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  The Flaws in Our Teen - An...

  Sasha Davis, r. A. bentinck

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  The tears, the lies, the dramas... These are the Teenage Years. Sit back, relax and prepare your mind for a journey into the teenage years through a captivating poetry collection. 
  This collection will help you scratch that itch you have for good poetry and have you coming back for more. This book is the perfect read for someone who is going through puberty or simply anyone looking to relive or look back on their own experiences growing up as a teenager. 
  This isn't your typical poetry collection. It doesn't contain washed-up poetic metaphors, nor does it contain the usual dry and boring clichés. This is an engaging collection that was written by two poets who write from a place of sincerity. 
  There are poems that will coerce you to think deeply, empathise, smile, some will even draw a tear or two as you journey through these pages. 
  So, if you want to rethink what the term poetry really means, and immerse yourself in the role of a teenager or just wants to read some good poems, then simply click the buy now button now and grab your copy of 'The Flaws in Our Teen'.

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  The Seabird's Cry - The Lives...

  Adam Nicolson

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  Life itself could never have been sustainable without seabirds. As Adam Nicolson writes: "They are bringers of fertility, the deliverers of life from ocean to land." 
  A global tragedy is unfolding. Even as we are coming to understand them, the number of seabirds on our planet is in freefall, dropping by nearly 70% in the last sixty years, a billion fewer now than there were in 1950. Of the ten birds in this audiobook, seven are in decline, at least in part of their range. Extinction stalks the ocean and there is a danger that the grand cry of the seabird colony, rolling around the bays and headlands of high latitudes, will this century become little but a memory. 
  Seabirds have always entranced the human imagination and NYT best-selling author Adam Nicolson has been in love with them all his life: for their mastery of wind and ocean, their aerial beauty and the unmatched wildness of the coasts and islands where every summer they return to breed. The seabird's cry comes from an elemental layer in the story of the world. 
  Over the last couple of decades, modern science has begun to understand their epic voyages, their astonishing abilities to navigate for tens of thousands of miles on featureless seas, their ability to smell their way towards fish and home. Only the poets in the past would have thought of seabirds as creatures riding the ripples and currents of the entire planet, but that is what the scientists are seeing now today.

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  Closer to God (NHB Modern Plays)

  Anna Jordan

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  A young single mother becomes roommates with a seventy-nine-year-old man, in a small flat on the 19th floor of a council block.
  This short two-hander from the writer of Yen and and Chicken Shop explores the private worlds of strangers, living side by side but generations apart. Their interweaving monologues explore the differences and connections that can exist between people, living in the sky, just the other side of the thin wall.
  Closer to God was first performed at the Old Red Lion, London, in 2009 as part of the inaugural OffCut Festival, directed by the author. It received the Overall Winner and Audience Choice Award.

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  Finding Mrs Wright

  Sherri L. Lewis

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  With Finding Mrs. Wright, nationally best-selling author Sherri L. Lewis offers a compelling tale of a single father seeking a better future while dealing with his crazy ex. Devon Wright’s young daughter, Brianna, is the most important person in his life. After his last relationship, Devon isn’t looking to get involved with another woman anytime soon. But all that changes when his friend introduces him to Cassandra—and Devon wonders if he might actually have a chance at love.

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  Coming into Eighty - Poems

  May Sarton

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  In May Sarton’s seventeenth and final collection of poetry, the writer reflects on life, aging, and mortalityComing into Eighty presents a poet’s look at age. Herein, Sarton gives readers a glimpse into her quotidian tasks, her memories, her losses, and her triumphs. The volume explores topics ranging from the war in Iraq to the struggle of taking a cat to the vet. Dark and immediate, this work catalogues both the tedium and the splendor of life with equal wit and beauty. Winner of the Levinson Prize.

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  Bessie's Resurrection

  Kimberly A. Collins

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  Bessie's Resurrection gives voice to Richard Wright's fictional character Bessie Mears from his novel Native Son (1940). These poems offer Bessie room to articulte her experiences as an African American woman and how she suffes in her unenviable position, powerless and unseen. Here, Bessie's fictive character is self actualized by two historical African American trailblazers: Bessie Coleman and Bessie Smith who lived during the same time period when Bessie's story takes place. These poems, which reimagine their lives, are a microcosim of the lived experiences of African American women who face violence, limitations and challenges, Their voices and bodies are resurrected to articulate their ideas of worth to claim a space to speak not only for themselves but also for their sisters who are voiceless. Their lives become three songs which are analogous to the sections in Wright's novel: Fear, Flight and Fate. While Bessie Mears supplies the soundtrack to Bigger's story, it is Bessie Smith's blues sung by Colie Aziza which serve as the soundtrack for Bessie's Resurrection. This collection of poems, written for all three Bessie's, honors Black women as the necessary backbone to the fight against their voices and their bodies being buried alive.

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