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  The Poetry of Claude McKay - A...

  Claude McKay

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  Festus Claudius McKay was born in Sunny Ville, Jamaica on the 15th September 1890, He was the youngest son to parents who had gathered enough assets to secure them the right to vote. 
   
  As a boy he was fascinated by English Poetry and literature, although at 17 he took on work as an apprentice woodcutter for two years before becoming a police constable in the capital, Kingston.  In this mainly white and affluent town racism was rife and its nature awakened his political instincts and pursuit of social justice.  He soon returned home and published his first two poetry collections in 1912. 
   
  By the early 1920’s he had travelled extensively across the United States and parts of Europe and was recognised as a very talented poet and an essential founding component of the Harlem Renaissance.   
   
  As well as poetry he also wrote several novels and was a dedicated activist for social reform.  
   
  By the late 1930s he had developed a deep interest in Catholicism and several years later moved to Chicago as a teacher for a Catholic organisation. 
   
  By the mid 1940’s several illnesses has further debilitated his health. 
   
  Claude McKay died of heart failure on the 22nd May 1948.  He was 57.

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  My Hope Within Syllables - A...

  Alta H Haffner

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  Hope within syllables was and always will be my "soul child". 
  When I wrote my 1st ever Haiku, I knew that I would be counting syllables until my last breath. 
  This book is a little sad but incredibly hopeful.

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  Where Did All The Flowers Come...

  Gordon MacLeod

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  Based on the island of Arran.  
  Sister Rhona, Vicky, and Mary meet to mark the occasion of their mother's burial a year to the day following her funeral. 
  Puzzled by the many flowers left on their mother's grave, they probe the reasons for this and who is responsible. Hatching a plan to catch the donor, the answer leads to some unexpected revelations that their mother did not want to share with her daughters.

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  Thort’s Epiphany

  Carey Slay, Cara Slay Coleman

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  Thort, a highly decorated demon from the upper ranks of Hell-ops reports to his next multi-generational assignment, who just happen to be from the same family lineage as Peter, a disciple of Jesus Christ. Little does he know, this family is on assignment as well, holding to the promises of their Savior and walking powerfully in the gifts of the Holy Spirit to defeat every scheme of their unseen enemy. Thort will find himself completely depleted by defeat, questioning his allegiance at a crossroad that will define his role in all of eternity.

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  More American

  Sharon Hashimoto

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  Sharon Hashimoto reconstructs a collective memory, conjuring the voices of grandparents, children, soldiers, and " those left to tell." In moving detail, these poems convey the realities of assimilation, service, and internment as experienced by Japanese Americans during, and in the decades following, the Second World War. In this stunning collection, Hashimoto reckons with the limitations of language, and by extension, notions of citizenship. She deftly sounds the dissonances in the language of loyalty and allegiance.

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  Coffee and Caramel

  Adrian Tanase

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  Coffee and Caramel is just another free-verse poetry book,  in the "Timeless Adventures" series.   It features 63 original romance, inspirational, and surreal poems,   created to fill your imagination with sweet baked goodies and heartfelt words.

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