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Be Carefree Today

Lessen Mental Stress, Let Go of Uncontrollable Things, and Go Through Everyday Life More Easily

by Gabrielle Houde ...

Narrated by AI Voice LYAN ...

Unabridged

5 hours 18 min

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.Life can feel heavier than it needs to when your mind is constantly preparing, reconsidering,predicting, and worrying about things beyond your control. Even ordinary days can becomeexhausting when every unfinished task feels urgent, every uncertain situation demands ananswer, and every possible problem receives your attention before it actually happens.Be ... Read more

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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.Life can feel heavier than it needs to when your mind is constantly preparing, reconsidering,predicting, and worrying about things beyond your control. Even ordinary days can becomeexhausting when every unfinished task feels urgent, every uncertain situation demands ananswer, and every possible problem receives your attention before it actually happens.Be
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Bad Seed

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by Gabriel Carle ...

Translated by Heather Houde ...

A vibrant debut short story collection depicting the disillusionment that comes with being young and queer in Puerto Rico.The visceral, wildly imaginative stories in Bad Seed flick through working-class scenes of contemporary Puerto Rico, where friends and lovers melt into and defy their surroundings—night clubs, ruined streets, cramped rooms with cockroaches moving in the walls. A horny high ... Read more

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A vibrant debut short story collection depicting the disillusionment that comes with being young and queer in Puerto Rico.The visceral, wildly imaginative stories in Bad Seed flick through working-class scenes of contemporary Puerto Rico, where friends and lovers melt into and defy their surroundings—night clubs, ruined streets, cramped rooms with cockroaches moving in the walls. A horny high
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The City Born Great

A Tor.com Original

by N. K. Jemisin ...

In this standalone short story by N. K. Jemisin, author of The Fifth Season, winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel, New York City is about to go through a few changes.Like all great metropolises before it, when a city gets big enough, old enough, it must be born; but there are ancient enemies who cannot tolerate new life. Thus New York will live or die by the efforts of a reluctant midwife...and ... Read more

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In this standalone short story by N. K. Jemisin, author of The Fifth Season, winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel, New York City is about to go through a few changes.Like all great metropolises before it, when a city gets big enough, old enough, it must be born; but there are ancient enemies who cannot tolerate new life. Thus New York will live or die by the efforts of a reluctant midwife...and
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I Would Leave Me If I Could.

A Collection of Poetry

by Halsey ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERGrammy Award–nominated, platinum-selling musician Halsey is heralded as one of the most compelling voices of their generation. In I Would Leave Me If I Could, they reveal never-before-seen poetry of longing, love, and the nuances of bipolar disorder.In this debut collection, Halsey bares their soul. Bringing the same artistry found in their lyrics, Halsey’s poems delve ... Read more

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERGrammy Award–nominated, platinum-selling musician Halsey is heralded as one of the most compelling voices of their generation. In I Would Leave Me If I Could, they reveal never-before-seen poetry of longing, love, and the nuances of bipolar disorder.In this debut collection, Halsey bares their soul. Bringing the same artistry found in their lyrics, Halsey’s poems delve
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The Babysitter at Rest

by Jen George ...

“I'm so happy this collection exists. I feel drunk with love for these stories. They're so funny and weird and true.” —Sheila HetiFive stories―several as long as novellas―introduce the world to Jen George, a writer whose furiously imaginative new voice calls to mind Donald Barthelme and Leonora Carrington no less than Kathy Acker and Chris Kraus. In “Guidance/The Party,” an ethereal alcoholic ... Read more

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“I'm so happy this collection exists. I feel drunk with love for these stories. They're so funny and weird and true.” —Sheila HetiFive stories―several as long as novellas―introduce the world to Jen George, a writer whose furiously imaginative new voice calls to mind Donald Barthelme and Leonora Carrington no less than Kathy Acker and Chris Kraus. In “Guidance/The Party,” an ethereal alcoholic
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peluda

by Melissa Lozada-Oliva ...

One of the most original performance poets of her generation, Melissa Lozada-Oliva has captivated crowds across the country and online with her vivid narratives. Humorous and biting, personal and communal, self-deprecating and unapologetically self-loving, peluda (meaning â€œhairyâ€ or â€œhairy beastâ€) is the poet at her best. The book explores the relationship between femininity and body hair as ... Read more

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One of the most original performance poets of her generation, Melissa Lozada-Oliva has captivated crowds across the country and online with her vivid narratives. Humorous and biting, personal and communal, self-deprecating and unapologetically self-loving, peluda (meaning â€œhairyâ€ or â€œhairy beastâ€) is the poet at her best. The book explores the relationship between femininity and body hair as
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Best Debut Short Stories 2023

The PEN America Dau Prize

Edited by Sarah Lyn Rogers, Summer Farah ...

Series Book 7 - PEN America
**The essential annual guide to the newest voices in literatureSelected by Venita Blackburn, Richard Chiem, and Dantiel W. Moniz**Best Debut Short Stories is an annual celebration of the most promising short story writers today. Selected by a panel of distinguished judges, these twelve stories are the 2023 winners of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, which recognizes ... Read more

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**The essential annual guide to the newest voices in literatureSelected by Venita Blackburn, Richard Chiem, and Dantiel W. Moniz**Best Debut Short Stories is an annual celebration of the most promising short story writers today. Selected by a panel of distinguished judges, these twelve stories are the 2023 winners of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, which recognizes
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BAX 2020

Edited by Seth Abramson, Jesse Damiani, Carmen Maria Machado, Joyelle McSweeney ...

Series series Best American Experimental Writing
BAX 2020, guest-edited by Joyelle McSweeney and Carmen Maria Machado, is the sixth edition of the critically acclaimed anthology series compiling an exciting mix of fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and genre-defying work. Featuring a diverse roster of new and established authors—including Anne Boyer, Alice Notley, and Raquel Salas Rivera— BAX 2020 presents an expansive view of high-energy writing ... Read more

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BAX 2020, guest-edited by Joyelle McSweeney and Carmen Maria Machado, is the sixth edition of the critically acclaimed anthology series compiling an exciting mix of fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and genre-defying work. Featuring a diverse roster of new and established authors—including Anne Boyer, Alice Notley, and Raquel Salas Rivera— BAX 2020 presents an expansive view of high-energy writing
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Panpocalypse

by Carley Moore ...

During the coronavirus pandemic, a queer disabled woman bikes through a locked-down NYC for the ex-girlfriend who broke her heart.Orpheus manages to buy a bicycle just before they sell out across the city. She takes to the streets looking for Eurydice, the first woman she fell in love with, who also broke her heart. The city is largely closed and on lockdown, devoid of touch, connection, and ... Read more

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During the coronavirus pandemic, a queer disabled woman bikes through a locked-down NYC for the ex-girlfriend who broke her heart.Orpheus manages to buy a bicycle just before they sell out across the city. She takes to the streets looking for Eurydice, the first woman she fell in love with, who also broke her heart. The city is largely closed and on lockdown, devoid of touch, connection, and
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Little Bird

by Claudia Ulloa Donoso ...

Translated by Lily Meyer ...

After moving from Peru north of the Arctic circle to begin graduate school, Claudia Ulloa Donoso began blogging about insomnia. Not hers, necessarily – the blog was never defined as fact or fiction. Her blog posts became the bones of Little Bird, short stories with a nod to fervent self-declaration of diary entries and the hallucinatory haze of sleeplessness. Blending narration and personal ... Read more

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After moving from Peru north of the Arctic circle to begin graduate school, Claudia Ulloa Donoso began blogging about insomnia. Not hers, necessarily – the blog was never defined as fact or fiction. Her blog posts became the bones of Little Bird, short stories with a nod to fervent self-declaration of diary entries and the hallucinatory haze of sleeplessness. Blending narration and personal
... Read more
August

by Romina Paula ...

Translated by Jennifer Croft ...

Traveling home to rural Patagonia, a young woman grapples with herself as she makes the journey to scatter the ashes of her friend Andrea. Twenty-one-year-old Emilia might still be living, but she’s jaded by her studies and discontent with her boyfriend, and apathetic toward the idea of moving on. Despite the admiration she receives for having relocated to Buenos Aires, in reality, cosmopolitanism ... Read more

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Traveling home to rural Patagonia, a young woman grapples with herself as she makes the journey to scatter the ashes of her friend Andrea. Twenty-one-year-old Emilia might still be living, but she’s jaded by her studies and discontent with her boyfriend, and apathetic toward the idea of moving on. Despite the admiration she receives for having relocated to Buenos Aires, in reality, cosmopolitanism
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Blazing Hot Getaway

by Daria Blake ...

Series Book 4 - Blaze Family Romance
Sun, sin, string bikinis... everything's going down!"Get your butt down here and help me manage this bar!"My sister's call couldn't come at a better time. I am at loose ends for various reasons and nothing sounds better than a month in Cancún during Spring Break. Nothing, that is, until Bridget Blaze—who looks like a goddess come to life—wanders into my bar.She's here to work… just like me, but ... Read more

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Sun, sin, string bikinis... everything's going down!"Get your butt down here and help me manage this bar!"My sister's call couldn't come at a better time. I am at loose ends for various reasons and nothing sounds better than a month in Cancún during Spring Break. Nothing, that is, until Bridget Blaze—who looks like a goddess come to life—wanders into my bar.She's here to work… just like me, but
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