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  Wedding Poems

  Various Various

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  In honor of Kristin and Corey’s wedding (April 2006) we’ve recorded a selection of wedding-themed poems.  Congratulations, you two!

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  The Supreme Court - The...

  Jeffrey Rosen

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  A leading Supreme Court expert recounts the personal and philosophical rivalries that forged our nation's highest court and continue to shape our daily lives.The Supreme Court is the most mysterious branch of government, and yet the Court is at root a human institution, made up of very bright people with very strong egos, for whom political and judicial conflicts often become personal.In this compelling work of character-driven history, Jeffrey Rosen recounts the history of the Court through the personal and philosophical rivalries on the bench that transformed the law-and by extension, our lives. The story begins with the great Chief Justice John Marshall and President Thomas Jefferson, cousins from the Virginia elite whose differing visions of America set the tone for the Court's first hundred years. The tale continues after the Civil War with Justices John Marshall Harlan and Oliver Wendell Holmes, who clashed over the limits of majority rule. Rosen then examines the Warren Court era through the lens of the liberal icons Hugo Black and William O. Douglas, for whom personality loomed larger than ideology. He concludes with a pairing from our own era, the conservatives William H. Rehnquist and Antonin Scalia, only one of whom was able to build majorities in support of his views.Through these four rivalries, Rosen brings to life the perennial conflict that has animated the Court-between those justices guided by strong ideology and those who forge coalitions and adjust to new realities. He illuminates the relationship between judicial temperament and judicial success or failure. The stakes are nothing less than the future of American jurisprudence.

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  Church The - A Short Story...

  Henry James, D H Lawrence,...

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  Faith is a wonderful thing.  Whether its faith in each other or to a God, Gods, or whatever entity you believe in, it brings a familiar comfort and sustenance to heart, soul and mental well-being. 
   
  Whilst faith can be practiced anywhere religious faith is usually at a church or temple.  The stories in this volume are centered both in houses of worship and with those with a strong association to its calling. 
     
  Of course, short story authors have a determined belief in their undoubted talents to make us look at this subject from different angles.  In this volume they take us on literary journeys that are revealing and challenging yet always entertaining. 
  1 - The Church - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 
  2 - The Altar of the Dead - Part 1 by Henry James 
  3 - The Altar of the Dead - Part 2 by Henry James 
  4 - A Fragment of Stained Glass by D H Lawrence 
  5 - Neccesity. An Eastern Tale by Vladimir Korolenko 
  6 - Let Loose by Mary Cholmondeley.wav 
  7 - The Haunted Church by Frederick Cowles 
  8 - Lucifer by Anatole France 
  9 - Anathema by Alexander Kuprin 
  10 - Lazarus by Leonid Andreyev 
  11 - The Black Crusader by Alicia Ramsay 
  12 - The Saint by Mary Butts 
  13 - Marsyas In Flanders by Vernon Lee 
  14 - The Ankardyne Pew by W F Harvey 
  15 - The Tomb of Sarah by F G Loring 
  16 - The Atheist's Mass by Honore de Balzac 
  17 - A Collector's Company by R H Malden

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  A Freewheelin' Time - A Memoir...

  Suze Rotolo

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  The girl from the cover of Bob Dylan’s album Freewheelin’ breaks a forty-five–year silence to recount her four-year relationship with Dylan and his growing fame. 
   
  Suze Rotolo chronicles her coming of age in Greenwich Village during the 1960s and the early days of the folk music explosion, when Bob Dylan was finding his voice and she was his muse. 
   
  A shy girl from Queens, Suze was the daughter of Italian working-class Communists, growing up at the dawn of the Cold War. It was the age of McCarthy, and Suze was an outsider in her neighborhood and at school. She found solace in poetry, art, and music—and in Greenwich Village, where she encountered like-minded and politically active friends. One hot July day in 1961, Suze met Bob Dylan, then a rising musician, at a concert at Riverside Church. She was seventeen, he was twenty; they were both vibrant, curious, and inseparable. During the years they were together, Dylan transformed from an obscure folk singer into an uneasy spokesperson for a generation. 
   
  A Freewheelin’ Time is a hopeful, intimate memoir of a vital movement at its most creative. It captures the excitement of youth, the heartbreak of young love, and the struggles for a brighter future in a time when everything seemed possible. 
   
  Praise for A Freewheelin’ Time 
   
  “A delightful surprise. . . . [Rotolo] gracefully captures Greenwich Village as an enchanted lost world.” —Entertainment Weekly 
   
  “A portrait-of-an-era . . . through [Rotolo’s] eyes, we see Dylan as a unique artist on his way to greatness.” —People 
   
  “Artist Suze Rotolo pays rollicking homage to a revolutionary age.” —Vogue 
   
  “Exhilarating. . . . A moving account.” —New York Times 
   
  “A perceptive, entertaining, and often touching book about a remarkable era in recent American cultural history, about a way of living, of making art, that couldn’t have happened at any other time or in any other place.” —Stephanie Zacharek, Salon

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  Dangerously Funny - The...

  David Bianculli

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  Decades before The Daily Show, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour proved there was a place on television for no-holds-barred political comedy with a decidedly antiauthoritarian point of view. In this explosive, revealing history of the show, veteran entertainment journalist David Bianculli tells the fascinating story of its three-year network run—and the cultural impact that's still being felt today.Before it was suddenly removed from the CBS lineup (reportedly under pressure from the Nixon administration), The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour was a ratings powerhouse. It helped launch the careers of such comedy legends as Steve Martin and Rob Reiner, featured groundbreaking musical acts like the Beatles and the Who, and served as a cultural touchstone for the antiwar movement of the late 1960s.Drawing on extensive original interviews with Tom and Dick Smothers and dozens of other key players—as well as more than a decade's worth of original research—Dangerously Funny brings listeners behind the scenes for all the battles over censorship, mind-blowing musical performances, and unforgettable sketches that defined the show and its era.David Bianculli delves deep into this riveting story to find out what really happened and to reveal why this show remains so significant to this day.

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  Death in a Cold Town

  Steve MacGregor

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  There is a common misconception that, if a body cant be found then no-one can be brought to trial for murder. That isnt true, as one Scottish man discovered. Twice!Arlene Fraser was an attractive, vivacious mother of two young children who lived in the peaceful town of Elgin in the north-east of Scotland. On the morning of April 28th, 1998, she was seen waving to her children as they left for school. One hour later, she called the school to check about a trip. It was a very ordinary day in an ordinary Scottish town. Yet, that was the last time that anyone saw or heard from Arlene Fraser. Police found no signs of a struggle or foul play in the house and Arlenes spectacles, contact lenses, medication, keys and passport were all still where she had left them. A vacuum cleaner was found in her daughters bedroom, plugged in but switched off, as if Arlene had been interrupted during housework and had stepped outside for a moment.  However, one of the biggest police operations ever mounted in Scotland and a massive search involving the RAF, police dogs and members of the public revealed no trace of Arlene, alive or dead.Despite having a cast-iron alibi for the relevant time, Nat Fraser, Arlenes husband, was eventually charged with her murder. However, many people felt that his trial was unfair, with the police accused of withholding vital evidence and questions being raised about the motivations and honesty of one of the main witnesses for the prosecution. Nat Fraser appealed, his sentence was eventually quashed and he was freed. Then he was tried again using essentially the same evidence and the same witnesses. The original verdict was repeated. He appealed, again Book 2 in the Murder World: Scotland series.Murder World: Real crimes, real killers.

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