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  • Fat Ham

    by James Ijames ...
    2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Fat Ham was awarded the Pulitzer before the play had even received an in-person production. Originally premiered as a virtual production from the Wilma Theater in 2021; In-person premiere at The Public Theater spring 2022. New York Times Critic's Pick.Awards and Honors for James Ijames: 2011 F. Otto Haas Award for an Emerging Artist. Two Barrymore Awards for ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • We Are Water

    A Novel

    by Wally Lamb ...
    “A mesmerizing novel about a family in crisis.”— Miami HeraldA disquieting and ultimately uplifting novel about a marriage, a family, and human resilience in the face of tragedy, from Wally Lamb, the New York Times bestselling author of The Hour I First Believed and I Know This Much Is True.After 27 years of marriage and three children, Anna Oh—wife, mother, outsider artist—has fallen in love wit. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • The Diamond Eye

    A Novel

    by Kate Quinn ...
    New York Times BestsellerThe bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with an unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet bookworm who becomes history’s deadliest female sniper. Based on a true story.In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kyiv, wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son—but Hitler’s invasion of Ukraine and Russia sends ... Read more

    $15.49 USD

  • Picnic Plus 3: 4 Plays

    by William Inge ...
    “Inge reveals the powerful mysteries in our lives.”—Tennessee WilliamsFour plays by a quintessential twentieth-century playwright—Come Back, Little Sheba; Picnic, winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Bus Stop; and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs—with a foreword by the author.“This nice, well-bred next door neighbor, with the accent that belongs to no region except the region of good manners, has begun ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • A Woman Is No Man

    A Read with Jenna Pick

    by Etaf Rum ...
    A Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist for Best Fiction and Best Debut • BookBrowse's Best Book of the Year • A Marie Claire Best Women's Fiction of the Year • A Real Simple Best Book of the Year • A PopSugar Best Book of the Year All Written By Females • A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • A Washington Post 10 Books to Read in March • A Newsweek Best Book of the Summer • A USA Today Best ... Read more

    $12.49 USD

  • The Convert

    Series series Modern Plays
    A young Shona girl escapes an arranged marriage by converting to Christianity, becoming a servant and student to an African Evangelical. As anti-European sentiments spread throughout the native population, she is forced to choose between her family's traditions and her newfound faith. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Break of Noon

    A Play

    by Neil LaBute ...
    What if God told you to be a better person but the world wouldn’t allow it?Such is the dilemma facing Joe Smith, a run-of-the-mill white-collar businessman who survives an office shooting and is subsequently touched by what he believes to be a divine vision. His journey toward personal enlightenment-past greed and lust and the other deadly sins-is, by turns, tense, hilarious, profane, and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Belleville

    by Amy Herzog ...
    "A quietly devastating play... Both a perceptive drama depicting the sudden fraying of a young marriage and a nail-biting psychological thriller... Belleville is among the most suspenseful plays I've seen in years." - Charles Isherwood, New York Times"Masterly... Among the new crop of young American playwrights, Herzog is in a class by herself." - Richard Zoglin, TimeAbby and Zack, young American ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Some Girl(s)

    A Play

    by Neil LaBute ...
    Your career as a writer is blossoming, your beautiful, young fiancee is waiting to get married and rush off to Cancun by your side—so what is your natural reaction? Well, if you're a man, it's probably to get nervous and start calling up old girlfriends. And so begins a single man's odyssey through four hotel rooms as he flies across the country in search of the perfect woman (that he's already ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Naked Paddock

    by M.K. Ducote ...
    Inspired by real events and the first novel of a trilogy series, Naked Paddock, transports its readers on a wild journey through the adrenaline-fueled world of professional motorsports—a world of money, sex, ego and ruthless competition. Set on the stage of historic racetracks throughout the world, Naked Paddock introduces a lifelike cast of colorful characters, as quirky and flawed as they are ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Mountaintop

    by Katori Hall ...
    Series series Modern Classics
    Exactly one year ago, I stood in that crumbling pulpit in Riverside and shouted that this war would be our own violent undoing, freedom's suicide . . . Well, I'll tell you, there weren't too many Amens that Sunday. But who is a man who does not speak his mind? He is not a man, but I am a man.The night before his assassination, King retires to room 306 in the now-famous Lorraine Motel after giving ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Smoke Screen

    Lauren, Ryan, and Simone meet again after the tragedy that brought them all together ten years ago. A serial killer is on the loose in Detroit, murdering men and leaving her mark, and each of these women has a motive to kill. Simone, a sexual abuse survivor and advocate for young girls, has begun to heal her wounds over the past ten years, but she is still trying to reclaim her life. Her mother, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Choir Boy

    "An exhilarating, multi-layered new play."-The Guardian"Stirring and stylishly told . . . McCraney's crispest and most confident work."-Daily News"Greatly affecting. . . . It takes a brave writer to set his language against the plaintive beauty of the hymns and spirituals . . . but McCraney's speech holds its own, locating poetry even in casual vernacular and again demonstrating his gift for ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Crucible

    by Arthur Miller ...
    A haunting examination of groupthink and mass hysteria in a rural communityThe place is Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, an enclave of rigid piety huddled on the edge of a wilderness. Its inhabitants believe unquestioningly in their own sanctity. But in Arthur Miller's edgy masterpiece, that very belief will have poisonous consequences when a vengeful teenager accuses a rival of witchcraft—and then ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Primeval Rebirth

    by Aaron Pery ...
    After millions of years of existing without evolving as most other earth creatures did, a protoplasmic creature, the last of its kind, becomes a symbiotic part of a primate. Acquiring an ability to move from host to host, it survives for thousands of years as an observer until it attains Robin Bender as its newest host. It quickly decides to merge with him and become an integral part of his life. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Son

    by Philipp Meyer ...
    **Soon to be a TV Series on AMC starring Pierce Brosnan and co-written by Philipp Meyer.Now in paperback, the critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling epic, a saga of land, blood, and power that follows the rise of one unforgettable Texas family from the Comanche raids of the 1800s to the oil booms of the 20th century.**Part epic of Texas, part classic coming-of-age story, part unflinching ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Torch Song Trilogy

    Plays

    A new edition of the classic drama portraying gay life in New York in the 1970s and 80s—winner of the Tony Award for Best Play, now back on Broadway in a revival hailed by The New York Times as “irresistibly compelling.”What begins as a chance encounter in a New York nightclub leads drag performer Arnold Beckoff on a hilarious yet touching pursuit of love, happiness, and a life he can be proud of. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD $5.99 USD

  • The Counselor (Movie Tie-in Edition)

    A Screenplay

    Series series Vintage International
    **From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road—in this screenplay of the major motion picture, the Counselor makes a risky entrée into the drug trade, on the eve of becoming a married man, and gambles that the consequences won’t catch up to him.Along the gritty terrain of the Texas–Mexico border, a respected and recently engaged lawyer throws his ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Small Tragedy (TCG Edition)

    by Craig Lucas ...
    "Full of itnerest, intelligence, amusement, and spine-chilling verity. . . . A play to see and ponder, staying with you, in typical Lucas fashion, long after you leave the theater."—Village VoiceAn amateur production of Oedipus elicits social and political tension among its actors, generating meaningful revelations about tragedy in the contemporary world. Lucas's topical and complex play is a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Our Lady of 121st Street

    Jesus Hopped the A Train; In Arabia, We'd All Be Kings

    Stephen Adly Guirgis has been hailed as one of the most promising playwrights at work in America today. A masterful poet of the downtrodden, his plays portray life on New York's hardscrabble streets in a manner both tender and unflinching, while continually exploring the often startling gulf between who we are and how we perceive ourselves. Gathered in this volume is his current off-Broadway hit, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Reckless and Other Plays

    by Craig Lucas ...
    * Author’s plays are produced widely throughout the U.S. * New edition of Reckless with Blue Window and Stranger, his most recent play * Previous edition--three printings over 8,000 copies sold * Last year’s hit Off Broadway revival brought back for encore runs by popular demand for encore runs in July and September ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Art of Racing in the Rain

    A Novel

    by Garth Stein ...
    NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM FOX 2000 STARRING MILO VENTIMIGLIA, AMANDA SEYFRIED, AND KEVIN COSTNERMEET THE DOGWHO WILL SHOW THE WORLDHOW TO BE HUMANThe New York Times bestselling novel from Garth Stein—a heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of family, love, loyalty, and hope—a captivating look at the wonders and absurdities of human life . . . as only ... ... Read more

    $11.49 USD $9.49 USD

  • Jen Silverman: Three Plays

    The Roommate; The Moors; Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties.

    by Jen Silverman ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Playwrights
    Three plays about transformation, intimacy and power from award-winning American Playwright Jen Silverman. Contains the plays The Roommate; The Moors and Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties.Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties - Five different women named Betty collide at the intersection of anger, sex, and the “thea-tah”, falling in love in unexpected ways.The Moors - Two sisters and a dog ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Tooth of Crime

    Second Dance

    by Sam Shepard ...
    One of the plays that first announced Sam Shepard as an original voice in American theater, Tooth of Crime is his thrillingly innovative rock drama, published here in a revised edition that is as fresh and provocative as the original was more than thirty years ago.An aging rock star in a world in which entertainment and street warfare go hand in hand, Hoss must defend himself against Crow, a ... Read more

    $8.99 USD $4.99 USD