I'd Rather Be Destroyed


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Zach Goldberg’s I'd Rather Be Destroyed carves straight to the core of self-destruction, reckoning with personal, familial, and sociocultural struggles. Earnest and darkly funny, this collection rebuilds the self from its broken pieces. Playing with dynamic and experimental forms, Goldberg explores modern Jewish identity, familial and cultural inheritances, and managing mental health. Its historical and religious allusions navigate modern and personal conversations, reflecting how we embrace and reject the legacies that shape us. Sharp and captivating, I'd Rather Be Destroyed’s honesty and artistry make it a must-read.




The Assembled


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Based on the Book of Revelation, a science fiction military thriller. For a time, The Architect, an inventor and renaissance man, unites the world in peace under one global government. It was not to be. For his own vanity, he built a temple. A great pantheon to all the world's religions. Outraged by this heresy the empire crumbled as religious fervor and patriotism gave rise to a coalition against The Architect's iron rule. From humble beginnings a hero rises and must make his way to the Holy City for the final cataclysm, The Battle of Armageddon. Throughout the journey the signs of the Apocalypse are woven into the fabric of life on earth as ancient atrocities are fed by modern and futuristic weapons of war. August, our hero, must survive multiple battles, espionage, treachery, and genocidal psychopathic allies, with the help of our narrator. Will August preserve the empire or destroy it?




Four Plays


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Includes the plays The Forest, Artistes and Admirers, Wolves and Sheep and Sin and Sorrow Four of Ostrovskys finest plays. The best known of these, The Forest (1871), has two young lovers in thrall to their tyrannical elders, who are prevented from marrying until a pair of strolling actors come to their rescue. In Artistes and Admirers (1881), a comedy of theatre life, a dedicated young actress renounces both love and fortune in order to pursue her sacred calling. In the comedy Wolves and Sheep (1875) Ostrovsky returns to a favourite theme, the double-dealing and hypocrisy of the Russian landowning classes, while the melodrama Sin and Sorrow (1863) explores the tragic consequences of a bored provincial wifes brief affair.




An Enemy of the People ; The Wild Duck ; Rosmersholm


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The three plays in this volume all deal with the moral courage needed to tell the truth. They are peopled by complex individuals pitted against, or part, of a society that Ibsen felt was morally abhorrent.




A Doll's House and Other Plays


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Four of Ibsen’s most important plays in superb modern translations, part of the new Penguin Ibsen series. With her assertion that she is “first and foremost a human being,” rather than a wife, mother or fragile doll, Nora Helmer sent shockwaves throughout Europe when she appeared in Henrik Ibsen’s greatest and most famous play, A Doll’s House. Ibsen’s follow-up, Ghosts, was no less radical, with its unrelenting investigation into religious hypocrisy, family secrets, and sexual double-dealing. These two masterpieces are accompanied here by The Pillars of Society and An Enemy of the People, both exploring the tensions and dark compromises at the heart of society.




I Met You After the End of the World (Light Novel) Volume 2


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“The world we used to know is fading away, and all we can do is watch it happen.” Japan has fallen and most of its population has died at the hands of a pandemic. Yamada Daisuke and Fujiwara Sayaka have settled at the southern end of Japan, in Kagoshima. The former office worker and former high school student stick together, doing their best to survive the winter. But without modern inventions, even the mild winter of the south is a challenge to weather. But staying in one place feels like a shame, so the two of them decide to travel all the way to the northernmost part of Japan - Hokkaido. Get there by summer and return to Kagoshima before the winter. All around them, the Japan they used to know is fading away. What will they find in these remains?




Ibsen


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Contains production-tested translations of four plays by ninteenth-century Norwegian author Henrik Ibsen, including "A Doll House," "Ghosts," "An Enemy of the People," and "Hedda Gabler."




To Blight with Plague


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"A sensitive, intelligent book." —Sander L. Gilman, Professor of Humane Studies, Cornell University How is AIDS treated in the contemporary plays of Larry Kramer and William Hoffman? How important is the Black Death to a reader of Boccaccio's Decameron? How have the historical and current outbreaks of contagious disease affected the creation of literature, and how has this literature in turn shaped our response to disease? Original and moving, To Blight with Plague addresses these and other central questions raised by literary works whose main themes revolve around contagious, epidemic disease and its social and psychological consequences.




The Moon's Last Fortress


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Tom Mallory (aged 14 and self-admittedly hopelessly infatuated) should have known better when the object of his desire, brilliant and beautiful Amber Cavendish, unexpectedly invited him to write an article for their school newspaper on her famous scientist father’s latest invention. She warned Tom it might involve a little travel, but he had no idea how far! Soon they are lost in an alternate reality confronting the legacy of an ancient conflict with a dark alien intelligence that laid to waste an entire solar system. If that was not enough to worry about, Tom still has Amber’s eccentric father and a possible rival for her affections to contend with. Is the only way to convince Amber that he is more mature than she believes by being a hero, which he most definitely is not? Can all the Science Fiction he’s read possibly help him survive? And he’s still got homework to finish by Monday…




President’s Overbearing Love


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She had somehow saved the shot guy, but she didn't expect that this dead man would admit his wrongs and forcefully take the pure her. It was only afterwards that he found out that there was an extra ball in his stomach because of that scoundrel. However, the man in charge had disappeared ... No! She swore that she would definitely find the missing man! Unexpectedly, she met him once again, and at this moment, he and the woman were in the midst of HAPPY ...