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  Miracles

  Walt Whitman

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 different recordings of Miracles, by Walt Whitman. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of March 4th, 2007.

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  Short Story Press Presents A...

  Short Story Press, Alicia...

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  Alicia Danielle Voss-Guillén, author of Price World Publishing’s Tori Series for middle grade readers, as well a previous short story (“One Winter Moment”) for Short Story Press, returns with another poignant tale of the difficulties and dilemmas imposed by impossible loves. 
  “A Final Kiss” relates the wedding day of Natalie St. John, an educated young woman from a wealthy New England family who must come to terms with the fact that she’s made a life altering mistake. 
  As an idealistic seventeen-year-old, Natalie meets and falls in love with Joey Renetti, a charming young waiter at a local Italian café. From the very beginning, it is evident to Natalie that the two are a match made in heaven. But Natalie’s uppity parents are far from being in agreement with their daughter. 
  Natalie’s mother insists that a life with a lower-class restaurant worker is not any kind of a future for a girl of Natalie’s breeding and social standing. She insists that her daughter meet and mingle with other young men. At first, Natalie is defensive of her relationship with Joey and goes to all lengths to protect it, even after she leaves home to attend a prestigious university. 
  But slowly and steadily time works it wiles, and Natalie’s parents succeed in driving a wedge between their daughter and the young man she truly loves. They are ecstatic when Natalie meets Adam Pennington, a well-to-do businessman and New England socialite who can provide their daughter with the finer things in life. Resigned to a future without Joey, Natalie embarks on a relationship with Adam, and the two soon become engaged. A mere month after Natalie’s graduation from university, the wedding will take place. But as the big day draws close, Natalie finds herself experiencing niggling doubts about Adam, and try as she might, she is unable to put Joey Renetti out of her mind. 
  Short Story Press publishes short stories written by everyday writers.

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  Postcolonial Banter

  Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan

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  Postcolonial Banteris Suhaiymah Manzoo-Khan's debut collection. It features some of her most well-known and widely performed poems as well as some never-seen-before material. Her words are a disruption of comfort, a call to action, a redistribution of knowledge and an outpouring of dissent. Whilst enraged and devastated by the world she finds herself in, in many ways it is also the mundane; hence, whilst political and complex in nature, her poetry is just the 'banter' of everyday life for her and others like her. Ranging from critiquing the function of the nation-state and rejecting secularist visions of identity, to reflecting on the difficulty of writing and penning responses to conversations she wishes she'd had; Suhaiymah's debut collection is ready and raring to enter the world.

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  When The Sun Went Out - A...

  Dr. Amr Mounir

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  Imagine waking up one day to find the world plunged into darkness. The sun has suddenly gone out! Temperatures are plummeting, chaos is reigning, and life as we know it is forever changed. What will become of humanity? How will life continue without the sun?

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  Moving Bodies

  Arthur Giron

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  A chronicle of the brilliant life of Nobel Prize-winning scientist Richard Feynman. From his role in the development of the atomic bomb to his controversial testimony at the investigation of the Challenger disaster, Feynman casts a long shadow across the worlds of physics and mathematics. Through playwright Arthur Giron's eyes, we see how Feynman became one of the most important scientists of our time.  
   
  
  
  Includes an interview with Dr. Brian Greene, Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Columbia University, and author/presenter of NOVA’s “The Elegant Universe.” 
   
  
  
  Moving Bodies is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series of science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world.   
   
  
  
  Recorded at Voicebox Studios in June 2007. 
   
  
  
  Director: Rosalind Ayres
  Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg
  An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:
  Emily Bergl as Arlene Greenbaum
  Jessica Chastain as Sally/Cal Tech Group
  Jill Gascoine as Gwyneth
  Matt Gaydos as Franky/Reporter/Cal Tech Group
  Harry Groener as Julius Lowenthal
  Arye Gross as Rabbi/Members of Commission
  Kathryn Hahn as Joan Feynman
  Mark Harelik as Melville Feynman
  Katharine Leonard as Doris/Cal Tech Group
  Mary McGowan as Young Joan
  Alec Medlock as Young Richard Feynman
  Alfred Molina as Richard “Dick” Feynman
  Jenny O’Hara as Lucille Feynman
  Raphael Sbarge as Robert Oppenheimer
  Joe Spano as Mr. Graham
  John Vickery as Chairman of the Challenger Inquiry Commission
  
  Recording Engineer/Sound Designer/Editor:
  Mark Holden for Voicebox Studios
  
  Original music performed by Eric Sokol on the bongos and Adam Chevitz on piano.

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  The Poetry of Robert Southey -...

  Robert Southey

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  Robert Southey was born on the 12th of August 1774 in Bristol. A poet of the Romantic school and one of the "Lake Poets". 
  Although his fame has been eclipsed by that of his friends William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Southey's verse was highly influential and he wrote movingly against the horrors and injustice of the slave trade.  Among his other classics are Inchcape Rock as well as a number of plays including Wat Tyler. 
  He was great friends with Coleridge, indeed in 1795, in a plan they soon abandoned, they thought to found a utopian commune-like society, called Pantisocracy, in the wilds of Pennsylvania. 
  However, that same year, the two friends married sisters Sarah and Edith Fricker. Southey's marriage was successful but Coleridge's was not. In 1810 he abandoned his wife and three children to Southey's care in the Lake District.  Although his income was small and those dependent upon him growing in number he continued to write and burnish his reputation with a wider public. 
  In 1813 on the refusal of Walter Scott he was offered by George II the post of Poet Laureate, a post Southey accepted and kept till his death 30 years later. 
  Southey was also a prolific letter writer, literary scholar, essay writer, historian and biographer. His biographies included those of John Bunyan, John Wesley, William Cowper, Oliver Cromwell and Horatio Nelson. 
  He was a renowned scholar of Portuguese and Spanish literature and history, and translated works from those two languages into English and wrote a History of Brazil (part of his planned but un-completed History of Portugal) and a History of the Peninsular War. 
  Perhaps his most enduring contribution is the children's classic The Story of the Three Bears, the original Goldilocks story, first published in Southey's prose collection The Doctor. 
  In 1838, Edith died and Southey married Caroline Anne Bowles, also a poet, on 4 June 1839. 
  Robert Southey died on the 21st of March, 1843 and is buried in Crosthwaite Church in Keswick. 
  This volume comes to you from Portable Poetry, a specialized imprint from Deadtree Publishing.  Our range is large and growing and covers single poets, themes, and many compilations.

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