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  Plays from VAULT Two (NHB Modern...

  Tristan Bernays, Sophia Leuner

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  This anthology comprises five of the best plays from VAULT 2017, London's biggest and most exciting arts festival.
  The dark underside of the Greatest Story Ever Told is exposed in Testament by Tristan Bernays. Four lesser-known biblical characters are relocated to modern-day America, and given a chance to tell their side of the story.
  Previously seen at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Sophia Leuner's Save + Quit shares the stories of how four young people attempt to live their lives in London and Dublin. 'Beautifully observed… perfectly pitched' (Scotsman)
  In Wretch by Rebecca Walker, an ex-teacher and an ex-junkie meet on a night bus during long, dark nights of homelessness. A year later their lives collide again.
  Brad Birch and Kenneth Emson's This Must Be the Place offers two short ballads about migration, missed connections, and life on the edge of respectability.
  Maisie loves Sheldon, but Sheldon's not so sure. He suffers from indigestion. But maybe it's not indigestion, maybe it's love? Jimmy Osborne's Maisie Says She Loves Me is a one-man play about love, inheritance and not letting your feelings show.
  'London's answer to the Edinburgh Fringe… offers a whole line-up of treats' Evening Standard on VAULT Festival

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  Tact

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Tact by Ralph Waldo Emerson. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 22, 2012.Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States. ( Summary by Wikipedia )

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  Beja

  Dr Ken Jenkins

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  I’m loving it. (J.Q. – United Kingdom) Beautifully written (J.M. – USA) Wow! So Impressive! So riveting! (S.A. – Harare) I’m loving your book. Thank you! Can I share with a friend? (A.S. – Cape Town)  
  Ali and Salma are Beja people, living in the hauntingly beautiful hills by the Red Sea in North Africa. They belong to a nomadic tribe that time forgot, under siege by a Western culture that challenges the very core of their ancient traditions and beliefs. Enter David Stark, a doctor and aid worker, caught up in a civil war and his own unexpected awakening of love, faith and future. Traumatic events cast David, Salma and Ali together and their intertwined stories push them towards each other and a wildly unpredictable destiny. This is a gripping and inspiring story of the triumph of the human spirit and the love of God.

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  For colored girls who have...

  Ntozake Shange

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  The “extraordinary and wonderful” award-winning play in a new edition featuring an additional poem, production photos, and an introduction by Jesmyn Ward (The New York Times). 
   
  From its inception in California in 1974 to its Broadway revival in 2022, the Obie Award–winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country. Passionate and fearless, Shange’s words reveal what it meant to be a woman of color in the 20th century—and they continue to ring true in the 21st. 
   
  First published in 1975, it was praised by The New Yorker for “encompassing . . . every feeling and experience a woman has ever had”. This new edition celebrates the play’s enduring legacy with introductions by Jesmyn Ward and Broadway director Camille A. Brown. It also features a poem not previously included in the text, and a selection of photos capturing the play’s evolution and reinvention.

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  Stories To Share With My Partner...

  J. F. Nodar

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  An anthology of short stories and poetry. 
  This book is a collection of short stories and poetry written while engaged in a writers' group in Camden, New South Wales. While the stories are both fictional there are few that are from the actual life of the writer and presented here for the readers' enjoyment. 
  Which is imaginary and which is true will be up to the reader to determine.

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  Short Story Press Presents...

  Short Story Press, Tara Mitchell

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  Benji's Books is the tale of a young man who hates school and reading. He seeks refuge in a library to get out of a terrible storm. There he encounters a woman who would change his way of thinking and his life forever. 
  Elsa, the Librarian, asks Benji to lend her a hand in putting books away. They immediately establish a strong connection and forge a lasting friendship. She encourages him to read from the subjects and topics he enjoys. She prompts him to follow his desires. Benji soon learns there is a vast world in front of him to make of, what he wishes. He gains confidence to make decisions for himself concerning his education and future. 
  Benji and Elsa discuss the adventures they find in books, they spend long hours debating current events. Elsa helps Benji improve his grades as he progresses through high school. He takes an apprenticeship position at the library in his last two years of high school. 
  Together they study for college aptitude testing. When the time finally comes Elsa helps Benji work through the college and scholarship application processes. 
  Their friendship helps to keep Benji focused on academics, and looking to the future. He continues his education, graduating from college, but working every summer in the library with his friend Elsa. 
  Short Story Press publishes short stories written by everyday writers.

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