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  Buying Time

  Michael Weller

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  Based on a real-life event, a monied client at a progressive law firm pressures the partners to drop a pro bono case they passionately believe in. Will they choose the easy path to preserve their business or keep fighting for what they believe is right?An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance starring:Michael Gross as BennettSean Sinitski as Hal and othersBob Adrian as AbeNed Schmidtke as DelTony Mockus Jr. as Pete and othersScott Lowell as Carter and KyleGary Houston as Max and LairdSuzanne Petri as Margo and BeckyLisa Dodson as BethRengin Altay as ChristineScott Heckman as LaneDirected by Brian Russell and recorded before a live audience at the Guest Quarters Suite Hotel in Chicago. A co-production with Northlight Theatre.Sound Effects Artist, Scott Heckman. Production Stage Manager, Jan Watson. Recording Engineers, Larry Rock and Chris WIllis. Radio Producer, Robert Neuhaus.

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  Founding Stones - A Novel of...

  Abbe Rolnick

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  Part coming of age, part political intrigue, Founding Stones questions what it means to be a citizen of the world.  
  Trouble simmers in a small Pacific Northwest town when generations of secrets collide. Hannah, the daughter of the largest berry farmer in the county, searches for her voice after her twin sister dies of cancer. She jumps into the controversy around immigrant workers at the farm, and naively causes further problems. Her boyfriend, Luis, forced to live without his deported family, seeks his place within the American dream. His elderly friend, Joseph, an undocumented immigrant from Russia, emerges from seclusion to confront an old vendetta and protect his mushroom cure for cancer and his prototype of a light silk-titanium airplane wing from outside forces.

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  Mad Long Emotion

  Ben Ladouceur

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  Desire and dieffenbachias: new poems from the award-winning author of  Otter .
  Mad Long Emotion  wants to talk flora to fauna like you. Loosestrife shoos away humans and green carnations flirt with handsome men. Numerous species, both spiny and spineless, prove as invasive as desire: from Great Lake lampreys to hydraulic triceratopses, we're all just looking for love.

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  The Ballad

  Oscar Wilde, Edna St. Vincent...

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  The ballad is one of the oldest poetic forms in English and are simply poems or songs that tell a story.  Traditionally they are composed in quatrains, with common meter that follow an a b c b rhyming structure and this, together with the simple language (often the dialect of the region), made them easier to memorise and recite by wandering minstrels as they were passed down orally.   
   
  Originally derived from the Medieval French the name suggests that they were to dance to and whilst widely used around Europe and other parts of the world, became characteristic of British poetry from the Middle Ages to the 19th century when it settled into our current usage of the term as a slow sentimental song. 
   
  By the 17th century the printed version of ballads, often with music and illustration, known as Broadsides or Broadsheets, circulated, probably in their millions throughout Britain and remained popular until the Victorian era when they lost prestige. 
   
  Whether they be folk, literary or lyrical, most ballads contain a self-contained, concise, plot driven story told in the third person narrative, often featuring dialogue and moving at a pace with an emotional urgency to arrive at a dramatic conclusion.  The subject of ballads are limitless and they can be tragic, historical or comic. 
   
  Maybe it’s because of childhood associations or that we all enjoy a cracking good story told in rhyme but as this volume demonstrates, the ballad has endless appeal.  We include favourites such as Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Edna St Vincent Millay’s The Ballad of the Harp Weaver, Edgar Allan Poe’s Annabel Lee as well as classics such as Sir Patrick Spens, the Ballad of Reading Gaol by Wilde and La Belle Dame Sans Merci by Keats.  There’s many more known and lesser known in this volume celebrating this most popular and accessible poetic form.

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  The Emma Press Anthology of Illness

  Amy Mackelden, Dylan Jaggard

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  From interactions with hot oncologists to life-threatening hospital stays to a really bad case of glandular fever.
  Whether a diagnosis is life-altering or treatable, a total surprise or painfully invisible, The Emma Press Anthology of Illness explores what we wish people knew about being ill, and whether finding that 'new normal' is ever possible.

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  Heavy Weather (NHB Platform Plays)

  Lizzie Nunnery

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  'The sky. The water. The air. It won't keep snapping back. You can't keep refreshing the screen. A lie is not a white lie, or a half-lie or a false truth or fake news… It's a lie and we call it a lie, or everything's cracking underneath us.'
  Mona is a young woman on the edge. All she sees is the Earth falling apart, but no one really seems to care. Amidst the chaos of competing and contradictory voices, she sets off on a kaleidoscopic journey to find solutions for the planet – and the truth about her family – in the hope that everything might start to make sense again.
  Lizzie Nunnery's Heavy Weather is a powerful, timely play about one girl taking control of her destiny in a world teetering on the brink. It is part of Platform, an initiative from Tonic Theatre in partnership with Nick Hern Books. Aimed at achieving greater gender equality in theatre, Platform comprises big-cast plays with predominantly, or all, female casts, written specifically for performance by young actors.

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