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by Kristina Northrup (Author)This is a story about the journey we call life. It takes you down the unknown paths and explores the unexpected twists and turns along the way. It teaches you how the path can seem so serene one minute but also how quickly you can be forced to veer off the beaten path in the next minute. It is the testimony of one who has been knocked down, tripped, and fallen, and who has been lost countless times along the way. One that provides that little glimmer of light at t...

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by Mark Dunn (Author)As she's being forced to move out of her home, a septuagenarian enlists the help of her homebuyers to put together the last unfinished puzzle in her collection. Number of Pages: 94 Dimensions: 0.19 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: July 29, 2022

Two Voices: 54 Duet Scenes for Teens - Hardcover

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by Peg Kehret (Author), Brett Konen (Author)Finally a collection of duets from the best-selling author of "Winning Monologs for Young Actors" and her granddaughter. These humorous and thoughtful scenes present distinctive viewpoints on issues meant to provoke and inspire discussion as well as to entertain. Most roles can be played by either gender. The short length of each scene makes it easy for students to memorize their lines. Sample titles include "How Not to Get a Job," "Cutesy-Wutesy Do...

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by Sai Sar (Author)Set in late 20th century southern India, the Kavali family, are the largest landowners in the state of Andhra Pradesh. Chaos ensues, as they venture into the unforgiving world of mica mining. Mica forms in thin, plate-like clumps, to be used in everything from makeup to modern warfare. The Kavali siblings aim to create a monopoly, but would they lose themselves, and each other, in the process? Number of Pages: 30 Dimensions: 0.08 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: July 16, 2022

The Control Center (Book 1): The China Affairs - Hardcover

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by Brad Good (Author)A #1 Best SellerA chance meeting one night in Shanghai introduces American banker Jack Gold to an Israeli man named Ari, who Jack feels an immediate kinship with. Ari has a stunning proposition: Help Israel and the United States infiltrate China's heavily guarded Control Center and address the nation with the truth they deserve to hear. China, a country of 1.4 billion citizens, is an existential threat to itself and the rest of the world. With its news and media censored ...

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by Kees Ligtelijn (Editor), Vincent W. J. Van Gerven Oei (Editor), Marc Okrand (Translator)paq'batlh: The Klingon Epic is the definitive edition of the grand Klingon epic of the Kahless the Unforgettable (qeylIS lIjlaHbogh pagh). The story of Kahless is a tale of legendary proportions comparable to those of our own ancient heroes Hercules, Ulysses, and Gilgamesh. Betrayed by his brother and witness to his father's brutal slaying, Kahless is pitted against his bitter enemy, the mighty tyrant M...

Grand-Guignolesque: Classic and Contemporary Horror Theatre - Paperback

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by Richard J. Prof Hand (Editor), Michael Prof Wilson (Editor)Grand-Guignolesque explores the continuing influence and legacy of the infamous Parisian theatre of horror. The volume consists of a critical introduction along with thirteen previously unpublished scripts of classic Grand-Guignol and modern horror plays, each with its own contextualizing preface. Number of Pages: 296 Dimensions: 0.67 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: September 27, 2022

Bibliography of Medieval Drama - Paperback

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by Carl J. Stratman (Author)This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1954. Number of Pages: 436 Dimensions: 0.97 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication...

Johnny Nelson; How a one-time pupil of Hopalong Cassidy of the famous Bar-20 ranch in the Pecos Valley performed an act of knight-errantry and what ca - Paperback

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by Clarence Edward Mulford (Author)This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable. Number of Pages: 222 Dimensions: 0.51 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: July 22, 2022

M.O.M.: Moments of Motherhood - Paperback

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by Lawanda Gholar (Author), Niccori Thomas-Brown (Cover Design by) Number of Pages: 78 Dimensions: 0.16 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: June 27, 2022

Truth's a Dog Must to Kennel - Paperback

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by Tim Crouch (Author)And that's the moment when I leave.The moment when the jokes fail us. When I fail. I fail.This precise moment here, look, see with your ears. The Fool leaves King Lear before the blinding. Before the killing starts. Before the ice-creams in the interval. In his new solo work, playwright Tim Crouch draws on ideas of virtual reality to send the Fool back to the future of the play that he left. Back to a world without moral leadership or integrity; a world where wealth cove...

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by Rachel Causer (Author)"Everyone is constructing themselves. I'm just conscious of doing it.More than that, I'm a sculptor of it.I am a fucking artist." Finalist: Popcorn Writing Award 2021 Alex is a social success. Her Instagram boasts a montage of members-only rooftops, inexplicably sunny days and clinking glasses - like after like after like! When her father dies, Alex reluctantly joins a bereavement group. She shares a little, and then lies... a lot. And it feels good - like the 'likes'...

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by Florence Espeut-Nickless (Author)They're sayin I brought it on myself.Oh yeah, they've heard about me. Basically itmust've been my fault cause I'm me, Destiny.Destiny dreams big. She dreams glamour. She's gonna be an MTV Base backing dancer, you watch. If J-Lo can make it outta the Bronx then Destiny can make it off the Hill Rise estate in Chippenham. She'sfearless, ferocious and up for the fight (she's had to be). Born below the breadline, she's desperate to see beyond the neighbourhood a...

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by James Moran (Author), Simon Shepherd (Editor)What distinguishes modern tragedy from other forms of drama? How does it relate to contemporary political and social conditions? To what ends have artists employed the tragic form in different locations during the 20th century? Partly motivated by the urgency of our current situation in an age of ecocidal crisis, Modern Tragedy encompasses a variety of drama from throughout the 20th century. James Moran begins this book with John Millington Syn...

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by Lenny Cavallaro (Author)Sophocles is best known for Oedipus the King, in which the protagonist discovers-to his horror -that he has slain his father and married his mother. In one guise or another this thematic material is familiar territory for Sophocles; it arises in at least two more of his dramas, including Odysseus Acanthoplex. In The Interpretation of Dreams Freud explains that Hamlet is unable to avenge his father's murder because of his repressed Oedipus complex-i.e., because Claud...

Study #19 Practice & Application of Acting & Theatre - Paperback

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by George D. Greenberg (Author)Practical, honest and useful. Acting and Theatre concepts and applications defined clearly and understandably. Number of Pages: 54 Dimensions: 0.11 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: June 10, 2022

The Stage and the Page: London's Whole Show in the Eighteenth-Century Theatre Volume 6 - Hardcover

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by George Winchester Stone (Editor)This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981. Number of Pages: 262 Dimensions: 0.75 x 9 x 6 IN Publicatio...

The Ballad-Drama of Medieval Japan - Hardcover

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by James T. Araki (Author)This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1964. Number of Pages: 310 Dimensions: 0.81 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Dat...

The Crime of Being Born Black: Ajamu's Fate - Paperback

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by Kondo Nassor (Author)We all have stories to tell. No matter what the outcome, each one is priceless, in its own unique way. Some are presented to us through hearsay and some through what we've lived and experienced, personally. The Crime of Being Born Black: Ajamu's Fate, which is based upon some true events, is a bittersweet story, which depicts the epoch of two brothers, their struggles in life and in the movement, accompanied by many untold truths. Author Earl Resnover (Kondo Nassor) br...

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by George Earl Muhammad (Author)This book teaches young Black children to love their skin, hair, disability, and culture. It also teaches that no matter what shade of black you are, you are perfect in God's eyes. Love yourself while they are young so that they will love themselves when they become adults. It also teaches that bullying isn't right but that through knowing your worth, everything will be all right. Parents play a big role in teaching their children to embrace their skin and beau...

The Lifestyle of a Texting Marriage - Paperback

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by Toni Wilborn (Author)It's about the husband going to graduate from a prestige college and to have his wife at his graduation. All this is done by a text message. And landing the job making over $100,000 and paying off what he owes his wife and showering his wife with lots of gifts and trips--to take his wife away from driving trucks and to meet the rest of the family to remarry her with a perfect wedding ring. Number of Pages: 82 Dimensions: 0.2 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: June 14, 2022

One Million to Stop the Traffik - Paperback

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by Mark Wheeller (Author), Charlie Wheeller (Adapted by)Revised 2022 version including additional testimony from Ruth Dearnley (CEO of STOP THE TRAFFIK) One Million to STOP THE TRAFFIK tells true stories of people who are trafficked. Sunni and Whinney, at just six and eight years old, were sold by their parents and their story inspired the formation of the charity STOP THE TRAFFIK. Their mantra? 'People should not be bought and sold'. One Million to STOP THE TRAFFIK goes on to tell the inc...

I Fell in Love with Another Woman's Man: Step into My World - Paperback

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by Regina R. Robinson (Author)In Regina's book, I Fell in Love with Another Woman's Man, she gives you love, drama, and even the sexy. This is her life story and she gives you the truth, no chaser. Ladies get ready to sip some tea and whatever you do, make sure you're sitting down for this one. Regina gives you a glimpse of her life from the boyfriend to the baby momma drama. Her inspiration to write this book comes from her best friend, who encouraged her to tell her story so that it may hel...

Shakespeare and Disgust: The History and Science of Early Modern Revulsion - Hardcover

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by Bradley J. Irish (Author)Drawing on both historical analysis and theories from the modern affective sciences, Shakespeare and Disgust argues that the experience of revulsion is one of Shakespeare's central dramatic concerns. Known as the 'gatekeeper emotion', disgust is the affective process through which humans protect the boundaries of their physical bodies from material contaminants and their social bodies from moral contaminants. Accordingly, the emotion provided Shakespeare with a mas...

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by Sarah Richardson (Author)Lucy is average, awkward and unassuming. And, when it comes to sex, what she lacks in experience, she makes up for in curiosity. That's all set to change. On a night of rsts, she opens the door to a world of relationships and sex that she had only ever dreamt about. But, is the reality all she had hoped it would be? GirlPlay is an exploration of love and sex spun out in slam. Number of Pages: 60 Dimensions: 0.12 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: July 29, 2022

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by Christopher W. Lee (Author)Follow Tineshia and how her life is abrubtly changed. How does she deal with life's challenges. Does being resilant in order to survive at the same time kill what makes her, her. Nature vs Nurture. Business vs Family. Friends can become enemies, but can enemies become family? Number of Pages: 166 Dimensions: 0.44 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: June 09, 2022 Large Print: Yes

Shakespeare in the Present: Political Lessons Under Biden - Hardcover

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by Philip Goldfarb Styrt (Author)Shakespeare in the Present: Political Lessons under Biden is the first case study in applying the lessons of Shakespeare's plays to post-Trump America. It looks at American politics through the lens of Shakespeare, not simply equating figures in the contemporary world to Shakespearean characters, but showing how the broader conditions of Shakespeare's imagined worlds reflect and inform our own. Clearly written, in a direct and engaging style, it shows that rea...

The Real Chekhov: An Introduction to Chekhov's Last Plays - Paperback

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by David Magarshack (Author)What is Chekhov's method of ensuring audience participation? What does his stage direction 'through tears' mean? What happens between the first and second acts of The Seagull? Is there any reason for the despondency in Chekhov's drama? This book, first published in 1972, discusses these questions and many other issues around Chekhov's last four plays. David Magarshack, the leading translator and biography of many of Russia's greatest writers, closely examines Chekh...

Residual Figuration in Samuel Beckett and Alberto Giacometti - Hardcover

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by Li Lin (Author)In 1945, Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti (1901-66) brought back to Paris six matchboxes filled with the work of his war years: minute figurines that crumbled upon a single touch. Around this time, Irish playwright Samuel Beckett (1906-89) began writing plays, first Eleutheria and then Waiting for Godot. When they came together in 1961 to collaborate on a re-staging of Godot, both had turned their attention to different types of figures: Giacometti to lanky, attenuated figu...

Assassins...: Episode 3 (Killing The King) - Paperback

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by Joy Deja King (Author)Business is booming for Bad Bitches Only. The hired assassins are in great demand. Not only for their ability to kill but also using their beauty as a weapon against their intended targets. But when Bailey becomes bait to lure in their latest victim, is she mentally prepared to go up against the man known as The King? If she proves to be no match for the infamous King, will Shiffon and her crew of assassins be able to save her, or will they all pay the price for Baile...

Assassins...: Episode 2 (Clout Chasers): Bad Bitches - Paperback

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by Joy Deja King (Author)Martina and her clique love living the life of attending exclusive industry parties, wearing designer labels and sharing the intimate details of their lives on social media. Their thirst for attention and being in the spotlight seems harmless until it threatens to take down some of the biggest artists on Fortune Five Records. When Bad Bitches Only is hired to find out which one of the women is a FBI informant, Shiffon soon realizes she underestimated this crew of clou...

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by Barbara Aina (Author)Debo and Vicky a couple in their early thirties who recently moved into their new home from a different state. She is a surgeon, and he is in charge of a pharmaceutical manufacturing company. They encounter some very unusual neighbors. Strange occurrences begin to happen, and he sees or thinks he sees someone or something at night while home alone. What is it? Who is it? And how did it get in? What is causing these things to happen? Things are not always what they appe...