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Charles-Marie Gustave Le Bon (1841 - 1931) was a French polymath who wrote on anthropology, psychology, sociology, medicine, and physics. He is best known for his 1895 work The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind’, which is considered a seminal work of crowd psychology. In the book, Le Bon identifies the primary characteristics of crowd psychology as impulsiveness, irritability, incapacity to reason, the absence of critical judgement, and the exaggeration of feelings.

As we edge toward the 75th anniversary of Osamu Dazai's death, much of his masterful prose remains surprisingly unknown to most English-language audiences. This observational vignette written by a youthful Dazai offers a lovely introduction to the introspective master widely known and loved in Japan. This updated translation in English provides a fresh look at this masterful vignette.

What if it was possible for you to see into your future? What if it was not as simple as seeing? What if you had to choose between a series of possible futures? Would you? Would you want to? How would you deal with all the possible consequences? Madame Olga could help you. That is if you can find her.

My assistant Charlie is suddenly started showing an alarming interest in his new job at my bakery. He comes in early every morning and I start to give him lessons that soon turn sexual when his real intentions become known.

A new apartment block has gone up beside my boss Mr. Thompson's vacation home and it’s really grating on him and me. After getting a wolf-whistle from an unnamed bunch of guys above us I decide to put on a show for anyone who wants to watch. Mr. Thompson takes some convincing. The crowd of voyeurs grows....

First published in 1892, The Yellow Wallpaper is a classic short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It's an early work of feminist literature focused on a female protagonist and her relationship with husband John. A great work for studying and casual listening. This version of The Yellow Wallpaper has excellent narration and the highest quality of audio. All audio is engineered with careful attention to detail for your enjoyment of the story.

"Like shyte through the Bull's anus, so are the days of our lives." Beware! Dangerous horrorscope! Listen at your own peril!

From Rio to Oostend to Amsterdam and beyond, a troupe of acrobats travel the world performing miracles in the air and enthralling audiences. In between gigs they drink, they play, and taunt each other. They get bored. They get up to no good. And then they jump on a plane to it all again somewhere else. Sideshow is a funny and rollicking take on the thrill and drudgery of a life on the road and on what it takes to perform day after day after day.

Pregnant women bursting with lust for the mature alpha males in their lives feature in this eight-pack erotica bundle. Listen to their cravings get the best of them while they submit to their seasoned men in wild style, begging to be satisfied like never before.

Esther Summerson, a young woman raised in a tough and unloving atmosphere, is unexpectedly requested to be a companion to two teenage orphans, Richard Carstone and Ada Clare, for whom the court has appointed as guardian, John Jarndyce. They take up residence at Mr. Jarndyce’s home, Bleak House. The story of their lives and fortunes is the main thrust of the novel, and is related at times through the eyes of Esther, whose gentle point of view gives the listener a different and more intimate perspective.

The BJ Fairy is fast gaining a reputation. The feisty blonde is sneaking into the bedrooms of married men and spoiling them while their wives sleep. She’s on the prowl, and I’m determined to catch her in the act. What’s more, I’m determined to join in! Listen as I catch The BJ Fairy red-handed, and she and I give my husband the treatment he deserves.

August 1939. Roger Miller and Jack O’Brien have been close since childhood. By the time they realize there’s more between them than friendship, Jack is leaving their sleepy Iowa town for college. But they console themselves knowing he’ll be home for Christmas. Right? It is Christmas before they see each other again, but that Christmas comes six years and a world war later. Aged, beaten, and shaken by combat, they’re not the boys they were back then, but their feelings for each other are stronger than ever.

The prophet Al Mustafa has lived in the city of Orphalese for 12 years and is about to board a ship that will carry him home. He is stopped by a group of people with whom he discusses topics such as life and the human condition. The book is divided into chapters dealing with love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, houses, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and death.

When Caroline, a gifted ornithologist who wants a life of travel and adventure, gets pregnant against her wishes, her husband, Charlie, assumes she will change her mind. She doesn't—and as their daughter, Grace, grows up, she falls through the devastating schism that has grown between them. Told by all three of the characters involved and set against the backdrop of Lake Superior, Finding Grace is a piercing chronicle and a poignant comic-of-age journey for a daughter and her parents.

IRL is a sweaty summertime poem composed like a long text message, rooted in the epic tradition of A.R. Ammons, ancient Kumeyaay Bird Songs, and Beyoncé’s visual albums. It follows Teebs, a reservation-born, queer NDN weirdo, trying to figure out his impulses/desires/history in the midst of Brooklyn rooftops, privacy in the age of the Internet, street harassment, suicide, boys boys boys, literature, colonialism, religion, leaving one's 20s, and a love/hate relationship with English.

A sweaty Spring Break adventure takes a troubling turn when an overheated car leaves me stranded. But a helpful trucker provides his assistance with the car and so much more. Roadside Assistance is the first audiobook in the Dear Evie series, a first person retelling of my greatest fantasies and experiences. This one really turns up the heat, so get ready to get a little hot beneath the color with my latest scorcher.

There's one thing the MILFs in these stories have never done before, and there's a man in their lives that they definitely shouldn't do it with!

A holiday classic by Charles Dickens. Originally published in 1843, Dickens worried about the disparity between the wealthy and the impoverished, and it was his attempt to bring this disparity into the light of day, to appeal to the die-hard capitalists to take care of the downtrodden masses. Since this inequity continues, this story is still popular, and will probably continue to be so for the foreseeable future.

A female air-marshal on an international fight receives a call from her HQ to inform her that there may be a bomb on board her plane. She has 15 minutes to track it down. The story unfolds in real time as she attempts to track the bomber while using any spare minute to reflect on her life. Narrated by the author Dave Warner.

The Gancanagh, known in Gaelic as The Love Talker, is a seductive and ruthless creature of Irish mythology known for his intense powers of seduction. To touch him is to lose one's will. To be touched by him is to be his forever. Only a strong will can resist the Gancanagh once they have tasted the ecstasy he brings....