Poetry & Drama
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Baby with my Grumpy Boss: A Single Dad Fake Relationship Romance
Getting knocked up by my grumpy old boss was never my plan.
Newly single, I treat myself to a night out and end up naked in a mysterious man’s bed.
When I start a new job as an executive assistant to the CEO of a successful tech company, I’m horrified to find that my boss is the same jerk I just spent the night with.
He tries to get rid of me by making me look inept in front of everyone but I’m determined to prove myself.
I still can’t deny my overwhelming attraction to him.
He’s always impeccably dressed with perfect hair that begs me to run my fingers through it.
When he looks at me, I can feel those gorgeous blue eyes undressing me.
His toxic ex shows up at the office and he tells her he’s dating me now.
I reluctantly agree to this fake relationship, but the more time I spend with this hot single daddy, the more I am treasuring time spent with him and his charming little girl.
As I’m kneeling in the bathroom puking my guts out, I hope there’s room in his heart for me and another bundle of joy.
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Barbie Chang
“With astringent understatement and wry economy, with nuance and intelligence and an enviable command of syntax and poetic line, Victoria Chang dissects the venerable practices of cultural piety and self-regard. She is a master of the thumbnail narrative. She can wield a dark eroticism. She is determined to tackle subject matter that is not readily subdued to the proportions of lyric. Her talent is conspicuous.”—Linda Gregerson
“Chang’s voice is equal parts searing, vulnerable, and terrified.”—American Poets
Barbie Chang, Victoria Chang explores racial prejudice, sexual privilege, and the disillusionment of love through a reimagining of Barbie—perfect in the cultural imagination yet repeatedly falling short as she pursues the American dream.This energetic string of linked poems is full of wordplay, humor, and biting social commentary involving the quote-unquote speaker, Barbie Chang, a disillusioned Asian-American suburbanite. By turns woeful and passionate, playful and incisive, these poems reveal a voice insisting that “even silence is not silent.”
From “Barbie Chang Lives”:
Barbie Chang lives on Facebook has
a house on Facebook
street so she can erase herself Facebook
is a country with
no trees it allows her to believe people
love her don’t
want to cover her Barbie Chang . . .Victoria Chang is the author of three previous poetry books. In 2013, she won the PEN Center USA Literary Award and a California Book Award. Chang teaches poetry at Chapman University and lives in Southern California.
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£10.10Barbie Chang
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BLMLDS: Poetry for the BLM Movement
With God, all things are possible. With our hearts and Jesus in our corner, the world is there for us to change for the better. We have a perfect example and many great examples who followed perfection from Heaven. So I have wondered why there are still people in society who don’t matter. Why aren’t we lifting up those who need it most? Why aren’t calling out racism everywhere and advocating for those who don’t matter? I see many of the youth in the Wards aiming for change and a better world. These loafers on the ground make the future look brighter. We just need to always aim for the infinite brightness we follow.Read more
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From Hull to Adversity
This is the poetry of two army veterans and a local performance poet. They are brought together by shared experiences and their current voluntary work in support of other veterans. Their work is sometimes edgy, sometimes humorous – but always relevant.Read more
£2.90From Hull to Adversity
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My Paranormal Protectors: Menage Romance Box Set
My protectors are two hot shifters.My mate rejected me.
My family disowned me.
Alone, I soon find myself in danger.Just as my life flashes before my eyes, they emerge.
Broad-shouldered, mysterious Alpha shifters.The two of them smell of power.
They promise their protection if I come with them.I should be afraid of these two bad boys.
I should reject their proposal.
But what choice do I have?They can give me safety.
Plus, as much as I hate to admit it, they awaken my own beast.My lips ache for their bruising kisses.
My body yearns for their touch.I want them to claim me.
Make me theirs.One thing is clear:
This menage is inescapable.The question is: Will it break me or rescue me?
My Paranormal Protectors Box Set:
Three fiery heroines. Six infuriatingly protective Alpha shifters. Three shifter romances by Lilly Wilder.
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Shifter Island
My Dragon Protectors
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State of the Arts: An Ethnography of German Theatre and Migration (Theatre and Performance Theory)
This is a bold and wide-ranging account of the unique German public theatre system through the prism of a migrant artistic institution in the western post-industrial Ruhr region. State of the Arts analyses how artistic traditions have responded to social change, racism, and cosmopolitan anxieties and recounts how critical contemporary cultural production positions itself in relation to the tumultuous history of German state patronage, difficult heritage, and self-cultivation through the arts. Jonas Tinius’ fieldwork with professional actors, directors, cultural policy makers, and activists unravels how they constitute theatre as a site for extra-ordinary ethical conduct and how they grapple with the pervasive German cultural tradition of Bildung, or self-cultivation through the arts. Tinius shows how anthropological methods provide a way to understand the entanglement of cultural policy, institution-building, and subject-formation. An ambitious and interdisciplinary study, the work demonstrates the crucial role of artistic intellectuals in society.Read more
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The Light of Asia
The Light of Asia was published in 1879. The book is renowned as a classic and has been published in various editions and different languages. In this poetic masterpiece, Sir Edwin Arnold tells the life and lessons of Buddha. The man who was to become known as Buddha to the world was born Prince Gautama of India. However, he rejected the wealthy and lavish lifestyle and abandoned all the powers he had gotten when he began his journey to find the importance of life. This poem uncovers Buddha’s life according to the Buddhist point of view, so you don’t need to be a Buddhist to see the value in this wonderful work. As soon as you read about Buddha, you will start discovering your own life. Not just the philosophical part, but because of its poetic form, the story of the dramatic incidents in Buddha’s life is delightful to read.Read more
£0.70The Light of Asia
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The Sea: 365 reflections
Throughout history, legend and myth, the sea has symbolized power and freedom, strength and serenity and has inspired poets, philosophers, astronomers and artists.
Reflections upon the sea from literature, philosophy, science and ancient wisdom are gathered together in this enchanting collection.
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£5.20The Sea: 365 reflections
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William Shakespeare – A Critical Study
William Shakespeare, English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist, is often called England’s national poet, and the “Bard of Avon”. His extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.Read more
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Windfall: Irish Nature Poems to Inspire and Connect
What does Ireland’s nature poetry say about us as a people? How does it speak to us of our past, our inheritance, the values to which we aspire? What clues lie within its language that connect us to our deeper selves and our place within our communities and environments?
As varied as our plants, animals and habitats, Windfall: Irish Nature Poems to Inspire and Connect presents a portrait of an ever-changing vista. Jane Carkill’s captivating original illustrations of Ireland’s rich and diverse natural world add to the sense of enchantment and wonder.
Each poem pays attention to nature while also reflecting on the loves and losses of our everyday lives. Award-winning poet Jane Clarke’s selection includes some of our best-known poets, from Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland, Michael Longley, Paula Meehan, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Paul Muldoon.
There are poems here to make us laugh and cry, to help us celebrate and grieve; poems to put words on what can seem inexpressible as we connect to the other living beings with which we share this island.
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Words For Parting: Victorian Poetry On Death and Mourning
Love and grief and the two most private, and at the same time the most universal of all human emotions. It is for love that we remember the dead: love of their spirits, love of their vibrancy, love of the good deeds which they did and which live on after them. The poems in this collection were all written by grieving hearts who have now themselves passed over into that great mystery. We can not truly know what death is, yet we know it will come to all of us. In ancient times when a friend told the philosopher Socrates that his judges had sentenced him to death he responded, “And has not Nature passed the same sentence on them?”
Inasmuch as there can ever be any comfort for those left behind, part of it lies in knowing that death is a reflection of life. When it comes we cry, then we take our first faltering steps towards understanding. In time we become accustomed to this manifold enigma which nature has given us, and then ultimately we look towards the future with hope.
If this little book of poems may be of some help to those in sorrow by reminding them they are not alone, then it will have done its work.Read more
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