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Stagestruck, a Jubilee Showboat Mystery, Book 1

by Cynthia Thomason

Published: 2011-11-18

Kindle Edition: 259 pages

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Journey back to the Gay NIneties with Gwen Barlow, her mother, Lillian, and her brother, Preston, when they inherit the Jubilee Palace Showboat from their uncle. Gwen, a Hopewell College librarian, never expected her life would change so much. When they first see the Jubilee, which looks m...

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85 Years of the Oscar: The Official History of the Academy Awards

by Robert Osborne

Published: 2013-11-12

Hardcover: 472 pages

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A deluxe, year-by-year chronicle of the Academy Awards, with an entertaining text, hundreds of star-studded photographs, and complete lists of the nominees and winners.85 Years of the Oscar, newly revised and expanded, is the official history of the Academy Awards. Following an introductor...

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Write a Theatre Script in 25 Days (& 10 hours)

by Tony Craze

Published: 2012-02-27

Kindle Edition: 169 pages

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A # 1. US & UK Best Seller WorkbookThe work of award winning writer Tony Craze has been described as ' . . . assured, enthralling, daring, and with an emotional charge powerful enough to send one reeling . . .'He has now subsumed a thousand days and nights delivering theater writing worksh...

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My Fair Lady: A Musical Play in Two Acts Based on "Pygmalion" by Bernard Shaw (Penguin Plays & Screenplays)

by Frederick Loewe

Published: 1997-03-27

Paperback: 144 pages

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Sparkling with wit, wisdom and wonderful songs including, "I Could Have Danced All Night", "Wouldn't It Be Loverly" and "Get Me To The Church On Time", the musical play based on Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" has been delighting audiences since it was first performed in the 1950s. When overbearing Professor...

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Report from Engine Co. 82

by Dennis Smith

Published: 1999-04-01

Paperback: 240 pages

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From his bawdy and brave fellow firefighters to the hopeful, hateful, beautiful and beleaguered residents of the poverty-stricken district where he works, Dennis Smith tells the story of a brutalising yet rewarding profession.

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Struck by Genius: How a Brain Injury Made Me a Mathematical Marvel

by Jason Padgett, Maureen Ann Seaberg

Published: 2014-04-22

Hardcover: 256 pages

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The remarkable story of an ordinary man who was transformed when a traumatic injury left him with an extraordinary giftNo one sees the world as Jason Padgett does. Water pours from the faucet in crystalline patterns, numbers call to mind distinct geometric shapes, and intricate fractal pa...

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The Colour

by Rose Tremain

Published: 2003-05-21

Hardcover: 352 pages

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A sweeping historical novel about love, ruin, and redemption in nineteenth-century New ZealandRose Tremain’s new novel is a saga of love and greed set during the mid-nineteenth-century gold rush in New Zealand. Newlyweds Joseph and Harriet Blackstone emigrate from England, along with Jos...

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Scarlet Sister Mary (Brown Thrasher Books)

by Julia Peterkin

Published: 2004-01-09

Paperback: 376 pages

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Julia Peterkin pioneered in demonstrating the literary potential for serious depictions of the African American experience. Rejecting the prevailing sentimental stereotypes of her times, she portrayed her black characters with sympathy and understanding, endowing them with the full dimensi...

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Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime that Changed America

by Kevin Cook

Published: 2014-03-03

Hardcover: 256 pages

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At last, the true story of a crime that shocked the world. New York City, 1964. A young woman is stabbed to death on her front stoop—a murder the New York Times called “a frozen moment of dramatic, disturbing social change.” The victim, Catherine “Kitty” Genovese, became an urban...

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The Locket: Surviving the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire (Historical Fiction Adventures)

by Suzanne Lieurance

Published: 2008-04-01

Library Binding: 160 pages

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Galena, an eleven-year-old Russian-Jewish immigrant, lives in New York City with her family and works at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory with her older sister Anya. The factory pays low wages and has terrible working conditions, making Anya yearn to join a union. Soon a horrible fire guts the...