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  As You Like It

  William Shakespeare

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  One of Shakespeare’s most popular plays, As You Like It is a pastoral comedy of mistaken identity, wit, and love. Daughter of a banished duke and forced to flee the court, Rosalind hides in the Forest of Arden disguised as a man. When her true love Orlando also shows up in the forest, she courts him without revealing her identity. Meanwhile, Phebe mistakenly falls in love with her disguise, Silvius pines for Phebe, Jacques philosophizes, and Touchstone makes fun of it all, and love and happiness triumph (for the most part) as Rosalind orchestrates a happy ending amid the confusion. (Summary by Rosalind Wills) 
  Cast:Duke Senior – hefydDuke Frederick – ChugoshAmiens – Cecelia PriorJaques – Elizabeth KlettLe Beau – Simon LaroisCharles – Leon MireOliver – Larysa JaworskiJacques du Boys and Second Lord – David LawrenceOrlando – mbAdam – Brian EdwardsDennis – Annoying TwitTouchstone – Mark F. SmithSir Oliver Martext – Aaron ElliottCorin – Sibella DentonSilvius  – David NicolWilliam – Ernst PattynamaHymen – Lorelle AndersonRosalind – Rosalind WillsCelia – PhilippaPhebe – Charlene V. SmithAudrey – Mindy HFirst Lord – MirzaFirst Page – Ruth GoldingSecond Page – David O'ConnellForester – pla303Stage directions – Laurie Anne Walden 
  Audio edited by Rosalind Wills

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  The Taste of Longing - Ethel...

  Suzanne Evans

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  Half a world away from her home in Manitoulin Island, Ethel Mulvany is starving in Singapore’s infamous Changi Prison, along with hundreds of other women jailed there as POWs during the Second World War. They beat back pangs of hunger by playing decadent games of make-believe and writing down recipes filled with cream, raisins, chocolate, butter, cinnamon, ripe fruit—the unattainable ingredients of peacetime, of home, of memory. 
  In this novelistic, immersive biography, Suzanne Evans presents a truly individual account of WWII through the eyes of Ethel—mercurial, enterprising, combative, stubborn, and wholly herself. The Taste of Longing follows Ethel through the fall of Singapore in 1942, the years of her internment, and beyond. As a prisoner, she devours dog biscuits and book spines, befriends spiders and smugglers, and endures torture and solitary confinement. As a free woman back in Canada, she fights to build a life for herself in the midst of trauma and burgeoning mental illness. 
  Woven with vintage recipes and transcribed tape recordings, the story of Ethel and her fantastical POW Cookbook is a testament to the often-overlooked strength of women in wartime. It’s a story of the unbreakable power of imagination, generosity, and pure heart.

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  The Din in the Head - Essays

  Cynthia Ozick

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  A collection of essays on the joys of great literature from the New York Times–bestselling author and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.   One of America’s foremost novelists and critics, Cynthia Ozick has won praise and provoked debate for taking on challenging literary, historical, and moral issues. Her new collection of spirited essays focuses on the essential joys of great literature, with particular emphasis on the novel. With razor-sharp wit and an inspiring joie de vivre, she investigates unexpected byways in the works of Leo Tolstoy, Saul Bellow, Helen Keller, Isaac Babel, Sylvia Plath, Susan Sontag, and others. In a posthumous and hilariously harassing “(Unfortunate) Interview with Henry James,” Ozick’s hero is shocked by a lady reporter. In “Highbrow Blues,” and in reflections on her own early fiction, she writes intimately of “the din in our heads, that relentless inner hum,” and the curative power of literary imagination. The Din in the Head is sure to please fans of Ozick, win her new readers, and excite critical controversy and acclaim.   “Open the collection anywhere—I guarantee it—and you will feel the bite of her distinctive voice.” —Sven Birkerts, Los Angeles Times   “The passion that fills these essays is invigorating. In our age of irony and commercial pandering, we need writers like Ozick.” —Danielle Chapman, Chicago Tribune

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  Foul Deeds in Kensington & Chelsea

  John J. Eddleston

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  London’s most exclusive neighborhoods sit on sites of the some of the most sinister and scandalous crimes in British history.    Stories of violent death will always hold us in a grim but thrilling grip. The dreadful crimes related in Foul Deeds in Kensington & Chelsea are shocking examples of murder cases that readers will never forget. Crimes of passion, opportunistic killings, political assassinations—the full spectrum of extreme criminality is recounted here.   John J. Eddleston has selected a series of notorious episodes that give a fascinating insight into criminal acts and the criminal mind. The human dramas he depicts are often played out in the most commonplace of circumstances, but others are so odd as to be stranger than fiction.   Cases involving the killing of wives, lovers, and children are among those he describes, but he also reconstructs in forensic detail several more unusual crimes—two men shot dead at a lecture, the field marshal who was assassinated on his doorstep, the acid bath killings, and the murders of two ill-fated countesses.   These lethal episodes give a fascinating insight into the dark side of the history of Kensington and Chelsea.  

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  The Deaf Girl - A Memoir of...

  Abigail Heringer

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  Preliminary summary: The Bachelor's first deaf contestant shares her journey to finding her voice and learningto be her fiercest champion in a world that favors the able-bodied.

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  POWER OF THE MIND THE - 19...

  Kai L. Wood

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  Be inspired by extraordinary tales of characters who conquered adversity! 
  Immerse yourself in a captivating journey, where these short but powerful stories, full of lessons and motivation, will guide your way to discover the skills that make you unbreakable and learn about the amazing human capacity to overcome challenges, transform obstacles into opportunities and achieve success. Nineteen very interesting stories that will reveal the most intimate side of these characters. 
  From well-known figures such as Beethoven, Frida Kahlo, Nelson Mandela or Stephen Hawkins to lesser-known figures such as Rosa Parks, Desmond Doss or Randy Pausch, each story offers a unique vision of resilience and the transforming power of the mind. 
  A must-have book for those who want to know what amazing human capacity is capable of. 
  READ THIS BOOK NOW AND GET TO KNOW THEIR STORIES!

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