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  My Sisters' Keeper {Unlocked}

  Ra'Sheeka Keonique

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  Meet Ryder, Angela, Torey and Delylah. These four intelligent, brave, beautiful, and witty heroines have been best friends their entire lives. If the title My Sisters’ Keeper were people, it’d be this tribe of women… Until, All Hell Breaks Loose, that is. When the tide turns, the besties find themselves on four life-altering journeys, but because the sisters’ lives are so Entangled, they embark on their separate journeys together. Their paths take them into the abyss, where things get real dark, real tumultuous and real heinous, real quick. When it ain't all Go best friend -That's My Best Friend- anymore, Ryder, Angela, Torey & Delylah are left infuriated, betrayed, and devastated. Will the girls survive the conflagration, and find their way back to the tribe? Or, will the ferocious waters of love, friendship and sisterhood be just a tad too murky for them to navigate their way home? Most importantly, will they still have a home to go back to?

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  The Poetry of Hymns

  John Donne, James Thomson, Ann...

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  Through the centuries in the solace of a church we hear music.  These soaring vaulted often beautiful pieces of architecture have borne witness to hymns that change our emotions and fortify our spirit through life, death and celebrations and memorials of every type in between.  Whether you are of a Christian faith or not, it is difficult to deny that these hymns create something stirring something magical which shouldn't be surprising when you hear the original poems.  They speak with clarity and purpose, uplifting the heart and the soul, rejoicing God’s work and man’s pledge to do better in His eyes.  But Hymns also have a wider duty to perform as there are many facets, themes and help on how to live lives as ourselves and appreciate each other as well as nature.  In listening each of us can be swayed and persuaded on a number of levels. 
   
  However many poets have called their work ‘a Hymn’ and have explored its theme and its definition, in different ways. They can be more irreverent and suggest that hymns can come not from churches but other places - even watermelon pavilions. 
   
  One of the purposes of poems, of verse, of words, is to bring a subject into our view, imbue it with a little understanding and perhaps help us to confirm our opinions or hear in a way we might not have originally thought of it.  Seeing and hearing through others can be a way to find more complex ripples of knowledge or to challenge what we hold and adjust that thinking. 
   
  In this volume we bring you a wide range of Hymns from the religious and the devotional to the humane and the wonderful.

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  Scottish Shorts (NHB Modern Plays)

  Various Various

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  A collection of nine very different short plays by three remarkable generations of Scottish writers, selected and introduced by Philip Howard, Artistic Director of the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, from 1996-2007. Mostly with casts of two or three, these plays are especially well suited to performance in studio theatres and at festivals.
  
  - Snuff by Davey Anderson
  - The Price of a Fish Supper by Catherine Czerkawska
  - Better Days Better Knights by Stanley Eveling
  - Ramallah by David Grieg
  - 54% Acrylic by David Harrower
  - Harm by Douglas Maxwell
  - The Basement Flat by Rona Munro
  - Distracted by Morna Pearson
  - The Importance of Being Alfred by Louise Welsh  SnuffBack from Iraq, Billy is in no mood for games. But Kevin is not just playing...Anderson wrote and directed Snuff as part of the Traverse Theatre Edinburgh's 2005 Festival programme, for which he won the Arches Award for Stage Directors.
  The Price of a Fish SupperRab's fortunes have declined along with the fishing industry in which he has worked all his life, but now he eyes a glimpse of hope.
  Better Days Better KnightsA sweet-hearted tale of a washed-up knight-of-old, from the grandfather of modern Scottish playwriting.
  RamallahA writer returning home from Palestine to his wife is gently challenged as to where exactly his priorities lie.'I wrote the piece after a number of trips to Palestine working with young playwrights,' explains Grieg. 'It tries to capture the awkwardness of return, because the people at home have carried on and are sort of grounded, while you're kind of still in the air.'
  54% AcrylicWhen a young woman shoplifts for the first time, the store detective decides to give chase, but just how far is he prepared to go?
  HarmA father and son wait in a new 'self-harming unit'. As the clock ticks by, the father begins to pour out his guilt, anger and concern to his son.
  The Basement FlatFiona and Stephen's tenant has become their landlord and their daughter has taken to living in the overgrown garden, which is creeping into the house as temperatures rise...
  DistractedAvid insect-collector Jamie Purdy and his disintegrating granny are new to the Morayshire caravan park where George-Michael Skinner and his young mother Bunny lives. But this is no ordinary mother and son relationship.A darkly surreal and richly comic play from Morna Pearson, former member of the Traverse Theatre's Young Writers Group.
  The Importance of Being AlfredTwenty-three years after his affair with Wilde, Lord Alfred Douglas enters a conspiracy with a prominent homophobe...

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  The Poetry of Laurence Binyon

  Laurence Binyon

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  Robert Laurence Binyon, CH, was born on 10th August 1869 in Lancaster in Lancashire, England to Quaker parents, Frederick Binyon and Mary Dockray. 
  He studied at St Paul's School, London before enrolling at Trinity College, Oxford, to read classics. 
  Binyon’s first published work was Persephone in 1890.  As a poet, his output was not prodigious and, in the main, the volumes he did publish were slim, but his reputation was of the highest order. When the Poet Laureate, Alfred Austin, died in 1913, Binyon was considered alongside Thomas Hardy and Rudyard Kipling for the post which was eventually given to Robert Bridges. 
  Binyon played a pivotal role in helping to establish the modernist School of poetry and introduced imagist poets such as Ezra Pound, Richard Aldington and H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) to East Asian visual art and literature. Most of his career was spent at The British Museum where he produced many books particularly on the art of the Far East. 
  Moved and shaken by the onset of the World War I and its military tactics of young men slaughtered to hold or gain a few yards of shell-shocked mud Binyon wrote his seminal poem For the Fallen. It became an instant classic, turning moments of great loss into a National and human tribute. 
  After the war, he returned to the British Museum and wrote numerous books on art; especially on William Blake, Persian and Japanese art. 
  In 1931, his two volume Collected Poems appeared and in 1933, he retired from the British Museum. 
  Between 1933 and 1943, Binyon published his acclaimed translation of Dante's Divine Comedy in an English version of terza rima. 
  During the Second World War Binyon wrote another poetic masterpiece 'The Burning of the Leaves', about the London Blitz. 
  Robert Laurence Binyon died in Dunedin Nursing Home, Bath Road, Reading, on March 10th, 1943 after undergoing an operation. 
   This volume comes to you from Portable Poetry, a specialized imprint from Deadtree Publishing.  Our range is large and growing and covers single poets, themes, and many compilations.

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  Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey

  Homer Homer

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  "Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves with their own reckless ways compound their pains beyond their proper share.” – The OdysseyExperience the stunning Greek poetry of Homer in this collection of his two major works: The Iliad and The Odyssey. These epic poems are beloved for their presentation of Greek history and belief systems, their strong theming and lessons on Greek virtues, and their continued influence on the literary canon.The Iliad –In the final days of the long-fought Trojan War, the Greek gods begin to interfere with the events of the war. When plagues strike the Achaean army, the fierce leader Achilles uses his connections with the gods to further interfere, which begins a series of events that leads to death and destruction on both sides of the war. This dramatic poem is a commentary on human folly and hubris, while also an in-depth explanation of the warfare styles of the time and a representation of the Greek views on the interference of gods in major historical events.The Odyssey –Following the events of The Iliad, Odysseus begins a journey to return to his home of Ithaca after being away for a decade due to angering Poseidon, the god of the sea. After sneaking away from Poseidon, he embarks on a years-long voyage home during which he is captured and circumvented by earthly and godly foes alike. His journey home is slow and full of turmoil and adventure. Themes in this poem include hospitality, predetermined fate and omens, journeying home, and wandering as a test of faith and resilience.

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  Mary of the Chance Encounters

  Margaret Elysia Garcia

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  Mary of the Chance Encounters is a collection of stories set in southeastern Los Angeles, chronicling the Mexican-American and Anglo population stucco’d there between family, ghosts, strip malls and too wide boulevards. But their hopes and desires run magical, and sometimes weirdly perverse and erotic. The encounters break open the flat-lining air of consumer life.

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