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741) Wait for it: a novel
Author
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
333 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A woman looking for a new lease on life moves to Arizona where she rents a guest house on a gorgeous property with a mysterious owner-a man who teaches her about resilience, courage, and ultimately true love, in this funny, bighearted novel about hope and healing. Stuck in a dreary Boston winter, Annabelle Martin would like nothing more than to run away from her current life. She's not even thirty years old, twice-divorced, and has just dodged a...
742) Rameau's niece
Author
Publisher
Ticknor & Fields
Pub. Date
1993
Physical Desc
280 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
743) Novio boy: a play
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
1997©1997
Physical Desc
78 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rudy anxiously prepares for and then goes out on a first date with an attractive girl who is older than he is.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 322 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the curator of The New York Times's "The Stone," a provocative and timely exploration into tragedy--how it articulates conflicts and contradiction that we need to address in order to better understand the world we live in. We might think we are through with the past, but the past isn't through with us. Tragedy permits us to come face to face with what we do not know about ourselves but that which makes those selves who we are. Having Been Born...
Author
Series
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
175 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the iconic '80s film Back to the Future, Marty McFly travels from 1985 to 1955, changing the path of his parents' destinies... as well as his own. Now fans of the movie can take that journey once more with the latest masterpiece written in the style of the Bard of Avon: William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the future! Herein, every scene and line of dialogue from the movie is re-created in authentic Shakespearean rhyme, meter, and stage directions....
751) Cloudmaker
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xvii, 430 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1937 Montana, fourteen-year-old Houston "Huck" Finn finds a dead body in a local creek and steals the man's rare Lindbergh flight watch. Huck is an aspiring aviator, working to build his own airplane-a secret he has kept from his God-fearing mother. His cousin, Annelise, arrives from Los Angeles for a long stay with his family, and Huck is initially wary until he learns she has had flight lessons. As his airplane takes shape, and the young cousins...
752) Gays on Broadway
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
233 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"This is a chronological review of both the plays and the people that brought the world of homosexuals, bisexuals, transexuals, metrosexuals, and the sexually fluid to the American stage. The plays--which take in a few foreign imports--treat strong gay content (e. g., The Boys in the Band or The Killing of sister George), or minor gay content (Season In the Sun, The Nervous Set), or even a phrase in passing (as in New Faces of 1956's joke about Rome's...
753) The ghost backstage
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
500L
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Investigating a classmate's claim that he saw a ghost backstage while rehearsing for the school play, Kaz and Claire, harboring suspicions that the ghost may be Kaz's mom, discover compelling evidence of otherworldly activities.
Author
Publisher
Writer's Digest Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Just as a compass provides direction for an explorer, so does motivation provide direction for characters in fiction. The 'compass' of character motivation is composed of four points: Lack, Yearning, Resistance, and Desire. In The Compass of Character, you'll learn to deeply consider the key question 'What does my character want?' and learn techniques to answer that question by writing realistic and empathetic characters without falling into formulaic,...
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The long-awaited third volume of Robert McKee's trilogy on the art of fiction. Following up his perennially bestselling writers' guide Story and his inspiring exploration of the art of verbal action in Dialogue, the most sought-after expert in the storytelling brings his insights to the creation of compelling characters and the design of their casts. CHARACTER explores the design of a character universe: The dimensionality, complexity and arcing of...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing, Melcher Media
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
218 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
Go behind the scenes with photography, original interviews with the cast, crew, Alanis Morissette, and Diablo Cody, and an introduction from Morissette herself on the album's genesis and journey from release to musical -- including details and anecdotes on her collaboration on the show. Including the full annotated libretto and a retrospective look at Alanis's artistic influences and the significance of the album within the cultural context of the...
Author
Publisher
New Directions Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"Here is a new comic-book version of Euripides's classic The Trojan Women, which follows the fates of Hekabe, Andromache, and Kassandra after Troy has been sacked and all its men killed. This collaboration between the visual artist Rosanna Bruno and the poet and classicist Anne Carson attempts to give a genuine representation of how human beings are affected by warfare. Therefore, all the characters take the form of animals (except Kassandra, whose...
759) Enter the body
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In the room beneath a theater stage, the ghosts of Juliet, Ophelia, Cordelia, and other teenage girls who died tragically in Shakespeare's plays, share their experiences and trauma and get the chance to retell the stories of their lives in their own terms.
760) Bambi
Author
Series
Publisher
Spotlight, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Reinforced library bound edition.
Lexile measure
GN 490L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hailed as the Prince of the Forest at his birth, wobble-legged Bambi the fawn lives deep in the woodland with his mother. His youth is filled with friends--Thumper, a jovial rabbit who says all the wrong things; Flower, a skunk with an inferiority complex; and Friend Owl, misanthrope of the treetops. As he grows, fun-and-games give way to the hardship of winter and the most terrifying, ever-looming threat to survival--man. When the hunters come, Bambi...
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