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  Between the Rocks and the Olive...

  Zein Amro

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  Dear listener, I bare you my heart like an olive tree bares its fruit in the Levant sun. 
  Written in both North Levantine Arabic and English, this is a poetry book on love as I have experienced it. I wrote it with a vision, an image of myself being back on the olive field where my late grandfather used to harvest ripe olives whilst I sat between the rocks and the olive trees.

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  On the Waterfront: The Play

  Budd Schulberg, Stan Silverman

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  Budd Schulberg’s Academy Award–winning screenplay, updated as a stage drama for modern audiencesFirst performed in 1988 and again on Broadway in 1995, Budd Schulberg and Stan Silverman’s stage version of On the Waterfront may represent the purest incarnation of his classic story. Produced forty years after the movie swept the Academy Awards, the subtly modernized stage play was a call to arms for a new generation. With this rendition, Schulberg and Silverman hoped to reach young people who seemed detached from the dehumanizing effects of poverty and the exploitation of society’s most vulnerable. Set in the 1950s and featuring original protagonists Terry Malloy and Father Pete Barry, On the Waterfront continues to stand as a masterful and uniquely American tragedy. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Budd Schulberg including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.

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  De Rerum Natura

  Titus Lucretius Carus

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  An exposition of Epicurus atomic theory and the ethical tenets based upon it. Drawing upon this materialist philosophy, Lucretius cites the fear of death as the cause of man's ills, and shows the way to freedom from that fear. (Summary by bropops4)

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  Mojo (NHB Modern Plays)

  Jez Butterworth

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  A slick and violent black comedy set in the Soho clubland of the 1950s. The hit debut play from the author of Jerusalem. In the seedy gangster underworld of the rock'n'roll scene, club owners fight for control of Johnny Silver, the latest young sensation. First premiered at the Royal Court in 1995, Mojo won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy and earned writer Jez Butterworth the George Devine Award and Evening Standard Theatre Award for Most Promising Playwright. It was revived at the Harold Pinter Theatre, London in 2013 with a cast comprising of Brendan Coyle, Rupert Grint, Tom Rhys Harries, Daniel Mays, Colin Morgan and Ben Whishaw.
  'the verbal menace of Harold Pinter [meets] the physical violence of Quentin Tarantino' The Times
  'a fabulous play... original, vibrant, gloriously entertaining' The Arts Desk
  'Beckett on speed, savagely funny, in fast forward, with no time to wait for Godot' Observer

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  Vandemonian

  Cliff Forshaw

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  Vandemonian is a detailed, impassioned poetic history of Van Dieman's land, Tasmania. Poems in a variety of voices lay out the island's early story, exploring the truths of colonisation. Forshaw blends historical fact, imagined events and contemporary reflection with religion, geography and the great unknown to produce a portrait of discovery, disenfranchisement and extinction.
  
  "An imagination like no other, transforming the world you thought you knew"
  
  Jon Stallworthy
  
  "These are poems captained by a large intelligence and abundant lexical vigour, poems of voyage, exertion and discovery."
  
  Carol Rumens on Wake
  Cliff Forshaw now teaches at Hull University. A former winner of the Welsh Academi John Tripp Award, and Blue Nose Poet of the Year, his pamphlet Wake was joint-winner of the Flarestack Pamphlet Competition in 2009. His latest chapbook, Tiger (Happenstance, 2011), about the Tasmanian Tiger, came out of his term as International Writer-in-Residence at Hobart.
  This book is also available as an ebook: buy it from Amazon for here.

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  Fifty Shades of Christmas - 50...

  Emily Dickinson, Alfred...

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  Over the centuries the Christian festival of the celebration of Christ has lost much of its religious element as it has morphed into becoming a convenient date for mass marketing and the consumption of excess food, drink and material goods to a now global audience. 
   
  But look below the glossy veneer of commercialism and we find a truer meaning, a moral message and guidance that whilst we may all want it watered down a little in these more secular times does contain some truths and principles for us all to enjoy better lives and better relationships with those around us. 
   
  In this volume of fifty poems our classic poets bring us everything from the tried and trusted view to the irreverent but mainly focus on their faith that can rejoice at this festival and makes us all part of the human race, its ideals and its joys.   
   
  1 - Fifty Shades of Christmas - An Introduction 
  2 - The Nativity by Henry Vaughan 
  3 - Nativity by John Donne 
  4 - Wondrous Sight For Men and Angels by Ann Griffiths 
  5 - Angels From the Realms of Glory by James Montgomery 
  6 - New Prince New Pomp by Robert Southwell 
  7 - The Three Kings by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  8 - The Nativity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Christopher Smart 
  9 - Christmas Carol by Sara Teasdale 
  10 - A Nativity by Rudyard Kipling 
  11 - A Christmas Carol by Aubrey De Vere 
  12 - Carol by Ben Jonson 
  13 - A Christmas Carol by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
  14 - A Christmas Carol by G K Chesterton 
  15 - The Beautiful Mother by Jacopone da Todi 
  16 - Upon Christ His Birth by Sir John Suckling 
  17 - An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour by Robert Herrick 
  18 - A Carol. I by Mildmay Fane, Earl of Westmorland 
  19 - The Burning Babe by Robert Southwell 
  20 - A Christmas Ghost Story by Thomas Hardy 
  21 - God Rest by Daniel Sheehan 
  22 - December Sales Drive by Daniel Sheehan 
  23 - Christmas For Atheists by Daniel Sheehan 
  24 - The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy 
  25 - Christmas Eve by Christina Rossetti 
  26 - The Oxen by Thomas Hardy 
  27 - A Visit From St Nicholas ('Twas The Night Before Christmas) by Clement Moore 
  28 - Old Christmastide (An Extract) by Sir Walter Scott 
  29 - In the Bleak Midwinter by Christina Georgina Rossetti 
  30 - On the Morning of Christs Nativity by John Milton 
  31 - The Mother of God by William Butler Yeats 
  32 - Winter Sunset by Katharine Tynan 
  33 - Joseph by G K Chesterton 
  34 - The White Snow by Guillaume Apollinaire 
  35 - A Winter's Sad Retreat by Daniel Sheehan 
  36 - December's Snow by Arthur Conan Doyle 
  37 - As Sleigh Bells Seem In Summer by Emily Dickinson 
  38 - Winter Heavens by George Meredith 
  39 - Sweetheart Winter by Vachel Lindsay 
  40 - The Foolish Fir Tree by Henry Van Dyke 
  41 - Minstrels.  A Christmas Poem by William Wordsworth 
  42 - The Mahogany Tree by William Makepeace Thackeray 
  43 - The Savior Must Have Been A Docile Gentleman by Emily Dickinson 
  44 - Twas Just This Time Last Year I Died by Emily Dickinson 
  45 - The House of Christmas by G K Chesterton 
  46 - Christmas at Sea by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  47 -  Christmas Fancies by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  48 - Christmas Poem by Robert Herrick 
  49 - The Masque of Christmas by Ben Jonson 
  50 - Christmas Bells by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  51 - Ring Out Wild Bells. Christmas Poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson

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