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Olhos d'Água by Conceição Evaristo
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsEm Olhos d’água Conceição Evaristo ajusta o foco de seu interesse na população afro-brasileira abordando, sem meias palavras, a pobreza e a violência urbana que a acometem.Sem sentimentalismos, mas sempre incorporando a tessitura poética à ficção, seus contos apresentam uma significativa galeria de mulheres: Ana Davenga, a mendiga Duzu-Querença, Natalina, Luamanda, Cida, a menina Zaíta... -
![Le Fils de Mille Hommes by Valter Hugo Mãe]()
Le Fils de Mille Hommes by Valter Hugo Mãe
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsCrisóstomo, un pêcheur solitaire, décide à quarante ans de prendre son destin en main. Il se construit une famille, puisque l’amour est avant tout la volonté d’aimer. Il choisit un fils en apprivoisant le petit orphelin abandonné par le village, puis une femme au passé tourmenté les rejoint, et autour de ce noyau se forme une famille peu commune de laissés-pour-compte et d’éclopés... -
![Lady Jasmine by Victoria Christopher Murray]()
Lady Jasmine by Victoria Christopher Murray
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe beloved—and hated—Jasmine larson bush returns to battle her own past in a compelling new novel of love, faith, and shame from the Essence bestselling novelist... -
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Spindrift by Anna Burke
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCan a hot summer fling mend the hearts of two broken women?Morgan Donovan had everything she ever wanted: a dream job as a large animal veterinarian, awesome friends, and a loving and supportive fiancée. But it all comes crashing down when her fiancée dumps her after realizing that Morgan’s job will always come first... -
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![Be Our Guest by CJ Bishop]()
Be Our Guest by CJ Bishop
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBlood is just blood. Family ties are knit in the heart and strengthened by love. With most of whom they consider ‘family’ already right there within their tight-knit circle, the Phoenix couples begin to look beyond that circle and contemplate those from the past who rejected and hurt them. Deep down, Dane longs for reconciliation with his parents... -
![Love and Honor by C.J. Bishop]()
Love and Honor by C.J. Bishop
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGoing above and beyond the call of love…is the only way they know. The unconditional love the phoenix couples have found in each other is a blessed gift. Out of sadness, pain, and despair, their family has truly risen from the ashes. But it is difficult to soar on the wings of love, basking in joy, as new friends and new family members are still struggling through their own dark trials... -
![Forget Her Not by Elle Spencer]()
Forget Her Not by Elle Spencer
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsStunning and sophisticated, art dealer Samantha King is the only person who knows she doesn’t have it all (unless you count her mother and sister, which Sam doesn’t). When it comes to men, Sam won’t make time for anything more than a one night stand. No commitments, no connections. The night her life changes forever is a night Sam actually can’t remember... -
![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... -
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![Rebecca's Choice by Jerry S. Eicher]()
Rebecca's Choice by Jerry S. Eicher
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPopular Amish fiction author Jerry Eicher finishes the Adam’s County Trilogy with an intriguing story of a young couple’s love, a community of faith, and devotion to truth. Rebecca Keim is now engaged to John Miller, and they are looking forward to life together... -
![After the Fire by T.K. Chapin]()
After the Fire by T.K. Chapin
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAFTER THE FIRE is book four of the Contemporary Christian Romance Series, EMBERS & ASHES. Follow the lives of the men of Fire station #9 as they face the fires on and off the job. Inspirational romance stories full of faith, hope and love that will leave you feeling inspired. Firefighter Micah Freeman is the pillar of faith at fire station #9... -
![The Wish Series Boxed Set by Barbara Freethy]()
The Wish Series Boxed Set by Barbara Freethy
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGet three stories in one boxed set from #1 NY Times Bestselling Author Barbara Freethy (Includes 1 Novella & 2 Novels) Fans of Nora Roberts, Susan Mallery and Kristin Hannah will enjoy these emotionally compelling and romantic stories about wishes and the power of love. A Secret Wish One night in San Francisco, three women make a birthday. Liz is turning thirty... -
![Male/Male: A Novel by Seth King]()
Male/Male: A Novel by Seth King
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"All I had to do was write a book about him. All I did in the end was fall in love with him..." Talon Cooper is a struggling young writer who decides to enter the male/male, or gay romance, genre to expand his horizons... -
![Reid's Lost Cap by Della Cain, Kaytea Kat]()
Reid's Lost Cap by Della Cain, Kaytea Kat
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsReid lost his cap and found his new daddy.When I inherit my house, I don’t expect any feels. The house belonged to an uncle I’d met exactly one time over twenty years ago. But when I open the door to the spare bedroom, I’m hit with a time capsule, one that teaches me more about my late mother than I’ve ever known. There’s even a baseball cap she bought for me when she was pregnant... -
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![Led pod kůží by Vilma Kadlečková]()
Led pod kůží by Vilma Kadlečková
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLucas Hildebrandt dosáhl všeho, co si předsevzal; jenže zároveň se nedopatřením a mimochodem dotkl nejtemnějšího össenského tajemství. Na jeho rukou jsou spóry laëgühru. A nad jeho hlavou číhají Lodě. Ty, které bdí ve vesmíru, čekaly dlouho na svou chvíli; a teď konečně nalézají. Jejich Sdílené vědomí se obrací ke Studni planetárního ticha, kam se Lucas uchýlil společně s Aš~šádem z Fomalhiwy... -
![Missionary No More: Purple Panties 2 by Zane]()
Missionary No More: Purple Panties 2 by Zane
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSteamy, sensual and poetically hypnotic, Missionary No More: Purple Panties 2 is the follow-up to the bestseller Purple Panties. No one can debate the fact that Zane knows sex. The Queen of Erotic Fiction has hit home run after home run in the literary arena with her literary offerings... -
![A Chorus Line: The Complete Book of the Musical by James Kirkwood Jr., Michael Bennett]()
A Chorus Line: The Complete Book of the Musical by James Kirkwood Jr., Michael Bennett
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratings(Applause Books). It is hard to believe that over 25 years have passed since A Chorus Line first electrified a New York audience. The memories of the show's birth in 1975, not to mention those of its 15-year-life and poignant death, remain incandescent and not just because nothing so exciting has happened to the American musical since... -
![Love and Other Poems by Alex Dimitrov]()
Love and Other Poems by Alex Dimitrov
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAlex Dimitrov’s third book, Love and Other Poems, is full of praise for the world we live in. Taking time, and specifically the months of the year as an overarching structure, Dimitrov elevates the every day and speaks directly to the reader as if the poem were a phone call or a text message... -
![O rio que me corta por dentro by Raul Damasceno]()
O rio que me corta por dentro by Raul Damasceno
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Me leva pra casa..." Em Carrasco, um lugarejo perdido nas entranhas do sertão cearense, corre um rio onde dois meninos gastam suas infâncias em mergulhos. Cícero e Luzimar, amigos inseparáveis, companheiros de aventuras por estas matas acinzentadas... -
![A Map of Heaven by Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson]()
A Map of Heaven by Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat would you do if you had one week to live and a lifetime of unrealized dreams to fulfill? After a series of blinding headaches sends thirty-four-year-old Elizabeth to the hospital, she receives news of an inoperable tumor... -
![Capturing Forever by Erin Dutton]()
Capturing Forever by Erin Dutton
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJacqueline Knight is driven and ambitious, always focused on getting to the top. But when her father’s failing health demands her attention, she must consider putting her career on hold. Though she struggles with her new responsibilities, she won’t admit she can’t do it alone. And the last person she wants to accept help from is her ex, Casey... -
![Choir Boy by Tarell Alvin McCraney]()
Choir Boy by Tarell Alvin McCraney
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"An exhilarating, multi-layered new play."—The Guardian"Stirring and stylishly told . . . McCraney's crispest and most confident work."—Daily News"Greatly affecting. . . . It takes a brave writer to set his language against the plaintive beauty of the hymns and spirituals . . -
![Recuerda que me quieres by Wendy Davies]()
Recuerda que me quieres by Wendy Davies
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratings«Quiere muchísimo a Wendy», pensó, indignándose con ella al ver que no comprendía por qué no podía volver a tener a Wendy. El motivo era de lo más simple: «Yo también la quiero. Y no podemos tenerla los dos, señora». Peter Pan y Wendy, de J. M. Barrie Cien años después la historia se repite. O quizá no. Todavía no se conocen. Ni siquiera se intuyen... -
![The House of Bernarda Alba and Other Plays by Federico García Lorca]()
The House of Bernarda Alba and Other Plays by Federico García Lorca
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn these three plays (Blood Wedding, Yerma, The House of Bernada Alba), García Lorca's acknowledged masterpieces, he searched for a contemporary mode of tragedy and reminded his audience that dramatic poetry-or poetic drama-depends less on formal convention that on an elemental, radical outlook on human life... -
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![بيت القبطية by أشرف العشماوي]()
بيت القبطية by أشرف العشماوي
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsمحقق قضائي يحاول تتبع خيوط بعض الجرائم الجنائية في قرية صغيرة بشمال الصعيد، فُيفاجأ بما هو أخطر: حوادث قتل بغير باعث منطقي، وحالات انتحار مُريبة، واحتراق زراعات وبيوت بدون سبب واضح، لتكبر حالة الشك المصاحبة للجميع بمن فيهم المحقق، الذي يتقاطع مصيره مع سيدة قبطية غامضة... -
![Donde los ángeles no duermen by María Teresa Colominas]()
Donde los ángeles no duermen by María Teresa Colominas
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMatt Denver es un prestigioso abogado de una importante familia, un hombre bueno que cree en la justicia y lucha por protegerla. Pero de la noche a la mañana, la justicia lo traiciona, ésto a causa de una pequeña niña que lo acusa de haberla tocado, ahora tendrá que cumplir su condena en una de las peores cárceles del país... -
![POTUS by Selina Fillinger]()
POTUS by Selina Fillinger
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOne four-letter word is about to rock 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. When the President unwittingly spins a PR nightmare into a global crisis, the seven brilliant and beleaguered women he relies upon most risk life, liberty, and the pursuit of sanity to keep the commander-in-chief out of trouble... -
![Passion Play by Sarah Ruhl]()
Passion Play by Sarah Ruhl
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPassion Play is Sarah Ruhl’s “biggest, most ambitious effort yet” (The New York Times), a three-and-a-half hour intimate epic, plunging the depths of the timely intersection of politics and religion... -
![Beat Poets by Carmela Ciuraru]()
Beat Poets by Carmela Ciuraru
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis rousing anthology features the work of more than twenty-five writers from the great twentieth-century countercultural literary movement. Writing with an audacious swagger and an iconoclastic zeal, and declaiming their verse with dramatic flourish in smoke-filled cafés, the Beats gave birth to a literature of previously unimaginable expressive range... -
![Crystal's Heart by B.L. Miller, Verda Foster]()
Crystal's Heart by B.L. Miller, Verda Foster
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCrystal Sheridan - professional stripper, straight, alcoholic, drug user. Laura Taylor - professional writer, lesbian, obsessive tidier, control freak. Two women who have absolutely nothing in common and yet, when they become improbable housemates, are amazed to find they can actually live with each other. And not only live... -
![Heroes of the Fourth Turning by Will Arbery]()
Heroes of the Fourth Turning by Will Arbery
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt's nearing midnight in Wyoming, where four young conservatives have gathered at a backyard after-party. They've returned home to toast their mentor Gina, newly inducted as president of a tiny Catholic college. But as their reunion spirals into spiritual chaos and clashing generational politics, it becomes less a celebration than a vicious fight to be understood... -
![Captain of Industry by Karin Kallmaker]()
Captain of Industry by Karin Kallmaker
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe world is at Jennifer Lamont’s feet—right where she wants it. She has made breaking hearts a blood sport, and the cool, calculated use of other people’s backs has led to the stardom she has craved from the first time she heard applause. Lust or fear is all she has ever believed she could see in the eyes of others... -
![Prelude by Ella James]()
Prelude by Ella James
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYou think you know me. That's the way I want it. Making you feel like we know each other--like we could go grab a beer sometime--is part of my job. Maybe the most vital part. It doesn't hurt that I'm easy on the eyes, single at 35, and born richer than sin. My aesthetic matters much more than it should, but all the better for my worthy cause. And it's a worthy cause... -
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![Planning for Love by Erin Dutton]()
Planning for Love by Erin Dutton
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWedding coordinator Faith McKenna doesn’t believe in the happily-ever-after that she promises her clients. So she has no qualms about giving a few brides one last fling on the side before they commit for life... -
![Lilies by Michel Marc Bouchard]()
Lilies by Michel Marc Bouchard
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA revival of a romantic drama, Simon Doucet re-enacts for Jean Bilodeau, now a Catholic bishop, their past as lovers while rehearsing The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastien... -
![A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories by Edna O'Brien]()
A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories by Edna O'Brien
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn these selections from twenty years of her best short fiction, Edna O'Brien pulls the reader into a woman's experience. Her stories portray a young Irish girl's view of obsessive love and its often wrenching pain, while tales of contemporary life show women who open themselves to sexuality, to disappointment, to madness... -
![Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All for You & The Actor's Nightmare by Christopher Durang]()
Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All for You & The Actor's Nightmare by Christopher Durang
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All for You" is a black comedy about Catholicism."An Actor's Nightmare" is also a black comedy; a one-hander. An unprepared actor in an unnamed play is forced to take the place of a leading actor... -
![Sinestesia by Cora Menestrelli]()
Sinestesia by Cora Menestrelli
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAs vitórias sempre foram parte da vida do Garoto de Ouro.Alexandre Duarte venceu quando foi adotado pela melhor família do mundo, quando foi aclamado campeão da mais recente temporada da Fórmula 1 e até mesmo quando largou todas as suas paixões de verão brasileiras para encarar a realidade da vida de um atleta internacional... -
![Virgínia mordida by Jeovanna Vieira]()
Virgínia mordida by Jeovanna Vieira
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAo retratar um relacionamento marcado sobretudo pela violência psicológica, Jeovanna Vieira apresenta uma das estreias mais empolgantes da ficção brasileira.Virgínia é uma carioca convicta radicada em São Paulo, que trabalha como advogada de dia e desfruta da cidade à noite... -
![Controle by Natalia Borges Polesso]()
Controle by Natalia Borges Polesso
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNatalia Borges Polesso apresenta, em Controle, uma narrativa impactante sobre relações homoafetivas entre mulheres, o poder do desafio e, acima de tudo, as escolhas que precisam ser feitas para que as pessoas se tornem quem elas querem ser.A protagonista, Nanda, é epilética. Cercada de cuidado pelos pais, ela evita ao máximo o contato humano — exceto pela amiga, Joana... -
![A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee]()
A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEdwards Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning play A Delicate Balance reveals the emotional savagery of suburbia and the psychological terror of empty lives. First produced in 1966, this dark drawing room comedy may be Albee's masterpiece, as powerful in its 1996 revival as it was thirty years before... -
![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... -
![Pluto นิทาน - ดวงดาว - ความรัก by ChaOplaNoy, เจ้าปลาน้อย]()
Pluto นิทาน - ดวงดาว - ความรัก by ChaOplaNoy, เจ้าปลาน้อย
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsเพราะอยากมีตัวตน จึงต้องยอมปลอมเป็นออีกคนเพื่อที่จะถูกรัก'ไออุ่น' ได้รับการไหว้วานจากแฝดให้ไปบอกเลิกแฟนเก่าในวันที่เจ้าตัวกำลังเข้าห้องหอ ด้วยเหตุผลเพราะเราหน้าเหมือนกันถ้าเป็นฉันพูดมันคงจะง่ายกว่า ตอนแรกก็ไม่ได้ใส่ใจหรอก จนกระทั่งน้องสาวประสบอุบัติเหตุ จะด้วยความเห็นใจก็ดี หรือรู้สึกผิดก็ดีมันเลยทำให้ฉันต้องไปตามคำขอร้องแต่ทว่า.. -
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![Cuando fuimos los peripatéticos. La novela de Merlí (Planeta Visión) by Héctor Lozano]()
Cuando fuimos los peripatéticos. La novela de Merlí (Planeta Visión) by Héctor Lozano
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBruno Bergeron tuvo una adolescencia difícil que todavía se complicó más cuando vio entrar a su padre en clase con la cartera de profesor y «¡Me llamo Merlí y quiero que os empalméis con la filosofía!»... -
![Laughing Wild - Acting Edition by Christopher Durang]()
Laughing Wild - Acting Edition by Christopher Durang
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBook annotation not available for this title... -
![Die Schönheit der Nacht by Nina George]()
Die Schönheit der Nacht by Nina George
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsVor der beeindruckenden Kulisse der bretonischen Küste lässt Bestseller-Autorin Nina George zwei Frauen sich selbst neu entdecken: ihre Wünsche und Träume, ihre Sinnlichkeit, ihr Begehren. Die angesehene Pariser Verhaltensbiologin Claire sehnt sich immer rastloser danach, zu spüren, dass sie lebt und nicht nur funktioniert... -
![Hard Candy by Tennessee Williams]()
Hard Candy by Tennessee Williams
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHard Candy contains Tennessee Williams’s short stories written after the publication of his first collection of short fiction, One Arm , and before the stories appearing in The Knightly Quest . These volumes have established him as an original, compelling, and honest master of the short story. The stories in Hard Candy display Mr. Williams’s mastery of several very different styles... -
![The House of Desires by Juana Inés de la Cruz]()
The House of Desires by Juana Inés de la Cruz
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOriginally written by seventeenth century nun Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz and adapted here by Catherine Boyle, House of Desires is a romantic farce involving a brother and sister entangled in a web of love with four others.Critically acclaimed, this play was part of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Spanish Golden Age 2004 season... -
![Three Tall Women by Edward Albee]()
Three Tall Women by Edward Albee
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAlbee's best plays have always walked a line between heightened realism and dark comedy. Even his most surreal works are populated with characters who wouldn't seem out of place in real life. His 1994 Pulitzer Prize winner runs true to form. It begins as a naturalistic conversation among three women (identified as A, B, and C) from successive generations who meet in a hospital room...
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