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Drummers And Dreamers: Casablanca Rising

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Report copyright infringementby Laila Ouarrachy (Author)On the cusp of an uprising, one girl fights to steer her own lifeDrummers and Dreamers is a genre-blending historical novel and coming-of-age story set in 1960s Casablanca, Morocco, where political unrest and strict social codes collide in streets that pulse with music and rumor. Heartbroken by the sudden death of her father, Tamo - a sharp, spirited teenager from a farm - moves in with her uncle and is thrust into a city that's both int...

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Report copyright infringementby Kavi Ocktiiv (Author)Born in 1892 in McHenry, Mississippi, December Williams is the youngest of eleven children in a family hardened by poverty and terror. The son of a sharecropper and maid, he grows up under the looming menace of white hoods and burning crosses, witnessing racial violence that forces his family to flee north to Memphis, TN.After the untimely death of his aunt, December inherits a juke joint while still barely a man. What begins as survival be...

Ivanoff: A four-act drama by the Russian playwright Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

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Report copyright infringementby Anton Chekhov (Author)Ivanoff (Ivanov)Anton Chekhov Ivanov (Russian: Иванов драма в четырёх действиях (Ivanov: drama in four acts) also translated as "Ivanoff") is a four-act drama by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov.Ivanov was first performed in 1887, when Fiodor Korsh, owner of the Korsh Theatre in Moscow, commissioned Chekhov to write a comedy. Chekhov, however, responded with a four-act drama, which he wrote in ten days. The first performance was not a ...

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Report copyright infringementby Zachary Olson (Author)11f, 6m, 2 nonbinary, flexible ensembleThe cast list goes up and THE QUIET SOPHOMORE TECHIE GETS THE LEAD ROLE. Gasp! The natural order of things in the theatre department is turned upside down.This deeply entertaining ensemble dramedy follows a high school theatre as they rehearse and perform a classic play exploring the simple, everyday choices which can lead to innumerable outcomes. Relationships old and new are tested, cliques and ster...

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Report copyright infringementby Gilbert Chinard (Editor)""George Washington: As The French Knew Him"" is a historical book written by Gilbert Chinard that explores the French perspective on the life and legacy of George Washington. The book delves into the relationship between Washington and France, examining the role that France played in the American Revolution and the impact that Washington had on French society. It provides a detailed analysis of the interactions between Washington and va...

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Report copyright infringementby Bruce Dawe (Author)In Blind Spots, Bruce Dawe (author of such popular poetry collections as Condolences of the Season and Sometimes Gladness) turns his ironic wit and poetic skills to dramatise the unexpected termination of Kevin Rudd as our PM, Julia Gillard's subsequent term of office, and Kevin Rudd's return. Dawe's sympathy for those subjected to the intense pressure of political office during these troubled times is evident through his tongue-in-cheek depi...

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Report copyright infringementby Luke Twigg (Author)An intimate account of the early life of a different and damaged individual, how he came to be so, how as a consequence he is with others and they are with him, and how he attempts to accept his past and forge forward into the future. "This is a work of fiction!" Frenzun Famlee Number of Pages: 270 Dimensions: 0.57 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: November 21, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Fran Kranz (Author)I'm really grateful to fi nally see you all together. May I say that. And I hope we all feel this was the right thing to do once we've left here today.In a quiet room of an Episcopal church, two couples meet to have a conversation no parent should ever have to face. As defences fall away and memories surface, they attempt to reach across a divide carved by violence. Number of Pages: 102 Dimensions: 0.21 x 8 x 5 IN ...

The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays Volume 3: Young Adult Edition

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Report copyright infringementby Leanna Keyes (Editor), Lindsey Mantoan (Editor), Angela Farr Schiller (Editor)Playwrights in Volume 3 agree: "These are the plays we wish we had." The third volume in the Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays series offers nine new plays by trans playwrights featuring trans characters. This volume focuses on young characters whose ages range from twelve to late twenties. Following the critical and commercial success of the first two volumes, this edited collection...

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Report copyright infringementby Bruce Dawe (Author)In Blind Spots, Bruce Dawe turned his ironic wit and poetic skills to dramatise the unexpected termination of Kevin Rudd as our PM, Julia Gillard's subsequent term of office, and Kevin Rudd's return. In Kevin Almighty, one of Australia's finest poets extends his send-up of the 2013 election and its aftermath. Number of Pages: 58 Dimensions: 0.12 x 7.81 x 5.06 IN Publication Date: July 27, 2015

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Report copyright infringementby Neal Goldstein (Author)A pandemic. A prestigious school. A killer hiding in plain sight.Rittenhouse Square- a genteel neighborhood in America's most historic city, and home of the Curtis Institute of Music. But on the eve of the 2020 Coronavirus outbreak, a series of savage crimes send shockwaves through the school, and expose dark secrets that will change the august institution forever.Jackson Logan, a college administrator already fighting his own demons, lab...

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Report copyright infringementby Georg Buchner (Author), Sean Graney (Adapted by) "Georg Büchner's three surviving dramatic texts show the playwright wrestling with divergent styles in a struggle to convey his bleak worldview. ...Sean Graney reveal[s] much the same process. Both artists want to build on centuries-old theatrical traditions yet shred the niceties of conventional theater to expose life's raw nerves... ...Graney exploits his trademark techniques--stark design, inflated acting, sel...

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Report copyright infringementby Lena M. Lee (Author)In the quiet town of Sunville, Maryland, Jack and Peggy Farmer have spent years building a modest but loving life for their family. Between long work hours, raising three children, and holding onto faith through life's hardships, they believed stability was something they had finally secured.But when Jack's work hours are cut and unpaid bills begin to pile up, the unthinkable happens - the Farmer family faces eviction in the dead of winter.W...

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Report copyright infringementby William Considine (Author), Lynne Desilva-Johnson (Editor)"At long last here's Bill Considine's considered, rollicking, breezy, deep, avant-post take on what Poetry is, what Theater is, and what happens when these arts tumble dance through history together only to land simultaneously on page and stage. Equal parts Sophocles and Ashbery, whose lineage from Electra right through to 'The Heroes' he invokes, Considine riffles the classics to fan a new breath of Pur...

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Report copyright infringementby Neil Giggins (Illustrator), William Shakespeare (Author)Illustrated version of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet. Character portraits and scene location drawings help you visualise the play from the words on the page making the play easier to follow and study for that all important exam. Number of Pages: 150 Dimensions: 0.33 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: November 26, 2012

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Report copyright infringementby William Shakespeare (Author)Macbeth is Shakespeare's shortest, darkest and most violent tragedy. Although initially written to interest and perhaps flatter James I, it has established its place among the world's great tragedies. Number of Pages: 84 Dimensions: 0.31 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: November 19, 2019

Julius Caesar: The New Oxford Shakespeare

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Report copyright infringementby William Shakespeare (Author), Brandi K. Adams (Author), Sarah Neville (Author)'Cry "havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war' Set against the backdrop of a nation breaking out into civil war, Julius Caesar raises questions of governance, power, tyranny, and enslavement. This New Oxford Shakespeare edition situates these questions within the historical framework of the play's early history in theatre and print, as well as within its long performance history up to an...

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Report copyright infringementby William Shakespeare (Author), Hailey Bachrach (Author), Anna Pruitt (Author)'For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the death of kings' Crowned as a child, Richard II only knows power. The King's court tire of his fickle, greedy reign, but it is only when he exiles his own cousin, Henry Bolingbroke, and attempts to steal his inheritance that they are pushed to act. What follows threatens Richard's crown and with it his sense of self...

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Report copyright infringementby William Shakespeare (Author), Kim Gilchrist (Author), Rory Loughnane (Author)'I see a man's life is a tedious one.' Set in Ancient Britain, Cymbeline is a play of deceit, disguise, banishment, and fidelity against the backdrop of a Roman invasion. When the King of Britain Cymbeline discovers his daughter's secret marriage, he banishes her husband to Rome, who then accuses Innogen of being unfaithful. Innogen must evade deadly plots and homicidal jealousy to res...

Titus Andronicus: The New Oxford Shakespeare

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Report copyright infringementby William Shakespeare (Author), Harry R. McCarthy (Author), Gary Taylor (Author)'Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand, Blood and revenge are hammering in my head.' In Shakespeare's first tragedy, Titus Andronicus, the Roman general Titus incurs the wrath of the Queen of the Goths when he enslaves her and kills one of her sons. The shocking violence of her revenge and his retaliation earn Titus its reputation as Shakespeare's bloodiest play. This New Oxford ...

The Comedy of Errors: The New Oxford Shakespeare

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Report copyright infringementby William Shakespeare (Author), Ian Burrows (Author), Sarah Neville (Author)'How many fond fools serve mad jealousy!' The Comedy of Errors is one of Shakespeare's most farcical plays, with not one but two sets of twins sliding past each other into mistakes, violence, and madness. An early romantic comedy, it's often considered an immature play but also a piece of dramatic experimentation. This New Oxford Shakespeare edition examines links between Shakespeare's pl...

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Report copyright infringementby Anna Swanwick (Translator), Friedrich Schiller (Author)This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commit...

Mother Courage and her children: Translated by Tom Leonard

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Report copyright infringementby Tom Leonard (Translator), Bertholt Brecht (Author)'Hawd yer wheesht there stoap yer drum it's mother courage this way come...'In this translation by the distinguished Scottish poet Tom Leonard of Brecht's great 1939 anti-war play Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder, the Thirty Years War becomes the War on Terror and Mother Courage is a working-class woman from the West of Scotland speaking the racy nonstandard language of Glasgow. The rest of the cast speak varietie...

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Report copyright infringementby William Shakespeare (Author)Murder mayhem and magic.Pushed by his wife to seize the throne Macbeth kills his rightful liege and then tries desperately to hold onto the kingdom that he has wrongfully usurped. Prophesy and magic abound in this dark moody and atmospheric play.Out damned spot! Out I say!One- two -why then 'tis time to do't. Hell is murky. Fie my lord fie! A soldier and afeard? What need we fear who knows it when none can call ourpower to account? Y...

King Henry VIII; Or All Is True: The New Oxford Shakespeare

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Report copyright infringementby William Shakespeare (Author), Laura Jayne Wright (Author), Will Sharpe (Author)'Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtuesWe write in water.' Henry VIII or All is True is Shakespeare's retelling of one of the defining periods in English history: the marriage and divorce of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon. Written in the wake of the sudden death of Henry Stuart, King James I and VI's oldest son and heir, Shakespeare's most 'contemporary' history play off...

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Report copyright infringementby William Shakespeare (Author)Deception and Pride--Bassanio a Venetian nobleman wishes to woo the beautiful and wealthy Portia but he is short on funds. So he turns to his friend Antonio a wealthy merchant. Antonio agrees to help but currently he is cash strapped as all of his ships are at sea. He agrees instead to guarantee a loan for Bassanio. Bassanio turns to Antonio's rival and enemy Shylock for the loan. Number of Pages: 96 Dimensi...

Georgia and the Butch: A Dramatic Adaptation of the Correspondence Between Maria Chabot and Georgia O'Keeffe, 1941-1949

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Report copyright infringementby Carolyn Gage (Adapted by)A dramatic adaptation using excerpts from the letters between Maria Chabot, a young, gender-non-conforming lesbian and the renowned artist Georgia O'Keeffe. Who was the butch who took Georgia O'Keeffe camping in the mountains of New Mexico, who was her "handyman" (her words), who was her intimate friend for nine years, and who was designer/general contractor/builder for her internationally renowned house in Abiquiu-and who did it all fo...

Stolen Peace: The Untold Story of the Spanish Conquest

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Report copyright infringementby Gloria Bond (Author)When the Spanish arrived in the Caribbean in 1492, they left destruction in their wake. But no people were as devastated as the Taino Indians. Even the name of the island where they made their home - Quisqueya - was stolen, and called Hispaniola.In the wake of the Spanish Conquest, the Tainan people struggled not for survival, but simply to be remembered. Their histories, their chants, and their gods were almost entirely wiped away.Until now...

The First Six Books of Homer's Iliad, With Explanatory Notes, Intended for Beginners in the Epic Dialect: Accompanied With Numerous References to Hadl

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Report copyright infringementby Homer (Author)This classic work of literature comes alive with the help of explanatory notes that help to illuminate the epic dialect and contextualize the events of the Trojan War. Numerous references to Greek grammar further enhance our understanding of the work. A must-read for anyone interested in the classics.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is i...

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Report copyright infringementby J. Reece (Author)Based on a true story, American Square: The Rise and Fall of a Modern-Day Camelot is the memoir of J. Maurice Banks as he moved from state to state in rural America with his family, experiencing integrated communities in the early 1970s and eventually relocating to the Washington, DC, area in 1976, where his experience with multicultural communities propelled him to understanding a commitment to achieving that perfect place--a shining light on ...

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Report copyright infringementby William Shakespeare (Author)William Shakespeare's Othello, the Moor of Venice is a timeless tragedy of love, jealousy, and betrayal. When the noble Moor Othello falls victim to the manipulations of the cunning Iago, trust turns to suspicion, and passion to ruin. A powerful exploration of prejudice and deceit, this play remains one of Shakespeare's most gripping dramas. Number of Pages: 180 Dimensions: 0.41 x 8 x 5 IN Publi...