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Chiaroscuro
ISBN: 9780881454727 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Subtitled "a light and dark skin comedy," CHIAROSCURO is set on a cruise ship peopled by black singles where "pretty" means light-skinned, and all the men are dark, and Papa Legba, the African trickster spirit, is disguised as a ship steward. ..". there are only a very few dramatists who come immediately to mind when thinking about the major contemporary African American playwrights: Lorraine Hansberry, LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), Adrienne Kennedy, August Wilson, Ntozake Shange, and Aishah Rahman. Although she has not had the general name recognition of her contemporaries, Aishah Rahman has...
Subtitled "a light and dark skin comedy," CHIAROSCURO is set on a cruise ship peopled by black singles where "pretty" means light-skinned, and all the...
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77,66 zł |
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Unfinished Women Cry In No Man's Land While A Bird Dies In A Gilded Cage
ISBN: 9780881454895 / Angielski / Miękka / 50 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. UNFINISHED WOMEN deals with the events in a home for unwed mothers on the last day of jazz musician Charlie Parker's life, March 12, 1955. The play digs beyond statistics and sociological theories to find the unarticulated, half-understood longings of teenage mothers. "UNFINISHED WOMEN is an underground classic. It reaches beyond statistics and sociological theories to find the unarticulated, half-understood longings of teen-age mothers ... The title implies the central conceit of the play: the juxtaposition of the Hide-A-Wee Home for Unwed Mothers (the unfinished women) and Pasha's boudoir,...
UNFINISHED WOMEN deals with the events in a home for unwed mothers on the last day of jazz musician Charlie Parker's life, March 12, 1955. The play di...
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77,66 zł |
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Mingus Takes (3)
ISBN: 9780881455151 / Angielski / Miękka / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. MINGUS TAKES (3) consists of three one-acts: SPEAKER'S HEAD, IF ONLY WE KNEW, and UPTOWN It is dedicated to Charles Mingus Jr's ingeniousness, his humor and revolutionary spirit, and his great contribution to American classical music more commonly labeled jazz. In SPEAKER'S HEAD, a speaker introduces his concepts on America's "eminent world domain." In IF ONLY WE KNEW, An African immigrant in New York describes how he was shot by police. In UPTOWN , a drunk tramp named Psyche strikes up a conversation with Opal on the bus. At first she's very wary of him. But gradually Psyche's penetrating...
MINGUS TAKES (3) consists of three one-acts: SPEAKER'S HEAD, IF ONLY WE KNEW, and UPTOWN It is dedicated to Charles Mingus Jr's ingeniousness, his hu...
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77,66 zł |
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Woof
ISBN: 9780881455274 / Angielski / Miękka / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. L J Freeman - beloved quarterback for the current Super Bowl champs, "American hero," husband to a beautiful woman, father to two young children - has made a really terrible, really stupid mistake. His senseless crime was caught on a security video which is now all over the media; his football career is over; his family is falling apart - and his nine-year-old has seen what her daddy did. With dark humor, WOOF examines the very raw, honest story of one man watching his world crumble around him and discerning what he must do to move forward. "Playwright Y York is getting at something very...
L J Freeman - beloved quarterback for the current Super Bowl champs, "American hero," husband to a beautiful woman, father to two young children - has...
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77,66 zł |
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An American Journey
ISBN: 9780881455526 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A passionate retelling of the Daniel Bell incident, in which a black man was shot and killed while running from police officers. "The Daniel Bell incident twice was a major story in Milwaukee. In 1958, the 22-year-old black man was shot and killed while running from a pair of uniformed Milwaukee policemen. In the late 1970s, one of the former police officers came forward and admitted the shooting incident was not self-defense and that there was a cover-up that spread from the Milwaukee Police Department to the office of the district attorney. That disclosure launched a criminal trial and...
A passionate retelling of the Daniel Bell incident, in which a black man was shot and killed while running from police officers. "The Daniel Bell inci...
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77,66 zł |
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Legacies
ISBN: 9780881455694 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An African American college professor who is feeling stuck both in his life and in his world of words meets a female African American student who comes to represent for him a dangerous kind of renewal and redemption, one that leads to tragedy for two disparate families. "Kermit Frazier is one of the most underrated, under-the-radar African American playwrights of his generation ... His] plays are both lyrical and richly theatrical. And while they typically deal unflinchingly with the landscape of African American life and the socio-political issues of that life, the scope of his work ranges...
An African American college professor who is feeling stuck both in his life and in his world of words meets a female African American student who come...
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77,66 zł |
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And I and Silence
ISBN: 9780881455700 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Two imprisoned young women, one African American and the other white, form a perilous bond. As they serve time they forge a plan for survival. They practice hard. If they don't get it right they'll lose everything: the outside world is even more dangerous to their friendship than the jail itself. Exploring the fierce dreams of youth and the brutal reality of adulthood in 1950's segregated America. "Unmissable ... an exquisitely understated examination of female friendship and unspoken love. It's a truly American tragedy about two women who want so little and get nothing except from each...
Two imprisoned young women, one African American and the other white, form a perilous bond. As they serve time they forge a plan for survival. They pr...
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77,66 zł |
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Kernel of Sanity
ISBN: 9780881455915 / Angielski / Miękka / 70 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a small Midwestern city in the late 1970s, a young actor, on his way from New York to California, takes a detour for a surprise visit to a veteran actor - an actor he's worked with in only one play but to whom he's found himself inexorably, if nearly unwittingly, attached. In a taunt, tense 90 minutes, three people - a black man, a white man, and a white woman - clash over their contradictory senses of marginalization and betrayal and their contrasting perceptions of illusion and reality. "There's an intriguing mystery at the heart of Kermit Frazier's KERNEL OF SANITY ... Namely, why does...
In a small Midwestern city in the late 1970s, a young actor, on his way from New York to California, takes a detour for a surprise visit to a veteran ...
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77,66 zł |
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Thurgood
ISBN: 9780881455922 / Angielski / Miękka / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. THURGOOD depicts the life of Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Supreme Court justice, and his role in the historic decision on the Brown v. Board of Education case. "Stirring and absorbing. THURGOOD may actually feel like a sweet escape to happier times, every bit as cheering (and a whole lot more edifying) than the giddiest of Broadway musicals. As I left, I found myself misty eyed." -Charles Isherwood, The New York Times "All bio dramas should be as vivid and entertaining as THURGOOD. A story rich in history, humanity and humor." -Joe Dziemianowicz, New York Daily News "A superb...
THURGOOD depicts the life of Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Supreme Court justice, and his role in the historic decision on the Brown v...
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77,66 zł |
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Dr Du Bois and Miss Ovington
ISBN: 9780881456202 / Angielski / Miękka / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. W. E. B. Du Bois and Mary White Ovington, two courageous leaders across the color line, co-founders of the NAACP, find themselves unexpectedly alone in their New York City office on a Sunday morning, June 1915. Infuriated over the decision of white board members to curtail his autonomy, Dr Du Bois is determined to resign. Miss Ovington confronts his firm resolve with forceful arguments and sophisticated seductions. They advocate, spar, flirt, clash, reveal secrets, and compete to save their vital work. A dangerous river of desire runs through their complex relationship, infused with their...
W. E. B. Du Bois and Mary White Ovington, two courageous leaders across the color line, co-founders of the NAACP, find themselves unexpectedly alone i...
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77,66 zł |
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The Package Deal
ISBN: 9781523918010 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Raynard and Kintessa Blackwell are newlyweds. They fought a long and hard road from their first meeting to the "I Do's," complete with drama worthy of a Monday night reality TV show. It's taken years for Raynard to see the gem he has in Kintessa, but now that he finally has and made her his wife, life is picture perfect.... Until a trip to the grocery store attempts to shatter that picture. A blast from Raynard's not so distant past, Tamika lives in a delusional world where it is her and Raynard forever. She is determined to make him see that she's the one for him and being pregnant with his...
Raynard and Kintessa Blackwell are newlyweds. They fought a long and hard road from their first meeting to the "I Do's," complete with drama worthy of...
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68,47 zł |
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Upcity Service(s)
ISBN: 9780881452655 / Angielski / Miękka / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jacqueeda needs four dollars and sixty cents to go to her mother's boyfriend's funeral, and buy him a headstone. She needs to make a detour to the racetrack to earn the rest of the money. She is looking for help from her friend Poppy. Poppy is looking for Jacqueeda, because he has learned from the scriptures that are the New York Post that a local Deacon has won the lottery. This transpires on the street corner where the Deacon's Lincoln Continental is parked. They try to accomplish their tasks early in the morning while; Canute, a West Indian man, goes about working his many jobs, including...
Jacqueeda needs four dollars and sixty cents to go to her mother's boyfriend's funeral, and buy him a headstone. She needs to make a detour to the rac...
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77,66 zł |
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Chocolate Honey.
ISBN: 9781530510481 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is about the romance between Julian and Christine a slave and the daughter of a slave owner.
This book is about the romance between Julian and Christine a slave and the daughter of a slave owner.
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49,57 zł |
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Collected Plays - Volumes I & II: Magical Realism
ISBN: 9781530409044 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "It began one afternoon nearly 30 years ago in the basement of the Rare Books Library at Tuskeegee University. Looking through a microfilm roller at the papers of Jean Toomer, an African-American novelist of the 1920's Harlem Renaissance, I scrolled pass the first page of a handwritten copy of Georg I. Gurdjieff's ballet Struggle of the Magicians on the roller. Not even typewritten. I scrolled back to it." So begins the author's notes to the first of a four-volume collection of plays documenting the evolution of a self-taught amateur playwright from a know-nothing to a homespun veteran of 22...
"It began one afternoon nearly 30 years ago in the basement of the Rare Books Library at Tuskeegee University. Looking through a microfilm roller at t...
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113,88 zł |
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Elite Affairs II: Simple Elegance
ISBN: 9781530179053 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Orchestrated Beauty, you met the women of Elite Affairs. Although successful in their own right, each of them has a personal struggle they must contend with in order to be truly happy.But there still remains broken promises, lies that have been told, and hearts that need mending. Will real happiness ever be found?
In Orchestrated Beauty, you met the women of Elite Affairs. Although successful in their own right, each of them has a personal struggle they must con...
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68,42 zł |
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Elite Affairs I: Orchestrated Beauty
ISBN: 9781530185351 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There's a frequency, a vibration that powers the thriving metropolis of Atlanta, Georgia. Chrisette Duncan-Elliott, has tapped into that frequency with her prestigious event planning business, Elite Affairs. Chrisette's company has made an indelible impression on the luxury landscape of high end event planning in the jewel of the south. From baby showers, to bar mitzvah's, Elite Affairs does it all with grand style. But, all that glitters isn't gold. There's another frequency, an undercurrent that courses through the city, leaving broken hearts, empty promises and shattered dreams in its...
There's a frequency, a vibration that powers the thriving metropolis of Atlanta, Georgia. Chrisette Duncan-Elliott, has tapped into that frequency wit...
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68,42 zł |
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The Hit
ISBN: 9781500315566 / Angielski / Miękka / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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59,24 zł |
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Loyalty, Love, and BETRAYAL: An Urban Hood Tale: Surviving the Hand that was Dealt Growing Up in the Hood
ISBN: 9780692275610 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Love, Loyalty, & BETRAYAL by author Wayne Grind is a great urban hood story about young kids growing up in the city streets, adapting quickly to the street life, and having the privilege to be schooled by an old gangsta by the name of Silk. Silk preached all the time about the coldness of this world, and the game. But after Silk was hospitalized from a gunshot wound, the hang was worried and disappointed. It showed on their faces. Silk was like a father to them, and things just weren't going to be the same without going to Silk's car wash, soaking up the game, and making that money. Champ and...
Love, Loyalty, & BETRAYAL by author Wayne Grind is a great urban hood story about young kids growing up in the city streets, adapting quickly to the s...
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72,99 zł |
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Love Choices (Short Stories of Dialogue)
ISBN: 9781533276551 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Love choices a book of short stories take you on a love quest. There are three different stories of love in this book that makes you ask the question do we go too far for love? The story -A Mother's Love- lets you look in to the eyes of a mother with bitterness. Her bitterness made her heart dark and the darkness is towards a person you would think could never make her want to give up on love. In the short story -A Waiting Love- you are reading the life of two best friends who have stood by each other through a tragic time. One has been waiting for a chance to show their friend that they are...
Love choices a book of short stories take you on a love quest. There are three different stories of love in this book that makes you ask the question ...
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91,29 zł |
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Fighting My Demons
ISBN: 9781533546647 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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41,03 zł |
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