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  Horizon

  Kwame Owusu

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  A thrilling, witty, superhuman coming-of-age story about the quest to find your place in the world.
  When a mysterious cosmic event hits, a group of unsuspecting teenagers is suddenly granted superpowers and together they must work out what to do with their newfound abilities.
  But their new world of endless possibilities soon starts to crumble as trust is shaken, lines are drawn, and conflicts erupt. Can they pull together in time to save themselves – and the world?
  Kwame Owusu's play HORIZON was first performed at the Bush Theatre, London, in a production by the Bush Young Company.
  The Nick Hern Books Multiplay Drama series features large-cast plays specifically written to be performed by and appeal to young people. For more information, visit www.multiplaydrama.co.uk.

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  Dear Mothership - Poems

  Marcus Wicker

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  From the author of Maybe the Saddest Thing and Silencer comes a playful yet profound poetry collection that orbits the intersections of public loss, private grief, (dis)connection, capitalism, and identity. 
  In Dear Mothership, Marcus Wicker channels the lyrical dexterity of Outkast and the speculative vision of poet Robert Hayden to chart a course through personal and political upheaval. 
  The collection’s centerpiece is the “Break Beat Crown”—Wicker’s original take on the heroic crown of sonnets—presented as a travelogue from an extraterrestrial who has touched down in modern-day Atlanta. Across linked poems, the outsider records field notes on pandemic discord, isolation, tenderness, late-stage capitalism, empathy, and art. The longer the speaker inhabits a dysfunctional society, the more alien he feels. In addition to these science fictional experiments, Wicker delivers affecting, personal poems grounded in lived experience: lingering grief over two miscarriages, the sudden death of a friend, a sustained search for joy on the other side of those heartbreaks. 
  With its singular imagination, Dear Mothership kindles a new understanding of what makes us most human.

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  The Merchant of Venice

  William Shakespeare

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  The young venetian noble Bassanio seeks to woo the beautiful heiress Portia of Belmont. He turns to his friend, a merchant named Antonio, who agrees to help him financially. They go to a Jewish moneylender, Shylock, who agrees to lend the money - but because of their mutual animosity, Shylock demands "A pound of flesh" from Antonio as collateral.
  Bassanio succeeds in winning Portia's hand. Meanwhile, Antonio's ships are reported lost at sea, and he defaults on the loan. Bassanio rushes back to Venice to help his benefactor where everything comes to a head in Court.

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  Off the Chain

  Candice Dow

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  Candice Dow has won over audiences everywhere with steamy fiction that zips along with an irresistible impulse. In Off the Chain, London Reed settles for a job as a dog walker after she can't get into veterinary school. To give her a shot in the arm, her mother lands her a position working under investment banker William Thorne-who soon has her tasting all of life's pleasures as a high-priced call girl. "Candice definitely has a legitimate flavor ."-Urban-Reviews.com

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  Othello

  William Shakespeare

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  "O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; it is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on."
  
  Experience the most intimate and devastating of William Shakespeare's great tragedies. Othello, a heroic Moorish general in the service of Venice, has won the heart of the beautiful and virtuous Desdemona. But their happiness is short-lived, as Othello's ensign, the brilliant and sociopathic Iago, begins to weave a web of lies designed to destroy the General's life.
  
  Through subtle whispers and the calculated use of a misplaced handkerchief, Iago poisons Othello's mind with unfounded suspicions of Desdemona's infidelity. The play is a terrifying masterclass in psychological manipulation, showing how easily noble love can be transformed into murderous rage.
  
  This definitive edition presents the original text of a work that remains shockingly modern in its exploration of race, domesticity, and the nature of evil. A cornerstone of the Elizabethan theatre, Othello features Shakespeare's most complex villain and a tragic hero whose fall is as inevitable as it is heartbreaking.
  
  Witness the power of a lie. Buy "Othello" today and experience a masterwork of suspense and tragedy.

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  Forerunner The: His Parables and...

  Kahlil Gibran

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  Brought to you by Altrusian Grace Media and human-narrated by Matthew Schmitz.
   
  *The Forerunner* by **Kahlil Gibran** is a poetic and philosophical collection of parables, brief reflections, and symbolic prose pieces that explores the inner life of the soul and the spiritual struggles of humanity. More enigmatic and fragmentary than *The Prophet*, the book presents meditations on love, solitude, beauty, wisdom, suffering, pride, compassion, and the search for truth, often through allegory and paradox. Each short piece invites contemplation rather than straightforward interpretation, revealing Gibran’s mystical vision of human nature and the divine. The result is a luminous and introspective work that speaks to readers seeking spiritual insight, poetic wisdom, and timeless reflections on the mysteries of existence.

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