Winner of the 2018 Tony Award for Best MusicalAfter a mix-up at the border, Egypt’s Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra, bound for the cosmopolitan Israeli city Petah Tikvah, is stranded in a small desert town. With no transportation until the next day, the band is taken in by the locals. By morning, the lives of visitors and hosts are forever altered. Itamar Moses and David Yazbek’s stunning musical adaptation of the 2007 acclaimed film finds transcendence in t...

A comedic play about six rival musicians competing for a coveted organist position at a Leipzig church in 1722."The most substantial play based on classical music since Peter Shaffer's Amadeus . . . . It is Bach at Leipzig 's deft structure, continual plot surprises, emotional accuracy, and delicious and unstinting humor that will captivate future audiences." — ...

From the Tony Award–winning playwright of Bach at Leipzig comes a play about loyalty, integrity, and the price of success.When Benjamin's first novel vaults him into literary stardom, his friend David, a struggling playwright, is thrilled for his newfound success . . . or is he? Should Benjamin help David by using his new connections? Can David even expect such favors from his friend? More importantly, who should pick up...

Itamar Moses has been hailed as one of America's most talented young playwrights since his critically acclaimed Bach at Leipzig debuted in 2005. In this anthology of three new plays, Moses blurs the line between fact and fiction, dramatizing today's most infamous news stories. In Back Back Back, the pressures of performance and reputation get the best of three professional baseball players when they are forced to reveal their not-so-natural secrets to winning the game. In...

A play about love between gun-shy young scientists! Just how does a computer scientist romance a molecular biologist? Elliot offers to build a computer program to help Molly with her latest research project, but they discover that love just might be the winning formula - if they can only move beyond their fear and past heartbreak.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:Jason Ritter as Elliot;Mandy Siegfried as Molly;André Sogliuzzo as Don and Fran...

National JokesOne hundred of hilarious and funny jokes !Have fun and laugh!

Timely advice for a milestone birthdaySo what if you’re turning 40? After all, with age comes wisdom – and more excuses to slow down and take things easy. Hey, at least you’re not 50! Packed with celebratory quotations, this little book will help you shrug your shoulders, blow out the candles and KEEP CALM.

“The scenes in which Huss tracks her killer through the underbelly of Copenhagen are as good as Louise Welsh’s similarly creepy tour of Glasgow in The Cutting Room.”—Entertainment Weekly“[Tursten] is a master at setting the scene, detailing a foreign milieu until it feels familiar. She juggles a large cast of characters with aplomb.”—Time Out Chicago“One of the better examples of the Swedish crime fiction invasion.”—Baltimore Sun“...

The New York Times bestselling author of the Easy Rawlins novels delivers "a taut, riveting, and artfully edgy saga" of one man's self-transformation ( Kirkus).At twelve years old, Cornelius Jones, the son of an Italian-American woman and a black man from Mississippi, secretly takes over his father's job at a silent film theater in New York's East Village—until the innocent scheme goes tragically wrong. Years later, his dying father imparts this pi...

Deborah Ellis’s bestselling novel The Breadwinner, now available as a stunningly illustrated graphic novel.This beautiful graphic-novel adaptation of The Breadwinner animated film tells the story of eleven-year-old Parvana, who must disguise herself as a boy to support her family during the Taliban’s rule in Afghanistan in the late 1990s.Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan’s ca...

From New York Times bestselling author Pete Hamill, preeminent chronicler of New York City, comes the story of 24 hours in the lives of a kaleidoscope of characters.In a stately West Village town house, a wealthy socialite and her secretary are murdered. In the 24 hours that follow, a flurry of activity surrounds their shocking deaths:The head of one of the city's last tabloids stops the presses. A cop investigates the killing. A reporter chases th...

If you're looking for the baby name book that has it all - classic and contemporary suggestions without the insanely silly options you wouldn't even use to name your pet - this second edition of The Everything Baby Names Book is your singular resource for naming your little bundle of joy!Loaded with the 25,000 best options for boys and girls, you can easily narrow down your favorites from A to Z.Inside you'll find:Dictionaries of names for boys and gi...