hls wrltlng, and hls world.

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ID: 564546

Title: Let It Come Down: A Novel

Author: Paul Bowles

Narrator: Raphael Corkhill, Tom Zahner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:40:58

Language: English

Release date: 09-13-22

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Historical Fiction, Psychological

Summary:

In Let It Come Down, Paul Bowles plots the doomed trajectory of Nelson Dyar, a New York bank teller who comes to Tangier in search of a different life and ends up giving in to his darkest impulses. Rich in descriptions of the corruption and decadence of the International Zone in the last days before Moroccan independence, Bowles's second novel is an alternately comic and horrific account of a descent into nihilism.

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ID: 563616

Title: Marple: Twelve New Mysteries

Author: Agatha Christie, Alyssa Cole, Dreda Say Mitchell, Elly Griffiths, Jean Kwok, Karen M. Mcmanus, Kate Mosse, Leigh Bardugo, Lucy Foley, Naomi Alderman, Natalie Haynes, Ruth Ware, Val McDermid

Narrator: Adjoa Andoh, Adrian Scarborough, Alex Kingston, Alison Steadman, Cathy Tyson, Celia Imrie, Chipo Chung, Imogen Stubbs, Jodhi May, Miriam Margolyes, Ramon Tikaram

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:28:54

Language: English

Release date: 09-13-22

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Thriller & Horror, Essays & Anthologies, Detective Stories, Cozy Mystery

Summary:

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

''Each author captures Christieand Marpleperfectly, while also displaying just a bit of her own unique touch. . . . This new and entertaining collection by some of our favorite writers will hook a new group of readers to the formidable Miss Marple.''  Rhys Bowen, Washington Post

Marple is the best loved [detective]. Also the most influential. . . . It is Miss Marple who introduced the revolutionary notion that people are essentially the same wherever one goes.  Los Angeles Times

Agatha Christies legendary sleuth, Jane Marple, returns to solve twelve baffling cases in this brand-new collection, penned by a host of acclaimed authors skilled in the fine art of mystery and murder

One doesn't stop at one murder...

Jane Marple is an elderly lady from St Mary Mead who possesses an uncanny knack for solving even the most perplexing puzzles. Now, for the first time in 45 years, Agatha Christies beloved character returns to the page for a globe-trotting tour of crime and detection.

Join Marple as she travels through her sleepy English village and around the world. In St Mary Mead, a Christmas dinner is interrupted by unexpected guests; the Broadway stage in New York City is set for a dangerous improvisation; bad omens surround an untimely death aboard a cruise ship to Hong Kong; and a bestselling writer on holiday in Italy is caught in a nefarious plot. These and other crimes committed in the name of love, jealousy, blackmail, and revenge are ones that only the indomitable Jane Marple can solve.

Bringing a fresh twist to the hallmarks of a classic Agatha Christie mystery, these twelve esteemed writers have captured the sharp wit, unique voice, and droll ingenuity of the deceptively demure detective. A triumphant celebration of Christies legacy and essential reading for crime lovers, Marple is a timely reminder why Jane Marple remains one of the most famous detectives of all time.

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ID: 564554

Title: In Touch: The Letters of Paul Bowles

Author: Paul Bowles

Narrator: Timothy Andrés Pabon, Tom Zahner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 28:54:01

Language: English

Release date: 09-13-22

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Essays & Anthologies

Summary:

This extraordinary collection of correspondence by Paul Bowles spans eight decades and provides an evolving portrait of an artist renowned for his privacy. From his earliest extant letter, written at the age of four, to his precocious effusions to Aaron Copeland and to Gertrude Stein; from his meditations on mescaline as relayed to Ned Rorem, to his intensely moving letters to Jane Bowles during her illness, In Touch fills in the lacunae left by previous biographers and offers a rare look at the many aspects of Bowles's brilliant careeras composer, novelist, short-story master, travel writer, translator, ethnographer, and literary critic.

Here is Bowles on the genesis of his first novel, The Sheltering Sky; on his distaste for Western melodies and his dogged attempts to record indigenous Moroccan music; on the Beats, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, and Tennessee Williams; on the nature and craft of writing; on Bernardo Bertolucci, David Byrne, and Sting; on the decline of American and the challenges of living in North Africa. Gossipy, reflective, enlightening, and always entertaining, In Touch stands as an epistolary autobiography of one of the legendary writers of our time, and a unique chronicle of the twentieth-century avant-garde.

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