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  • The Vampire Trilogy

    by David Pinner ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Includes the plays Fanghorn, Edred, the Vampire and Lucifer's FairFanghorn is a darkly-surrealistic comedy, which pokes fun at the Theatre of Cruelty. Fanghorn is a lesbian vampire, who invades the household of Joseph King, who may, or may not, be the First Secretary to the Minister of Defence, and hilarious emasculation and murderous mayhem follow in her wake. Edred, the Vampyre is a thousand ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Oh, to be in England

    by David Pinner ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    "If I was French, it would be simple; I'd commit crime passionel in a riot of garlic and vin ordinaire. And if I was German, I'd invoke the phantom of the Fuhrer and get hacking. In America, the husband generally shoots the family first, then takes a dozen high-powered rifles up some bell tower and blasts away at the town. But I knew the English way was the only way, God help me. You make a bloody ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • The Stalin Trilogy

    Lenin in Love / The Teddy Bears' Picnic / The Potsdam Quartet

    by David Pinner ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Playwrights
    Includes the plays Lenin in Love, The Teddy Bears' Picnic and The Potsdam QuartetThree gripping political plays: Lenin in Love takes up the alleged sexual troika and sadistic inclinations of one of the foremost political leaders of the 20th century.The Teddy Bears' Picnic is an ironic comedy which shows Stalin playing relaxed host and bon viveur in his country retreat. His Politburo guests are ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • The Joy of Misery

    Four One-Act Plays

    by David Pinner ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Playwrights
    Cartoon is a comedy about cartoons and the joy of misery. As Siegfried, the cartoonist, remarks; ‘If you cut succulent slices off people, then everyone laughs. However, if the scalpel slips, then you’re down to the bone. But then, of course, comedy is tragedy speeded up.’An Evening With The G.L.C. is a play about public morality versus political expediency, and it exposes the dire state of London. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Newton's Darkness: Two Dramatic Views

    by Carl Djerassi, David Pinner ...
    ”What purpose is served by showing that England's greatest natural philosopher is flawed … like other mortals?” asks one of the characters in Newton's Darkness. “We need unsullied heroes!” But what if the hero is sullied? At stake is an issue that is as germane today as it was 300 years ago: a scientist's ethics must not be divorced from scientific accomplishments. There is probably no other ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

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  • The Two Lives of Lydia Bird

    A Novel

    by Josie Silver ...
    Two lives. Two loves. One impossible choice. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Reese’s Book Club Pick One Day in December . . .“I read The Two Lives of Lydia Bird in a single sitting. What a beautiful, emotional gift Josie Silver has given us.”—Jodi PicoultWritten with Josie Silver’s trademark warmth and wit, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird is a powerful and thrilling love story ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • Isaac Newton

    by James Gleick ...
    Isaac Newton was born in a stone farmhouse in 1642, fatherless and unwanted by his mother. When he died in London in 1727 he was so renowned he was given a state funeral—an unheard-of honor for a subject whose achievements were in the realm of the intellect. During the years he was an irascible presence at Trinity College, Cambridge, Newton imagined properties of nature and gave them names—mass, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Dinosaur's Diary

    by Julia Donaldson ...
    All fans of Julia Donaldson's should read the enchanting tale of The Dinosaur's Diary.Surviving and finding a safe place to lay her eggs is difficult for Hypsilophodon with dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus Rex around. When she falls into a mysterious pool and finds herself on a modern farm there are still problems. Finally she finds a safe place to hatch her babies, but how can she keep thirteen baby ... Read more

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  • The Age of Wonder

    How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science

    by Richard Holmes ...
    The Age of Wonder is a colorful and utterly absorbing history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science.When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, he hoped to discover Paradise. Inspired by the scientific ferment sweeping through Britain, the botanist had sailed with Captain Cook in ... Read more

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  • An Excerpt from The Ocean at the End of the Lane

    Chapters 1 - 3

    by Neil Gaiman ...
    "A novel about the truths—some wonderful, some terrible—that children know and adults do not.” —Time Magazine“They say you cannot go home again, and that is as true as a knife . . .”A man returns to the site of his childhood home where, years before, he knew a girl named Lettie Hempstock who showed him the most marvelous, dangerous, and outrageous things, but when he gets there he learns that ... Read more

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  • Prophecy

    by Peter James ...
    'Britain's answer to Stephen King and Michael Crichton' Sunday TelegraphA game that turns to a nightmare ...Non Omnis MoriarI shall not altogether dieA young boy watches his mother die. A sadistic man dies in agony. Drunk students play with a Ouija board in a damp cellar. Can bricks and mortar retain imprints of the emotions experienced within them?Frannie is delighted when a chance meeting with a ... Read more

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  • The Man Who Changed Everything

    The Life of James Clerk Maxwell

    by Basil Mahon ...
    "Mahon has written a first-rate book on Maxwell's science and legacy."—New ScientistThis is the first biography in twenty years of James Clerk Maxwell, one of the greatest scientists of our time and yet a man relatively unknown to the wider public. Approaching science with a freshness unbound by convention or previous expectations, he produced some of the most original scientific thinking of the ... Read more

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