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  Damage (NHB Modern Plays)

  Kamal Khalladi

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  Three weeks after Youssef and Sana'a's wedding, Youssef accepts a military peacekeeping expedition in the Congo. Will either of them be the same people when he returns?
  Damage, by Moroccan writer Kamal Khalladi, is taken from Plays from the Arab World, a collection of five extraordinary plays exploring and reflecting contemporary life across the Near East and North Africa, now available as individual ebooks.
  The full collection also includes:
  
  
  - Withdrawal by Mohammad Al Attar (Syria)
  - 603 by Imad Farajin (Palestine)
  - The House by Arzé Khodr (Lebanon)
  - Egyptian Products by Laila Soliman (Egypt)
  In 2007 the Royal Court Theatre's International Department and the British Council embarked on an ambitious project working with twenty-one writers from across the Near East and North Africa. Seven of the resultant plays received rehearsed readings at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2008. Plays from the Arab World, introduced by Laila Hourani of the British Council, collects five of these unique new voices, each posing different but equally urgent questions.

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  Hindsight

  Sofiya Ivanova

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  Hindsight is the first collection of poetry released by Ivanova. In many ways, Hindsight is an autobiography, capturing Sofiya's pre-teen and early teen years, and all the feelings that come with it. 
  It covers topics such as losing your family pet, leaving behind your childhood, wanting to be special and important, your parents being imperfect people, mental health, etc, etc. And, of course, figuring out love. In Russian (the poet's first language), there's a saying that goes, “the first pancake comes out as a lump”, and that applies to love too. The first few pancakes, in this case. There are a lot of love poems. There are a lot of bitter poems, too, because art is a great outlet for anger. Those read as though they should have a mic drop at the end. 
  Hindsight not only reads like a coming of age collection as an introduction to the world of a new and gifted poet. But, it is also an exorcism and celebration of the past as she becomes a poet that sees the world with clarity and beauty; a poet that we all need.

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  New Adventures of Alice (version...

  John Rae

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  After reading and re-reading the book many time as a boy and wishing that Lewis Carroll would have written another Alice In Wonderland Book, John Rae began imagining what that girl would have gotten up to if he had done so. Telling these stories to his children over the years, where they were enthusiastically received, he finally decided to share them with the world. And here they are! The New Adventures of Alice (Summary by Phil Chenevert)Narrator: LydiaMother: Michele EatonBetsy, Alice's Sister: Amanda FridayAlice: HailiSnipe: Shakira SearleMan in the Moon, Snowman, Snail Doorman: Anastasiia SolokhaBlackbird, Cook: Bria SnowTown Crier: Charlotte BrownThe Peevish Printer, Johnny Stout: Barry EadsBarber, Kitten, Baker, Joiner, Doctor Foster, Artist: Kimberly KrauseArchers, Grenadier, Old-Man-All-Dressed-in-Leather, King Cole: Larry WilsonPoet: Beth ThomasCaptain Tee Wee, Candlestick-Maker, Captain Swordfish: Rebecca Braunert-PlunkettMilkman, Postman, Fireman, Footman: ToddHWButcher: Arnaldo MachadoQueen: MaryankaAudio Edited By: Michele EatonThis project was proof listened by Patrick Wells

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  Corporate Journeyman - Success...

  Kamini Arichandran

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  Driven to succeed: as the main character, Rhett Spires travels home after a business trip, he reflects on the skills, attitudes and strategies he employs to get ahead: what they do not tell you at work, but expect you to know. Corporate Journeyman, written in easy-to-read poetic verse, is a celebration of the corporate personality and includes a 30-point summary of Rhett's success formula.

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  Blue Heart (NHB Modern Plays)

  Caryl Churchill

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  Two exhilarating and teasingly entertaining one-act plays from one of the UK's leading playwrights.
  Heart's Desire sees a family awaiting their daughter's return from Australia, though in a series of alternative scenarios, the play collapses as it keeps veering off in unexpected and ridiculous directions.
  Blue Kettle tells the story of conman Derek and the five women he misleads into believing he is their biological son. Try as he might, Derek's plans are scuppered as the play is invaded by a virus.
  In Caryl Churchill's ever-inventive style, the two plays in Blue Heart pull apart language and structure in a way that is theatrically remarkable and fast paced, in a stirring yet truthful exploration of family and relationships.
  This edition was published alongside the first major revival of Blue Heart, nearly twenty years after its Royal Court premiere, in a co-production by the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, and Tobacco Factory Theatres, Bristol, in 2016.

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  The Poetry of Alan Seeger -...

  Alan Seeger

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  Alan Seeger was born on 22nd June 1888 in New York.  When he was one the family moved to Staten Island and nine years later onwards to Mexico for two years.   
   
  After attending several elite preparatory schools he enrolled at Harvard in 1906, where he also edited and wrote for the Harvard Monthly. 
   
  He graduated in 1910 and went to live the life of a bohemian in New York’s Greenwich Village, and thereafter moved to Paris to continue his poetry writing in the Latin quarter.  
   
  War’s looming dark shadow was to have a transformative effect on the young poet and on 24th August 24th 1914 he joined the French Foreign Legion so he could fight for the Allies. 
   
  On American Independence day, 4th July 1917 whilst urging on his fellow soldiers in a successful charge at Belloy-en-Santerre he was hit several times by machine gun fire and died. 
   
  His poetry was published posthumously later that year, it although not a great success his poem ‘I Have a Rendezvous with Death . . .’ is now regarded as a classic. 
   
  On the sixth anniversary of his death a memorial to the American volunteers was unveiled in the Place des Etats-Unis.   
   
  The memorial was created by Jean Boucher who had used a photograph of Seeger as his inspiration.   
   
  Also inscribed upon it are Seeger’s moving words: “They did not pursue worldly rewards; they wanted nothing more than to live without regret, brothers pledged to the honour implicit in living one's own life and dying one's own death. Hail, brothers! Goodbye to you, the exalted dead! To you, we owe two debts of gratitude forever: the glory of having died for France, and the homage due to you in our memories.” 
  1 - The Poetry of Alan Seeger - An Introduction 
  2 - I Have a Rendezvous with Death by Alan Seeger 
  3 - Resurgam by Alan Seeger 
  4 - The Hosts by Alan Seeger 
  5 - Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers Fallen for France by Alan Seeger 
  6 - Maktoob by Alan Seeger 
  7 - On a Theme in the Greek Anthology by Alan Seeger 
  8 - Sonnet I by Alan Seeger 
  9 - Sonnet 3 by Alan Seeger 
  10 - Sonnet 5 by Alan Seeger 
  11 - Sonnet 6 by Alan Seeger 
  12 - Sonnet 8 by Alan Seeger 
  13 - Sonnet 10 by Alan Seeger 
  14 - Sonnet 11 by Alan Seeger 
  15 - Sonnet 12 by Alan Seeger 
  16 - Sonnet 14 by Alan Seeger 
  17 - With A Copy Of Shakespeares Sonnets On Leaving College by Alan Seeger 
  18 - Juvenilia, An Ode to Natural Beauty by Alan Seeger 
  19 - Tezcotzinco by Alan Seeger 
  20 - On The Cliffs Newport by Alan Seeger 
  21 - Do You Remember by Alan Seeger 
  22 - All Thats Not Love by Alan Seeger 
  23 - I Loved.... by Alan Seeger 
  24 - Fragments by Alan Seeger 
  25 - The Need To Love by Alan Seeger 
  26 - Champagne 1914-1915 by Alan Seeger 
  27 - Paris by Alan Seeger 
  28 - Introduction and Conclusion of a Long Poem by Alan Seeger

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