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Neste audiolivro, Mano Melo, o 'poeta-show' nas palavras de Pedro Bial, declama uma seleção de poemas extraídos do seu livro O lavrador de palavras, alguns deles que ficaram famosos em recitais feitos por todo o Brasil, como Sexo em Moscou e Madonna.

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Juana Inés de Asuaje y Ramírez, 1651-1695) es una de las mayores figuras de las letras hispanas del siglo XVII y su nombre figura por derecho propio junto a los grandes autores del Siglo de Oro. Cultivó la lírica, el auto sacramental y el teatro, así como la prosa. Por la importancia de su obra, recibió los sobrenombres de «el Fénix de América», «la Décima Musa» o «la Décima Musa mexicana».

Remembrance of Things Past is one of the monuments of 20th-century literature. Neville Jason’s unabridged recording of the work runs to 150 hours. Marcel's obsessive feelings of possession for Albertine have forced her to flee. It comes as a terrible shock and is followed by further destabilizing news about other friends.

Immune to the consequences of immorality, five privileged young men in Bogotá bond over a shared code: worship drugs and drink, exploit women, and scorn the underclass. As males, they declare the right to freedom of pleasure. As friends, only disloyalty to each other is forbidden. When a little girl from the slums disappears, the limits of a perverse and sacred bond will be tested in ways none of them could have imagined.

Amora dares explore the way women love each other - the atrophy and healing of the female spirit in response to sexual desire and identity. These thirty-three short stories and poems, crafted with a deliberate delicacy, each capture the candid, private moments of women in love. Together, these stories and the women who inhabit them reveal an illuminating portrait of the sacred female romance, with all its nuances, complexities, burdens, and triumphs revealed.

Luis J. Rodriguez writes about race, culture, identity, and belonging and what these all mean and should mean (but often fail to) in the volatile climate of our nation. His passion and wisdom inspire us with the message that we must come together if we are to move forward.

By acclaimed Forward Prize-winner, novelist, and poet, Kei Miller's linked collection of essays blends memoir and literary commentary to explore the silences that exist in our conversations about race, sex, and gender.

The words of Kahlil Gibran give his book The Prophet a broad range of inspiration and philosophy. They provide exceptional insight into human desires and understanding. The vivid observations are vibrant with feeling and acceptance of life’s many questions and hopes. One review saluted the story as being untouched by the harshness of life. Gibran’s other two books, The Forerunner and The Madman, are of deep assistance in the same manner.

Throughout his life, Gabriel García Márquez spoke publicly with the same passion and energy that marked his writing. Now the wisdom and compassion of these performances are available in English for the first time. I’m Not Here to Give a Speech records key events throughout the author’s life, from a farewell to his classmates delivered when he was only 17 to his Nobel Prize acceptance speech.

Crossfire collects Staceyann Chin's empowering, feminist-LGBTQ-Caribbean, activist-driven poetry for the first time in a single work.

Colliding with and confronting Shakespeare's The Tempest and postcolonial identity, the poems in Safiya Sinclair's Cannibal beautifully evoke the poet's Jamaican childhood and reach beyond to explore history, race relations in America, womanhood, otherness and exile. She evokes a home no longer accessible and a body at times uninhabitable, often mirrored by a hybrid Eve/Caliban figure. Blooming with intense lyricism and fertile imagery, these full-blooded poems are elegant, mythic and intricately woven.

A dramatic true story about being on a Caribbean Island during one of the largest hurricanes in modern history. Love, friendship, survival, and gracious luck all come into play during this harrowing ordeal. Voiced by National Recording sensation Roger Leopardi. He brings a special talent to the story. A powerful retelling that will leave the listener enriched, emotional, and full of hope.

Of Aztecs and Conquistadors is the definitive collection of Juan Pablo Jalisco's poetry. The selection featured in this audiobook will carry the listener on a journey not only through the vast beauty of the land that is Mexico, but also serves as a journey through the ages that have helped to shape this at times wild and rugged, but always romantic and awesomely beautiful country and its people.

The groundbreaking trans-genre work of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) has been insinuating itself into the structure, stance, and very breath of world literature for well over half a century. Multi-layered, self-referential, elusive, and allusive writing is now frequently labelled Borgesian.

En julio de 1868, el mariscal Francisco Solano López, tras dejar atrás la fortaleza de Humaitá, encargó el resto de su ejército y símbolo de la defensa paraguaya al coronel Paulino Alén. Este, a la espera de sus órdenes, pierde el horizonte de la realidad y, desquiciado, comete errores que desviarán para siempre el curso de las vidas del coronel Francisco Martínez y de su esposa Juliana Insfrán.

Début du XXe siècle. Les Rochefort fabriquent la toile "de Nîmes". Les Rouvière exploitent la dure terre cévenole. Un monde les sépare. Un secret les réunit... En 1898 à Nîmes, un bébé est abandonné dans un couvent. Sept ans plus tard, Donatien Rouvière, riche paysan des Cévennes, en quête d'un fils, adopte le jeune orphelin nommé Vincent Janvier.

Mitos urbanos y leyendas de toda América se condensan en este poemario. Por sus páginas transitan diversos espectros, tal como invoca y enumera el Chupacabras en uno de los poemas: “Criaturas de la noche y del sol. Dama Tapada, Muqui, Yasy Yeteré, Hombre Caimán, Kharisiri, Silbón, Viuda, Telesita, Curupira, Tata Duende, Cadejo, Justo Juez de la Noche, Mona Bruja, Santa Muerte, Demonio de Dover, Wendigo, Chica de la bufanda, Llorona. Criaturas del inframundo, unámonos en esta nueva era en que la humanidad ha degenerado y es la escoria del universo”.

Miti urbani e leggende di tutta l’America si condensano in questa raccolta di poesie. Per le sue pagine transitano diversi spettri, così come li invoca ed enumera il Chupacabra in uno dei poemi: “Creature della notte e del sole. Donna Velata, Muqui, Yasi Yeteré, Uomo Caimano, Kharisiri, Silbón, Vedova, Telesita, Curupira, Tata Duende, Cadejo, Giusto Giudice della Notte, Mona Bruja, Santa Morte, Demone di Dover, Wendigo, Ragazza della Sciarpa, Llorona....”

Poetry collection by Jamaican-born poet, creative writer, visual artist, and media professional Keisha-Gaye Anderson. After graduating from Syracuse University (Newhouse and College of Arts and Science), Anderson began her career in television production at CBS News, where she worked as an associate producer for long-form documentaries like A&E Biography. Her poetry and essays have appeared in a number of national literary magazines, journals, and anthologies.

Beyond Soul is a collection of late 20th century poems and short stories deeply influenced by societal observations, spirituality, and nature. The audiobook depicts a stream of consciousness connected by the view points of animate and inanimate narrators, discussing the matters of life and transitioning.