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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
A happy and holy occasion	John O'Donoghue	A humourous account of a doomed family party held in Newcastle (Australia) on Friday 13 February 1942, the eve of the eldest son's entrance into a seminary and the fall of Singapore. A portrait of fa…	OL13209570W
Journey through Darkness	Kandake E. Brockington	Azende, a Tamrin commander seeks out the Medjays, his tribe’s last hope against the Aksumite occupation. But instead he finds Joval and her small clan of exiled mercenaries. Together they must build …	OL15192980W
Periander	Willem Frederik Hermans	Toneelstuk over het conflict tussen Periander, tiran van Korinthe, en zijn zoon Lykophron die weigert zijn vader op te volgen, gebaseerd op gegevens van Herodotus en Diogenes Laërtius.	OL15250236W
King Kong	Willem Frederik Hermans	Toneelstuk over een Nederlander, die al dan niet het plan van de luchtlanding bij Arnhem aan de Duitsers verried, gevolgd door de geschiedenis rond de weigering van de autoriteiten om het stuk vrij t…	OL15261260W
The Pack	C.W. Schultz	Sigmund "Siggy" Farris and his five friends form a group called The Pack as a fun way to make some extra dough under-the-table by offering such services as bookmaking, event planning and organized ga…	OL15455795W
Scarborough Fair (All's Fair In Love And Money)	SJ Hills	•A witty new drama based lightly upon the Restoration Comedy classic The Relapse (banned for immorality and lewdness for over 200 years) • Written in an eloquent, witty style with flowing action…	OL15671683W
The trouble with change	Alma Hudson	Sondra's only dream in life is to complete college and make her family proud. But when she moves into an apartment she can barely afford near the University of Southern California, her dreams start …	OL16071931W
Plotto	William Wallace Cook	Exact reprint of the 1941 Writer's Digest printing.	OL16087095W
The Chamberlain's Notes for Twelfth Night at Whitehall 1601	Nick Drumbolis	A re-examination of the Alnwick manuscript discovered by Leslie Hotson (1954) in light of a new disclosure concerning its author.	OL17076030W
In the Absence of Sun	Nicole Vlachos	The remarkable new vampire novel from Nicole Vlachos, co-author of the 2011 vampire book sensation THE ORDER OF THE BLOOD! Vampires are being abducted and murdered in the city of London. A fragme…	OL17597102W
American Trade	Tarell Alvin McCraney	When life in New York gets too hot to handle, charismatic hustler Pharus escapes the clutches of rap star Jules and moves to London to work for his Aunt Marian, a well-known publicist.	OL17852559W
The Foxhole Court (All for the Game #1)	Nora Sakavic	Neil Josten is the newest addition to the Palmetto State University Exy team. He's short, he's fast, he's got a ton of potential—and he's the runaway son of the murderous crime lord known as The Butc…	OL18021060W
Multi-Media Readings	Philly Free School	The essay On the Possibilities of Multi-Media Readings, by American poet Adam Fieled, appeared in Otoliths 17 in 2010. It addresses the performances staged by the Philly Free School arts collective a…	OL19648091W
A Question of Attribution	Alan Bennett	A Question of Attribution is a 1988 one-act stage play, written by Alan Bennett. It was premièred at the National Theatre, London, in December 1988, along with the stage version of An Englishman Abro…	OL20645729W
Shoot	David Cirone	SHOOT - A Stage Play in 4 Scenes Three teenage girls plot revenge on the students and teachers who torment them, but their plans yield deadly – and unexpected – results. "An incisively structur…	OL24369194W
The goat, or, Who is Sylvia?	Edward Albee	From inside jacket: Martin -- a hugely successful architect who has just turned fifty -- leads an ostensibly ideal life with his loving wife and gay teenage son. But when he confides to his best frie…	OL2460225W
The Laramie Project	Stephen Belber,Moisés Kaufman,Andy Paris,Tectonic Theater Project,Leigh Fondakowski,Greg Pierotti	Moises Kaufman and fellow members of the Tectonic Theater Project made six trips to Laramie over the course of a year and a half in the aftermath of the beating [and death of Matthew Shepard] and con…	OL2721322W
Le Comte de Monte Cristo	Alexandre Dumas	xxix, 608 pages ; 21 cm	OL36287W
Look down in mercy	Walter Baxter,Walter Baxter	From Amazon.com: "In this remarkable first novel Mr. Baxter does a great deal more than show promise; if there is any justice in the world he has arrived." - Times Literary Supplement "A…	OL7465351W
The Walking Dead, Vol. 1	Robert Kirkman,Tony Moore	The world we knew is gone. The world of commerce and frivolous necessity has been replaced by a world of survival and responsibility. An epidemic of apocalyptic proportions has swept the globe, causi…	OL8548335W