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The House of Bernarda Alba - Acting Edition

by in a new version by Emily Mann Federico García Lorca

Published: 1998-10-01

Paperback: 72 pages

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In the suffocating heat of summer, Bernarda Alba’s house holds three generations of women in mourning. With few options for a life away from their grasping mother, five sisters fight each other for the attentions of the one man who could offer marriage and escape.

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* * * * Gloomy,
Insightful,
Dramatic

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The House of Bernarda Alba

by Federico García Lorca

Published: 2014-03-15

Kindle Edition: 106 pages

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Bernarda Alba is orthodox, overbearing, and single minded. She has complete control over her five daughters until the wealth of her eldest daughter, Angustias, attracts a suitor. Her other daughters are jealous that Angustias—who is almost forty and is homely and sickly—is getting marr...

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Dearest Dorothy, Are We There Yet?

by Charlene Baumbich

Published: 2004-01-27

Paperback: 256 pages

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For the legions of readers who enjoy books that celebrate life’s simple pleasures, eighty-seven-year-old Dorothy Jean Wetstra and her beloved farming town of Partonville, Illinois, will become instant favorites. In this hilarious, touching series, Charlene Ann Baumbich introduces readers...

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The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb: A Novel (Random House Reader's Circle)

by Melanie Benjamin

Published: 2012-04-03

Paperback: 480 pages

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For anyone who loves the historical novels of Sara Gruen, Geraldine Brooks, and E. L. Doctorow, a barnstorming tale of an irrepressible, brawling, bawdy era and the remarkable woman who had the courage to match the unique spirit of America’s Gilded Age.She was only two feet, eight inches...

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The Search for Anne Perry: The Hidden Life of a Bestselling Crime Writer

by Joanne Drayton

Published: 2016-04-05

Paperback: 378 pages

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A New York Times bestseller, this acclaimed biography of crime writer Anne Perry is now in paperback.When Peter Jackson released Heavenly Creatures, based on a famous 1950s matricide committed by two teenage girls in an obsessive relationship, the movie launched his international career an...

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A Christmas Journey (Christmas Novella 1): A festive Victorian murder mystery

by Anne Perry

Published: 2004-11-01

Paperback: 160 pages

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Attending the party and taking a leading role in the ensuing investigation is one of the most beloved characters from Anne Perry's Thomas Pitt series: Lady Vespasia Cumming-Gould. Lady Vespasia's friend Isobel has made a cruel remark about Gwendolen Kilmuir on the night Gwendolen was meant to have become...

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Dr. Haggard's Disease

by Patrick McGrath

Published: 1994-07-12

Paperback: 192 pages

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Follows the life of Dr. Edward Haggard as he reflects on the nature of love, death, medicine, and war and his liaisons with a colleague's wife and a wartime lover

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The City of Your Final Destination: A Novel

by Peter Cameron

Published: 2010-05-11

Paperback: 320 pages

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A wryly humorous, impeccably observed novel about the capriciousness of loveOmar Razaghi posts a letter on September 13, 1995 that will change the course of his life forever. A doctoral student at the University of Kansas, he writes to the estate of the Latin American author Jules Gund, re...

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Little Gale Gumbo

by Erika Marks

Published: 2011-10-04

Paperback: 432 pages

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When Camille and her two teenage daughters fled New Orleans for the island of Little Gale off the coast of Maine, the islanders were initially more suspicious than welcoming. Twenty-five years later, Camille's Creole restaurant, The Little Gale Gumbo Café, has become an island staple-as h...

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Seven Gothic Tales

by Isak Dinesen

Published: 1991-12-03

Paperback: 448 pages

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Originally published in 1934, Seven Gothic Tales, the first book by "one of the finest and most singular artists of our time" (The Atlantic), is a modern classic. Here are seven exquisite tales combining the keen psychological insight characteristic of the modern short story with the haunting mystery...