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Presenting your lover with 24 roses signifies that they are always on your mind, for each rose represents one hour of the day. 24 Roses is a series of poems that explore the powerful and varied raw emotion that is love in all its glory. From the innocent love of childhood sweethearts to the weathered relationships of those who grow old together, and the anger, infatuation, despair, and romance in between.

What if the girl of your dreams turned out to literally be, a girl in your dreams? For Sam, meeting Susi in the same pub every night when he closed his eyes was exciting until he started to realize that this dream world, this half-light, offered more than his real life did. But now, in this place between reality and dreams, this place that is nowhere and everywhere, Susi has started to change; she is becoming confused and distant. Sam begins to realize that there must be a link between this world and reality, that something is drawing him to Susi each night.

Another Blood Jet is A. J. Huffman's new collection of poetry. This collection is a multigenre, literary horror collection of 48 poems that intermix personal memoirs of moments of a volatile relationship with bloody and surrealistic visions of the speaker's everyday life and madness. The goal of this collection is to take the listener on an emotionally tangential ride that twists their minds and guts in empathy. Collectively it creates a diversely intriguing mix of imagery, metaphor, and real-life memoir.

An alien on the run from bounty hunters arrives on Earth and hides in the body of a gangster who has just been murdered by his own gang. He finds himself in conflict with the gangster's determination to avenge himself on the gang and redeem a past failure while at the same time he has to deal with the bounty hunters.

Let's face it: Selfie pictures aren't going away anytime soon. In fact we can all admit we have taken some of these photos ourselves and posted them to Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, or Google. You can post a sweet selfie picture pretty much anywhere.

Essential oils are extracted from flowers, leaves, fruits, peel, seeds, wood, bark, roots, and other natural materials. There are thousands of different kinds of essential oils, and each has unique properties and characteristics. They are highly volatile, so they are easily absorbed by the skin, and one must take care in the use of them.

Headlong Hall was the first of his seven novels, all of which display the same structure. There is a faint semblance of a plot, which is merely a device to bring together a bunch of voluble eccentrics, who converse on a wide range of topical issues. Headlong Hall is the rural seat of the ebullient Squire Headlong, who invites a number of philosophers, a clergyman, a musician, a novelist, and a phrenologist, to dine with him and share their views.

These six plays are Japanese classics from the 14th century and are presented in the order of a traditional Nō programme. Nō, the Japanese word for "skill", is a form of Japanese musical drama that originated in the eighth century, and is the oldest major theatre art that still survives today. Alongside Nō plays were kyōgen plays, which were short works typically inserted as a comedic interlude of sorts between the more classical Nō performances.

Antonio, a wealthy and popular merchant, is in financial difficulty. He approaches a Jewish money lender, Shylock, who agrees to provide 3000 ducats, with a very curious bond – a pound of the merchant’s flesh, to be levied if Antonio fails to make a timely repayment. Feeling confident that...

Measure for Measure is one of darkest of Shakespeare’s comedies. Written in about 1603 and first performed in 1604, it immediately preceded the composition of the major tragedies Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth. Duke Vincentino, the ruler of Vienna, fears that under his mild sovereignty, the...

Shakespeare’s history plays fall into two categories: political dramas and propagandistic pageants. The second category is comprised of the two plays in this presentation, Henry V and Henry VIII. These two plays have many elements in common. An underlying theme is the necessity and glory of...