Mike met Mary for the first time at Ole Miss in 1979. It was love at first sight for both of them. As their romance progressed, Mike knew that he had met his soulmate, the most beautiful girl in the world! When they graduated, they moved in together and began their new life. But their happy ending was not to be and each of them met and married someone else. As their lives changed, they never lost the feeling that they were each others' true love. Mike and Mary: A True Love Story chronicles the triumph of love over tragedy as the former lovers find each other thirty years later because of a dream that inspired a search and an unexpected Facebook invitation. Come along on their exciting, heartwarming adventure of true love lost and then found again!

Massimo Bontempelli (1878-1960), poet, novelist, playwright and composer would become one of the literary giants of the twentieth century. The father of magic realism in Italy, he was associated with the futurist avant-garde and then launched his own influential literary movement, Novecento. Editor and creator of various journals, he collaborated with some of the greatest writers of his day, from James Joyce to Luigi Pirandello. Bontempelli was a prominent fascist intellectual and largely for this reason is today a controversial, little studied and seldom translated writer. Patricia Gaborik strikes out at this problem by presenting here an extensive introduction on the thought and legacy of this figure and complete translations of three of his major plays: "Watching the Moon" (1916), "Stormcloud" (1935) and "Cinderella" (1942). Bontempelli's sense of theatricality was unparalleled, his characters are bewitching, and Gaborik's translations privilege both readability and playability, offering these plays the chance for a robust, English-language life not only on page but also on stage. In 1953, Bontempelli was awarded the Strega Prize, Italy's most prestigious literary award. "Watching the Moon" is a densely layered response to the era's avant-gardism, with traces of symbolism, expressionism and futurism. It presents the story of a woman who travels to the literal ends of the earth in an attempt to rescue her (dead) daughter, whom she believes has been kidnapped by the moon. "Stormcloud," where a nimbus is responsible for misery and destruction, points fingers at individual behaviors and especially at personal egotism in the face of love and death. It is a strange and compelling exemplar of magic realism for the stage. "Cinderella," fearless, radical and subversive, adds to Bontempelli's slate of strong and complex female characters, still sometimes a rare commodity on the stage. First English translation. Introduction, notes, select bibliography, illustrated. 198 pages.

Every week somewhere in Australia news headlines proclaim yet another tragedy of young lives lost in a car wreck. Communities are shocked, politicians duck for cover and families are torn apart...the same story again and again. Set a month after the crash, Engine is the story of 'Grumpop' who lost a grandson and Natasha who lost a brother. Engine is a highly charged theatrical event about family, friends and cars and of fixing what's broken and celebrating life.

Launching Global News Channel in 2005 was Mitch and Amanda McGill's first return to normalcy since Matthew's death in 2002. Its avant-garde venue provided the media podium they envisioned for a cable network.Persevering Anne McGill's unrelenting comments was easy compared to Amanda not understanding the change in her husband. Mitch had become unpredictable, irrational and not the man she married. She was astounded when he informed her he did not want to remain at GNC's helm five years after its inception, choosing again to travel to the world's hot spots "to get the story." Singled out by print media to challenge President Barack Obama in 2012, Mitch chose to make his own decision. Meanwhile, Amanda's Micah Foundation flourished. Its efforts in New Orleans, Haiti, Tuscaloosa and Joplin as well as over a thousand programs receiving grants, changed countless people's lives. Her efforts would also have a profound impact on childhood nutrition.However, no one could have anticipated the confluence of events directly impacting them by a homegrown terrorist seeking revenge. And then terror reared it heinous head again just four months later.Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin was Amanda's remedy for healing their family. To her it was and had always been "God's Country." Was she being fair to Mitch with her decision to take their children there? That remained to be seen when all was said and done.

Things aren't going well for the Conway sisters. Dad's just married the Geography teacher, oldest sister Bec's been evicted and Evie's suffering serious issues with her new besties. Michaela has twenty-four hours to solve her sisters' problems before she sits the most important exams of her life. What else could go wrong? A hilarious new offering from Australia's master of teen theatre, House on Fire is guaranteed to put a smile on your lips and light a small flame in your heart.

Eva Lange's life had become a hellish nightmare. The violent death of her parents catapults the pretty 13-year-old into the arms of evil incarnate. Eva is brutalized and forced into child prostitution by her custodians, but fleeing her sexual exploitation only places her squarely in the path of still greater peril sex slavery at the hands of a powerful drug lord and his ruthless wife. It's a dangerous double life. By day, Eva is nanny to her captors' three children; at night she is subject to the cruel whims of her tormentors. Ensnared in a seedy underworld of sex trafficking, torture and humiliation, and illicit drugs and hopelessly trapped in this hell by political corruption Eva could easily become beat down by forces greater than herself. But Eva Lange staunchly resists the compulsion to surrender to a seemingly inescapable destiny. Refusing to believe her fate is sealed, she is determined to use her beauty, wiles and will to break free for good. Eva plots a bold escape and sets her sights on an even loftier goal: revenge. Can Eva surmount the oppressive powers that have defeated so many others and turn the tables on her tormentors?

Felix Lope de Vega y Carpio (Madrid, 1562-Madrid, 1635). Espana. Nacio en una familia modesta, estudio con los jesuitas y no termino la universidad en Alcala de Henares, parece que por asuntos amorosos. Tras su ruptura con Elena Osorio (Filis en sus poemas), su gran amor de juventud, Lope escribio libelos contra la familia de esta. Por ello fue procesado y desterrado en 1588, ano en que se caso con Isabel de Urbina (Belisa). Paso los dos primeros anos en Valencia, y luego en Alba de Tormes, al servicio del duque de Alba. En 1594, tras fallecer su esposa y su hija, fue perdonado y volvio a Madrid. Alli tuvo una relacion amorosa con una actriz, Micaela Lujan (Camila Lucinda) con la que tuvo mucha descendencia, hecho que no impidio su segundo matrimonio, con Juana Guardo, del que nacieron dos hijos. Entonces era uno de los autores mas populares y aclamados de la Corte. En 1605 entro al servicio del duque de Sessa como secretario, aunque tambien actuo como intermediario amoroso de este. La desgracia marco sus ultimos anos: Marta de Nevares una de sus ultimas amantes quedo ciega en 1625, perdio la razon y murio en 1632. Tambien murio su hijo Lope Felix. La soledad, el sufrimiento, la enfermedad, o los problemas economicos no le impidieron escribir.

Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863-1938) was an Italian poet, journalist, novelist, and dramatist. He influenced the Italian Fascist movement and is considered by some as the forerunner of Benito Mussolini. His play is about Francesca da Rimini (1255-1285), daughter of Guido da Polenta, lord of Ravenna, and contemporary of Dante Alighieri, who portrayed her as a character in the Divine Comedy. This volume features photographs of the actress Eleanora Duse, who portrayed Francesca in 1901.

Richard Bean's English version of The Servant of Two Masters is set in Brighton in the 1960s. Centred on the bumbling Francis Henshall, a minder to both Roscoe Crabbe - a local gangster - and Stanley Stubbers - an upper-class criminal. But Roscoe is dead, killed by Stanley Stubbers and being impersonated by his sister Rachel, who is also Stanley's girlfriend, and in Brighton to collect GBP6,000 from Roscoe's fiancee's dad. Chaos unfolds as Francis tries to stop the two 'guvnors' from meeting and everyone else tries to hide their real identities. Richard Bean's award-winning play is a glorious celebration of British comedy: laugh-out-loud satire, songs, slapstick and glittering one-liners. One Man, Two Guvnors opened at the National Theatre in May 2011, before transferring to the West End and embarking on a successful UK tour. It won Best Play in the Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2011.