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  Black Eagle Child - The...

  Ray Young Bear

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  Mixing prose and poetry, ancient traditions and modern sensibilities, this brilliant, profane, and poignant coming-of-age story is a masterpiece of Native American literature At a Thanksgiving party held in a Bureau of Indian Affairs gymnasium, the elders of the Meskwaki Settlement in central Iowa sip coffee while the teenagers plot their escape. Edgar Bearchild and Ted Facepaint, too broke to join their friends for a night of drinking in a nearby farm town, decide to attend a ceremonial gathering of the Well-Off Man Church, a tribal sect with hallucinogenic practices. After partaking of the congregation’s sacred star medicine, Edgar receives a prophetic vision and comes to a newfound understanding of his people’s past and present that will ultimately reshape the course of his life.   Set against the backdrop of the tumultuous 1960s, Black Eagle Child is the story of Edgar’s passage from boyhood to manhood, from his youthful misadventures with Ted, to his year at prestigious liberal arts college in California, to his return to Iowa and success as a poet. Deftly crossing genre boundaries and weaving together a multitude of tones and images—from grief to humor, grape Jell-O to supernatural strobe lights—it is also an unforgettable portrait of what it means to be a Native American in the modern world.

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  Short Story Press Presents Walk...

  Short Story Press, Calandria...

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  “Walk A Mile” is a story about the impending divorce of Jackson and Linda Rincon, a wealthy Malibu couple, who have been married for a long time, and the way it complicates the life of their only daughter Melania. 
  • There is a long standing ugly divorce pending 
  • This couple has deep dark secrets that are threatening to come to the light 
  • The Rincon’s are fighting over money and property 
  • Their only daughter Melania has been caught in the middle 
  • Melania and her father have worked together to build a successful company 
  • Everything that Melania has know to be true and real may in fact not be at all 
  • The story weaves together a complicated relationship between a powerful family 
  • Will Melania be forced to choose a side between her parents. 
  Short Story Press publishes short stories written by everyday writers.

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  Opus

  Michael Hollinger

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  In Michael Hollinger’s look at the discordant backstage world of classical music, The Lazara Quartet has just fired one of its members, and his replacement is wary of the group’s reputation for personal, violent quarrels. And as they prepare for a command performance at the White House, they’re haunted by their former colleague’s sudden disappearance.This recording also includes an interview with playwright Michael Hollinger as well as an interview with arts consultant Drew McManus.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:Jonathan Adams as DorianJere Burns as ElliotKevin Chamberlin as CarlSteven Culp as AlanJon Matthews as Nigel, Voice and PresidentLiza Weil as GraceDirected by Brendon Fox. Recorded by L.A. Theatre Works before a live audience at the James Bridges Theater, UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television in May 2012.

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  Bird (NHB Modern Plays)

  Katherine Chandler

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  Ava and Tash are up on a cliff, looking out at the flocking birds – and at their future. On the cusp of adulthood and about to leave the care home they've shared, the two friends road-test their impending freedom and living in the outside world.
  Ava must confront the mother she left behind. Tash will have to look for a new home. And both girls will go on living dangerously with the men who surround them.
  Raw, delicate and bold, Bird is a story of growing up outside a family but inside the fiercest of friendships. It was the winner of a Judges' Award in the 2013 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting, and premiered at Sherman Cymru in 2016 before transferring to the Royal Exchange, Manchester.

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  Intelligence-Slave

  Kenneth Lin

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  The story of Curt Herzstark, an Austrian industrialist and concentration camp prisoner who was sent by the Nazis to an underground salt mine during the war. While in captivity, he continued his experiments with a device that would eventually become the hand-held calculator.An L.A. Theatre Works full cast recording featuring:
  
  Garret Dillahunt as Hermann Pister
  Joe Spano as Fritz Engelhard
  Josh Stamberg as Curt Herzstark
  Daniel Stewart as Finn Frey
  Nick Toren as Bruno Clemens
  Matthew Wolf as Recorded Voice of German Boy
  
  Directed by Matt August. Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at The James Bridges Theater, UCLA in January of 2015.Intelligence-Slave is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Major funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, to enhance public understanding of science and technology in the modern world.

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  Golden Days of good Queen Bess

  Sir John Comyns Carr

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of Parody on "The Golden Days of good Queen Bess" by Sir John Carr. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for November 15th, 2009.

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