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Behind the Mask
by Yangsook Choi
Halloween is coming. “What are you going to be?” the children ask one another. Kimin says he will be his grandfather. “Going as an old man is not very scary,” they tease. What the children don’t know is that Kimin’s grandfather was a Korean mask dancer. And Kimin doesn’t know that the mask holds a secret for him. With vibrant illustrations, Yangsook Choi joins Korean and American folk traditions in her story about... (more)
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Sacred Mask Sacred Dance (Llewellyn's Craft Series)
by Evan John Jones
Witchcraft and shamanism are merged together through the use of masks. The book describes how to make masks and to use them to awaken dormant spiritual states.
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The Phantom of the Opera
by Gaston Leroux
The novel that inspired the Lon Chaney film and the hit musical. Sightings of a ghostly figure in the Paris opera house lead to a discovery of a disfigured genius who secretly lives among its passageways and by the lake under the opera house.
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Saxby Smart: Private Detective: Book 1
The Curse of the Ancient Mask and Other Case Files
by Simon Cheshire
Solve It With Saxby, a new series aimed at unraveling the mystery of getting boys excited about reading. Saxby Smart is no ordinary ten-year-old. He's the best detective in the world, or at least the best one who also happens to be in elementary school. In this brane new series--with three cases in each book--the reader solve the mystery alongside Saxby, getting peeks at pages of his casebook as the crimes... (more)
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A History of African American Jazz and Blues
by Joan Cartwright, M.A.
Three essays on jazz and blues in America
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Consuming Korean tradition in early and late modernity : commodification, tourism, and performance
by Laurel Kendall
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Code Name: Silence
by Kirstin van Dyke
Four normal lives...Four extraordinary humans......are about to be changed-forever.Imagine what it would be like to walk through walls. Kathy Allen doesn't have to. She already can. She and her friends aren't normal. They're stronger, faster and have amazing abilities that no normal human could ever have...but they aren't superheroes. Yet.Right now, all Kathy's powers are good for is... (more)
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Mental Shrillness
by Todd Russell
The Mental Shrillness ward will shock you with six twist ending horror tales: a never blinking glass eye begging its host for removal, a wife's flesh ghastly transformed by her husband's secrets, a misshapen creature unlocking the afterlife's gates, a sweet marriage vow becoming literally too gruesome to describe plus two award winning stories best read when you aren't alone. Mental Shrillness contains six twist... (more)
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The Compelling Image: Mask Improvisation for Actor Training and Performance
by Sears A. Eldredge
Because mask improvisation is relatively new in American theatre training, this work is designed to acquaint readers with the theory of mask improvisation and to instruct them in the techniques of the method as well. It gives a historical survey of the role masks of masks in various cultures.
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Mask Characterization: An Acting Process
by Libby Appel
Behind the mask, Appel notes, the student is free to create a personality; paradoxically, because the mask hides the self, it enables the student to probe more deeply into himself. “This book describes, defines, and discusses the mask characterization process, providing the theory behind the exercises and the step-by-step procedure in the organic development of the character from the masks,” Appel notes.... (more)
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Masking Unmasked: Four Approaches to Basic Acting
by Eli Simon
Masking Unmasked is a basic guide to using the ancient art of acting with masks to develop character and movement in four sections that correspond to mask size: Full-Face Masks, Clowning, Bag Masks, and Half-Face Masks. Each section addresses fundamental acting principles and shows how the ancient technique can be applied to the contemporary stage. It is the perfect book to use as background to traditional,... (more)
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Subcommander Marcos: The Man and the Mask
by Nick Henck
Subcommander Marcos made his debut on the world stage on January 1, 1994, the day the North American Free Trade Agreement took effect. At dawn, from a town-hall balcony he announced that the Zapatista Army of National Liberation had seized several towns in the Mexican state of Chiapas in rebellion against the government; by sunset Marcos was on his way to becoming the most famous guerrilla leader since... (more)
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WIll the Real Me, Please Stand Up!
by Narda Goodson
This is the true story of a Latin woman who greatly detested her Spanish heritage. The deep wounds and scars she carried as a child and into adulthood would not allow her to embrace herself nor her culture. In turn, she found herself in the safe haven of her husband's West Indian culture, where she thought she could plant her roots and forget about her past. As self-rejection proliferated, many facts of her... (more)
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Impro
by Keith Johnstone
Impro ought to be required reading not only for theatre people generally but also for teachers, educators, and students of all kinds and persuasions. Readers of this book are not going to agree with everything in it; but if they are not challenged by it, if they do not ultimately succumb to its wisdom and whimsicality, they are in a very sad state indeed . . . .Johnstone seeks to liberate the imagination, to... (more)
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Star Trek: The Next Generation: Book 7
Masks
by John Vornholt
The U.S.S. Enterprise TM journeys to Lorca, a beautiful world with a feudal culture where the inhabitants wear masks to show their rank and station. Captain Picard and an away team don masks of their own to begin a quest for the planet's ruler and the great Wisdom Mask that the leader traditionally wears. Their mission is to establish diplomatic relations. But shortly after transporting, Picard and his party... (more)
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Thirst for Love
by Yukio Mishima
Published in the United States during the 1960s but written years earlier, this Mishima trio, while vastly different in plot, all sport the common theme of idealism destroyed by reality. Nearly three decades after his death, Mishima continues to be a compelling novelist. (LJ 1/15/63, LJ 3/15/68, LJ 9/1/69) Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Oxford Bookworms Library
The Oxford Bookworms Library Level 1: Stage 1: 400 Word Vocabulary The Phantom of the Opera (Oxford Bookworms Library)
by Tricia Hedge, Jennifer Bassett
Pack of ten best-selling Bookworms ideal for building up class libraries. Each Pack contains one copy of each listed title. * The Adventures of Tom Sawyer * The Elephant Man * A Little Princess * Love or Money? * The Monkey's Paw * The Phantom of the Opera * The President's Murderer * Sherlock Holmes and the Duke's Son * White Death * The Wizard of Oz

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by Yangsook Choi

by Evan John Jones

by Gaston Leroux

by Simon Cheshire

by Joan Cartwright, M.A.

by Laurel Kendall

by Kirstin van Dyke

by Todd Russell

by Sears A. Eldredge

by Libby Appel

by Eli Simon

by Nick Henck

by Narda Goodson

by Keith Johnstone

by John Vornholt

by Yukio Mishima

by Tricia Hedge, Jennifer Bassett