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    Like an Ocean: Poems in Prose
    Like an Ocean: Poems in Prose
    Like an Ocean: Poems in Prose
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    Like an Ocean: Poems in Prose

    By Mazzi Wampamba

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    A collection of poems in prose of lifes emotions. The author takes the reader on a long journey that spins the world. A conversation with the reader about love, hate, hurt and happiness. The author leads the reader into the best and the worst in our different journeys in this life.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateMay 21, 2014
    ISBN9781499022155
    Like an Ocean: Poems in Prose
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    Mazzi Wampamba

    Mazzi Wampamba was born in East Africa. She was educated in United Kingdom and France. She is the author of three other books in the Kingdom of the South series, The Long Journey and The Train Journey. Ms. Wampamba lives in Northern Virginia, USA.

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      Like an Ocean - Mazzi Wampamba

      Copyright © 2014 by Mazzi Wampamba.

      Cover Design By: David Lumu Kibuuka.

      ISBN:            Softcover                    978-1-4990-2214-8

                           eBook                        978-1-4990-2215-5

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      Names, characters, places and incidents are used fictitiously.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      Rev. date: 05/16/2014

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