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  Kevin Goes to Japan Story Only

  Miwako Kiritani

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  日本語教材の「ケビン日本ヘ行く」の物語のみです（単語表、JLPTサンプル問題はありませんので、ご注意ください） 
  親友の幸雄を頼ってワーキングホリデーで日本にやってきたイギリス人のケビンは、幸雄の同僚、松村弓子に一目ぼれ。幸雄の同期で幸雄に6年片思いのヤンデレOL青木智子の計らいで、弓子とのダブルデートが実現するが、事件勃発。ケビンの片思いは？　そして智子の恋は実るのか？ 
  日英同時表記のため、英語、日本語学習として最適です。 
  This book is the story only of the Japanese language material, called "Kevin Goes to Japan." (please note that there are no vocabulary lists or JLPT sample questions) 
  Kevin, an Englishman who came to Japan on a working holiday with his best friend Yukio, falls in love at first sight with Yukio's colleague, Yumiko Matsumura. Through the arrangement of Tomoko Aoki, Yukio's colleague and a yandere office lady who has had a crush on Yukio for six years, Kevin and Yumiko go on a double date, but something happens. What about Kevin's unrequited love? And will Tomoko's love come true? 
  This book is written in Japanese and English, which is ideal for learning English and Japanese.

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  The Victorian Laureates - An...

  William Wordsworth

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  The office of Poet Laureate goes back many centuries – informally to the time of Geoffrey Chaucer in 1389 and followed thereafter by a number of ‘volunteer laureates’. It was formally assigned to Ben Jonson in 1617 and, as a Royal office by letters patent in 1670, to John Dryden. It is a rich, rewarding history that bursts with the words, themes and visions of many great poets that has bound poetry and poets to a Nations soul. 
   
  Victoria’s reign is mainly remembered as that which harnessed and amplified The Industrial Revolution with its myriad of inventions and the reinvention of society from agricultural to manufacturing. From there its thirst for markets and raw materials created a massive ‘Age of Empire’ that bestrode the globe yet, in its wake, left many in its homeland, destitute, impoverished and bereft of the advantages it trumpeted on a world stage.   
   
  In the Arts its artists flourished, exhibiting and publishing abroad working in new techniques and new media. In literature such noted talents as Dickens, Trollope, Thackeray, the Bronte sisters and many, many others were ambitious and acclaimed.  In Poetry we were spoilt for choice; the Brownings, Matthew Arnold, Coventry Patmore, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, an endless succession of wordsmiths.   
   
  Those Laureates appointed in Queen Victoria’s reign to represent the Nation are three in number and quite simply are staggering in both verse and talent: William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson and Alfred Austin. 
   
  01 - The Victorian Laureates - An Introduction 
  02 - William Wordsworth - An Introduction 
  03 - Composed Upon Westminster Bridge by William Wordsworth 
  04 - It Was An April Morning Fresh and Clear by William Wordsworth 
  05 - Ode Composed on a May Morning by William Wordsworth 
  06 - Surprised By Joy Impatient As the Wind by William Wordsworth 
  07 - Daffodils by William Wordsworth 
  08 - My Hearts Leaps Up by William Wordsworth 
  09 - Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known by William Wordsworth 
  10 - Written in London September1802 by William Wordsworth 
  11 - November1806 by William Wordsworth 
  12 - The Solitary Reaper by William Wordsworth 
  13 - The Foresaken by William Wordsworth 
  14 - The Longest Day by William Wordsworth 
  15 - Tinturn Abbey (Extracts) By William Wordsworth 
  16 - Alfred Lord Tennyson - An Introduction 
  17 - Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  18 - The Lady of Shalott by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  19 - Maud by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  20 - The Eagle by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  21 - The Oak by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  22 - Spring by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  23 - Break Break Break by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  24 - Ring Out Wild Bells by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  25 - The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  26 - Sweet and Low by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  27 - Song - A Spirit Haunts the Year's Last Hours by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  28 - The Death of the Old Year by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  29 - Crossing the Bar by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  30 - In Memoriam by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  31 - Alfred Austin - An Introduction 
  32 - Agetha by Alfred Austin 
  33 - A Captive Throstle by Alfred Austin 
  34 - Though All the World by Alfred Austin 
  35 - A Night in June by Alfred Austin 
  36 - Spiritual Love by Alfred Austin 
  37 - In Praise of England by Alfred Austin 
  38 - Forgiveness by Alfred Austin 
  39 - A Farewell To Youth by Alfred Austin

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  Songs of Snow and Silence

  Jen Emery

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  Imagine, first, a forest full of snow… 
    
  This is the story of a unique generation of violins. It begins in the silence of snow-filled forests and brings us to the chatter and traffic of a twenty-first century city.   
  It is the story of their maker, Antonio Stradivari, the sparkling young prodigy who did his greatest work late in life, lifting music from the silence of all he had lost. It is also the story of all of us. Of the passions that flicker through our lives, and what might unfold if we chase them. It is the story of how our greatest loves will outlive us, if only we will let them go. 
  Intimate and eternal, Songs of Snow and Silence by Jen Emery captures the solitary song of a woodlark, the crackle of a campfire and the echoing laughter around it. This is a voice steeped in ancient wisdom, made fresh by a grit and bright wit. Loreto Ruiz’s exquisite paintings bring alive in colour and movement the music, time, and emotions that shape this work, offering a soaring beauty and empathy that transcends words. 
  Have you lived long enough yet to know what it is to wake, stiff and cold before dawn by a burned down fire?

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  A Surprised Queenhood in the New...

  Angela Jackson

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  Gwendolyn Brooks is one of the great American literary icons of the twentieth century and the first black person awarded a Pulitzer Prize. Over nearly six decades, her poetry showed complex portraits of black American life and served as witness to the stark realities of urban living. A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun delves deep into the rich fabric of Brooks's work and world and traces the literary arc of her long career, using forty-three of her most soul-stirring poems as a guide. It is a commemoration of a writer who negotiated black womanhood and incomparable brilliance with a changing, restless world-an artistic maverick ahead of her time.

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  The Complete Sonnets of William...

  William Shakespeare, Susan...

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  The sonnets of William Shakespeare are among the most famous love poems in the English language. For sustained dramatic intrigue and sophistication of plot, these works are at least the equal of Shakespeare's greatest plays. Compelling, subtle, and intellectually rigorous—yet taut with intense emotion—each poem invites study, interpretation, and awe, from one generation to the next.  
   
   This recording presents them in their entirety, allowing a new generation to discover Shakespeare's emotional power, mastery of language, and insight into the human condition. Acclaimed actors from the past fifty years perform the entire sequence of 154 sonnets—along with “A Lover's Complaint” and selected songs—delivering the full range and power of virtuosity, emotional power and bristling intelligence that made Shakespeare great. Among the readers are Roscoe Lee Browne, Christopher Cazenove, Minnie Driver, Kelsey Grammer, Edward Herrmann, Patrick Macnee, Juliet Mills, Vanessa Redgrave, Jean Smart, Alfre Woodard, and Michael York.

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  Human Resources

  Syd Zolf

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  Winner of the 2008 Trillium Book Award for Poetry
     
  Write for buyers. Write for bosses. Think hyper. Think branding. Tell your visitor where to go. Poetry and ‘plain language’ collide in the writing machine that is Human Resources. Here at the intersection of creation and repackaging, we experience the visceral and psychic cost of selling things with depleted words. Pilfered rhetorics fed into themachine are spit out as bungled associations among money, shit, culture, work and communication. With the help of online engines that numericize language, Human Resources explores writing as a process of encryption.
     
  Deeply inflected by the polyvocality and encoded rhetorics of the screen, Human Resources is perched at the limits of language, irreverently making and breaking meaning. Navigating the crumbling boundaries among page, screen,reader, engine, writer and database, Human Resources investigates wasting words and words as waste – and the creative potential of salvage.
     
  ‘In this bad-mouthing and incandescent burlesque, Rachel Zolf transforms a necessary social anger into the pure fuel that takes us to “the beautiful excess of the unshackled referent.�* We learn something new about guts, and about how dictions slip across one another, entwining, shimmering, wisecracking. For Zolf,political invention takes precedent, works the search engine.’ – Lisa Robertson

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