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15 Minutes Of Love Poems - Volume 3 - "A Red Red Rose" & Many More

A history of love poems ready to squeeze into any moment of your day.

by Robert Burns, Rumi, William Blake, Jane Barker, Andrew Marvell, Aphra Behn, Daniel Sheehan, Edward Thomas, Jonathan Swift, Katherine Philips, Rupert Brooke ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe ...

Series Audiobook 3 - 15 Minutes Of Love Poems
Unabridged

17 min

Love. What is love?The question is asked by each of us but the answer remains elusive.Dictionaries summon up many words but none fulfill. Love itself is often ethereal, felt but only seen in a glance, a look, a fleeting touch. Part of Love’s beauty is perhaps in the fact that the question never can be adequately answered; its ephemeral, a chimera of the heart and only felt.Our own experiences are ... Read more

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Love. What is love?The question is asked by each of us but the answer remains elusive.Dictionaries summon up many words but none fulfill. Love itself is often ethereal, felt but only seen in a glance, a look, a fleeting touch. Part of Love’s beauty is perhaps in the fact that the question never can be adequately answered; its ephemeral, a chimera of the heart and only felt.Our own experiences are
... Read more
The Complete Works of Jane Barker

by Jane Barker ...

The Complete Works of Jane BarkerJane Barker was a popular English fiction writer, poet, and a staunch Jacobite. She went into self-imposed exile when James II fled England during the Glorious Revolution in 1688.This collection includes the following:The Amours of Bosvil and GalesiaExiliusA Patch-Work Screen for the LadiesThe Lining of the Patch-Work Screen ... Read more

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The Complete Works of Jane BarkerJane Barker was a popular English fiction writer, poet, and a staunch Jacobite. She went into self-imposed exile when James II fled England during the Glorious Revolution in 1688.This collection includes the following:The Amours of Bosvil and GalesiaExiliusA Patch-Work Screen for the LadiesThe Lining of the Patch-Work Screen
... Read more
Cultural Studies

Theory and Practice

by Emma A. Jane, Chris Barker ...

"This book presents a magisterial overview of Cultural Studies, and of studies of culture more broadly. It synthesizes a bewildering range of writers and ideas into a comprehensible narrative. It’s respectful to the history of ideas and completely cutting edge. I learned a lot – you will too."- Professor Alan McKee, University of Technology Sydney"The role of culture in spatial, digital and ... Read more

$85.49 USD

"This book presents a magisterial overview of Cultural Studies, and of studies of culture more broadly. It synthesizes a bewildering range of writers and ideas into a comprehensible narrative. It’s respectful to the history of ideas and completely cutting edge. I learned a lot – you will too."- Professor Alan McKee, University of Technology Sydney"The role of culture in spatial, digital and
... Read more
Essential Novelists - Jane Barker

jacobite feeling

by Jane Barker, August Nemo ...

Series Book 101 - Essential Novelists
Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Jane Barkerwhich are The Amours of Bosvil and Galesia, and Exilius. Jane Barker, who wrote during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, shows remarkable daring and ... Read more

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Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Jane Barkerwhich are The Amours of Bosvil and Galesia, and Exilius. Jane Barker, who wrote during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, shows remarkable daring and
... Read more
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The Winterman

by Andrew David Barker ...

Narrated by Sarah Jane Rose, Ian Pringle ...

Unabridged

2 hours 23 min

Late one snowy Christmas Eve, ten-year-old Penny is wide awake, worrying if Santa will come. The house is silent and still, but something miraculous is about to happen. A sleigh crash lands in a cove by the cottage and Penny meets a mysterious being known as the Winterman. This is the true Father of Christmas, an ancient and magical Gift-Giver, and he has a special present to give to a young boy ... Read more

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Late one snowy Christmas Eve, ten-year-old Penny is wide awake, worrying if Santa will come. The house is silent and still, but something miraculous is about to happen. A sleigh crash lands in a cove by the cottage and Penny meets a mysterious being known as the Winterman. This is the true Father of Christmas, an ancient and magical Gift-Giver, and he has a special present to give to a young boy
... Read more
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Bear Boy

The True Story of a Boy, Two Bears, and the Fight to be Free

by Justin Barker, Jane Goodall ...

Narrated by Justin Barker ...

Unabridged

4 hours 57 min

Bear Boy is a true coming-of-age story of two bears who inspire one boy to stand up for animals, question authority and discover the power of activism."This is a book that will encourage you to follow your dreams...I simply couldn't put it down." -Jane Goodall, UN Messenger of Peace"An empowering story of a young man who discovered his words count, his actions count, and he counts...Delightful in ... Read more

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Bear Boy is a true coming-of-age story of two bears who inspire one boy to stand up for animals, question authority and discover the power of activism."This is a book that will encourage you to follow your dreams...I simply couldn't put it down." -Jane Goodall, UN Messenger of Peace"An empowering story of a young man who discovered his words count, his actions count, and he counts...Delightful in
... Read more

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God’s World. No String Puppets

Providence in the Writings of Romano Guardini

by Jane Lee-Barker ...

We live in a world facing many crises, pandemics, climate and environmental challenges, human rights abuses, and threats of totalitarian regimes. Romano Guardini (1885-1968), a major influencer of Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis, worked through one of the most difficult periods of German history--the first half of the twentieth century. What does he have to say to these challenges, and how is ... Read more

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We live in a world facing many crises, pandemics, climate and environmental challenges, human rights abuses, and threats of totalitarian regimes. Romano Guardini (1885-1968), a major influencer of Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis, worked through one of the most difficult periods of German history--the first half of the twentieth century. What does he have to say to these challenges, and how is
... Read more
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Born in England – Exploring English Poetry - The East Midlands

A celebration of English poems

by John Dryden, Alfred Lord Tennyson, D H Lawrence, Anne Bradstreet, John Clare, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Anna Seward, John Beaumont, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Francis Beaumont, John Skelton, Anne Askew, John William Streets, Jean Ingelow, Thomas Randolph, Jane Barker, William Lisle Bowles, Jessie Pope, Henry Kirke White, Mary Leapor ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe, Nigel Davenport ...

Unabridged

1 hour 51 min

Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another. Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us.Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to ... Read more

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Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another. Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us.Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to
... Read more
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Society Place

A Ghost Story

by Andrew David Barker ...

Narrated by Sarah Jane Rose ...

Unabridged

6 hours 22 min

Set during the blazing English summer of 1976, recently widowed Heather Lowes moves into the house she was supposed to live with her husband.But now she is alone.Or at least, she thinks she is.It is a normal terrace house, on an everyday, run-down working class street, in a dying industrial town. A place that seldom sees the extraordinary.However, when Heather meets her new neighbours - the old ... Read more

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Set during the blazing English summer of 1976, recently widowed Heather Lowes moves into the house she was supposed to live with her husband.But now she is alone.Or at least, she thinks she is.It is a normal terrace house, on an everyday, run-down working class street, in a dying industrial town. A place that seldom sees the extraordinary.However, when Heather meets her new neighbours - the old
... Read more
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Out of the Ruins

The Apocalyptic Anthology

by Preston Grassmann, China Miéville, Emily St. John Mandel, Charlie Jane Anders, Ramsey Campbell, Clive Barker, Carmen Maria Machado, various authors, others ...

Narrated by Alex Boyles0, Chelsea Stephens1, Heath Miller2, Helen Lloyd3, James Anderson Foster4, Kevin Kenerly5 ...

Unabridged

10 hours 12 min

A fresh post-apocalyptic anthology: the end of the world seen through the salvage and ruins, featuring Emily St. John Mandel, Carmen Maria Machado, and moreThis anthology of post-apocalyptic fiction asks: What would you save from the fire? In the moments when it all comes crashing down, what will we value the most, and how will we save it?Out of the Ruins features stories from China Miéville, ... Read more

$19.99 USD

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A fresh post-apocalyptic anthology: the end of the world seen through the salvage and ruins, featuring Emily St. John Mandel, Carmen Maria Machado, and moreThis anthology of post-apocalyptic fiction asks: What would you save from the fire? In the moments when it all comes crashing down, what will we value the most, and how will we save it?Out of the Ruins features stories from China Miéville,
... Read more

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Grisly Tales from the Cabaret of Dr Caligari

A BBC Radio 4 Surreal Comedy

by Alan Gilbey ...

Narrated by John Woodvine, Adjoa Andoh, Stephen Tompkinson, Ronald Herdman, Jane Whittenshaw, Clarence Smith, Alan Barker, Cassie Macfarlane, Full Cast ...

Unabridged

2 hours 51 min

An all-star dark comedy set in the mysterious world of Dr CaligariIn a seedy backstreet, in a rotting theatre, the sinister Dr Caligari runs a cabaret with his demonic assistants, Snuff and Anthrax. A riot of a listen, this surreal and macabre comedy follows the smooth-talking Dr Caligari as he encourages unwilling guests to tell their story in his London nightclub. Written by Alan Gilbey, strange ... Read more

$18.99 USD

An all-star dark comedy set in the mysterious world of Dr CaligariIn a seedy backstreet, in a rotting theatre, the sinister Dr Caligari runs a cabaret with his demonic assistants, Snuff and Anthrax. A riot of a listen, this surreal and macabre comedy follows the smooth-talking Dr Caligari as he encourages unwilling guests to tell their story in his London nightclub. Written by Alan Gilbey, strange
... Read more
Bear Boy

The True Story of a Boy, Two Bears, and the Fight to be Free

by Justin Barker ...

Bear Boy is a true-life coming-of-age story of two bears who inspire one boy to stand up for animals, question authority and discover the power of activism."This is a book that will encourage you to follow your dreams...I simply couldn't put it down." -Jane Goodall, UN Messenger of Peace"An empowering story of a young man who discovered his words count, his actions count, and he counts.. ... Read more

$10.99 USD

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Bear Boy is a true-life coming-of-age story of two bears who inspire one boy to stand up for animals, question authority and discover the power of activism."This is a book that will encourage you to follow your dreams...I simply couldn't put it down." -Jane Goodall, UN Messenger of Peace"An empowering story of a young man who discovered his words count, his actions count, and he counts..
... Read more

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