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  Home Burial - Poem about the...

  Robert Frost

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  Robert Lee Frost was born on the 26th March 1874 in San Francisco, California. 
  His father found providing for the family a constant challenge and he died, when Frost was 11, from tuberculosis and left an estate valued at only $8.  The family moved east to Lawrence, Massachusetts, and a better life with his grandfather. 
  After graduating from High School, and then a few months at Dartmouth college, he returned home to take on a variety of menial jobs to help support his mother.  Their drudgery and poor money encouraged him to move in a different direction: a career as a poet. 
  He sold his first poem in 1894 for $15.  With this milestone he proposed to his high school sweetheart who declined as she was still studying at university.  The following year she graduated and they married.  A year later the first of their six children arrived.   
  After a stint at Harvard for two years he received the gift of a farm from his ailing grandfather.  Frost worked the farm and wrote unpublished poetry for several years before turning to a teaching position. 
  Upon the death of one of his children the grief-stricken family decided to quit everything and live in England, moving across the Atlantic in 1912.  The following year he published his first poetry book and with it came critical acclaim.  He was now in his late thirties. 
  The onset of World War I saw Frost return to America with a glowing reputation, and here he launched himself into a career of writing, teaching and lecturing.  
  In 1924 he received the first of four Pulitzer Prizes, for his book ‘New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes’.  He received a second Pulitzer in 1931 for ‘Collected Poems’.  A third Pulitzer Prize was presented in 1937 for ‘A Further Range’.  His fourth Pulitzer was awarded in 1943 for ‘A Witness Tree’. 
  Frost was also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature 31 times. 
  During these years personal tragedy had enveloped him.  A daughter had died in her late 20s from the effects of her puerperal fever at childbirth, his wife had died of breast cancer, and a son had committed suicide.  
  Then, at the age of 86, was asked to read his poem ‘The Gift Outright’ at President John F Kennedy’s inauguration on the 20th January, 1961.  
  Robert Frost died on the 29th January 1963 in Boston of complications arising from prostate surgery.  He was 88.

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  Calyx

  Pascal Ringstahl

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  In *Calyx*, the story unfolds of an unusual friendship between Armin, a successful high school graduate, and little Dennis, who is threatened by an incurable virus. As part of his voluntary social year in a municipal hospital, Armin discovers a well-kept secret about a room where Dennis is in the isolation ward. The virus, transmissible through blood and bodily fluids, has turned the once innocent boy into a little monster.    Despite the warnings and his girlfriend Ruth's fear of possible infection, Armin decides to gain little Dennis' trust. A tender friendship develops, which is challenged by Doctor Pneuma's merciless control and the boy's isolation. Ruth, initially skeptical, eventually succumbs to little Dennis' charm and mischievousness.    *Calyx* is not only a novel about friendship and respect, but also a story full of humor, drama, suspense and adventure. The close bond between Armin, Ruth and Dennis is put to the test when they embark on extraordinary adventures together outside the supposed safety of the hospital. This novel shows that nothing in life can be planned and that things always turn out differently than you think.

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  The Bali Paradigm - Prose Poems...

  Michael M Clements

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  Have you ever dreamed of starting a new life in a tropical paradise far from home? The Bali Paradigm chronicles such a leap through the prose, poetry and illustrations of author Michael M Clements, who sold his business, his house and all his possessions and moved with his partner and son to start a new life in Bali, and in the process, created this raw and inspiring account of what it feels like to jump from one life paradigm into the next.

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  A Woman's Voice - An anthology...

  Lillian Tindyebwa, Suzan Kiguli,...

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  A Woman's Voice is a compelling collection of 12 short stories which talk of human relationships, courage, and endurance of the Ugandan Woman in the face of hardships and social injustices. the collection offers a variety of readable material based on real, if sometimes controversial and provocative experiences.

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  More American

  Sharon Hashimoto

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  Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Winner of the 2021 Off the Grid Poetry Prize. In MORE AMERICAN, poet 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 second 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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  Hollywood Heartthrobs Box Set -...

  Mr Punch

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  The Hollywood Heartthrobs Collection is a unique compilation of 4 Oscar winning films adapted from the original screenplays & performed for the radio by many of the original film stars in front of a live studio audience. Re-mastered and re-edited from the original radio broadcast 
   
  IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE with James Stewart, Donna Reed & Victor Moore 
  The irresistibly heart-warming story of George Bailey, who is prevented from committing suicide, the night before Christmas, by the apprentice angel Clarence. 
   
  IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT with Clark Gable & Claudette Colbert 
  Frank Capra’s classic romantic road comedy in which a pampered socialite tries to escape from her father and falls in love with a roguish reporter. 
    
  THE PHILADELPHIA STORY with Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn & James Stewart 
  A witty comedy of manners in which Tracy Lord, has to choose which of the three men in her life she truly loves. HOLIDAY INN with Bing Crosby & Dinah Shore, the Irving Berlin musical, which showcases the hit songs ‘White Christmas’ and ‘Easter Parade’. 
    
  These titles are also available as part of the Hollywood Playhouse BOX SET, a collection of 14 Oscar winning ear-movies. 
   
  These radio dramas were….to become as popular as the movies themselves. Hollywood Movie Memories 
   
  This is an excellent audio product that will appeal to the majority of audiobook listeners. Talking Business 
   
  A lovely series to add to any film, audio or crime lovers’ collection. Audio World

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