Learning Brazilian Portuguese often becomes easier when learners hear the language repeatedly in clear and memorable situations. This audiobook uses short everyday stories to introduce practical vocabulary, conversational phrases and natural pronunciation in a format designed for English-speaking beginners.Most stories last only a few minutes, making the collection well suited to commuting, daily listening sessions or repeated review. The shorter structure encourages consistent exp...

Learn Italian with these simple and entertaining short stories designed to make language learning enjoyable and effective. Each story is carefully structured for maximum comprehension: first presented in Italian, then translated into clear, natural English, and finally revisited in Italian for a second time. This proven approach to parallel text learning helps reinforce vocabulary, sentence structure, and pronunciation without feeling repetitive or overwhelming.Through story-based ...

One night of passion and possibly one more chance at love…Determined, motivated, goal-driven, and eternally single, Dr. Taylor James is an accomplished university administrator in San Francisco determined to get his campus successfully through an upcoming accreditation process. The process could set him up for his ultimate career goalto be one of the only Black and openly queer university presidents in the US. Taylor gives himself just one day a week to have fun and let loose with ...

After a rough breakup, gay romance author Renny Ross heads to the Bay Area for a fresh start. His new gig writing the anniversary story for a local university is supposed to be a fresh chapter (thanks to university president Dr. Taylor James). But Renny didn’t expect to run into a familiar face from his past.After dropping off his youngest child at college, recently divorced Brent D. King DuPree, is on a journey to freedom, liberation, and living the life he put on hold for over tw...

The Self Possessed is a multifaceted, diachronic study reconsidering the very nature of religion in South Asia, the culmination of years of intensive research. Frederick M. Smith proposes that positive oracular or ecstatic possession is the most common form of spiritual expression in India, and that it has been linguistically distinguished from negative, disease-producing possession for thousands of years.In South Asia possession has always been broader and more diverse th...

Two newly single, Black, queer, and socially aware men have packed up to start again—in love, career, and life—in the West Hollywood neighborhood of LA.Zaire James, on the cusp of 30, has decided marriage isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Despite friends, family, and coworkers loving Zaire’s “perfect” partner, divorce is a necessary step for finding himself and being free. If only it were that easy.Kenny Kane has made a career of deferring dreams, lowering expectations, and ...

Elijah Golden and Justin Monroe are uncle and nephew with eclectic careers, friends, and family in LA, trying to center joy in their lives. Then their worlds turn in ways nobody expects.Elijah, a dedicated thespian, auditions by day, does theater by night, and works two jobs on weekends. With enough life for three people, he keeps his recently divorced partner Zaire coasting on bliss…until secrets and real-life dramas test their love.Justin, Elijah’s uncle, is a single fath...

Reflections on the events in the last year of dystopia and lies throughout COVID and Lockdowns etc. from Jan 20 to Feb 21. They are mainly applicable to the situation here in Ireland, (not a Republic as it is supposed to be) but you may see similarities in your own countries and situations. You may not agree with all of them, but that is for you to decide. Never let others guide your thinking, think for yourself – I encourage it. It is not all doom and gloom I assure you. There are some ot...

Drawing on the thought of novelist and cultural critic Daniel Quinn, argues it is not too late to free ourselves from a culture in which we are compelled to destroy the world, one another, and even ourselves.We members of settler colonial culture-the latest form of what novelist and cultural critic Daniel Quinn calls Taker culture-are constrained by myriad institutions that leave us with little choice but to engage in practices that are profoundly damaging...

A collection of acrostic poetry by Irish poet Alistair Frederick Smith.

Poetry from the dystopia of Corona Flu 2020 to February 2022.

That cold morning in July 1943 still haunted 633 Squadron, for only a single Mosquito made it back from the suicidal but successful Operation Vesuvius. Now, barely a year later, the Germans were once more processing the secret “element” known as IMI in a strongly defended facility in Norway and were about to move their stocks to the safety of Germany. If successful, the whole tide of the war would be turned. Once again, it meant another “mission impossible” for 633 Squadron...Frede...