Vierge
When sixteen-year-old Divine joins a new church, she meets Bien-Aime, Grace, and Sarah, who are eager to ditch the Bibles and baptize Divine into the real world of boys, booze and blasphemy. In a church where gossip flows faster than prayers, secrets, lies and shifting alliances threaten the genuine sisterhood and friendship that each of these girls desperately needs. Vierge follows these four Congolese-Canadian girls as they navigate the tangled mess of faith, sexuality, and the pressures of being teenagers growing up in a traditional community.
The Recipe
It's 1960 in rural Manitoba, and Oata has just discovered that her fiance, Yasch, has been stepping out with skinny Sadie Nickel. Oata is torn--does she still want to hitch her wagon to this fickle dow-nix? When a distraught Sadie turns up at Oata's door, asking about a recipe rumoured to help a woman whose period is late, Oata must decide whether to help. In the process, Oata reassesses her situation and her own abundant assets. Does she really need pants with a man in them to run a farm?
The Cull
A group of longtime friends gathers for an intimate 25th anniversary dinner celebration as a forest fire rages out of control in the nearby mountains of southeastern BC. When an unexpected gift transforms a discussion about the local wolf cull into a heated argument over economic inequality, conflicting values within the tight-knit group are revealed. The Cull contrasts the dynamics of human self-interest with the instinctive communal behaviour of wolves... turning this particular dinner party into a night of "eat or be eaten."
Art Deco Los Angeles
Step into the captivating world of Art Deco Los Angeles through the lens of renowned photographer Robert Landau. Art Deco Los Angles is a stunning photographic tour through one of the most glamourous architectural eras of the City of Angels. From the iconic Hollywood Bowl, where the world's biggest acts dazzle under the evening sky, to the majestic Wiltern Theater, a timeless beacon of architectural grandeur, each photograph encapsulates the essence of Art Deco glamour. With meticulous attention to detail and an artist's eye for composition, Robert Landau captures the essence of a golden age, inviting you to experience the magic of Art Deco Los Angeles like never before.
The Vanishing Verdict Series - Book 2 of 7
Ethan Voss, a seasoned private investigator, never expected a routine case to spiral into something far more sinister. When a gruesome crime scene photo arrives showing a murder that hasn't happened-yet-the faces of the victims unidentifiable and their existence erased, Ethan's world begins to unravel. Forensic traces suggest they were once real, but no record exists. What begins as a chilling anomaly soon turns into a relentless pursuit of a shadowy force capable of erasing people, memories, and entire events from history itself.Ethan's investigation leads him to a powerful and secretive society known as The Revisionists, a group with the unimaginable ability to manipulate history and erase inconvenient truths. As he digs deeper, reality itself starts to shift-old cases change, his past becomes unrecognizable, and even the people he trusts start to vanish. The only person who believes him is journalist Samira Cross, who's investigating a conspiracy of her own.But the stakes get personal when a new, horrifying photo appears-this time, Ethan is the victim, lying dead in a scene he has never witnessed. Time is running out, and the very fabric of reality is under siege. Will Ethan uncover the truth before he, too, is erased from existence?Don't miss this pulse-pounding, mind-bending thriller-buy The Vanishing Witness now and dive into the chilling world where truth is the first casualty.
The Hollow Song of Eternity
In an ageless realm where time stands still, two souls, Thalior and Selisyn, are bound together by an eternal song-an ethereal melody that stretches across time, pulling them deeper into its haunting grasp. In a world where the clock no longer ticks, they must confront a love that defies the very fabric of existence. The hollow song of eternity has ensnared them, a curse that binds them in a cycle of passion and pain, repeating endlessly.But when they begin to uncover the truth-that their love is both a blessing and a curse-they realize that their only escape from eternity's hold is to sever the bond they share. As they search for a way out, they find that time itself is collapsing around them, and the song that once seemed so beautiful now threatens to destroy them.Together, they must decide: Will they risk everything to reclaim their love, even if it means defying the very laws of time itself? Or will they walk away from the bond that has defined their existence, leaving behind a love that could save them-or doom them to an eternity of loneliness?In The Hollow Song of Eternity, experience a tale of timeless love, heart-wrenching sacrifice, and the fight for freedom against the unrelenting pull of fate.Don't miss out-buy The Hollow Song of Eternity now, and embark on a journey that will leave you breathless.
The Spells We Wove with Forgotten Words
A love erased. A spell forbidden. A world on the brink of unraveling.In a realm where memory is magic, Kaela Dorne uncovers a forbidden spell hidden beneath the ruins of a long-fallen academy-an incantation written in a language no longer spoken, tethered to a name she doesn't remember but feels carved into her soul: Ezren.Ezren Valen lives in exile, haunted by visions of a woman he cannot name, her face flickering in every mirror and dream. When fate draws them together in the Veil Between-a realm where time distorts and identities fracture-neither recognizes the other, yet something ancient pulls them closer.As a magical plague spreads across the land, unraveling memory from reality, Kaela and Ezren must race against collapsing time to uncover a past that has been rewritten, erased... and cursed. But restoring what was lost comes with a price. One must become the Keeper of Forgotten Words-sacrificing everything to anchor the world.From the ashes of betrayal to the edge of destiny, The Spells We Wove with Forgotten Words is a sweeping romantasy filled with heartbreak, heat, and haunting magic. Every word matters. Every memory is a battleground. And love may be the deadliest spell of all.Will they remember each other before time forgets them forever?Buy this book now and lose yourself in a story where memory is power, magic is a language, and love is written between the lines.
San Francisco Photographs
I viewed with eyes and lens the hustling ascent of San Francisco's 2019 economy, its best year ever, and, its sudden devastating 2020 fall triggered by the Covid-19 Pandemic. Tourism, San Francisco's golden goose, was strangled before my eyes while San Francisco's Financial District and Union Square shopping district morphed into ghost towns, nudging San Francisco closer to the "Doom Loop" of economic collapse.Since childhood, I've believed the study of history could answer many of the questions about...what the hell is happening on this planet!? Later, I discovered photography, informed by historical perspective, could capture moments loaded with definitive answers to that question and, of course, raise even more questions.Art is storytelling and San Francisco Photographs tells stories conveying the energy, beauty, joy, misery and complexity of this large American city during a challenging and disturbing era in world history. I walk San Francisco's streets seeing poignant stories unfolding all around me. When I think, "You should have seen that!" I make the photograph. I stand, sit, see, and wait patiently for movement to converge in irony, wit, and sober messages from the drama we all create. I return to locations to get "that shot" and I pursue images I know must exist in San Francisco's rare light, endless hills, myriad angles and views.Hopefully, I've done my job and these San Francisco photographs invite your eyes, mind and spirit to touch San Francisco in all of its dimensions, and see the city without a camera.
226 Garages and Service Stations
An enchanting photographic celebration of Britain's ubiquitous and idiosyncratic car garagesYou might use a local garage to change a tire or replace your spark plugs, but when was the last time you pulled over and took a good look at the building itself? In the spirit of Ed Ruscha's Twentysix Gasoline Stations (1963), British photographer Philip Butler (born 1980) has done just that. Over six years, he traveled the length and breadth of Britain photographing these diverse, eccentric and idiosyncratic buildings.As motoring became popular in the early 1900s, the need for mechanical expertise to service, repair, refuel and sell vehicles soared--and the "garage" was born. From the Mock Tudor fad of the 1920s via the Streamline Moderne of the 1930s to the simple modernist rationalism of postwar Britain, each era has produced a distinct automotive architecture. A diverse array of structures--churches, cinemas, railway arches, fire stations, shops, factories--all proved versatile enough to find second lives as garages. As the era of the combustion engine draws to a close, Butler's enchanting photographs document the charm and personality of these survivors of the gasoline age.Philip Butler is a Worcestershire-based photographer documenting the remains of Great Britain's interwar architecture.
Early Modern Bonds of Trust
The concepts of trust and risk provide important insights into the social and cultural life of early modern England but remain relatively unexplored in early modern literary studies. This collection addresses that gap by exploring a wide range of literary genres and texts including comic drama, lyric verse, emblem books, ledgers, wills, polemical prose and religious epic. Contributors explore issues of personal trust through the faith and lies that characterize Shakespeare's sonnets, Donne's sermons and Milton's Paradise Lost. Following the idea of trust and risk into community brings us to a discussion of The Merry Wives of Windsor, the spiritual trust of faith communities and the network of relationships that are traceable though surviving records of women's wills. Following this progression outwards from the personal to the communal, the final essays in the collection consider the role of institutional trust, specifically the early modern obsession with credit in its various guises. The Merchant of Venice, Volpone and The Winter's Taleact as illustrative examples of credit's significance for understanding trust and risk in the early modern period. Taken together the range of texts and genres considered reveal new insights into early modern English literature and its socio-economic context.
Ellen Terry, Shakespeare, and Suffrage in Australia and New Zealand
While the life and career of Ellen Terry (1847-1928) have attracted decades of attention from theatre historians and feminist biographers, one chapter remains hidden: Terry's tour of her solo Shakespeare lectures to Australia and New Zealand in 1914. This bold venture, made at the age of sixty-six, has been interpreted as an indication of Terry's declining physical andmental health following her 1906 Jubilee. Yet Terry claimed that 'while in Australia, although a woman, I am permitted to be a person', testifying affinity with the geopolitical region in which women had already achieved the right to vote in federal elections and to run for parliament. This Element undertakes the first comprehensive examination of the 1914 tour to reveal Terry's professional agency, her creative autonomy, her skilful navigation of ageist sexism, her eager receptivity to new natural environments, and her friendship with international opera star, Nellie Melba.
Staging Class Conflict in the UK
This Element focuses on the frequent staging of the most precarious fraction of the working class in the context of a theatre industry, academy and audiences that are dominated by the cultural fraction of the middle class. It interrogates the staging of an abjectified figure as a means of challenging the stigmatisation of the poor in political discourse, defined here as an ideological imaginary of moral and cultural deficit. The Element argues that in seeking to subvert such an imaginary, theatre that stages the abjectified subject may risk consolidating two further imaginaries of working class deficit that have been confected in political discourse from the 1990s to the 2020s. In conclusion, the Element reflects on the political potential of theatre that rather seeks to eradicate class descriptors, conflicts and hierarchies altogether. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Staging Class Conflict in the UK
This Element focuses on the frequent staging of the most precarious fraction of the working class in the context of a theatre industry, academy and audiences that are dominated by the cultural fraction of the middle class. It interrogates the staging of an abjectified figure as a means of challenging the stigmatisation of the poor in political discourse, defined here as an ideological imaginary of moral and cultural deficit. The Element argues that in seeking to subvert such an imaginary, theatre that stages the abjectified subject may risk consolidating two further imaginaries of working class deficit that have been confected in political discourse from the 1990s to the 2020s. In conclusion, the Element reflects on the political potential of theatre that rather seeks to eradicate class descriptors, conflicts and hierarchies altogether. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Ellen Terry, Shakespeare, and Suffrage in Australia and New Zealand
While the life and career of Ellen Terry (1847-1928) have attracted decades of attention from theatre historians and feminist biographers, one chapter remains hidden: Terry's tour of her solo Shakespeare lectures to Australia and New Zealand in 1914. This bold venture, made at the age of sixty-six, has been interpreted as an indication of Terry's declining physical andmental health following her 1906 Jubilee. Yet Terry claimed that 'while in Australia, although a woman, I am permitted to be a person', testifying affinity with the geopolitical region in which women had already achieved the right to vote in federal elections and to run for parliament. This Element undertakes the first comprehensive examination of the 1914 tour to reveal Terry's professional agency, her creative autonomy, her skilful navigation of ageist sexism, her eager receptivity to new natural environments, and her friendship with international opera star, Nellie Melba.
Theaters of Translation
Explores the profound influence of multilingual dictionaries, dialogues, and grammars on English Renaissance playwrights In Theaters of Translation, Andrew S. Keener offers a fascinating account of the ways that plays by Thomas Kyd, Mary Sidney Herbert, Ben Jonson, and their fellow English contemporaries were shaped by and part of a multilingual Europe where dictionaries, grammars, and language-learning materials circulated widely. He proposes a fresh, multilingual approach to English Renaissance drama that challenges the histories of early modern European languages as sites of national and linguistic cohesion. Covering the period between 1570 and 1640, when England's drama and the English language itself were evolving, Keener uses the term "cosmopolitan vernaculars" to examine how nonclassical European languages modeled transnational forms of belonging for playgoers, readers, and authors in Renaissance England. Combining recent contributions to cosmopolitan theory and transnational studies of early modern literature and culture, Keener highlights both the ways in which cosmopolitanism manifests through Europe's vernacular languages--in print and performance--and the ways languages themselves can exhibit cosmopolitanism for those who encounter them on the page or on the stage. Theaters of Translation opens up new transnational interpretations of English Renaissance plays and casts fresh light on historical anecdotes, such as Jonson inscribing a copy of Pietro Aretino's scandalous Italian dialogues or Shakespeare's First Folio being advertised for sale in Germany before its London publication. It offers much of interest to readers and scholars of Renaissance Europe, early modern drama, and the development of national European languages.
Stereophonic
Winner of five 2024 Tony Awards, including Best Play An epic play with music that examines the human costs of the quest for artistic greatness. The place: Sausalito. The time: the mid-1970s. The carpet: brown shag. Stereophonic brings us inside the cloistered world of a recording studio as a rock band on the brink of superstardom attempts to create their sophomore album. The ensuing pressures open up cracks in the band's once-easy camaraderie, and spats over issues like tempo and song length begin to reveal deeper problems in the band's foundation. Running on a diet of booze, sleep deprivation, and a giant bag of cocaine, interpersonal relationships are pushed to the breaking point as a process that was meant to last a few weeks becomes a neverending slog. With original songs by Arcade Fire's Will Butler, David Adjmi's play is an electrifying portrait of a band wracked with division and disillusionment that nevertheless might be on the verge of creating a masterpiece.
What This Place Makes Me
Seven award-winning plays by rising stars of contemporary theater herald a profound shift in what it means to be an American, an immigrant, and an artist on today's stage.Shayok Misha Chowdhury Public Obscenities, shortlisted for the 2024 Pulitzer PrizeHansol Jung, 2018 Whiting Award-winner Wolf PlayMartyna Majok, 2018 Pulitzer Prize-winner Sanctuary CityMona Mansour, 2020 Kesselring Prize-winner The Hour of FeelingCharlie Oh Coleman '72, 2021 Paul Stephen Lim Award-winnerMfoniso Udofia, 2021 Horton Foote Award-winner SojournersJes繳s I. Valles, 2023 Yale Drama Series Prize-winner a river, its mouthsThis groundbreaking collection of works by first- and second-generation immigrants unites seven exhilarating new voices of Lebanese, Nigerian, Korean, Bengali, Polish, and Mexican descent. Echoing beyond the stage, their stories draw on common experiences of displacement, alienation, and the sense of living in suspension; sometimes torn between two worlds, sometimes plummeting into the spaces between them. Amid tangled relationships, vengeful landscapes, and buried family mysteries, something universal flickers; the search for safety and the promise of home. Both haunting and galvanizing, What This Place Makes Me will be a vital touchstone for years to come.
A Certain Age
From the bestselling author of 'Eats Shoots & Leaves', a wonderfully funny collection of twelve monologues. In the tradition of Alan Bennett's 'Talking Heads' come Lynne Truss's twelve bittersweet tales about love, romance, friendship and family. Her six men and six women each have very different stories to tell, ranging from the wife who feels better when her husband disappears to the pedant who undergoes a TV makeover and the swimmer who can't escape the shadow of her sister...but all are funny, touching and as beautifully observed as would be expected from the bestselling author. Whether describing fathers and daughters, married men, cat-lovers or 'other women', she is always brilliantly perceptive.
Mimos Sonderband 2025
Der MIMOS-Sonderband stellt den Stand der Theaterforschung in der Schweiz zu Beginn der 2020er Jahre dar. Er beschreibt die historische Entwicklung in den vertretenen Sprachregionen und thematisiert Begrifflichkeiten, Epistemologie und Selbstreflexionen der Theaterforschung an Universit瓣ten und Kunsthochschulen. Ce volume sp矇cial de MIMOS fait le point sur l'矇tat de la recherche en 矇tudes th矇璽trales en Suisse au d矇but des ann矇es 2020. Il d矇crit l'矇volution historique dans les r矇gions linguistiques repr矇sent矇es et aborde la terminologie, l'矇pist矇mologie et les autor矇flexions de la recherche sur le th矇璽tre dans les universit矇s et les hautes 矇coles d'art. Questo volume speciale di MIMOS presenta lo stato della ricerca sul teatro in Svizzera all'inizio degli anni 2020. Il volume descrive lo sviluppo storico nelle regioni linguistiche rappresentate e affronta la terminologia, l'epistemologia e le meta-riflessioni della ricerca teatrale nelle universit? e nelle scuole d'arte.
