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  Rules for Living (NHB Modern Plays)

  Sam Holcroft

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  Everyone creates their own coping strategies or rules for living. But what happens when an extended family gathers in the kitchen for a traditional Christmas and they each follow those rules, rigidly?
  In Sam Holcroft's theatrically playful, dark comedy the family does just that. And when the instructions are there for all to see, audience included, there's really no place to hide.
  As long-held mechanisms for survival are laid bare, even Mum, who's been preparing this lunch since last January, becomes embroiled.
  Long-held rivalries and resentments will out. Accusations fly, relationships deconstruct, the rules take over.
  Rules for Living premiered at the National Theatre, London, in March 2015.

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  Transit Authority - Poems

  Tony Sanders

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  The prize-winning poet and author of Partial Eclipse continues his investigation of urban metaphysical pathos in this collection. 
   
  Transit Authority is made up of three sequences that mark the early and late junctures of the twentieth century: the first, a series of poems that investigate the early part of the century; the second, meditations based on the 1930s photographs by Berenice Abbott; and the third, “Reckoning,” in which, with spare lyricism, Sanders meditates on where this century has brought us. 
   
  Sanders looks with rueful intrigue at a landscape inundated with near misses and has-beens. While it is tempting to turn away from the common predicament, his poems quietly urge us to keep looking. As the poet concludes, though “things aren’t what they should be according to the map . . . we have to press on in search of our bearings.”

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  Pale Colors in a Tall Field - Poems

  Caryl Phillips

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  This program is read by the author.A powerful, inventive collection from one of America’s most critically acclaimed poets.Carl Phillips’s new poetry collection, Pale Colors in a Tall Field, is a meditation on the intimacies of thought and body as forms of resistance. The poems are both timeless and timely, asking how we can ever truly know ourselves in the face of our own remembering and inevitable forgetting. Here, the poems metaphorically argue that memory is made up of various colors, with those most prominent moments in a life seeming more vivid, though the paler colors are never truly forgotten. The poems in Pale Colors in a Tall Field approach their points of view kaleidoscopically, enacting the self’s multiplicity and the difficult shifts required as our lives, in turn, shift. This is one of Phillips’s most tender, dynamic, and startling collections yet.A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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  Magyarazni

  Helen Hajnoczky

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  The word "magyarázni" (pronounced MUG-yar-az-knee) means "to explain" in Hungarian, but translates literally as "make it Hungarian." This faux-Hungarian language primer, written in direct address, invites readers to experience what it's like to be "made Hungarian" by growing up with a parent who immigrated to North America as a refugee. In forty-five folk-art visual poems each paired with a written poem, Hajnoczky reveals the beauty and tension of first-generation cultural identity.
   
  ‘Because translation between cultures is always fraught – and yet somehow translate we must – Magyarázni explores language and cultural identity in the permeable space fomenting between family and society, word and image initiating us into a new alphabet of lived meaning. In reading we wonder along with Magyarázni’s wandering “you,” we care and get entangled in the “brambles of your cursive,” we too are “made Hungarian.”’ —Oana Avasilichioaei
   
  ‘Familiar but out of reach, Magyarázni reforms the language of home on the tip of your tongue, a language of knotted cursive and bubbled syntax; folksong and stovetop. Each letter blossoms as a hand-drawn flower and a sputtering drone of spits and pith. Magyarázni punctuates every I with a poppy seed, every C with the splinter­ed foil of a solemn treat. Mournful and personal, Magyarázni calls out for the language of family.’ —Derek Beaulieu

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  Robert Browning 200th...

  Robert Browning

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  For this collection, LibriVox volunteers made their own selections from Robert Browning's poetry and prose to celebrate the 200th anniversary of his birth on 7th May 1812.

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  Forbidden Desires

  Melanie Landish

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  Do you desire real stories full of excitement? Then keep listening....My name is Melanie, and I look like the perfect woman next door, but the truth is I have a life full of… forbidden desires. I am sure now you want to know more about me. In this audio book, you will find:•	Unrelated stories•	Deep secrets you would never imagine•	True stories of lovers•	Strong passions•	Dirty games•	And much, much more....I know, everybody has forbidden desires, you too! You just have to feel free to live them and let them give you the pleasure you always desired. The innocent woman who have lived and written these exciting stories… might be you!What are you waiting for? Don’t be shy, nobody will know our little secret… Buy the audio book now and let my stories drive you to unknown destinations…

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