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Middletown (TCG Edition)

By: Will Eno

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Will Eno is an original, a maverick wordsmith whose weird, wry dramas gurgle with the grim humor and pain of life."—Guardian A moving and funny new play exploring the universe of a small American town. As a friendship develops between longtime resident John Dodge and new arrival Mary Swanson, the lives of the inhabitants of Middletown intersect in strange and poignant ways in a journey that takes them from the local library to outer space and points between.

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Theatre Communications Group

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1559367652

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The Oberon Anthology of Contemporary American Plays

Volume One

By: Bathsheba Doran,Will Eno,Itamar Moses,Jenny Schwartz

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The Oberon Anthology of Contemporary American Plays

Volume One

By: Bathsheba Doran,Will Eno,Itamar Moses,Jenny Schwartz

This new series brings together some of the best new writing from contemporary American playwrights. Volume One is introduced by Andre Bishop, Artistic Director of the Lincoln CenterTheater, the most prestigious theatre in the USA. Each play is introduced by critically acclaimed writers themselves. The volume includes: KIN by Bathsheba Doran, (with an introduction by Chris Durang) Kin sheds a sharp light on the changing face of kinship in the expansive landscape of the modern world. 'Simply terrific. Perhaps the finest new play of the season. Funny andaudacious, haunting, and exquisitely wrought.' Charles Isherwood, New York Times MIDDLETOWN by Will Eno (with an introduction by Gordon Lish) Middletown was awarded the prestigious Horton Foote Prize for Promising New American Play in 2010. 'Middletown glimmers from start to finish with tart, funny, gorgeous little comments on big things: the need for love and forgiveness, the search for meaning in life, the long, lonely ache of disappointment.' Charles Isherwood, New York Times COMPLETENESS by Itamar Moses (with an introduction by Doug Wright) Completeness is a 21st-century romantic comedy about the timeless confusions of love. 'A funny, ridiculously smart new play. I haven't seen another play recentlythat so perfectly captured love – hot-blooded, fearless, fi ckle – at this stagein life. I was left with nothing but admiration.' Jeremy Gerard, Bloomberg News GOD'S EAR by Jenny Schwartz (with an introduction by Edward Albee) 'This ode to love, loss and the routines of life has the economy and drywit of a Sondheim love song ... Schwartz is a real talent and she is trying something ambitious ... In [her] very modern way, [she is] making a rather old-fashioned case for the power of the written word.' Jason Zinoman, New York Times

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1849436185

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9781849436182

Middletown

By: Will Eno

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Middletown

By: Will Eno

Mary Swanson just moved to Middletown. About to have her first child, she is eager to enjoy the neighbourly bonds a small town promises. But life in Middletown is complicated: neighbors are near strangers and moments of connection are fleeting. Middletown is a playful, poignant portrait of a town with two lives, one ordinary and visible, the other epic and mysterious. Middletown was awarded the prestigious Horton Foote Prize for Promising New American Play in 2010. “The strange beauty of life and its sometimes unbearable weight are both considered with a screwball lyricism... pitch-perfect... delicate, moving and wry” - New York Times

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1849435790

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Parastatal Bureaucracy

By: Will Swansen

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Parastatal Bureaucracy

By: Will Swansen

Some people in powerful positions will wake up to an apocalyptic epiphany and relentlessly pursue the outcome no matter who and what stand in their way. They will walk away after the fact and never look back on the havoc they have created. Duggy learned soon that when people are managed in fear, management would be clouded with lies. Duggy endured a rough childhood, but it equipped him with a sense of survival. He despises unfair conduct. When Duggy learned that he was set up for failure, he resorted to experiences as far back as his childhood to the detriment of those who appointed him and did not reckon with Duggy's survival instinct. His athletic ability and general knowledge paid off when he faced certain death. When Duggy was sent on a venture to negotiation between the World Bank and the Nigerian Government in building a power line in Nigeria, things turned sour when Debby, the advisor to Prince Victor from Nigeria, attempted to smooth things over with a short dress and silky legs. After a bad turn of events, Duggy became a stowaway on a cargo ship where he discovered merchandise, which landed him in deeper trouble than he ever anticipated.

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373

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Trafford Publishing

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1466965975

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9781466965973

Anatomy of Evil

A Barker & Llewelyn Novel

By: Will Thomas

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Anatomy of Evil

A Barker & Llewelyn Novel

By: Will Thomas

One evening in 1888, Robert Anderson, the head of Scotland Yard's Criminal Investigation Department (CID), appears at Barker's office with an offer. A series of murders in the Whitechapel area of London are turning the city upside down, with tremendous pressure being brought to bear on Scotland Yard and the government itself. Barker is to be named temporary envoy to the Royal Family with regard to the case while surreptitiously bringing his investigative skill to the case. With various elements of society, high and low, bringing their own agenda to increasingly shocking murders, Barker and Llewellyn must find and hunt down the century's most notorious killer"--

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Macmillan

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1250041058

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9781250041050

Bear Wrangler

Memoirs of an Alaska Pioneer Biologist

By: Will Troyer

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Bear Wrangler

Memoirs of an Alaska Pioneer Biologist

By: Will Troyer

Beginning in 1951, Will Troyer embarked on a thirty-year career with the U.S. Department of the Interior that included positions such as fish and game warden and manager of the Kodiak Island brown bear preserve. Troyer’s engaging prose affirms his passionate connection to the natural world, as he describes experiences such as being in the midst of a herd of 40,000 caribou. Bear Wrangler is an absorbing tale of one man’s experience as an authentic pioneer in the last vestiges of American wilderness.

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University of Alaska Press

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1602231214

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The Hellfire Conspiracy

A Novel

By: Will Thomas

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The Hellfire Conspiracy

A Novel

By: Will Thomas

In the latest adventure in what is "fast becoming one of the genre's best historical-mystery series" (Booklist), roughhewn private enquiry agent Cyrus Barker and his assistant Thomas Llewelyn must track down London's first serial killer. When Barker and Llewelyn are hired to find a girl from the upper classes who has gone missing in the East End, they assume her kidnapping is the work of white slavers. But when they discover five girls have been murdered in Bethnal Green, taunting letters begin to arrive in Craig's Court from a killer calling himself Mr. Miacca. Barker fears that Miacca might be part of the Hellfire Club, a group of powerful, hedonistic aristocrats performing Satanic rituals. He must track the fiend to his hideout, while Llewelyn confronts the man who put him in prison. Dodging muckrakers, navigating the murky Thames under cover of darkness, and infiltrating London's most powerful secret society, The Hellfire Conspiracy is another wild ride that "brings to life a London roiling with secret leagues, deadly organizations, and hidden clubs" (Ron Bernas, Detroit Free Press).

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Simon and Schuster

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1416546324

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9781416546320

The Last Hunter

An American Family Album

By: Will Weaver

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The Last Hunter

An American Family Album

By: Will Weaver

The Last Hunter" is an examination of family, life on the land, and those things we hold dear enough to want to carry along, one generation to another.

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Borealis Books

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087351811X

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9780873518116

Full Service

By: Will Weaver

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Full Service

By: Will Weaver

The times they are a-changin' . . . The summer that Paul turns sixteen his mother pushes him to take a job in town instead of just working on the family farm. "You need to meet the public," she says, which is saying a lot for a woman deeply committed to the tightly knit religious community to which they belong. And meet the public Paul does: He meets Kirk, the angry gas station manager; Harry, a reclusive and kindly gangster; and a family of hippies passing in a yellow peace van to San Francisco. He also meets beautiful Peggy, a high school sensation, and dark-haired Dale, her onthe-side boyfriend who is headed to Vietnam. All of them come to the station – as well as girls on summer vacation, tanned and smelling of coconut oil, and ministers from Paul's fundamentalist church, who are worried about his soul. As the summer progresses, Paul learns the secrets of his small Minnesota town and discovers that he's ready to have a few secrets of his own. With richly developed characters and a flair for arresting imagery, Will Weaver tells the story of the end of one boy's innocence, unfolding at a time when the country as a whole is undergoing a difficult, deeply disturbing coming-of-age.

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Macmillan + ORM

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142993428X

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9781429934282

I’m Not from Here

A Parable

By: Will Willimon

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I’m Not from Here

A Parable

By: Will Willimon

With I'm Not from Here, popular writer Will Willimon returns to fiction with a story of spiritual discovery set in a Southern town. Will takes us on a Don Quixote-like journey during which young Felix Goforth Luckie learns a great deal about the world, about other people, and about a God who shows up in the oddest places, in the strangest times, and among the unlikeliest people. On a quest to discover himself, Felix is discovered by the grace of God. In homage to Dostoevsky, Cervantes, and the Bible, Willimon creates a world that is thoroughly believable, realistic, and ordinary, yet at the same time fantastic, strange, and funny. In Galilee, Georgia, young Felix finds that things are not as they first appear, people are wonderfully mysterious, and God is unavoidable. At times odd, frequently very funny, both satirical and poignant, I'm Not from Here is a rollicking tale, a light-hearted parable with serious intent. Willimon's first novel, Incorporation, was widely acclaimed for its satire, honesty, and theological depth. While this his second novel differs considerably, I'm Not from Here is equally surprising and entertaining, showing Willimon's gifts as a masterful storyteller. Even as the parables of Jesus reveal things to us that could not be seen except through fiction, so this novel is not only engaging but also revealing.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1498274323

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9781498274326

Incorporation

By: Will Willimon

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Incorporation

By: Will Willimon

Hope Church--its clergy and its people--are quite a congregation, an unforgettable cast of saints and sinners. While serving a heavenly realm, they also have their feet plainly planted in the muck and mire of the real world. Here is an Easter story of ordinary folk caught in the gracious grasp of an extraordinary God. In this rollicking, hilarious, sometimes pathetic, fast-paced, and always entertaining journey through a month of Sundays at Hope Church, we meet a wild cast of characters in church people surprised to be the body of Christ. Sex, violence, greed, grunge, lust, and lies--all in church! Saints and sinners all, caught within the embrace of a God who refuses to make proper distinctions.

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1621894665

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9781621894667

The Kennedys Amidst the Gathering Storm

A Thousand Days in London, 1938–1940

By: Will Swift

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The Kennedys Amidst the Gathering Storm

A Thousand Days in London, 1938–1940

By: Will Swift

Ambassador Kennedy’s tenure during the approach of WWII is explored in “an admirably balanced assessment of an enormously complicated man” (Kirkus, starred review). In The Kennedys Amidst the Gathering Storm, historian and psychologist Dr. Will Swift presents a fresh, empathetic interpretation of Joseph Kennedy’s ambassadorship. With extensive research and penetrating psychological insight, he explores the intricate, often shifting relationships among Kennedy, Chamberlain, Churchill, and, of course, Roosevelt. Arriving in London in early 1938, the Irish-Catholic Kennedys were welcomed by politicians, aristocrats, and intellectuals, all eager to court America. They finally appeared to have overcome their lifelong status as outsiders. From 1938 to 1940, the Kennedys crystallized their identity as protagonists on the world stage, undergoing a near-mythic rise to power. The older children—Joe Jr., Jack, and Kathleen—took part in England’s glittering society, their every move chronicled by the British and American media. As Joe, Sr.’s, political fortunes dimmed, Jack published a best-selling book that launched him toward stardom and, ultimately, the White House. Drawing on recently released Kennedy family archives, Joseph P. Kennedy’s private papers, and using rare photographs of English society and the photogenic Kennedy clan, Dr. Swift brings to life this fascinating family during a dramatic thousand-day period.

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Harper Collins

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0061860239

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9780061860232

Investing In Your Health… You’ll Love The Returns

By: Will Shelton

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Investing In Your Health… You’ll Love The Returns

By: Will Shelton

This book examines current diets to help you make decisions about your eating style as well as taking a look at sleep patterns in association with our overall health. Health and physical education warrant a bigger role in our children’s overall health and well being. One of the chapters is entitled: Games People Play, which focuses on games you played growing up. Will Shelton is deeply concerned that some neighborhoods, including parks are too violent for youth to play in. He presents some innovative ideas that can help curtail violence in neighborhoods. “We need to bring back pride as a core value in some neighborhoods so youth have a vested interest in their respective neighborhoods, by creating jobs, safe parks and recreational centers, better teachers, principals, other school staff, school curriculum, mentorship programs, rites of passage programs, violence prevention programs, better training of police and dramatically stop how guns, drugs and other weapons enter neighborhoods.” ~Will Shelton Will Shelton’s book Investing in Your Health... You’ll Love the Return is an insightful and innovative look at our personal health status and how we can improve it. It examines why we eat the foods we select. It answers the following questions and so much more: What can we specifically do to defeat the #1 Killer of Americans using empirical data? Is healthcare a right or privilege? What are the factors that are affecting our health? What cellular “Master Switch” can be turned on by eating the right kinds of foods to prevent diabetes, obesity, heart disease and other diseases? How do you unlock the subconscious mind to health, wealth and contentment? Why Financial Principles are a requirement for total health happiness? Why is generational health and wealth a vital legacy, in terms of passing the Torch of Health and Wealth to this generation of youth? How does the Glycemic Index help lower sugar intake? How can Stress Busters techniques and activities help with stress? You are a cornucopia of endless treasure. Now is the time to claim your treasure by Investing In Your Health... You'll Love the Returns!

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First Edition Design Pub.

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1506904807

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9781506904801

Claws

By: Will Weaver

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Claws

By: Will Weaver

Jed and Laura, two popular Minnesota high school students, find their seemingly perfect lives suddenly in chaos when they discover that each has a parent who is having an affair with the other.

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0060094753

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Middletown (TCG Edition)

Middletown (TCG Edition)

The Oberon Anthology of Contemporary American Plays

The Oberon Anthology of Contemporary American Plays

Middletown

Middletown

Parastatal Bureaucracy

Parastatal Bureaucracy

Anatomy of Evil

Anatomy of Evil

Bear Wrangler

Bear Wrangler

The Hellfire Conspiracy

The Hellfire Conspiracy

The Last Hunter

The Last Hunter

Full Service

Full Service

I’m Not from Here

I’m Not from Here

Incorporation

Incorporation

The Kennedys Amidst the Gathering Storm

The Kennedys Amidst the Gathering Storm

Investing In Your Health… You’ll Love The Returns

Investing In Your Health… You’ll Love The Returns

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