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  Wisdom & Worries - Reflections...

  William Shatner, Robert Sharenow

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  The iconic Star Trek actor, known for playing Captain Kirk, and New York Times–bestselling author delivers a unique, moving memoir in poems and lyrics. 
  You know him from his voyages on the Starship Enterprise, as veteran cop T. J. Hooker, and Boston Legal lawyer Denny Crane. He's starred in his own one-man show on Broadway and has collaborated with Ben Folds, Brad Paisley, and others on his records. His spoken-word albums have been critically acclaimed, portions of which complement his latest reflections in Wisdom & Worries.
  As he nears the century mark, William Shatner is still boldly exploring new frontiers, including his own inner universe. In the pages of Wisdom & Worries, he looks back on his childhood in Montreal, his acting career, his connection with nature and animals, and the loves of his life. In soulful, rhythmic verses, Shatner reflects on his journey to find his place and uncover meaning in the world. 
  Shatner's poems, set to music across five albums, span a life lived with passion and purpose, including "Clouds of Guilt," his collaboration with Joe Jonas; "So Far from the Moon," lamenting the breakup of his first marriage and a low point in his career; "The Lion on the Wall," a nursery rhyme written for his grandchildren; and "So Fragile, So Blue," the poignant impressions he experienced during his space flight on Blue Origin at the age of ninety-one.
  Shatner's latest works have been hailed as possessing "a surprising depth of feeling" (The Washington Post) and as "unexpectedly poignant . . . less performance, more reckoning" (The Guardian). Wisdom & Worries contains multitudes. Curiosity, regret, connection, loneliness, and gratitude tie together a portrait of a man with an unlimited capacity to appreciate every moment of the past and all those yet to come.

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  Top 10 Poets – The U S The -...

  Paul Laurence Dunbar, James...

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  The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives.  Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives. 
  But finding a starting point can be overwhelming, even off-putting, so in this series we offer up our Top 10 classic poets, who brim with talent and verse, on a range of subjects and themes that we can all enjoy. 
  In the vast landmass of North America lie huge bodies of water that are called lakes but act as inland seas, vital waterways of communication and commerce.  Around these agéd waters some of its greatest poets have waxed lyrically on both the times and everything around them.

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  Marie Corelli's Collected Poems

  Marie Corelli

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  Marie Corelli is best known as a novelist, but was always a poet at heart, composing on her strongest passions, whether for love, nature, God, or country.This volume collects poems from across her bestselling books and across her career, curated by Brenda Vyver, her her 'companion' of 40 years, who she left everything to when she died, and who is buried alongside her in a twin grave. It is perhaps worth noting that Brenda drove much of Corelli's work, which ran heavy to erotic descriptions of women.Corelli was the Victorian romance author who outsold Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, and Rudyard Kipling put together. Despite critics labelling her as "as "the favourite of the common multitude", she was a favourite of Winston Churchill, Queen Victoria and William Gladstone. She was the only author invited to the coronation of Edward VII, and her friends included Mark Twain, Ouida, the Empress Frederick of Germany, and Alfred Tennyson. Her often darkly romantic works tried to reconcile Christianity with mystical ideas such as reincarnation and astral projection.A true character, Corelli claimed that she had warned the finders of the tomb of Tutankhamun about the "dire punishment" likely to occur to those who rifle Egyptian tombs, claiming to cite an ancient book that indicated that poisons had been left after burials. She . She was associated at some point with the Fraternitas Rosae Crucis; a mystical Rosicrucian group, and her books were a part of the foundation of today's corpus of esoteric philosophy."a woman of deplorable talent who imagined that she was a genius, and was accepted as a genius by a public to whose commonplace sentimentalities and prejudices she gave a glamorous setting." - Grant Allen "the imagination of a Poe with the style of an Ouida and the mentality of a nursemaid." -James Agate

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  The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

  Oscar Wilde

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  What if truth were funniest when it was most dangerous?
  
  The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde brings together the full literary legacy of one of the most dazzling minds in English literature. Celebrated for his razor-sharp wit, elegant style, and fearless critique of society, Wilde transformed comedy, drama, and prose into art forms of lasting brilliance.
  
  This comprehensive collection includes Wilde's famous plays, his only novel, short stories, fairy tales, poems, and essays. From sparkling social comedies to haunting moral reflections, Wilde's writing explores beauty, hypocrisy, love, identity, and the cost of living authentically in a judgmental world.
  
  Playful, provocative, and profoundly human, Wilde's works continue to delight, challenge, and inspire readers across generations.
  
  Inside this eBook, you'll explore:
  
  All plays, fiction, essays, poetry, and stories by Oscar Wilde
  
  Iconic works such as The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray
  
  Masterpieces of satire, aesthetic philosophy, and drama
  
  A cornerstone collection of Victorian and world literature
  
  Performed worldwide, quoted endlessly, and studied in classrooms everywhere, Oscar Wilde's work remains as fresh, bold, and entertaining today as ever.
  
  Laugh, reflect, and revel in brilliance. Buy now and experience the complete works of Oscar Wilde.

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  Detour

  Terry Wilson

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  In Detour, there is an accident; a road train lies on its side blocking the highway. No one is killed, fortunately. The ambulances are standing around with nothing to do. Traffic is diverted off onto side roads. Journeys are interrupted. Everyone is late.
  
   
  
  So begins a series of observations and affections in this new collection about how we will be made to turn off the main road and what it's like to eventually get out of our cars and walk.

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  Silkfoot

  Kent Zimmerman

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. My handbook for reflection and recollection to tune my soul for amusement and pleasure. Favorite quote: MUSAEUS "Song is to mortals of all things the sweetest as per Aristotle in "On Poetry and Music" as translated by S.H. Butchers Bobbs Merrill Company Inc. Publishers (Library of Liberal Arts: Oscar Piest, Founder)I have fond memories of my mother reading poetry to me at night snug in my bed: ONE HUNDRED AND ONE FAMOUS POEMS and growing up in a little Iowa burg with my puckish friends, to taunt and haunt the orchards, woods, lumberyard and railroad depot. Moving on I obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in English: taught English and Shakespeare to engineers in Puerto Rico; returned to studies at the University of Iowa where I met and experience the work of many poets and artists in Iowa City. My first book of poems "Nine Lives" was published by Brad Harvey at Ocotillo Press.

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