Songs of Love and Life by Zora Cross ~ Full Audiobook [poetry]

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08/25/23

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Songs of Love and Life by Zora Cross audiobook.

Genre: poetry

First published in Australia in 1917, Songs of Love and Life is the collection that made poet and journalist Zora Cross a national sensation. Built largely around a sequence of love sonnets, it speaks in an intimate first-person voice that refuses to treat desire as something shameful or silent. Across these tightly wrought poems, Cross traces the exhilaration and ache of passionate attachment, the pull between private longing and public respectability, and the way love can feel at once bodily, reverent, and defiantly modern. Alongside its charged romantic focus, the collection threads in a broader conscience about the world Cross lived in, questioning inherited Victorian ideals and sounding notes that can be read as feminist and anti-war in spirit. The result is a book that moves between tenderness and provocation, worship and appetite, lyric beauty and blunt honesty, offering a portrait of a woman insisting on the full range of her experience. For listeners, it is both a time capsule of early twentieth-century literary scandal and a vivid, enduring exploration of what it means to claim love in your own language.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 001

(00:01:00) Chapter 002

(00:02:05) Chapter 003

(00:03:17) Chapter 004

(00:04:19) Chapter 005

(00:05:27) Chapter 006

(00:06:29) Chapter 007

(00:07:30) Chapter 008

(00:08:32) Chapter 009

(00:09:29) Chapter 010

(00:10:33) Chapter 011

(00:11:34) Chapter 012

(00:12:35) Chapter 013

(00:13:43) Chapter 014

(00:14:42) Chapter 015

(00:15:56) Chapter 016

(00:16:58) Chapter 017

(00:18:02) Chapter 018

(00:19:01) Chapter 019

(00:20:04) Chapter 020

(00:21:08) Chapter 021

(00:22:09) Chapter 022

(00:23:10) Chapter 023

(00:24:11) Chapter 024

(00:25:13) Chapter 025

(00:26:13) Chapter 026

(00:27:22) Chapter 027

(00:28:29) Chapter 028

(00:29:30) Chapter 029

(00:30:35) Chapter 030

(00:31:40) Chapter 031

(00:32:40) Chapter 032

(00:33:39) Chapter 033

(00:34:42) Chapter 034

(00:35:43) Chapter 035

(00:36:48) Chapter 036

(00:38:01) Chapter 037

(00:39:11) Chapter 038

(00:40:12) Chapter 039

(00:41:13) Chapter 040

(00:42:14) Chapter 041

(00:43:27) Chapter 042

(00:44:24) Chapter 043

(00:45:32) Chapter 044

(00:46:29) Chapter 045

(00:47:27) Chapter 046

(00:48:26) Chapter 047

(00:49:28) Chapter 048

(00:50:44) Chapter 049

(00:51:45) Chapter 050

(00:52:44) Chapter 051

(00:53:46) Chapter 052

(00:54:43) Chapter 053

(00:55:51) Chapter 054

(00:56:51) Chapter 055

(00:58:02) Chapter 056

(00:59:03) Chapter 057

(01:00:06) Chapter 058

(01:01:02) Chapter 059

(01:02:15) Chapter 060

(01:03:16) Chapter 061

(01:11:54) Chapter 062

(01:12:55) Chapter 063

(01:14:04) Chapter 064

(01:15:35) Chapter 065

(01:17:10) Chapter 066

(01:18:24) Chapter 067

(01:19:23) Chapter 068

(01:20:18) Chapter 069

(01:21:44) Chapter 070

(01:23:36) Chapter 071

(01:28:09) Chapter 072

(01:29:49) Chapter 073

(01:31:01) Chapter 074

(01:32:28) Chapter 075

(01:33:52) Chapter 076

(01:34:55) Chapter 077

(01:36:11) Chapter 078

(01:38:03) Chapter 079

(01:39:19) Chapter 080

(01:40:02) Chapter 081

(01:41:42) Chapter 082

(01:42:27) Chapter 083

(01:45:31) Chapter 084

(01:46:33) Chapter 085

(01:49:52) Chapter 086

(01:57:33) Chapter 087

(01:59:08) Chapter 088

(02:00:19) Chapter 089

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In Brain and Personality, or the Physical Relations of the Brain to the Mind, physician and thinker William Hanna Thomson explores one of the most enduring questions in human self-understanding: how the material brain relates to the immaterial experiences we call thought, character, will, and consciousness. Writing for curious readers as well as students of medicine and philosophy, Thomson surveys what anatomy and physiology can say about the nervous system, then presses onward into the harder territory of personality: why individuals differ, how habits and emotions take root, and what it means to speak of a self that can reflect and choose. Along the way, he weighs popular assumptions about heredity, mental effort, and the limits of scientific explanation, arguing for careful observation without reducing the whole of mind to mere mechanism. Part scientific primer and part philosophical inquiry, this book invites listeners into a disciplined conversation between laboratory facts and lived experience, aiming to clarify where physical causation ends, where interpretation begins, and how both perspectives can inform a humane view of mental life.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:38:00) Chapter 02

(00:55:01) Chapter 03

(01:07:32) Chapter 04

(01:25:01) Chapter 05

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(02:29:32) Chapter 07

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(03:16:55) Chapter 09

(03:43:18) Chapter 10

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(05:24:21) Chapter 14

(05:49:46) Chapter 15

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August 25, 2023

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220m

The Border Riflemen by Albert W. Aiken audiobook.

Genre: adventure

Set on the raw edge of the American frontier during the Black Hawk War, The Border Riflemen follows Sadie Wescott, a spirited young settler trying to keep her family's riverside cabin safe as rumor and violence spread through the timber. When the dangerous woodsman William 'Black Will' Jackwood corners her with threats he intends to make good on, Sadie's unlikely champion appears in the form of Cooney Joe Bent, a brawling scout with a fierce sense of justice. Soon Captain Charley Melton and his mounted riflemen are riding the border country, trying to prevent open war even as hotheaded settlers and hard-bitten renegades fan the flames. Into this volatile mix steps Minneoba, the daughter of Black Hawk, whose warnings and divided loyalties reveal how close the region is to catastrophe. Betrayals for whiskey, secret messages, river chases, and bush fights pull Sadie and her friends into a widening struggle where every ally is precious and every shadowed grove may hide an enemy. And haunting the conflict is a mysterious figure whispered about as the Forest Fiend, striking from the darkness with motives no one can quite trust.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:17:36) Chapter 02

(00:34:04) Chapter 03

(00:50:14) Chapter 04

(01:04:22) Chapter 05

(01:21:54) Chapter 06

(01:37:44) Chapter 07

(01:49:19) Chapter 08

(02:08:18) Chapter 09

(02:24:21) Chapter 10