Download or read book Polly Wants a Curtain Call written by Victoria Sayeg and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's going to take more than a few crackers to balance the monotony of mindless repetition in the life of the Shakespeare-reciting parrot, Pauline. One day, in the midst of a ship-looting-gone-wrong, she flies away to pursue an acting career. After all, a life surrounded by pirates can ruffle anyone's feathers. However, when the pirates discover that Polly has run away, they decide to change their scoundral ways, which leads them to Aargaholics Anonymous. The reforming pirates overcome 30 days in the program, and, on the last day, they are awarded a free cruise. All is smooth sailing until a collision with another ship begs the question: what, really, are the true treasures in life? Polly Wants a Curtain Call is as engaging as it is funny and incorporates a hilarious cast of characters to keep you smiling all the way home.
Download or read book Final Curtain written by R.T. Jordan and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polly Pepper, the legendary superstar of television's golden age, is finally back in the entertainment headlines. She's landed the title role in a new production of the musical Mame, and though it's off-off-off-off Broadway (Glendale, California, actually), Polly's bank account--and her ego--need the job. There's one minor detour, though: on the second day of rehearsals, wunderkind director Karen Richards turns up dead. Of course Polly's nose for news needs to know, and though Karen was well liked, it seems some last-minute casting changes did her in. Sadly, Polly's Suspect #1 is her new friend and co-star Sharon Fletcher. Sharon was the last person seen with the deceased director. . .and her Emmy matches the dent in Karen's head. The more Polly sniffs, the surer she is that Sharon didn't haul off and bash Karen with her Emmy. But the evidence is mounting, and it'll take all of Polly's wits to save the jailed soap star from a murder rap. . .and a starring role in a real-life drama tentatively entitled Framed! "Jordan cleverly propels the hilarious plot briskly." --I Love a Mystery
Download or read book Play On written by Rick Abbot and published by Concord Theatricals. This book was released on 1980 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A theatre group is trying desperately to put on a play in spite of maddening interference from a haughty author who keeps revising the script. Act I is a rehearsal of the dreadful show, Act II is the near disastrous dress rehearsal, and the final act is the actual performance, in which anything that can go wrong, does."--Publisher.
Download or read book Let Me Hear You Whisper and the Ladies Should Be in Bed written by Paul Zindel and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1973-10 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORIES: LET ME HEAR YOU WHISPER. The action is set in the laboratory of the American Biological Association Development for the Advancement of Brain Analysis, where curious experiments involving various mammals are taking place. Helen, a newly
Download or read book Pretty Good Joke Book written by Garrison Keillor and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 2,200 Jokes from America’s favorite live radio show A treasury of hilarity from Garrison Keillor and the cast of public radio’s A Prairie Home Companion. A guy walks into a bar. Eight Canada Geese walk into a bar. A termite jumps up on the bar and asks, “Where is the bar tender?” Drum roll. The Sixth Edition of the perennially popular Pretty Good Joke Book is everything the first five were and more. More puns, one-liners, light bulb jokes, knock-knock jokes, and third-grader jokes (have you heard the one about Elvis Parsley?). More religion jokes, political jokes, lawyer jokes, blonde jokes, and jokes in questionable taste (Why did the urologist lose his license? He got in trouble with his peers). More jokes about chickens, relationships, and senior moments (the nice thing about Alzheimer’s is you can enjoy the same jokes again and again). It all started back in 1996, when A Prairie Home Companion fans laughed themselves silly during the first Joke Show. The broadcast was such a hit that it became an almost-annual gagfest. Then fans wanted to read the jokes, share them, and pass them around, and the first Pretty Good Joke Book was born. With over 200 new and updated jokes, the latest edition promises countless giggles, chortles, and guffaws anyone—fans of the radio show or not—will enjoy.
Download or read book Ameera Unveiled written by Kathleen Varn and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2019-08-11 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All her life, Kat dutifully performed as faithful friend, daughter, sister, wife, mother, legal assistant. She was professionally retired and now an empty nester with an eye on the belly dancing course at a local high school. The exotic and feminine art form kept crossing her path until she finally JUST CLICKED HERE and registered. Little did she know sixteen months later, she would be on a jet with nine fellow troupe members to perform and teach belly dance classes in Jamaica. One week, nine glittery strangers, a swingers group and Kat’s struggle with demons from her past set the perfect stage for bonding in the glittery sorority. They had one common denominator— They saw sparkly people.
Download or read book Wanda the Psychic Wombat written by Victoria Sayeg and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wanda is the last psychic wombat on Earth, and she is struggling to run her fortune-telling business. Desperate for an assistant, Wanda places an ad in the paper, yielding her such applicants as Joe, a hillbilly opossum who thinks he can probably be a psychic medium if he cuts back on the glazed donuts, and Jack, an energized rabbit with a large, TV-game-show-host personality but absolutely no clairvoyant certainty. Her skeptical sisters are of no help either-- her parents roll their eyes and wish she were a doctor, and the Traveling Institute of Psychic Detection Services, LLC., shows up just in time to make a complete mockery of her life's work with their phony Telekinetic Telephone (patent pending) and Sixth Sense Shooter 6000 (batteries not included). As if Wanda's day couldn't get any worse, the mayor announces that she now needs a psychic license to do business within the city limits! With nothing left to do, Wanda considers selling her business to some shady-looking businesspeople who are planning to open another 24-hour Floormart location-- after all, what could be better than buying umbrellas, underwear and basketballs in bulk?! The applicants would even be hired on the spot! While looking for a place to clear her mind, Wanda meets a mysterious wombat sleeping on the bench outside her shop. He seems to "know" exactly how she is feeling, and he has some visions of his own about these Floormart people that send chills up his fur. With the deed to her shop in hand, Wanda rushes into the town hall meeting to discover that things aren't always as they seem and that, with a little help from her friends, she just may be able to change what's in the cards.
Download or read book Let Me Hear You Whisper written by Paul Zindel and published by Graymalkin Media. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Paul Zindel comes this touching, humorous, and delightful play that earned wide recognition in its National Educational Television (NET) Network production. The action is set in the laboratory of the American Biological Association Development for the Advancement of Brain Analysis, where curious experiments involving various mammals are taking place. Helen, a newly engaged cleaning lady, is particularly drawn to a dolphin and is shocked when she learns that, having failed to "talk" as hoped for, it is slated for brain dissection. She makes a desperate attempt to rescue the dolphin from the scientists, incurring first their indignation and then, when the dolphin does indeed "talk" for Helen, their futile pleas that she change her mind about leaving and stay on to help them in their experiments. But the gentle Helen has had enough—both of "Custodial Engineering" and of schemes to change man's relationship to the other creatures with whom the world must be shared. Comedy/Drama One Act 5 women (or can be divided between men and women): 5 total Interior
Download or read book All on Account of Polly written by Harry Lee Newton and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Logic of Flesh and Other Stories written by Norval Rindfleisch and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE LOGIC OF FLESH and other stories is a gathering of new and previously uncollected stories with a wide selection of voices, characters and perspectives all united by Midwestern rural and urban setting from the 1940's through the 1970's. Th e stories range for graphic realism to the lyrical and poetic, from the colloquial to the reflective and satiric. Off beat and idiosyncratic, the characters occupy a world apart from main stream fiction and will strike the reader as refreshingly original.
Download or read book Once a Week written by Eneas Sweetland Dallas and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Surplus Girls written by Polly Heron and published by Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the loss of war, can there be hope for the future? Manchester, 1922. Belinda Layton is a surplus girl. One of the many women whose dreams of marriage perished in the Great War, with the death of her beloved fiancé, Ben. After four years of mourning, she's ready to face the future, even though Ben's family is not happy to see her move on, and her own only cares about getting hold of her meagre factory wages. Then, Belinda joins a secretarial class and a whole new world opens up to her as she quickly finds herself drawn to beguiling bookshop owner Richard Carson. But after all the loss and devastation she has experienced, can she really trust him with her heart? The first in a quartet of sagas set during the early 1920s, following three Surplus Girls - those women whose dreams of marriage perished in the Great War, after the deaths of millions of young men, and the new lives they forged for themselves.
Download or read book Blindsight written by Peter Watts and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Noel Coward written by Philip Hoare and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography of one of the twentieth century’s most celebrated and controversial dramatists. To several generations, actor, playwright, songwriter, and filmmaker Noël Coward (1899-1973) was the very personification of wit, glamour, and elegance. Given unprecedented access to the private papers and correspondence of Coward family members, compatriots, and numerous lovers, Samuel Johnson Prize-winning biographer Philip Hoare has produced an illuminating and sophisticated biography of Coward, whose relentless drive for success and approval fueled the stunning bursts of creativity that launched the once-painfully middle class boy from the suburbs of London into a pantheon of theatrical deities that includes Gilbert and Sullivan, Oscar Wilde, and George Bernard Shaw. As much the embodiment of a lifestyle as an actual inhabitant of it, Coward’s carefully cultivated image defined the aspirations of untold numbers of actors, artists, and writers who succeeded him, and Hoare’s meticulously researched biography peels away the layers of this complex persona to reveal the man underneath it all, whom The Times of London decreed upon his death to be the most versatile of all the great figures of the English theater.
Download or read book The Side of the Angels written by Leona Blair and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1992 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blair continues to prove herself as a top author of women's fiction in this dazzling contemporary novel. Her most engaging heroine yet spins a net of complex entanglements that reveal the light and dark sides of friendship, family, and sexual love. Blair is the author of A World of Difference.
Download or read book Living Life as an Adventure written by Esther Davis Lang and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book The author was living in a Senior Independent Living Center in Severna Park MD, when the Covid 19 pandemic struck. Everything was locked down. She was bored. What better time to write about “what was it like back when” as her family had been urging her to do. She begins her book by inviting you to a holiday dinner, speaking to the reader, personally. Her keen sense of humor is obvious as she tells of growing up in a small town in the hills of western Maryland. It was 1924. In 1941, when attending college, WWII was raging on two fronts. She wanted to help. She spent 2 summers working at a Women’s Land Army Camp, harvesting crops. The army desperately needed Physical Therapists. Having the required biology credits, she accepted the Army’s offer for training, at an army hospital and became a Physical Therapist. She describes working with soldiers with amputated legs and peripheral nerve injuries. They were not pitied but encouraged to find humor even in such situations. She writes of her excitement and wonder as she travels to Norway, the Passion Play in Germany, the Canyons and Parks in the west. There are funny tales of tent camping with her brother and sister-in-law. She drove her “little red sable” and followed them, using a CB to communicate, (calling M & M, this is Red Sable, over) In her book Esther Davis Lang has made history interesting, funny and easy to read.
Download or read book Heartside Bay 5 Never A Perfect Moment written by Cathy Cole and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polly can't wait for her first real date with Ollie. But everytime they are supposed to meet something goes wrong. Will Polly ever get her perfect moment?
