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2) Applause
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The critically acclaimed and alcoholic actress Thea Barfoed has gone through turmoil, resulting in a divorce and the loss of custody of her two boys. Eager to break with the past, regain control over her life, and get her children back, she uses charm and manipulation to persuade her ex-husband, Christian, that she is ready and able to take back the mantle of motherhood; but she has not completely convinced herself. On stage, Thea plays Martha, the...
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National Book Award finalist Carol Muske-Dukes explores joy, dread, and the solitary communion of applause. Applause provides twenty vivid and evocative poems by Carol Muske-Dukes. In "Dream," she seeks the past in reverie, along with bicoastal riffs on New York City and Los Angeles. "The Eulogy" paints the scene of a funeral in sunny California where a young man who has died of AIDS is laid to rest. In the title poem, a twelve-part journey through...
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Jay Landesman recalls the America of the 1950s and the performers and writers he knew. His magazine Neurotica published Allen Ginsberg, Leonard Bernstein, and others, and he set up the Midwestern cabaret theatre where Lenny Bruce, Barbara Streisand, Woody Allen, and others were spotted.
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Aurora Turner embarks on a post-graduate adventure to find her forever family only to be captured by the Sluagh, soul-sucking Fae exiles. While she is grateful to be rescued by the Strawberry shifters, her Prince Not-So-Charming is a little hasty when he starts picking out their wedding china. Destiny gives James Martin a second chance at love. Aurora may prove to be more of a hazard to herself than the Sluagh ever were. He has the daunting task of...
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Kakerlak Karate weiß gar nicht, wie ihm geschieht: Sein paradiesisches Leben auf einem alten Dachboden ist plötzlich vorbei, als eine Menschenfamilie im Putzwahn sein gemütlich-müffeliges Puppenhaus entsorgt und ihn mit Staubsauger und Wischmopp in den Garten vertreibt. Was nun? Im gefährlichen Vorgartendschungel schließt der kleine Kakerlak zum Glück schnell Freundschaft mit zwei weiteren Vertriebenen: dem fröhlichen Floh Sprungbein und der...
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"A book-length essay on the mime Marcel Marceau, informed by interviews with his students, closely observed performances, and archival research. Remarkably innovative in structure and style, the book employs lists, prose poems, syllabi, a travel itinerary, a catalog of his possessions, and more. A Twenty Minute Silence Followed by Applause is a celebration of Marceau's transcendent creation"--
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To fully understand the Japanese labor market, readers will need to study other extensive and complex literature. Within the framework of this book, I will focus on Japanese workers involved in fields other than agriculture, employees working for companies or for individuals outside the family. The Japanese labor market is best understood through its employees and companies, not through jobs or skills. In Western labor markets, employers at many companies...
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To the other passengers aboard a transatlantic ocean liner, Katharine Monahan might seem like a typical sixteen-year-old American girl on her way to study in a Junior-Year-Abroad program. What they dont know is that her family physician has given her only a year to live. Desperate to realize every dream shes ever had, she has left family, school, and friends in New Orleans to live in the only place she believes she truly belongs: Paris, France. But...
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Do you long for a joy that can't be quenched? A calm that can't be broken? A happiness that can't be threatened? There is such a joy, and it is within your reach.
You can't open your Bible without reading about it. You can't live a truly satisfying life without it. It is a sacred delight, a holy gladness. And it's nearer than you think. Jesus describes this sacred delight in the astonishing mountain message we now call the
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American girl BeForever. Rebecca, 1914 volume 1
A Rebecca classic volume 1
American girl BeForever. Rebecca 1914 volume 1
A Rebecca classic volume 1
American girl BeForever. Rebecca 1914 volume 1
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"Rebecca Rubin is growing up in the bustling city of New York in 1914. She dreams of being a star on the silver screen, but her performance this year is on the stage at school. She has to share the spotlight with her cousin Ana, though, and Rebecca fears the audience will laugh instead of applaud. Will Ana hurt or help the performance? Then, being included in a special plan fills Rebecca with joy. But what act of kindness teaches her the true meaning...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 The author interviewed Beverly Sills, an internationally acclaimed opera singer and director of the New York City Opera. She was bitter, but Bubbles, her friends call her, is not. She has been through a lot, but she still has peace in her pain.
#2 The king was a man with cerebral palsy who lost everything in one instant. He was ridiculed, and his neighbors tried to...