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  A Florida Sketch-Book

  Bradford Torrey

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  This is a series of late-19th Century essays about Florida's flora & fauna written by a Massachusetts-based naturalist. (Summary by BellonaTimes)Note: page 142 was read from Google Books as it was missing from the Gutenberg version.

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  The Poems of TS Eliot Read by...

  T. S. Eliot

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  Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4, Jeremy Irons's perceptive reading illuminates the poetry of T. S. Eliot in all its complexity. Major poems range from 'The Love Song of J.  Alfred Prufrock', through the post-war desolation of 'The Waste Land' and the spiritual struggle of 'Ash-Wednesday', to the enduring charm of 'Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats'.The Spectator praised Jeremy Irons's interpretation as 'so accessible, reading Eliot as if finding his words for the first time, grappling with them, relishing them, using them to express feelings that we all share as we struggle to accept, to recognise or relinquish'. Dame Eileen Atkins also appears alongside Jeremy Irons in the reading of 'The Waste Land'.

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  Live Fast Die Young St Pete...

  dorian welch

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  Two best friends Gia Gia & Keywee start a black market business to make money. Their plan back fires on them forcing them to go into hiding.

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  A Line in the Sand

  Red Room Poetry

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  A Line In The Sand draws together over 80 of Australia's leading poets and public figures commissioned by Red Room Poetry across the last 20 years.
  These poems illuminate space and time, giving us ways to speak and listen to loss, dream, connection, truths and traces. As a celebration of the groundbreaking work Red Room Poetry does, to read these pages is to enter the alchemic process – where poetry transforms us, reawakening wonder and ways of being.
  Featuring poems from Yassmin Abdel-Magied, Maxine Beneba Clarke, Grace Tame, Jazz Money, Bruce Pascoe, Tony Birch, Maria Tumarkin, Sarah Holland-Blatt, Eloise Grills, Omar Musa and Uncle Archie Roach.

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  One of Us Buried

  Johanna Craven

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  I am surrounded by men, as I was the day I arrived in this place ... We step into the courtroom together, though we are anything but equals... 
  In 1806, a fateful decision sends Eleanor Marling from the salons of London to a prison ship bound for New South Wales. She is put to work at the female factory of Parramatta, where the women’s only hope of food and lodgings is to offer their bodies to the settlement’s men.  
  Nell is given shelter by Lieutenant Blackwell, a brooding soldier to whom she is inexplicably drawn. Despite warnings from the other women, Blackwell’s motives seem decent, and beneath the roof of a military officer, Nell sees a chance to become more than just a convict woman sent to the factory to be forgotten.  
  But tensions are high in New South Wales, with the young colony teetering on the edge of a convict rebellion. And as Nell treads a dangerous line between obedience and power, she learns the role of a factory lass is to remain silent – or face a walk to the gallows.  
  Inspired by true events that would shape the experience of Australian women for centuries to come. 

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  The God of Loneliness - Selected...

  Philip Schultz

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  Philip Schultz, winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, has been celebrated for his singular vision of the American immigrant experience and Jewish identity, his alternately fierce and tender portrayal of family life, and his rich and riotous evocation of city streets. His poems have found enthusiastic audiences among readers of Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac, Slate, The New Yorker, and other publications. His willingness to face down the demons of failure and loss, in his previous book particularly, make him a poet for our times, a poet who can write “If I have to believe in something / I believe in despair.” Yet he remains oddly undaunted: “sometimes, late at night / we, my happiness and I, reminisce / lifelong antagonists / enjoying each other’s company.”The God of Loneliness, a major collection of Schultz’s work, includes poems from his five books (Like Wings, Deep Within the Ravine, The Holy Worm of Praise, Living in the Past, Failure) and fourteen new poems. It is a volume to cherish, from “one of the least affected of American poets, and one of the fiercest” (Tony Hoagland), and it will be an essential addition to the history of American poetry.

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