Emily Mann: Rebel Artist of the American Theater is the story of a remarkable American playwright, director, and artistic director. It is the story of a woman who defied the American theater's sexism, a traumatic assault, and illness to create unique documentary plays and to lead the McCarter Theatre Center, for thirty seasons, to a place of national recognition.The book traces and describes Emily Mann's family life; her coming-of-age in Chicago during the exuberant, rebellious, an...

“Emily Mann is one of our most urgently engaging, provocative and significant American playwrights.”—Joyce Carol Oates“Elizabeth Packard emerges as a vibrant, passionate force of nature.”—The New York TimesIllinois, 1861: Without proof of insanity, Elizabeth Packard is committed by her husband to an asylum. Based on historical events, Emily Mann’s play tells of one woman’s struggle to right a system gone wrong in this winner of the Kennedy Center Fund for New Ameri...

Warning: The plays of Political Stages do not make for a quiet evening of theatre. These are the plays which got audiences out of their seats, and sometimes out into the streets. Their words and ideas rumbled ominously down the marble hallways of legislatures and challenged, even threatened, and often changed, the thinking of millions. These are the plays which either lit or reflected the fires of those political controversies which blazed across the American Twentieth Century. Individuall...

“Gloria: A Life is a unique, deeply moving performance created in the hopeful, conversational spirit of its extraordinary subject.” —Sara Holdren, New York Magazine’s Vulture“One part theater, one part consciousness-raising group therapy session, Gloria: A Life offers an experience that promises to be a more intimate recollection of Steinem’s journey, not only because it’s been singularly shaped by the hands of women.” —Noor Brara, VogueF...

FayeA life of passion and adventure, of beauty and music, and all the glitz and glam that comes from success.That’s what I used to dream of each night, and what I am fortunate to live with now…But I’m growing tired of it all. And if that doesn’t make sense to me... then I don’t know what will right now.A trip to cold corners of the earth is what I needed.Seeing the snowy view from high up in the plane promised a few days of isolated ...

A mysterious private investigator embodies the darkness hidden within a small town in this spellbinding thriller that will “make you a Scott Carson fan for life” (Joe Hill, #1 New York Times bestselling author).Marshall Miller would’ve remembered her face even if he hadn’t seen it on a MISSING poster.When a young woman disappears in his small town, the investigation hinges on Marshall’s haunted sighting of her, crying in the back seat of a police c...

Séjour de rêve, repas et voisin hyper canon inclus.Cette nouvelle mission tombe à pic ! Pour Sarah, cette évaluation d’un hôtel de luxe niché sur la côte brésilienne est exactement ce qu’il lui fallait. Soleil, plage, végétation luxuriante et calme, voilà la recette idéale pour oublier la grisaille hivernale et, surtout, la lente dégringolade de son couple. Mais son programme 100% solitude est vite mis à mal par son voisin de bungalow. Un voisin un peu envahissant,...

Die Geschichten, die jeder Mensch in seinem Leben erleben sollte – in dieser Sammlung finden Sie die wahren Meisterwerke der Weltliteratur, die bahnbrechenden Bücher, die zeitlosen Klassiker, die ewig bewegende Poesie: Selbstbetrachtungen (Marcus Aurelius) Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit (Arthur Schopenhauer) Grashalme (Walt Whitman) Der Prozess (Franz Kafka) Das Herz der Finsternis (Joseph Conrad) Der seltsame Fall des Dr. Jekyll und Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson) Winnetou I-IV (Karl May...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZE'A writer with a great future ahead of her...her prose is exquisite' LOUISE DOUGHTY, author of APPLE TREE YARDHow far would you go to belong? Fourteen-year-old Linda lives with her parents in an ex-commune beside a lake in the beautiful, austere backwoods of northern Minnesota. The other girls at school call Linda 'Freak', or 'Commie'. Her parents mostly leave her to her own devices,...

The fire started in the kitchen while Lucy was in the bath distracted with some naughty thoughts. Her neighbor Sam comes to the rescue, playing the fireman and saving then house from burning down. Lucy is dripping wet and wrapped in a towel. Sam is tall and gorgeous with a slow Southern drawl. It's about to get very hot in the kitchen again...

Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Hunter, “a true master at the pinnacle of his craft” (Jack Carr), returns with a classic and “unputdownable” (Library Journal) Western—gunfights, horses, saloons, and looming above, the ominous presence of the railroad—about a Civil War veteran investigating the dark reality of a prosperous ranch.In the frying pan of a drought-scorched 1890s Southwest, an old man shows up at the region’s only prosperous spread, the Callahan Ra...

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