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by Becca Schlossberg (Author)Hyacinth is dead. Well, no, not yet; he's lost in the Nether Place. But what happened? Who killed him? Wait, did someone kill him? And where's Apollo? That's all Hyacinth can remember at first: that his life truly began the night he locked eyes with the great god Apollo...Discus boldly reimagines the often-overlooked queer love story of Apollo and Hyacinth: a heartbreaking and candid play that challenges us with its powerfully relevant themes of class, power, just...

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by Donnetta Lavinia Grays (Author)Where We Stand is a long form poem with humor, heart, and music that tells the story of a man standing before his town asking them for forgiveness after he has made a deal with a mysterious stranger on their behalf. More than a recounting of events, this piece both engages and implicates the audience in determining the man's fate. Number of Pages: 64 Dimensions: 0.13 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: February 01, 2023

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by Anchuli Felicia King (Author)From international playwright Anchuli Felicia King comes a riveting work about loyalties, intrigue and the delicate art of translation. In this tense drama, two Chinese-American sisters lead a class action lawsuit to expose an American tech giant's involvement with the Chinese government's firewall, Golden Shield. Number of Pages: 140 Dimensions: 0.3 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: January 04, 2023

The Miss Magnolia Senior Citizen Beauty Pageant - Paperback

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by Leslie Kimbell (Author)The Four Old Broads are back, with some wacky new friends, in an all-new comedy. Against her better judgement, Lurleen Dupree is throwing the seventh annual Miss Magnolia Senior Citizen Beauty Pageant. Martha Parcell is certain that it is finally her year to win. But Beatrice, Imogene and Eaddy have other plans. Throw in a tambourine-playing squirrel, dueling Elvises, and an unfortunate spray-tanning incident... and you're in for a knee-slapping, side-splitting night...

Generational Curses: My Grandmother's Secret - Paperback

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by Tawana Wilson (Author)The Lavender and Montgomery families have ties that go back many generations...back to the time of slavery! Filled with lies, family secrets, sexual exploits, witchcraft, the atrocities of slavery, and bloodline curses, this story follows the life of a third-generation Black American named Essie Lavender. Born into a family whose ancestors were slaves and practiced witchcraft, young Essie gets more than she bargained for as her curiosity leads her to discover the real...

The Autobiography Of Goethe: Truth And Poetry, From My Own Life (1848) - Paperback

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by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (Author), John Oxenford (Translator)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of ...

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by Monk Ferris (Author)Totally insane. And totally hilarious. You all know the story of Hamlet--but never has a plot line been followed by such gleefully drunken footsteps, singing all the way! can you envision Horatio as "an amiable sponge" always seeking the nearest buffet table? Can you see Gertrude and Claudius, married on their way home from King Hamlet's funeral, leading the opening number of the show, "Boo Hoo! I Do!"? Or picture the soliloquy done by Prince Hamlet with a back up male ...

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by Joseph Hayes (Author)The day before Christmas finds the Burgess family busy with preparations and poignantly aware that this is the first year the members of the family will not be together; son Johnny is in Chicago, and Grandpa had died last summer. But the Burgesses do not feel sorry for themselves; they realize how happy and well off they are. In humorous and touching scenes, we see sixteen year-old Julie falling in love for the first time; eighteen year-old Emily receiving a proposal o...

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by Steph del Rosso (Author)In this sharp satire set in the not-so-distant future, a new facility promises to take men accused of sexual misconduct and rehabilitate them into responsible citizens. Steph Del Rosso's bold new play asks: Can we mass-produce forgiveness? Number of Pages: 104 Dimensions: 0.22 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: September 20, 2022

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by Fred Carmichael (Author)Hilarious sequel to Exit the Body. Crane Hammond, suspense mystery writer, and her country hating secretary, Kate, rent the same house as before in Vermont only to find it is the exchange point where a missing microdot containing plans of military installations is to be picked up by a spy at midnight. One of our agents arrives to capture the spy but, when he suffers amnesia, it is left to Crane and Kate to find the spy and the microdot. The focal point of the set is...

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by E. M. Lewis (Author)A travel writer who never travels. A Japanese architect who can't figure out how to build a simple tea house. A gifted tattoo artist who resists the power of his talents. And a homeless girl who lives under a weeping willow tree inthe Japanese Garden. Four lonely people, their stories written on paper, earth, and skin, find each other when one of them falls apart. Together they realize the heart is as strong as it is fragile, and that the safety of home might befound in...

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by E. M. Lewis (Author)A young woman, Ana, is raped at a party in college by the school's star quarterback and her life is shattered. The play follows Ana as she picks up the pieces around her by processing of depression, grief, and eventually taking action. Number of Pages: 54 Dimensions: 0.11 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: September 15, 2022

The Downfall Of Robert, Earl Of Huntingdon, 1601 (1601) - Paperback

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by Anthony Munday (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 88 Dimensions: 0.21 x 9 x 6 IN Pu...

Sr. Dominique's Incredible War - Paperback

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by Gerry Feld (Author)In 1915 when five year old Dominique's parents handed her over to an order of nuns to raise her, she could not believe what was happening to her, nor how her life would ever turn out. The magnificent Monastery that looks like a castle on the side of a mountain intrigues her, but all she really wants to do is be reunited with her brothers and sisters again. She missed riding the horses around the farm and playing with her dog on the meadow where they chased butterflies. S...

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by Henry Fonte (Author), Victoria Holloway (Author), Lee Ahlin (Composer)This delightful retelling of the classic story set in New Orleans during the Civil War had adults and children laughing at the American Stage Children's Theatre. Anne Marie Luise deVille, helps win a battle for the Confederacy and then disappears. The governor announces a ball to celebrate the victory. The fairy godmother, a Jamaican woman, flies in and does a sprightly calypso number. Number of Pages: 58 Dimensions: 0.1...

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by Arthur Kopit (Author), Maury Yeston (Author)Celebrated but impetuous film director Guido Contini, succumbing to the pressures of filming his latest film epic (a musical version of the Casanova story), suffers a midlife crisis. One by one, women from his past and present - including his mother, his wife, his mistress, and his leading lady - haunt, instruct, scold, seduce and encourage him until he finally learns to grow up.This new Ensemble version of the hit Broadway musical has an updated...

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by Gerald Moon (Author)Think of Sleuth crossed with Deathtrap crossed with a Feydeau and you'll have an idea of the wild and crazy, unpredictable hijinks in this hit play. Corpse is set in London in 1936, and tells the story of twin brothers, one of whom plots to murder the other in the most unusual circumstances. Evelyn, an out of work actor, engages the genial Irishman Powell, with a shady past, to do away with his suave, sophisticated, monied twin. Their plotting in Evelyn's Aladdin's cav...

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by Skylar Fox (Author), Simon Henriques (Author)The campers are all finally asleep, and the lake is getting quiet. Have a beer; make a s'more; tell a scary story. Figure out what you're going to have to do in the morning to keep camp fun and safe without letting the kids find out about... well, you've seen the news. I just got a push notification-they're getting closer.Following a group of camp counselors trying to mold the leaders of tomorrow when tomorrow is looking bleaker and bleaker, The...

Murder at Minsing Manor: A Nancy Boys Mystery - Paperback

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by Michael Simon (Author), Richard Simon (Author)The first Ridiculous Theatrical Company production by outside playwrights brims with irreverent wit. Horror show host Marius Mintsingue is killed on the air, much to the dismay of would be detectives Buddy and Bob (pubescent boys played by women) who are his biggest fans. Mintsingue's cross dressing lover, finds herself the head of Mintsingue Manor, a Gothic mansion in postwar suburbia. While the murderer stalks, she struggles to support the ho...

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by Adam Szymkowicz (Author)100 Things I Never Said to You - Adam Szymkowicz's powerful play - a poeticexploration of death, loss and grief through the lens of teenagers whose classmate hasdied - can be presented by a cast ranging from four to one hundred and six actors. Ata school assembly after the death of their classmate Julie, students share memoriesand say the things they never told Julie as their community attempts to heal.100 Love Letters I Never Sent - Told by an ensemble of any size ...

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by Carolyn Gage (Author)Nine of Gage's most popular one-act plays, including: Bite My Thumb, Patricide, Jane Addams and the Devil Baby, Battered on Broadway, Louisa May Incest, The Rules of the Playground, The Obligatory Scene, The Pele Chant, and Entr'acte, or The Night Eva Le Gallienne Was Raped. Number of Pages: 208 Dimensions: 0.48 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: August 28, 2015

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by John Rustan (Author), Frank Semerano (Author)The authors of The Tangled Snarl and The Attempted Murder of Peggy Sweetwater turn their manic imaginations loose in the Wild West in this hilarious spoof about a banker who fears losing his mail order bride to a desperado so he impersonates the outlaw. Things really get rolling when the rhyming cowboy and his faithful friend Talking Boar arrive to capture the badman. Number of Pages: 82 Dimensions: 0.17 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: September 20...

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by Rachel Wagstaff (Author), Paul Gallico (Based on a Book by), Richard Taylor (Music Engraved by)Ada Harris spends her days dusting, darning, polishing and scrubbing. But her first glimpse of a ravishing Christian Dior dress sets her off on a journey that will change her life forever...From the cobbled streets of post-war London to the shimmering avenues of Paris, Ada transforms the lives of everyone she meets along the way; but can she let go of the past and finally allow her own life to bl...

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by Nick Hall (Author)Ex-spouses Paul and Polly Butler write murder mysteries together. They act out the crimesin Paul's apartment: poisoned chocolates and lethal martinis, alibis and fi ngerprints, bodiesin a trunk and bodies all tied up, daggers, guns and even an axe all contribute to thehilarity. Nobody gets hurt, but their egos take some hits as they fi nd that their marriage wasmixed up with their work. There are many fast paced comic twists as they attempt to outdoand surprise each other...

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by Ben Power (Author), Stefano Massini (Author)On a cold September morning in 1844, a young man from Bavaria stands on a New York dockside dreaming of a new life in the new world. He is joined by his two brothers, and an American epic begins. 163 years later, the firm they establish - Lehman Brothers - spectacularly collapses into bankruptcy, triggering the largest financial crisis in history.Weaving together nearly two centuries of family history, this epic theatrical event charts the humble...

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by Betty Comden (Author), Adolph Green (Author), Larry Grossman (Music Engraved by)Revived by The York Theatre Company to acclaim, this reworking of the original Broadway script and score puts this hauntingly beautiful show within the reach of smaller producing groups. Thirteen actors double in several roles and two pianos create the sights and sounds of 19th century Norway as Nora, Ibsen's heroine from A Doll's House, tries to make her way in a male dominated society after she slams the door...

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by Selina Fillinger (Author)One four-letter word is about to rock 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. When the President unwittingly spins a PR nightmare into a global crisis, the seven brilliant and beleaguered women he relies upon most risk life, liberty, and the pursuit of sanity to keep the commander-in-chief out of trouble.Selina Fillinger's brilliant, all-female farce took Broadway by storm in a star-studded production that earned three 2022 Tony nominations. Number of Pages: 96 Dimensions: 0.2 x...

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by Natasha Gordon (Author)When Gloria passes away, it falls to her British-born children to host the traditional Jamaican Nine Night celebration. Family and friends, familiar and unfamiliar, arrive to celebrate the life of the woman who connects them all and deal with unfinished business along the way. Nine Night is at once moving and raucously funny. Gordon paints the rituals of grief, the tensions of family and the complexities of identity with an acute eye and razor-sharp wit. Number of Pa...

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by George S. Kaufman (Author) Number of Pages: 106 Dimensions: 0.22 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: May 19, 2021

Mystical Mayhem: A New Breed - Hardcover

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by Cora Richardson (Author)Gabriela is a young woman who grew up as an orphan, never knowing anything of her real family. Despite all of the abuse and negligence, she grew into a functional adult. With no opportunity for higher education, she still found herself as a manager of a small business at the age of twenty. On her twenty-first birthday, she and her friends decide to hit the town to celebrate. That is the night she discovers the truth of her life, and how she was never supposed to be ...

God's Spies and Crossing the Bar - Paperback

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by Don Nigro (Author)Two women sit in a funeral parlor with the corpse of a recently deceased loved one, saying things like "Doesn't he look like himself," when the corpse sits up and asks for Betty. Who is this Betty, they wonder? God certainly works in mysterious ways. Number of Pages: 34 Dimensions: 0.07 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: July 19, 2022

What the Constitution Means to Me - Paperback

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by Heidi Schreck (Author)Playwright Heidi Schreck's boundary-breaking play breathes new life into our Constitution and imagines how it will shape the next generation of Americans. Fifteen-year-old Heidi earned her college tuition by winning Constitutional debate competitions across the United States. In this hilarious, hopeful and achingly human new play, she resurrects her teenage self in order to trace the profound relationship between four generations of women and the founding document tha...