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Author
Publisher
Theatre Communications Group
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
This first major collection of Paula Vogel's work surveys a remarkable decade of her writing for the stage. Vogel's singular voice is exhilarating, comic and heartbreaking in its examination of such contemporary issues as the feminization of poverty, the nontraditional family, the AIDS epidemic, domestic violence and pornography.
Author
Series
Man at the helm novels (Nina Stibbe) volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Lizzie Vogel takes a job as an "auxiliary nurse" at Paradise Lodge, a home for the elderly, and learns that her job entails helping the patients (frequently) to the bathroom. What begins as a way to avoid school and earn some spending money (for the finer things in life, like real coffee and beer shampoo) quickly becomes the education of a lifetime as Lizzy wades through the day-to-day humdrum and drama of this ramshackle refuge for...
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Series
Language
English
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The Grapes of Wrath is a landmark of American literature. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man's fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman's stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. Although it follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation, The Grapes of Wrath...
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Series
Publisher
Pluto Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
This biography explores the foundations of Shelley's revolutionary poetics--his anger at a system in which the rich lived luxuriously at the expense of the poor and oppressed, causing war, colonialism, and suffering. An anti-monarchist and a forerunner of civil disobedience, Shelley's poetry was considered blasphemous and seditious, and was pirated by the radical press to reach new working class audiences. His revolutionary ideals were espoused by...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
c2014.
Language
English
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Description
"Their average age was twenty-five. They came from Berkeley, Cambridge, Paris, London, Chicago--and arrived in New Mexico ready for adventure, or at least resigned to it. But hope quickly turned to hardship as they were forced to adapt to a rugged military town where everything was a secret, including what their husbands were doing at the lab. They lived in barely finished houses with P.O. box addresses in a town wreathed with barbed wire, all for...
Author
Publisher
Hazelden
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
"Recovering from an addiction is tough enough, but when you throw in the tremendous responsibilities of motherhood, resisting cravings and remaining abstinent-much less enjoying the rewards of sobriety-can seem like an impossible challenge. Rosemary O'Connor brings her many years of experience working with women in recovery to addressing the key life issues mothers face at all stages of their recovery path. At once affirming, engaging, and practical,...
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Equal parts instruction and inspiration, The Entrepreneur's Book of Actions provides the tools you need to build a successful company by discarding old habits, thinking in a new way, and focusing your efforts on what's important. You'll learn how to manage your time, your employees, and your money and become the leader you need to be. In the end, you will minimise effort needed to complete basic tasks, freeing up more time for creative and innovative...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"It's 1951, and twelve-year-old Pete Collison is a regular kid in Brooklyn, New York, who loves Sam Spade detective books and radio crime dramas. But when an FBI agent shows up at Pete's doorstep, accusing Pete's father of being a Communist, Pete is caught in a real-life mystery. Could there really be Commies in Pete's family?"--
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