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  On the Line - Notes from a Factory

  Joseph Ponthus

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  A celebrated French bestseller, this novel in verse that captures the mundane and the beautiful, the blood and sweat, of working on the factory floor in the processing plants and abattoirs of Brittany.
   
  Unable to find work in his field, Joseph Ponthus enlists with a temp agency and starts to pick up casual shifts in the fish processing plants and abattoirs of Brittany. Day after day he records with infinite precision the nature of work on the production line: the noise, the weariness, the dreams stolen by the repetitive nature of exhausting rituals and physical suffering. But he finds solace in a life previously lived.
   
  Shelling prawns, he dreams of Alexandre Dumas. Pushing cattle carcasses, he recalls Apollinaire. And, in the grace of the blank spaces created by his insistent return to a new line of text – mirroring his continued return to the production line – we discover the woman he loves, the happiness of a Sunday, Pok Pok the dog, the smell of the sea.
   
  In this celebrated French bestseller, translated by Stephanie Smee, Ponthus captures the mundane, the beautiful and the strange, writing with an elegance and humour that sit in poignant contrast with the blood and sweat of the factory floor. On the Line is a poet's ode to manual labour, and to the human spirit that makes it bearable.
   
  Praise for On the Line: 
   
  'Poetic and political, lyrical and realistic, Joseph Ponthus' spirited elegy is at once surprising, captivating and affecting' Télérama
   
  'It is not every day that one witnesses the birth of a writer' France 5 La Grande Librairie
   
  'A work that is powerful, clever, benevolent, optimistic even. Essential reading' Causette

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  She's Strong but She's Tired

  r.h. Sin

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  From New York Times bestselling author r.h. Sin, an ode to the women who have chosen to fight for themselves.A poetic documentation of pain, loneliness, courage, and triumph.

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  The Red Wheelbarrow & Other Poems

  William Carlos Williams

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  Here is a perfect little gift: the most beloved poems by the most essential American poet of the last century
  Gathered here are the gems of William Carlos Williams’s astonishing achievements in poetry. Dramatic, energetic, beautiful, and true, this slim selection will delight any reader—The Red Wheelbarrow & Other Poems is a book to be treasured.

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  PROMISE - never make a promise...

  Genaro Patterson

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  After being abandoned in his dilapidated home by his mother crackheads Tina, PROMISE was rescued by his grandmother,  he always made promises after being denied so much, that his grandmother nicknamed him PROMISE. On his twentieth birthday he went after his dream he robbed the biggest drug dealer in Sacramento,  Big Life, he breaks him down piece by piece, sending him his mother and brothers head wrapped up like a gift. This book is fast paced with non stop action,  it will keep you on edge while you witness how PROMISE makes good on his promise

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