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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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    Soldier, Spy, Heroine
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    Soldier, Spy, Heroine

    The Story of the Woman Who Fooled the Yankees and Rebels Alike. As a child, Sarah Emma Edmonds dreamed of faraway places and adventure, often picturing herself as a man. When her abusive father...
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  • Kyoto Stories
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    Kyoto Stories

    An American student in 1970s Kyoto rambles among the city's beauties and traditions, learning as he goes. Don Ascher is a young American living in Kyoto in the 1970s.He is a studentof Japanese...
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    Becoming Isabella

    BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER"Brings Isabella Stewart Gardner fully, intimately alive-irrepressible and avid for life. In this richly compelling novel, Emily Franklin beautifully conjures this...
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    Genoa

    "[Genoa] invites us to pass our minds down a new but ancient track, to become, ourselves, both fact and fiction, and to discover something true about the geography of time."-William Gass, The New...
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  • Blood and Sand
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    Blood and Sand

    Blood and Sand (1908) is a novel by Vicente Blasco Ibez. Published at the height of his career as a popular Spanish author, Blood and Sand was adapted into a 1916 silent film by the author himself...
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  • We of the Never Never
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    We of the Never Never

    We of the Never Never (1908) is an autobiographical novel by Jeannie Gunn. Based on her experience accompanying her husband Aeneas to the remote cattle station of Elsey, Gunn's novel is a fascinating...
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  • For the Term of His Natural Life
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    For the Term of His Natural Life

    For the Term of His Natural Life (1874) is a novel by Marcus Clarke. Inspired by a journey taken by the author to the penal colony of Port Arthur, Tasmania, the novel was originally serialized in The...
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    The Moon and Sixpence
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    The Moon and Sixpence

    The Moon and Sixpence (1919) is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. Inspired by the life of French painter Paul Gauguin, Maugham set out to capture the disconnect between an artist's desire to create and...
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    Of Human Bondage
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    Of Human Bondage

    Of Human Bondage (1915) is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. Inspired by his experiences as an orphan and young student, Maugham composed his masterpiece. Adapted several times for film, Of Human...
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  • The Death of the Gods
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    The Death of the Gods

    The Death of the Gods (1895) is a novel by Dmitriy Merezhkovsky. Having turned from his work in poetry to a new, spiritually charged interest in fiction, Merezhkovsky sought to develop his theory of...
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