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  Elizabeth Barrett Browning:...

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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  Elizabeth Barrett Moulton Barrett was born on 6 March 1806, in Coxhoe Hall, County Durham, the eldest of twelve children.  Family wealth was derived from sugar plantations manned by  slaves in Jamaica and enabling them to also purchase a 500 acre estate in Herefordshire.  This wealth allowed her to publish poems from an early age.  However by age 20 the family’s fortunes were to decline, but never below comfortable, after losing a lawsuit over their plantations .  Shortly thereafter Elizabeth became afflicted with an unknown disease and became addicted to morphine. Despite this she continued to write and became increasingly popular both in England and in the United States.  Her poems against slavery chronicled her abhorrence of the basis of the family wealth. In 1844 she was introduced to the younger Robert Browning who was a great admirer of her work and began a secret courtship and thence to marriage.  To him she wrote and dedicated one of her greatest works; Sonnets from the Portuguese and they went to live in Italy in 1846.   Although by now an invalid she seemed insecure of the love of the vigorous Robert  but continued to write and publish poetry as diverse as love sonnets and political pieces before succumbing to death in 1861. Our reader is Ghizela Rowe.

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  Celebrate Through Heartsongs

  Mattie J. T. Stepanek

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  A spiritual and uplifting collection of poems, from the New York Times bestselling poet and peacemaker Mattie J. T.Stepanek. Mattie J.T.Stepanek is an award-winning poet whose struggle with a rare form of muscular dystrophy has touched the lives of people nationwide. Celebrate through Heartsongs, his third audio program, contains inspiring poems written between the ages of three and eleven, and continues to spread Mattie's message of universal hope, peace, courage, and love. Hearing Mattie's own voice adds to the appeal this program will have for people of all ages, religions, and beliefs.

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  The Tragedies Volume Two -...

  William Shakespeare

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  Four plays by the revered Elizabethan dramatist tell of men driven to evil by ambition and jealousy—and of one who escapes the dangers of bad influence.Othello: A powerful general in the Venetian army, Othello the Moor is despised by his scheming ensign, Iago, who devises a plan to destroy him. Newly married to Desdemona, Othello is led to believe she has been unfaithful—and his jealous rage leads to tragic consequences.Macbeth: When three witches foretell that Macbeth will be king of Scotland, he does not wait for destiny to run its course. Instead, he and his wife plot to kill the presiding king, an act that will realize their ambitions—and bring them to ruin.Henry IV Part One: This historical play chronicles the rebellions faced by the medieval king of England Henry IV, as well asthe maturation of his son, Prince Hal.The prince indulges in a carefree life with the comical rogue Falstaff but must eventually cast aside his recklessness and live up to his royal destiny.Henry IV Part Two: As Henry IV’s health grows weaker, Prince Hal’s ability to assume the crown remains in doubt. The prince’s friendship with the drunk and thieving Falstaff threatens to be his undoing. Now he faces a choice that will determine not only his own future, but also that of England

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  The Ballad of Abigail Lambert

  S.R. Sotolongo

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  Abigail Lambert was a cynical woman with an uncanny knack for surviving her various attempts at suicide. After saving a teenaged girl named Esperanza from a gang of vicious outlaws, she becomes convinced that shepherding the girl back home, 2,000 miles across the country, will bring Abigail the peace she’s wanted for so long. However, the surviving leader of the outlaw gang is hot on their trail & he will stop at nothing until Esperanza is back in his grasp. 
  In his debut novel, S.R. Sotolongo tells a story of loss, longing, the families we’re born with and the families we build. A journey of restoring hope set against the backdrop of a ruthless American West.

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  A Selection of Divine Poems

  John Donne

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  John Donne was an English Jacobean preacher, sometime lawyer, later in life a Member of Parliament and Royal Chaplain. Marrying for love against the wishes of his influential father-in-law; Donne's career was cast into shadow: forcing him to support his wife, Anne, as best he might under a specter of unforgiving penury.   
  Despite such hardships - perhaps because of them - Donne's writings demonstrate a mastery of poetry layered with metaphysical meaning and mystery: which continues to delight and challenge modern-day readers. Donne's "divine poems" - the focus of this collection - present profound theological insights using absorbing allegories and beautiful imagery.  
  At the end of Donne's life - as his health deteriorated under illnesses of increasing severity - his poetry served him as: distraction, consolation, and even "public confession". With them, Donne cheerfully but soberly faces the limits of his own mortality: and contemplates the mysteries that lie beyond the grave.  
  (Introduction by Godsend)

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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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