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Aimless Love: A Selection of Poems by Billy Collins

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198037 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198037] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Aimless Love: A Selection of Poems Author: Billy Collins Narrator: Billy Collins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 25 minutes Release date: October 22, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Genres: Comedy, Satire & Parody Publisher's Summary: DIGITAL EXCLUSIVE: Includes 5 additional poems only available on the digital download. “Billy Collins puts the ‘fun’ back in ‘profundity.’ ”—Alice Fulton From the two-term Poet Laureate of the United States Billy Collins comes his first compilation of new and selected poems in twelve years. Aimless Love combines new poems with selections from four previous books—Nine Horses, The Trouble with Poetry, Ballistics, and Horoscopes for the Dead. Collins’s unmistakable voice, which brings together plain speech with imaginative surprise, is clearly heard with every word, reminding us how he has managed to enrich the tapestry of contemporary poetry and greatly expand its audience. His work is featured in top literary magazines such as The New Yorker, Poetry, and The Atlantic, and he sells out reading venues all across the country. Appearing regularly in The Best American Poetry series, his poems appeal to readers and live audiences far and wide and have been translated into more than a dozen languages. By turns playful, ironic, and serious, Collins’s poetry captures the nuances of everyday life while leading the reader into zones of inspired wonder. In the poet’s own words, he hopes that his poems “begin in Kansas and end in Oz.” Touching on the themes of love, loss, joy, and poetry itself, these poems showcase the best work of this “poet of plenitude, irony, and Augustan grace” (The New Yorker). Envoy   Go, little book, out of this house and into the world,   carriage made of paper rolling toward town bearing a single passenger beyond the reach of this jittery pen and far from the desk and the nosy gooseneck lamp.   It is time to decamp, put on a jacket and venture outside, time to be regarded by other eyes, bound to be held in foreign hands.   So off you go, infants of the brain, with a wave and some bits of fatherly advice:   stay out as late as you like, don’t bother to call or write, and talk to as many strangers as you can.

The Bishop’s Wife by Robert Nathan

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198471 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198471] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Bishop’s Wife Author: Robert Nathan Narrator: Stephen R. Thorne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 3 minutes Release date: October 15, 2013 Genres: Comedy, Satire & Parody Publisher's Summary: This classic novel is the inspiration behind the beloved Christmas film of the same name starring Cary Grant and Loretta Young. Bishop Henry Brougham desperately wants to build a great cathedral for his overcrowded parish. The problem is he doesn't know how he will find a capable archdeacon to help fund the project. But that's not his only problem. Though his beautiful wife Julia fulfills her marital duties, there is no passion between them. When the bishop prays for help, it comes in the form of Michael, a handsome, golden-haired angel who takes the position of archdeacon. Michael exudes love, which draws new and unexpected emotions from Julia. However, Michael's limitless capacity for love is stifled by his mortal duties of manipulating money from wealthy religious patrons. With the holidays approaching, the bishop senses the mutual attraction between Julia and Michael. Will the purity of a divine love lure Julia away, or will her sense of marital duty prevail?

Short Cruises: 12 Humorous Short Stories by W.W. Jacobs

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196908 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196908] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Short Cruises: 12 Humorous Short Stories Author: W.W. Jacobs Narrator: Cathy Dobson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 6 minutes Release date: September 1, 2013 Genres: Comedy, Satire & Parody Publisher's Summary: W.W. Jacobs was an English writer, famous for his humorous short stories, particularly those relating the preposterous adventures and misadventures of sailors on leave. This collection, Short Cruises, contains some of W.W. Jacobs' most popular characters, including the night watchman at the docks in Wapping who relates the stories of his friends Ginger Dick, Sam Small, and Peter Russet.

Pulp by Charles Bukowski

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194297 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194297] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pulp Author: Charles Bukowski Narrator: Christian Baskous Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 39 minutes Release date: August 13, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Comedy, Satire & Parody Publisher's Summary: Opening with the exotic Lady Death entering the gumshoe-writer's seedy office in pursuit of a writer named Celine, this novel demonstrates Bukowski's own brand of humour and realism, opening up a landscape of seamy Los Angeles.

Women: A Novel by Charles Bukowski

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194303 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194303] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Women: A Novel Author: Charles Bukowski Narrator: Christian Baskous Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 27 minutes Release date: August 13, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.14 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 8 Genres: Comedy, Satire & Parody Publisher's Summary: Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his poetic star rising at last. Now, at fifty, he is reveling in his sudden rock-star life, running three hundred hangovers a year, and maintaining a sex life that would cripple Casanova. With all of Bukowski's trademark humor and gritty, dark honesty, this 1978 follow-up to Post Office and Factotum is an uncompromising account of life on the edge.