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  Didicoy

  Karen Downs-Barton

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  Didicoy offers a window into the colourful, precarious world of a multiracial Romany family, and focuses on characters at the often-untold margins of society. Blending lyricism with formal experimentation, these poems explore what it is to belong. Clear-eyed and outspoken, Didicoy has something of the impact of a contemporary Cathy Come Home.
  The collection is wonderfully peopled, with an unforgettable portrait of a mother and a powerful and important depiction of life in a children's home. Writing like this, which combines real expressive skill with material which must be expressed, really reminds us what poetry is for. – Jonathan Edwards, winner of the Costa Poetry Award

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  Julia or The Convent of St...

  Amelia Opie

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  Amelia Alderson, an only child, was born on the 12th November 1769 in Norwich, England. 
  After the death of her mother on New Year’s Eve 1784 she became her father's housekeeper and hostess. 
  The young Amelia was energetic, attractive, and an admirer of fashion.  She spent much of her youth writing poetry and plays and putting on local amateur theatricals.  At 18 she had published anonymously ‘The Dangers of Coquetry’. 
  Amelia married in the spring of 1798 to the artist John Opie at the Church of St Marylebone, in Westminster, and together they lived in Berners Street where Amelia was already living. 
  Her next novel in 1801 ‘Father and Daughter’, was very popular even though it dealt with such themes as illegitimacy, a socially difficult subject for its times.  From this point on published works were far more regular.  The following year her volume ‘Poems’ appeared and was again very popular.  Novels continued to flow and she never once abandoned her social activism and her call for better treatment of women and the dispossessed in her works.  She was also keenly involved in a love of society and its attendant frills. 
  Encouraged by her husband to write more she published Adeline Mowbray in 1804, an exploration of women's education, marriage, and the abolition of slavery.  
  Her husband died in 1807 and she paused from writing for a few years before resuming with further novels and poems.  Of particular interest was her short poem ‘The Black Man's Lament’ in 1826.  Her life now was in the main spent travelling and working for charities and against slavery.  She even helped create a Ladies Anti-Slavery Society in Norwich which organised a parliamentary petition of 187,000 names of which hers was the first name. 
  After a visit to Cromer, a seaside resort on the North Norfolk coast, she caught a chill and retired to her bedroom.  
  Amelia Opie died on the 2nd December 1853 in Norwich.  She was 84.

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  EMILY DICKINSON VS SARA TEASDALE...

  Valeska Matti

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  This is a tribute to the work of Emily Dickinson and Sara Teasdale, two of the greatest representatives of -female- American literature. 
  It is a carefully crafted selection of 150 poems, all of them 8 lines in length, which are presented face-to-face in pairs -one per author- and with matching themes. In this way, the reader can compare and enjoy the magic of these poets. 
  Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886) is, without a doubt, one of the most renowned representatives of American Classic Poetry. Her poems and unique writing style, although largely unknown before her passing, have had a remarkable influence on American literature. 
  Sara Teasdale (1884 – 1933), on the other hand, was favored with success and recognition for her writing, having won the first edition of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Nevertheless, in more recent times she hasn’t enjoyed nearly as much recognition as Dickinson. 
  The 150 Poems in this collection are distributed in four themes:Of Love, Heartbreak and FaithOf Mother NatureOf Life and EmotionsOf Death 
  This is a wonderful gift for all poetry lovers, also available in paperback, hardcover, and e-book formats.

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  The Ballad of Reading Gaol

  Oscar Wilde

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
  He did not wear his scarlet coat, 
  For blood and wine are red, 
  And blood and wine were on his hands 
  When they found him with the dead, 
  The poor dead woman whom he loved, 
  And murdered in her bed.

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  Old Castle Road Trip

  Amanda Daire

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  Best friends, Elanna and Khrista, go on a last-minute road trip to reunite grumpy old Gerard with his long-lost love and to find--or lose--themselves along the way. 
  An elderly man with a second shot at finding love. 
  A mom of three teens seeking solace from a husband whose problematic behaviors threaten to shatter the image she so carefully cultivated. 
  A best friend searching for answers to her career questions. 
  A weekend in the city turns into a cross-country road trip, with plenty of bumps along the way. 
  On their quest to reunite Gerard with his old flame, will Elanna and Khrista be able to weather all the storms in their path?

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  The Queen of Sorrow

  Rachel Lawson

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  Sorrow 
  Astra Queen of Vampires was born of the union of two monsters a mad killer for a mother and a evil sorcerer for a father he mother was under a spell until she was born so sad was her mother by her marriage to the hated enemy of her people and bearing his child she named her child Sorrow. 
  The pair were murdered by a lunatic themselves when Sorrow was a baby. 
  Her uncle raise her with his own children who didn't have powers like their mother a fate from a parallel world and their father a necromancer and enchanter Sorrow's uncle. She later became not just a vampire but their queen. It was Sorrow's uncle who named her Astra as it was a better name for a child to forget her sad start in life with a new name her old name it was like a man being called Sue nothing a man could life down. 
  She later married a friend Max Starfire the Sun's King and had a child called- Astra known as Astry. She would never give her child a bad name like herself. Astry was a vampire/ werewolf like her mother and father. 
  Not alive or dead something in between. 
  They were day walkers Max, Astra and their daughter. 
  Strange creatures neither vampire nor werewolf they were 
  Includes stories with Sorrow or Astra Queen of Vampires from my the Magicians series 
  Narrated by the author and guest narrating Addison Fell as Alexa in Bad Omens

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