Lawyers are real people but not nearly as real as circus performers. This is the story of a young lawyer, a beautiful circus performer and a murder. Typical fiction formulas are thrown out the mobile home window and the reader is taken through the hell of one lawyer's life. You meet circus folk, ventriloquist dummies, waitresses at adult bookstores, dirty old men who watch the fishing channel at boarding houses, and jurors. Accurate, honest and fictional. This is the book you'll suggest to others but deny reading.
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Claudine at St. Clare's" by Enid Blyton. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
This is a story of love, loss, and incredible coincidences told through the life of Mirielle Thibodeaux, who perseveres against all odds. Having survived a horrible adolescence, she loses her three-month-old baby Etienthe youngest of her four childrenwhile fleeing from the German air attack on France in 1940. Her children had become her life but one by one, for different reasons, they all leave her. Life continues despite the loss and her only strength is the hope that one day they will return to her. Will she live long enough to see them again? Suffering for the children doesnt make her life heroic. It is merely life.
A fashionable French painter is found strangled, a crime highly embarrassing for the Establishment as his wife, a lady of dubious morals, was in the news a year earlier when the President of France happened to die in her bed. And the last thing the authorities want is to revive the whole outrage. But Inspector Gautier is not a man to deflect the course of justice. Defying his chief, he uncovers some shocking scandals, one of them concerning no less than the Russian Ambassador, and his investigations culminate in an extravagant finale in Maxim's in its Belle Epoque heyday.
Women who stormed the gates of Hollywood's "boy's club" over the past three decades tell their stories in this inside look at the new feminine face of the movie industry.
Hailed as "absolutely the best reference book on its subject" by Newsweek, American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle covers more than 250 years of musical theatre in the United States, from a 1735 South Carolina production of Flora, or Hob in the Well to The Addams Family in 2010. Authors Gerald Bordman and Richard Norton write an engaging narrative blending history, critical analysis, and lively description to illustrate the transformation of American musical theatre through such incarnations as the ballad opera, revue, Golden Age musical, rock musical, Disney musical, and, with 2010's American Idiot, even the punk musical. The Chronicle is arranged chronologically and is fully indexed according to names of shows, songs, and people involved, for easy searching and browsing. Chapters range from the "Prologue," which traces the origins of American musical theater to 1866, through several "intermissions" (for instance, "Broadway's Response to the Swing Era, 1937-1942") and up to "Act Seven," the theatre of the twenty-first century. This last chapter covers the dramatic changes in musical theatre since the last edition published-whereas Fosse, a choreography-heavy revue, won the 1999 Tony for Best Musical, the 2008 award went to In the Heights, which combines hip-hop, rap, meringue and salsa unlike any musical before it. Other groundbreaking and/or box-office-breaking shows covered for the first time include Avenue Q, The Producers, Billy Elliot, Jersey Boys, Monty Python's Spamalot, Wicked, Hairspray, Urinetown the Musical, and Spring Awakening. Discussion of these shows incorporates plot synopses, names of principal players, descriptions of scenery and costumes, and critical reactions. In addition, short biographies interspersed throughout the text colorfully depict the creative minds that shaped the most influential musicals. Collectively, these elements create the most comprehensive, authoritative history of musical theatre in this country and make this an essential resource for students, scholars, performers, dramaturges, and musical enthusiasts.
