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Who She Was: My Search for My Mother's Life

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Report copyright infringementby Samuel G. Freedman (Author)*Second Edition, with a new Introduction by Kelley McMastersWhen Samuel G. Freedman was nearing fifty, the same age at which his mother died of breast cancer, he realized that he did not know who she was. Of course, he knew that Eleanor had been his mother, a mother he kept at an emotional distance both in life and after death. He had never thought about the entire life she lived before him, a life of her own dreams and disappointment...

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by Sh?n Dale-Jones (Author)As I walk past the funeral parlour, I see a poster next to their two-for-one offer. It's a wanted poster with my name on it. A completely made-up true story. When the world goes mad, do we inevitably go mad too? When Shôn playfully cracks an egg on his mother's head, he has no idea real-life internet trolls will appear on his doorstep. Cracking takes on the battle between love and hate, asking what's funny and where we draw the line. Part stand-up, part theatre, Cra...

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by Sudha Bhuchar (Author)This is the story of a paintingcapturing a landmark moment in history.Or is it the story of the subjects of the painting?Maybe it's the story of the painter?Or those who are missing from the composition.Set in Mysore, Southern India, in 1805. The story begins when princess Devajammani arrives at the royal court of Mysore to marry Krishnaraja Wadiyar III. They were both twelve years old and he was the newly anointed ruler of the Southern Indian kingdom.But Devajammani ...

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by Somebody Jones (Author)Shortlisted for the Popcorn Writing Award 2024 Grieving is weird and expensive. Jamie can't swim. Fuelled by guilt and a need to mend her broken family, at 30 years old, she's taking on her biggest fear - the ocean. With the help of a chipper swim instructor, a shady spiritual guide, and one cathartic crab sandwich, she questions, 'How many lengths does it take to wash away regret?' Brilliantly witty, deeply heartfelt, this play explores what lies beneath the surface...

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by Hilary Fannin (Author), Maxim Gorky (Author)I am attempting to colonise the last frontier. Time, Elena, time. If we could inhabit different iterations of self, we could undo all the mistakes of the past. Don't you see? Hilary Fannin's radical adaptation of Maxim Gorky's classic 1905 dark comedy reworks the original text and draws it into the here and now. Children of the Sun is the story of a small family and their quixotic collection of acquaintances, entertaining and enraging each other ...

Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon - Paperback

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by Rosie Day (Author)And I think you can tell a lot about a person by what they choose to see in you. She was a 17 year old girl; the only God she believed in was Taylor Swift. After her sister's untimely death by a Yorkshire Pudding, a funny teenage misfit begrudgingly joins a flailing scout group to help her navigate the kicks and punches of adolescence with varying degrees of success. Rosie Day's debut play Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon is a rollercoaster ride through youth. Whethe...

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by Willy Russell (Author)A Liverpudlian West Side Story: twin brothers are separated at birth because their mother cannot afford to keep them both. She gives one of them away to wealthy Mrs Lyons and they grow up as friends in ignorance of their fraternity until the inevitable quarrel unleashes a blood-bath. 'Willy Russell is less concerned with political tub-thumping than with weaving a close-knit story about the working of fate and destiny ... it carries one along with it in almost unreserv...

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by Philippa Lawford (Author)When I'm walking with her the whole time I'm imagining I'm with someone else.Who do you imagine?You, sometimes. After university, Emma moves back in with her parents in Hertfordshire and gets a job at her old school, assisting in the Drama department. Before long, she's spending every day in the studio with Matt, her boss. Matt decides to teach Emma everything he knows, and Emma feels her life starting to change. Philippa Lawford's Cold Water is a play about wantin...

Forgotten in the Land of Egypt - Paperback

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by Tom Murray (Author)I look at these fields and I try to imagine what they were: crop fields, maybe. Or fields of sheep. And these... power lines. I try to imagine that they lead somewhere - but they never do. Only under.In 1631, The Fens, the flat area of land stretching from Cambridge to Norwich, were drained. In 2050, The Fens return to the sea. Two children play in the waterscape. They tell tales of a mythic Waterman, who scours the water for sunken parts. But, in the bitter struggle for...

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by John Fletcher (Author)The Island Princess is a tragicomic romance set in the Spice Islands of Indonesia. Fletcher rewrites Shakespeare's The Tempest through the encounter of Islam and Christianity and the fierce European competition for wealth at the farthest reaches of empire. The play also stages the degeneration of religious tolerance into fanaticism. This ground-breaking edition explores the play in its gendered, political, social and religious contexts whilst also finding its resonanc...

The Tragedy of Mariam: The Fair Queen of Jewry - Paperback

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by Elizabeth Cary (Author)Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry is a Jacobean closet drama by Elizabeth Tanfield Cary. First published in 1613, it was the first work by a woman to be published under her real name. Never performed during Cary's lifetime, and apparently never intended for performance, the Senecan revenge tragedy tells the story of Mariam, the second wife of Herod. The play exposes and explores the themes of sex, divorce, betrayal, murder, and Jewish society under Herod's t...

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by Benjamin Zephaniah (Author), Lemn Sissay (Adapted by)An eye for an eye. It's very simple. You choose your homeland like a hyena picking and choosing where he steals his next meal from. Scavenger. Yes you grovel to the feet of Mengistu and when his people spit at you and kick you from the bowl you scuttle across the border. Scavenger. As a violent civil war rages back home, teenager Alem and his father are in a B&B in Berkshire. It's his best holiday ever. The next morning his father is...

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by Mike Bartlett (Author), James Grieve (Introduction by)1967. Kenneth and Sandra know the world is changing. And they want some of it.Love, Love, Love takes on the baby boomer generation as it retires, and finds it full of trouble. Smoking, drinking, affectionate and paranoid, one couple journeys forty-years from initial burst to full bloom. The play follows their idealistic teenage years in the 1960s to their stint as a married family unit before finally divorced and, although disintegrated...

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by Bertolt Brecht (Author), Mark Ravenhill (Translator)Arguably Brecht's greatest play, A Life of Galileo charts the seventeenth century scientist's extraordinary fight with the church over his assertion that the earth orbits the sun. The figure of Galileo, whose 'heretical' discoveries about the solar system brought him to the attention of the Inquisition, is one of Brecht's more human and complex creations. Temporarily silenced by the Inquisition's threat of torture, and forced to abjure hi...

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time GCSE Student Edition - Paperback

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by Simon Stephens (Author), Jacqueline Bolton (Introduction by)Written specifically for GCSE students by academics in the field, the Methuen Drama GCSE Student Editions provide in-depth explanatory material alongside the play texts frequently studied at Key Stage 4. Whether for use in the classroom or independent study, these editions offer a fully comprehensive and lightly glossed play text with accompanying notes specifically directed towards readers of this age, which unravel essential top...

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by Lucy Prebble (Author), Miriam Gillinson (Introduction by)I can tell the difference between who I am and a side effect.The Effect is a clinical romance. Two young volunteers, Tristan and Connie, agree to take part in a clinical drug trial. Succumbing to the gravitational pull of attraction and love, however, Tristan and Connie manage to throw the trial off-course, much to the frustration of the clinicians involved. This funny, moving and perhaps surprisingly human play explores questions of...

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Report copyright infringementby Donna B. Gray (Author)Step into the Heart of Rockville, Indiana - One Story at a TimeJoin author Donna B. Gray as she takes you on a heartfelt journey from bustling city life to the quiet charm of small-town living in Rockville, Indiana. Her favorite spot? The beloved Ferndale Store-a cozy country hub where stories are as plentiful as the homemade blackberry jam.First opened in the late 1800s by two members of the Martin family, the Ferndale Store quickly becam...

Behind Closed Doors: Memoirs Of an American Call Girl

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Report copyright infringementby E. S. Silversmith (Author)Young, broke, in college.What's a girl to do?Dive into this deliciously absurd and darkly humorous peek inside the world's oldest profession.Told through a series of encounters with real clients, this unhinged nonfiction memoir recounts the misadventures of a socially awkward college student as she fumbles her way through the salacious world of escorting.While recalling unforgettable stories, Silversmith shares her unique insight into ...

Da Rep Ute Able Vol 3 Tears Still Invincible

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Report copyright infringementby Julius Clark Jones (Author)At the tender age of 10 I kept hearing my mama cry over backed up bills. I hit the streets to sell drugs to help ends meet. Deep involved in the streets, were put on West Side 30's Fruit Town Brim 36St Jersey City NJ chapter. Gang Bangin pressing the line for the set, getting setup and rearrested by gang task force and the Fed's. Facing two hot one cases (187). Doing time in State and Federal Prison, watching my daughters grow up thro...

Invincible Tears Vol1 Tears You Can't See Only from the Mind and Heart

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Report copyright infringementby Julius Clark Jones (Author)Before you raw uncut authentic tales of Men and Women came together that were once gang bangin. From East Coast Blood's and West Coast Blood's inform today's world, what society loves glorifying through the music industry and movies.From Jersey City NJ, Newark NJ, East Orange NJ, Brooklyn NY, North Philly PA, Richmond VA, East South Central L.A, West South Central L.A and Compton CA.Harsh reality what they went through, some stories m...

Shadows & Spells: A Gothic Halloween Coloring Grimoire Scary Gothic Halloween Coloring Book for Adults: Haunted Castles, Witches, and Skeleton Kings:

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Report copyright infringementby Aurelia Mourne (Author)Step into a world of haunting beauty and spectral wonder in Shadows & Spells: A Gothic Halloween Coloring Grimoire - the ultimate Halloween adult coloring book for lovers of the macabre. This Gothic Coloring Book for Adults is more than a collection of illustrations - it's a dark fantasy journey through haunted castles, cursed witches, eerie landscapes, and skeleton kings, brought to life through intricate, gothic designs. Perfect for...

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Report copyright infringementby Kimberly Regan (Author)A true story of finding and believing in oneself enough to keep going when the world gives up, and you want to quit. Unbroken: Road to Freedom is a purposeful memoir that brings readers inside the world of generational familial dysfunction that feeds on poverty, oppression, and domestic violence. An inspirational book for women, layers of the story hidden in the deep corners of everyday life. Layers that unfold and depict underlying unive...

Death of a Childhood: A Memoir of 1989 and the

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Report copyright infringementby Ryan Basen (Author) Number of Pages: 294 Dimensions: 0.66 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: March 04, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Dawn Densmore (Author) Number of Pages: 88 Dimensions: 0.24 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: March 05, 2025

This is the Lord's Doing: LYRICALLY SPEAKING A Book of Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby Leeta Bigbee (Author)Leeta wrote This is the Lord's Doing Lyrically Speaking to express frustrations, concerns, love, failure, success, bondage and deliverance. Instead of speaking to others about what she was going through, she decided to write it down and speak through poetry. Lyrically Speaking is an expression of emotions from and about Leeta as well as towards and about others. Hopefully as you read this book, you can journey with the author as she express...

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Report copyright infringementby George Radford (Introduction by), G. B. Galizzi (Illustrator)The Life and Death of Sir John Falstaff is a book written by George Radford. It is a biographical account of the fictional character Sir John Falstaff, who is a prominent figure in William Shakespeare's plays Henry IV and The Merry Wives of Windsor. The book explores the life of Falstaff, a humorous and larger-than-life character who is known for his wit, love of drinking, and his relationship with Pr...

Cheating Death: Salmon Fishing the Copper River and Prince William Sound, Alaska

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Report copyright infringementby Katherine G. Halgren (Author)Struggles to survive, passion, determination, friendship, community, the beauty of Prince William Sound, and change are a big part of my story. When I began gillnetting, I was one of half a dozen women who fished alone. Most fishermen gave me respect, a couple kept an eye on me, and all of them helped if they saw me in trouble, including those who had shaken their heads and questioned what the heck I was doing with a fishing boat. O...

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Report copyright infringementby John Godber (Author)Fast-moving and highly entertaining, Teechers evokes life at a modern school. Using the format of an end-of-term play, the new drama teacher's progress through two terms of recalcitrant classes, synical colleagues and obstructive caretakers is reviewed. Disillutioned, he departs for a safer private school. Number of Pages: 70 Dimensions: 0.15 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: February 01, 1989

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Report copyright infringementby Dawson Byrne (Author)The Story of Ireland's National Theatre: The Abbey Theatre Dublin is a comprehensive account of the history and evolution of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, Ireland. Authored by Dawson Byrne, the book traces the origins of the theatre from its establishment in 1904 to its current status as a cultural institution of national importance.The book begins by exploring the cultural and political context in which the Abbey Theatre was founded, highli...

ACTOR IN AN Art Business: The Hollywood of William Holden

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Report copyright infringementby Martin Keith Jr. Sopocy (Author)The author of this manuscript is dyslexic. I suppose that means that I see things backwards. Also, I tend to skip steps in the chain of logic and replace them with powerful intuitive responses. Through my writing, I have achieved originality. I have functioned with dyslexia all my life, but I have learned to make an asset of it. My dyslexia diagnosis is fundamental to my work as a writer. My dyslexia is not something to be suppre...

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Report copyright infringementby Lenny Bazemore (Author)The Memoir of a man who grew up facing adversity and chasing the American Dream and never gave up.On several occasions after hearing me tell a few stories over the years, people mentioned that I should write a book about my life. It's filled with interesting anecdotes that shaped the person that I am and as I looked back on it all, I came to the realization that my story is not all that unique. There are countless people in the world who ...

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Report copyright infringementby Sheila Hamilton (Author)'Can I Have Your Charm Bracelet When You Die?' A Dublin ChildhoodPulitzer Prize, Academy Award, Tony Award winner, JP Shanley, ('Moonstruck', Cher, 'Doubt' Meryl Streep);'Every page of Sheila Hamilton's "Can I Have Your Charm Bracelet When You Die" crackles with electric joy. Her senses careen through the Irish days and nights with greedy wonder. Even when she detours into New York, it's her mythology of love that shapes the town. I can'...