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  The Great Poets: Lord Byron

  Lord Byron

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  Today Byron is regarded as the ultimate romantic – a rebel, a Casanova and a man of intense, brooding passion. He was the most famous literary man of his time, and his poetry, endlessly witty and often insightful, was immensely popular and hugely influential. From the delicate romanticism of She Walks in Beauty to the evocative reflections of So We’ll Go No More a Roving, Byron’s poems were unrivalled in their power and potency. Lesser-known poems such as Destruction of Sennacherib, a reimagining of the biblical story of Sennacherib, Prometheus, a sardonic poem about the Greek gods, and Darkness, an apocalyptic story of the last man on earth, also included here, reveal Byron to be a poet of great range and variety. ‘Mad, bad and dangerous to know’, Lord Byron was without equal in English literature.

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  You and Yours

  Naomi Shihab Nye

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  In You and Yours, Naomi Shihab Nye continues her conversation with ordinary people whose lives become, through her empathetic use of poetic language, extraordinary. Nye writes of local life in her inner-city Texas neighborhood, about rural schools and urban communities she’s visited in this country, as well as the daily rituals of Jews and Palestinians who live in the war-torn Middle East. 
   
  The Day 
  I missed the day on which it was said others should not have certain weapons, but we could. Not only could, but should, and do. I missed that day. Was I sleeping? I might have been digging in the yard, doing something small and slow as usual. Or maybe I wasn’t born yet. What about all the other people who aren’t born? Who will tell them? 
   
  Balancing direct language with a suggestive “aslantness,” Nye probes the fragile connection between language and meaning. She never shies from the challenge of trying to name the mysterious logic of childhood or speak truth to power in the face of the horrors of war. She understands our lives are marked by tragedy, inequity, and misunderstanding, and that our best chance of surviving our losses and shortcomings is to maintain a heightened awareness of the sacred in all things. 
   
  This audiobook is narrated by the author. 
   
  Naomi Shihab Nye, poet, editor, anthologist, is a recipient of writing fellowships from the Lannan and Guggenheim foundations. Nye’s work has been featured on PBS poetry specials including NOW with Bill Moyers, The Language of Life with Bill Moyers, and The United States of Poetry. She has traveled abroad as a visiting writer on three Arts America tours sponsored by the United States Information Agency. In 2001 she received a presidential appointment to the National Council of the National Endowment for the Humanities. She lives in San Antonio, Texas.

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  Sunset Gun - Poems by Dorothy...

  Dorothy Parker

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  In this follow up to her best-selling debut collection of poetry ("Enough Rope" from 1926) Dorothy Parker published "Sunset Gun" (1928) her second of three volumes of short verse. One of the 20th century's most celebrated and renowned humorists, Parker once again delivers a biting, satiric and insightful look at love, life and literature in this brilliant collection.  Dorothy Parker - social commentator, political reformer and legendary wit - has enjoyed a special place in American culture and "Sunset Gun" is another early example of Parker's unique and wry commentary on modern life. It is presented here in its original and unabridged format.

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  Phaedra

  Jean Racine

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  In the court of Louis XIV, adaptations of Greek tragedies were very popular. This play, heavily influenced by Euripides' Hippolytus, deals with love that violates social taboos. Note: In Racine's work, a new "scene" begins whenever a character enters or exits. Therefore, there are no stage directions, only a list of the characters on stage for each scene. The action is continuous for the entire act. (Summary by Libby Gohn)CastNarrator: balaTheseus: Bruce PiriePhaedra: Elizabeth KlettHippolytus: Libby GohnAricia: Charlotte DuckettOenone: Amanda FridayTheramenes: Alan MapstoneIsmene: HailiPanope: MaryankaAudio editing: Libby Gohn

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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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  Captain Underhill Unmasks the...

  Steven Thomas Oney

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  Retired police captain Waverly Underhill and his sidekick, Doctor Scofield, unmask the murderer in two spine-tingling mysteries. Heard on public radio, each is a contemporary tale in the classic tradition of The Shadow, with a full cast, original music, and sound effects. 
  The Legacy of Euriah Pillar 
  A death in the family can be expensive. When an eccentric millionaire leaves a bizarre will, it can cost an arm...and a legacy. 
  The Case of the Indian Flashlights 
  Twenty years have passed, Euriah Pillar's strongbox has fallen into the wrong hands. Underhill and Scofield unearth clues that lead through an ancient tunnel to a crypt.

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