Kindertransport
By: Diane Samuels
3.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
The best play about the pain and passion of mother/daughter relationships.--Guardian.
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1. The Whale Rider
By: Witi Ihimaera
3.84
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Eight-year-old Kahu craves her great-grandfather's love and attention. But he's focused on his duti… read more
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- fiction
- school
"Even the good guys,' she said, 'can't win all the time."-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider
"This is the last spear. It is the seed of Paikea and we must return it to the land."-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider
"Man might carve his mark on the earth but unless he's vigilant, Nature will take it all back."-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider
"Sometimes life has a habit of flooding over you and rushing you along in its overwhelming tide."-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider
2. A Streetcar Named Desire
By: Tennessee Williams
3.98
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Art… read more
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- plays
- fiction
- school
- drama
"Never inside, I didn't lie in my heart..."-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
"And funerals are pretty compared to deaths."-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
"I think you have a great capacity for devotion,"-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
"I want to rest. I want to breathe quietly again."-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
3. Twelfth Night
By: William Shakespeare , Folger Shakespeare Library
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Named for the twelfth night after Christmas, the end of the Christmas season, Twelfth Night plays w… read more
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- plays
- fiction
- school
"a raven's heart within a dove."-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"I pity you That's a degree to love"-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit."-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
4. Blood Brothers
By: Willy Russell
3.70
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
A Liverpudlian West Side Story: twin brothers are separated at birth because their mother cannot af… read more
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- plays
- fiction
- school
- drama
5. King Lear
By: William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe
3.91
Format: 338 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain… read more
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- plays
- fiction
- school
"Fortune love you."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"She is herself a dowry."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"All dark and comfortless."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"Nothing can come of nothing."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
6. She Stoops to Conquer
By: Oliver Goldsmith
3.91
Format: 20 pages,
This comic masterpiece mocked the simple morality of sentimental comedies. Subtitled The Mistakes o… read more
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- plays
- fiction
- drama
7. The Woman in Black
By: Susan Hill , John Lawrence
3.85
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
What real reader does not yearn, somewhere in the recesses of his or her heart, for a really litera… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
8. The History Boys
By: Alan Bennett
0.00
Format: 287 pages, Paperback
An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university… read more
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- plays
- fiction
- drama
9. An Inspector Calls
By: None
3.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
The action of the play occurs in an English industrial city, where a young girl commits suicide and… read more
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- plays
- fiction
- school
- drama
10. Loot
By: Joe Orton
3.50
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
A black farce masterpiece, Lootfollows the fortunes of two young thieves, Hal and Dennis. Dennis is… read more
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- plays
- fiction
- drama
11. Kindertransport
By: Diane Samuels
3.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
The best play about the pain and passion of mother/daughter relationships.--Guardian. read more
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- school
- historical
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
- plays
- drama
12. The Zone of Interest
By: Martin Amis
3.76
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
From one of England's most renowned authors, an unforgettable new novel that provides a searing por… read more
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13. The Ruffian on the Stair
By: Joe Orton
3.60
Format: 212 pages,
It is an unsympathetic yet comedic one-act portrayal of working class England, as played out by a c… read more
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14. Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
The curse placed on Oedipus lingers and haunts a younger generation in this new and brilliant trans… read more
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15. The Merchant of Venice
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , None
3.78
Format: 247 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In this lively comedy of love and money in sixteenth-century Venice, Bassanio wants to impress the … read more
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- plays
- fiction
- school
- drama
"He will fence with his own shadow."-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
"You speak an infinite deal of nothing."-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
"The fiend gives the more friendly counsel."-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
"i buy a thousand pound a year! i buy a rope!"-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
16. An Enemy of the People
By: Henrik Ibsen
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
An Enemy of the people (original Norwegian title: En folkefiende) is an 1882 play by Norwegian play… read more
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17. The Call (The Call, #1)
By: Peadar Ó Guilín
3.83
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
Imagine a world where you might disappear any minute, only to find yourself alone in a grey sickly … read more
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- fiction
"They drink from streams whose waters taste like tears, and indeed each swallow fills them with a few heartbeats of deep sadness."-Peadar Ó Guilín, The Call (The Call, #1)
18. 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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19. Blue Stockings
By: Jessica Swale
4.15
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
A moving, comical and eye-opening story of four young women fighting for education and self-determi… read more
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20. A Christmas Carol
By: Charles Dickens
4.08
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
'If I had my way, every idiot who goes around with Merry Christmas on his lips, would be boiled wit… read more
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- fiction
- school
- historical fiction
"Hallo, my fine fellow!"-Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
"God bless us, every one!"-Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
"And how did little Tim behave?"-Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
"Marley was dead: to begin with."-Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
21. The Misanthrope
By: Molière
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Misanthropeor Le Misanthrope ou l'Atrabilaire amoureuxis a comedy of manners in five acts and i… read more
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22. Man Tiger
By: Eka Kurniawan , Benedict Anderson , Labodalih Sembiring
3.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
A wry, affecting tale set in a small town on the Indonesian coast, Man Tiger tells the story of two… read more
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23. The Glass Menagerie
By: Tennessee Williams
4.90
Format: None pages, Paperback
The story of a mother, her son and daughter, and her daughter's suitor that brings to life human be… read more
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24. A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
By: Eimear McBride
3.86
Format: None pages, Paperback
Eimear McBride's debut tells, with astonishing insight and in brutal detail, the story of a young w… read more
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25. A Man for All Seasons
By: Robert Bolt
4.34
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
The classic play about Sir Thomas More, the Lord chancellor who refused to compromise and was execu… read more
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26. August: Osage County
By: Tracy Letts
4.29
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
One of the most bracing and critically acclaimed plays in recent history, August: Osage Countyis a … read more
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27. The Winter Garden
By: Alexandra Bell
3.96
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
Welcome to the Winter Gardens of Half Moon House. Please do not mishandle the exhibits. (The owners… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"...a man could not possibly compare with the fascination of a mushroom."-Alexandra Bell, The Winter Garden
"Some things - some mistakes ... Well, we just have to live with them, that's all. And there's no shortcut or magical solution that will undo them."-Alexandra Bell, The Winter Garden
"How much more straightforward it was to bear a physical illness or malady. You need not do anything but rest, and the body simply healed itself. Miseries of the mind, however, were quite another matt…"-Alexandra Bell, The Winter Garden
"After one whole year, the only thing she knew for sure was that motherhood was exhausting, terrifying and nerve-racking, and every day seemed to force her to learn anew what she must do. Yet it was a…"-Alexandra Bell, The Winter Garden
28. Good
By: C.P. Taylor
3.98
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
A story about a liberal-minded university professor who drifts well-meaningly into a position in th… read more
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- historical fiction
- fiction
- plays
- drama
29. Girl, Goddess, Queen
By: Bea Fitzgerald
4.03
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
To hell with love, this goddess has other plans... Thousands of years ago, the gods told a lie: … read more
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- fiction
"Gone is little girl. Kore. I am chaos bringer. Persephone."-Bea Fitzgerald, Girl, Goddess, Queen
"You once asked for the world, Persephone. Congratulations, you just created one."-Bea Fitzgerald, Girl, Goddess, Queen
"I was pretty, always pretty. It’s what they told me again and again until the very word came to mean pain. And still I went on, tearing and pulling and hurting until I was prettier still."-Bea Fitzgerald, Girl, Goddess, Queen
"An artist raised to slaughter. I want to hurt everyone involved in that decision. I would too, I think, if I could. Maybe I am too vengeful. But then I look at him laughing and I don't care. I'd do i…"-Bea Fitzgerald, Girl, Goddess, Queen
30. The Scarlet Alchemist (The Scarlet Alchemist, #1)
By: Kylie Lee Baker
4.06
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Zilan dreams of becoming a royal alchemist, of providing for her family by making alchemical gold a… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Your ducks weren't rude to me. I don't want to eat them." "I do." Yufei whispered..."-Kylie Lee Baker, The Scarlet Alchemist (The Scarlet Alchemist, #1)
"I am offended,"" he said, making a show of crossing his arms and turning away. ""I may forgive you if you kiss me, though."-Kylie Lee Baker, The Scarlet Alchemist (The Scarlet Alchemist, #1)
"Ahead of us, a man was pulling a cart of cabbages out into the street. I grabbed three chunks of amethyst in one hand and slammed my other palm into the cart. It burst in to wood splinters, cabbage l…"-Kylie Lee Baker, The Scarlet Alchemist (The Scarlet Alchemist, #1)
"Uncle Fan had busied himself making lots of míngqì to bury them with—soft baby lambs and tiny ponies and wise teachers. They will be well taken care of, where they’re going, he’d said. My cousins gre…"-Kylie Lee Baker, The Scarlet Alchemist (The Scarlet Alchemist, #1)
31. Leopoldstadt
By: Tom Stoppard
4.36
Format: None pages, Hardcover
At the beginning of the 20th Century, Leopoldstadt was the old, crowded Jewish quarter of Vienna. B… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
- plays
- drama
