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Susie Salmon is just like any other young girl. She wants to be
beautiful, adores her charm bracelet and has a crush on a boy from
school. There's one big difference though - Susie is dead. Now she
can only observe while her family manage their grief in their
different ways. Her father, Jack is obsessed with identifying the
killer. Her mother, Abigail is desperate to create a different life
for herself. And her sister, Lindsay is discovering the opposite
sex with experiences that Susie will never know. Susie is desperate
to help them and there might be a way of reaching them... Alice
Sebold's novel The Lovely Bones is a unique coming-of-age tale that
captured the hearts of readers throughout the world. Award-winning
playwright Bryony Lavery has adapted it for this unforgettable play
about life after loss.
In The Wasp's Nest, Hercule Poirot's come between a bitter triangle
of lovers to prevent a sinister murder before it takes place. In
Yellow Iris, a distressed phone call from a mystery woman brings
Hercule Poirot to the hotel Jardin des Cygnes, where a man
commemorates the four-year anniversary of his wife's sudden death -
a death under very suspicious circumstances that Poirot himself
witnessed. Gathered is everyone present on that fateful night and
now Poirot must and a killer in the midst, before they strike
again.
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The GUARDSMAN
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Ferenc Molnar; Translated by Gabor Lukin; Adapted by Bonnie Monte
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R310
Discovery Miles 3 100
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Aeschylus' Oresteia opens with Agamemnon sacrificing his daughter
to the gods; an act which sets in motion a bloody cycle of revenge
and counter-revenge. When he in turn is killed at the hands of his
wife Clytemnestra, their son Orestes takes up the mantle of
avenging his father, continuing the bloodshed until peace is
ultimately found in the rule of law. Zinnie Harris reimagines this
ancient drama, using a contemporary sensibility to rework the
stories, placing the women in the centre. Orestes' leading role is
replaced by his sister Electra, who as a young child witnesses her
father's murder and is compelled to take justice into her own hands
until she too must flee the Furies.
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Proof
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David Auburn
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R385
Discovery Miles 3 850
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Catherine has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable
father, Robert. When he dies she has more than grief to deal with:
there's her estranged sister, Claire, and Hal, a former student of
her father's who hopes to find valuable work in the 103 notebooks
that Robert left behind. And a further problem: how much of her
father's madness - or genius - will Catherine inherit? Gwyneth
Paltrow starred in this Pultizer Prize-winning play which opened at
the Donmar Warehouse in 2001.
The Samarites by Petrus Papeus offers an effective blending of
gospel narrative and ancient Roman comedy, combining manner of
Plautus and Terence with the didacticism of medieval allegory and
morality plays and the poetic diction of Renaissance humanism. In
the Samarites they are the ingredients that present both moral and
doctrinal teachings related to the gospel parables of the Prodigal
Son and Good Samaritan. Papeus' work is an excellent example not
only of the early modern school play, but also of the shifting
conceptions of drama in Europe at that time. Daniel Nodes presents
a critical edition and translation of the play together with a
humanist commentary produced in Toledo by Alexius Vanegas three
years after the play's first printing in Antwerp.
TC's life is a busy one, filled with the physical demands of her
job as a mail carrier and her dreams to play basketball, not to
mention the demands of her convoluted love life. Her girlfriend,
Samantha, is one beautiful and powerful woman--and a cop. Jealousy
seems to be the unavoidable side effect of their open relationship,
and though they each have a lover on the side, each fears loss and
heartbreak. Are any of them meant to be together? Is Samantha "the
one" for TC--or is her true love still out there somewhere?Jay,
TC's best friend, supports her, but he has his own issues. A jock
and a player, Jay considers himself a real ladies' man, but on the
day he meets Carly, everything he thinks he knows about himself is
called into question. Carly has only recently started living her
life as a woman, and she's got to balance her natural attraction to
Jay with her fear that he will reject her when he learns the truth.
As Jay does his best to give TC advice on her own love life, he's
got some big decisions to make himself. Is Carly his destiny? Is he
hers?Things may not always go as planned, but that's the beauty of
life and relationships--and this is especially true in The Million
Dollar Story.
This wonderful show is a dramatization of business letters between
a young struggling writer in New York and an antiquarian book store
in London. In a sense, these are also love letters. They are about
the love of good literature. The play takes place over a twenty
year period, beginning in 1949 when Helene Hanff (played on
Broadway by Ellen Burstyn) first writes Marks & Co. and ends in
1969 with the death of Frank Doel, the delightfully dusty supplier
of so many old volumes to Helen who has shown her gratitude through
the years by sending "care packages" to the staff of Marks &
Co.
James Brent receives a chilling telephone call seemingly from
beyond the grave. His dead wife, Fay, is waiting for him at the
very place she met her grisly end. At his new wife's insistence,
they go to meet her as requested and in the process discover a
terrifying and disturbing truth.
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