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Title: This Family Sucks! Sincerely Yours, Peter Frazier

Author: Leigh M. Hall, Christopher Rourke

Narrator: Christopher Rourke

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Release date: February 1, 2023

Genres: Psychological

Publisher's Summary:

Have you ever thought that maybe you didn’t belong? Have you ever looked around at your family members and thought, there is no way I am related to these people? Both Peter Frazier and Trent Lockley thought this about the families they were born into. Two boys, the same age, miles apart. They are both from small Texas towns, born in the same hospital, on the same day. However, their lives turned out to be nothing alike. The Frazier family is a large, lively bunch. The fact that they are close-knit and share every detail of their lives with each other always seemed a little strange to Peter. Although he loves every one of his six siblings and his overly affectionate parents, he couldn’t help but feel out of place around them. Trent Lockley is an only child born to abusive parents and spent most of his life posing as a punching bag for the town drunks. As he grew into a young man, his anger grew with him. Trent got in a lot of trouble as an adolescent. He would start fights at school frequently, and once he grew up and got even bigger than his drug addict father, he started fights at home. It is the summer of 1996; the Frazier family is preparing for Peter’s High School graduation, and Peter is a little nervous because he has yet to make any plans for his future. He always figured that once he turned eighteen, he would hit the road and never look back, but now that the day is here, he isn’t so sure. The idea of leaving his family, mainly his baby sister Tallulah behind now scares him.Right before the two strangers turn eighteen, they cross paths. Trent has somehow managed to wiggle his way into the Frazier’s life, and Peter becomes suspicious of this newcomer and starts to question everything about him. The rest of the Frazier family seem to be blinded by Trent’s charm and simply adore him. A dark cloud is hovering over the once perfect household. At every turn, the Frazier family get nothing but devastating news. Peter is not sure what this Trent character is capable of, but since his arrival, everything has gone wrong, so he must have something to do with it. Peter starts to piece the puzzle together but is it too late? Once the truth is discovered, Peter starts to realize that his family doesn’t actually suck as much as he initially thought.

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Title: Stories of God

Author: Rainer Maria Rilke

Narrator: Elliot Fitzpatrick

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 29 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2023

Genres: Psychological

Publisher's Summary:

René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke was born into a troubled marriage on the 4th December 1875 in Prague, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His mother, having previously lost a baby girl, would dress the young boy up in girl's clothing. Later his father dispatched him to a military academy at age 10 but after a miserable 5 years the young Rilke left due to illness and instead entered first Prague and then Munich and finally Berlin university to study art history, philosophy and literature.His initial forays into literature was in poetry. His intense, mystical and lyrical style was much admired and over time inspired many in succeeding generations. His short prose collection 'Stories of God', written in an impassioned burst over several nights was published in 1900 and offers a beguiling view of much of Rilke's influences and outlook. The following year he married the pioneering sculptor and artist Clara Westhoff. The union produced one child, a daughter Ruth. He lived in Paris for most of the Century's first decade where he mixed with many great minds of the time. Although he continued to write he also worked as a secretary to the sculptor, Rodin. It was only after they settled in Switzerland in 1919 that his writing output was in full flow. Here he wrote profusely in both German and French, which included much on his previous travels, his left-wing sympathies, his religious and existential thoughts, all part of a unique and consummate style.From 1923 on, Rilke increasingly struggled with his health which was now in constant decline and often spent time rehabilitating at a sanatorium. Rainer Maria Rilke died of leukaemia on the 29th December 1926 in Montreux, Switzerland. He was 51.01 - Stories of God by Rainer Maria Rilke - An Introduction02 - The Tale of the Hands of God by Rainer Maria Rilke03 - The Stranger by Rainer Maria Rilke04 - Why God Wants Poor People by Rainer Maria Rilke05 - How Treason Came to Russia by Rainer Maria Rilke06 - How Old Timofei Died Singing by Rainer Maria Rilke07 - The Song of Justice by Rainer Maria Rilke08 - A Scene From the Ghetto of Venice by Rainer Maria Rilke09 - Of One Who Listened to the Stones by Rainer Maria Rilke10 - How the Thimble Came to Be God by Rainer Maria Rilke11 - A Tale of Death and a Strange Postscript Thereto by Rainer Maria Rilke12 - An Indispensable Society by Rainer Maria Rilke13 - The Beggar and the Proud Young Lady by Rainer Maria Rilke14 - A Story Told to the Dark by Rainer Maria Rilke

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Title: Whittington's Cat

Author: Lady Eleanor Smith

Narrator: Elliot Fitzpatrick

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 50 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2023

Genres: Psychological

Publisher's Summary:

Lady Eleanor Furneaux Smith was born in Birkenhead, Merseyside in England on the 7th August 1902 into a privileged family steeped in titles and politics.Part of her education was at Miss Douglas's school at Queen's Gate. Here she met and befriended several other young women that the British tabloid press would later call the 'Bright Young Things', a group of bohemian young aristocrats and socialites in 1920s London.Smith's paternal great-grandmother, was said to have been a Gypsy, and this sparked an early and life-long interest with the Romani people, she even went so far as to learn to read and speak the language, which she called 'musical and broken.'Her life was full of adventure and mishaps. A mistaken encounter with a man she thought could help her into the film business turned out to threats of marriage and death from a man wanted for the murder of his father. She was even arrested twice. Once for listing her career as a journalist and another, in Rome, for walking around in a sleeveless dress.Smith began her career writing society gossip columns for various newspapers but later received an offer to write for the newly-formed Great Carmo Circus, with which she travelled for several years and was the source material for many of her books.Her first novel, 'Red Wagon', was published when she was 28 and it was an immediate bestseller. A prolific writer several of her works were also adapted for films.Smith also wrote ghost stories and others flavoured with evil. Her support for the Conservative party may be forgiven but her attributed quote to be a 'warm adherent of General Franco' less so.Lady Eleanor Furneaux Smith died on the 20th October 1945 in Westminster after a long illness. She was 43.

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Title: Le Grande Bretèche

Author: Honoré De Balzac

Narrator: Elliot Fitzpatrick

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 58 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2023

Genres: Psychological

Publisher's Summary:

Honoré de Balzac was born on the 20th May, 1799 in the French city of Tours into an upper middle class family. At birth Balzac was wet-nursed and often then schooled away from home by parents who seemed remote. So difficult was life that at 15 he attempted suicide. The family's intention was for him to have a career in law but Balzac preferred literature. An avid reader, he began writing but his early attempts showed little promise. He thereafter settled in Paris and began to publish anonymously across political, philosophical, and historical novels.In 1825, Balzac purchased a printing house. He was soon bankrupt and forced to return to writing in order to reduce his debts. But his literary fortunes had changed, and his writing was now to achieve considerable success. He was accepted among the city's literary élites and its salons and would play an important role in establishing the copyright law in France. Balzac often worked on more than one project at a time and in his magnus opus 'The Human Comedy' all types of texts were collected to offer a rare narrative of different classes and social stereotypes of society. For many Balzac is considered the father of French realism, yet his works also cover philosophical and psychological questions. His writing was a fundamental source of inspiration for many distinguished and later writers such as Flaubert, Zola and Proust. Balzac also tried his hand at magazine publication with 'La Chronique de Paris' and 'La Revue Parisienne.' Although he was partnered with others such as Victor Hugo, it was another complete financial failure. As a committed Catholic, Balzac's stories also dealt with themes of mysticism, esotericism and spirituality, as well as universality and humanism. In politics, he was a staunch defender of the French Crown but unlike his contemporaries he was not an implacable enemy of the republicans. He often presented disagreements between royalists and republicans as a tolerable difference in political opinion. Despite many relationships Balzac married only towards the end of his life and it was in 1833 that he met the Polish Countess Hanska, who only became his wife 17 years later after an extensive relationship by correspondence and, by then, his health was ruinously bad. Honoré de Balzac died on 18th August 1850 in Paris. He was 51.

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Title: Satan's Circus

Author: Lady Eleanor Smith

Narrator: Elliot Fitzpatrick

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 43 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2023

Genres: Psychological

Publisher's Summary:

Lady Eleanor Furneaux Smith was born in Birkenhead, Merseyside in England on the 7th August 1902 into a privileged family steeped in titles and politics.Part of her education was at Miss Douglas's school at Queen's Gate. Here she met and befriended several other young women that the British tabloid press would later call the 'Bright Young Things', a group of bohemian young aristocrats and socialites in 1920s London.Smith's paternal great-grandmother, was said to have been a Gypsy, and this sparked an early and life-long interest with the Romani people, she even went so far as to learn to read and speak the language, which she called 'musical and broken.'Her life was full of adventure and mishaps. A mistaken encounter with a man she thought could help her into the film business turned out to threats of marriage and death from a man wanted for the murder of his father. She was even arrested twice. Once for listing her career as a journalist and another, in Rome, for walking around in a sleeveless dress.Smith began her career writing society gossip columns for various newspapers but later received an offer to write for the newly-formed Great Carmo Circus, with which she travelled for several years and was the source material for many of her books.Her first novel, 'Red Wagon', was published when she was 28 and it was an immediate bestseller. A prolific writer several of her works were also adapted for films.Smith also wrote ghost stories and others flavoured with evil. Her support for the Conservative party may be forgiven but her attributed quote to be a 'warm adherent of General Franco' less so.Lady Eleanor Furneaux Smith died on the 20th October 1945 in Westminster after a long illness. She was 43.

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Title: Virginia Woolf - A Short Story Collection - Volume 2

Author: Virginia Woolf

Narrator: David Shaw-Parker

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 6 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2023

Genres: Psychological

Publisher's Summary:

Adeline Virginia Woolf was born on the 25th January 1882 in South Kensington in London.Although lauded as a founder of modernist writing with such classics as 'Orlando', 'Mrs Dalloway' and 'To the Lighthouse' and, of course, many classic short stories, her background is filled with elements of tragedy that she somehow overcame to become such a revered writer. Her mother died when she was 13, her half-sister Stella two years later and with it her first of several nervous breakdowns. Appallingly it was later found that three of her half-brothers had sexually abused her so darkness must have seemed ever present. She began writing professionally at age 20 but her father's death two years later brought a complete mental collapse, and she was briefly institutionalised. Somehow, she found within herself a literary career and with it great innovations in writing; she was a pioneer of "stream of consciousness". Her tight circle of friends were the founders of the Bloomsbury Group, a movement whose legacy still influences across the arts and society in many ways to this day. Whilst the dark periods continued to interrupt her emotional state her rate of work never ceased. Until on 28th March 1941, Woolf put on her overcoat, filled up its pockets with stones, and walked into the River Ouse, in Lewes, East Sussex and drowned herself. Her body was not recovered until the 18th April. She was 59.She left behind a note which read in part:?"Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do".1 - Virginia Woolf - A Short Story Collection Volume 2 - An Introduction2 - The Legacy by Virginia Woolf3 - Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 4 - The Mark on the Wall by Virginia Woolf5 - An Unwritten Novel by Virginia Woolf6 - The Lady in the Looking Glass by Virginia Woolf

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Title: H G Wells - A Short Story Collection - Volume 3

Author: H.G. Wells

Narrator: Elliot Fitzpatrick

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 39 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2023

Genres: Psychological

Publisher's Summary:

Herbert George Wells was born on September 21st, 1866 at Atlas House, 46 High Street, Bromley, Kent. He was the youngest of four siblings and his family affectionately knew him as 'Bertie'. The first few years of his childhood were spent fairly quietly, and Wells didn't display much literary interest until, in 1874, he accidentally broke his leg and was left to recover in bed, largely entertained by the library books his father regularly brought him. Through these Wells found he could escape the boredom and misery of his bed and convalescence by exploring the new worlds he encountered in these books. From these humble beginnings began a career that was, after several delays, to be seen as one of the most brilliant of modern English writers. Able to write comfortably in a number of genres he was especially applauded for his science fiction works such as The Time Machine and War of the Worlds but his forays into the social conditions of the times, with classics such as Kipps, were almost as commercially successful. His short stories are miniature masterpieces many of which bring new and incredible ideas of science fiction to the edge of present day science fact. Wells also received four nominations for the Nobel Prize in LiteratureDespite a strong and lasting second marriage his affairs with other women also brought the complications of fathering other children. His writings and work against fascism, as well as the promotion of socialism, brought him into increasing doubts with and opposition to religion. His writings on what the world could be in works, such as A Modern Utopia, are thought provoking as well as being plausible, especially when viewed from the distressing times they were written in.His diabetic condition pushed him to create what is now the largest Diabetes charity in the United Kingdom. Wells even found the time to run twice for Parliament.It was a long, distinguished and powerfully successful career by the time he died, aged 79, on 13th August 1946.1 - H G Wells - A Short Story Collection Volume 2 - An Introduction2 - A Dream of Armageddon - Part 1 by H G Wells3 - A Dream of Armageddon - Part 2 by H G Wells4 - The Stolen Bacillus by H G Wells5 - The Cone by H G Wells6 - The Magic Shop by H G Wells

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Title: Vladimir Korolenko - A Short Story Collection

Author: Vladimir Korolenko

Narrator: Mark Rice-Oxley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 24 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2023

Genres: Psychological

Publisher's Summary:

Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko was born in Zhytomyr, Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire on 27th July 1853.His father died when he was 13 and life was then often struck with bouts of poverty, which resulted in his education being somewhat erratic. A spell in exile at 23 was followed by another as the politics of the times opposed his volatile but heart-felt passions.Writing was also coming to the fore and in 1879 his debut short story telling of a young Narodnik searching for social and spiritual identity, was published.In 1881, Korolenko refused to swear allegiance to the new Russian Tsar and was again exiled, this time much farther afield. He spent the next three years doing manual work, but took time to study local customs and history. These impressions in exile provided rich material for his writings.In 1885 he was allowed to settle in Nizhny, where again he repeatedly questioned the authorities. That same year 'Makar's Dream' established his literary reputation and was part of his first collection 'Sketches and Stories', the following year.In the early 1890's when famine struck Central Russia, he went to work on relief missions, collecting donations, supervising the delivery and distribution of food, opening 45 free canteens, all this while writing the graphic reports that would later be published as 'In the Year of Famine' in 1893.By 1896 despite some psychological disorders, he was well regarded amongst Russian writers and was even a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Throughout his writing career Korolenko was a staunch advocate of human rights, putting that sacred activity above what he called his 'part-time-writing'.In the Revolutionary year of 1905, under his editorship, Russkoye Bogatstvo published the Manifest by the Petersburg Soviet of the Workers' deputies. Korolenko was now repeatedly harassed by the authorities, had his flat raided many times and materials confiscated.As a lifetime opponent of Tsarism, he guardedly welcomed the Revolution of 1917. Once the nature of Bolshevism was established, he soon started to criticize it. During the Russian Civil War that ensued, he condemned both the Red Terror and the White Terror. Despite suffering from a progressive heart disorder, he collected food packages for children in famine-stricken Moscow and Petrograd as well as organised orphanages and shelters for the homeless. Vladimir Korolenko died in Poltava, Ukraine, of the complications of pneumonia on 25th December 1921. He was 68.1 - Vladimir Korolenko - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction2 - The Village of God by Vladimir Korolenko3 - The Old Bell Ringer by Vladimir Korolenko4 - Neccesity. An Eastern Tale by Vladimir Korolenko5 - Lights by Vladimir Korolenko6 - The Shades, a Phantasy by Vladimir Korolenko

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Title: The Looking Glass

Author: John Davys Beresford

Narrator: Lisa Bowerman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 59 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2023

Genres: Psychological

Publisher's Summary:

John Davys Beresford was born on 17th March 1873. His life was blighted by infantile paralysis which left him partially disabled.After an education at Oundle school he trained to be an architect. However, he quickly decided that his life was to be centred on a literary career. His first offerings were in drama and as a journalist.As well as being a book reviewer for the Manchester Guardian he contributed to New Statesman, The Spectator, Westminster Gazette, and the Theosophist magazine The Aryan Path. His spiritual journey in early adulthood had claimed him as an agnostic, in defiance of his clergyman father. This view he later abandoned in preference to describing himself as a Theosophist and a pacifist.As well as many novels, many themed with spiritual and philosophical elements Beresford was also a gifted short story writer particularly across the science-fiction, horror and ghost genres.All of these elements helped him to obtain a prominent place in Edwardian Literary London.J D Beresford died on the 2nd February 1947. He was 73.

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Title: The Stars in Their Courses

Author: Mary Cholmondeley

Narrator: Lisa Bowerman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 44 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2023

Genres: Psychological

Publisher's Summary:

Mary Cholmondeley was born in Hodnet near Market Drayton in Shropshire on June 8th 1859, thethird of eight children. Her father was appointed rector in 1874 in succession to his father. Much ofthe first 30 years of her life was taken up with helping her sickly mother run the household and herfather with parish work, and she herself suffered with asthma.Mary began writing with in her teens. She wrote in her journal in 1877, "What a pleasure andinterest it would be to me in life to write books. I must strike out a line of some kind, and if I do notmarry (for at best that is hardly likely, as I possess neither beauty nor charms) I should want somedefinite occupation, besides the home duties."Mary began by publishing some stories in The Graphic and her first novel 'The Danvers Jewels' adetective story followed in 1887. It was followed by Sir Charles Danvers (1889), Diana Tempest(1893).After her father retired in 1896, she moved with him and her sister Diana to Condover Hall beforeselling it to move to Albert Gate Mansions in Knightsbridge, London.Mary wrote the best seller 'Red Pottage' in 1899. It satirised religious hypocrisy and the conceit ofcountry life. It was denounced as immoral. It also explored female sexuality.During the war she did clerical work in the Carlton House Terrace Hospital. The sisters moved in1919 to 4 Argyll Road, Kensington, where Mary died, unmarried, on 15th July 1925.