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  King Lear

  William Shakespeare

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  King Lear is one of Shakespeare’s greatest and darkest works. King Lear banishes his favorite daughter when she speaks out against him. However, he does not know that his two other daughters who pay tribute to him are in fact plotting against him.  Shakespeare’s observations on the nature of human suffering and kinship are never better defined than in this play.

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  Ghosts

  Henrik Ibsen

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  Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts was first published in 1881 and staged in 1882, and like his earlier play A Doll's House, profoundly shocked his contemporaries.  Dubbed "a dirty deed done in public" by one of its critics, the play focuses on (among other things) venereal disease, euthanasia, and incest.  The original title literally means "the ones who return," and the play is about how we can deal with the awful legacy of the past. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)Cast:Mrs. Alving: Elizabeth KlettOswald Alving: mbPastor Manders: Bruce PirieJacob Engstrand: Algy PugRegina Engstrand: AvailleNarrator: J. M. SmallheerAudio edited by: mb

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  Mianus Village

  Jack T. Scully

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  MIANUS VILLAGE IS a vivid, entertaining  collection of 36 free verse poems that read and sound more like short, short stories than abstract modern poetry. It tells the story of a blue-collar boy growing up in the rough and tumble atmosphere of a Veterans’ housing project in the years following World War II. Set on the banks of Riverside, Connecticut’s Mianus Village, it is reminiscent of the bittersweet, bygone days of our youth and simpler, safer times for our country. This audiobook will be especially appreciated by Baby Boomers whose Greatest Generation parents once saved the world from tyranny and genocide. Author David Huddle describes the book as a celebration of "American innocence, decency, humor, and family life” while simultaneously mourning "their loss." Says author Peter Shea:  "MIANUS VILLAGE is going to sit you down in the easy chair of your mind.  With metric simplicity and an uncanny choice of evocative words, Scully will take you to Mianus Village – a real place for sure, and the setting for many autobiographical tales, but also a place that is emblematic of the commonalities within all of us. "Following a roughly progressive chronology, the work starts with a tale of a great-grandfather with a “brogue, thick as spud stew,” and ends with the death of his mother. Along the way, we meet some of the many characters that peopled his early life: Daddy, who fought “up the boot of Italy,” Gunner, the natural born killer; Dante, who loses a good portion of a digit to Jack’s Bowie knife; the crazy old fisherman Ike, and Eva Ruth, his secret love.”Simultaneously heartwarming and heartbreaking, MIANUS VILLAGE will slow down time’s winged flight in your life  and make you a child again—every time you listen to it.

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  Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge An

  Ambrose Bierce

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  "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" (1890) is a short story by the American writer and Civil War veteran Ambrose Bierce. The story, which is set during the American Civil War, is known for its irregular time sequence and twist ending. Bierce's abandonment of strict linear narration in favor of the internal mind of the protagonist is an early example of the stream of consciousness narrative mode.Described as "one of the most famous and frequently anthologised stories in American literature", A must read for all Civil War and American history buffs!

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  Rooms of the Mind - Poems

  Makenzie Campbell

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  From the author of the wildly successful 2am Thoughts and Nineteen comes Rooms of the Mind—a journey into the parts of our psyche that can either hide and protect us or expose us to all that exists. Here you'll find an exploration of pain, heartbreak, and wonder at what the world might bring us next.

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  Spooky Poetry

  Rudyard Kipling

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  Spooky Poetry. Or things that go bump in the night!  Poetry has a way of making even the most difficult of subjects or themes that bit easier to handle.  And so it is with spooks and ghouls, ghosts and goblins. In this collection of poems Shakespeare, Kipling Rossetti, Stevenson are just some of the fine minds that take us on an adventure into a World of tense laughter and just around the corner sacredness.  Our readers for this magical journey include Sandi Tosvig, Nigel Planer, Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe

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