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  Fault Lines - Greenland –...

  Nicolas Billon

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  Winner of the 2013 Governor General's Literary Award for Drama
     
  In Greenland, the discovery of a new island off the nation's coast mirrors a growing rift between the island’s discoverer and his family.
     
  In Iceland, set against the backdrop of the banking crisis, a confrontation between a real estate agent and a tenant takes an unexpected turn.
     
  A young woman's idealism is challenged by the infamous whale hunt in Faroe Islands.
     
  Nicolas Billon's critically acclaimed trilogy asks the audience to consider the values that guide human relations. As the characters confront us with their stories – at times confession, at times diatribe – we are forced to reckon with their yearning to belong to something larger than themselves. A striking new voice that can be described as a hybrid of Wallace Shawn and Neil Labute, Fault Lines showcases the wit and dark humour of its author, and offers a compelling exploration of relationships and the challenges of connecting to others in a meaningful way.

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  Cocoa Butter Kisses

  Poetic Elle

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  Cocoa Butter Kisses is an exclusive collection of literary art highlighting the raw and authentic journey of Elle's to and through self-love. With an array of poems, song lyrics, and short stories, Elle artistically addresses essential topics like depression, anxiety, heartbreak aftermath, and navigating through love's unexpected ebb's and flows in her work. Her words stress the importance of self-acceptance and the need for wholeheartedly discovering, honoring, and celebrating yourself without feeling guilty. Elle speaks honestly on the misconceptions, stigmas, and unrealistic expectations that many have around love incomparison to what social media portrays it to be in this 21st century. This piece is for anyone who struggles with self-expression and attracting love in all the right places. Just as a familiar touch comforts, music and poetry heal the soul.

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  Some Dreams From Now - 135 Years...

  Theophilus Kwek

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  Lim Boon Keng. David Marshall. Chandran Nair. Ho Poh Fun. 
   
  Some Dreams From Now presents 70 defining pieces of writing from the Raffles Institution archives— many brought into the public eye for the first time—that trace the contours of Singapore’s history. 
   
  From youthful dreams of a freer and more peaceful society, to emerging voices that shaped the aspirations of a new nation, they tell the untold story of a school and its community at the heart of a changing city.

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  Fast Shakespeare - Easy to...

  William Shakespeare, Charles...

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  Welcome to the world of Shakespeare, where magic, mystery, and drama unfold in every word! If you're a fan of the bard, or simply looking for a way to experience his language in a more approachable format, our abridged works are the perfect choice for you. 
   
  Our set contains three of Shakespeare's most iconic plays: Merchant of Venice, Cymbeline, and King Lear. Each has been carefully abridged to preserve the original language as much as possible, while making the text easier to follow and enjoy. 
   
  By listening to these plays in their original language — presented in a streamlined, accessible form — adults can develop a deeper appreciation for the beauty and power of Shakespeare’s words. Our expertly narrated audiobook brings these plays to life, making them engaging without sacrificing authenticity. 
   
  With Merchant of Venice, you’ll explore themes of love, betrayal, and justice through the story of Shylock and Antonio. In Cymbeline, you’ll journey through love, deception, and loyalty with Imogen and Posthumus. And in King Lear, you’ll witness the rise and fall of a powerful king as he grapples with the consequences of his own choices.

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  Lemon Hound

  Sina Queyras

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  2007 Winner of the Pat Lowther Award and a Lambda Literary Award
     
  If you open your mouth, ache. If you don’t open your mouth, swelter. If you open your mouth but hold your breath, ether. If you look for colour, coral and tea leaves. If you follow the moon, wet and concrete. If you cling to the earth, pistol and candy apple. If you give up your garden, maze and globe, hydrangeas and moon vines. If you lose your shoes, pumice and strain. If you have no money, tin and clang.
     
  As meditative practices focus on the axis of breath, these poems focus on the moment of action, of thought, on the flux of speech.
     
  This is a poetry not of snapshots or collages but of long-exposed captures of the not-so-still lives of women. One sequence imagines Virginia Woolf’s childhood; another unmakes her novel The Waves by attempting to untangle its six overlapping narratives. Yet another, ‘On the Scent,’ makes us flâneurs through the lives of a series of contemporary women, while ‘The River Is All Thumbs’ uses a palette of vibrant repetition to ‘paint’ a landscape.
     
  Queyras’s language – astute, insistent, languorous – repeats and echoes until it becomes hypnotic, chimerical, almost halluncinatory in its reflexivity. How lyrical can prose poetry be? How closely can it mimic painting? Sculpture? Film? How do wemake a moment firm? These ‘postmodern,’ ‘postfeminist’ poems pulse between prose and poetry: the line, the line, they seem to ask, must it ever end?
     
  ‘Laced with Virginia Woolf-inspired content, Queyras cultivates a rhythm that rocks the reader through a frontier map of the twenty-first century woman ... Lemon Hound's unique rhythms provide immediate gratification while its layered substance affords greater fulfillment with each reading.’ – Verse

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  Jim River Boy - An Inspirational...

  MJ Ulmer

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  An unrepentant heart is heavy. 
  Widowed, lonely and angry, Claire feels that God has turned a blind eye to her. When her daughter becomes pregnant she acts on her pride and vanity, forcing the teenage girl to get rid of the baby. This choice creates a wedge between mother and daughter - and further distances Claire from God.     
  Believing that she’s a hopeless cause and peace is unattainable, she willingly accepts her probable death when a car accident leaves her sinking in the murky Jim River waters.   
  Then the boy appears, taking her by the hand and leading her down a path of self-reflection and healing, in a world unlike anything she’s ever seen. Claire discovers the truth about the past, faces off with her pride and finds that God has been pursuing her through it all. Using even the most dire of situations to draw her closer to Him. 
  A hard-to-put-down, thought provoking novel about redemptive love and true forgiveness from a God who celebrates with us in times of joy and agonizes with us in times of difficulty. A God who seeks to restore to us what was lost or stolen and redeem us with His powerful grace. 
  What people are saying:  
  “Male or female, young or old, this story will move you.” 
  “If you’ve ever wrestled with forgiveness or grappled with faith, this book will gently guide you toward true peace.” 
  “An uplifting, amazing life message.”

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