Learn Japanese through simple short stories tailored for English-speaking beginners. This everyday Japanese audiobook improves your Japanese listening practice and helps you master essential vocabulary for daily life in context. Perfect for self-study, it is an engaging way to understand spoken Japanese and build conversational fluency.

Dirty little secrets can lead to public scandals and unexpected love affairs…Malcolm Campbell is the director of a south Los Angeles organization focused on mentoring gay youth, and his nineteen-year-old nephew, Blake, is being sent to stay with him for the summer. Malcolm has always been a community and family role model everyone looks up to. But he also has a secret he never knew he had… until it pops up on the Internet.Across town, in the closed and closeted world of Bla...

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...

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...

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 ...

This audiobook helps English speakers learn German through easy short stories designed for beginners and lower intermediate learners. Each story uses practical vocabulary, clear sentence structures and everyday situations to make German listening practice more approachable and enjoyable. The learning method is based on repetition and active listening. Every story is presented three times to strengthen comprehension and memory. First the complete story is heard in German, then the English t...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

This book is written basically for Christians. The unsaved will not know these scriptures and stories I refer to. But even they can see them, and get curious enough to accept Christ. There are scriptures especially in Revelation that even Christians have never heard before. Ask yourself why you were never taught these things in church? Christians must start a personal and serious Bible study on their own. The Lord will guide if you will use what He shows you for His work. He doesn’t waste ...

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