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  Grimoire

  Cherene Sherrard

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  Named after a magical textbook, Cherene Sherrard’s Grimoire is a poetry collection centered on the recovery and preservation of ancestral knowledge and on the exploration of black motherhood. Incorporating experiences of food preparation, childrearing, and childbearing, the book begins with a section of poems that re-imagine recipes from one of the earliest cookbooks by an African-American woman: Mrs. Malinda Russell’s A Domestic Cookbook. Mrs. Russell’s voice as a nineteenth century chef is joined in conversation with a contemporary amateur cook in poetic recipes that take the form of soft and formal sonnets, introspective and historical lyric, and found poems. In the second section, the poet explores black maternal death and the harrowing circumstances surrounding birth for women of color in the United States. Even while confronting the dangers and tragedies of contemporary black life, Sherrard creates hopeful projections of the future. She imagines an afterlife in which souls of black mothers who have died in childbirth get to travel into space with the reluctant help of the astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, and she positions a doula as a figure of salvation who intervenes and advocates for black mothers, challenging the dehumanizing practices of early obstetrics, genetics, and pseudo-science. Throughout Grimoire, Sherrard explores the precarity of black mothering over the last two centuries and the creative and ingenuous modes of human survival.

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  Lullabies

  Lang Leav

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  Lullabies continues to explore the intricacies of love and loss. Love's poetic journey in this new, original collection begins with a Duet and travels through Interlude and Finale with an Encore popular piece from the best-selling Love & Misadventure. Lang Leav's evocative poetry speaks to the soul of anyone who is on this journey.

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  The Innocence of Father Brown...

  G. K. Chesterton

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  From London to Cornwall, then to Italy and France, a short, shabby priest takes on bandits, traitors, and killers. Why is he so successful? The reason is that after years spent in the priesthood, Father Brown knows human nature and is not afraid of its dark side. Thus he understands criminal motivation and how to deal with it. The award-winning Colonial Radio Theatre on the Air has dramatized G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown stories from The Innocence of Father Brown with a full cast, music score, and sound effects. 
   
  Included in Vol. 1: 
   
  "The Blue Cross"Father Brown is traveling to London to attend a meeting of priests, and he is carrying with him a priceless silver cross, studded with blue sapphires. Flambeau, the thief, plans to steal it. 
   
  "The Secret Garden"Father Brown is called to investigate the beheading of a man, committed in a closed garden. How did the murderer escape? 
   
  "The Queer Feet"Father Brown investigates a death at the Vernon Hotel. 
   
  "The Flying Stars"Father Brown has been invited to a Christmas masquerade, which becomes the target of another robbery.

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  Overspill (NHB Modern Plays)

  Lia Taylor

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  A poetic, explosive thriller about teenagers on a night out that ends in violence.
  Winner of Metamorphosis 2008.
  In Bromley every Friday night, same time and place, Potts, Baron and Finch get ready for their weekly dose of booze, birds and burgers. But their night out takes a dramatic and terrifying twist when an explosion rocks the town centre, and a suspicious population points the finger at them.
  'Overspill is set in Bromley, but it could be set in any town anywhere in the UK. There are hundreds of Bromleys in Britain' These are the towns that millions of us grow up in.' - Ali Taylor
  'Ali Taylor's slice of urban life is small but thrilling. It is driven by a pulsating rhythm, a sense of place, a menacing undercurrent of casual violence waiting to erupt, and a layered story that suggests the lads' friendship was about to be blown apart by other factors as adolescence gives way to adulthood. The writing is gritty and sweaty, with a tom cat swagger and cut with half-rhymes and littered with assonance and alliteration... a tiny gem'- Guardian
  'A dazzling display of dramatic virtuosity... darkly polished, thrillingly inventive... gleams with gutter poetry'- Time Out

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  Martyrology Book 6

  bp Nichol

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  'All of Nichol’s work is stamped by his desire to create texts that are engaging in themselves as well as in context, and to use indirect structural and textual devices to carry meaning. In The Martyrology different ways of speaking testify to a journey through different ways of being. Language is both the poet’s instructor and, through its various permutations, the dominant "image" of the poem. The [nine] books of The Martyrology document a poet’s quest for insight into himself and his writing through scrupulous attention to the messages hidden in the morphology of his own speech.’ – Frank Davey

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  Philo Vance Detective Collection...

  Black Eye Entertainment

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  Created by S.S. Van Dine, Philo Vance was quite popular in books, movies and on radio. He was portrayed as a stylish, very intelligent and cultured private detective – an Americanized Sherlock Holmes – working out of New York. In the movies, William Powell, Warren William, Paul Lukas and Basil Rathbone starred as Vance. On radio, he was voiced by José Ferrer, John Emery and Jackson Beck. Not that Vance needed any help solving a crime, he did work closely with his secretary and right-hand woman, Ellen Deering and his pal John Markham, New York County District Attorney. First heard for a brief time on NBC radio in 1945-46 it enjoyed success in syndication beginning in 1948 starring Jackson Beck.  
  4/5/49 "The Movie Murder Case" 4/12/49 "The Green Girls Murder Case" 4/19/49 "The Cardinal Murder Case" 4/26/49 "The Cipher Murder Case" 5/3/49 "The Masters Murder Case" 5/10/49 "The Meanest Man Murder Case" 5/17/49 "The Butterfly Murder Case" 5/24/49 "The Hurdy-Gurdy Murder Case" 6/28/49 "The Motor Murder Case" 7/5/49 "The White Murder Case" 7/12/49 "The One-Cent Murder Case" 7/19/49 "The Racket Murder Case"

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