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By Awad, Mona2021., Hamish Hamilton Call No: Fic Awa Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When an accident ended Miranda Fitch's acting career, she was left with chronic pain, a failed marriage, and a dependence on painkillers. And now she's on the verge of losing her job as a college theater director as well. Determined to put on Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well, the play that promised, and cost, her everything, she faces a mutinous cast hellbent on staging Macbeth instead.
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2022., Atria Books Call No: MYS Fic Hal Edition: First Atria Books hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The Fairway Players, a local theatre group, is in the midst of rehearsals for an Arthur Miller play, when tragedy strikes the family of director Martin Haywood and his wife Helen, the play’s star. Their young granddaughter has been diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, and with an experimental treatment costing a tremendous sum, their fellow castmates rally to raise the money to give her a chance at survival. But not everybody is convinced of the experimental treatment’s efficacy—nor of the good intentions of those involved. New actress Sam, a former NGO worker, raises doubts. But are her suspicions justified? Or does she have a history with the doctor involved? As tension grows within the community, things come to a shocking head the night of the dress rehearsal. The next day, a dead body is found, and soon, an arrest is made. In the run-up to the trial, two young lawyers sift through the material—emails, messages, letters—with a growing suspicion that a killer may still be on the loose.
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2008., Random House Trade Paperbacks Call No: Fic Blo Edition: Random House trade pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Arriving in America alone after her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian Leyb receives word that her daughter Sophie might still be alive and embarks on a risky odyssey that takes her from New York's Lower East Side to Siberia to find the missing girl.
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2005, p2004., Distributed bySony Pictures Home Entertainment, : Distributed bySony Pictures Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic BeingJ Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: London, 1938. Julia is a true West End diva: beautiful, talented, wealthy, and famous. She has a devoted husband who has masterminded her brilliant career - but after years of the spotlight she begins to suffer from a severe case of boredom and longs for something new and exciting to put the twinkle back in her eye. She finds what she is looking for in a handsome young American fan, who adds a few more sparks than Julia was hoping for.
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2011., General, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Burlesque Edition: Anamorphic widescreen. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Ali, a small-town girl from Iowa, escapes her past by moving to Los Angeles where she gets a job as a cocktail waitress at The Burlesque Lounge, eventually making her way from the bar to the stage with her larger than life voice.
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2019., Adult, Riverhead Books Call No: Fic Gil Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing to her lackluster freshman-year performance. Her affluent parents send her to Manhattan to live with her Aunt Peg, who owns a flamboyant, crumbling midtown theater called the Lily Playhouse. There Vivian is introduced to an entire cosmos of unconventional and charismatic characters, from the fun-chasing showgirls to a sexy male actor, a grand-dame actress, a lady-killer writer, and no-nonsense stage manager. But when Vivian makes a personal mistake that results in professional scandal, it turns her new world upside down in ways that it will take her years to fully understand.
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2019., Penguin USA, Inc Connect to this eBook title Summary Note: Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mostly pleasure), City of Girls explores themes of female sexuality and promiscuity, as well as the idiosyncrasies of true love. In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing to her lackluster freshman-year performance. Her affluent parents send her to Manhattan to live with her Aunt Peg, who owns a flamboyant, crumbling midtown theater called the Lily Playhouse. There Vivian is introduced to an entire cosmos of unconventional and charismatic characters, from the fun-chasing showgirls to a sexy male actor, a grand-dame actress, a lady-killer writer, and no-nonsense stage manager. But when Vivian makes a personal mistake that results in professional scandal, it turns her new world upside down in ways that it will take her years to fully understand. Ultimately, though, it leads her to a new understanding of the kind of life she craves - and the kind of freedom it takes to pursue it. It will also lead to the love of her life, a love that stands out from all the rest. Now eighty-nine years old and telling her story at last, Vivian recalls how the events of those years altered the course of her life - and the gusto and autonomy with which she approached it. "At some point in a woman's life, she just gets tired of being ashamed all the time," she muses. "After that, she is free to become whoever she truly is." Written with a powerful wisdom about human desire and connection, City of Girls is a love story like no other.
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c2010., Other Press Call No: Fic Man Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Now living in Canada, expatriate David Starkman returns to Israel after the murder of his father and finds that his father's will stipulates that he produce a play, "The Debba," within forty-five days of his father's death.
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2016., Adult, The Hogarth Shakespeare/Knopf Canada Call No: Fic Atw Edition: 1st United States ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Felix is at the top of his game as artistic director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His productions have amazed and confounded. Now he's staging a Tempest like no other: not only will it boost his reputation, it will heal emotional wounds. Or that was the plan. Instead, after an act of unforeseen treachery, Felix is living in exile in a backwoods hovel, haunted by memories of his beloved lost daughter, Miranda. And brewing revenge. After 12 years revenge finally arrives in the shape of a theatre course at a nearby prison. Here Felix and his inmate actors will put on his Tempest and snare the traitors who destroyed him. It's magic! But will it remake Felix as his enemies fall?"--From publisher.
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2023., Adult, HarperCollins Publishers Call No: MYS Fic Fer Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Miranda Abbott, once known for the crime-solving, karate-chopping church pastor she played on network television, has hit hard times. Miranda is facing ruin when a mysterious postcard arrives, summoning her to Happy Rock, a small town in the Pacific Northwest. But when she gets there, nothing is what she expected. In dire straits, she signs up for an amateur production at the Happy Rock Little Theatre. On opening night, one of the actors is murdered, live, in front of the audience. But no one actually saw what happened. Now everyone is under a cloud of suspicion. Clearly, the only way to solve this mystery is for Miranda to summon her skills as television's Pastor Fran and draw on the help of her new sidekick, Susan, a shy bookstore clerk who seems to know everyone's secrets. Because the show must go on!
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2014., General, HarperCollins Publishers Limited Call No: Fic Tho Edition: 1st Canadian ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: London, 1885: A challenging place for a young, beautiful woman of limited means. But Eliza is modern before her time. Not for her the stifling, if respectable, conventionality of marriage, children, domestic drudgery. She longs for more. Through her work as an artist's model, she meets the magnetic and irascible Devil Wix. With self-styled impresario Devil at the helm of the Palmyra Theatre, acrobats and illusionists astonish audiences with their death-defying stunts and the magic of mysterious new inventions--like electricity. Backstage, secret romances, box-office dramas, and power struggles inevitably simmer, and intermittently boil over.
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c1996., HarperCollins Publishers Call No: Fic Les Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2003., Thorndike Press Call No: LP Fic Tru Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Capital Crimes Volume: 19
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c2002., Ballantine Books Call No: MYS Fic Tru Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Capital Crimes Volume: 19
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c1992., Oxford University Press Call No: LLC Fic Bas Lev. 7-9 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Lifelong learning collection
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c2001., HarperCollins Call No: Fic Fin Edition: 1st HarperPerennialCanada ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2022., Harper Call No: MYS Fic Hor Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "When the critic who gave his new play scathing reviews is murdered, stabbed in the heart with his ornamental dagger, author Anthony Horowitz is arrested by an old enemy out for revenge and the only man who can help him is his estranged partner in solving crime, Daniel Hawthorne.