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    Ten-Minute Play Festival (eBook, ePUB)
    Complete scripts for 33 new plays, finalists at annual festivals produced by Theatre Odyssey, 2018-2021: Marvin Albert, Seva Anthony, Michael Bille, Dorothea Cahan, Monica Cross, Paul Donnelly, Cece Dwyer, Tony Gunn, Dan Higgs, Kea Kamiya, John J. Kelly, Arthur Keyser, Frank Motz, Marj O'Neill-Butler, Spencer Opal-Levine, Michelle Pascua, Ken Preuss, Sylvia Reed, Arianna Rose, Connie Schindewolf, Fredric Sirasky, Mary Margaret Steber, Laurie Stoner, Luke Valadie, Jan Wallace, Robert Wanderman, Keith Whalen, Bernard Yanelli. Performance rights for these individually copyrighted works are available directly from the authors.Theatre Odyssey's first Ten-Minute Play Festival in 2006 was a single-night, sold-out event. It cemented an idea that developed from conversations among local actors and writers that new, original work could be performed in different venues and everyone participating in any production would receive some monetary compensation for their time and talent. In 2013, the company created a Student Ten-Minute Playwriting Festival to encourage emerging playwrights from local high schools. That initial festival was in January of that year and became Theatre Odyssey's second annual event.In 2021 Theatre Odyssey produced its third One-Act Play Festival and again invited writers from throughout the United States to submit their work for production locally.Over 200 original new plays have been produced over the years. Many playwrights whose work was first presented by Theatre Odyssey have been published elsewhere, and their work has been produced nationally and internationally.Theatre Odyssey has published three anthologies. Volume One is the work produced in the years 2006-2009; Volume Two, 2010-2013; and Volume Three, 2014-2017.
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    Marque of Caine: Caine Riordan, Book 5 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1199min
    Book 5 in the critically acclaimed Caine Riordan science fiction series by three-time Nebula nominee Charles E. Gannon. Science fiction on a grand scale. Prequels Raising Caine, Trial by Fire, and, Fire with Fire were all Nebula Award finalists. Charles E. Gannon is also the winner of the Compton Crook Award and a Dragon Award nominee.  It’s been two years since Caine Riordan was relieved of his command for following both his orders and his conscience. Now he’s finally received the message he’s been waiting for: a summons to visit the ancient and enigmatic Dornaani. And this time, making direct contact is not just professional, but personal: the Dornaani still have his mortally-wounded love, Elena Corcoran, in their unthinkably advanced medical facilities.   But instead of arranging a swift reunion, Riordan’s new Dornaani hosts are not only disinterested in human affairs, but are in such social disarray that they have lost track of Elena’s surgical cryocell. Riordan must blaze his own trail through dying and dangerous worlds to find the mother of his child, her fate as uncertain as the true agenda of the Dornaani leaders.   However, as new clues and new threats push Caine’s quest beyond the edge of known space, he discovers that the Dornaani empire is not merely decaying; there are subtle signs that its decline is being accelerated from without. Which means that rescuing Elena is just half the mission: Riordan must report that the Dornaani collapse is not only being engineered, but that it is the prelude to a far more malign scheme: to clear a path for a foe bent on destroying Earth. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Pariseau. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/052076/bk_adbl_052076_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Seasons: Desert Sketches , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 87min
    The late writer and naturalist Ellen Meloy wrote and recorded a series of audio essays for KUER, NPR Utah in the 1990s. Every few months, she would travel to their Salt Lake City studios from her red rock home of Bluff to read an essay or two. With understated humor and sharp insight, Meloy would illuminate facets of human connection to nature and challenge listeners to examine the world anew. Seasons: Desert Sketches is a compilation of these essays, transcribed from their original cassette tape recordings. Whether Meloy is pondering geese in Desolation Canyon or people at the local post office, listeners will delight in her signature wit and charm - and feel the pull of the desert she loves and defends. With a foreword by Annie Proulx. “Ellen Meloy just might be my favorite Utah writer. She’s smart and witty. She’s laugh–out–loud funny. She’s self–deprecatory and never preachy. She always gets her natural history right. And her writing is sufficiently gorgeous for her books to be finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.  “Seasons serves as a fine introduction to the work of this underappreciated writer. Meloy grounds us in her home landscape—our home landscape, where, she realizes, ‘I always belonged, but didn’t know it.’ To earn our place in this red rock desert community, Meloy asks us to ‘slow down, pay attention, stay local, go deep.’  “That’s what she does here, and we are privileged to travel with her through the cycles of southern Utah seasons as she searches for ‘the core of home.’”  —STEPHEN TRIMBLE, editor of Red Rock Stories: Three Generations of Writers Speak on Behalf of Utah’s Public Lands" ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ellen Meloy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/219159/bk_acx0_219159_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The History of Tom Jones - A Foundling  , Hörbuch, Digital, 418min
    The ‘Voice of the Year’ competition introduced and sponsored by Naxos AudioBooks and The Times books pages, edited by Erica Wagner, took place in Spring 2004. Readers without any formal drama training or professional acting experience were invited to send in recordings of a short extract of either Dickens, Austen or from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame and an own choice. The judging panel - Martin Jarvis, Juliet Stevenson, and Anton Lesser, with John Tydeman, David Timson, and Christina Hardyment (audiobook reviewer for The Times), under the chairmanship of Naxos AudioBooks’ managing director Nicolas Soames – chose the winner and finalists from nearly one thousand entries. First prize was to read a classic for Naxos AudioBooks. The winner was Maurice West, a fifty-five-year-old English teacher from Croydon. His chosen piece was from Tom Jones and he was invited to read an extended abridgement – 6-CD set – of the same novel. ‘We were very impressed by the natural storytelling talent shown by Mr West, with a strong narrative character, a sense of period style as well as a firm grasp of the many characters who appear,’ said Nicolas Soames. After graduating from Cambridge, Mr West applied to LAMDA on the main acting course and was accepted. Unfortunately, he didn’t have sufficient funds to take up the offer and had to confine his thespian interests to amateur dramatics. Now, later in life, he has a chance to open a new thread of activity. This 6 CD recording of Tom Jones is an important addition to the eighteenth-century audio library on Naxos AudioBooks.PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. Language: English. Narrator: Maurice West. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/naxo/000690/bk_naxo_000690_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Web of Deceit: An Agents Under Fire Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 719min
    Will he help find her sister's killer...or lead the killer to her door? When FBI Agent Kaitlyn Knight discovers her brother-in-law is Vyper - the notorious cyber-criminal and murderer wanted by the FBI - Kait doesn't question her duty to arrest him. But when he murders her sister in front of her, leaving her infant niece motherless, Kait vows to hunt him down and bring him to justice while raising the baby. Three years later, and not even a whisper of a lead in her search, Kait is about to give up hope of ever finding Vyper. All of that changes when he goes on a murderous spree taunting Kait with clues that she and homicide detective Sam Murdock must solve before her devious brother-in-law takes another life. As the body count rises, Sam discovers the killing spree is really about striking back at Kait. He must put everything on the line - including the relationship he's developed with Kait - to ensure her safety. The killer is waiting, watching her every move, and he won't stop until he's exacted his revenge and reclaims his rights to raise his daughter. Susan Sleeman is a best-selling author of clean read and inspirational romantic suspense books. Awards include Thread of Suspicion, 2013 Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Best Book Award, and No Way Out and The Christmas Witness, Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence finalists. In addition to writing, Susan also hosts the popular website TheSuspenseZone.com. She currently lives in Oregon with her husband, but has lived in nine states. They have two daughters, a son-in-law, and an adorable grandson. To learn more about Susan, stop by any of these locations on the web. susansleeman.com facebook.com/SusanSleemanBooks twitter.com/SusanSleeman ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jack Wayne. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/088635/bk_acx0_088635_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Sunset Shadows , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 579min
    Secrets, lies and murder in the Australian wilderness.... A nail-biting new novel of romantic suspense by the award-winning author of Dead Heat and Storm Clouds, Bronwyn Parry. 'Dammit, Tess, he doesn't seem worth protecting.' 'I'm not protecting him, Sarge,' she said. She dropped her gaze, biting her lip, and for the first time in his experience she spoke in a small voice. 'I'm protecting me.' For police officers Steve Fraser and Tess Ballard, a split-second decision saves the lives of 50 members of a cult - but also puts their careers on the line. Tess' work is everything to her; she's forged a new life through sheer determination, so when her past returns to haunt her, Steve must race through wild country if he is to save the people he most cares about. In Sunset Shadows, the thrilling new audiobook by multiaward-winning author Bronwyn Parry, you will feel immersed in the dramatic beauty, isolation, wind and the sun of the deep Australian bush - and its sinister shadows.... About the author: Bronwyn Parry grew up surrounded by books, with a fascination with places, people and their stories. Her first novel, As Darkness Falls, won a prestigious Romance Writers of America Golden Heart Award in 2007. Her second and third novels, Dark Country and Dead Heat, were voted the Favourite Romantic Suspense Novel by the Australian Romance Readers Association (ARRA) in 2010 and 2013 and were both finalists in the Romance Writers of America RITA Awards and the Daphne du Maurier Award for Romantic Suspense. Her fourth novel, Darkening Skies, was a finalist in the ARRA Awards in 2014. Bronwyn's fifth book, Storm Clouds, was short-listed by ARRA for Favourite Romantic Suspense Novel of 2015. She lives in the New England tablelands in New South Wales and loves to travel in Australia's wild places. For more information visit www.bronwynparry.com or www.facebook.com/Bronw ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Wendy Bos. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/haau/000019/bk_haau_000019_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Christmas in Stone Gap , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 281min
    Christmas at Hollywood... To Do List: Show my lying, cheating ex-husband, my family, and everyone else that I have a plan. I know what I'm doing-even if I'm winging it! Flirt with hot ski instructors! Win the Cake-Off Competition! Morgan Ashley finally has a chance to prove herself. She's survived multiple elimination rounds, and she's one of five finalists ready to strut her cake-baking stuff at the Holly Wood Resort and Spa as part of the Cake-Off Competition. She's worked hard, perfected her cake designs, and reluctantly kissed her kids good-bye since they're spending Christmas with their father and his bimbo. She doesn't look forward to spending Christmas alone, but at least she has the competition to distract her. That is, if she can make it up the mountain before the oncoming snowstorm. Stranded midway to the resort, she's rescued by a handsome stranger/resort ski instructor. Inside their personal "snow globe", he helps her rediscover her joy of the holidays along with a bit of the self-confidence she'd lost during her marriage. Morgan then faces her white-smocked, professional competitors wearing her kitchen apron and a sated smile - until what happened in their snow globe doesn't stay in their snow globe and the news ruins everything.... Natasha Carter dreads the holidays. She isn't fit company for anyone, especially since the man she loves is missing and her best friends have all fallen in love. Owen Redd's return is a Christmas miracle. But his disappearance negatively impacts his relationship with Tasha. How can she love a security specialist who puts himself in the line of fire? A man who may or may not come home at the end of the day? Now that he's back, can Owen convince Tasha to give him another chance? Or will her fear separate them forever? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Debbie Andreen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/018820/bk_acx0_018820_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 562min
    In this must-listen book for anyone striving to succeed, pioneering psychologist Angela Duckworth shows parents, educators, students, and businesspeople - both seasoned and new - that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent but a focused persistence called "grit". Why do some people succeed and others fail? Sharing new insights from her landmark research on grit, MacArthur "genius" Angela Duckworth explains why talent is hardly a guarantor of success. Rather, other factors can be even more crucial, such as identifying our passions and following through on our commitments. Drawing on her own powerful story as the daughter of a scientist who frequently bemoaned her lack of smarts, Duckworth describes her winding path through teaching, business consulting, and neuroscience, which led to the hypothesis that what really drives success is not genius but a special blend of passion and long-term perseverance. As a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Duckworth created her own "character lab" and set out to test her theory. Here, she takes listeners into the field to visit teachers working in some of the toughest schools, cadets struggling through their first days at West Point, and young finalists in the National Spelling Bee. She also mines fascinating insights from history and shows what can be gleaned from modern experiments in peak performance. Finally, she shares what she's learned from interviewing dozens of high achievers - from J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon to the cartoon editor of The New Yorker to Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll. Winningly personal, insightful, and even life changing, Grit is a book about what goes through your head when you fall down and how that - not talent or luck - makes all the difference. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Angela Duckworth. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/007459/bk_sans_007459_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Monkey Boy
    * "Monkey Boy is written with tenderness and emotional precision. It tells what it means to be an American, to have an identity that is nourished by many sources, including ones that are mysterious and shrouded in secrecy. It is a story of two cities - Boston and Guatemala - and an account of a man's relationship with his mother, who is evoked here in sharp and loving detail. It is a book about how we piece the past together. Goldman bridges the gap between imagination and memory with stunning lyricism and unsparing clarity." -Colm Tóibín * Francisco Goldman returns with a hugely ambitious and accomplished novel about growing up a bi-racial son of immigrants in a working class Boston suburb and a search for identity and love over the span of a lifetime. * Auto-fictional in the spirit of early Philip Roth and Saul Bellow, Monkey Boy is an expansive and deeply insightful story of living outside the dominant culture in a conservative 50's America. * Plunging into his relationships with family and loved ones, Monkey Boy weaves an intricate yet sprawling narrative about romance and redemption and is also a great love story. * Grove has published Frank Goldman since the very start of his career and he is a major house author for us. * Goldman's Say Her Name was reviewed on the front cover of the New York Times Book Review, and won the Prix Femina Etranger, selling nearly 50,000 copies. * His first novel, The Long Night of White Chickens was awarded the American Academy's Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction. * His novels have been finalists for several prizes, including, twice, The Pen/Faulkner Prize. The Ordinary Seaman was a finalist for The International IMPAC Dublin literary award. The Divine Husband was a finalist for The Believer Book Award. The Art of Political Murder won The Index on Censorship T.R. Fyvel Book Award and The WOLA/Duke Human Rights Book Award. The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle, published in 2013, was named by the LA Times one of 10 best books of the year and received The Blue Metropolis "Premio Azul" 2017. 1. Francisco Goldman returns with a hugely ambitious and accomplished novel about growing up a bi-racial son of immigrants in a working class Boston suburb and a search for identity and love over the span of a lifetime. 2. Auto-fictional in the spirit of early Philip Roth and Saul Bellow, Monkey Boy is an expansive and deeply insightful story of living outside the dominant culture in a conservative 50's America 3. Plunging into his relationships with family and loved ones, Monkey Boy weaves an intricate yet sprawling narrative about romance and redemption and is also a great love story. 4. Grove has published Frank Goldman since the very start of his career and he is a major house author for us. 5. Goldman's Say Her Name was reviewed on the front cover of theNew York Times Book Review, and won the Prix Femina Etranger, selling nearly 50,000 copies. 6. His first novel, The Long Night of White Chickens was awarded the American Academy's Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction. 7. His novels have been finalists for several prizes, including, twice, The Pen/Faulkner Prize. The Ordinary Seaman was a finalist for The International IMPAC Dublin literary award. The Divine Husband was a finalist for The Believer Book Award. The Art of Political Murder won The Index on Censorship T.R. Fyvel Book Award and The WOLA/Duke Human Rights Book Award. The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle, published in 2013, was named by the LA Times one of 10 best books of the year and received The Blue Metropolis "Premio Azul" 2017.
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    Grit
    In this instant New York Times bestseller, Angela Duckworth shows anyone striving to succeed that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent, but a special blend of passion and persistence she calls "grit." "Inspiration for non-geniuses everywhere" (People).The daughter of a scientist who frequently noted her lack of "genius," Angela Duckworth is now a celebrated researcher and professor. It was her early eye-opening stints in teaching, business consulting, and neuroscience that led to her hypothesis about what really drives success: not genius, but a unique combination of passion and long-term perseverance.In Grit, she takes us into the field to visit cadets struggling through their first days at West Point, teachers working in some of the toughest schools, and young finalists in the National Spelling Bee. She also mines fascinating insights from history and shows what can be gleaned from modern experiments in peak performance. Finally, she shares what she's learned from interviewing dozens of high achievers-from JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon to New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff to Seattle Seahawks Coach Pete Carroll."Duckworth's ideas about the cultivation of tenacity have clearly changed some lives for the better" (The New York Times Book Review). Among Grit's most valuable insights: any effort you make ultimately counts twice toward your goal; grit can be learned, regardless of IQ or circumstances; when it comes to child-rearing, neither a warm embrace nor high standards will work by themselves; how to trigger lifelong interest; the magic of the Hard Thing Rule; and so much more. Winningly personal, insightful, and even life-changing, Grit is a book about what goes through your head when you fall down, and how that-not talent or luck-makes all the difference. This is "a fascinating tour of the psychological research on success" (The Wall Street Journal).
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