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The right stuff
Tom Wolfe
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When the future began... The men had it. Yeager. Conrad. Grissom. Glenn. Heroes...the first Americans in space...battling the Russians for control of the heavens...putting their lives on the line. The women had it. While Mr. Wonderful was aloft, it tore your heart out that ...
1979; 368 p.; isbn:0553275569 More Information |
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Reviving Ophelia : saving the selves of adolescent girls
Mary Pipher
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THREE YEARS ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST AND MORE THAN 1.5 MILLION COPIES SOLD When Reviving Ophelia was first published nearly a decade ago, the response was extraordinary–and Dr. Mary Pipher became one of the most sought-after speakers in the country. She posed the provocative question: Why are American adolescent girls falling prey ...
1994; 304 p.; isbn:0399139443 More Information |
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Friday night lights : a town, a team, and a dream
H.G. Bissinger
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Chronicles a football season in Odessa, Texas, a depressed All-American town that lives and dies with the fortunes of its high school football team
1990; 371 p.; isbn:0306813742 More Information |
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Levels of the game [by] John McPhee
McPhee, John, 1931-
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This account of a tennis match played by Arthur Ashe against Clark Graebner at Forest Hills in 1968 begins with the ball rising into the air for the initial serve and ends with the final point. McPhee provides a brilliant, stroke-by-stroke description while examining the backgrounds and attitudes which have molded the players' games.
149 p.; isbn:0374185689 More Information |
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Glengarry Glen Ross : a play
by David Mamet
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Winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize, David Mamet's scalding comedy is about small-time, cutthroat real esate salesmen trying to grind out a living by pushing plots of land on reluctant buyers in a never-ending scramble for their fair share of the American dream. Here is Mamet at his very best, writing with brutal power about the tough life of tough characters ...
1983; 108 p.; isbn:0802130917 More Information |
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For colored girls who have considered suicide, when the rainbow is enuf : a choreopoem
Ntozake Shange
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From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award-winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country. Passionate and fearless, Shange's words reveal what it ...
1997; 64 p.; isbn:0684843269 More Information |
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Doubt : a parable
John Patrick Shanley
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Set in a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, a nun is faced with uncertainty as she has grave concerns for a male colleague
2005; 58 p.; isbn:1559362766 More Information |
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The collected plays of Neil Simon
with an introduction by Neil Simon
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Cat on a hot tin roof
Tennessee Williams
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Williams's Pulitzer Prize-winning play has captured both stage and film audiences since its debut in 1954. One of his best-loved and most famous plays, it exposes the lies plaguing the family of a wealthy Southern planter of humble origins.
1955; 158 p.; isbn:0451171128 More Information |
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The piano lesson
by August Wilson
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A Pulitzer Prize-winner. Brother is pitted against sister over the fate of their heirloom piano.
1990; 108 p.; isbn:0452265347 More Information |
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The Vietnam plays
David Rabe
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In this volume, Streamers, the story of a group of paratroopers desperately attempting to cope with the chaos of their emotions when they are ordered to Vietnam, is paired with The Orphan, a brilliant synthesis of classic Greek drama and the conflicted character of contemporary America. War is not a political phenomenon but an elemental force, a human ...
1993; 2 v.; isbn:0802133452 More Information |
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Proof : a play
by David Auburn
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In a play portraying the uncertainties of trust, integrity, and genius, a woman claims authorship of a mathematical proof found among her late father's papers by one of his former students, who doubts her claim
2001; 83 p.; isbn:0571199976 More Information |
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