Author: Lim Chor Pee
Publisher: Epigram Books
ISBN: 9814615498
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
On the cusp of independence, cultures collide in a bedroom in Singapore. As the Vietnam War rages on, the English-educated scholar Lee Hua Min—“the finest product of the University”—finds himself hopelessly disillusioned. Enter Wong Ching Mei, a Chinese-educated former nightclub singer seeking to enrol in Nanyang University. Mirroring the intense tussles between the English- and Chinese-speaking during Singapore’s formative years, Hua Min and Ching Mei trade ferocious barbs even as they are inexplicably drawn to each other. When Su-Ling, Hua Min’s ex-classmate, returns from London, Hua Min is torn between their advances and the extremely different worlds they inhabit. Humorous, witty and prescient, A White Rose At Midnight is a pithy portrait of a soul—and nation—divided. A White Rose At Midnight was first staged to critical acclaim by the Experimental Theatre Club in 1964. It was pioneer playwright Lim Chor Pee’s second and final play after the landmark Mimi Fan (1962). In 2014, Centre 42 mounted a partial dramatised reading of the play.
A White Rose at Midnight
Author: Lim Chor Pee
Publisher: Epigram Books
ISBN: 9814615498
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
On the cusp of independence, cultures collide in a bedroom in Singapore. As the Vietnam War rages on, the English-educated scholar Lee Hua Min—“the finest product of the University”—finds himself hopelessly disillusioned. Enter Wong Ching Mei, a Chinese-educated former nightclub singer seeking to enrol in Nanyang University. Mirroring the intense tussles between the English- and Chinese-speaking during Singapore’s formative years, Hua Min and Ching Mei trade ferocious barbs even as they are inexplicably drawn to each other. When Su-Ling, Hua Min’s ex-classmate, returns from London, Hua Min is torn between their advances and the extremely different worlds they inhabit. Humorous, witty and prescient, A White Rose At Midnight is a pithy portrait of a soul—and nation—divided. A White Rose At Midnight was first staged to critical acclaim by the Experimental Theatre Club in 1964. It was pioneer playwright Lim Chor Pee’s second and final play after the landmark Mimi Fan (1962). In 2014, Centre 42 mounted a partial dramatised reading of the play.
Publisher: Epigram Books
ISBN: 9814615498
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
On the cusp of independence, cultures collide in a bedroom in Singapore. As the Vietnam War rages on, the English-educated scholar Lee Hua Min—“the finest product of the University”—finds himself hopelessly disillusioned. Enter Wong Ching Mei, a Chinese-educated former nightclub singer seeking to enrol in Nanyang University. Mirroring the intense tussles between the English- and Chinese-speaking during Singapore’s formative years, Hua Min and Ching Mei trade ferocious barbs even as they are inexplicably drawn to each other. When Su-Ling, Hua Min’s ex-classmate, returns from London, Hua Min is torn between their advances and the extremely different worlds they inhabit. Humorous, witty and prescient, A White Rose At Midnight is a pithy portrait of a soul—and nation—divided. A White Rose At Midnight was first staged to critical acclaim by the Experimental Theatre Club in 1964. It was pioneer playwright Lim Chor Pee’s second and final play after the landmark Mimi Fan (1962). In 2014, Centre 42 mounted a partial dramatised reading of the play.
The Art of White Roses
Author: Viviana Prado-Núñez
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781999776824
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
It is 1957 in Marianao, a suburb of Havana. Adela Santiago is 13 years old and lives in a small blue house with her mother, father, brother, and grandfather. And yet something is amiss. The students on her street are disappearing. Not only that but her parents' marriage seems to be disintegrating and her cousin is caught up in a bombing at the Hotel Nacional. Welcome to a world where a revolution is brewing. Welcome to Cuba. An insight into what it is like to be young when bad things happen and it is not your fault.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781999776824
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
It is 1957 in Marianao, a suburb of Havana. Adela Santiago is 13 years old and lives in a small blue house with her mother, father, brother, and grandfather. And yet something is amiss. The students on her street are disappearing. Not only that but her parents' marriage seems to be disintegrating and her cousin is caught up in a bombing at the Hotel Nacional. Welcome to a world where a revolution is brewing. Welcome to Cuba. An insight into what it is like to be young when bad things happen and it is not your fault.
The White Rose
Author: Glen Cook
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 1466831022
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
The third volume in an epic military fantasy series following a group of hard-bitten mercenaries caught in the middle of a war between The Lady and The White Rose She is the last hope of good in the war against the evil sorceress known as the Lady. From a secret base on the Plains of Fear, where even the Lady hesitates to go, the Black Company, once in service to the Lady, now fights to bring victory to the White Rose. But now an even greater evil threatens the world. All the great battles that have gone before will seem a skirmishes when the Dominator rises from the grave. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 1466831022
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
The third volume in an epic military fantasy series following a group of hard-bitten mercenaries caught in the middle of a war between The Lady and The White Rose She is the last hope of good in the war against the evil sorceress known as the Lady. From a secret base on the Plains of Fear, where even the Lady hesitates to go, the Black Company, once in service to the Lady, now fights to bring victory to the White Rose. But now an even greater evil threatens the world. All the great battles that have gone before will seem a skirmishes when the Dominator rises from the grave. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
A White Rose
Author: Roland Nwankwo
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1984594796
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
In a virtual world everything is stupidly easy, if you choose to be alone you do not feel lonely. However with advance graphics you can feel dread or apprehension as the scenes change. When I decided to walk across the bed of a sea; stupidly easy of course; the avatar did not drown. Then I discovered the always run button with regard to other avatars, and hence ended my anxiety at being unable to operate the communicate box. I never heard from the virtual friend I had earlier made and sent second life to the waste bin after I signed off or escaped.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1984594796
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
In a virtual world everything is stupidly easy, if you choose to be alone you do not feel lonely. However with advance graphics you can feel dread or apprehension as the scenes change. When I decided to walk across the bed of a sea; stupidly easy of course; the avatar did not drown. Then I discovered the always run button with regard to other avatars, and hence ended my anxiety at being unable to operate the communicate box. I never heard from the virtual friend I had earlier made and sent second life to the waste bin after I signed off or escaped.
Midnight without a Moon
Author: Linda Williams Jackson
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 054486820X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Washington Post 2017 KidsPost Summer Book Club selection! It’s Mississippi in the summer of 1955, and Rose Lee Carter can’t wait to move north. But for now, she’s living with her sharecropper grandparents on a white man’s cotton plantation. Then, one town over, an African American boy, Emmett Till, is killed for allegedly whistling at a white woman. When Till’s murderers are unjustly acquitted, Rose realizes that the South needs a change . . . and that she should be part of the movement. Linda Jackson’s moving debut seamlessly blends a fictional portrait of an African American family and factual events from a famous trial that provoked change in race relations in the United States.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 054486820X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Washington Post 2017 KidsPost Summer Book Club selection! It’s Mississippi in the summer of 1955, and Rose Lee Carter can’t wait to move north. But for now, she’s living with her sharecropper grandparents on a white man’s cotton plantation. Then, one town over, an African American boy, Emmett Till, is killed for allegedly whistling at a white woman. When Till’s murderers are unjustly acquitted, Rose realizes that the South needs a change . . . and that she should be part of the movement. Linda Jackson’s moving debut seamlessly blends a fictional portrait of an African American family and factual events from a famous trial that provoked change in race relations in the United States.
Firegold
Author: Dia Calhoun
Publisher: Large Print Press
ISBN: 9780786276967
Category : Large type books
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Calhoun's debut novel--an ALA Best Book for Young Adults--is available once again. Haunted by his difference from everyone else in the Valley, Jonathon Brae wonders if he is one of the mountain people who have magical powers and blue eyes like his.
Publisher: Large Print Press
ISBN: 9780786276967
Category : Large type books
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Calhoun's debut novel--an ALA Best Book for Young Adults--is available once again. Haunted by his difference from everyone else in the Valley, Jonathon Brae wonders if he is one of the mountain people who have magical powers and blue eyes like his.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Author: John Berendt
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0679429220
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A modern classic of true crime, set in a most beguiling Southern city—now in a 30th anniversary edition with a new afterword by the author “Elegant and wicked . . . might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and breakfast for an extended weekend at the scene of the crime.”—The New York Times Book Review Shots rang out in Savannah’s grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. In this sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative, John Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely entertaining first-person account of life in this isolated remnant of the Old South with the unpredictable twists and turns of a landmark murder case. It is a spellbinding story peopled by a gallery of remarkable characters: the well-bred society ladies of the Married Woman’s Card Club; the turbulent young gigolo; the hapless recluse who owns a bottle of poison so powerful it could kill every man, woman, and child in Savannah; the aging and profane Southern belle who is the “soul of pampered self-absorption”; the uproariously funny drag queen; the acerbic and arrogant antiques dealer; the sweet-talking, piano-playing con artist; young people dancing the minuet at the black debutante ball; and Minerva, the voodoo priestess who works her magic in the graveyard at midnight. These and other Savannahians act as a Greek chorus, with Berendt revealing the alliances, hostilities, and intrigues that thrive in a town where everyone knows everyone else. Brilliantly conceived and masterfully written, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a sublime and seductive reading experience.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0679429220
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A modern classic of true crime, set in a most beguiling Southern city—now in a 30th anniversary edition with a new afterword by the author “Elegant and wicked . . . might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and breakfast for an extended weekend at the scene of the crime.”—The New York Times Book Review Shots rang out in Savannah’s grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. In this sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative, John Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely entertaining first-person account of life in this isolated remnant of the Old South with the unpredictable twists and turns of a landmark murder case. It is a spellbinding story peopled by a gallery of remarkable characters: the well-bred society ladies of the Married Woman’s Card Club; the turbulent young gigolo; the hapless recluse who owns a bottle of poison so powerful it could kill every man, woman, and child in Savannah; the aging and profane Southern belle who is the “soul of pampered self-absorption”; the uproariously funny drag queen; the acerbic and arrogant antiques dealer; the sweet-talking, piano-playing con artist; young people dancing the minuet at the black debutante ball; and Minerva, the voodoo priestess who works her magic in the graveyard at midnight. These and other Savannahians act as a Greek chorus, with Berendt revealing the alliances, hostilities, and intrigues that thrive in a town where everyone knows everyone else. Brilliantly conceived and masterfully written, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a sublime and seductive reading experience.
Gleason's Monthly Companion
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Love on a Midsummer Night
Author: Christy English
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402270496
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
"English crafts a lively battle-of-wills romance."—RT Book Reviews on How to Tame a Willful Wife How to Avoid an Unwanted Marriage: 1. Track down his first love 2. Slap his face when he propositions you to become his mistress 3. Flee the countryside with aforementioned scoundrel 4. Join a traveling troupe of Shakespearean actors 5. Don't fall under the enchantment of a magical midsummer moon... To escape the scheming, pawing clutches of her late husband's nephew, Arabella Darlington turns to Raymond Olivier, the only man she ever loved, for help. But the sweet Raymond she knew as a girl is now the dissolute Earl of Pembroke—the most notorious rake in London. When the situation turns deadly, Arabella and Raymond are forced to hide in the country. As she finds herself succumbing to Raymond's puckish charm, Arabella starts formulating a new plan: how to persuade a rake to propose.
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402270496
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
"English crafts a lively battle-of-wills romance."—RT Book Reviews on How to Tame a Willful Wife How to Avoid an Unwanted Marriage: 1. Track down his first love 2. Slap his face when he propositions you to become his mistress 3. Flee the countryside with aforementioned scoundrel 4. Join a traveling troupe of Shakespearean actors 5. Don't fall under the enchantment of a magical midsummer moon... To escape the scheming, pawing clutches of her late husband's nephew, Arabella Darlington turns to Raymond Olivier, the only man she ever loved, for help. But the sweet Raymond she knew as a girl is now the dissolute Earl of Pembroke—the most notorious rake in London. When the situation turns deadly, Arabella and Raymond are forced to hide in the country. As she finds herself succumbing to Raymond's puckish charm, Arabella starts formulating a new plan: how to persuade a rake to propose.
Normal Instructor and Teachers World
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description