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  Baby's Own Aesop

  Walter Crane

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  "Baby's Own Aesop" presents the fables as one-stanza limericks, each "pictorially pointed" by Walter Crane, the noted painter and illustrator. He apprenticed to master wood-engraver, William James Linton, who furnished the draft of the book's poems for Crane to edit. "Baby's Own Aesop" is available in a beautiful facsimile edition of colored engravings from the International Children's Digital Library, with which your child can read along while listening to the recording. (Summary by Denny Sayers)

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  Look Back in Anger

  John Osborne

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  Jimmy Porter barely ekes out a living running a candy stall by day and playing jazz trumpet by night. Although he usually takes his frustrations out on his emotionless wife, Jimmy's scathing tongue and self-loathing seems destined to destroy everything.Set in the UK at the dawn of the 60’s social unrest, this savage morality tale spawned the phrase “angry young man.”An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:Steven Brand as CliffMoira Quirk as Alison Simon Templeman as JimmyJames Warwick as Colonel RedhornJoanne Whalley as HelenaDirected by Rosalind Ayres. Recorded before a live audience.

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  Deed of Trust

  Claudia Allen

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  Set in rural Michigan in the 1930s, Deed of Trust is a gentle and poignant comedy of a dysfunctional family long before the “dysfunction” was coined. Issues of inheritance have splintered the family for 20 years before an enterprising sister begins a crusade for change. The play stars the talented acting duo Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Tyne Daly, Sharon Gless, Tim Hendrickson, John Judd, Seana Kofoed and Ned Schmidtke.

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  Home For Hurricanes - A Memoir...

  Nikki Murphy

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  * Best Book Awards Winner by American Book Fest * 
  * Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards Honorable Mention *  
  Abandoned by her hustling father, raised by her devoted mother, then battered by the winds of loss, heartbreak, and sexual assault, awarded Diversity & Inclusion Leader, speaker, poet and author Nikki Murphy provides a sobering portrayal of both the jubilance and hardening of girls emanating from the ghettos, and celebrates their resolve to build free and whole lives in this riveting memoir-in-verse. 
  In her debut poetry collection, Murphy invites readers to witness her hard-fought journey to find healing, love, and gratitude. 
  No matter where you are in weathering the storms of trauma, you will be reminded you are built to withstand.Reviews 
  "This is brilliant and beautiful and touching all the parts of my heart that I reserve for the magic of black girlhood. I know I will be thinking about many of these poems for years to come.  I love that this is both a celebration of black girlhood and a testimony to their vulnerability. I feel seen." - Asha L. French, Ph.D 
  "It's an honor to read her story. This book is a salute to poetry and the call for its return. Well done Nikki Murphy, well done." - Jeannine K. Brown, Author of Ignite! Your Best Year Ever: Six Strategies to Achieve More and Exceed Your PotentialAbout the Author 
  Nikki Murphy is an awarded Diversity & Inclusion Leader, speaker, poet, and author of her debut poetry collection, Home For Hurricanes: A Memoir of Resilience in Poetry and Prose.

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  Young Adventure A Book of Poems

  Stephen Vincent Benét

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  Stephen Vincent Benét (July 22, 1898 – March 13, 1943) was an American author, poet, short story writer and novelist. He is best known for his book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, John Brown's Body (1928), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1929, and for two short stories, "The Devil and Daniel Webster" and "By the Waters of Babylon".It was a line of Benet's poetry that gave the title to Dee Brown's famous history of the destruction of Native American tribes by the United States: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. (Summary excerpted from Wikipedia)This recording includes the Dedication, Foreword and first 16 poems from Young Adventure, A Book of Poems.

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  The Unfriend (NHB Modern Plays)...

  Steven Moffat

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  While on holiday, Peter and Debbie befriend Elsa: a lusty, Trump-loving widow from Denver, USA. She's less than woke but kind of wonderful. They agree to stay in touch – because no one ever really does, do they?
  When Elsa invites herself to stay a few months later, they decide to look her up online. Too late, they learn the truth about Elsa Jean Krakowski. Deadly danger has just boarded a flight to London! But how do you protect all that you love from mortal peril without seeming, well, a bit impolite? Because guess who's coming… to murder!
  Steven Moffat's play The Unfriend takes a hilarious and satirical look at middle-class England's disastrous instinct always to appear nice. It was first performed at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester, in May 2022, with a cast including Amanda Abbington, Frances Barber and Reece Shearsmith, before transferring to the Criterion Theatre in London's West End in January 2023.
  Steven Moffat is an award-winning writer whose internationally successful television shows include Doctor Who, Sherlock and Dracula – the latter two co-written with actor and writer Mark Gatiss, who made his stage directorial debut with The Unfriend.
  'Steven Moffat has skilfully crafted one of the funniest plays to be seen on stage in a very long time... pure comedy gold… a comedy of manners that niftily speeds along and is full of outrageous humour… never anything except laugh-out-loud funny… a killer comedy to die for' - WhatsOnStage
  'Effortlessly entertaining… The action is line-by-line funny and an apt commentary on English middle-class manners… Moffat may be the new Ayckbourn' - Telegraph
  'A hilarious dark comedy of good manners… a tour de force of toilet farce, proper gut-busting stuff' - The Stage
  'A cringe-tastic play of exquisite embarrassment… worthy of a place in the macabre comedy series Inside No 9' - Guardian
  'Boasts a ruthlessly efficient devotion to the punchline and a relentless urgency in ratcheting up the awkward tension. Every second or third line of this farcical modern comedy of manners is a gag... The premise is brilliant in its simplicity and hugely effective in its laugh-filled execution' - Chortle
  'A much-needed, riotous bit of fun… an uproarious comedy of English embarrassment… a relentlessly snowballing orgy of cringe and discomfiture… a delight' - Evening Standard
  'Hits the funny bone with a welcome twang' - The Times

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