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  The Prophet - A Loving Audio...

  Kahlil Gibran

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  Immerse yourself in a great book without reading a word.  
  Sit back, relax and enjoy a loving audio experience of profound insights that touch on themes of love, sorrow, self-discovery, freedom and many other interconnecting aspects of life. 
  This audiobook is orchestrated in the spirit of great tales told around a campfire. Atmospheric sounds and music start the listeners’ journey into a heartfelt narration of a beloved classic breathing new life into “The Prophet”.  
  Widely acclaimed for its ageless and universal wisdom on subjects such as marriage, work, pleasure, pain, friendship, beauty, and more. The Prophet is a source of inspiration for many seeking guidance on matters of the heart, soul, and daily living.   
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  After living 12 years on an island in exile, Almustafa (the prophet) prepares to finally return to his homeland. The people of the island gather to say goodbye as he shares insights into life based on their heartfelt questions and what he has learned living with them. 
  Indulge in an audiobook that doesn't just tell a story – immerse yourself in a symphony of words and emotions that resonate. Let the spoken word be a bridge between the pages of the Prophet and your soul. 

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  National Gallery

  Jonathan Ball

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  A poetic collage of art in the modern world: from Rilkean elegies for an iPhone to a meditation on Melville's classic
    Jonathan Ball's fourth poetry book, the first in seven years, swirls chaos and confession together. At the book's heart is a question: Why create art? A series of poetic sequences torment themselves over this question, offering few answers and taking fewer prisoners. Loose sonnets that consider the artistic creations of Leatherface, monster-killer from The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, sit alongside Rilkean elegies for an iPhone. Surreal meditations on the collage work of Guy Maddin are followed by all of the lines from Melville's Moby-Dick that mention "salt." Politicians and painters jostle while absurdist humour crashes into stark admissions of vulnerability in the wake of having children. A startling diversity of styles and subjects feed into the maelstrom of The National Gallery, and its dark currents will draw you in to drown.

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  Lady

  Laurie Bolger

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  Lady, the first full collection of poems by Laurie Bolger, arrives 'all giddy with endorphins' and explores the many roles girls and women are asked to play and the dressing-up outfits they try on for size – whether housewife or hen, sister or mum, landlady, exercise instructor or best friend forever. Bolger's poems turn her bold, funny and wise words on boys, body image and the pressure to make yourself fit into a pigeon-hole, when all you really want to do is soar away on your own wings.
  Here, these gritty and effervescent poems look to the things that sustain us when navigating an imperfect world obsessed with perfection. Whether dancing in the kitchen, crying in the bath or eating crisps, these poems are equal parts delicious, joyous, and bittersweet. A celebration of the resilience of working-class women and the solidarity and love found in friendship and family, Bolger's poems dare to dream and be wild – and invite us all to join her.

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  Artaban and the Quest for the...

  Jason Markiewitz, Henry van Dyke

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  Upon his return home from the battlefields of Europe in 1918, Col Blackwood, a UK Army infantry officer, is reunited with his family on Christmas Eve after nearly four years away. In the midst of telling his children a bedtime story, we learn of Artaban, a Magi priest, and the fourth wise man to present gifts to the newborn King. As a result of dissension among his fellow Magians, Artaban has no other choice but to embark on this journey alone. Though his quest is fraught with challenges along the way that test his courage and stir his compassion, his faith never wavers.Artaban and the Quest for the King is based upon the 1895 novella "The Story of the Other Wise Man" by Henry Van Dyke.  Jason Markiewitz adapted the story and developed the script used in this production.  This dramatization is performed by a full cast of international, award-winning voice actors and is surrounded by majestic sounds and cinematic music.  More importantly, this story is suitable for all ages and is a heartwarming story of family, hope, perseverance, faith, and love. Artaban and the Quest for the King is a Markiewitz Audioworks Production.

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  Whaling Town - Poems

  David Parker Allen

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  This is a place you never hear about in America... 
  A unique American collection of poetry, Whaling Town explores the rough work of self-realization and the roots that anchor us to the unsteady ground of our past.  
  Facing a turning point in his life, David Parker Allen began traversing the landscape of the United States, researching and writing music and assembling the bones of a collection of poetry. His journey led him through a personal family immigrant story in New Bedford, Massachusetts—the whaling town Melville made famous—to small communities across the Mississippi Delta and deep South, Gulf Coast, and Mountain West, as well as the streets of Chicago and New York. Jumping from rural America to urban hubs and back, Whaling Town tells a story of place and people in a gritty world that’s both in and out of our control. 
  With clear-eyed observations and gentle musicality, Allen takes stock of the burden of our collective history and looks directly into passing storms that we each must face alone. When the skies clear, how do we come to terms with self and our place in this world, and what do we build from the wreckage?

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  The Neverending Quest for the...

  Sylvie Kandé

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  Sylvie Kandé's neo-epic in three cantos is a double narrative combining today's tales of African migration to Europe on the one hand, with the legend of Abubakar II on the other: Abubakar, emperor of 14th-Century Mali, sailed West toward the new world, never to return. Kandé's language deftly weaves a dialogue between these two narratives and between the epic traditions of the globe. Dazzling in its scope, the poem swings between epic stylization, griot storytelling, and colloquial banter, capturing an astonishing range of human experience. Kandé makes of the migrant a new hero, a future hero whose destiny has not yet taken shape, whose stories are still waiting to be told in their fullness and grandeur: the neverending quest has only just begun. Country folk who made themselves belated marinerstheir bodies cadence themto cleave with the oar's tainted tipthe purple mounds of the great salt savannahwhich no furrow markswhere no seed takes root (But to say the seaearthly words are little suited)At the point of the dreamthey were a myriadno less and no moreto cross the coral barrier in laughter with its vermilion flowers:there remain but three barks adriftfull so full to the point of capsizing

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