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Sam Shepard : Seven Plays (Buried Child, Curse of the Starving Class, The Tooth of Crime, La Turista, Tongues, Savage Love, True West)
Published: 1984-05-01
Paperback: 368 pages
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Brilliant, prolific, uniquely American, Pulitzer prizewinning playwright Sam Separd is a major voice in contemporary theatre. And here are seven of his very best."One of the most original, prolific and gifted dramatists at work today."—The New Yorker"The greatest American playwright of ...
Buried Child - Acting Edition
Published: 1996-10-01
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A newly revised edition of an American classic, Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize—winning Buried Child is as fierce and unforgettable as it was when it was first produced in 1978.A scene of madness greets Vince and his girlfriend as they arrive at the squalid farmhouse of Vince’s hard-dr...
The Story of Owen: Dragon Slayer of Trondheim (Fiction - Young Adult)
Published: 2014-03-01
Hardcover: 312 pages
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"Listen! For I sing of Owen Thorskard: valiant of heart, hopeless at algebra, last in a long line of legendary dragon slayers. Though he had few years and was not built for football, he stood between the town of Trondheim and creatures that threatened its survival. There have always been d...
Birds, Beasts, and Relatives
Published: 2004-06-29
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Volume two in The Corfu Trilogy, now the inspiration for The Durrells in Corfu on PBS MasterpiecePart coming-of-age autobiography and part nature guide, Gerald Durrell’s dazzling sequel to My Family and Other Animals is based on his boyhood on Corfu, from 1933 to 1939. Originally publish...
The Garden of the Gods
Published: 1978-09-28
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The third book in The Corfu Trilogy (after My Family and Other Animals and Birds, Beasts and Relatives), the beloved books that inspired ITV's television series The Durrells. Just before the Second World War the Durrell family decamped to the glorious, sun-soaked island of Corfu where the youngest of...
Fauna & Family: More Adventures of the Durrell Family of Corfu (Nonpareil Books)
Published: 2012-08-13
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Watch The Durrells in Corfu on PBS Masterpiece Theater, premiering Sunday, October 16th!Fauna and Family, also known as The Garden of the Gods, is the third in Durrell's Corfu trilogy that begins with his beloved classic, My Family and Other Animals and continues with Birds, Beasts and Rel...
A Street in Marrakech
Published: 1988-11-01
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This is a reflexive account of an American woman and her family's unpredictable journey through the private and public worlds of a traditional Muslim city in the process of change. As a Western stranger in Marrakech, Fernea was met with suspicion and hostility. The story of the slow growth...
In the Shadow of Man
Published: 2010-04-07
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World-renowned primatologist, conservationist, and humanitarian Dr. Jane Goodall’s account of her life among the wild chimpanzees of Gombe is one of the most enthralling stories of animal behavior ever written. Her adventure began when the famous anthropologist Dr. Louis Leakey suggested...
Jane Goodall: 50 Years at Gombe
Published: 2010-10-01
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A great deal has happened since the publication of Jane Goodall: 40 Years at Gombe in 1999. Most recently, endeavors at the Gombe field site have included landmark research related to AIDS progression; establishing programs to improve sanitation, health care, and education in neighboring ...
In Patagonia (Penguin Classics)
Published: 2003-03
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The masterpiece of travel writing that revolutionized the genre and made its author famous overnight An exhilarating look at a place that still retains the exotic mystery of a far-off, unseen land, Bruce Chatwin’s exquisite account of his journey through Patagonia teems with evocative d...
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