Publisher: Good Press
Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918) is commemorated as one of the greatest War poets in Westminster Abbey. He was born in Bristol into the Jewish Faith but later moved to London to become an apprentice engraver. He was called up in 1915 and died in 1918 at the Battle of the Somme. His War poetry depicts in vivid detail the horror and sadness of war.
Elizabeth Barrett Moulton Barrett was born on 6 March 1806, in Coxhoe Hall, County Durham, the eldest of 12 children. The family's 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 readers include Ghizela Rowe and Richard Mitchley.Show book
When examining his own poetry Reinfred Dziedzorm Addo often finds he is merely a conduit for the words, the inspiration source itself being a force or another being. In acknowledging a poem’s inspiration source, he calls the resulting work a ‘dedicada’, meaning something written in dedication or in recognition of another. A debut full poetry collection, Washed Over expands upon Addo’s chapbook The Dedicadas and is a journey through a space filled with a breadth of forces and beings active in one’s existence. Identity, chaos, autumn colors, exile, people learning from the universe itself...these and other dedicadas make this collection an exploration of the experiences of someone washed over by life’s many inspirations.Show book
This novel is an engaging, witty blend of comic fantasy, Irish mythology, romance and taut modern-day thriller, located mainly in Dublin, Ireland.Following the suicide of her teenage mother, baby Fiona is put into State care. Fiona doesn’t know her absent father was the disgraced God of Love. Growing up, she suffers abuse and bullying and begins to see Otherworld creatures such as trolls and faeries, and worries for her sanity. Fiona discovers she has a physical strength beyond what is normal, and can fight the bullies, but is branded as violent and held in an Institution for the criminally insane. She is released on her eighteenth birthday into a hostel in Dublin City, Ireland.Joey, one of the bullies who made her past miserable, is now a Dublin gang member. They meet but agree to forget the past and romance blossoms. But someone is killing his friends, former bullies, now gang members, and Joey fears he is next. Meanwhile, the Celtic Goddess Danu of Otherworld has discovered Fiona’s existence and wants her dead. The Drimnagh Witches are tasked to find her and Wizard Drowe is released from Otherworld prison tasked to kill her. Fiona survives his initial attempt to murder her and befriends him before entering a strange, mystical Otherworld beyond her current reality. She has to figure out how to survive in both worlds, on the tough streets of Dublin and in Otherworld.Show book
David Balfour has never had an adventure, never sailed the high sea, nor fought in a battle - that changes after the death of his parents. Now he must collect his inheritance from his father's younger brother, and assume his station as man of wealth and standing, but that is not as simple as it sounds. He must first survive and outwit his treacherous uncle to gain what is rightfully his.Show book
A collection of non-fiction, fiction, poetry, drama, and speeches about African Americans. Subjects range from late 18th Century epistolary conversations between black Baptist preachers to 1930s testimony by ex-slaves.Contents:Ex-slave James Bolton - United States Work Projects AdministrationDeath of Charles - by Ida B. Wells-BarnettFifty Years - by James Weldon Johnson Personal Liberty Laws - by Marion Gleason McDougall Reporting - by Henry Ossian FlipperThe Ku Klux Klan - by Eyre DamerYour Negro Neighbor - by Benjamin Griffith BrawleyThe Praline Woman - by Alice Dunbar NelsonEx-Slave Minnie Davis - United States Work Projects AdministrationWhere the Negro Lives - by Mary White OvingtonNobody's Lookin' But De Owl and De Moon - by James Weldon JohnsonA Plea For Industrial Opportunity by Fanny Jackson CoppinSketches of the Black Baptist Church - by VariousLawing and Jawing - by Zora Neale HurstonExcerpt from The Future of the American Negro - by Booker T. WashingtonHot Foot Hannibal - by Charles Waddell Chesnutt The Passing Tradition and The African Civilization - by Monroe Nathan WorkThe Sunday School and Church... - by Daniel Webster DavisEx-Slave Pierce Cody - United States Work Projects AdministrationHere Comes A Young Man Courting - by Thomas Washington Talley'Lazy' - by James Weldon JohnsonOf The Meaning of Progress - by W. E. B. Du Bois.Show book
Ever felt like a grump? In this delightful musical audiobook “The House That Jack Built,” poor old Jack starts out grim and grumbly. But even Jack can't resist warming up with the help of his singing and dancing barnyard friends right out of your favorite nursery rhymes. A tale—or tail?—of love, life and forgiveness promises fun-filled family entertainment with BlueGrass music and memorable moments. Produced by the talented team at ProAudioVoices.Show book
