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  Rapture

  Professor Carol Ann Duffy DBE

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  'Carol Ann Duffy is the most humane and accessible poet of our time, and Rapture is essential reading for the broken-hearted of all ages' - Rose Tremain 
  The effortless virtuosity, directness, drama and humanity of Carol Ann Duffy's verse have made her our most admired and best-loved contemporary poet. Rapture, her seventh collection, is a book-length love-poem, and a moving act of personal testimony; but what sets these poems apart from other treatments of the subject is that Duffy refuses to simplify the contradictions of love, and read its transformations - infatuation, longing, passion, commitment, rancour, separation and grief - as simply redemptive or destructive.  
  Rapture is a map of real love, in all its churning complexity. Yet in showing us that a song can be made of even the most painful episodes in our lives, Duffy has accessed a new level of directness that sacrifices nothing in the way of subtlety of expression. These are poems that will find deep rhymes in the experience of most readers, and nowhere has Duffy more eloquently articulated her belief that poetry should speak for us all.

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  The Manchurian Candidate

  Richard Condon

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  Renowned theater critic John Lahr created a bold reworking of Richard Condon’s political thriller, updating the action to the 1990s while retaining the core premise of a brainwashed war hero who’s programmed to become an assassin. Kelsey  Grammer stars as Raymond Shaw in this co-production with Chicago’s Shattered Globe Theatre, starring the original cast.Recorded before a live audience at the DoubleTree Guest Suites Chicago in March 1996.Director: Louis ConteyProducing Director: Susan Albert LoewenbergRich Baker as Gaines, Jordan and othersMara Casey as Doctor, Nurse and othersMark Alexander Clover as Melvin and othersJoe Forbrich as Ben MarcoJulie Gainey as Jocelyn JordanKelsey Grammer as Raymond ShawRebecca Jordan as EugenieDoug McDade as Senator John IselinBrian Pudil as Jorgenson and othersLinda Reiter as Eleanor IselinJim Saltorous as O’NeillRadio Producer: Robert NeuhausRecording Engineer: Larry RockAssistant Engineer: Mike KonopkaFoley Artist: Judy AndersonProduction Stage Manager: Patrick BrannickOriginal Music by JJ Porterfield

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  The Heiress of Water - A Novel

  Sandra Rodriguez Barron

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  When young Monica Winters Borrero loses her luminous mother in an accident at sea, she is exiled from the tropical paradise that was her home. Grieving and cut off from a life among El Salvador's elite, Monica and her American father move to Connecticut, vowing never to look back.Years later, an intriguing stranger, who has endured a terrible loss of his own, enters Monica's life, bearing an unusual request. Monica is propelled back to her lost world, retracing the shadowy last days of her mother, a marine scientist who had been on the brink of understanding the therapeutic applications of a rare, venomous sea creature. Now, her research is being corrupted by a secret clinic that claims the power to restore consciousness to the comatose.What Monica discovers will shatter the family's delicate truce with the past, and compel everyone involved to challenge their deepest notions of what it means to be alive. Atmospheric, thought-provoking, and timely. The Heiress of Water is a stunning parable of paradise lost and found.

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  The Aldrich Family Collection...

  Black Eye Entertainment

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  The Aldrich Family was a popular teenage situation comedy that was heard on radio and seen in films, television and comic books. The creation of playwright Clifford Goldsmith, teenager Henry Aldrich was an endearingly bumbling kid growing awkwardly into adolescence. Episodes revolved around Henry’s misadventures with girls, his family and his friends. Portrayed on radio by 20-something Ezra Stone, The Aldrich Family launched as a summer replacement program for Jack Benny in NBC’s Sunday night lineup, July 2nd, 1939, sponsored by Jell-O. Stone kept the lead role until 1942, when he entered the Army for WWII. Several actors took over until Stone returned to his signature role, including Bobby Ellis who became the last Henry Aldrich in 1952. House Jameson and Katharine Raht portrayed Henry’s parents, Sam and Alice. Mary Shipp played Henry’s usual girlfriend, Kathleen Anderson. Jackie Kelk played the role of Henry’s best friend, Homer Brown, for most of the run. In 1949, the program made the leap to television while continuing to air on radio with a different cast. 
  10/10/39 “Henry’s Engagement”5/28/40 “Cross Country Race”1/29/42 “Henry’s Secret Admirer”2/11/43 “Valentine’s Day Party”2/25/43 “Henry’s Love Note Goes to His Teacher”10/7/48 “Henry Rents Out Mary’s Room”10/14/48 “The Great Weiner Roast”10/28/48 “Detention or Basketball Game?”11/11/48 “The Broken Toy”12/16/48 “Homer’s Party”2/17/49 “The Antique Chairs”5/5/49 “Engaged to Agnes”

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  Sunbathing on Tyrone Power's...

  Kim Dower

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  Death has never felt so alive in this “bold and sexy and smart” collection of poems (Stephen Dunn).   From alluring titles to haunting last lines, the poems in Kim Dower’s fourth collection soothe, terrify, and always surprise, revealing the extraordinary within the ordinary. Acclaimed for combining the accessible and profound, humor and heartache, Dower’s poetry continues to be quirky, dark, sexy, disarmingly candid, and moving, and here she explores the landscape of death and its intersections with love, longing, obsession, sadness, joy, and beauty.   Wise and soaring, these poems bravely imagine another life beyond the one we all know, where even the angels surrounding the graves are wearing bikinis, smoking Kool Lights.

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  Crabwise to the Hounds

  Jeramy Dodds

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  Winner of the Trillium Book Award for Poetry
  
   
  Nominated for the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Gerald Lampert Award.
  
   
  
  
   
  With cameos by jackalopes, Glenn Gould, homemade spaceships and Carl Linnaeus, these poems are remarkable for their technical agility and their restless inventiveness. There's anelegance here that matches Dodds' impulse to challenge the reader with fresh metaphor and astonishing phrasing; the formal ambitions of many of the poems in  Crabwise to the Hounds  are balanced by an inclination towards wordplay and abright musicality. Humorous at times, yet always handled with consummate craft, these poems invoke historical figures like Hiram Bingham and Ho Chi Minh even as they traverse a poetic landscape that includes telephone-game-style translations, interpretive dance poems on historic paintings and carnivalesque jaunts into a natural world overrun with mules, Alsatians, lions, and motorcycle-sized-deer.

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