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  Grains of Galaxies - A...

  Kristi Brooks

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  This collection of short stories and poems ranges from mysterious fires that spring up from the earth to ghostly spirits roaming in a long-forgotten home to true love that is found and lost way too soon. 
  There are tales of gods who have gone mad and those who have forgotten what it feels like to create and love with empathy. There are encounters that seem like normal everyday situations, but they are anything but normal. Dispersed throughout are poems that tie together the ideas of worlds within worlds and galaxies within a grain of sand.

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  Ramallah (NHB Modern Plays)

  David Greig

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  A writer returning home from Palestine to his wife is gently challenged as to where exactly his priorities lie.
  'I wrote the play after a number of trips to Palestine working with young playwrights,' explains Grieg. 'It tries to capture the awkwardness of return, because the people at home have carried on and are sort of grounded, while you're kind of still in the air.'

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  She Stoops to Conquer

  Oliver Goldsmith

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  In She Stoops to Conquer, or The Mistakes of a Night, a young lady pretends to be a servant in order to win the notice of a young man who is painfully shy around women of his own class.  Hilarious misadventures and mayhem ensue before matters are neatly wrapped up at the end.  This play, one of the great English comedies, was first performed in 1773 and continues to be very popular with audiences today.  (Summary by LA Walden) 
  Cast:Mr. Hardcastle - Bob NeufeldSir Charles Marlow - David LawrenceYoung Marlow - balaHastings - Brett W. DowneyTony Lumpkin - ToddHWMrs. Hardcastle - AvailleMiss Hardcastle -Arielle LipshawMiss Neville - Charlotte DuckettFirst Fellow and First Servant - DrakaunusSecond Fellow, Second Servant, and Jeremy - rookieblueThird Fellow, Third Servant, and Roger - Joseph AbellFourth Fellow and Diggory - Algy PugLandlord and Mr. Woodward - zaantaMaid - Amanda FridayServant - Elizabeth KlettStage directions - Laurie Anne Walden 
  Audio edited by Laurie Anne Walden

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  Broken Halves of a Milky Sun -...

  Aaiún Nin

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  With the emotional undertow of Ocean Vuong and the astute political observations of Natalie Diaz, a powerful poetry debut exploring the effects of racism, war and colonialism, queer love and desire.In their breathtaking international debut, Aaiún Nin plumbs the depths of the lived and enduring effects of colonialism in their native country, Angola. In these pages, Nin untangles complexities of exile, the reckoning of familial love, but also reveals the power of queer love and desire through the body that yearns to love and be loved. Nin shows the ways in which faith and devotion serve as forms of oppression and interrogates the nature of home by reclaiming the persistent echoes of trauma. A captivating blend of evocative prose and intimate testimony, Nin speaks to the universal vulnerability of existence.

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  Expressions of Life

  Dawn Mayree

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  A book of assorted poems about life.

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  The Alchemist - Full Text and...

  Ben Jonson

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  The NHB Drama Classics series presents the world's greatest plays in affordable, highly readable editions for students, actors and theatregoers. The hallmarks of the series are accessible introductions (focussing on the play's theatrical and historical background, together with an author biography, key dates and suggestions for further reading) and the complete text, uncluttered with footnotes. The translations, by leading experts in the field, are accurate and above all actable. The editions of English-language plays include a glossary of unusual words and phrases to aid understanding.
  In The Alchemist Face, Subtle and Dol Common are three rogues intent on conning the gullible out of their money. Setting up a quack-doctor's practice in Lovewit's house they promise miraculous services that cost their customers dear. Everything goes swimmingly, until Lovewit returns and the three turn against each other.
  Edited by Simon Trussler, with an introduction by Colin Counsell.

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