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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two

Jack Thorne, J.K. Rowling · 352 pages

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Shadowlands

William Nicholson · 130 pages

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The Normal Heart & The Destiny of Me

Larry Kramer · 254 pages

Stage PlayTerminal IllnessEmotionalLiterary Fiction
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Angels in America

Tony Kushner · 222 pages

Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is a two-part play by American playwright Tony Kushner. The work won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Tony Award for Best Play, and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play.

Stage PlayTerminal IllnessEmotionalLiterary Fiction
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The Shadow Box

Michael Cristofer · 96 pages

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Wit

Margaret Edson · 85 pages

This play is about a professor who finds out she has stage four ovarian cancer. She realizes through her ordeal that she has no friends to fall back on, no family to support her. Over time she befriends the nurse that is taking care of her, and as her cancer treatment progresses she finally realizes the futility of success if there is no one to love.

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Tennessee Williams · 158 pages

Members of a neurotic Southern family gather to face the impending death of their patriarch, Big Daddy, and battle over the inheritance of his vast estate.

Stage PlayTerminal IllnessEmotionalLiterary Fiction
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The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

Paul Zindel · 102 pages

An embittered widow lives with her teenage daughters in a ramshackle house where she makes a living by nursing an elderly invalid. Alternately charming and abrasive, Beatrice is selfish like her elder daughter, Ruth, who suffers from convulsions. The younger daughter, Matilda, is an eccentric outcast who earns respect by winning top honors at school for her science fair project.

Stage PlayEmotionalScientist ProtagonistLiterary Fiction
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

J. K. Rowling, John Tiffany · 336 pages

While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son, Albus, must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth:

Stage PlayParallel Universe
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Love! Valour! Compassion!

Terrence McNally · 120 pages

Eight friends leave the city for three weekends of rest and relaxation in the country.

Stage PlayTerminal IllnessLiterary Fiction
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The Clean House

Sarah Ruhl · 91 pages

"The play takes place in a "metaphysical Connecticut" where married doctors emply a Brazilian housekeeper who is more interested in coming up with the perfect joke than in cleaning. Trouble erupts when the husband falls in love with one of his cancer patients. The theatrical and wildly funny, whimsical look at class, comedy, and the nature of love gives new meaning to 'I almost died laughing.' " -

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The Talisman

Stephen King, Peter Straub · 769 pages

The Talisman is a 1984 fantasy novel by American writers Stephen King and Peter Straub. The Talisman was nominated for both the Locus and World Fantasy Awards in 1985. King and Straub followed up with a sequel, Black House (2001). Followed by: Black House

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The Versions of Us

Laura Barnett · 402 pages

In one moment, two lives will be changed forever ... and forever ... and forever. The one thing that's certain is that they met on a Cambridge street by chance and felt a connection that would last a lifetime. But as for what happened next ... They fell wildly in love or went their separate ways. They kissed or they thought better of it. They married soon after or were together for a few weeks bef

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A Spindle Splintered

Alix E. Harrow · 119 pages

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Exit the King

Eugene Ionesco

Stage PlayTerminal Illness
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A Thousand Pieces of You

Claudia Gray · 368 pages

Marguerite's physicist parents' most astonishing invention, called the Firebird, allows users to jump into multiple universes. When her father is murdered, the killer (her parents' handsome, enigmatic assistant, Paul) escapes into another dimension. Marguerite refuses to let him go free, so she races after him through different universes. Before long she begins to question Paul's guilt as well as

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Cyrano de Bergerac

Edmond Rostand · 225 pages

Cyrano de Bergerac, verse drama in five acts by Edmond Rostand, performed in 1897 and published the following year. It was based only nominally on the 17th-century nobleman of the same name, known for his bold adventures and large nose. Set in 17th-century Paris, the action revolves around the emotional problems of the noble, swashbuckling Cyrano, who, despite his many gifts, feels that no woma

Stage PlayEmotionalRomance
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Loop (Book 3)

Koji Suzuki · 288 pages

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Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare · 168 pages

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Long Day's Journey Into Night

Eugene O'Neill · 179 pages

Author Eugene O'Neill gives an autobiographical account of his explosive homelife. Fused by a drug-addicted mother, a father who wallows in drink after realizing he is no longer a famous actor, and an older brother who is emotionally unstable and misfit, the family is reflected by their youngest son, who at 23 is a sensitive and aspiring writer.

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Maybe in Another Life

Taylor Jenkins Reid · 352 pages

"Hannah Martin's life isn't shaping up into much of anything. Since graduating college eight years ago, she has lived in six different cities and held countless meaningless jobs ... She takes up residence in her best friend Gabby's guest room. Along with Gabby and Gabby's husband Mark, [she goes] out to a bar where they meet up with some of [their] old friends, including Hannah's high school boyfr

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The Midnight Library

Matt Haig · 304 pages

Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices . . . Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?” A dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived, from the int

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The Midnight Library

Matt Haig; Adapted and Illustrated by Fred Fordham

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Master Harold...and the boys

Athol Fugard · 61 pages

"Master Harold," or Hally, learns that his alcoholic father is to be released from the hospital and struggles with his emotions during a confrontation with the two black men who help in the family's restaurant in 1950s South Africa.

Stage PlayEmotionalLiterary Fiction

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