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  • Dramatic Adventures in Rhetoric

    A Guide for Actors, Directors and Playwrights

    by Giles Taylor, Philip Wilson ...
    Series series The Actor's Toolkit
    A practical, accessible and thorough guide to identifying and using rhetorical devices in drama, using examples from both classical and contemporary plays. An unprecedented reference and handbook for actors, directors, playwrights and teachers; written by practitioners for practitioners.Little has been written about how dramatists draw on rhetorical devices, and how a study of these can unlock a ... Read more

    $29.49 CAD

  • Christian Theology and Tragedy

    Theologians, Tragic Literature and Tragic Theory

    Edited by Kevin Taylor, Giles Waller ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Theology, Imagination and the Arts
    Drawing together leading scholars from both theological and literary backgrounds, Christian Theology and Tragedy explores the rich variety of conversations between theology and tragedy. Three main areas are examined: theological readings of a range of tragic literature, from plays to novels and the Bible itself; how theologians have explored tragedy theologically; and how theology can interact ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

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    Forgotten Flapper, The

    A Novel of Olive Thomas

    by Laini Giles ...
    Narrated by Jen Taylor ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Forgotten Actresses

    Unabridged

    9 hours 17 min

    A presence lurks in New York City’s New Amsterdam Theatre when the lights go down and the audience goes home. They say she’s the ghost of OLIVE THOMAS, one of the loveliest girls who ever lit up the Ziegfeld Follies and the silent screen. From her longtime home at the theater, Ollie’s ghost tells her story from her early life in Pittsburgh to her tragic death at twenty-five.After winning a contest ... Read more

    $20.61 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Room

    A Novel

    by Jonas Karlsson ...
    Narrated by George Newbern ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 27 min

    “The daily grind got you down? Escape into this Swedish dark comedy about a scaldingly contemptuous office drone who discovers a secret room in his workplace.”—O: The Oprah MagazineThe inspiration for the upcoming feature film Corner Office, starring Jon HammBjörn is a compulsive, meticulous bureaucrat who discovers a secret room at the government office where he works—a secret room that no one ... Read more

    $14.00 CAD

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    Cluny Brown

    A Novel

    by Margery Sharp ...
    Narrated by Anna Parker-Naples ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 24 min

    Cluny Brown refuses to know her place in society. Last week, she took herself to tea at the Ritz. Then she spent almost an entire day in bed eating oranges. So, to teach her discipline, her uncle, a plumber who has raised the orphaned girl since she was a baby, sends her into service as a parlor maid at one of England’s stately manor houses.At Friars Carmel in Devonshire, Cluny meets her employers ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Mapmaker's Children

    A Novel

    by Sarah McCoy ...
    Narrated by Sarah McCoy, Abby Craden, Cassandra Campbell ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 21 min

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Two women from different generations face challenges that test their bravery and resilience in this “lovingly constructed [and] passionately told” (The Washington Post) novel from the author of The Baker’s Daughter.“Poignant and deeply absorbing. McCoy weaves this moving tale of two women finding their way with style and thoughtfulness.”—Madeline Miller, #1 New York Times ... Read more

    $26.50 CAD

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    The Black Velvet Coat

    A Novel

    by Jill G. Hall ...
    Narrated by Erin Bennett ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 12 min

    Twenty-eight-year-old struggling San Francisco artist Anne McFarland is determined to get a one-woman show, even though no one, including herself, believes she can do it. But when she buys a coat at a thrift shop with a key in its pocket, strange, even magical, occurrences begin to unfold, and she is inspired to create her best work ever.Fifty years earlier, it's 1963, and the coat's original ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Discovering Girard

    by Michael Kirwan ...
    The work of René Girard is hugely influential in literature and cultural studies. But it is in understanding the relationship between religion and violence that his theory has created the greatest impact. Girard’s understanding of mimetic rivalry and conflict and of scapegoating are seen by many to be the key to a completely new understanding of Christianity.Girard’s name evokes curiosity and – ... Read more

    $10.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Great Philosophers: Hegel

    by Raymond Plant ...
    Series series GREAT PHILOSOPHERS
    'What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it''What and how much I possess is a matter of indifference so far as rights are concerned''Education is the art of making man ethical'Without Hegel, modern thought is unthinkable - all those whose ideas have made the modern age have worked in his ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Religious Sense

    by McGill-Queen's University Press ...
    Giussani challenges us to penetrate the deepest levels of experience to discover our essential selves, breaking through the layers of opinions and judgments that have obscured our true needs. Asserting that all the tools necessary for self-discovery are inherent within us, he focuses primarily on reason, not as narrowly defined by modern philosophers, but as an openness to existence, a capacity to ... Read more

    $9.79 CAD

  • Kierkegaard: Fear and Trembling

    Edited by C. Stephen Evans, Sylvia Walsh ...
    Series series Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
    In this rich and resonant work, Soren Kierkegaard reflects poetically and philosophically on the biblical story of God's command to Abraham, that he sacrifice his son Isaac as a test of faith. Was Abraham's proposed action morally and religiously justified or murder? Is there an absolute duty to God? Was Abraham justified in remaining silent? In pondering these questions, Kierkegaard presents ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Juvenescence

    A Cultural History of Our Age

    by Robert Pogue Harrison ...
    "A meditation on the human condition in an age when the old aspire to be young" from the author of Forests: The Shadow of Civilization ( Children's Literature).How old are you? The more thought you bring to bear on the question, the harder it is to answer. For we age simultaneously in different ways: biologically, psychologically, socially. And we age within the larger framework of a culture, in ... Read more

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