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Report copyright infringementby Nathan Lyle Cunningham (Author), Eli Blyden (Prepared by)forever. Amen. is the story of a group of friends in their twenties who are happily enjoying their everyday lives. Then, when a member of their group is diagnosed with cancer, They struggle to come to terms with the possibility that she might be dying. In each chapter different characters take turns detailing the pain they felt as the months passed, watching their friends life slowly fade away. ...

The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Edited by Mrs. Shelley. [With Portrait and Illustrations.]

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Report copyright infringementby Percy Shelley (Author), Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Author)Title: The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Edited by Mrs. Shelley. [With portrait and illustrations.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, m...

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Report copyright infringementby Hector M. Rodriguez (Author)West Germany. Summer, 1971.Four American military kids slip through a base fence before dawn and walk eight kilometers into the German countryside - past dragon's teeth, past a farmer's dog, past the edge of everything they're supposed to know. What they find is a sealed WWII bunker on the old Siegfried Line. What's inside has been waiting twenty-six years: four gold coins, a soldier's Bible, a photograph of a woman whose name no one...

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Church (Author)Shadows of the Past is a gripping collection of dark and haunting stories that explore the fragile line between reality and the supernatural. Through moments of tragedy, betrayal, addiction, and unexplained encounters, ordinary people find themselves facing fears they never imagined. From a life-changing decision that leaves a young man haunted by survivor's guilt, to terrifying encounters in cursed woods and haunted houses, each story re...

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Report copyright infringementby Sierra Ernesto Xavier (Author)What We Saw is the moving story of two strangers seeking solace for their loneliness and pain. Their story unfolds not through words but through the language of gestures; each silent movement serves as a testament to their shared understanding.Their journey is a dance of unspoken connection, taking them from the recesses of a club via the haunting sounds of the sea to a place where they expose the vulnerability of their existence a...

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Report copyright infringementby Dave &. Carla Mige (Author)THIS IS A LOVE STORY. Love of a man for a woman. Love of a couple for their families. The love of families for their community and the love of community for their God. During the Second Temple period of Israel at the beginning of the first millennium CE, the country was divided and in upheaval. The people were persecuted and broken. Many itinerate preachers took it upon themselves to reach out to the people. This historically insp...

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Report copyright infringementby R. N. Miller (Author)There is a fine line between soul mate and obsession. How do you know if love is real, or a reaction to circumstance and timing? When Victoria meets Michael just days after 9/11, she struggles to trust herself and her perceptions in a world that seems to have turned on its head. What follows is a journey of the body, heart and the mind with all its mixed messages and false turns, and a woman struggling to find what's true and real in her q...

Chinese Feminisms and The Vagina Monologues

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Report copyright infringementby Yingjun Wei (Author)This Element focuses on three Chinese productions of The Vagina Monologues (TVM, 1996), a radical-feminist play by the North American artist and activist Eve Ensler: Yin Dao Du Bai (The Vagina Monologues, 2003), Yin Dao Zhi Dao (Vagina's Way, 2013), and Dao Yin (Saying Vagina, 2021). Each production was staged in and informed by the changing landscape of Chinese feminism: from 2003 to the early 2010s, the making of TVM was a process of explo...

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Report copyright infringementby Joseph Nixon (Author), Ian Shaw (Author)The historic first summer blockbuster movie is being filmed - but no one working on the film would know it. Dive deep into the tumultuous, murky waters of the making of a major motion picture with dueling co-stars, unpredictable weather and a shark prop whose constant breakdowns are looking like an omen for the future of the movie. In this comedy written by Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon, the short tempers and short circuits o...

Georgiana and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley

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Report copyright infringementby Lauren Gunderson (Author), Margot Melcon (Author)Georgiana Darcy is an accomplished pianist but wary of romance. Kitty Bennet is a bright-eyed optimist and a perfect best friend. After years of being overshadowed by their older siblings, these two younger sisters are ready for their own adventures in life and love, starting with the arrival of an admirer and secret correspondent. Meddlesome families and outmoded expectations won't stop these determined friends ...

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Report copyright infringementby Tennessee Williams (Author)Chance Wayne, a young and beautiful hustler, returns to the town of his birth and becomes entangled in the lives of an aging movie actress, now living undercover as Princess Kosmonopolis, as well as the girl he had to leave behind. Word of his arrival spreads like contagion through the small town, and soon Boss Finley, a political despot and father of the young girl, becomes increasingly interested. What Chance does not know is that u...

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Report copyright infringementby Tennessee Williams (Author)A profoundly affecting play, Summer and Smoke is the haunting love story between a spiritual Southern girl and the young doctor who entrances her and causes her to question her faith. Each is attracted to the other but because of their divergent attitudes toward life, they resign themselves to being driven away from the other. Not until the end does the doctor realize that the girl's idealism is ultimately right, and while she is stil...

The Dramaturgy of Shakespeare's Romances

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Report copyright infringementby Barbara a. Mowat (Author)Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest--three of Shakespeare's final plays diverge from Shakepeare's usual standards. Generically, stylistically, and dramatically, they each embrace hauntingly familiarShakespearean themes and incidents. However, with comic devices colliding with tragic passions, mimetic actions that give way to spectacle, and drama that yields to narrative, everything Shakespearean has undergone a puzzling transf...

In The Theater of Love: Rediscovering the Exceptional Shakespeare

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas P. Brackshaw (Author)Many people believe only those with a Ph, D. in literature can understand Shakespeare. They would probably be surprised to learn, then, that he wrote his 36 plays for the shopkeepers, the housewives, the apprentices of London. These were ordinary people who eagerly paid their way into the Globe Theater and eventually made him a rich man. Though Shakespeare will certainly make you think, he was never a literary snob or an elitist. He ...

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Report copyright infringementby Lillian Hellman (Author)Picture a charming home in the South. Into this peaceful scene put the prosperous, despotic Hubbard family - Ben, possessive and scheming; Oscar, cruel and arrogant; Oscar's son Leo, weak and unprincipled; Regina, wickedly clever - each trying to outwit the other. In contrast, meet lonely intimidated Birdie, whom Oscar wed for her father's cotton fields; wistful Alexandra, Regina's daughter; and Horace, ailing husband of Regina, between ...

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Report copyright infringementby Anthony Stamp (Author)Somebody's Pinched My Bottom! is a fast and furious madcap comical farce of mistaken identities and misunderstandings. It takes place in the first-floor office of Theatrical Properties Ltd, a small business which hires out costumes, props and novelty party items to theatre groups, societies and individuals. Run by the fastidious Mr Jenkins and his loyal secretary Carol, the day begins badly when a workman arrives to dig a large hole in the...

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Report copyright infringementby David Hwang Henry (Author)Bored with his routine posting in Beijing, and awkward with women, René Gallimard, a French diplomat, is easy prey for the subtle, delicate charms of Song Liling, a Chinese opera star who personifies Gallimard's fantasy vision of submissive, exotic oriental sexuality. He begins an affair with "her" that lasts for 20 years, during which time he passes along diplomatic secrets - an act that brings about his downfall and imprisonment. Int...

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Report copyright infringementby Evie Riley (Author)Friends to lovers...Detective Roland Wright lives a lonely and solitary life, filling his waking hours with work and volunteering. It's been ten years since he lost the love of his life to a drunk driver, but he's still plagued by nightmares.When a young man shows up at the soup kitchen where he volunteers, Roland tries to convince himself the attraction he feels is purely platonic. At least the handsome stranger is older than he looks, but c...

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Report copyright infringementby Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Author)Updating Everyman, the quintessential Medieval morality play - a religious allegory about death and salvation performed in public places during church festivals - Jacobs-Jenkins renames Fellowship, Kindred, Goods, Discretion, Five Wits and Knowledge as Friendship, Kinship, Stuff, Mind, Five Senses and Understanding, respectively. Instead of Good Deeds following Everyman/Everybody to the grave, the role now goes to Love. As the pla...

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Report copyright infringementby Suzan-Lori Parks (Author)This darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity is Suzan-Lori Parks' groundbreaking, Pulitzer-winning riff on the way we are defined by history. The play tells the story of Lincoln and Booth, two brothers whose names were given to them as a joke, foretelling a lifetime of sibling rivalry and resentment. Haunted by the past, the brothers are forced to confront the shattering reality of their future. Number of P...

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Report copyright infringementby Max Austin (Author)Max is a gay nurse. This gut-wrenching story describes his experiences of being prescribed an almost lethal mixture of bullying, bigotry and rejection from the very nursing community he represents today. Sadly, being a nurse does not come with an invisible shield. This story is a personal account of the good, the bad, and the dam right ugly of NHS staff. There is truthfulness, humour, and lessons for us all. And yet the underbelly of stigma i...

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Report copyright infringementby Lucille Fletcher (Author)Unable to sleep, Elaine Wheeler paces the living room of her Manhattan townhouse, troubled by unsettling memories and vague fears. Her husband tries to comfort her, but when he steps away for a moment, Elaine screams as she sees (or believes she sees) the body of a dead man in the window across the way. The police find nothing except an empty chair. Elaine's terror grows as, shortly thereafter, she sees another body - this time a woman'...

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Report copyright infringementby Lillian Hellman (Author)One of the great successes of distinguished writer Lillian Hellman, this serious play about two women who run a school for girls highlights the real-life consequences of a lie told by a disgruntled student. After the malicious youngster starts a rumor about the two women, it soon turns to scandal. As the young girl comes to understand the power she wields, she sticks by her story, which precipitates tragedy for both women. It is later di...

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Report copyright infringementby Antuan J. Vance (Author)Carissa is a high school senior who's never been to a party. When she's invited, and finally authorized to go, she finds herself having the time of her life, until she's not. The consequences of that night will be with her for the rest of her life.Detective Priest mourns her little sister. When the opportunity to find justice lands in her lap, she must keep her vengeful desires at bay in order to uncover the truth, which runs deep into t...

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Report copyright infringementby Luis Chester (Author)Continuation of the Sci-Fi Space Opera NovelsThis next chapter in the saga tells the story of how Fer lived through those distant years-and how Eve was there too, though their paths never crossed as lovers at that time.When I was just a boy-young, yet already deeply aware of the world around me-my favorite space opera novels finally arrived on the big screen.Of course, it was Star Wars.The moment those starships roared across the screen, so...

Liz Estrada 2025, An Adaption of Aristophanes' Lysistrata

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Report copyright infringementby Allen Huffstutter (Author)Trump is back ... and so is LizIn 411 BC, Greek playwright Aristophanes penned Lysistrata. Lysistrata tells the story of a group of courageous women who devise a unique strategy for ending the Peloponnesian War, which had been draining the Greek Treasury for 20 years at the time the play was first produced.Now, more than 2,400 years later, have things really changed, or can we still learn from this tale?Have uppity women in the era of ...

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Report copyright infringementby Graeme K. Talboys (Author) Number of Pages: 208 Dimensions: 0.48 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: May 24, 2021

Dramatic Representations of Filial Piety: Five Nohs in Translation

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Report copyright infringementby Mae J. Smethurst (Editor), Mae J. Smethurst (Translator)This volume of five noh translations (containing an introduction, translations, short commentaries and a glossary) differs from most others in that none of the plays are of the mugenno type, but are instead genzaino, real-life noh. The plays focus on living characters rather than spirits or ghosts, and on dramatic action rather than poetry, song and dance. In addition the five noh satisfy several of the mo...

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Report copyright infringementby Candi Usher (Author)This book delves into the complicated relationship between a mother and daughter, which was strained by mental illness. It is a candid account of the pain and struggles experienced, and while there may be no regrets, it acknowledges the harm caused to loved ones. Her Mother's Daughter presents harsh yet honest realities. While not every reader may relate, it sheds light on common experiences and offers a voice to women who have remained sile...

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Report copyright infringementby Susan Reedy (Author)Newport, Oklahoma is home-sweet-home to Tracy and Jared, whose love story has grown stronger through facing heartache, illness, and family struggles. But when Jared suddenly disappears, Tracy is left behind, forced to rely on her research and music to endure his absence. She soon discovers an international conspiracy has invaded their small town and, when Jared resurfaces years later, she realizes that family secrets and lies have now made t...

The She Bear: a funny fairy tale one act play [Theatre Script]

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Report copyright infringementby Hillary DePiano (Author), Giambattista Basile (Based on a Book by)An adaptation of The She-Bear from Giambattista Basile's The Tale of Tales (Il Pentamerone, Lo cunto de li cunti).When a pack of wolves nearly tear the prince apart, the very She-Bear he'd been hunting saves his life. As man and beast heal from their wounds, the prince starts to wonder: Is he losing his mind? Or has he really fallen in love with a bear? Magic and mayhem, romance and the ridiculou...

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Report copyright infringementby Ana Barahona (Author)D. says that he can not believe that this has been a Saturday, because only my stoning and another two have happened today. M. tells us that there is a huge respect in Palestine and other countries for "internationals" like us, who, M. says, leave "the comforts from your homes, your education, your work, your families, to come here and suffer with us Palestinians." Abu A. goes on about our very important mission here in Palestine and back h...