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Structure, Character, How and What to Write

by Stephen Jeffreys ...

For over two decades, Stephen Jeffreys's remarkable series of workshops attracted writers from all over the world and shaped the ideas of many of today's leading playwrights and theatre-makers. Now, with this inspiring, highly practical book, you too can learn from these acclaimed Masterclasses.Playwriting reveals the various invisible frameworks and mechanisms that are at the heart of each and ... Read more

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For over two decades, Stephen Jeffreys's remarkable series of workshops attracted writers from all over the world and shaped the ideas of many of today's leading playwrights and theatre-makers. Now, with this inspiring, highly practical book, you too can learn from these acclaimed Masterclasses.Playwriting reveals the various invisible frameworks and mechanisms that are at the heart of each and
... Read more
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Four Freedoms, The

Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Evolution of an American Idea

by Jeffrey A. Engel ...

Narrated by Stephen Paul Aulridge, Jr., Kathleen Mary Carthy ...

Unabridged

8 hours 4 min

The specter of global war loomed large in President Franklin Roosevelt's mind as he prepared to present his 1941 State of the Union address. He believed the United States had a role to play in the battle against Nazi and fascist aggression already underway in Europe, yet his rallying cry to the nation was about more than just national security or why Americans should care about a fight still far ... Read more

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The specter of global war loomed large in President Franklin Roosevelt's mind as he prepared to present his 1941 State of the Union address. He believed the United States had a role to play in the battle against Nazi and fascist aggression already underway in Europe, yet his rallying cry to the nation was about more than just national security or why Americans should care about a fight still far
... Read more

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The Libertine

2016 edition

by Stephen Jeffreys ...

Series series NHB Modern Plays
'I am up for it. All the time. That's not a boast. Or an opinion. It is bone-hard medical fact.'John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester. Charismatic poet, playwright and rake with a legendary appetite for excess. Yet when a chance encounter with an actress at the Playhouse sends him reeling, he is forced to reconsider everything he thinks and feels.With all the wit, flair and bawdiness of a Restoration ... Read more

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'I am up for it. All the time. That's not a boast. Or an opinion. It is bone-hard medical fact.'John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester. Charismatic poet, playwright and rake with a legendary appetite for excess. Yet when a chance encounter with an actress at the Playhouse sends him reeling, he is forced to reconsider everything he thinks and feels.With all the wit, flair and bawdiness of a Restoration
... Read more
Interruptions

by Stephen Jeffreys ...

Series series NHB Modern Plays
A boldly innovative drama exploring ideas about democracy, politics and leadership.The country is preparing for an election.The country undergoes a military coup.The country must live through the consequences.Stephen Jeffreys' play Interruptions, written while he was resident at the University of California, Davis, was inspired by his interest in the collective aspect of politics and his ... Read more

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A boldly innovative drama exploring ideas about democracy, politics and leadership.The country is preparing for an election.The country undergoes a military coup.The country must live through the consequences.Stephen Jeffreys' play Interruptions, written while he was resident at the University of California, Davis, was inspired by his interest in the collective aspect of politics and his
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Stephen Jeffreys: Plays

by Stephen Jeffreys ...

Series series NHB Modern Plays
A selection of the best work of Stephen Jeffreys, whose career stretches from an award-winning play at the National Student Drama Festival in 1977 through to an adaptation of The Alchemist for the RSC in 2016.Included here are his first big success, Valued Friends, a comedy of manners about the property market which won both the Evening Standard and Critics' Circle Awards; a riotous farce set in ... Read more

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A selection of the best work of Stephen Jeffreys, whose career stretches from an award-winning play at the National Student Drama Festival in 1977 through to an adaptation of The Alchemist for the RSC in 2016.Included here are his first big success, Valued Friends, a comedy of manners about the property market which won both the Evening Standard and Critics' Circle Awards; a riotous farce set in
... Read more
A Going Concern

by Stephen Jeffreys ...

Series series NHB Modern Plays
A play about a washed-up family business, from the author of The Libertine.The technological revolution has not yet reached Chapel & Sons, an ailing family business making billiard tables. In the dilapidated workshop, three generations conspire against each other for control of the firm.Stephen Jeffreys' play A Going Concern is at once a lament for the passing of an industrial age, a retelling of ... Read more

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A play about a washed-up family business, from the author of The Libertine.The technological revolution has not yet reached Chapel & Sons, an ailing family business making billiard tables. In the dilapidated workshop, three generations conspire against each other for control of the firm.Stephen Jeffreys' play A Going Concern is at once a lament for the passing of an industrial age, a retelling of
... Read more
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Station Company Core: Monster Hunter—Operations

Station Company Core: Detain and Extract, Book 3

by Stephen Landry, Jeffrey "Falcon" Logue ...

Narrated by Jessica Threet ...

Series Audiobook 3 - Station Company Core: Detain and Extract
Unabridged

10 hours 13 min

Return to Planet Alpha, where it all began. Save the lost cremates and survive the beasts birthed from madness.With the station secure for now, Operation A-Team is a go! Assistant Engineer Sky and her fellow crew must journey back to the planet they originally crashed on to rescue those they left behind. With the help of a new program and the cybernetic Princess Klaala, the crew also assigned a ... Read more

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Return to Planet Alpha, where it all began. Save the lost cremates and survive the beasts birthed from madness.With the station secure for now, Operation A-Team is a go! Assistant Engineer Sky and her fellow crew must journey back to the planet they originally crashed on to rescue those they left behind. With the help of a new program and the cybernetic Princess Klaala, the crew also assigned a
... Read more
Fearful Symmetries

by Caitlín R. Kiernan, Garth Nix, Laird Barron, Nathan Ballingrud, Michael Marshall Smith, Gemma Files, Bruce McAllister, Gary McMahon, Pat Cadigan, Helen Marshall, Terry Dowling, Stephen Graham Jones, Brian Evenson, Jeffrey Ford, Robert Shearman, Kaaron Warren, Catherine MacLeod, Siobhan Carroll, John Langan, Carole Johnstone ...

Winner of the Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson Awards: "Twenty insanely inventive, hauntingly atmospheric and flat out coo coo for Cocoa Puffs stories" ( Hellnotes).A World Fantasy Award nominee, "this anthology . . . is a collection of some of the most talented horror and speculative fiction authors writing today" ( BuzzFeed). It includes all-new stories by Laird Barron, Pat Cadigan, Brian Evenson ... Read more

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Winner of the Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson Awards: "Twenty insanely inventive, hauntingly atmospheric and flat out coo coo for Cocoa Puffs stories" ( Hellnotes).A World Fantasy Award nominee, "this anthology . . . is a collection of some of the most talented horror and speculative fiction authors writing today" ( BuzzFeed). It includes all-new stories by Laird Barron, Pat Cadigan, Brian Evenson
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Stahl's Deprescriber's Guide

by Jeffrey R. Strawn, Stephen M. Stahl ...

For decades, psychiatry has focused on initiating treatment—which medication to prescribe, in what dose, and for how long. But what happens when treatment needs to stop? How a medication is stopped is just as important as how it is started, and abrupt discontinuation can lead to unnecessary suffering, relapse, and often preventable withdrawal symptoms. Based on the principles of the bestselling ... Read more

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For decades, psychiatry has focused on initiating treatment—which medication to prescribe, in what dose, and for how long. But what happens when treatment needs to stop? How a medication is stopped is just as important as how it is started, and abrupt discontinuation can lead to unnecessary suffering, relapse, and often preventable withdrawal symptoms. Based on the principles of the bestselling
... Read more
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Stephen King Wants to Reach Out and Grab You — with His Writing

by Stephen King ...

Narrated by Stephen King, Jeffrey Brown ...

Unabridged

6 min

Novelist Stephen King is best known for his works of horror, but he says what scares him the most is not being able to write. Jeffrey Brown spoke with him at the Library of Congress National Book Festival about his latest novel, End of Watch, the last in a trilogy, and about writing itself -- how he lets the story go where it takes him, his writing routine and his dread of a blank slate. ... Read more

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Novelist Stephen King is best known for his works of horror, but he says what scares him the most is not being able to write. Jeffrey Brown spoke with him at the Library of Congress National Book Festival about his latest novel, End of Watch, the last in a trilogy, and about writing itself -- how he lets the story go where it takes him, his writing routine and his dread of a blank slate.
... Read more
The Clink

by Stephen Jeffreys ...

Series series NHB Modern Plays
A riotously funny satirical farce in the tradition of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and Shakespeare in Love, from the author of The Libertine.Elizabeth I is tottering at death's door. Conspirators are everywhere. Lucius Bodkin, an Elizabethan stand-up comedian, becomes unwillingly involved in the political skullduggery and jiggery-pokery surrounding the ailing queen.The Clink could pass ... Read more

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A riotously funny satirical farce in the tradition of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and Shakespeare in Love, from the author of The Libertine.Elizabeth I is tottering at death's door. Conspirators are everywhere. Lucius Bodkin, an Elizabethan stand-up comedian, becomes unwillingly involved in the political skullduggery and jiggery-pokery surrounding the ailing queen.The Clink could pass
... Read more
Valued Friends

by Stephen Jeffreys ...

Series series NHB Modern Plays
A comedy of manners about the property market.Four people live together in a large old house in London. They include Sherry, a wacky girl trying to make it as a comedienne; Paul, a pop music journalist; Paul's girlfriend Marion; and Howard, who is writing a left-wing analysis of the corruption of capitalism under the Thatcher government. They all are perfectly content living where they are; until, ... Read more

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A comedy of manners about the property market.Four people live together in a large old house in London. They include Sherry, a wacky girl trying to make it as a comedienne; Paul, a pop music journalist; Paul's girlfriend Marion; and Howard, who is writing a left-wing analysis of the corruption of capitalism under the Thatcher government. They all are perfectly content living where they are; until,
... Read more

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