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Thirteen-year-old Joey Willis is used to being left out of conversations. Though she’s been deaf since the age of six, Joey’s mother has never allowed her to learn sign language. She strains to read the lips of those around her, but often fails. Everything changes when Joey meets Dr. Charles Mansell and his baby chimpanzee, Sukari. Her new friends use sign language to communicate, and Joey secretly begins to... (more)

Swear to Howdy

by Wendelin Van Draanen

Joey Banks is a walking adventure. He’s funny, daring, mischievous—and frequently in trouble. Or he would be if anyone found out about half the stuff he’s done. But Rusty Cooper knows how to keep a secret. And Joey’s the best friend he’s ever had. But then comes a secret that is at once too terrible to tell and too terrible to keep. A secret so big it threatens to eat them alive. What would a true friend do now? ... (more)

I Am Not Joey Pigza

by Jack Gantos

Just when Joey Pigza’s wired world finally seems to be under control, his good-for-nothing dad pops back into his life. This time, though, Carter Pigza is a new man – literally. After a lucky lotto win, Carter Pigza has a crazy new outlook on life, and he’s even changed his name to Charles Heinz. He thinks Joey and his mom should become new people, too. Soon Joey finds himself bombarded with changes: a new name, a... (more)

Tom Wesselmann

by Tom Wesselmann, Sam Hunter

Tom Wesselmann, best known for his series of Great American Nudes , begun in the early 60s and continuing still, is one of the more subtle of the American Pop artists, known more for isolating and abstracting items of the pop visual experience into a new two-dimensional context, than for layering it on, more and more and more. As might be guessed from the title of his most famous series, his imagery often... (more)

Mulligan Stew (Irish Eyes Romance)

by Deb Stover

Widowed mother Bridget Mulligan has set off to live in Ireland with her in-laws. At the family castle, she and her brother-in-law fall into a spine-tingling mystery-and into a strange relationship, somewhere between love and hate. "Ms. Stover writes with wry wit <and> keeps fans clamoring for more!" ( Literary Times ) "No one can do it with the flair Ms. Stover does." ( Bell, Book & Candle ) (more)

More Pricks Than Kicks (Calderbooks)

by Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett, the recipient of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature and one of the greatest writers of our century, first published these ten short stories in 1934; they originally formed part of an unfinished novel. They trace the career of the first of Beckett’s antiheroes, Belacqua Shuah.

Three Plays: Striptease, Repeat Performance, and the Prophets

Three Plays: Striptease, Repeat Performance, and the Prophets

by Mrozek Slawomir

Slawomir Mrozek, the Polish-born writer whose plays - among them Tango and Vatzlav - have earned him a reputation as one of EuropeÕs most inventive new playwrights, has written three more plays which confirm his position as a master of modern satire whose concerns are as political as they are moral. In Striptease, two characters - one an intellectual, the other an activist - find themselves inside a room where a... (more)

Philosophy Through Its Past (Pelican S.)

From Gregory Vlastos on "Plato: The Individual as an Object of Love", to Arthur Danto on "Sartre: Shame, or, the Problem of Other Minds", this book explores the central concerns of the past masters of philosophy. It extends across a whole spectrum of approaches: some essays lean towards the historical, seeking truth as much as possible in the thought of the great master, while others are more inclined to suppose... (more)

How to Abandon Ship

by Phil Richards

Six Plays By Slawomir MrozekSlawomir; Translated By Bethel, Nicholas Mrozek

Six Plays By Slawomir Mrozek

by Slawomir; Translated By Bethel, Nicholas Mrozek

Eleutheria: A Play in Three Acts

by Samuel Beckett

A young man at odds with his middle-class family, refusing to take part in "normal" life while accepting hand-outs from his mother, is the subject of this play. Unperformed during Beckett's lifetime, it draws on the traditions of French boulevard comedy and melodrama.

A preface to metaphysicsJacques Maritain

A preface to metaphysics

by Jacques Maritain

How Not to Write a PlayWalter Kerr

How Not to Write a Play

by Walter Kerr

Nohow on : Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho 4 Books in One (4 Books in One)

Nohow on : Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho 4 Books in One (4 Books in One)

by Samuel Beckett

Now compiled in one volume, these three novels, which are among the most beautiful and disquieting of Samuel Beckett's later prose works, work together with the powerful resonance of his famous Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable. In Company, a voice comes to "one on his back in the dark" and speaks to him. Ill Seen Ill Said focuses attention on an old woman in a cabin who is part of the objects,... (more)

What We Believe But Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty

What We Believe But Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty

by John Brockman

More than one hundred of the world's leading thinkers write about things they believe in, despite the absence of concrete proof Scientific theory, more often than not, is born of bold assumption, disparate bits of unconnected evidence, and educated leaps of faith. Some of the most potent beliefs among brilliant minds are based on supposition alone -- yet that is enough to push those minds toward making the... (more)

True West

by Sam Shepard

Premiered in San Francisco in 1980, True West is one of Sam Shepard’s funniest plays, as well as one of his most brutal. Austin is a stable, successful Hollywood screenwriter, Lee his menacing vagabond brother, and True West is the story of their attempt to trade lives. Their tragicomic quest to change identity ends in a stalemate, but along the way this Pulitzer Prize-winning author takes gleeful potshots at... (more)

American Buffalo: A Play

by David Mamet

"The finest American playwright of his generation" (Sunday Times) A junk shop. Three small-time crooks plot to carry out the midnight robbery of a coin collection. In the hours leading up to the heist, friendship becomes the victim in a conflict between loyalty and business."This play is a parable about the US - not in the journalistic way but quietly, stealthily, with all the rich interior organisation of a true... (more)

Man's Fate (La Condition Humaine)

by Andre Malraux

As explosive and immediate today as when it was originally published in 1933, Man's Fate (La Condition Humaine), an account of a crucial episode in the early days of the Chinese Revolution, foreshadows the contemporary world and brings to life the profound meaning of the revolutionary impulse for the individuals involved. As a study of conspiracy and conspirators, of men caught in the desperate clash of... (more)

Conversations with Pinter

by Harold Pinter

The Futurological Congress

From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy

by Stanisaw Lem

Bringing his twin gifts of scientific speculation and scathing satire to bear on that hapless planet, Earth, Lem sends his unlucky cosmonaut, Ijon Tichy, to the Eighth Futurological Congress. Caught up in local revolution, Tichy is shot and so critically wounded that he is flashfrozen to await a future cure. Translated by Michael Kandel.

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by Phil Richards

by Slawomir; Translated By Bethel, Nicholas Mrozek

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