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  • Etiquette and Vitriol

    The Food Chain and Other Plays

    by Nicky Silver ...
    This collection brings together two of Silver's highly acclaimed and successful works, the long-running Off Broadway hit The Food Chain and Pterodactyls, with two of his earlier works, Fat Men in Skirts and Free Will and Wanton Lust. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Lyons

    by Nicky Silver ...
    "Comedy nirvana . . . satisfyingly mean and funny."-New York Post"Without sacrificing his mordant wit or bleak worldview, this distinctive dramatist shows a new maturity and empathy in."?The New York Times"Nicky Silver's terrific play is filled with moments when you can't stop laughing even though the circumstances indicate you really shouldn't. . . . A wonderful little riff on family dysfunction. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Raised in Captivity

    by Nicky Silver ...
    With sharp comic turns and absurdist twists, Raised in Captivity explores the guilt, self-punishment, and redemption in the lives of two estranged and equally odd siblings when they reunite at the funeral of their mother--whose demise was caused by nothing less than an errant showerhead. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Surviving the Death of a Sibling

    Living Through Grief When an Adult Brother or Sister Dies

    by T.J. Wray ...
    When T.J. Wray lost her 43-year-old brother, her grief was deep and enduring and, she soon discovered, not fully acknowledged. Despite the longevity of adult sibling relationships, surviving siblings are often made to feel as if their grief is somehow unwarranted. After all, when an adult sibling dies, he or she often leaves behind parents, a spouse, and even children—all of whom suffer a more ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Death and Taxes

    Hydriotaphia and Other Plays

    by Tony Kushner ...
    "This is an odd assemblage of plays, for which gathering-together there is no overarching thematic justification. Because several of the plays deal with death, and one of the death-plays deals as well with money, and the last play deals with taxation, we're calling the book Death & Taxes. But all plays, directly or indirectly, are about death and taxes, so this title explains little..." –Tony ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Final Journeys

    A Practical Guide for Bringing Care and Comfort at the End of Life

    For more than two decades, hospice nurse Maggie Callanan has tended to the terminally ill and been a cornerstone of support for their loved ones. Now the coauthor of the classic bestseller Final Giftspasses along the lessons she has learned from the experts—her patients. Here is the guide we all need to understanding the special needs of the dying and those who care for them.In her work with ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes

    Revised and Complete Edition

    by Tony Kushner ...
    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for DramaAngels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes includes Part One, Millennium Approaches and Part Two, PerestroikaGlorious. A monumental, subversive, altogether remarkable masterwork…Details of specific catastrophes may have changed since this Reagan-era AIDS epic won the Pulitzer and the Tony, but the real cosmic and human obsessions-power, religion, sex ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Book of Immortality

    The Science, Belief, and Magic Behind Living Forever

    A “wonderful” (Harper’s), “engrossing” (Parade) exploration of the most universal of human obsessions: immortality—from an author who is “part Mary Roach, part Joe Strummer of The Clash” (The Wall Street Journal).What have we not done to live forever? Adam Leith Gollner, the critically acclaimed author of The Fruit Hunters, weaves together religion, science, and mythology in a gripping exploration ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The American Way of Death Revisited

    Only the scathing wit and searching intelligence of Jessica Mitford could turn an exposé of the American funeral industry into a book that is at once deadly serious and side-splittingly funny. When first published in 1963, this landmark of investigative journalism became a runaway bestseller and resulted in legislation to protect grieving families from the unscrupulous sales practices of those in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Supporting the Child and the Family in Paediatric Palliative Care

    Supporting the Child and the Family in Paediatric Palliative Care provides a comprehensive overview of good practice in caring for terminally-ill children, young people and their families.Drawing from extensive personal experiences of working in paediatric palliative care, the author provides guidance on issues including symptom management and pain relief; cultural, religious and spiritual aspects ... Read more

    $45.09 USD

  • The Laramie Project

    On October 7, 1998, a young gay man was discovered bound to a fence in the hills outside Laramie, Wyoming, savagely beaten and left to die in an act of hate that shocked the nation. Matthew Shepard’s death became a national symbol of intolerance, but for the people of Laramie the event was deeply personal, and it’s they we hear in this stunningly effective theater piece, a deeply complex portrait ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Afterlife

    What You Need to Know about Heaven, the Hereafter & Near-Death Experiences

    If there was ever a need-to-know book, Afterlife is it. On his daily call-in radio show, the most common questions Hanegraff fields are about the hereafter. For instance, millions are voraciously reading about the near-death experiences of young children. Consumers are desperate for knowledge and reassurance about what comes after life on the earth. Hank Hanegraff, one of the most remarkable ... Read more

    $12.99 USD