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  Rhyme A Dozen A - 12 Poets 12...

  Christina Rossetti, Lucretia...

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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. 
   
  1 - A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - Birthdays - An Introduction 
  2 - A Birthday by Christina Rossetti 
  3 - On My Mother's Fiftieth Birthday by Lucretia Maria Davidson 
  4 - On My Thirty Third Birthday, January 22nd 1821 by Lord Byron 
  5 - To My Father on His Birthday by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
  6 - Song of the Democratic Review of it's Birthday, October the 1st 1857 by William Ross Wallace 
  7 - Stella's Birthday, March 13th 1727 by Jonathan Swift 
  8 - On Tea by Edmund Waller 
  9 - To H W L on His Birthday 27th February 1867 by James Russell Lowell 
  10 - To Mrs Jane Forster, On Her Birthday, August 4th 1724 by Henry Baker 
  11 - To the Memory of Mrs Lefroy Who Died December 16 My Birthday by Jane Austen 
  12 - Shakespeare. An Ode for His Three-Hundreth Birthday by Martin Farquhar Tupper 
  13 - On the Morning of Christs Nativity by John Milton

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  Off the Chain

  Candice Dow

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  Candice Dow has won over audiences everywhere with steamy fiction that zips along with an irresistible impulse. In Off the Chain, London Reed settles for a job as a dog walker after she can't get into veterinary school. To give her a shot in the arm, her mother lands her a position working under investment banker William Thorne-who soon has her tasting all of life's pleasures as a high-priced call girl. "Candice definitely has a legitimate flavor ."-Urban-Reviews.com

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  Memorandum

  Quah Sy Ren, Hee Wai Siam

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  Featuring new translations of previously untranslated Chinese short stories, Memorandum maps out seven decades of Sinophone Singaporean Literature. From bargirls to student activists, from trishaw men to tea merchants, this collection provides a glimpse into a world that has been previously invisible to Anglophone readers. Paired with critical essays, these stories showcase the richness and diversity of Singapore’s Chinese community, but also its inherent interconnectedness with other cultures within Singapore. 
   
  “Memorandum is a pathbreaking anthology that refracts over half a century of Singapore’s history through its lens. The translated stories do much more than simply bridge Sinophone and Anglophone worlds: they actively cross geographical, cultural, linguistic and class boundaries, causing us to think more deeply about the nature of social power, and the transformative interventions literary texts can make.” 
  -Philip Holden, scholar of Singapore &Southeast Asian literatures

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  Poetry Hour The - Volume 14

  John Donne, William Shakespeare,...

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  Poetry is often cited as our greatest use of words.  The English language has well over a million of them and poets down the ages seem, at times, to make use of every single one.  But often they use them in simple ways to describe anything and everything from landscapes to all aspects of the human condition.  Poems can evoke within us an individual response that takes us by surprise; that opens our ears and eyes to very personal feelings. 
   
  Forget the idea of classic poetry being somehow dull and boring and best kept to children’s textbooks. It still has life, vibrancy and relevance to our lives today.  
   
  Where to start? How to do that? Poetry can be difficult. We’ve put together some very eclectic Poetry Hours, with a broad range of poets and themes, to entice you and seduce you with all manner of temptations.   
   
  In this hour we introduce poets of the quality and breadth of John Donne and Jane Austen as well as themes on November, The Female Poet, Westminster Memorials and more. 
   
  All of them are from Portable Poetry, a dedicated poetry publisher. We believe that poetry should be a part of our everyday lives, uplifting the soul & reaching the parts that other arts can’t.  Our range of audiobooks and ebooks cover volumes on some of our greatest poets to anthologies of seasons, months, places and a wide range of themes.  Portable Poetry can found at iTunes, Audible, the digital music section on Amazon and most other digital stores.  
   
  This audio book is also duplicated in print as an ebook. Same title. Same words. Perhaps a different experience. But with Amazon’s whispersync you can pick up and put down on any device – start on audio, continue in print and any which way after that.   
   
  Portable poetry – Let us join you for the journey. 
   
   
  The Poetry Hour – Volume 14 - An Introduction 
  John Donne – An Introduction 
  Death Be Not Proud by John Donne 
  The Good Morrow by John Donne 
  The Expiration by John Donne 
  A Valediction Forbidding Mourning by John Donne 
  Westminster Memorials – An Introduction 
  Longing by Matthew Arnold 
  London by William Blake 
  Heaven by Rupert Brooke 
  Apostasy by Charlotte Bronte 
  When We Two Parted by Lord Byron 
  He That is Down Needs Fear No Fall by John Bunyan 
  Turtle Soup by Lewis Carroll 
  A Thought For A Lonely Death Bed by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
  November 
  November by Thomas hood 
  November by Amy Lowell 
  November by John Payne 
  A November Night by Sara Teasdale 
  At Day Close In November by Thomas Hardy 
  The Poetry of William Shakespeare - An Introduction 
  If Music Be the Food of Love, from Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare 
  How Like A Winter Hath My Absence Been (Sonnet 97) by William Shakespeare 
  Shall I Compare Thee to A Summers Day (Sonnet 18) by William Shakespeare 
  The Witches Spell by William Shakespeare 
  Full Fathom Five by William Shakespeare 
  No Longer Mourn For Me by William Shakespeare 
  Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare  
  The Female Poet – An Introduction. Volume 2 
  No Coward Soul is Mine by Emily Bronte  
  If Thou Must Love Me Let It Be For Nought by Elizabeth Barrett Browning  
  If Infinite Worlds, Infinite Centres by Margaret Cavendish  
  Isabella Valancy Crawford – We Parted in Silence 
  When My Love Did What I Would Not, What I Would Not by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge  
  I’m Ceded – I’ve Stopped Being Theirs by Emily Dickenson  
  Ah, Silly Pug by Queen Elizabeth I  
  Sweet Evenings Come and Go Love by George Eliot  
  The Poets of 19th Century America. An Introduction – Volume 2 
  Heaven is What I Cannot Reach by Emily Dickinson  
  Knee Deep in June by James Whitcomb Riley <

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  Passport Diaries - A Novel

  Tamara Gregory

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  Kia Carson, a Los Angeles district attorney with beauty, brains, taste, and style, is about to turn thirty-five. There's just one problem with her picture-perfect life—she's not got one eligible man in sight. Well, thank God she has her career . . . at least until she gets suspended from her job. To regain her sense of purpose, she plans a restorative girl's night out—all the way to Europe. 
   
  In this fresh and funny Los Angeles Times bestseller, Kia embarks on what becomes a defining journey to London, Paris, and Greece, where she finds a little bit of trouble, a whole lot of laughs, and what she didn't even know she was looking for—herself.

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  Baby's Own Aesop

  Walter Crane

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  "Baby's Own Aesop" presents the fables as one-stanza limericks, each "pictorially pointed" by Walter Crane, the noted painter and illustrator. He apprenticed to master wood-engraver, William James Linton, who furnished the draft of the book's poems for Crane to edit. "Baby's Own Aesop" is available in a beautiful facsimile edition of colored engravings from the International Children's Digital Library, with which your child can read along while listening to the recording. (Summary by Denny Sayers)

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