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Durch Zufall treffen der unglückliche Musiker Ben, der drogenabhängige Cagney und die junge Lina, die im Gegensatz zu Ben und Cagney mit Luxusproblemen zu kämpfen hat, aufeinander. Obwohl sich Ben abgrenzen und nichts von seiner schmerzhaften Vergangenheit preisgeben möchte, kommt es, wie es kommen muss: Ben und Lina verlieben sich ineinander. Doch Cagney gefällt das ganz und gar nicht …
| Автор | Aylin Duran |
This elegant edition gathers seven spirited Yuletide fables by Charles Dickens. The heartwarming tales tell of people rescued from their own folly by mysterious strangers — including goblins, ghosts, and other supernatural creatures. In addition to the author's most famous holiday tale, «A Christmas Carol,» this collection features «The Cricket on the Hearth,» «The Chimes,» «The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain,» «The Seven Poor Travellers,» «The Story of the Goblins Who...
| Автор | Charles Dickens |
"I was raised zero-parent," says hormone-addled 17-year-old Junebug Host, «what the newspapers call it when your mother is in prison and the father was just a sperm.»Junebug has been visiting her mother in Ellisville Reformatory for Women ever since she was five years-old, when beauty queen Theresa Host calmly stepped out of their trailer with an axe and inexplicably bludgeoned a neighbor to death. But during the summer of Junebug’s high school graduation—and the summer...
| Автор | Maureen McCoy |
Following the success of 'The Funeral Celebrant's Handbook', Barry H Young OAM has been inspired to write a sequel offering an abundance of choices of poems, prose and prayers to assist practising and aspiring funeral celebrants when planning a funeral. Families who wish to actually participate during the ceremony will also find a great depth of choice in this carefully considered volume which, like 'The Funeral Celebrant's Handbook', is also presented in orderly...
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Mujeres que Escriben es una joya. Un diario de vida colectivo escrito por más de 80 mujeres chilenas y algunas extranjeras de distintas edades, orígenes y vivencias que pasaron por el taller de autobiografía de @mariapazescritora entre 2014 y 2020. Amor, familia, maternidad, sexo, viajes personales, el cuerpo, salud mental, feminismo. Este libro narra en primera persona y a través de distintas miradas y experiencias lo que verdaderamente significa ser mujer en el mundo.
| Автор | Varias Autoras |
Editor Caridad Svich has gathered forty-three essays from admired theater professionals that comprise a volume of inspiring and innovative techniques for creating theater. Inside are words of wisdom and advice from experienced playwrights, directors, performers, teachers, dramaturgs, artistic directors and founders—each sharing the creative challenges and triumphs of developing original works for today's stages, wherever they might be.[b]Caridad Svich...
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“Suzan-Lori Parks is one of the most important dramatists America has produced.”—Tony Kushner “The plan was that no matter what I did, how busy I was, what other commitments I had, I would write a play a day, every single day for a year. It would be about being present and being committed to the artistic process every single day, regardless of the ‘weather.’ It became a daily meditation, a daily prayer celebrating the rich and...
| Автор | Suzan-Lori Parks |
In Collected Stories, playwright Donald Margulies explores the vexed emotional and legal question of a writer's right to create art from the biographical material of another person's life–particularly when that other person is also a writer. Meditating upon the recent, real-life conflict between poet Stephen Spender and novelist David Leavitt, Margulies has created two of the most vivid and moving fictional characters of his career: Ruth Steiner, an aging, highly regarded author who...
| Автор | Donald Margulies |
This entertaining collection includes a romp of a novella called <i>The Rattler</i>, as well as short stories and micro fictions all set in and around contemporary Melbourne. Sometimes serious, sometimes seriously playful – always written in breathtakingly beautiful prose – these stories uncover the heartbreaking tragedies, slow-burning emotions and serendipity of ordinary lives.<br /> <br />* Cover endorsement from acclaimed Australian authors, Paddy O'Reilly and...
| Автор | A S Patric |
Nach der Zerstörung des Ewigen Lichts versuchen Athanor und seine Freunde verzweifelt, die Welt vor der Herrschaft des Dunklen zu retten. Ein Bündnis mit den Chimären weckt neue Hoffnung, doch während Athanor nach dem Tor des Totenreichs sucht, sammeln sich gewaltige Gegner, um die Lebenden in einer letzten großen Schlacht zu vernichten. Können die vereinten Völker ihren Untergang noch abwenden? Oder wird Ardaia für immer von Finsternis verschlungen werden?
| Автор | David Falk |
Cuando Celith se va de su ciudad natal, casi escapando de la violencia en la que se encontraba inmersa, jamás pensó que el destino la pondría en una situación inimaginable encontrándose en el mismo lugar con un ser fantástico y a la vez atemorizante que no solo le salvaría la vida sino que le enseñaría a defenderse y usar poderes sobrenaturales que nunca creyó tener.
| Автор | Cielo Montiel |
Para Rylee y su compañera Ánuk, es hora de enfrentar sus miedos. Esta vez, el mayor de sus enemigos será el tiempo; la rueda del destino gira y no habrá vuelta atrás. Cuando los viejos amigos se convierten en enemigos mortales y la muerte acecha con cada puesta de sol, un salto desesperado será la última esperanza para sobrevivir.
| Автор | Nina Rose |
Bent Street is an annual publication that gathers essays, fiction, poetry, artwork, reflections, letters, blog posts, interviews, and rants, to bring you 'The Year in Queer'. Find us anytime at: http://bentstreet.net Bent Street 2 covers aspects of 2018, including the afterglow of the passing into law of same-sex marriage; the ongoing struggle for rights and recognition; reflections on the past; as well as presenting the queer imagination as it follows its own lights, digressions,...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
This volume collects for the first time the work of one of America’s most important, vital and original young voices. Turning the American family drama firmly on its head, «Maxwell strips more layers of explanation from the Freudian family romance, shining light on the humiliation and fury usually reasoned out of sight by psychologizing playwrights. Few characters in contemporary drama are as exposed as Maxwell’s.»—Marc Robinson, Village Voice"Imagine if you took a...
| Автор | Richard Maxwell |