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Book The Etienne Sisters

Download or read book The Etienne Sisters written by Che Walker and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I can't believe my own sister would come with this thievery and anarchy to my door.Tree and Ree Etienne are laying their mother to rest when an unwelcome arrival at the graveside intrudes on their grief. It's Bo, their troublesome estranged half-sister.To comfort her sisters Bo moves in for a while and things begin to look up. But cracks appear as childhood memories, deep resentments and long-put-away dreams come to the fore. Tensions build before erupting in a confrontation during which harsh truths are said. Will the sisters destroy all that is left of their family and each other?The Etienne Sisters by Ché Walker premiered at Theatre Royal Stratford East, London, in September 2015.

Book The Ghost of   tienne Passat

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  • Author : Olivia Penwell McCoy
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2014-10-25
  • ISBN : 1499082061
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book The Ghost of tienne Passat written by Olivia Penwell McCoy and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-10-25 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in both modern times and the WWII era, this captivating story begins with a French family caught up in the lethal madness of the Nazis occupation in Europe. When peaceful village life changes, tienne Passat manages to send his two sisters to safety before he embarks on a long, harrowing journey of escape and his eventual disappearance. Many years later, modern American tourists visit southern France and discover a ghostly presence that in due time ties the past and present together. Inspired by an actual experience, this book was carefully researched to reflect wartime experiences and events.

Book The Vincentians  A General History of the Congregation of the Mission

Download or read book The Vincentians A General History of the Congregation of the Mission written by John E. Rybolt and published by New City Press. This book was released on with total page 709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Their mission was humble and simple: to reach the poor country people, who suffered from ignorance of their faith, a debased clergy, and poverty. In response, Vincent De Paul defined the vocation of his “Little Company” as preaching local missions for free, educating the clergy, and working to relieve the people’s poverty. Soon, however, this vocation was complicated by commands to minister to royal families, including Louis xiv of France and the kings and queens of Poland, which would embroil the Vincentians in international and ecclesiastical politics. In addition, they would begin dangerous foreign missions, such as ministering to the Christian captives of the Barbary pirates, the debased colonists and rebellious natives of Madagascar, and the vendetta-prone Corsicans. For the first time, modern readers have a thoroughly researched history based on original documents and the studies of numerous scholars, past and present. It portrays the Vincentians’ daily lives and describes their failings as well as their exalted acts of heroism. It also details the social and political milieus that conditioned their lives and work. It is an important, down-to-earth side of history not often told.

Book Standing Wave

    Book Details:
  • Author : Howard V. Hendrix
  • Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
  • Release : 2010-08-01
  • ISBN : 1434411710
  • Pages : 382 pages

Download or read book Standing Wave written by Howard V. Hendrix and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was the light that mazed every mind's eye? What has brought a flying mountain top home from the stars, and sent investigators into the orbital habitats floating above Earth? How is this connected to a "living fossil" fungus--or to a dead madman--or to the fate of the planet? Whoever discovers the answers to these questions--FIRST!--will decide the ultimate fate of the Earth--and all humanity! An imaginative tour de force.

Book What s Mine   What s Yours

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  • Author : Jessica Butcher
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2022-10-04
  • ISBN : 1350372587
  • Pages : 65 pages

Download or read book What s Mine What s Yours written by Jessica Butcher and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well here's the problem Edrina, the law in this country doesn't work with stories. It only works with facts. And to put it simply, your story - look it just isn't credible. Edrina was trafficked from her family home when she was fifteen. She was taken to Italy for three years before being trafficked to the UK, where she was held captive for another three years. She escaped 152 days ago. What's Mine & What's Yours tells a story of survival. Just when Edrina thought she might have a chance at life - she is catapulted backwards by a hostile immigration system that does not believe her story. She is acutely vulnerable and is re-trafficked within weeks. Could this have been prevented? The Helen Bamber Foundation provides all encompassing care to help Survivors access the therapeutic, medical, legal, housing and welfare support they need to recover from the traumas of trafficking. The foundation now seeks to address the systemic problem of re-trafficking in the UK. Dame Emma Thompson, the President of the Helen Bamber Foundation and acclaimed writer and actor, introduces this edition, explaining and contextualizing the organization's mission. Find out about their new central London Trauma Centre and learn how you can help by visiting www.helenbamber.org

Book The Prince

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  • Author : Abigail Thorn
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2022-09-22
  • ISBN : 1350352381
  • Pages : 122 pages

Download or read book The Prince written by Abigail Thorn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-22 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the world's a stage. Have you ever been trapped in a bad relationship, playing a role that doesn't suit you? Jen and Sam are also trapped ... in a multiverse of Shakepeare's complete works. On their quest to discover the doorway back to reality they notice something unusual about Henry 'Hotspur' Percy. Now Jen and Sam must decide; do they risk losing their way home to help someone who might be like them – someone who does not yet know who she truly is? The Prince is a sharp new play that weaves through Henry IV Part One and other of the Bard's works, providing fun for the audience whether they be Shakespeare scholars or verse virgins. With sword fighting, lesbianism, and disappointed parents, this thrilling new work was written by Abigail Thorn, celebrated creator of Philosophy Tube. This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at London's Southwark Playhouse, in September 2022.

Book Chigger Foot Boys

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  • Author : Patricia Cumper
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2017-02-21
  • ISBN : 1786821591
  • Pages : 67 pages

Download or read book Chigger Foot Boys written by Patricia Cumper and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love, duty, death and dominoes make for an intoxicating cocktail in Chigger Foot Boys. Based on true events in the lives of Jamaicans who fought in World War One and set amid the banter in a rum bar near Kingston Harbour, four young men tell their stories of death and glory as the end of the British Empire looms.

Book Sparks

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  • Author : Jessica Butcher
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2018-10-04
  • ISBN : 1350092924
  • Pages : 66 pages

Download or read book Sparks written by Jessica Butcher and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen years of disconnected sparks to do the damage. To stop her beautiful fantastical brain from working. 'Fall in love in my early 20s, get married in my late 20s, have at least one child by the time I'm 30. F*ck!' Life is hard to navigate when you've got so many questions. Can I put this jumper in the washing machine? Do you have my birth certificate? Where did you find love? How did you do it? How do you survive? A story of a kamikaze love affair with unexpected consequences. Hilarious and heartbreaking, written by Jessica Butcher and with original music by Anoushka Lucas. Sparks is a two-hander musical about the brain's response to grief. This edition was published to coincide with the run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2018, ahead of its transfer to the HighTide Festivals 2018 in Aldeburgh, Suffolk and Walthamstow, London.

Book Yes So I Said Yes

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  • Author : David Ireland
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2022-02-01
  • ISBN : 1350301140
  • Pages : 92 pages

Download or read book Yes So I Said Yes written by David Ireland and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's harder to kill people when there's a peace process on. Ulster Loyalist Alan Black is kept awake every night by his neighbour McCorrick's dog barking. To add to his difficulties, McCorrick refuses to acknowledge that he even owns a dog, let alone one that is creating a disturbance. In a Northern Ireland he barely recognises, where politics has proved just to be the continuation of war by other means, a disconsolate Alan sets out to rid himself of the incessant noise. As he seeks help from authority figures, he finally – as a very last resort – turns to the only voice he can really trust, Eamonn Holmes... Coinciding with the 100th anniversary of the partition of Ireland and the foundation of Northern Ireland, Yes So I Said Yes is a blackly comic, ferocious, dystopian satire about what it's like to feel alone in a place where everyone else is conspiring to erase you and your history. This edition was published to coincide with the production at London's Finborough Theatre in November 2021.

Book Elephant

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  • Author : Anoushka Lucas
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2023-10-28
  • ISBN : 1350448281
  • Pages : 73 pages

Download or read book Elephant written by Anoushka Lucas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-28 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of Best Writer at The Stage Debut Awards 2023 "The men with the Piano look up the narrow staircase of our little flat and they turn to Dad, light their fags, and say; “We might have to take the windows out". A piano came through the sky and landed in Lylah's council flat, just for her. As she pours over the keys and sound floods into all the rooms, Lylah falls in love. At school, Lylah can't ask questions – she's got to be good, good, good or else she'll lose her scholarship. At home she can't ask questions; her cousins say she talks weird, and her parents are distracted. So she asks her piano: Where did you come from? Why are you here? And their shared history tumbles into the light. Part gig, part musical love story, part journey through Empire, this all-new expanded production of Olivier Award nominee Anoushka Lucas' “exquisite” (Evening Standard) Elephant transferred to the Bush Theatre's main house. This revised and expanded edition of the play accompanies the new 2023 production.

Book Booby s Bay

    Book Details:
  • Author : Henry Darke
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2018-01-30
  • ISBN : 1786823977
  • Pages : 109 pages

Download or read book Booby s Bay written by Henry Darke and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Above a secluded cove in Cornwall, Huck, a former fisherman, is squatting in an empty second home. The holiday season is fast approaching, but he refuses to budge. Huck grew up here, but he can't afford to live here and his life is spiralling out of control. As Booby's Bay fills up for the annual surfing competition, Huck wants to shake things up, even if no one is listening. He's got media connections and intends to make a political stand. Inspired by the housing crisis and the reality of life on the North Cornish coast, Booby's Bay is a passionate, comic fable about the lengths one man will have to go to have his voice heard.

Book Chiaroscuro

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  • Author : Jackie Kay
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2019-08-31
  • ISBN : 1786829738
  • Pages : 82 pages

Download or read book Chiaroscuro written by Jackie Kay and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-31 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I want to find it all now know our names know the others in history so many women have been lost at sea so many stories have been swept away Chiaroscuro: (noun) the treatment of light and shade in drawing and painting. Aisha, Yomi, Beth and Opal couldn't be more different, but when Aisha hosts a dinner party, the friends soon discover that they're all looking for an answer to the same question. Does it lie in Aisha's childhood? Or in Beth and Opal's new romance? Who will tell them who they really are? What starts out as a friendly conversation between women, soon turns heated when Yomi reveals what she really thinks about Beth and Opal's relationship. A searing, tender look at queer Black womanhood by award-winning writer and Scots Makar Jackie Kay.

Book I Ain t Dumb

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  • Author : Tom Wright
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2022-02-23
  • ISBN : 1350326437
  • Pages : 104 pages

Download or read book I Ain t Dumb written by Tom Wright and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-23 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tough inner-city school, proud of its inclusivity, suddenly explodes in a rapidly escalating culture war. Sex secrets, hip-hop and hope fight for centre stage in a vibrant, loud and proud, real talk rollercoaster. Tom Wright's hard-hitting new play tackles contemporary issues in a school setting, published to coincide with Coventry's year as City of Culture.

Book 1789

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Williams
  • Publisher : A&C Black
  • Release : 1991-07-01
  • ISBN : 9781850752868
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book 1789 written by David Williams and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1991-07-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve essays by as many scholars reconsider the French Revolution in the long term and the short term, examining both the immediate events of 1789 and their long shadow over other countries and times, including our own. Some chapters focus on the Paris experience, others give a glimpse of the Revolution in the provinces or beyond the borders of France itself. To determine what it achieved, what it meant, and what it continues to mean, the scope of the study must include history and art, science and literature, Switzerland, England, Germany, Russia, Napoleon's Europe and Mitterand's. These essays originated as public lectures in the University of Sheffield, and retain much of their original liveliness and broad appeal. From a variety of vantage points they view a crucial moment in post-Renaissance history, and gauge how the light of that moment shines in our own time.

Book Babylon Sisters

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pearl Cleage
  • Publisher : One World
  • Release : 2006-02-28
  • ISBN : 0345456106
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book Babylon Sisters written by Pearl Cleage and published by One World. This book was released on 2006-02-28 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catherine Sanderson seems to have it all: a fulfilling career helping immigrant women find jobs, a lovely home, and a beautiful, intelligent daughter on her way to Smith College. What Catherine doesn’t have: a father for her child– and she’s spent many years dodging her daughter’s questions about it. Now Phoebe is old enough to start poking around on her own. It doesn’t help matters that the mystery man, B.J. Johnson–the only man Catherine has ever loved–doesn’t even know about Phoebe. He’s been living in Africa. Now B.J., a renowned newspaper correspondent, is back in town and needs Catherine’s help cracking a story about a female slavery ring operating right on the streets of Atlanta. Catherine is eager to help B.J., despite her heart’s uncertainty over meeting him again after so long, and confessing the truth to him–and their daughter. Meanwhile, Catherine’s hands are more than full since she’s taken on a new client. Atlanta’s legendary Miss Mandeville–a housekeeper turned tycoon–is eager to have Catherine staff her housekeeping business. But why are the steely Miss Mandeville and her all-too-slick sidekick Sam so interested in Catherine’s connection to B.J.? What transpires is an explosive story that takes her world–not to mention the entire city of Atlanta–by storm. From the New York Times bestselling author of What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day . . . comes another fast-paced and emotionally resonant novel, by turns warm and funny, serious and raw. Pearl Cleage’s ability to create a gripping story centered on strong, spirited black women and the important issues they face remains unrivaled.

Book The Congregation of Saint Joseph of Carondelet

Download or read book The Congregation of Saint Joseph of Carondelet written by Mary Lucida Savage and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: