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University of Minnesota Press
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2024
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"In a remarkable blend of historical reportage, memoir, and lyrical reimagining, Elin Anna Labba travels to northern Norway and Sweden, the lost homeland of her ancestors, to tell of the forced displacement of the Indigenous Sámi in the early twentieth century. Through stories, photographs, letters, and joik lyrics, she gathers a chorus of Sámi expression that resonates across the years, evoking the nomadic life they were required to abandon and...
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Red Red Shoes was commissioned by the Unicorn Theatre for Children and The Place. Based on the Hans Christian Andersen tale, this play uses dance, music and drama to explore the inner world of a traumatised child fleeing from war in Eastern Europe. (Ages 9+) Eye of the Storm offers a contemporary version of Shakespeare's The Tempest, exploring father/daughter relationships and the need for independence. (Ages 12+) Playing From the Heart, commissioned...
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This is a brief overview of Christian German poetry. Treated are Martin Luther, Paul Gerhardt, Paul Speratus, Nikolaus Herman, Bartholomäus Ringwaldt, Cyriacus Schneegass, Philipp Nicolai, Martin Opitz, Joachim Neander, Philipp Jakob Spener, Johann Heermann, Gerhard Tersteegen, Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf, Joseph Mohr, C. F. W. Walther, Carl Johann Hermann Fick, and many others. Included are a few of my own original...
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"I desire a lot of women, almost all of them, really. It's my way of hating them, because they give me reason to. They won't have anything to do with me."In the séance that forms the backdrop to Italo Svevo's _The Broken Triangle_, a fantasy in one act, the spirit of the prematurely dead Clelia is summoned from the hereafter by her husband and by her lover. She appears in nebulous form to the two men to mediate a dispute between them, but their requests--one...
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Luego del éxito de Corazón de miel, llega a nosotros La rosa que te viste. Un libro de poemas de amor que estremecerá a todos aquellos que viven apasionados.Contiene intensas y refrescantes poesías de amor cuya lectura te conducirán a un estado positivo e inspirador, a un estado donde la emoción dulce que habita en tu interior te transformará.Descubre el recorrido de un poeta enamorado y sus más profundas emociones."El amor verdadero de una...
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The complete playtext for use in schools and youth theatres. Imagine swapping places with a monster for the day. Ben has a BIG problem. His mum is acting grumpy, his best friend Vince has stolen his precious binoculars and his Dad is far, far away… Oh, and there's a monster under his bed. But when Ben swaps places with the underbed monster, Ben's life – and his school – is turned inside out and upside down. A funny and thrilling play for children...
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"Doomed to Bloom" is a unique combination of a narrative and a poetic collection. Sequences of events and rhythmic variations are blended harmoniously, revealing a gothic romance between two young individuals.A girl – the main character of this poetic narration - lives in a "nightmare" from which she cannot escape. She attributes her troubles to a powerful witch, who entertains herself by setting traps to unsuspecting victims. The helpless girl...
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My Simple Verses is a poetry book with selected poems from the Brazilian poet Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco. His verse is straightforward, but profound and full of sensibility. It holds some of his Brazilian style as well his philosophical sophistication. You will certainly enjoy it.
10) Warsaw Freedom
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Stefania is a Polish Jew put into the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII. Stefania is a city gal who believes the Germans are planning the end of the Jewish race. She fears for her life and the life of her two teenage sons.Stefania meets a Jewish hospital employee, Fela Gorecki, who is a Polish Catholic woman involved in a Polish Underground smuggling operation. Fela and her associates arrange to have Jewish children smuggled out of the Warsaw Ghetto. Stefania...
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Five women, four forty years old, and one matron of sixty-one take a holiday to France anxious to escape their robotic lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine.Wendy, the travel agent, Penny, owner of a needlework shop, Sarah, accomplished artist, Vernie, executive director of the Portland Symphony, and Rose, who is a recent widow all wind their way through Provence with adventures conflicts, and a generous portion of food and wine.Each evening they gather...
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"Winner of the 1993 Translation Prize, American-Scandinavian Foundation" Göran Sonnevi has written twelve books of poems and assembled and revised collections of his poems (most of which are in print in Sweden in mass-market paperback editions). Rika Lesser is a poet and has translated numerous works of poetry, including a selection of the poems of Rilke, Rilke: Between Roots (Princeton). For a group of poems from A Child Is Not a Knife, she received...
13) El Amor Eterno
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Español
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El Amor Eterno (the eternal love) is a collection of poems in Spanish by Cassandra Tribe. This collection includes: The Demon of Providence, Angel, Monster, Baucis, Filemon, the dreams of bees and the Map of Your Heart. Cassandra Tribe is a performance poet, her videos and performances have been featured worldwide and she is the author of the blog, loveandwords.Translated by Clarissa Gentinetta.
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***For a limited time, you can get THREE THRILLERS - FREE - click here to find out more > ow.ly/t6L4R (just copy and paste the bold text link into your browser)***The Abba-like cleanness of Stockholm was getting to him. He wanted to piss against a wall.With plenty of drugs, sex and rock and roll; The Ice Boat is a modern pop-culture odyssey.Dave has almost got it all; with a rock star lifestyle, romance and a nice flat in London, he almost has the...
15) Poet in New York
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Newly translated for the first time in ten years, Federico García Lorca's Poet in New York is an astonishing depiction of a tumultuous metropolis that changed the course of poetic expression in both Spain and the Americas. Written during Lorca's nine months at Columbia University at the beginning of the Great Depression, Poet in New York is widely considered one of the most important books Lorca produced. This influential collection portrays a New...
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When night descends who knows what spirits walk abroad?Fleeing his scandalous past, Scully seeks refuge in a remote Spanish village. When he meets innocent young Marisa, he dreams of starting a new life. But beneath the village's placid surface lurk dark and sinister forces, a maelstrom of fierce hatreds and primitive passions.And Easter approaches, heralding a chilling climax...
17) The Bald Soprano
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Written in 1950, Eugene Ionesco's first play, The Bald Soprano, was a seminal work of Absurdist theatre. Today, it is celebrated around the world as a modern classic for its imagination and sui generis theatricality. A hilarious parody of English manners and a striking statement on the alienation of modern life, it was inspired by the strange dialogues Ionesco encountered in foreign language phrase books.
18) In His Shadow
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Relive one of the greatest rivalries in sports, from our narrators humble beginnings, rising to the top of the sports world and finally the rivalry that would not only define his career, but also shake the sports world to its core.
19) Tough Justice
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Leo Baldwin is the most lovable kid you could ever meet. His brain was wired differently from birth which gave him the label of being handicapped. But no one told him, so he sees the world differently and everyone who knew him loved him to bits, including his beautiful big sister Suli.Mark Batchelor is married and works for The Big Media Agency buying advertising space for his clients in the West End. His life changes dramatically when he meets and...
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Set against the backdrop of true, world events, "Dallas" and "I Claudius" unite, resulting in a deeply engaging and richly entertaining experience. The protagonists in this passion-fuelled saga of our times are members of two rival banking dynasties – the Villon Family in Europe and the Ravenscroft Family in the U.S.A. – who are arch-enemies. But it was not always so. Around the mid-nineteenth century, both families were members of a secret cabal,...
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