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*Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play* *A Broadway production starring Richard Griffiths and Daniel Radcliffe*An explosive play that took critics and audiences by storm, Equus is Peter Shaffer's exploration of the way modern society has destroyed our ability to feel passion.Alan Strang is a disturbed youth whose dangerous obsession with horses leads him to commit an unspeakable act of violence. As psychiatrist Martin Dysart strug...

Peter Shaffer’s three most renowned plays, plus a radio monologue performed by Dame Judi DenchSir Peter Shaffer was one of the most distinguished and successful British playwrights of his generation. He won the Tony Award for both Amadeus and Equus, and the film adaptation of Amadeus garnered eight Oscars. In 1997, he was awarded an OBE, and he was knighted in the 2001 New Year honours list. This collection contains his best-known plays a...

RED GHALLINAN was a gunman. Not a trade to be proud of, perhaps, but Red was proud of it. Proud of his skill with a gun, proud of the notches on the long blue barrels of his heavy .45's. Red was a wiry, medium sized man with a cruel, thin lipped mouth and close-set, shifty eyes. He was bow-legged from much riding, and, with his slouching walk and hard face he was, indeed, an unprepossessing figure. Red's mind and soul were as warped as his exterior. His sinister reputation caused men to st...

An expert in wildlife management tells the stories of those who are finding new ways for humans and mammalian predators to coexist.Stories of backyard bears and cat-eating coyotes are becoming increasingly common—even for people living in non-rural areas. Farmers anxious to protect their sheep from wolves aren’t the only ones concerned: suburbanites and city dwellers are also having more unwanted run-ins with mammalian predators.And that might not be a bad ...

Ambition and jealousy — all set to music. Devout court composer Antonio Salieri plots against his rival, the dissolute but supremely talented Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. How far will Salieri go to achieve the fame that Mozart disregards?The 1981 Tony Award ® winner for Best Play.Recorded before a live audience at the UCLA James Bridges Theater in September, 2016.Directed by Rosalind AyresProducing Director Susan Albert LoewenbergSteven Brand a...

Jay Z. Catsby throws the sickest parties on the Jersey Shore. His neighbor Dick has heard all the rumors: Catsby killed a man. He's richer than Blue Ivy. He's Hugh Jackman's butt double in the X-Men movies.As Dick soon learns, the truth is far stranger. Catsby is a "furry" who spends his days and nights in a cat costume, pining away for Dick's cousin Dandelion, a manic-pixie Brooklynite with a brutish husband. Will Catsby's romantic obsession cost him all nine of his lives?...

**"[**Hope Never Dies is] an escapist fantasy that will likely appeal to liberals pining for the previous administration, longing for the Obama-Biden team to emerge from political retirement as action heroes."—Alexandra Alter, New York TimesNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERVice President Joe Biden and President Barack Obama team up in this high-stakes thriller that combines a mystery wort...

The world was perfect until Equ sent his children away to prove they were species worthy to exist. The Equus–horses, pegasuses, unicorns, zebra, ponies, and donkeys–survived on Hemlaza and formed a society of roaming herds.Now fast-moving glaciers have appeared on the northern horizon of Hemlaza, threatening the way of life on the continent. For the Equus to survive, they will have to change and adapt their way of life.Varon, a horse leader in his herd, receives visions fro...

Set the stage for number skills with this fun and exciting book from Jeb the Giraffe. Jeb hosts the numbers 1-10 in his latest story Counting Fun with Jeb!

Based on terrifying true accounts! In August 2016, a clown was seen lurking in the woods of Green Bay, Wisconsin. Through October of that year, sightings of clowns in forests spread across the United States and into Canada, eventually reaching the shores of Australia, England, and 14 other countries. While some were revealed to be hoaxes, in most cases the clowns disappeared just as mysteriously as they had appeared...

A shadowy multinational tech firm sends two agents, neither very willing, to find a long-gone renegade scientist, who now runs a deprogramming center in the countryside.The scientist makes off with one of the agents and the other lassos two of her friends to help her find him, if only to save herself from being sent back to home base and meeting an unattractive end.

Voyage to King's Cove is a fully illustrated fantasy novel full of pirates, humor, magic, and adventure!Ever since her mother was wrongfully imprisoned, Aila's been dreaming of the day she could bring her home again. The only problem? She's being held across the sea at King's Cove, an impenetrable Naval fortress surrounded by a massive stormwall. No big deal, right? Especially when you're juggling the responsibility of looking after your little sister, who has a kn...