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Invisible Walk....broken She's Not - Paperback

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by Tiffaney Nicole Wilson (Author)Tiffaney Wilson's marriage was sadly short-term, having to now raise 3 kids on her own. As an adult, she faced quite a few trials and tribulations, some good, some bad, and some unbelievably breathtaking moments. This Is her tale of how she overcame death and when feeling lost, she found her true self. Number of Pages: 166 Dimensions: 0.35 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: March 14, 2021

Teaching Shakespeare in Primary Schools: All the World's a Stage - Paperback

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by Stefan Kucharczyk (Author), Maureen Kucharczyk (Author)Teaching Shakespeare in Primary Schools offers guidance and practical ideas for teaching Shakespeare's plays across Key Stage 1 and 2. It demonstrates how the plays can engage young readers in exciting, immersive and fun literacy lessons and illustrates how the powerful themes, iconic characters and rich language remain relevant today.Part 1 explores the place of classic texts in modern classrooms - how teachers can invite children to ...

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by Robert Service (Author), Mariken Van Nimwegen (Author)This new and revised edition of poems about the men and women of the North features the most loved ballads by Robert Service, and is illustrated with lively art by Marilen Van Nimwegen. While living in Whitehorse, Robert Service wrote The Cremation of Sam McGee, and other well-known poems. He wrote and published into his mid-eighties. He was quoted as saying, I just go for a walk and come back with a poem in my pocket. Number of Pages: ...

Hazel the Outlaw Mummy: You've Never Witnessed a Woman Like Hazel Farris - Paperback

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by Bob DeMoss (Author)New York Times bestselling author Bob DeMoss presents Hazel Farris, a hard-living, wild Kentucky woman. Born in 1880, Hazel's penchant for fast living and faster guns, finally caught up with her in 1906 when her husband fell victim of his wife's outrage, steel nerve, and deadly aim. Did Hazel shoot the sheriff and his deputy? How did she become mummified? Did 500,000 people actually pay to see her remains? Is her story a tall tale-or the real deal? Does a country carny h...

The Harlem Plug: The Richard 'Fritz' Simmons Story - Hardcover

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by Harlem Holiday (Author)"To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace." MALCOLM X In Harlem's tumultuous history, there are many tragedies. For those growing up in this part of New York City, a young man known simply as Fritz from West 112th Street became an urban legend in Harlem.In the 1970s, Richard "Fritz" Simmons is introduced to the drug trade, by an associate of the Lucchese crime family, one of the five families of La Cosa Nostra (the Mafia). Aft...

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by Michelle Payne (Author)Squad Goals is a two act play about women's football set in Essex written and co-directed by Michelle Payne.Author BiographyMichelle is a director and playwright from Essex recently working on artist-led programme Future Forms with the Donmar Warehouse. Michelle was a 2019 recipient of the Regional Theatre Young Director Scheme working on a three month placement with the Mercury Theatre Colchester as well as one of their 15 Mercury Playwrights (2020-21). Her first pl...

Kawaii An Adult Coloring Book: A Huge Collections of 50 + Cute Japanese Style Kawaii Coloring Illustrations for Adults - Kawaii Doodles for Relaxatio - Paperback

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by 52 Kawaii World (Author)Beautiful Kawaii Adult Coloring Book - New and Expanded Edition - The biggest Kawaii Doodles collections in the world - This Is What You Need To Have Fun, It is Also Great Gift for Friends, Family Who Loved Kawaii.Click "Look Inside" button to see what inside!Kawaii Coloring Book is a very well-designed, high-quality coloring book, with original artworks, even line-widths, and a lovely and playful design style that is as attractive as it is fun to color. Excellent!K...

Marlowe's Ovid: The Elegies in the Marlowe Canon - Paperback

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by M. L. Stapleton (Author)The first book of its kind, Marlowe's Ovid explores and analyzes in depth the relationship between the Elegies-Marlowe's translation of Ovid's Amores-and Marlowe's own dramatic and poetic works. Stapleton carefully considers Marlowe's Elegies in the context of his seven known dramatic works and his epyllion, Hero and Leander, and offers a different way to read Marlowe. Stapleton employs Marlowe's rendition of the Amores as a way to read his seven dramatic production...

Locked: A Full-Length Play in Two Acts - Paperback

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by Philip Zwerling (Author), Lorenzo Pace (Author)Locked is a play that explores an African American family's past and the pain of slavery, racism, and discrimination in America. A young man, Jalani Pace, returns to his grandmother's house in the South for a visit and discovers an old lock hidden in a drawer. When Jalani asks about the lock, his grandmother, Mary Alice, becomes nervous that the family's secrets (and her pain) will be unearthed. What lessons will the old lock teach Jalani, his...

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by Babatunde Olaniran (Author)About this book Unseen Depth of the Heart is the first book in the series "Tales of An African Dynasty" This creative work of literature, storytelling and art will take you on a ride through the systematically guided journey of a Yoruba dynasty by the natural and supernatural. The journey of a King's vision of progress in early organized society although love, deception and betrayal turned out to be challenges that always found a way of getting in the way. This o...

Conversations with Sam Shepard - Paperback

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by Jackson R. Bryer (Editor), Robert M. Dowling (Editor), Mary C. Hartig (Editor)A prolific playwright, Sam Shepard (1943-2017) wrote fifty-six produced plays, for which he won many awards, including a Pulitzer Prize. He was also a compelling, Oscar-nominated film actor, appearing in scores of films. Shepard also published eight books of prose and poetry and was a director (directing the premiere productions of ten of his plays as well as two films); a musician (a drummer in three rock bands)...

Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch - Paperback

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by Bernard Shaw (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 of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable. Number of Pages: 316 Dimensions: 0.71 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: May 0...

Good Girlz With Hood Habits: Welcome Home Kei' - Paperback

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by Erica Dyer (Author)The crew is back. This time around, we follow Kei'sha and Bishop through their trials and tribulations. Bringing Kei' home is Bishop's number one priority; however, Bishop gets sidetracked when past family drama arise, and he ends up in a situation he could never have imagined. After months of being abused, tortured, and sexually assaulted, Kei'sha decides to take matters into her own hands. Kei'sha and Bishop's love runs deep; there is no denying that, but will love be...

Monologues for Kids and Tweens II - Paperback

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by Mike Kimmel (Author)Tired of seeing mean-spirited, snarky performance material for kids? Looking for material with a positive spin? Full voting member of the National Television Academy and Tonight Show sketch comedy performer Mike Kimmel has been writing, acting, and producing for decades. Now he shares a curated collection of 100 of the best comedy and drama monologues.Monologues for Kids and Tweens II is a collection of 100 new comedy and drama pieces for our youngest performers. It is ...

Miracle In The Bethlehem Inn: A Christmas Play - Paperback

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by Mary Lu Warstler (Author) Number of Pages: 44 Dimensions: 0.09 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: June 12, 2012

Onstage Violence in Sixteenth-Century French Tragedy: Performance, Ethics, Poetics - Hardcover

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by Michael Meere (Author)The performance of violence on the stage has played an integral role in French tragedy since its inception. Onstage Violence in Sixteenth-Century French Tragedy is the first book to tell this story. It traces and examines the ethical and poetic stakes of violence, as playwrights were experimenting with the newly discovered genre during decades of religious and civil war (c. 1550-1598). The study begins with an overview of the origins of French vernacular tragedy and t...

Theater Masters' Take Ten, Vol. VI - Paperback

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by Lindsay Carpenter (Author)A TEMPORARY FUNERAL FOR DARREN MCDUFFY by Brianna BarettAn eclectic group of mourners gathers to pay tribute to a troubled young man in this dark absurdist comedy. THE GAME by Lindsay CarpenterIn an ambiguously medieval setting, two people, "Her" and "Him," move through the phases of their lives by playing games and toying with love.HOW TO SAVE THE POLAR BEAR by A.R. CorwinAn ambitious journalist and camera operator get more than they bargained for when they encou...

Reading the Past, Understanding the Present - Paperback

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by Agnieszka Orszulak (Editor), Agnieszka Romanowska (Editor)Reading the Past, Understanding the Present is a collection of essays written by students from nine European universities, who took part in the Strategic Partnership, "Facing Europe in Crisis: Shakespeare's World and Present Challenges," aiming to promote historical understanding of the crises plaguing the contemporary Europe and the world. In each chapter, the authors examine early modern theatre, the works by William Shakespeare i...

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by David Brendan Hopes (Author)Many have heard about the devastating Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire on New York City's Lower East Side in 1911, and about the important labor laws enacted in its deadly wake. But no one knows much, if anything, about the lives of the young women caught up in this tragedy. Now David Brendan Hopes beautifully imagines their lives for us, bringing us their passions, hopes, and dreams, as well as their songs and laughter, in an effervescent, moving world premiere...

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by Nekeshia Gibson (Author), Sherita Gayden (Cover Design by)"People can paint a picture, but if it does not fit the reality, it is simply the imagination. Some realities are hard to face, some are difficult to accept, some are emotionally damaging, but no matter what it is the reality of one's life. No one has the capability of knowing what their realities will look like once they are born, but they have a choice on how they handle it. Prophetess N. Gibson Number of Pages: 112 Dimensions: 0....

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by Desmond Denton (Author), Vera Denton (Author)On the night of 29 September 1969 an earthquake registering a magnitude of 6.3 on the Richter's scale hit the small picturesque town of Tulbagh in the Western Cape, South Africa. In an area that is not prone to earthquakes, the ground shook, tore and left a prominent scar. A scar that was running unbroken through the town and leading right up to the church, where it stopped, leaving the worship building unharmed.What is to unfold on these pages ...

Dracula: A New Dramatisation - Paperback

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by Antony Jenkins (Author)Bram Stoker's classic vampire story redramatised placing Jonathan Harker's relationship with his fiancee Mina at the heart of the plot's denouement. Number of Pages: 140 Dimensions: 0.3 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: April 24, 2021

Happy Alchemy: On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre - Paperback

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by Robertson Davies (Author)The acclaimed playwright, novelist, and author of Fifth Business explores the performing arts in this witty and insightful essay collection. Though best known for his award-winning fiction, Robertson Davies enjoyed a long and varied career as an actor, playwright, journalist and critic. Happy Alchemy collects an equally diverse range of Davies' writings--including speeches, articles, prologues to plays, a ghost story set to music, and even a scenario for a film. In...

Maryat Lee: The Appalachian Plays - Paperback

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by David T. Miller (Author)Kentucky native Maryat Lee studied under theologian Paul Tillich and anthropologist Margaret Mead in New York City before beginning her astonishing career there writing and directing plays drawn from the real stories of real people in Harlem. Presented by a racially-mixed cast of non-actors on the roughest of small stages set down at the edge of busy streets, the plays depicted life as it was actually lived there, from the heroin epidemic then ravaging the inner cit...

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by Stephen Frost (Author) Coming of age in Alaska, LOGAN FINCH came to understand the dichotomy of The Last Frontier. Geographic beauty was starkly juxtaposed against harsh, pitch-black winters. Icy streets were strewn with fatal auto accidents and snowplow remains. There were airplane crashes, deadly earthquakes, active volcanoes, and ferocious seas that sank the most experienced fishermen. And there were murders. Between 1978 and 1983, over 40 young girls vanished from the streets of Anchor...

Japanese Horror Cinema and Deleuze: Interrogating and Reconceptualizing Dominant Modes of Thought - Hardcover

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by Rachel Elizabeth Barraclough (Author)Using theories of national, transnational and world cinema, and genre theories and psychoanlaysis as the basis of its argument, Japanese Horror Cinema and Deleuze argues that these understandings of Japanese horror films can be extended in new ways through the philosophy of Deleuze. In particular, the complexities and nuances of how films like Ju-On: The Grudge (2002), Audition(1999) and Kairo(2001) (and beyond) form dynamic, transformative global netwo...

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by Stephen Berley (Author)Niketa was seventeen, likable, adventurous, and curious about everything, especially life. He lived in the early 1900s outside a small village in the southwestern part of Russia with his father, mother, and six siblings. They were a wealthy farming family. He was the youngest of the children, and everyone loved him. He lived a peaceful life-that is, until he saved his cousin's life. That day changed everything. He was on top of the world one day, but then life began ...

What She Didn't Know: Was it a fairytale complete with handsome Prince? - Paperback

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by Patricia E. Gitt (Author)Sally Compton Scott felt blessed with her marriage to the magnetic, Tyler Scott. He was her everything. A successful executive at a marketing company, a passionate lover and considerate partner. Knowing finances were tight, she was surprised by Tyler's gift of a trip to Antarctica for their sixth wedding anniversary. It was a place she had dreamed of since fourth grade. Watching penguins, whales and seals in their natural white world. Tyler off taking photos she wo...

They Called Him White Chocolate - Paperback

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by Nancy Carroll McEndree (Author)They called him White Chocolate. They were the black transient society who lived on the streets and back alleys with Jim in Raleigh and Jonesboro, North Carolina. They took care of one another; they had each other's backs because they were the outcast, the dispensable, the displaced and forgotten, living in the asphalt jungle. They lived and existed any way they could. They were and are even today the pimps, the prostitutes, the drug and alcohol addicts, the ...

The Alaskan Alibi: Mystery, Murder & Frontier Justice - Hardcover

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by Stephen F. Frost (Author) Between 1978 and 1983, over 40 young girls vanished from the streets of Anchorage during the wild Alyeska Pipeline construction years. Their gruesome deaths at the hands of a serial killer and the consequences of the false alibi given by a cabinet maker and his wife, drive the plot. That alibi enabled the killer to abduct at least ten more girls and fly them into the Alaskan wilds where, at gunpoint, he forced them to flee nude across the dark icy tundra before ex...

Storytelling, Special Needs and Disabilities: Practical Approaches for Children and Adults - Paperback

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by Nicola Grove (Editor)Now in a fully revised and updated second edition, this innovative and wide-ranging book shows how storytelling can open new worlds for individuals with special educational needs and disabilities.Providing a highly accessible combination of theory and practice, the contributors to this book define their own approaches to inclusive storytelling, describing the principles and theory that underpin their practice, whilst never losing sight of the joy at the heart of their ...

Plays by Eugene O'Neill: Early Full-Length Plays - Paperback

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by Eugene O'Neill (Author)This collection contains Eugene O'Neill's first three full-length plays: BEYOND THE HORIZON, THE EMPEROR JONES, and ANNA CHRISTIE.BEYOND THE HORIZON: Winner of the 1920 Pulitzer Prize for Drama "...an absorbing, significant, and memorable tragedy... ...a playwright of real power and imagination... ...the play has greatness in it and marks O'Neill as one of our foremost playwrights...."Alexander Woolcott, Times "Only once or twice in the course of the dramatic season ...