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  Perspective

  Etrec White

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  In Etrec White’s narrative poetry book, Perspective highlights the quest of two brothers. 
  After losing their parents at a young age, the brothers believe they’re finally living the good life when they discover a shocking truth surrounding their parents’ death. Motivated by a desire to avenge mom and dad, while having the support of their grandparents and godfathers, the boys set out to investigate what really happened. Looking for justice, they come face-to-face with secrets, lies, and cover-ups that will change them forever

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  Medea

  Euripides

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  Medea is an ancient Greek tragedy written by Euripides, based upon the myth of Jason and Medea and first produced in 431 BC. The plot centers on the actions of Medea, a former princess of the "barbarian" kingdom of Colchis, and the wife of Jason; she finds her position in the Greek world threatened as Jason leaves her for a Greek princess of Corinth. Medea takes vengeance on Jason by murdering Jason's new wife as well as her own children, after which she escapes to Athens to start a new life.

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  The Soul of Rumi - A New...

  Coleman Barks

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  Inside A Lover's Heart There's Another World, And Yet AnotherRumi's masterpieces have inspired countless people throughout the centuries, and Coleman Barks's exquisite renderings of the thirteenth-century Persian mystic are widely considered the definitive versions for our time. Barks's translations capture the inward exploration and intensity that characterize Rumi's poetry, making this unique voice of mysticism and desire contemporary while remaining true to the original poems. In this volume readers will encounter the essence of Sufism's insights into the experience of divine love, wisdom, and the nature of both humanity and God.While Barks's stamp on this collection is clear, it is Rumi's voice that leaps off these pages with a rapturous power that leaves readers breathless. These poems express our deepest yearning for the transcendent connection with the source of the divine: there are passionate outbursts about the torment of longing for the beloved and the sweet delight that comes from union; stories of sexual adventures and of loss; poems of love and fury, sadness and joy; and quiet truths about the beauty and variety of human emotion. For Rumi, soul and body and emotion are not separate but are rather part of the great mystery of mortal life, a riddle whose solution is love. Above all else, Rumi's poetry exposes us to the delight that comes from being fully alive, urging us always to put aside our fears and take the risk of discovering our core self:No one knows what makes the soul wake up so happy! Maybe a dawn breeze has blown the veil from the face of God.These fresh, original translations magnificently convey Rumi's insights into the human heart and its longings with his signature passion and daring, focusing on the ecstatic experience of the inseparability of human and divine love. The match between Rumi's sublime poetry and Coleman Barks's poetic art are unequaled, and here this artistic union is raised to new heights.

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  Tumulus (NHB Modern Plays)

  Christopher Adams

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  Young men are dying and everyone assumes they're just casualties of London's chemsex scene. Everyone, that is, but Anthony, who is determined to investigate.
  Christopher Adams' play Tumulus is a chilling, queer play-noir set amongst the shadowy hills of Hampstead Heath.
  It was first performed as part of the 2018 VAULT Festival, London.
  Also available in the collection Plays from VAULT 3.

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  A Christmas Carol (NHB Modern...

  Charles Dickens

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  Charles Dickens' timeless classic, brought to life in a joyous new adaptation by Jack Thorne.
  On a bitter Christmas Eve night a cold-hearted miser is visited by four ghosts. Transported to worlds past, present and future, Ebenezer Scrooge witnesses what a lifetime of fear and selfishness has led to, and sees with fresh eyes the lonely life he has built for himself. Can Ebenezer be saved before it's too late?
  Jack Thorne's adaptation of A Christmas Carol is premiered at the Old Vic, London, in November 2017.

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  Rhyme A Dozen A - Music - 12...

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Rainer...

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  ‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears. 
   
  01 - A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - Music - An Introduction 
  02 - Music's Empire by Andrew Marvell 
  03 - Music When Soft Voices Die by Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  04 - If Music Be the Food of Love by William Shakespeare 
  05 - Power of Music by William Wordsworth 
  06 - The Strange Music by G K Chesterton 
  07 - For Music by Lord Byron 
  08 - To Music by Rainer Maria Rilke 
  09 - On Music by Thomas Moore 
  10 - Music by Wilfred Owen 
  11 - To Music, To Becalm His Fever by Robert Herrick 
  12 - The Musicians by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  13 - I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman

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