Dear Octopus
By: Dodie Smith
3.67
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
Successfully produced in London and New York. 'Dear Octopus' is the family from which none of its m…
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1. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
By: Edward Albee
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
"Twelve times a week," answered Uta Hagen when asked how often she'd like to play Martha in Who's A… read more
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"Honey: I know these people ..."-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
"You want to dance with me, angel tits?"-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
"Musical beds is the faculty sport around here."-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
"George: Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? Martha: I am, George. I am."-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2. The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds (Isabel Dalhousie, #9)
By: Alexander McCall Smith
3.77
Format: 288 pages, ebook
ISABEL DALHOUSIE - Book 9Nothing captures the charm of Edinburgh like the bestselling Isabel Dalhou… read more
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"She was struck by the naked effrontery of it--an effrontery that was there, she supposed in all deliberate crime. By his acts, the criminal effectively said to the victim: You don't matter. "-Alexander McCall Smith, The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds (Isabel Dalhousie, #9)
"Doing the right thing, she knew, was often not as enjoyable as doing the wrong thing. The wrong thing often made for a better story, but it was still the wrong thing--nothing could change that."-Alexander McCall Smith, The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds (Isabel Dalhousie, #9)
"But then one thing you did learn with the passage of time was not to ask too many questions. That was the difference, she decided, between being twenty and being forty. That, and other things, of cou…"-Alexander McCall Smith, The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds (Isabel Dalhousie, #9)
"...honesty required one to remind oneself that when there were bills to be paid, an offer of money was harder to reject than when there were no such bills. Other people's money, we tell ourselves, is…"-Alexander McCall Smith, The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds (Isabel Dalhousie, #9)
3. The Humans
By: Stephen Karam
3.91
Format: 164 pages, Paperback
Breaking with tradition, Erik Blake has brought his Pennsylvania family to celebrate Thanksgiving a… read more
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4. Poverty Safari
By: Darren McGarvey
3.87
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
People from deprived communities all around Britain feel misunderstood and unheard. Darren McGarvey… read more
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5. A Room Full of Bones (Ruth Galloway, #4)
By: Elly Griffiths
3.92
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
When Ruth Galloway arrives to supervise the opening of a coffin containing the bones of a medieval … read more
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6. All My Sons
By: Arthur Miller , Christopher Bigsby
4.50
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
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7. A Delicate Balance
By: Edward Albee
3.91
Format: 178 pages, Paperback
Edwards Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning play A Delicate Balance reveals the emotional savagery of su… read more
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"Addiction is a repeated temporary...stilling. I am concerned with peace...not mere relief."-Edward Albee, A Delicate Balance
8. Disgraced
By: Ayad Akhtar
4.83
Format: 28 pages, Paperback
The story of Amir Kapoor (Aasif Mandvi), a successful Pakistani-American lawyer who is rapidly movi… read more
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9. La casa de Bernarda Alba
By: Federico García Lorca , None , None
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Focus Student Editions are designed for Spanish language courses in literature and culture. Pre… read more
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10. Uncle Vanya
By: Anton Chekhov
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
Famous play by the Russian short story writer and playwright. His major plays are frequently revive… read more
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11. The Effect
By: Lucy Prebble
4.57
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
You're on a placebo, Tristan. Least I've got an excuse. She told me: you're nothing, you're a contr… read more
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12. Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches
By: Tony Kushner
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
Pulitzer Prize-winner for Drama, 1993. The first part of Tony Kushner's epic drama of America in th… read more
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13. A View from the Bridge: A Play in Two Acts
By: Arthur Miller
4.36
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
America's greatest playwright weaves "a vivid, crackling, idiomatic psychosexual horror tale." --Fr… read more
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14. The Seagull
By: Anton Chekhov , Michael Frayn
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
A Methuen Student Edition of Chekhov's classic play in Michael Frayn's acclaimed translation. When … read more
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16. How to Build a Boat
By: Elaine Feeney
3.78
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
This is the story of a remarkable boy and his search for his mother, told with warmth, tenderness a… read more
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"To some, the world is filled with threats. To others, opportunities."-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"That's dedication and if life's taught me anything, we go to what we love, eventually - we mightn't find it straight away, but we get there."-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"...[W]hile language came readily to Tess when dealing with herself alone, having one-way conversations over all of her choices on her long walks in the woods, or on her way to school, now she no long…"-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"How can I miss someone I have never met? Jamie said. Grief was profoundly different for both humans. One felt an intense anger he had never recovered from, the other knew something was missing, a vac…"-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
17. A Bird in Winter
By: Louise Doughty
3.68
Format: None pages, ebook
Bird is a woman on the run. One minute, she's in a meeting in her office in Birmingham - the next, … read more
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18. The Stone Circle (Ruth Galloway, #11)
By: Elly Griffiths
4.20
Format: 384 pages, ebook
In a chilling entry to the award-winning Ruth Galloway series, she and DCI Nelson are haunted by a … read more
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19. The Chalk Pit (Ruth Galloway #9)
By: Elly Griffiths
4.14
Format: 373 pages, Kindle Edition
Winner of the CWA Dagger in the Library Award Praise for Elly Griffiths’ Ruth Galloway series “G… read more
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"Libraries are the cathedrals of the modern age. All that knowledge, available for anyone to use. It’s quite a subversive thought."-Elly Griffiths, The Chalk Pit (Ruth Galloway #9)
"Does the world really need another long essay on environmental archaeology and freshwater mollusks? Well, it's going to get one, whether it likes it or not."-Elly Griffiths, The Chalk Pit (Ruth Galloway #9)
"His mind isn't reacting properly, plodding along the byways and cul-de-sacs because it can't face the traffic on the main highway. But when it comes to it, his life has once more become a straight ro…"-Elly Griffiths, The Chalk Pit (Ruth Galloway #9)
"It's a long shot but we can't leave any stone unturned. Cloughie, you get onto the number plate.' It's an odd phrase, thinks Nelson, as he runs the CCTV footage one more time. He thinks of the tunnel…"-Elly Griffiths, The Chalk Pit (Ruth Galloway #9)
20. The Dark Angel (Ruth Galloway, #10)
By: Elly Griffiths
4.05
Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition
In this highly atmospheric mystery, Ruth Galloway—“a captivating amateur sleuth” (Louise Penny)—and… read more
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"Look which way the bones lie. The position tells you everything. In Christian burials, bodies are usually buried facing east, supposedly towards heaven. Sometimes priests and religious leaders are bu…"-Elly Griffiths, The Dark Angel (Ruth Galloway, #10)
21. The Lantern Men (Ruth Galloway, #12)
By: Elly Griffiths
4.20
Format: 373 pages, Kindle Edition
Forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway changed her life—until a convicted killer tells her that four … read more
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22. The Sound Inside
By: Adam Rapp
3.96
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
"The closest thing that the American theater currently has to a David Foster Wallace, Rapp can give… read more
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23. Mosquitoes
By: Lucy Kirkwood
3.95
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
A story of sibling love that explores subjects closely linked to faith and reason, certainty and u… read more
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24. Dear Octopus
By: Dodie Smith
3.67
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
Successfully produced in London and New York. 'Dear Octopus' is the family from which none of its m… read more
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25. Underdog: The Other Other Brontë
By: Sarah Gordon
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Charlotte Brontë has a confession about how one sister became an idol, and the other became known a… read more
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26. Iphigenia in Splott (Oberon Modern Plays)
By: Gary Owen
4.26
Format: 65 pages, Paperback
Stumbling down Clifton Street at 11:30 a.m. drunk, Effie is the kind of girl you'd avoid eye contac… read more
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27. Best of Enemies (Modern Plays)
By: James Graham
4.10
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
“A man should never turn down two things. Sex, and appearing on television." 1968 – a year of prote… read more
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28. Till the Stars Come Down
By: Beth Steel
4.11
Format: 142 pages, Kindle Edition
A raucously funny and romantic family drama by Beth Steel (The House of Shades, Wonderland). It's S… read more
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29. The Figurine
By: Victoria Hislop
4.14
Format: 568 pages, Kindle Edition
In her irresistible new novel, Sunday Times No 1 bestselling author Victoria Hislop shines a light … read more
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30. Dixon and Daughters (Nick Hern Books)
By: Deborah Bruce
4.00
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Mary has just been released from prison. She wants to come home and forget all about it – but Brian… read more
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31. Kerry Jackson
By: April De Angelis
2.54
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
So what have you got against gobby women running restaurants?El Barco is the newest tapas restauran… read more
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