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    Toni Stone

    Toni Stone is an encyclopedia of baseball stats. She's got a great arm. And she doesn't understand why she can't play with the boys. About the first woman to go pro in the Negro League and featuring a bullpen of players crossing age race and gender to...
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  • Everybody's Talking About Jamie Everybody's Talking About Jamie
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    Everybody's Talking About Jamie

    Jamie New is sixteen and lives on a council estate in Sheffield. Jamie doesn't quite fit in. Jamie is terrified about the future. Jamie is going to be a sensation. Supported by his brilliant loving mum and surrounded by his friends Jamie overcomes...
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  • Bull in a China Shop Bull in a China Shop
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    Bull in a China Shop

    Inspired by the real letters between Mary Woolley and Jeannette Marks spanning from 1899 to 1937 this fast-paced comedy asks: What is revolution? What does it mean to be at odds with the world? How do we fulfill our potential? And how the hell do we grow...
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  • The Behavior of Broadus The Behavior of Broadus
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    The Behavior of Broadus

    The Behavior of Broadus is the incredible sort-of-true story of John Broadus Watson father of behaviorism and modern advertising. He has the power to control your brain. Indeed we suspect he's making you read this right now. This Mad Men-esque dark...
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  • The Play About My Dad The Play About My Dad
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    The Play About My Dad

    The Play About My Dadis a look at Larry Killebrew through the eyes of his playwright daughter Boo. His words his family his job as an emergency room surgeon his community of Gulfport Mississippi and Hurricane Katrina which almost turned Gulfport into a...
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    The Second Coming of Joan of Arc

    Joan of Arc led an army to victory at seventeen. At eighteen she engineered thecoronation of a king. At nineteen she went up against the Catholic church...and lost.Her trial lasted five months and the testimony by witnesses was carefully transcribed by...
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  • Side Show (2014 Broadway Revival) Side Show (2014 Broadway Revival)
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    Side Show (2014 Broadway Revival)

    Based on the true story of Siamese twins Violet and Daisy Hilton who became stars during the Depression Side Show is a moving portrait of two women joined at the hip whose extraordinary bondage brings them fame but denies them love. Told almost entirely...
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    Fun Home

    WINNER! Best Musical - 2015 Tony Awards! WINNER! Best Score (Jeanine Tesori & Lisa Kron) - 2015 Tony Awards! WINNER! Best Book of a Musical (Lisa Kron) - 2015 Tony Awards! WINNER! BEST MUSICAL - New York Drama Critics' Circle Award Obie Award Lucille...
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    Theophilus North (One-Act Version)

    Set in the tony resort town of Newport RI during the height of the Jazz Age in summer 1926 Theophilus North follows the exploits of the title character as he searches for adventure and his place in the world. Quitting his teaching position in New Jersey...
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  • A Couple of Blaguards A Couple of Blaguards
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    A Couple of Blaguards

    Characters: 2 maleBare stageA Couple of Blaguards a two-man show by literary greats Frank and Malachy McCourt is a bubbling stew of their well-known humor with a dash of poignancy to sharpen the flavor. A comedic springboard for Angela's Ashes 'Tis and...
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    Marilyn/God

    Character: 1 femaleIn this play Marilyn confronts voices in her head to validate her life as an actress. She finds in the afterlife that she must audition and interview to get into heaven and that her judges are her enemies and aborted children. Along...
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  • All the King's Women All the King's Women
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    All the King's Women

    All Groups / Comedy / 3f 1m or up to 17f 7m or an all Female cast / Unit setThe story of Elvis Presley told through the eyes of 17 Women! Some Enthralled some appalled ALL OBSESSED! A fast paced series of 5 comedic plays and 3 monologues based on the...
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    Mom, How Did You Meet the Beatles?

    Dramatic Comedy / Characters: 1 male (can be voiceover) 1 femaleAdrienne Kennedy relates her bizarre and star-studded experience of moving to London and working on THE LENNON PLAY: IN HIS OWN WRITE. Her absolute astonishment at being thrust in among the...
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  • Barrymore Barrymore
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    Barrymore

    Christopher Plummer won a Tony for his portrayal of John Barrymore in the acclaimed Broadway production of this work by the master of one-character biographies for the stage.
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    Mahalia

    Characters: 1 male 2 female Simple setIncluding music by various gospel composers as well as hymns and spirituals made famous by Mahalia Jackson this is a joyous celebration of the life and music of the world's greatest gospel singer: a humble deeply...
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  • Stand by Your Man Stand by Your Man
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    Stand by Your Man

    Tammy Wynette the woman behind the legend and the incredible songs that made her the First Lady of country music leaps off the stage and into your heart. Through her eyes the audience relives her journey from the cotton fields of Itawamba Mississippi to...
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    The Cape

    An award-winning translation of the classic novella about the Japanese ghetto.Born into the burakumin-Japan's class of outcasts-Kenji Nakagami depicts the lives of his people in sensual language and stark detail. The Cape is a breakthrough novella about...
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    Free Enterprise

    In 1858, two black women meet at a restaurant and begin to plot a revolution. Mary Ellen Pleasant owns a string of hotels in San Francisco that secretly double as havens for runaway slaves. Her comrade, Annie, is a young Jamaican who has given up her...
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    Ingrid Caven

    A novel about the life of German cabaret singer and film actress Ingrid Caven, who was once director Rainer Werner Fassbinder's star, and his wife, muse to Yves Saint Laurent, and a protege of Pierre Berge. Consisting of memories, mixing real and...
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  • Life After Kafka
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    Life After Kafka

    A novel of Felice Bauer, Franz Kafka's first fiance, and the story behind Letters to FeliceFranz Kafka scholars know Felice Bauer, his onetime fiance, through his Letters to Felice, as little more than a woman with a raucous laugh and a taste for...
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  • The Caricaturist
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    The Caricaturist

    A young artist meets Stephen Crane as America's hunger for empire draws them both into warOliver Fischer, a self-styled bohemian, boardwalk caricaturist, and student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, enrages his banker father and earns the...
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  • Rosalind
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    Rosalind

    'Societies are oiled with the unpaid, unaccounted for, work of women. It is the very glue that binds us together, and yet we are blind to it; a woman's work remains invisible.'Rosalind Franklin knows that to be a woman in a...
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  • Indian Winter
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    Indian Winter

    CBC BOOKS: 2024 SPRING FICTION PREVIEW A queer writer travelling through India can't escape the regrets of his past, nor the impending ruin of his present. "I am leaving for the winter I have to get away from this small town and all its dangers to write,...
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  • The Acrobat
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    The Acrobat

    AN OPRAH DAILYBEST NOVEL BASED ON A TRUE STORY "Delaney['s] splendidfictional biography of Cary Grant . . . perfectly befits the glamour and fakeryof his subject."-Publishers Weekly(starred review)"Everyone wants to be Cary Grant," mused the world's most...
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  • Pale Shadows
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    Pale Shadows

    FEATURED ONLITHUB CBC BOOKS:2024 SPRING FICTION PREVIEW Dickinson after her death: a novel of the trio of women who brought Emily Dickinson's poems out of the shadowsWhen she died, Emily Dickinson left behind hundreds of texts scribbled on scraps of...
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    The Faraway Mountains
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    The Faraway Mountains

    A dark chapter in recent human historyThe first part of this novel follows the adventures of three young friends during a memorable last mountain climbing trip to a remote area of a country under the control of a ruthless authoritarian regime. During...
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  • The Beautiful and Damned
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    The Beautiful and Damned

    Twenty-five-year-old Anthony Patch appears to have it all: a Harvard education, an apartment in New York City, memberships at all of the best clubs, and a generous trust fund to draw from. Sure, his grandfather is not happy with Anthony's lack of...
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  • Mister Timeless Blyth: A Biographical Novel
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    Mister Timeless Blyth: A Biographical Novel

    Lovers of Haiku, Zen and Japan will find this novel truly inspiring!An extraordinary man at a crucial time and place.Imprisoned during World War I as a conscientious objector and interned during World War II as an enemy alien, Reginald Horace Blyth was a...
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    An Amateur Performance
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    An Amateur Performance

    Translated for the first time in English, Lev Levanda's brilliant coming-of-age story of Russian Jewish students on the cusp of modernityin their struggle against religious chauvinism and an oppressive government.Despite being Russia's best Jewish writer...
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  • Voices in the Dead House
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    Voices in the Dead House

    Walt Whitman and Louisa May Alcott meet the horrors of the Civil War as they minister to its casualtiesAfter the Union Army's defeat at Fredericksburg in 1862, Walt Whitman and Louisa May Alcott converge on Washington to nurse the sick, wounded, and...
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  • Broken Bottles
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    Broken Bottles

    After growing up with an alcoholic mother and an intermittent stepfather, Alex pines for connection, even as he sabotages his life with substances, and substitutes one failed relationship for the next. Shuffling from troubled home to chaotic institution,...
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  • Tooth of the Covenant
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    Tooth of the Covenant

    Best known for his novel The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne was burdened by familial shame, which began with his great-great-grandfather John Hathorne, the infamously unrepentant Salem witch trial judge. In this, the eighth stand-alone book in The...
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  • Sergeant Salinger
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    Sergeant Salinger

    A shattering biographical novel of J.D. Salinger in combatSalinger, mysterious author of The Catcher in the Rye, is remembered today as a reclusive misanthrope. Jerome Charyn's Salinger is a young American WWII draftee assigned to the Counter...
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    What's Left of the Night

    "A perfect book."Edmund White, author of A Boy's Own Story and Genet: A BiographyIn June 1897, the young Constantine Cavafy arrives in Paris on the last stop of a long European tour, a trip that will deeply shape his future and push him toward his poetic...
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  • The Luminous Novel
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    The Luminous Novel

    'Perhaps the luminous novel is this thing that I started writing today, just now. Maybe these sheets of paper are a warm-up exercise. [...] But it's quite possible that if I go on writing as I usually do with no plan, although this time I know very well...
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  • City of Incurable Women
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    City of Incurable Women

    In a fusion of fact and fiction, nineteenth-century women institutionalised as hysterics reveal what history ignored'Where are the hysterics, those magnificent women of former times?' wrote Jacques Lacan. Long history's ghosts,...
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    My Real Name is Hanna

    1941, Hitler's army crosses into Soviet-ruled Ukraine in a secret mission titled "Operation Barbarossa. A young Jewish girl, Hanna Slivka is fourteen when German soldiers arrive in her small village of Kwasova. Until their arrival, Hanna has split her...
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  • The Thorn Puller
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    The Thorn Puller

    Winner of the Sakutaro Hagiwara Prize and the MurasakiShikibu PrizeIntroducing Hiromi Ito, an award-winning Japanese author who has been compared to Haruki Murakami and Yoko Tawada.The first novel to appear in English by award-winning author Hiromi...
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    Cautivos

    This short novel is about confinement, both of the mind and of the body, and therefore also about liberation. Set in the last years of the 16th century,Cautivosis a meditation on writing, writers, and creativity. Then as now, Islam and Christianity were...
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    C5/C6 Incomplete: The Life of William Delaroux
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    C5/C6 Incomplete: The Life of William Delaroux

    This graphic novel is a fictional memoir set between 1955 and 2010. It chronicles the life of William Delaroux and his continuous struggle to make the best of difficult circumstances. The book starts with Bill's memories of being a latchkey kid of a...
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  • The Purchased Bride
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    The Purchased Bride

    Based on a true story set in the final years of the Ottoman Empire, The Purchased Bride tells the tale of Maria, a Greek girl who was bought at age fifteen by a much older, wealthy Ottoman man.As the Ottoman Empire falls and insurgents torch their Greek...
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  • The Leash and the Ball
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    The Leash and the Ball

    After nine years in a Dutch asylum center, an Iraqi refugee tries to start a new life as a European citizen and discovers that to make friends in the western world, you need a dog.After nine years in a Dutch asylum center, Samir finally has the chance to...
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  • World's Best Mother
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    World's Best Mother

    A thirty-five-year-old writer decides she wants to have children. Rounds of IVF treatments and several years later, she has two daughters and sits down to write this book. World's Best Mother is a sublime journey - through pregnancy, the mothering of...
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  • A Life Without End
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    A Life Without End

    Just shy of his fiftieth birthday, bestselling French author Frederic and his ten-year-old daughter travel the globe in search of immortality.What does the man who has everything fame, fortune, a new love, and a new baby want for his fiftieth birthday?...
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  • Two Blankets, Three Sheets
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    Two Blankets, Three Sheets

    Amsterdam Airport, 1998. Samir Karim steps off a plane from Vietnam, flushes his fake passport down the toilet, and requests asylum. Fleeing Iraq to avoid conscription into Saddam Hussein's army, he has spent seven years anonymously wandering...
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  • The Last Poets
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    The Last Poets

    A daring and imaginative novel based on the lives of The Last Poets, New York's legendary Hip-Hop pioneers from the ghettos.Even readers unfamiliar with The Last Poets' historic significance as building blocks of the hip-hop and rap movement, will...
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    The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: The Happy Years

    The second installment of Argentine literary giant Ricardo Piglia's acclaimed bibliophilic trilogy follows his alter ego, Emilio Renzi, as his literary career begins to take off in the tumultuous years 1968-1975-running a magazine, working as a...
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Biographical fiction