Barber Shop Chronicles (Oberon Modern Plays)
By: Inua Ellams
4.13
Format: 64 pages, Kindle Edition
Barber Shop Chronicles is a generously funny, heart-warming and insightful new play set in five Afr…
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1. Bull
By: Mike Bartlett
3.70
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Two jobs. Three candidates. This would be a really bad time to have a stain on your shirt... A sav… read more
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2. The Waves
By: Virginia Woolf
4.15
Format: 297 pages, Paperback
Set on the coast of England against the vivid background of the sea, The Waves introduces six chara… read more
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- poetry
- fiction
"Death is woven in with the violets,"-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
"Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing."-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
"I am not one and simple, but complex and many."-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
"But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing."-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
3. Sweat
By: Lynn Nottage
4.06
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
In one of the poorest cities in America, Reading, Pennsylvania, a group of down-and-out factory wor… read more
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- theatre
- fiction
- contemporary
- plays
- drama
4. Armadale
By: John Sutherland , Wilkie Collins
3.94
Format: 721 pages, Paperback
When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a terrible confession on his death-bed, he has little idea of… read more
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- fiction
"A judge, replied the Empress, is easy to be had, but to get an impartial judge, is a thing so difficult."-John Sutherland, Armadale
"The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!"-John Sutherland, Armadale
"...that much gold, and great store of riches makes them mad, insomuch as they endeavour to destroy each other..."-John Sutherland, Armadale
"Allan found his place for the second time, and fell headlong into the bottomless abyss of the English Law. “Page 280,"-John Sutherland, Armadale
5. Confessions of an English Opium Eater
By: Thomas de Quincey , Barry Milligan
4.00
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
A masterpiece of autobiography, and perhaps the first literary memoir of an addict, the Penguin Cla… read more
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6. There but for the
By: Ali Smith
4.29
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
There but for the is the sparkling satirical novel by bestselling Ali Smith 'There once was a man w… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
7. Trumpet
By: Jackie Kay
3.87
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
In her starkly beautiful and wholly unexpected tale, Jackie Kay delves into the most intimate worki… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
8. Death and the King's Horseman: A Play
By: Wole Soyinka
3.14
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Based on events that took place in Oyo, an ancient Yoruba city of Nigeria, in 1946, Wole Soyinka's … read more
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9. Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
By: Kazuo Ishiguro
3.70
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
One of the most celebrated writers of our time gives us his first cycle of short fiction: five bril… read more
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10. 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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12. Much Ado About Nothing
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Gail Kern Paster , None
3.92
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
The action is set in Sicily, where Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon, has recently defeated his half-brot… read more
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13. The Caucasian Chalk Circle
By: Bertolt Brecht , Eric Bentley
4.75
Format: 14 pages, Paperback
Few authors have had such a dramatic effect as Bertolt Brecht. His work has helped to shape a gener… read more
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14. The Spanish Tragedy
By: Thomas Kyd , None
4.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
Large Format for easy reading. Highly popular and influential in the development of Elizabethan dra… read more
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15. Black Skin, White Masks
By: Frantz Fanon , None
2.56
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more
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16. Chewing Gum Dreams
By: Michaela Coel
3.74
Format: 646 pages, Paperback
Tracey Gordon, the 67 bus, friendship, sex, UK garage, school, music, teachers, friendship, periods… read more
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17. The Odyssey
By: Homer , Robert Fagles , Bernard Knox , E.V. Rieu , None
3.53
Format: 349 pages, Paperback
Literature's grandest evocation of life's journey, at once an ageless human story and an individual… read more
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18. Witch Hat Atelier, Vol. 2
By: Kamome Shirahama
4.44
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
TRIAL BY FIRE Join Coco as she continues her spellbinding journey of magic and discovery! Aft… read more
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- fiction
"One's ideas are just as crucial to magic as one's skill wit the pen."-Kamome Shirahama, Witch Hat Atelier, Vol. 2
"If you feel impatient and want to learn quickly, the best thing you can do is to just live life! There's not better teacher than life itself."-Kamome Shirahama, Witch Hat Atelier, Vol. 2
19. They Called Us Enemy
By: George Takei
4.42
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
A graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within Americ… read more
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"The wheel of democracy turns slowly."-George Takei, They Called Us Enemy
"Shame is a cruel thing. It should rest on the perpetrators but they don't carry it the way the victims do."-George Takei, They Called Us Enemy
"Our Democracy is a Participatory Democracy. Existentially it's dependent on people who cherish the shinning, highest ideals of our Democracy and actively engage in the political process."-George Takei, They Called Us Enemy
20. The Grassling
By: Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
3.50
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
What fills my lungs is wider than breath could be. It is a place and a language torn, matted and me… read more
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- poetry
"If it wants to listen to the trees, it is best to be in them, it reminds itself, not out in the open fringes."-Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, The Grassling
"I am plant as well as animal. My blood transports oxygen; my chlorophyll produces it. Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, phosphorus surge along tissue, torso, culm to my blades. Blood blends magnesi…"-Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, The Grassling
"I run on a thousand chandeliers, as each blade sparkles with frost; a river of glass underfoot. It is as though the elements are reversed: sky is ground and ground is sky, and I am running on the pin…"-Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, The Grassling
21. Barber Shop Chronicles (Oberon Modern Plays)
By: Inua Ellams
4.13
Format: 64 pages, Kindle Edition
Barber Shop Chronicles is a generously funny, heart-warming and insightful new play set in five Afr… read more
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- poetry
- nigeria
- theatre
- fiction
- contemporary
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- drama
22. Slave Play
By: Jeremy O. Harris
4.18
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
The old South lives on at the MacGregor Plantation--in the breeze, in the cotton fields...and in th… read more
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- contemporary
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23. Girl, Woman, Other
By: Bernardine Evaristo
4.28
Format: 453 pages, Kindle Edition
Teeming with life and crackling with energy — a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood … read more
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- contemporary
"she's got what she needs, not the same as what she wants"-Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other
"Life is about taking risks, not about burying your head in the sand"-Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other
"Who needs enemies when your life partner undermines you on a regular basis?"-Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other
"very small children don’t care about skin colour, Rachel, until they’re brainwashed by their parents"-Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other
24. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
By: Ntozake Shange
4.28
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In celebration of its highly anticipated Broadway revival, Ntozake Shange’s classic, award-winning … read more
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- theatre
- fiction
- plays
- drama
"What I want and I wanted to be unforgettable."-Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
"i done forgot all abt words aint got no definitions"-Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
"Through my tears 1 found god in myself and I loved her fiercely"."-Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
"And this is for Colored girls who have considered suicide, but are moving to the ends of their own rainbows."-Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
25. The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
By: Kamala Harris
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us,… read more
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"When you break through a glass ceiling, you're going to get cut, and it's going to hurt."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
"One of my mother’s favorite sayings was “Don’t let anybody tell you who you are. You tell them who you are."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
"Politics is a realm where the grand pronouncement often takes the place of the painstaking and detail-oriented work of getting meaningful things done."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
". . . Being a good person meant standing for something larger than yourself; that success is measured in part by what you help others achieve and accomplish."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
26. The Sun is Open
By: Gail McConnell
4.23
Format: 126 pages, Paperback
The Sun is Open sifts through a boxed archive of public and private materials related to the life a… read more
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27. American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
By: Terrance Hayes
4.27
Format: 91 pages, Paperback
In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assas… read more
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- poetry
"May all the gold you touch burn, rot, and rust."-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
" Sometimes Is a good answer to any existential question."-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
"Are you not the color of this country's current threat Advisory?"-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
"Why youth seems to be my only requisite for beauty now is beyond me."-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
28. Lady Macbeth
By: Ava Reid
3.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ava Reid comes a reimagining of Lady Macbeth, Shakespeare… read more
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"Nakedness, even among women in private, is still uncommon, uncouth. Bodies are meant to be guarded like gold. The flash of a bare ankle is like dropping a pendant, so that everyone can see it clatter…"-Ava Reid, Lady Macbeth
29. Chiaroscuro
By: Jackie Kay
4.00
Format: 57 pages, Paperback
Chiaroscuro: (noun) the treatment of light and shade in drawing and painting. Aisha, Yomi, Beth … read more
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30. What Mama Said
By: Osonye Tess Onwueme
3.61
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Renowned playwright Osonye Tess Onwueme's powerful new drama illuminates the effect of national and… read more
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31. The Kitchen Sink
By: Tom Wells
3.79
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
An irresistibly funny and tender play about big dreams and small changes. Amid the dreaming, the dr… read more
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