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In Praise of Chickens: A Compendium Of Wisdom Fair And Fowl

What follows is a compact miscellany of chicken wisdom—a lively and amusing collection of quotations from past authorities on all things chicken, interspersed with brief editorial comments and complemented by wonderful illustrations. Whether a single sentence or several paragraphs, selections are ...

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Hitchcock Blonde

First published to tie-in with the Royal Court Theatre's production in April 2003, with a cast including Alexander Delamere, Victoria Gay, Fiona Glascott and Rosamund Pike, this is the newly revised version of award-winning Terry Johnson's classic play. A media lecturer and his female protégé fin...

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What We Did Before Our Moth Days

Wallace Shawn's first new play in ten years, a dark moral fable. And so yes, well, I’d simply dropped that whole idea of being a good person, I’d dropped it right down into some hole in the street, and down it had gone into the city’s sewers, and no one ever saw it again. And that was sad, if...

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Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads

A controversial new play from the winner of the Evening Standard 2001 Most Promising Playwright Award Saturday 7 October 2000. England v Germany, The King George v The Duke of York. Keegan resigns and Barry plays a blinder. Tensions erupt in a South London pub as England lose again. Roy Williams...

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Monologues They'll Remember You By: 80 Unique and Compelling Monologues That Leave a Lasting Impression

Finding the right monologue can often be a frustrating task. Too frequently, monologue books rely on time-worn staples that have been heard a million times before, or are padded out with aimless, insipid pieces that often aren't even taken from actual plays. In Monologues They'll Remember You By y...

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Carolly Erickson

The Last Wife of Henry VIII: A Novel

From the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette comes a powerful new novel about Catherine Parr, The Last Wife of Henry VIII . The least known of Henry VIII's six wives was the cleverest of them all. Alluring, witty, and resourceful, she attracted th...

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Coconut Joe is looking for the perfect consignment of coconuts for the biscuit factory he works for. His search has taken him to Berlin, where he is double crossed by a beautiful woman and ends up as a prisoner in a nuclear waste plant. He escapes and makes his way to Venice. He boards a ship but it...

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Tierra de clanes en Nueva Zelanda: Kiwis, kilts y una aventura en las antípodas (Spanish Edition)

Abróchate el cinturón, ponte una copita y prepárate para otra aventura inolvidable Las estrellas de Outlander, Sam Heughan y Graham McTavish, tienen un nuevo horizonte: Nueva Zelanda. Tierra de clanes en Nueva Zelanda es el relato de la epopeya de estos dos amigos escoceses en un país que Gr...

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Charlii Darling

The First of Never: A Dark Neverland Fairytale Romance

Hook meets Mr. & Mrs. Smith : The First of Never is a fairy-tale inspired dark fantasy romance with suspense, action, court intrigue, and a spicy spy vs. spy fated-mates pairing. "Once upon a time" is now. In this dark Neverland tale, the fairies have all fled long ago. Tigerlily's grown up w...

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A Ballyhoo in Blighty

The multi-award winning, critically acclaimed “Indigenous Peoples”, (Winner “Best Play”– New York’s Wonderland One-Act Festival, 2007) is paired with three other cheeky, uproarious comedies in what is guaranteed to be an unforgettable, side-splitting evening’s entertainment. Also inclu...

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In Lucy Kirkwood's version of Hedda Gabler , Ibsen's nineteenth-century heroine is relocated to present-day London, to startling effect. Hedda, still mourning for the father she adored, returns from honeymoon with a husband she doesn't love, to a flat and a pregnancy she doesn't want. Trapped by he...

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Fidelia Nimmons

Kingdom of Benin Short Stories: Ehi and Uki

Kingdom of Benin Short Stories use delightful characters to explore aspects of life in the kingdom of Benin in its hay days. Ehi Edo Warrior Chief turns the spotlight on a chief when he leads others through a war experience. This is war like no other. Uki at Ukpe Festival deals with a different asp...

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During an attack on London, Imogen joins a social media campaign offering refuge to victims. Before her family have even had a chance at a reasonable discussion, John is at their door. He is different to them. He isn’t what they expected. And although they’d never admit it to themselves, he isn...

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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two: The Official Playscript of the Original West End Production

The Eighth Story. Nineteen Years Later. Based on an original story by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany, and Jack Thorne, a play by Jack Thorne. It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn't much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and father of thre...

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The Summer of a Dormouse

In the third installment of his memoirs, the former barrister, playwright, novelist, and creator of the Rumpole stories discusses what it is like to reach the age of seventy-seven, capturing his energetic, passionate, and whimsical approach to life that allows him to embrace an array of new projects...

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Penelope and Ginny Skinner

Briony Hatch hates reality. She prefers the fantasy world of her favourite novels: The Starling Black Adventures, in which ghosts are real and you can cast magic spells to defeat your enemies. In her real life, Briony's parents are getting divorced and her friends are preoccupied by losing weight an...

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And That's Not All : The Memoirs of Joan Plowright

Joan Plowright, fresh from making a new film with Peter O'Toole, has, after years of saying no, finally written her memoirs. She's had quite a life, not least having been married for twenty years to Laurence Olivier. She feels enough time has elapsed for a no holds barred approach. They met in the m...

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The Confession of Katherine Howard: A Tragic Historical Novel of Passion, Betrayal, and Destiny in Tudor England

From Suzannah Dunn, the critically acclaimed author of The Queen of Subtleties, The Sixth Wife and The Queen’s Sorrow , comes the tragic, gripping, and intensely moving story of Katherine Howard—the fifth wife of England’s King Henry VIII—and the best friend she nearly took down with her....

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A Private Practice: A Farce

Dr. Pecksniff, a most singular psychiatrist, is relishing the prospect of fleecing yet another unsuspecting troubled soul - on this occasion a gullible housewife with a crumbling self-image and a sizable nest egg. Seizing on her admittance of a penchant for romance novels, Pecksniff convinces his pa...

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Way to Heaven (Oberon Modern Plays)

The heart of Europe. 1942. Children playing, lovers' tiffs, a deserted train station and a ramp rising towards a hangar. This is what you can see, but what should the Red Cross representative report say? Way to Heaven has previously been produced at the Teatro Mara Guerrero, Madrid by the Centro Dra...

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