Books like 'Baby with the Bathwater'
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The Chronicles of Audy: 4R by Orizuka
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHai. Namaku Audy. Umurku 22 tahun. Hidupku tadinya biasa-biasa saja, sampai kedua orangtuaku jatuh bangkrut karena ditipu. Aku hanya tinggal selangkah lagi menuju gelar sarjanaku. Selangkah lagi! Tapi kedua orangtuaku rupanya tega merusak momen itu. Jadi sekarang, di sinilah aku berada. Di rumah aneh yang dihuni oleh 4 bersaudara yang sama anehnya: Regan, Romeo, Rex dan Rafael... -
![Sabtu Bersama Bapak by Adhitya Mulya]()
Sabtu Bersama Bapak by Adhitya Mulya
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratings“Hai, Satya! Hai, Cakra!” Sang Bapak melambaikan tangan. “Ini Bapak. Iya, benar kok, ini Bapak. Bapak cuma pindah ke tempat lain. Gak sakit. Alhamdulillah, berkat doa Satya dan Cakra. … Mungkin Bapak tidak dapat duduk dan bermain di samping kalian. Tapi, Bapak tetap ingin kalian tumbuh dengan Bapak di samping kalian. Ingin tetap dapat bercerita kepada kalian... -
![Avah Maldita by simplychummy, Karen Ramirez]()
Avah Maldita by simplychummy, Karen Ramirez
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratings"Avah Chen is living large, and she is always in charge. She finds herself in good company of her fabulous friends in high places and unexpected ones from around the corner. You would think there's no stopping this little fierce maldita dahil tila nasa kanya na ang lahat - magarang bahay, matagumpay na negosyo at iba pang karangyaan... -
![The Chronicles of Audy: 21 by Orizuka]()
The Chronicles of Audy: 21 by Orizuka
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHai. Namaku Audy. Umurku masih 22 tahun. Hidupku tadinya biasa-biasa saja, sampai aku memutuskan untuk bekerja di rumah 4R. Aku sempat berhenti, tapi mereka berhasil membujukku untuk kembali setelah memberiku titel baru: "bagian dari keluarga". Di saat aku merasa semakin akrab dengan mereka, pada suatu siang, salah seorang dari mereka mengungkapkan perasaannya kepadaku... -
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![Si by Bob Ong]()
Si by Bob Ong
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"Maari bang malaman ang iyong pangalan?""Victoria""Kailan kita masisilayan, Victoria?""Sa iyong... -
![বহুব্রীহি by Humayun Ahmed]()
বহুব্রীহি by Humayun Ahmed
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsভূমিকাবহুব্রীহি নাম দিয়ে একটি টিভি সিরিয়েল লিখেছিলাম, এই বহুব্রীহিকে সেই টিভি সিরিয়েলের উপন্যাস রূপান্তর মনে করা ঠিক হবে না। আমি যা করেছি তা হচ্ছে মূল কাঠামো ঠিক রেখে একটা মজার উপন্যাস লেখার চেষ্টা। কিন্তু অন্য ধরনের কথা হাসি তামশা মাঝখানে আছে। আশা করছি সেই সব কথা রঙ্গ রসিকতায় পুরোপুরি ঢাকা পড়বে না। কিছু না থেকেই যাবে।পাঠক পাঠিকাদের- আমার এই উপন্যাস টিভি সিরিয়েলের সঙ্গে মিলিয়ে পড়লে হোঁচট... -
![Extreme Vinyl Cafe by Stuart McLean]()
Extreme Vinyl Cafe by Stuart McLean
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIf you ask them, Dave and Morley's friends will tell you that no matter how long you've known people, they can still surprise you. After all, no one expects to see a grown man dive into the trunk of his car to chase a rat... -
![Torch Song Trilogy by Harvey Fierstein]()
Torch Song Trilogy by Harvey Fierstein
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDrama, American Literature, Gay and Lesbian Studies, PlaysTorch Song Trilogy is a collection of three plays by Harvey Fierstein rendered in three acts: International Stud, Fugue in a Nursery, and Widows and Children First! The story centers on Arnold Beckoff, a torch song singing Jewish drag queen living in New York City in the late 1970 and 1980s... -
![The Lieutenant of Inishmore by Martin McDonagh, Μάρτιν ΜακΝτόνα]()
The Lieutenant of Inishmore by Martin McDonagh, Μάρτιν ΜακΝτόνα
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA farcical look at political violence as it's played out during The Troubles in Northern Ireland against the drab backdrop of a bare, rustic Irish cottage and unending boredom in an inhospitable environment in which a mutilated cat sets off a murderous cycle of revenge... -
![McDonagh Plays: 1: The Beauty Queen of Leenane; A Skull in Connemara; The Lonesome West by Martin McDonagh]()
McDonagh Plays: 1: The Beauty Queen of Leenane; A Skull in Connemara; The Lonesome West by Martin McDonagh
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOne of the most exciting young dramatists to emerge in Britain during the 1990s... -
![Nanette's Baguette by WILLEMS MO]()
Nanette's Baguette by WILLEMS MO
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNanette's Baguette, follows our plucky heroine on her first big solo trip to the bakery. But . . -
![Старуха = The Old Woman by Daniil Kharms, Даниил Хармс]()
Старуха = The Old Woman by Daniil Kharms, Даниил Хармс
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEdition in Russian and English... -
![The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart by David Greig]()
The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart by David Greig
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne wintry morning academic Prudencia Hart sets off to a conference in the Scottish Borders. Stranded there by snow, she is swept off on a dream-like journey of self discovery, complete with magical moments, devilish encounters and wittily wild music.'You shouldn't miss this for the world . . . Rambunctiously life-affirming and touchingly beautiful... -
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![Einstein's Beach House by Jacob M. Appel]()
Einstein's Beach House by Jacob M. Appel
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA couple adopts a depressed hedgehog; a stranger shows up, claiming to be the father of a girl's imaginary friend; a woman kidnaps her ex-husband's turtle; a family is evicted from their home, but was it ever really theirs? Heartbreaking and hilarious, the eight stories of Einstein's Beach House examine how we deceive ourselves and others, all to arrive at something far more real... -
![Sumnjivo lice by Branislav Nušić]()
Sumnjivo lice by Branislav Nušić
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsU prvom periodu svog dramskog stvaralaštva Nušić je bio pod uticajem ruskog pisca Nikolaja Vasiljeviča Gogolja. Sâm pisac o tome govori u predgovoru komediji Sumnjivo lice, koju je prvobitno nazvao „gogoljijada u dva čina“.Čuvena Gogoljeva drama Revizor inspirativno je uticala na pisca Sumnjivog lica, ali je on dramski zaplet vezao za naše prilike i naravi... -
![The Flick by Annie Baker]()
The Flick by Annie Baker
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn a rundown movie theater in central Massachusetts, three underpaid employees sweep up popcorn in the empty aisles and tend to one of the last thirty-five-millimeter projectors in the state. With keen insight and a ceaseless attention to detail, The Flick pays tribute to the power of movies and paints a heartbreaking portrait of three characters and their working lives... -
![The Bald Soprano and Other Plays by Eugène Ionesco]()
The Bald Soprano and Other Plays by Eugène Ionesco
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe leading figure of absurdist theater and one of the great innovators of the modern stage, Eugene Ionesco (1909-94) did not write his first play, The Bald Soprano, until 1950. He went on to become an internationally renowned master of modern drama, famous for the comic proportions and bizarre effects that allow his work to be simultaneously hilarious, tragic, and profound... -
![Handling Sin by Michael Malone]()
Handling Sin by Michael Malone
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOn the Ides of March, our hero, Raleigh Whittier Hayes (forgetful husband, baffled father, prosperous insurance agent and leading citizen of Thermopylae, North Carolina), learns that his father has discharged himself from the hospital, taken all his money out of the bank and, with a young black female mental patient, vanished in a yellow Cadillac convertible... -
![The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays by Tom Stoppard]()
The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays by Tom Stoppard
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCulled from nearly twenty years of the playwright’s career, a showcase for Tom Stoppard’s dazzling range and virtuosic talent, The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays is essential reading for fans of modern drama. The plays in this collection reveal Stoppard’s sense of fun, his sense of theater, his sense of the absurd, and his gifts for parody and satire... -
![The Saturday Night Sauvignon Sisterhood by Gill Sims]()
The Saturday Night Sauvignon Sisterhood by Gill Sims
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt’s time for a w(h)ine‘Oh, for f*ck’s sake’ muttered Claire under her breath, as she opened the fridge to see what she could find for a no effort dinner. The children continued to fight behind her... -
![The Foreigner by Larry Shue]()
The Foreigner by Larry Shue
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhat does a shy Englishman in search of rest do when he visits a fishing lodge in Georgia? In Larry Shue's hilarious farce, Charlie Baker, a proofreader by day and boring husband by night, adopts the persona of a foreigner who doesn't understand English... -
![Lend Me a Tenor by Ken Ludwig]()
Lend Me a Tenor by Ken Ludwig
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA concert in Ohio in 1934 is jeopardized when the lead Italian tenor falls into a drunken'stupor. So the impresario's diminutive assistant blacks up and goes on as Otello. The tenor awakens, dons his costume, and thence follows a hilarious comedy involving two Otellos, a volatile Italian wife, an outrageous bellhop and a cynical impresario... -
![Contos de Aprendiz by Carlos Drummond de Andrade]()
Contos de Aprendiz by Carlos Drummond de Andrade
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings'Contos de aprendiz', de Carlos Drummond de Andrade, foi publicado quando o autor já estava próximo dos 50 anos. Até então, o poeta mineiro nunca tinha se aventurado como contista. Essa edição, com novo projeto gráfico e prefácio escrito pelo escritor e jornalista José Castello, faz parte das comemorações do centenário de nascimento do poeta mineiro... -
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![Laughing Wild and Baby with the Bathwater: Two Plays by Christopher Durang]()
Laughing Wild and Baby with the Bathwater: Two Plays by Christopher Durang
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“Laughing wild amid severest woe” perfectly describes the fiercely ironic comedy of Christopher Durang’s Laughing Wild (which takes its title from this Thomas Gray quotation via Samuel Beckett) and the previously unpublished Baby with the Bathwater. In Laughing Wild, two comic monologues evolve into a man and a woman’s shared nightmare of modern life and the isolation it creates... -
![Picasso at the Lapin Agile by Steve Martin]()
Picasso at the Lapin Agile by Steve Martin
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIt’s October, 1904 in Paris, France. Young Albert Einstein and young Pablo Picasso meet at a bar to discuss philosophy, politics and women... -
![Should Have Got Off at Sydney Parade by Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, Paul Howard]()
Should Have Got Off at Sydney Parade by Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, Paul Howard
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFiction from Ireland. No 1 Bestseller... -
![Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang]()
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNominated for six Tony Awards®, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike is one of the most lauded and beloved Broadway plays of recent years. Vanya and his adopted sister Sonia live a quiet life in the Pennsylvania farmhouse where they grew up, but their peace is disturbed when their movie star sister Masha returns unannounced with her twenty-something boy toy, Spike... -
![Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash (Light Novel) Vol. 12 by Ao Jyumonji]()
Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash (Light Novel) Vol. 12 by Ao Jyumonji
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHERE THERE BE DRAGONS—LITERALLY!Still trying to find a way to return to Alterna, Haruhiro and his party fetch up on the shores of the sea. Falling in with a mysterious pirate girl named Momohina, the group ventures forth to the Emerald Archipelago, rumored abode of dragons from ages past... -
![Four Histories by William Shakespeare]()
Four Histories by William Shakespeare
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBook annotation not available for this Four Shakespeare, Penguin Group USAPublication 1995/05/01Number of Binding PAPERBACKLibrary of... -
![Rumors: A Farce by Neil Simon]()
Rumors: A Farce by Neil Simon
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsKen and Chris have found their host Charley, a prominent Government official, in his bedroom, too dazed to speak, with a bullet wound in his ear lobe! Len and Claire arrive, themselves injured in a car crash, and are soon joined by Ernest and Cookie, Glenn and Cassie, each with their own problems... -
![The Humans by Stephen Karam]()
The Humans by Stephen Karam
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThree generations of the Blake family have assembled for Thanksgiving in Brigid and Richard’s ramshackle pre-war apartment in Lower Manhattan. Whilst the event may have a slightly improvised air, the family is determined to make the best of its time together... -
![My Boyfriend's Wedding Dress by Kim Eun Jeong, Dwita Rizki Nientyas]()
My Boyfriend's Wedding Dress by Kim Eun Jeong, Dwita Rizki Nientyas
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBagaimana ini! Saat pernikahanku semakin mendekat, cinta pertama terkutuk yang mencampakkanku kembali lagi. Selain itu, gaun pengantin yang kupesan kepada perancang terkenal Italia juga tertukar. Benar! Tekadku sudah bulat! Aku akan melarikan diri dari pesta pernikahanku... -
![The School for Wives / The Learned Ladies by Molière]()
The School for Wives / The Learned Ladies by Molière
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe School for Wives concerns an insecure man who contrives to show the world how to rig an infallible alliance by marrying the perfect bride; The Learned Ladies centers on the domestic calamities wrought by a domineering woman upon her husband, children, and household. “Wilbur...makes Molière into as great an English verse playwright as he was a French one” (John Simon, New York)... -
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![Whisper's Edge by Luann McLane]()
Whisper's Edge by Luann McLane
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCricket Creek, Kentucky, is a sweet river town known for its theater, shopping, and cuisine. But tough times are affecting the residents of the local retirement community—until a handsome hero shows up… Savannah Perry loves her job as social director of Whisper’s Edge, a retirement community on the picturesque waterfront of Cricket Creek... -
![Elbow Grease vs. Motozilla by John Cena, Howard McWilliam]()
Elbow Grease vs. Motozilla by John Cena, Howard McWilliam
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSuperstar entertainer John Cena's second picture book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series features a high-octane story--starring the truck who never gives up, Elbow Grease!Elbow Grease may be little but he's got grit and gumption to spare--and he's back! It's time for Elbow Grease to face off against the gnarly monster machine Motozilla... -
![The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? by Edward Albee]()
The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? by Edward Albee
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThree-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Albee’s most provocative, daring, and controversial play since Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Goat won every major award for best new play of the year: the Tony, New York Drama Critics Circle, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards... -
![The Bald Soprano and The Lesson: Two Plays by Eugène Ionesco]()
The Bald Soprano and The Lesson: Two Plays by Eugène Ionesco
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOften called the father of the Theater of the Absurd, Eugène Ionesco wrote groundbreaking plays that are simultaneously hilarious, tragic, and profound... -
![Hans steek die Rubicon oor by Rudie van Rensburg]()
Hans steek die Rubicon oor by Rudie van Rensburg
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHans loop op 90 nié met ’n loopring nie. Sy orige kinders maneuvreer hom vanuit hul tuistes oorsee in Huis Madeliefie in, maar Hans skop nog kliphard, en gou lei hy ’n ouetehuisopstand teen die onhoudbaar drakoniese matrone. Dis daggakoekies, ontkleedansers en vet sports net waar jy kyk in hierdie hoogs komiese roman oor oudword op eie terme... -
![Dog Sees God by Bert V. Royal]()
Dog Sees God by Bert V. Royal
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen CB's dog dies from rabies, CB begins to question the existence of an afterlife. His best friend is too burnt out to provide any coherent speculation; his sister has gone goth; his ex-girlfriend has recently been institutionalized; and his other friends are too inebriated to give him any sort of solace... -
![Stop Kiss by Diana Son]()
Stop Kiss by Diana Son
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBen Brantley of the New York Times summed up the critical reaction to Diana Son's play Stop Kiss when he stated that it "generated the warmest advance word of mouth of any downtown production this season" and heralded it as a Barefoot in the Park for a new generation... -
![The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni]()
The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe NHB Drama Classics series presents the world's greatest plays in affordable, highly readable editions for students, actors and theatregoers. The hallmarks of the series are accessible introductions (focussing on the play's theatrical and historical background, together with an author biography, key dates and suggestions for further reading) and the complete text, uncluttered with footnotes... -
![Beyond Therapy by Christopher Durang]()
Beyond Therapy by Christopher Durang
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBruce and Prudence are deeply into therapy. Prudence's macho therapist is urging her to be more assertive while Bruce's wacky female therapist wants him to meet women by placing a personal ad. She does not fully comprehend that Bruce has a male lover who is not pleased by Bruce's desire to date a woman: Prudence... -
![Herb 'n' Lorna by Eric Kraft]()
Herb 'n' Lorna by Eric Kraft
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOn the surface Herb and Lorna Piper are typically sunny 1950s American adults. Herbs sells Sudebakers to the citizens of Bebbington, a Long Island seaside town, and Lorna is his cheerfully coy and clever wife. Their story seems like an American small-town origins, Jazz Age romance, Depression trials, postwar prosperity... -
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![Bi! by Fei]()
Bi! by Fei
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“Hoi! Hoi! Maafkan aku. Aku benar-benar tidak bermaksud menakutimu,” ucapnya penuh penyesalan.Lagi-lagi ia ceroboh menampakkan wujud aslinya. Tidak mudah memang untuk mencoba bergaul dengan manusia ketika dirinya memiliki sepasang bola matayang mencuat, kulit wajah yang kemerahan, serta sepasang tanduk di kepala.Gadis yang melihatnya malah pingsan ketakutan... -
![Der böse Geist Lumpazivagabundus, oder Das liederliche Kleeblatt. Zauberposse mit Gesang in drei Akten. by Johann Nestroy]()
Der böse Geist Lumpazivagabundus, oder Das liederliche Kleeblatt. Zauberposse mit Gesang in drei Akten. by Johann Nestroy
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDie Machtprobe zwischen Fortuna und der Liebesfee Amorosa beschert drei Handwerksgesellen das große Los. Wie der trunksüchtige Schuster Knieriem, der brave Tischler Leim und der prunkliebende Schneider Zwirn mit ihrem Haupttreffer zurecht- oder nicht zurechtkommen, das ist Gegenstand dieser »Zauberposse«, die zu Nestroys populärsten Stücken gehört... -
![Dorjar Opashe: দরজার ওপাশে by Humayun Ahmed]()
Dorjar Opashe: দরজার ওপাশে by Humayun Ahmed
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsফ্ল্যাপে লিখা কথাঃতার ডাক নাম হিমু। ভালো নাম হিমালয়। বাবা আগ্রহ করে হিলাময় নাম রেখেছিলেন যেন বড় হয়ে সে হিমালয়ের মতো হয়- বিশাল ও বিস্তৃত, কিন্তু ধরা ছোঁয়ার বাইরে নয়। হাত দিয়ে স্পর্শ করা যায়। ইচ্ছে করলে তিনি ছেলের নাম সমুদ্র রাখতে পারতেন। সমুদ্র বিশাল এবং বিস্তৃত। সমুদ্রকে হাত দিয় স্পর্শ করা যায়। তার চেয়েও বড় কথা, সমুদ্র আকাশের ছায়া পড়ে। কিন্তু তিনি সমুদ্র নাম না রেখে রাখলেন... -
![What the Butler Saw by Joe Orton]()
What the Butler Saw by Joe Orton
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"Joe Orton's last play, What the Butler Saw, will live to be accepted as a comedy classic of English literature" (Sunday Telegraph) The chase is on in this breakneck comedy of licensed insanity, from the moment when Dr Prentice, a psychoanalyst interviewing a prospective secretary, instructs her to undress... -
![The God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza]()
The God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhat happens when two sets of parents meet up to deal with the unruly behavior of their children? A calm and rational debate between grown-ups about the need to teach kids how to behave properly? Or a hysterical night of name-calling, tantrums, and tears before bedtime?Christopher Hampton's translation of Yasmina Reza's sharp-edged new play The God of Carnage premiered at Wyndham's Theatre,... -
![Paper Romance by Lia Indra Andriana]()
Paper Romance by Lia Indra Andriana
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsKEV MIRROW, PENULIS BESTSELLER PULANG KE INDONESIA DAN MENEMUKAN INSPIRASINYA KEMBALI DARI SEORANG WANITA! To: Arie@majalahStarIndonesia.com From: Kev@kevmirrow...
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