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by Sue Sobin (Author)When Sue lost her mother as a teenager she felt a deep loss that only increased as the years went by. Knowing how much her father, U.S. Army Sergeant, Frank Traska, loved his wife, Sue asked him to write down his memories of her so that she could get to know her mother better. So, upon his daughter's request, Frank wrote a beautiful memoir about his beloved which shows his courage, a deep faith in God, and his pure unadulterated love for Lola. Number of Pages: 178 Dimens...

The Complete Plays of John Millington Synge: In the Shadow of the Glen, Riders to the Sea, The Well of the Saints, The Playboy of the Western World, T - Hardcover

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by John Millington Synge (Author)John Millington Synge, a leading figure in the Irish literary renaissance and one of Ireland's most celebrated writers, powerfully and poetically describes the harsh rural life on the West Coast of Ireland in his six plays: In the Shadow of the Glen Riders to the Sea The Well of the Saints The Playboy of the Western World The Tinker's Wedding Deirdre of the Sorrows. This hardback edition of the collected plays is the perfect way to appreciate Synge's powerf...

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by de B. DuBois (Author)Born into privilege and gently bred, Nandita is nevertheless shackled by society's narrow expectations of how a woman should be. Married off at 18 to a man she knows little about, Nandita is thrust into a world of violence, where patriarchy rears its ugly head at every step. Expected to be a dutiful wife and daughter-in-law in the face of sexual and emotional abuse, Nandita tries to salvage her marriage while struggling to maintain some semblance of independence. Until...

On My Knees: #positionofcomfort - Paperback

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by Janice Genath Washington Steve (Author)When I became a Christian, I learned how to lean and depend on God, the call from Ver'mon's best friend on October 26th 2015 that said "Mrs. Steve Monie (as he is affectionately known) is missing and I think something bad has happened." At that moment I knew I needed God. At a love seat in a quiet place in our home was where I felt like I could breathe, where I felt I was being held, by the only Person that could hold me. On my knees was my position o...

Thomas Middleton: Collected Plays (Blurt, Master Constable; The Phoenix; A Trick to Catch the Old One; The Puritan; Your Five Gallants; The Second Mai - Paperback

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by Thomas Middleton (Author)A collection of Thomas Middleton's single authored plays: Blurt, Master Constable The Phoenix A Trick to Catch the Old One The Puritan Your Five Gallants The Second Maiden's Tragedy No Wit, No Help Like a Woman's A Chaste Maid in Cheapside The Witch Hengist, and King of Kent. Number of Pages: 640 Dimensions: 1.29 x 9.61 x 6.69 IN Publication Date: May 18, 2015

Dear Tolstoy, Yours Gandhi: A Novel Based on the True Correspondence - Hardcover

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by Jonathan Kis-Lev (Author)INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ● From the bestselling author of , a riveting novel about the daughter of author Leo Tolstoy, based on original letters and diary entries ● A treat for lovers of historical fiction1909, Russia. 39-year-old Tatiana has all the reasons to be happy: her father is possibly the world's greatest living author; her financial future is secure, and she is in love. Yet her father, 70-year-old Leo Tolstoy, opposes the marriage. This is not the first t...

Pègúnrun Ikúdętì Kútelù Òsun: Four Plays - Paperback

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by Ahmed Yerima (Author)The plays explore the idea of tragedy from Yoruba cultural performance; the people's beliefs about human fate and their faith in the gods. This collection of the Ifè Quartet of plays - Pègúnrun (The Cactus), Ikúdętì (Cannot be Trapped by Death), Kútelù (nickname for hunchback or deformed people) and Òsun (River Goddess) - provide insight into the rich ambience of mythological, artistic and performance heritage that nuture the dramatic oeuvre of frontline African litera...

Great Stage of Fools: A Guide to Six Shakespeare Plays - Paperback

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by Peter J. Leithart (Author)This book gives close attention to the poetry and plotting of six Shakespeare plays, three tragedies (Coriolanus, Richard III, and King Lear) and three comedies (Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice), paying particular attention to biblical imagery and theological themes of the plays.Author BiographyPeter J. Leithart is President of the Theopolis Institute, a Christian think tank in Birmingham, Alabama, and serves as Teacher at Trinity Pr...

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by Janet Neipris (Author)This collection includes three full-length plays: A SMALL DELEGATION, ALMOST IN VEGAS, and THE AGREEMENT. A SMALL DELEGATION: Three American professors come to teach in China the summer before Tiananmen Square. ALMOST IN VEGAS: When Margie decides she wants a child, her affair with Louis, a married man, gets complicated. THE AGREEMENT: A husband and wife, cheered on by their respective lawyers, hastily and hilariously divide the spoils of their marriage.A SMALL DELEGA...

Moliere or the Cabal of Hypocrites - Paperback

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by Mikhail Bulgakov (Author), Nelson Pevear &. Volokhonsky (Author)One of the world's great plays about censorship and the oppression of artists is now newly translated by the renowned translators, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonksy (winner of two PEN/Book-Of-The-Month Translation Awards) and the playwright/director, Richard Nelson (Tony Award, Olivier Award)."Put yourselves in our place, ladies and gentlemen...the performance is over."ACT FOUR, MOLIÈRE OR THE CABAL OF HYPOCRITESPremi...

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by Mikhail Bulgakov (Author), Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra (Based on a Book by), Nelson Pevear &. Volokhonsky (Translator)Mikhail Bulgakov's brilliantly theatrical and highly personal adaptation of Cervantes classic novel is here translated for the first time into English by the renowned translators, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonksy (winner of two PEN/Book-Of-The-Month Translation Awards) and the playwright/director, Richard Nelson (Tony Award, Olivier Award). "Since you hear my voi...

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by Moliere (Author), Nelson Pevear &. Volokhonsky (Translator)Molière's classic comic masterpiece, is here brilliantly translated by renowned translators, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonksy (two-time winner of the PEN/Book-of-the-Month-Club Translation Prize), and playwright/director Richard Nelson (Tony Award, Oliver Award)."He's an impertinent one, your Molière, with his comedies... Damn it to hell, if I were the doctors, I'd take revenge for his impudence! And if he was sick, I'd l...

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by Nikolai Gogol (Author), Nelson Pevear &. Volokhonsky (Translator)A new translation of Nikolai Gogol's comic masterpiece by the renowned translators, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonksy (winner of two PEN/Book-Of-The-Month Translation Awards) and the playwright/director, Richard Nelson (Tony Award, Olivier Award)."I have invited you here, gentlemen, to give you a most unpleasant piece of news: an inspector is coming."ACT ONE"He'll spread his story over the whole world! Not only will ...

The Ballad of the White Horse - Paperback

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by G. K. Chesterton (Author)G. K. Chesterton's "The Ballad of the White Horse" is the last great epic poem written in the English tradition. First published in 1911, it tells the heroic tale of Saxon King Alfred the Great and his defeat of the invading Viking army at the Battle of Ethandun. While Chesterton's work was not intended to be completely historically accurate, it is a deeply evocative and detailed account of an ancient and forgotten world. King Alfred has been driven into hiding by ...

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by Alice Childress (Author), Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Afterword by)"A masterpiece . . . Trouble in Mind still contains astonishing power; it could have been written yesterday." --VultureAhead of its time, Trouble in Mind, written in 1955, follows the rehearsal process of an anti-lynching play preparing for its Broadway debut. When Wiletta, a Black actress and veteran of the stage, challenges the play's stereotypical portrayal of the Black characters, unsettling biases come to the forefront and...

Cyrano de Bergerac: by Edmond Rostand - Paperback

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by Edmond Rostand (Author), James DeVita (Adapted by)Cyrano de Bergerac is a fearless soldier. A loyal braggadocio. And a man furiously self-conscious about his very protuberant nose. He's also a man in love with a woman (Roxane) who's in love with someone else (Christian), and promised in marriage to yet another (De Guiche). When Christian is assigned to Cyrano's platoon, Roxane begs him to protect her love, which Cyrano reluctantly agrees to do. And when Christian in turn begs Cyrano to hel...

Staying Bi: The Masculine Anthology - Paperback

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by Teejay Lecapois (Author)The Mainstream LGBT Community believes that Male Bisexuality doesn't exist, and they're only starting to reluctantly acknowledge the existence of Bisexual Women. Quite a dilemma for Modern Bisexual Men, to be sure. Heterosexual Men are the Epitome of Masculinity, and Queer Men are apparently genetically engineered to dish out advice on Fashion and Relationships to their Eternal Best Pals, Forlorn Heterosexual Women. There is no place for Masculine Bisexual Men. Meet...

The Little Book of Shakespeare: Timeless Wit and Wisdom - Hardcover

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by Orange Hippo! (Author), Orange Hippo! (Editor)A fascinating collection of quotes from the work of Britain's greatest playwright, his words reveal insights into his enduring popularity and his masterful command of language. He introduced over 3,000 new words to the English language and he wrote close to 10% of the most quoted lines ever written or spoken in English. Number of Pages: 192 Dimensions: 0.8 x 5.5 x 4.5 IN Publication Date: September 06, 2022 ...

Covert Technological Murder: Pain Ray Beam - Paperback

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by Renee Pittman (Author)FYI: BOOK WRITTEN UNDER DURESSWhen you press the button on your television remote control to turn the television on, the beam is unseen or detectable yet has made contact. And so it is with the beamed electromagnetic technology in reported use by thousands of "Targeted Citizens" nationwide and globally used as human guinea pigs, for mass subjugation by microwave beamed physical torture specifically by military personnel in the civilian arena and Federal "Fusion Center...

Diary of an Angry Targeted Individual: Mind Invasive Technology - Paperback

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by Renee Pittman (Author)The key to the success of weaponized beamed technology derived from the Electromagnetic Spectrum depends on several factors. One of the most successful is the strategic effort to discredit victims by applying the mental illness tag and hoping it will stick. For success, the use of anyone around victims, especially family members become crucial.Renee Pittman continues her mission of exposing the hidden evil today by pulling back the shroud of secrecy. This is not only ...

Awotm: Praying for Everything Under the Sun - Hardcover

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by Tenaria Drummond-Smith (Author)The Bible is clear about nothing being new under the sun. What we're experiencing in our lives is prophecy being fulfilled. I still believe in the power of prayer, even when it looks like God has stopped moving. It's my desire for everyone who reads this prophetic Awesome Women On The Move Prayer Book to feel the power of anointed prayer coming from these pages. I pray that this book will reach the four corners of the earth. I pray that every prayer will be a...

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by Hannah Lavery (Author)Based upon the true story of a death in custody, Lament for Sheku Bayoh asks the urgent question, is Scotland really a safe place?Author BiographyHannah Lavery is an award-winning poet, playwright, performer and experienced workshop facilitator. Her poetry has been published by Gutter Magazine, The Scotsman Newspaper, Neu! Reekie! and others. Her first pamphlet of short fiction, Rocket Girls, was published by Postbox Press (Oct 2018) and her poetry pamphlet, Finding ...

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by Edmond Rostand (Author)This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten Alpha Editions has made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for the present and future generations. This whole book has been re-formatted, re-typed and re-designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work, and hence the text is clear and readable. Number of Pages: 464 Dimensions: 1.03 x 9 x 6 IN ...

Erdgeist (Earth-Spirit): A Tragedy in Four Acts - Paperback

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by Frank Wedekind (Author)This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten Alpha Editions has made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for the present and future generations. This whole book has been re-formatted, re-typed and re-designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work, and hence the text is clear and readable. Number of Pages: 76 Dimensions: 0.18 x 9 x 6 IN P...

Stirring Up Sheffield: An Insider's Account of the Battle to Build the Crucible Theatre - Hardcover

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by Colin George (Author), Tedd George (Author)WINNER: 2022 THEATRE BOOK PRIZE Written by the Crucible Theatre's first Artistic Director, Colin George, and his son, Tedd, 'Stirring Up Sheffield' is the extraordinary story of a group of visionaries who came together to build a revolutionary thrust stage theatre in Sheffield. With a foreword by Ian McKellen and original photography from the era, this is an insider's account of the battle to redefine the actor/audience relationship.50 years ago, ...

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by Jesi Bender (Author)In a vaguely familiar time and place, children gathered inside the grey walls of a hospital are given diagnoses they don't understand and told to work towards correcting their ills, or face the consequences. Kinderkrankenhaus explores neurodiversity, the pathologizing of difference, and the complexity of labels in a world where the unspeaking are seen as unthinking. Can the children learn to live in this place where concepts like love are indefinable but they are still ...

The Diva's Gift to the Shakespearean Stage: Agency, Theatricality, and the Innamorata - Hardcover

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by Pamela Allen Brown (Author)The Diva's Gift traces the far-reaching impact of the first female stars on the playwrights and players of the all-male stage. When Shakespeare entered the scene, women had been acting in Italian troupes for two decades, travelingÂ in Italy and beyond and performing in all genres, including tragedy. The ambitious actress reinvented the innamorata, making her more charismatic and autonomous, thrilling audiences with her skills. Despite fervent attacks, some actres...

LOVERTIME Escape into Ecstasy and Eroticism: Some Women Get LUCKY and Find Two Men of Their Dreams! - Paperback

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by Amanda Ardens (Author) Welcome Amanda Ardens to the Pantheon of Romance Legends Like Nora Roberts and Danielle Steel A divorced Ann is starting over. She is torn between two men. She wants them both. Her unending sexual desires are blurring her vision and common sense. She already gave up all her rules... She is dancing on the thin line between reality and illusion. Number of Pages: 346 Dimensions: 0.72 x 8 x 5.25 IN Publication Date: August 25, 2021

Spiritual Self Love for black women: A Spiritual Journal for Self-Discovery. 60 Days Notebook & Guided Planner with Prompts & Self Reflection Activiti - Paperback

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by Edna Brown (Author)It's Finally Time to take time out for YOU with this Self Care Journal by Edna Brown - Calm as Ever: Black Women Self Love Journal and it's the perfect gift to yourself this New Year.Due to the societal challenges that Black women face, spiritual self love is not always a priority. However, it's these very challenges that make spiritual self love such a necessary support tool. Black women deserve the time and space to seek a life of meaning and purpose.Use the book to ge...

Euripides' Medea: Translation and Theatrical Commentary - Paperback

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by Michael Ewans (Author)This book offers a new, accurate and actable translation of one of Euripides' most popular plays, together with a commentary which provides insight into the challenges it sets for production and suggestions for how to solve them.The introduction discusses the social and cultural context of the play and its likely impact on the original audience, the way in which it was originally performed, the challenges which the lead roles present today and Medea's implications for...

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by Paul Millet (Author), Susannah Myrvold (Author), Trey Nichols (Author)"Wickedly creative!" -Pasadena Weekly "There is nothing else quite like 'Wicked Lit.'" -LA Examiner" "'Wicked Lit' is an amazing opportunity to feel the thrill of true fear!" -Scary Horror News "Wicked Lit" is a dynamic new collection of plays adapted from the classic horror literature of Charles Dickens, Edgar Allen Poe, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Washington Irving, H.P. Lovecraft, and more. These timeless stor...

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by Gina Femia (Author)Full-Length Play Kalamazoo, Michigan. 1982. At the dawn of the AIDS crisis, when the disease was still a mystery, a no-nonsense nurse becomes a sort of fairy godmother to the town's gay community as they begin to die one by one. She becomes their friend, mother, and sister, as they navigate life and death. Out of the ashes of this new plague rises life-long bonds that are forged in beauty found even in the darkest of moments. (Cast Size: 5F, 5M, Flexible) Number of Pages...