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The Ballad of Speedball Baby: A Memoir
The Ballad of Speedball Baby is the thrilling, extremely funny, and heart-wrenchingly vulnerable story of Ali Smith’s coming of age in ’90s New York as she commits to the messy, exhilarating life of a musician and must survive the slings and arrows society reserves for women who refuse to comply. As an only child reeling from the demolition of her parents’ toxic marriage, the New York City underground music scene offers a young Ali a different family of misfits and talented outsiders to belong to. She becomes the bass player for edgy band Speedball Baby, a decision that will take her around the world—from onstage at the legendary CBGBs to the red-light district of Amsterdam. She’s often the only girl in a broken-down tour van, being strip-searched at the Croatian border, chased by lunatics, and navigating the seedy underbelly of a male-dominated music scene full of addiction, violence, and misogyny—all while keeping her sharp wit and dark humor intact. Rimmed with heavy black eyeliner and smelling faintly of cheap booze, The Ballad of Speedball Baby is a pulse-quickening, unpredictable ride through the ’90s music scene—alternately terrifying, hilarious, and painfully evocative—as well as a love letter to the power of female solidarity.
Ali Smith (Author), Ali Smith, TBD (Narrator)
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Let Your Light Shine: How Mindfulness Can Empower Children and Rebuild Communities
This story of three men's work helping traumatized kids in one of America's most underserved cities reveals how mindfulness tools can help children and communities not only survive but thrive In this inspiring book, founders of The Holistic Life Foundation Ali Smith, Atman Smith, and Andres Gonzalez describe how they have spent the past twenty years teaching yoga, meditation, and breathwork to thousands of at-risk kids in Baltimore schools helping them to develop deep reserves of patience, empathy, resolve, and-when needed-the righteous anger that fuels deep structural change. Their work has received wide national attention due to their remarkable results: The schools that have participated in their programs have seen suspension rates plummet and graduation rates go through the roof. Ali and Atman discovered as young children the power of mindfulness practices to sustain them through the challenges of growing up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was struggling with poverty and violence-a community they now serve. The Holistic Life Foundation's mission is to empower kids to find this same stillness and light within themselves and to let it shine out to help change the world. In this book, Ali, Atman and Andres share hands-on mindfulness and meditation tools readers can teach kids that will empower them to do this same work in their own communities. Let Your Light Shine is essential reading for parents, educators, activists, and anyone looking to make a difference in the lives of young people.
Ali Smith, Andres Gonzalez, Atman Smith (Author), Ali Smith, Andres Gonzalez, Atman Smith, Sean Pratt (Narrator)
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Verano (Summer): Otras Latitudes
La cuarta novela del Cuarteto estacional del finalista del Premio Man Booker, Ali Smith, es 'un poema en prosa en alabanza de la memoria, el perdón, la broma y aprovechar el momento' (The New York Times) En el presente, Sacha sabe que el mundo está en problemas. Su hermano Robert sólo es un problema. Su madre y su padre están teniendo problemas. Mientras tanto, el mundo está en crisis, y la verdadera debacle ni siquiera ha comenzado todavía. En el pasado, un verano encantador. Un hermano y una hermana diferentes saben que están viviendo en el tiempo prestado. Esta es una historia sobre personas al borde del cambio. Son familia, pero piensan que son extraños. Entonces: ¿Dónde comienza la familia? ¿Y qué tienen en común las personas
Ali Smith (Author), Adrianna Sananes (Narrator)
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Invierno (Winter): Otras Latitudes
«Dios había muerto: para empezar. Y el romanticismo había muerto. La gallardía había muerto. La poesía, la novela, la pintura, todas habían muerto, y el arte había muerto. El teatro y el cine habían muerto. La literatura había muerto. [...] Muchísimas cosas habían muerto. Sin embargo, otras no habían muerto, de momento. La vida todavía no había muerto. La revolución no había muerto. La igualdad racial no había muerto. El odio no había muerto». Así comienza el segundo libro del Cuarteto estacional, uno de los proyectos literarios más excepcionales de las últimas décadas. «Esta no es una historia de fantasmas aunque ocurre en los fantasmales días de invierno, en una soleada y luminosa mañana de la víspera de Navidad, en pleno calentamiento global posmilenio, y trata de cosas reales que les pasan realmente en el mundo real a personas reales, en tiempo real y en una tierra real».
Ali Smith (Author), Adrianna Sananes (Narrator)
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Otoño (Fall): Cuarteto estacional
La escritora escocesa Ali Smith es una de las autoras más destacadas de los últimos años en el Reino Unido y su Cuarteto estacional, uno de los proyectos más ambiciosos e inspiradores de la literatura europea actual. Otoño es el primer título de esta tetralogía. El Reino Unido está hecho pedazos, dividido tras un verano histórico. Ambientada justo después del referéndum del brexit, la novela nos da a entender que la sociedad que describía Dickens no ha desaparecido del todo, sino que se ha transformado en algo peor, víctima de la decadencia moral y política. Ali Smith escribe con humor y delicadeza, muy cerca de sus personajes. El elogio de la amistad continuada y las relaciones de afecto son más relevantes con el trasfondo de este declive ideológico actual. Como siempre en los libros de esta escritora, la lectura y las referencias literarias están muy presentes: Shakespeare, Dickens, Huxley, Keats... aparecen en estas inolvidables páginas.
Ali Smith (Author), Adrianna Sananes (Narrator)
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The Whole Story and Other Stories
Brought to you by Penguin. A wildly inventive collection of fiction from the MAN BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED and BAILEYS PRIZE-WINNING author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet A brilliant new collection of stories from a much loved and highly praised author. Stories for people who've grown up being told time is running out - and don't want it to . . . How do you ever know the whole story? How do you ever know even part of the story? How do you find meaning when chance and coincidence could, after all, just be chance and coincidence? In a celebration of connections and missed connections, an inquiry into everything from flies and trees and books to sex, art, drunkenness and love, Smith rewrites the year's cycle into a very modern calendar. 'She's a genius, genuinely modern in the heroic, glorious sense' Alain de Botton 'I take my hat off to Ali Smith. Her writing lifts the soul' Evening Standard © Ali Smith 2003 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
Ali Smith (Author), Kristin Atherton (Narrator)
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The First Person and Other Stories
Brought to you by Penguin. A form-bending and endlessly inventive collection of short stories - from the MAN BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED and WOMEN'S PRIZE-WINNING author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet A middle-aged woman conducts a poignant conversation with her gauche fourteen-year-old self. An innocent supermarket shopper finds in her trolley a foul-mouthed, insulting and beautiful child. Challenging the boundaries between fiction and reality, we see a narrator, 'Ali', as she drinks tea, phones a friend and muses on the relationship between the short story and a nymph. Innovative, sophisticated and intelligent, The First Person and Other Stories effortlessly appeals to our hearts, heads and funny bones in equal measure. One-of-a-kind Ali Smith and the short story are made for each other. 'A glorious collection that celebrates and subverts the short story form' Independent 'Hurrah for Ali Smith. The best short-story writers make it look as easy as making a cup of tea. Ali Smith is one of these... A bold and brilliant collection of stories by a writer unafraid to give it to us as it is' The Times © Ali Smith 2008 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
Ali Smith (Author), Siobhan Redmond (Narrator)
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Brought to you by Penguin. From the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted, Baileys Women's Prize-winning author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet The Accidental pans in on the Norfolk holiday home of the Smart family one hot summer. There a beguiling stranger called Amber appears at the door bearing all sorts of unexpected gifts, trampling over family boundaries and sending each of the Smarts scurrying from the dark into the light. A novel about the ways that seemingly chance encounters irrevocably transform our understanding of ourselves, The Accidental explores the nature of truth, the role of fate and the power of storytelling. 'Brilliant and engaging, frequently hilarious. . . Smith makes one look at the world afresh' Sunday Telegraph 'A beguiling page-turner... To read The Accidental is to be excited from first to last' Independent 'Joyous' The Times © Ali Smith 2005 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
Ali Smith (Author), Amaka Okafor, Sheila Atim (Narrator)
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Brought to you by Penguin. A sparkling satire from the MAN BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED and WOMEN'S PRIZE-WINNING author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet 'There once was a man who, one night between the main course and the sweet at a dinner party, went upstairs and locked himself in one of the bedrooms of the house of the people who were giving the dinner party . . .' As time passes by and the consequences of this stranger's actions ripple outwards, touching the owners, the guests, the neighbours and the whole country, so Ali Smith draws us into a beautiful, strange place where everyone is so much more than they first appear... 'Playful, humorous, serious, profoundly clever and profoundly affecting' Guardian 'Adventurous, intoxicating, dazzling. This is a novel with serious ambitions that remains huge fun to read' Literary Review 'Smith can make anything happen, which is why she is one of our most exciting writers today' Daily Telegraph © Ali Smith 2011 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
Ali Smith (Author), Juliet Stevenson (Narrator)
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Brought to you by Penguin. Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like nothing else. How to be both is a novel all about art's versatility. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it's a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. There's a renaissance artist of the 1460s. There's the child of a child of the 1960s. Two tales of love and injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless, structural gets playful, knowing gets mysterious, fictional gets real - and all life's givens get given a second chance. WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2014 SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 WINNER OF THE 2014 COSTA NOVEL AWARD WINNER OF THE SALTIRE SOCIETY LITERARY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2014 NOMINATED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZE 2015 'Brims with palpable joy' Daily Telegraph 'She's a genius, genuinely modern in the heroic, glorious sense' Alain de Botton 'I take my hat off to Ali Smith. Her writing lifts the soul' Evening Standard © Ali Smith 2014 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
Ali Smith (Author), Katie Leung (Narrator)
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Other Stories and Other Stories
Brought to you by Penguin. A vitally alive and ever-surprising collection of stories from the MAN BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED and WOMEN'S PRIZE-WINNING author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet Individually lucid and luminous, these tales resonate subtly together. In examining the distances and connections between ourselves and others, expertly inching us closer to the bone, Ali Smith's storytelling has never seemed so necessary, so moving or so joyous. 'Bold and sensitive. Smith's prose is a joy' Independent 'Captures quiet epiphanies of the extraordinary in the mundane' Sunday Times 'These stories fizz with life' The Times Literary Supplement © Ali Smith 1999 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
Ali Smith (Author), Lois Chimimba (Narrator)
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Brought to you by Penguin. SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE and the ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION A masterful, exuberant novel from the acclaimed author of How to be both and the ongoing Seasonal quartet Five people: four are living, three are strangers, two are sisters, one is dead. In her highly acclaimed and most ambitious book to date, the brilliant young Scottish writer Ali Smith brings alive five unforgettable characters and traces their intersecting lives. This is a short novel with big themes (time, chance, money, death) but an eye for tiny detail: the taste of dust, the weight of a few coins in the hand, the pleasurable pain of a stone in one's shoe . . . 'Ali Smith has got style, ideas and punch. Read her' Jeanette Winterson 'As infectious as a pop song, the story bursts open from the very first page and demands to be read in one sitting' The Times 'Hotel World is essential reading from a major talent' Independent © Ali Smith 2001 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
Ali Smith (Author), Katie Leung, Kristin Atherton, Lois Chimimba, Roy Mcmillan, Sheila Reid, Siobhan Redmond (Narrator)
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