Author: Albert Ramsdell GurneyPublisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822206941
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Traces epistolary romance from grade school through middle age.
The Names of All the Flowers
Author: Melissa ValentinePublisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN: 1936932865
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
A “poignant, painful, and gorgeous” memoir that explores siblinghood, adolescence, and grief for a family shattered by loss (Alicia Garza, cocreator, Black Lives Matter). Melissa and her older brother Junior grow up running around the disparate neighborhoods of 1990s Oakland, two of six children to a white Quaker father and a black Southern mother. But as Junior approaches adolescence, a bullying incident and later a violent attack in school leave him searching for power and a sense of self in all the wrong places; he develops a hard front and falls into drug dealing. Right before Junior’s twentieth birthday, the family is torn apart when he is murdered as a result of gun violence. The Names of All the Flowers connects one tragic death to a collective grief for all black people who die too young. A lyrical recounting of a life lost, Melissa Valentine’s debut memoir is an intimate portrait of a family fractured by the school-to-prison pipeline and an enduring love letter to an adored older brother. It is a call for justice amid endless cycles of violence, grief, and trauma, declaring: “We are all witness and therefore no one is spared from this loss.” “A portrait of a place, a person who died too young, the systems that led to that death, and the keen insights of the author herself. Lyrical and smart, with appropriate undercurrents of rage.” —Emily Raboteau, author of Searching for Zion “Eloquently poignant.” —Kirkus Reviews
Love Letters
Author: Albert Ramsdell GurneyPublisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822206941
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Traces epistolary romance from grade school through middle age.
Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch
Author: Eileen SpinelliPublisher: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
ISBN: 9781416912354
Category : Neighborliness
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Lonely Mr. Hatch has a secret admirer. When he discovers who his admirer is, he gets the biggest surprise of his life. Full color.
Love Letters and Two Other Plays
Author: Albert Ramsdell GurneyPublisher: Plume
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Love Letters traces the lifelong correspondence of the staid, dutiful lawyer Andrew Makepeace Ladd III and the lively, unstable artist Melissa Gardner. The story of their bittersweet relationship gradually unfolds from what is written--and what is left unsaid--in their letters. Two other thematically related plays by Gurney, The Golden Age and What I Did Last Summer, are also included.
Herald and Presbyter
Author: Valentine's Day Story Collection
Author: Publisher: Debbie WIlliamson
ISBN: 1897315058
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Weird is the Night
Author: Fred RogersonPublisher: Dramatic Publishing
ISBN: 9780871291141
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Triumph of Her Will
Author: Diane MarshPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557987997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Holiday in Stone Creek
Author: Linda Lael MillerPublisher: HQN Books
ISBN: 148806489X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Spend the holidays in Stone Creek where romance is always in season with these two classic stories from New York Times bestselling author Linda Lael Miller! A Stone Creek Christmas Stone Creek veterinarian Olivia O’Ballivan communicates easily with animals, but men are another story. Especially rugged architect-turned-rancher Tanner Quinn. Olivia’s uncanny bond with his daughter Sophie’s pony has him questioning her sanity, while she wonders if he’s not just a drugstore cowboy. Then twelve-year-old Sophie conspires with Olivia to get Tanner into the spirit of Christmas. But will a holiday miracle transform the globe-trotting Tanner into a rancher—and family man—for all seasons? Originally published in 2008 At Home in Stone Creek Everyone in Ashley O’Ballivan’s life is marrying and starting families—except her. But why bother dating when no one can compare to Jack McCall, the man who left her heartbroken years ago? Now he’s back in town —and maybe he isn’t who she thinks he is. While recovering from a dangerous mission for the DEA, security expert Jack rents a room in Ashley’s bed-and-breakfast. For both their sakes, he tries to keep his distance, though neither can deny the growing spark between them. But when his past catches up with him, he’ll have to leave again…just as he realizes where he’s always belonged—in Stone Creek. Originally published in 2009
Billy Phelan's Greatest Game
Author: William KennedyPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1849838550
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Billy Phelan, a slightly tarnished poker player, pool hustler, and small-time bookie, moves through the lurid nighttime glare of a tough Depression-era town. A resourceful man full of Irish pluck, Billy works the fringes of Albany sporting life with his own particular style and private code of honor until he finds himself in the dangerous position of potential go-between in the kidnapping of a political boss's son. In relating Billy's fall from the underworld grace and his storybook redemption, Kennedy captures the seamy underside of a brassy, sweaty city that would prefer to pretend that the Depression doesn't exist.