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Joe Sutton

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Christine Avila, Barbara Bosson, Amy Pietz, Ella Joyce, Kevin Kilner, Shannon Cochran

A highly -placed school official is accused of buying drugs on the street. Is he an out-of-control addict or a victim of discrimination? Voir Dire - a legal term meaning “to say what is true”- is the story of the racially-mixed jurors who will decide the official’s fate.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Christine Avila, Barbara Bosson, Shannon Cochran, Ella Joyce, Kevin Kilner and Amy Pietz.Directed by Ken Frankel. Recorded before a live audience.

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Mame Hunt

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Ed Asner, Ella Joyce, Paul Winfield

Adapted directly from the actual transcripts by Mame Hunt, Unquestioned Integrity examines the notorious Senate Confirmation hearings when law professor Anita Hill charged Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas with sexual harassment.An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring:Edward Asner as The SenatorElla Joyce as Professor HillPaul Winfield as Judge ThomasDirected by Roberta Levitow. Recorded before a live audience at the Guest Qu...

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Alexander Pushkin, D H Lawrence, Anton Chekhov, Barry Pain, Bret Harte, Ella D'Arcy, James Joyce, Mark Twain, Saki, Wilkie Collins

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Richard Mitchley, Elliot Fitzpatrick, Ghizela Rowe

When you are winning gambling seems very easy. You place a bet and receive your winnings. The thrill is a joyous electric shock of joy and applause. And winnings.If you lose, well, at first you know your luck will turn. It must, you’re a winner. But if your luck fails, and keeps failing, misery endures and then envelops your life. Everything is centered on that next roll of the dice, the turn of the card …. Nothing else matters. You are addicted.01 - Short Stories About Gam...

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Alexander Pushkin, James Joyce, Ella D'Arcy

When you are winning gambling seems very easy. You place a bet and receive your winnings. The thrill is a joyous electric shock of joy and applause. And winnings.If you lose, well, at first you know your luck will turn. It must, you’re a winner. But if your luck fails, and keeps failing, misery endures and then envelops your life. Everything is centered on that next roll of the dice, the turn of the card …. Nothing else matters. You are addicted. These two sides of the coin are exa...

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Jerome K. Jerome

Hours of great reading await, with ghostly tales from some of the 19th and 20th century's most renowned authors. Here is the lineup:AT CHRIGHTON ABBEY, by Mary Elizabeth BraddonTHE HAUNTED MILL, by Jerome K. JeromeTHE GHOST CLUB, by John Kendrick BangsTHE SHADOWS OF THE DEAD, by Louis BeckeTHE ROOM IN THE TOWER, by E. F. BensonTHE HAUNTED AND THE HAUNTERS, by Lord Edward Bulwer-LyttonTHE MIDDLE BEDROOM, by H. de Vere StacpooleTHE DRU...

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Alastair Gunn, Dinah Maria Craik, Catherine Ann Crowe, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Amelia B. Edwards, Isabella Banks, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rhoda Broughton, Ellen Wood, Margaret Oliphant, Charlotte Riddell, Mary E. Penn, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Vernon Lee, Rosa Mulholland, Lettice Galbraith, Louisa Baldwin, Katharine Tynan, Gertrude Atherton, Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren, Elizabeth Gaskell

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The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories

Twenty ghostly tales from the supernatural masters of the Victorian age.Wimbourne Books presents the first in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 1 in the series spans the years 1852 to 1901 and includes stories from a wide range of female authors; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh and American. Includes tales by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Charlotte Riddell, Isabella Banks and Vernon Lee. Readers new...

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Otto Penzler

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Best American

An unparalleled treasury of crime, mystery, and murder from the genre’s founding centuryWith stories by Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum, Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, and Jack London, The Best American Mystery Stories of the Nineteenth Century is an essential anthology of American letters. It’s a unique blend of beloved writers who contributed to the genre and forgotten names that pioneered the form, suc...

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Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Wallace, Wilkie Collins, Ethel Lina White, Annie Haynes, R. Austin Freeman, H. C. McNeile, G. K. Chesterton, Arthur Morrison, Ernest Bramah, Victor L. Whitechurch, Thomas W. Hanshew, E. W. Hornung, J. S. Fletcher, Rober Barr, Frank Froest, C. N. Williamson, A. M. Williamson, Isabel Ostander, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur B. Reeve, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Richard Marsh, Émile Gaboriau, Arthur J. Rees, William Le Queux, Carolyn Wells, Frank L. Packard, Fred M. White, Allan Pinkerton, Anna Maynard Barbour, A. E. W. Mason, Louis Tracy, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Cleveland Moffett, Louis Joseph Vance, Jackson Gregory, E. M. Delafield, Anton Chekhov, James Hay, Melville Davisson Post, Anna Katharine Green, Ambrose Bierce, John R. Coryell, Frederic Arnold Kummer, Arthur Cheney Train, S. S. Van Dine

THE MURDER CASE—Ultimate Mystery Collection surveys the murder mystery from its formative nineteenth-century experiments to the polished puzzles, police investigations, sensation narratives, and thriller-inflected tales of the early twentieth century. Its varied modes encompass deductive ratiocination, locked-room enigmas, courtroom and criminal-underworld fiction, espionage, psychological suspense, and the unsettling domestic mystery. Foundational detective stories sit beside less familia...

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Mark Twain

This comprehensive volume of all of Twain's shorter works is representative of his vast humor and wit. "The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain" includes the following tales: The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, The Story of the Bad Little Boy, Cannibalism in the Cars, A Day at Niagara, Legend of the Capitoline Venus, Journalism in Tennessee, A Curious Dream, The Facts in the Great Beef Contract, How I Edited an Agricultural Paper, A Medieval Romance, My Watch, Political Econom...

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Mark Twain

The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. Many try and many fail. In this series we look at short stories from many of our most accomplished writers. Miniature masterpieces with a lot to say. In this volume we examine some of the short stories of Mark Twain. Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in 1835 and is f...

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DH Lawrence, John Kendrick Bangs, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Wilkie Collins, WF Harvey, Wallace Irwin, WW Jacobs, MR James, Edith Nesbit, Alice Perrin, Charlotte Riddell, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, May Sinclair, James Roderick Burns

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Palamedes Classic

Thirteen Victorian and Edwardian ghost stories that send chills up the spine and create an atmosphere sure to make the reader turn on an extra light and push up the back of their armchair against the wall.Set amidst crumbling, ill-maintained churches and imposing cathedrals, on desolate coastland, moors and marshes, even along unlit roads extending into the new suburbs of London, the stories have been chosen for their quality of writing, imaginative range and diversity of character...

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Booth Tarkington

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Classic Novels

Booth Tarkington was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. He is one of only three novelists (the others being William Faulkner and John Updike) to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once.This book is contained 22 Works of Booth TarkingtonThe Gentleman from IndianaThe Two VanrevelsMonsieur BeaucaireCherryThe Conquest of CanaanIn the Arena, Stories of Political...