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101 President Jokes

by Melvin Berger, H.L. Schwadron

ISBN 0590431668 (0-590-43166-8)
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101 School Jokes

by Katy Hall, Lisa Eisenberg, Don Orehek

ISBN 0590411829 (0-590-41182-9)
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21A

by Kevin Kling

ISBN 0573640475 (0-573-64047-5)
Hardcover, S. French

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ISBN 9780582420502 (0-582-42050-4, 0582420504)

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain

ISBN 0582420504 (0-582-42050-4)
Softcover, Prentice Hall

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Wild child Huck has to get away. His violent drunk of a father is back in town again, raising Cain. He won't rest until he has Huck's money. So the enterprising boy fakes his own death and sets out in search of adventure and freedom. Teaming up with Jim, an escaped slave with a price on his head, the two fugitives go on the run, travelling down the wide Mississippi River. But Huck finds himself wrestling with his conscience. Should he save Jim, or turn his friend over to a terrible fate? [via]

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Animal Crackers

by Bert Kalmar, George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, Harry Ruby

ISBN 0573681376 (0-573-68137-6)
Softcover, Samuel French

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ISBN 9780582529823 (0-582-52982-4, 0582529824)

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Anne of Green Gables

by Ian Montgomery

ISBN 0582529824 (0-582-52982-4)
Softcover, Prentice Hall

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When Marilla Cuthbert's brother, Matthew, returns home to Green Gables with a chatty redheaded orphan girl, Marilla exclaims, "But we asked for a boy. We have no use for a girl." It's not long, though, before the Cuthberts can't imagine how they could ever do without young Anne of Green Gables--but not for the original reasons they sought an orphan. Somewhere between the time Anne "confesses" to losing Marilla's amethyst pin (which she never took) in hopes of being allowed to go to a picnic, and when Anne accidentally dyes her hated carrot-red hair green, Marilla says to Matthew, "One thing's for certain, no house that Anne's in will ever be dull." And no book that she's in will be, either. This adapted version of the classic, Anne of Green Gables, introduces younger readers to the irrepressible heroine of L.M. Montgomery's many stories. Adapter M.C. Helldorfer includes only a few of Anne's mirthful and poignant adventures, yet manages to capture the freshness of one of children's literature's spunkiest, most beloved characters. There's just enough to make beginning readers want more--luckily, there's a lot more in the originals! Illustrator Ellen Beier creates vibrant pictures to portray the beauty of the land around Green Gables and the spirited nature of Anne herself. (Ages 5 to 8) --Emilie Coulter [via]

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ISBN 9780590422437 (0-590-42243-X, 059042243X)

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Anne of Green Gables

by L.M. Montgomery

ISBN 059042243X (0-590-42243-X)
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When Marilla Cuthbert's brother, Matthew, returns home to Green Gables with a chatty redheaded orphan girl, Marilla exclaims, "But we asked for a boy. We have no use for a girl." It's not long, though, before the Cuthberts can't imagine how they could ever do without young Anne of Green Gables--but not for the original reasons they sought an orphan. Somewhere between the time Anne "confesses" to losing Marilla's amethyst pin (which she never took) in hopes of being allowed to go to a picnic, and when Anne accidentally dyes her hated carrot-red hair green, Marilla says to Matthew, "One thing's for certain, no house that Anne's in will ever be dull." And no book that she's in will be, either. This adapted version of the classic, Anne of Green Gables, introduces younger readers to the irrepressible heroine of L.M. Montgomery's many stories. Adapter M.C. Helldorfer includes only a few of Anne's mirthful and poignant adventures, yet manages to capture the freshness of one of children's literature's spunkiest, most beloved characters. There's just enough to make beginning readers want more--luckily, there's a lot more in the originals! Illustrator Ellen Beier creates vibrant pictures to portray the beauty of the land around Green Gables and the spirited nature of Anne herself. (Ages 5 to 8) --Emilie Coulter [via]

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ISBN 9780582426658 (0-582-42665-0, 0582426650)

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Around the World in Eighty Days

by Jules Verne

ISBN 0582426650 (0-582-42665-0)
Softcover, Prentice Hall

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The titles in "Longman Fiction" are mainly new editions of the most popular titles in the "Longman Simplified English" series, including short stories, modern fiction and classics. They are designed to be suitable for students at upper intermediate level, including those preparing for the Cambridge First Certificate examinations. Each book has been re-edited to ensure ease of understanding and naturalness language and keeps within the 2000 word defining vocabulary of the "Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English". Any additional vocabulary used is explained in the glossary. All titles feature an introduction to the authors, the characters and themes of the text, giving students not only background information, but also help in literary appreciation. Additionally there is exercise material at the back of each book, including 50 questions on factual detail, conveniently grouped in chapters, with a further 20 more open-ended questions for written work or to stimulate discussion. [via]

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Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

by Mario Vargas Llosa

ISBN 0571203779 (0-571-20377-9)
Softcover, Faber & Faber Ltd

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ISBN 9780571202478 (0-571-20247-0, 0571202470)

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Babylon

by Andrew Bromfield, Viktor Pelevin

ISBN 0571202470 (0-571-20247-0)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber

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Translated from the Russian, this razor-sharp satire on consumer culture, Russian style, follows the irresistible rise of a Moscow advertising copywriter, who specialises in adjusting Western adverts to the Eastern mentality and selling Pepsi, Seven-up, Gucci, Mercedes and Reebok to the rising middle class. [via]

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Backstage at Saturday Night Live

by Michael McKenzie

ISBN 0590309196 (0-590-30919-6)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks

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Barefoot in the Park

by Neil Simon

ISBN 0573605858 (0-573-60585-8)
Softcover, Samuel French Inc Plays

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Bedroom Farce

by Alan Ayckbourn

ISBN 0573110476 (0-573-11047-6)
Hardcover, French

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ISBN 9780573605741 (0-573-60574-2, 0573605742)

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Beyond Therapy

by Christopher Durang

ISBN 0573605742 (0-573-60574-2)
Softcover, Samuel French Inc Plays

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Comedy

Christopher Durang

Chacrters: 4 male, 2 female

Interior Set

(Set may be simply suggested.)

Bruce and Prudence are deeply into therapy. Prudence's macho therapist is urging her to be more assertive while Bruce's wacky female therapist wants him to meet women by placing a personal ad. She does not fully comprehend that Bruce has a male lover who is not pleased by Bruce's desire to date a woman: Prudence. Bruce doesn't know how to handle poor nervous Prudence and Prudence doesn't know what to make of her unpredictable new boyfriend. They do learn to live beyond therapy in this delightful Off Broadway hit that moved successfully to Broadway.

"Offers the best therapy of all: guaranteed laughter." Time.

"Filled with off beat laugh lines, wry observations on the contemporary urban psyche and situations that range from farcical to absurd." Women's Wear Daily.

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ISBN 9780571193356 (0-571-19335-8, 0571193358)

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The Big Lebowski

by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

ISBN 0571193358 (0-571-19335-8)
Softcover, Faber & Faber

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The Big Lebowski begins with a case of mistaken identity which escalates when Jeffrey Lebowski-alias The Dude-attempts to seek recompense for the despoliation of his ratty-ass little rug, and then finds himself entangled in a kidnapping caper as a bagman-a situation that goes from bad to worse due to the interference of his hapless bowling partners.

In this film the Coen brothers have taken on the preoccupations of Raymond Chandler, but have given them a postmodern spin, while at the same time leaving Philip Marlowe's ethos intact as The Dude wanders through the fractured world of nineties L.A. trying to do the right thing. Like the award winning Fargo, The Big Lebowski is suffused with a droll humor and a verbal felicity that is as delightful as it is startling.

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ISBN 9780582530331 (0-582-53033-4, 0582530334)

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Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

ISBN 0582530334 (0-582-53033-4)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group

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"Community, Identity, Stability" is the motto of Aldous Huxley's utopian World State. Here everyone consumes daily grams of soma, to fight depression, babies are born in laboratories, and the most popular form of entertainment is a "Feelie," a movie that stimulates the senses of sight, hearing, and touch. Though there is no violence and everyone is provided for, Bernard Marx feels something is missing and senses his relationship with a young women has the potential to be much more than the confines of their existence allow. Huxley foreshadowed many of the practices and gadgets we take for granted today--let's hope the sterility and absence of individuality he predicted aren't yet to come. [via]

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The Breath of Life

by David Hare

ISBN 0571215939 (0-571-21593-9)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux

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Breath of Spring: A Comedy in Three Acts

by Peter Coke

ISBN 0573010536 (0-573-01053-6)
Hardcover, S. French

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Charles Hawtrey, 1914-1988: The Man Who Was Private Widdle

by Roger Lewis

ISBN 0571210643 (0-571-21064-3)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber

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Comedy Writing Step by Step

by Gene Perret, Carol Burnett

ISBN 0573606056 (0-573-60605-6)
Softcover, Samuel French Trade

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ISBN 9780571197873 (0-571-19787-6, 0571197876)

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Comic Potential

by Alan Ayckbourn

ISBN 0571197876 (0-571-19787-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux

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A sci-fi comedy thriller, Comic Potential is a play set in the foreseeable future, when everything has changed--except human nature

Comic Potential is set in a television studio in the near future, where the director--an alcoholic has-been--and two assistants are making a daytime soap opera of the usual appalling sort. However, the difference here is that they are using actoids--robots programmed to act--and there are no scriptwriters. Into this situation comes the idealistic Adam, the nephew of the millionaire station owner, who wants to write comedy of the quality that Chaplin and Keaton once embodied. But when Adam falls in love with Jaycee Triplethree (JC333), one of the actoids on the show, everything is turned upside down as she grows more human and the line between actoid and human diminishes. When in anguish Jaycee finally cries that she can't say anything she hasn't been programmed to say, Adam points out that no one ever says anything original anyway.

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ISBN 9780586089538 (0-586-08953-5, 0586089535)

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The Dalkey Archive

by Flann O'Brien

ISBN 0586089535 (0-586-08953-5)
Softcover, Dalkey Archive Pr

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Considered by the author to be almost a work of science fiction, the book includes among its "characters" St Augustine, James Joyce and a man who is in danger of turning into a bicycle. There is also the first published portrait of the mad scientist, who was later to achieve fame as de Selby. [via]

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Dimension of Miracles

by Robert Sheckley

ISBN 0575001992 (0-575-00199-2)
Hardcover, Gollancz

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ISBN 9780590431293 (0-590-43129-3, 0590431293)

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Don't Care High

by Gordon Korman

ISBN 0590431293 (0-590-43129-3)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks

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"Don't Care High: It's more than a nickname -- it's a concept." At Don Carey High School, school spirit is so non-existent that nobody even noticed when a highway on-ramp got built over the football field. But new students Paul and Sheldon have a plan to wake the school up -- and Don't Care High will never be the same. Totally off-the-wall, but always good-natured, this hysterically funny book is not to be missed. [via]

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Educating Rita

by Willy Russell, Suzy Graham-Adriani

ISBN 0582060133 (0-582-06013-3)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley

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This volume is part of a new series of novels, plays and stories at GCSE/Key Stage 4 level, designed to meet the needs of the National Curriculum syllabus. Each text includes an introduction, pre-reading activities, notes and coursework activities. Also provided is a section on the process of writing, often compiled by the author. This play gives a humorous and sometimes moving account of a young woman's determination to change her life. Hairdresser Rita feels that life has passed her by. She wants an education. But does Frank have anything to teach her? [via]

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Farndale Avenue Housing Estate: A Comedy

by William Shakespeare, David McGillivray, Walter Zerlin

ISBN 057311269X (0-573-11269-X)
Softcover, Samuel French Trade

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The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society Murder Mystery

by David McGillivray, Walter Zerlin

ISBN 0573111413 (0-573-11141-3)
Softcover, S. French

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Flanimals

by Ricky Gervais, Rob Steen

ISBN 0571220770 (0-571-22077-0)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber

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ISBN 9780573017735 (0-573-01773-5, 0573017735)

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Gasping

by Ben Elton

ISBN 0573017735 (0-573-01773-5)
Softcover, Samuel French Inc Plays

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Little Theatre

Comedy

Ben Elton

Characters: 3 male, 3 female

Interior Set

The first play written by the popular author of Popcorn , Gasping is a brilliantly funny satire on big business, the media and product exploitation. Lockheart Industries is making serious money, but Sir Chiffley Lockheart needs the buzz that finding a way to make money where none has existed before gives him. Philip, a pushy workaholic executive, suggests selling designer air. Perrier for the nostrils becomes the marketing phenomenon of the decade and millions are quickly made. People start hoarding for a rainy day and oxygen supplies run low. The Third World is plundered, creating a greater divide between the haves and have nots. The world starts gasping and only the biggest suckers survive.

"A poisonously funny morality play.... A remarkable debut." London Sunday Times.

"A sharp witted satire.... Extremely funny." Independent.

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God

by Woody Allen

ISBN 0573622019 (0-573-62201-9)
Hardcover, S. French

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Greater Tuna

by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears, Ed Howard

ISBN 0573619026 (0-573-61902-6)
Softcover, S. French

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ISBN 9780590417037 (0-590-41703-7, 0590417037)

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The Hallowiener

by Dav Pilkey

ISBN 0590417037 (0-590-41703-7)
Hardcover, Scholastic

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Humiliated by his hot-dog Halloween costume, Oscar the dachshund endures ridicule from his canine friends and eventually proves that while he may be short on height, he is long on heart. [via]

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Harold and Maude

by Colin Higgins

ISBN 0573609853 (0-573-60985-3)
Softcover, Samuel French Inc Plays

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ISBN 9780571196937 (0-571-19693-4, 0571196934)

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Haroun and the Sea of Stories

by Salman Rushdie

ISBN 0571196934 (0-571-19693-4)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux

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Immediately forget any preconceptions you may have about Salman Rushdie and the controversy that has swirled around his million-dollar head. You should instead know that he is one of the best contemporary writers of fables and parables, from any culture. Haroun and the Sea of Stories is a delightful tale about a storyteller who loses his skill and a struggle against mysterious forces attempting to block the seas of inspiration from which all stories are derived. Here's a representative passage about the sources and power of inspiration:

So Iff the water genie told Haroun about the Ocean of the Stream of Stories, and even though he was full of a sense of hopelessness and failure the magic of the Ocean began to have an effect on Haroun. He looked into the water and saw that it was made up of a thousand thousand thousand and one different currents, each one a different colour, weaving in and out of one another like a liquid tapestry of breathtaking complexity; and Iff explained that these were the Streams of Story, that each coloured strand represented and contained a single tale. Different parts of the Ocean contained different sorts of stories, and as all the stories that had ever been told and many that were still in the process of being invented could be found here, the Ocean of the Streams of Story was in fact the biggest library in the universe. And because the stories were held here in fluid form, they retained the ability to change, to become new versions of themselves, to join up with other stories and so become yet other stories; so that unlike a library of books, the Ocean of the Streams of Story was much more than a storeroom of yarns. It was not dead, but alive.
"And if you are very, very careful, or very, very highly skilled, you can dip a cup into the Ocean," Iff told Haroun, "like so," and here he produced a little golden cup from another of his waistcoat pockets, "and you can fill it with water from a single, pure Stream of Story, like so," as he did precisely that.

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The Hudsucker Proxy

by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Sam Raimi

ISBN 0571171907 (0-571-17190-7)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux

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The Invention of Love

by Tom Stoppard

ISBN 0571192718 (0-571-19271-8)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber

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Jake's Women

by Neil Simon

ISBN 0573694354 (0-573-69435-4)
Hardcover, S. French

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The Last Battle

by C. S. Lewis

ISBN 0590406019 (0-590-40601-9)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks

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ISBN 9780590255165 (0-590-25516-9, 0590255169)

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The Last-Place Sports Poems of Jeremy Bloom

by Gordon Korman, Bernice Korman

ISBN 0590255169 (0-590-25516-9)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks

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Sports. That's Jeremy Bloom's topic. He's not psyched about spending another year writing poetry, but maybe it won't be as bad as he thinks. He and his friends Chad and Michael join every team the school has - football, soccer, hockey, basketball, and baseball! At first, the guys are unstoppable, undefeated! But when Mrs. Stegowitz decides to become a fan, suddenly the guys are headed for a never-ending losing streak. Jeremy's glory poems ache with the agony of defeat. But surprisingly... he keeps writing. Could poetry be actually as cool as sports? [via]

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ISBN 9780573016400 (0-573-01640-2, 0573016402)

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Lend Me a Tenor

by Ken Ludwig

ISBN 0573016402 (0-573-01640-2)
Softcover, S. French

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Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire

by Gordon Korman

ISBN 0590271415 (0-590-27141-5)
Softcover, Little Apple

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Lie, Cheat, and Genuflect

by William Van Zandt, Jane Milmore

ISBN 0573618755 (0-573-61875-5)
Softcover, S. French

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A Little Family Business

by Jay Presson Allen, Pierre Barillet

ISBN 0573619034 (0-573-61903-4)
Softcover, S. French

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Little Shop of Horrors

by Howard Ashman, Alan Menken

ISBN 0573681821 (0-573-68182-1)
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Little Shop of Horrors is a rock musical, by composer Alan Menken and writer Howard Ashman, about a hapless florist shop worker (Seymour) who nurtures a plant (Audrey II) and discovers that it's bloodthirsty and highly intelligent, forcing him to kill to feed it. The musical is based on the low-budget 1960 black comedy film The Little Shop of Horrors, directed by Roger Corman. The music, composed by Menken in the style of early 1960s rock and roll, doo-wop and early Motown, includes several well-known tunes, including the title song, "Skid Row (Downtown)", "Somewhere That's Green", and "Suddenly, Seymour". Author's Note: Little Shop of Horrors satirizes many things: science fiction, "B" movies, musical comedy itself, and even the Faust legend. There will, therefore, be a temptation to play it for camp and low comedy. This is a great and potentially fatal mistake. The script keeps its tongue firmly in cheek, so the actors should not. Instead, they should play with simplicity, honesty, and sweetness-- even when events are at their most outlandish. The show's individual "style" will evolve naturally from the words themselves and an approach to acting and singing them that is almost child-like in its sincerity and intensity. By way of example, AUDREY poses like Fay Wray from time to time. But she does this because she's in genuine fear and happens to see the world as her private "B" movie--not because she's "commenting" to the audience on the stillness of her situation. Having directed the original New York production of LITTLE SHOP myself, and subsequently having seen it in many versions and even many languages, I can vouch for the fact that when LITTLE SHOP is at its most honest, it is also at its funniest and most enjoyable. -- Howard Ashman [via]

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Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott, Francine Hughes, Robin Swicord

ISBN 0590203509 (0-590-20350-9)
Softcover, Scholastic Canada, Limited

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A new edition of a favorite classic follows the adventures of Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March, as they wait for their father to return from the war, pursue their many dreams, befriend the boy next door, and grow up in spite of themselves. Reprint. Movie tie-in. [via]

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Lost in Yonkers

by Neil Simon

ISBN 0573693366 (0-573-69336-6)
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Love Sex and the IRS: A Comedy in Three Acts

by William Van Zandt, Jane Milmore

ISBN 0573611963 (0-573-61196-3)
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Lusting after Pipino's Wife: A Comedy in Two Acts

by Sam Henry Kass

ISBN 0573695059 (0-573-69505-9)
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Mary Poppins: Three Enchanting Classics Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins Comes Back, and Mary Poppins Opens the Door

by P. L. Travers

ISBN 0590080350 (0-590-08035-0)
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For all her offended sniffs and humphs, Mary Poppins is likely the most exciting nanny England--and the world--has ever seen. Young Jane and Michael Banks have no idea what's in store for them when Mary Poppins blows in on the east wind one autumn evening. Soon, though, the children are having tea on the ceiling, flying around the world in a minute (visiting polar bears and hyacinth macaws on the way), and secretly watching as their unusual nanny pastes gold paper stars to the sky. Mary's stern and haughty exterior belies the delightful nonsense she harbors; her charges, as well as her literary fans, respect and adore her.

Grownups who have forgotten Mary Poppins's true charms will be tickled pink to rediscover this uniquely unsentimental fantasy. Younger readers will walk into Mary's world without batting an eye--of course the animals in the zoo exchange places with people on the night of the full moon. Certainly a falling star landing on a cow's horn will make her dance ceaselessly. Why wouldn't one be able to enter into a chalk picture? The only disappointing aspect of this classic is that it doesn't go on forever! (Ages 9 to 12) --Emilie Coulter [via]

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Matchmaker

by Wilder

ISBN 0573612226 (0-573-61222-6)
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Memoirs of an Amnesiac

by Oscar Levant

ISBN 0573606986 (0-573-60698-6)
Softcover, Samuel French Trade

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Monkey Business: The Lives and Legends of the Marx Brothers Groucho, Chico, Harpo, Zeppo With Added Gummo

by Simon Louvish

ISBN 0571193501 (0-571-19350-1)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber

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More Ten-Minute Plays from Actors Theatre of Louisville

by Michael Bigelow Dixon, Actors Theatre of Louisville

ISBN 0573693072 (0-573-69307-2)
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Murderous Maths

by Kjartan Poskitt, Trevor Dunton

ISBN 0590134574 (0-590-13457-4)
Hardcover, Hippo

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An alternative guide to maths which introduces One Finger Jimmy, Chainsaw Charlie and their ghastly gangster friends, who are living proof that maths really can be murderous. Among the items featured is how to rescue someone in deadly peril, and how not to shoot yourself with a cannon. [via]

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The New Kid on the Block

by Jack Prelutsky

ISBN 0590408364 (0-590-40836-4)
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Our Man Weston

by Gordon Korman

ISBN 0590437550 (0-590-43755-0)
Softcover, Scholastic Book Service

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Kieran McGovern, Oscar Wilde

ISBN 0582418089 (0-582-41808-9)
Softcover, Pearson Education, Limited

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A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."

As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." [via]

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Plays One

by Harold Pinter

ISBN 0571178448 (0-571-17844-8)
Softcover, Faber and Faber

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Plays Two

by Harold Pinter

ISBN 0571177441 (0-571-17744-1)
Softcover, Faber and Faber

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ISBN 9780586044759 (0-586-04475-2, 0586044752)

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A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man

by James Joyce

ISBN 0586044752 (0-586-04475-2)
Hardcover, Triad

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Autobiographical novel by James Joyce, published serially in The Egoist in 1914-15 and in book form in 1916; considered by many the greatest bildungsroman in the English language. The novel portrays the early years of Stephen Dedalus, who later reappeared as one of the main characters in Joyce's Ulysses (1922). Each of the novel's five sections is written in a third-person voice that reflects the age and emotional state of its protagonist, from the first childhood memories written in simple, childlike language to Stephen's final decision to leave Dublin for Paris to devote his life to art, written in abstruse, Latin-sprinkled, stream-of-consciousness prose. The novel's rich, symbolic language and brilliant use of stream-of-consciousness foreshadowed Joyce's later work. The work is a drastic revision of an earlier version entitled Stephen Hero and is the second part of Joyce's cycle of works chronicling the spiritual history of humans from Adam's Fall through the Redemption. The cycle began with the short-story collection Dubliners (1914) and continued with Ulysses and Finnegans Wake (1939). [via]

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The Prince and the Pauper

by Mark Twain, Michael West, D.K. Swan

ISBN 0582522846 (0-582-52284-6)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley

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Rebecca

by Daphne Du Maurier

ISBN 0582084865 (0-582-08486-5)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley

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Reverse Psychology

by Charles Ludlam

ISBN 0573691231 (0-573-69123-1)
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Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

ISBN 0582527295 (0-582-52729-5)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd

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This is undoubtedly the greatest love story ever written, spawning a host of imitators on stage and screen, including Leonard Bernstein's smash musical West Side Story, Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet filmed in 1968, and Baz Luhrmann's postmodern film version Romeo + Juliet. The tragic feud between "Two households, both alike in dignity/In fair Verona", the Montagues and Capulets, which ultimately kills the two young "star-crossed lovers" and their "death-marked love" creates issues which have fascinated subsequent generations. The play deals with issues of intergenerational and familial conflict, as well as the power of language and the compelling relationship between sex and death, all of which makes it an incredibly modern play. It is also an early example of Shakespeare fusing poetry with dramatic action, as he moves from Romeo's lyrical account of Juliet--"she doth teach the torches to burn bright!" to the bustle and action of a 16th-century household (the play contains more scenes of ordinary working people than any of Shakespeare's other works). It also represents an experimental attempt to fuse comedy with tragedy. Up to the third act, the play proceeds along the lines of a classic romantic comedy. The turning point comes with the death of one of Shakespeare's finest early dramatic creations--Romeo's sexually ambivalent friend Mercutio, whose "plague o' both your houses" begins the play's descent into tragedy, "For never was a story of more woe/Than this of Juliet and her Romeo". --Jerry Brotton [via]

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A Room With a View

by E. M. Forster

ISBN 0582512646 (0-582-51264-6)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group

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Young Lucy Honeychurch is staying in Florence with her unadventurous cousin, Charlotte. As she gets to know the unusual mix of people in her small hotel, Lucy also discovers the power of her own heart. [via]

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Round the World in Eighty Days

by Penguin, H. E. Palmer

ISBN 0582427207 (0-582-42720-7)
Softcover, Prentice Hall

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The year is 1872 and Mr Phileas Fogg is leading his usual quiet life. He has kept to the same exact routine for many years. However, in a discussion he says that it is possible to travel around the world in eighty days and to prove it, he sets off himself. At first, all goes well but then all sorts of problems start and what about the detective Fix who seems determined to stop Fogg? [via]

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The Royal Tenenbaums

by Wes Anderson, Owen Wilson

ISBN 0571215459 (0-571-21545-9)
Softcover, Faber & Faber

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This is the screenplay for the acclaimed film, directed by Wes Anderson. There were three extraordinary children in the Tenenbaum family; Chas Tenenbaum (Ben Stiller) was a financial expert and started buying real estate in his early teens; Margot Tenenbaum (Gwyneth Paltrow) was an acclaimed playwright and won a Pulitzer Prize in the 9th grade; Richie Tenenbaum (Luke Wilson) was a champion tennis player ranked 2nd in the world by the age 17. They were brilliant. They were famous. They were unlucky enough to be the children of a man named Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman). Now for the first time in 25 years, they're all living together under the same roof. After having largely gone their separate ways they're looking to mend fencesand themselves in the process.

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Rumors: A Farce

by Neil Simon

ISBN 0573691606 (0-573-69160-6)
Hardcover, S. French

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Run for Your Wife

by Ray Cooney

ISBN 0573691894 (0-573-69189-4)
Hardcover, S. French

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Rushmore

by Wes Anderson, Owen Wilson

ISBN 0571200125 (0-571-20012-5)
Softcover, Faber & Faber

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Rushmore is the second work from the team of Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson following the success of their debut screenplay and film Bottle Rocket. It is a refreshingly offbeat comedy about young Max Fish, a precocious pupil at a conservative private school. He is a live wire, a teenager full of madcap entrepreneurial schemes that usually in failure. His personal life becomes similarly complicated when he falls for his elegant teacher, Rosemary Cross, and finds himself vying for her favor with Herman Blume-who is portrayed in the film by Bill Murray-the wealthy father of two of his classmates. Max ultimately proves himself a figure of some tenacity as he negotiates the minefield of love, desire, and adolescence.At the Toronto Film Festival, Screen International called Rushmore "a real charmer filled with surprise twists and emotions that avoid sentimentality . . . A little gem."

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