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In 1845, Frederick Douglass's first autobiography became a bestseller. Many readers could not believe that such a brilliant writer was ever a slave. When Douglass wrote the book, slavery had not yet ended so he kept secret how he escaped from Maryland. By 1881, the Civil War had ended slavery and Douglass felt the time was right to reveal how he escaped. This play is adapted from Douglass's own words from The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass.
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This early work on English Jacobean dramatist John Webster was originally published in 1916 and is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. Rupert Brooke here provides a comprehensive and informative look at his oeuvre that is thoroughly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of any dramatist of historian of the art. Contents Include: Preface; The Theatre, The Origins of Elizabethan Drama; The Elizabethan Drama; John Webster; Some...
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This is a two-part novella based on two separate incidents, one year apart in two colleges. It's based on actual experiences by the author. It happened quite a while ago when the story's hero, Robby Michaels, was attending Abraham College, a small, private junior college in Lincoln, Illinois. What started out as something of a fraternity prank snowballed into something much larger. Eventually, it would tie into something historical, the famous Kent...
5) The Gambler
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First published in Russian in 1866, "The Gambler", by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, is a gripping narrative of the dangers of gambling. As was common with Dostoyevsky's other writings, he draws upon his own life in a semi-autobiographical way. Dostoyevksy himself suffered from a compulsion to gambling and had to complete "The Gambler" under a strict deadline to pay off his own debts. These first-hand experiences bring a depth of realism to the novel and to...
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“Maggie and Pierre” chronicles the public and private relationship between Pierre Trudeau and Margaret Trudeau from 1974-1980. In this mock epic tale three characters, Pierre, Margaret, and Henry, a newspaper reporter navigate the landscape of a changing nation and opposing ideals.
“The Duchess” tells the story of Wallis Simpson, the infamous woman for whom Edward VIII abdicated his throne in 1936. Wallis was brazen and sexual, and unintentionally...
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The Only Way Out Is Up is an emotional rollercoaster of first love, loss and grief. At fifteen years old, Bailey and Tim gave each other the first flames of love they ever felt. Life pulled them in many different directions, but their bond remained unbroken. Eleven years into their relationship, Bailey received a text from Tim's sister that changed everything. This memoir weaves together Tim's unexpected accident, Bailey's fight to bring him out of...
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Fevers and aches were not unusual for twelve-year-old Jada Petersen. Since she was involved in several activities and sometimes fell during ice skating practice, the fatigue and bruises didn't raise alarms either. Routines and expectations changed abruptly, however, as her initiation into leukemia gradually transformed her life. Growing from a willful adolescent into womanhood is often awkward; yet, as Jada balanced on the edge of life and death,...
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Suite au décès de son mari, une femme d'âge mûr se demande que faire sans lui et s'interroge sur la valeur de sa propre vie.
Un jour, alors qu'elle remplit une boite de souvenirs et de photos, elle eut l'idée d'organiser une soirée o chaque participante apporterait un objet lié à une histoire qui les avait marquées.
À ce moment-là, elle est loin de se douter que certaines des histoires de ses invitées révèleraient des secrets surprenants...
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En este libro, la autora nos describe de forma amena cómo ha sido su historia desde pequeña, su intrépido viaje desde la República de El Salvador hasta la tierra de las oportunidades de los Estados Unidos. Nos describe vívidamente su transformación de una niña valiente, pero con mil temores, a una mujer madura y estable.
Así también, nos plasma cómo aprovechó cada oportunidad para salir adelante, que con muchos sueños y trabajo duro, logró...
11) HeartQuake
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The ability to trust and bond with another being nestles in the heart of our human experience, and when that ability is ruptured by repeated trauma in childhood, the wound (if untreated) can be long-lasting and life-limiting, particularly with regard to forming stable and loving adult relationships.
Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), first brought to the awareness of the general public in the 1957 movie The Three Faces of Eve, is increasingly...
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“The Music Box, Secrets Revealed Behind my Door”, is an insight into my soul. I have written my real-life struggle as an ordinary woman that has been forced to not only live through domestic violence but survive it. I could be anyone you know. Abused women do not always show physical signs of abuse. The signs could be so subtle that to a casual eye, nothing may seem out of the ordinary. It is not until this woman allows someone into her confidence...
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Lou Andrea Salomé est une femme qui a toujours intriguée de par sa capacité à inspirer trois grands hommes: Nietzsche, Rilke et Freud. Lou a été l'amante de Rilke, l'amie intime de Nietzsche et l'élève et la confidente de Freud. Une femme super-muse qui a inspiré ces hommes, relativement méconnus au moment de la relation. Cette fiction dramatique présente les relations de cette femme extraordinaire avec ces trois hommes extraordinaires...
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Nancy Taylor Robson is one of the first women in the country to earn a US Coast Guard license. She grew up sailing and building boats with her father and worked as a housepainter, desk clerk and yacht maintenance person while in college, but never imagined working on an old WWII 85-foot DPC (Defense Plant Corporation) tugboat, slogging up and down the Atlantic coast and in the Gulf of Mexico for a living. Then she met a man, whose ambition at the...
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Drame de fiction basé sur la relation clandestine de Sigmund Freud avec sa belle-soeur Minna Bernays, qui, pour aggraver les choses, vivait dans la même maison avec toute sa famille. Cette relation a été récemment confirmée par des preuves historiques et a été l'un des secrets les mieux gardés de la vie de Freud. Martha Bernays et sa sœur Minna ont vécu ensemble 40 ans à Vienne avec les 5 enfants de la famille Freud et ont partagé l'amour...
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Cette fiction dramatique raconte l'incroyable histoire basée sur une histoire vraie du fils d'un officier Allemand de la Wehrmacht, décoré pour son courage pendant la Seconde Guerre Mondiale, qui s'est convertit au judaïsme, qui abandonna l'Allemagne et partit en Israël pour se convertir en citoyen israélien. Sa participation dans la guerre du Liban, et sa confrontation avec les palestiniens le mènent au même croisement qu'a dû affronter...
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Dramatic fiction illustrating an extraordinary woman's rapport with three extraordinary men: Nietzsche, Rilke and Freud. Lou Andreas-Salomé had a love affair with Rilke, an intimate friendship with Nietzsche and a pupil, confidant propinquity with Freud. A muse of a woman who without a doubt had a vast influence on these, at the time, relatively unknown men.
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Life and arias from María Callas María Callas was probably the greatest soprano of "bel canto". Her life, filled with many ups and downs, can only be compared to the lives of the tragic heroines she used to represent in her scenes. Her trajectory largely exceeded the theatre lyric limits when she became a diva that attracted the interest of the masses, and an international "jet set" star. The play, narrated in first-person by the Diva, portrays...
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Life and Songs of Marlene Dietrich Marlene Dietrich was one of Hollywood's topmost stars and one of the greatest myths in cinema. She was born in Germany but later on, after being discovered by Josef von Sternberg, she migrated to the US to eventually become a citizen. She was the seduction icon, the fatal woman with the eternal femininity. Her intense militancy against Nazism and her participation, as a soldier in the Second World War revealed an...
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Durante el último día de la temporada de caza en en extremo noroeste de los Estados Unidos, George Howard recuerda los muchos momentos de su vida. Desde su niñez marcada por la muerte de su hermano mayor, sus días como estudiante de preparatoria hasta su vida adulta, George ha pasado por un sinnúmero de cosas buenas y contrariedades que lo han conducido hasta este punto en su vida. En este último día de caceria, tomará una decisión que marcará...
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