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The Crucible

Arthur Miller · 152 pages

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Doubt

John Patrick Shanley · 59 pages

In this brilliant and powerful drama, Sister Aloysius, a Bronx school principal, takes matters into her own hands when she suspects the young Father Flynn of improper relations with one of the male students.--From publisher's website.

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The Sunset Limited

Cormac McCarthy · 160 pages

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Year of Wonders

Geraldine Brooks · 310 pages

This is the story of a young woman's struggle to save her family and her soul during the year of 1666, when plague suddenly visits her small Derbyshire village and the villagers, inspired by a charismatic preacher, elect to quarantine themselves.

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A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams · 145 pages

Williams's classic play begins with Blanche DuBois's arrival in New Orleans to stay with her sister and brother-in-law, Stella and Stanley Kowalski. The determinedly genteel Blanche is shocked by their lower-class lifestyle—and by Stanley's frequently aggressive behavior. As Blanche's secrets catch up with her, a seedy reality trumps her love for romance.

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Disgraced

Ayad Akhtar · 88 pages

New York. Today. Corporate lawyer Amir Kapoor is happy, in love, and about to land the biggest career promotion of his life. But beneath the veneer, success has come at a price. When Amir and his artist wife, Emily, host an intimate dinner party at their Upper East Side apartment, what starts out as a friendly conversation soon escalates into something far more damaging.

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Plain Truth

Jodi Picoult · 416 pages

From the bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper comes the riveting story of a murder that shatters the picturesque calm of Amish country -- and tests the heart and soul of the lawyer defending the woman at the center of the storm. The discovery of a dead infant in an Amish barn shakes Lancaster County to its core. But the police investigation leads to a more shocking disclosure: circumstantia

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The Shack

William Paul Young · 252 pages

This book is a life changing in the way you think about a higher power and who,what,and why, He makes the decisions He does. It will make you think of God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit in a whole new way. An excellent read.

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Oedipus Rex

Sophocles · 115 pages

Oedipus Rex chronicles the story of Oedipus, a man that becomes the king of Thebes and was always destined from birth to murder his father Laius and marry his mother Jocasta. The play is an example of a classic tragedy, noticeably containing an emphasis on how Oedipus's own faults contribute to the tragic hero's downfall, as opposed to having fate be the sole cause. Over the centuries, Oedipus Rex

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The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly

Stephanie Oakes · 406 pages

The Kevinian Cult has taken everything from seventeen-year-old Minnow: twelve years of her life, her family, her ability to trust. And when she rebelled, they took away her hands, too. Now their Prophet has been murdered and their camp set aflame, and it's clear that Minnow knows something about what happened that night. As she languishes in juvenile detention, she relives the events that led to

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The Trial of God: (as it was held on February 25, 1649, in Shamgorod)

Elie Wiesel · 161 pages

A drama set in a medieval village where three itinerant Jewish actors put God on trial to answer for his silence during a pogrom considers post-Holocaust issues.

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Blackbird

David Harrower · 87 pages

"Fifteen years ago Una and Ray had a relationship. They haven't set eyes on each other since. Now she's found him again." "Blackbird was commissioned by the Edinburgh International Festival and premiered at the King's Theatre, Edinburgh, in August 2005. The production transferred to the Albery Theatre, London in February 2006."--BOOK JACKET

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4.48 Psychosis

Sarah Kane · 43 pages

4.48 Psychosis is the last play by Sarah Kane, who died aged 28 in February 1999. By request of the Estate of Sarah Kane, all details of this play are strictly embargoed until its premiere at the Royal Court in July.

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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Edward Albee · 242 pages

George, a disillusioned academic, and Martha, his caustic wife, have just come home from a faculty party. When a handsome young professor and his mousy wife stop by for a nightcap, an innocent night of fun and games quickly turns dark and dangerous. Long-buried resentment and rage are unleashed as George and Martha turn their rapier-sharp wits against each other, using their guests as pawns in the

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Faust: First Part

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 327 pages

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Macbeth

William Shakespeare · 135 pages

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Journey's End

R.C. Sherriff · 114 pages

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Glittering Images

Susan Howatch · 504 pages

Charged by Canterbury with the spiritual monitoring of a wayward bishop, Dr. Charles Ashworth, a young, driven Anglican minister, encounters a genteel world whose deeply embedded apostasy forces him to confront his own inner demons.

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A Doll's House

Henrik Ibsen · 87 pages

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Dutchman

Amiri Baraka

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Glengarry Glen Ross

David Mamet · 108 pages

A story for everyone who works for a living. An examination of the machinations behind the scenes at a real estate office.

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The Plague

Albert Camus · 278 pages

The Plague (French: La Peste) is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947, that tells the story of a plague sweeping the French Algerian city of Oran. It asks a number of questions relating to the nature of destiny and the human condition. The characters in the book, ranging from doctors to vacationers to fugitives, all help to show the effects the plague has on a populace.

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Waiting for Godot

Samuel Beckett · 87 pages

This volume is an absurdist play in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait endlessly and in vain for the arrival of someone named Godot. They claim he's an acquaintance but in fact hardly know him, admitting that they would not recognize him when they do see him.

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The Chosen

Chaim Potok · 284 pages

It's about two jewish boys from different jewish sects with very differing doctrine. The kids meet in the unlikely circumstance of a baseball game, and a terrible accident, that leads them to be lifelong friends

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