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  Working

  Studs Terkel, Stephen Schwartz,...

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  The first revised and updated version of this 1970’s cult classic. A rousing musical with a cast of twenty, Working is for anyone who has ever punched a clock, a cow or a supervisor - or wanted to. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Eileen Barnett, Orson Bean, Harry Groener, Kaitlin Hopkins, Michael Kostroff, Kenna Ramsey, Vickilyn Reynolds, Vincent Tumeo and B.J. Ward.

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  Flourish

  Jacqueline Turner

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  “Smart, clear-eyed… Turner’s gift is for beautiful concision.” — Georgia Straight on The Ends of the Earth
  		 
  Jacqueline Turner’s Flourish moves between philosophy, literary criticism, biography, and poetry. Both personal and experimental, her writing becomes transformative as it explores memories of growing up in a small town, parenting a set of adventurous sons, traveling, and reading. At times her poems act like micro essays, at other times they are miniature memoirs or precise manifestos, and throughout the collection’s exploration of contemporary cities and culture, a tense beauty emerges. 
  		 
  Turner takes readers to a park in Berlin set up like a messy living room, to a gallery in Granada where the view from a window beside a famous painting more perfectly frames an ancient stone wall, and to a karaoke room in Tokyo where comedic possibilities merge with spilled drinks. In the end, Flourish celebrates the abundance of words already read, while conveying gratitude for the ones still about to be read. A bold gesture, a green light, a way forward in challenging times.

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  The Immortal Soul Salvage Yard

  Beth May

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  Diary entries, medical records, book reports, phone calls, dates (the romantic kind), dreams, index cards, passive aggressive post-it notes, stories, emails to professors, dates (the month/day kind), worries, and resumes that never led to job interviews...

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  Happy Talk - A Play

  Jesse Eisenberg

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  A suburban woman with a love for community theater attempts to play matchmaker in this play by the Academy Award–nominated actor. 
   
  Lorraine is a saint of the suburbs. On top of trying to save her dying mother, miserable husband and estranged daughter, she’s starring as Bloody Mary in the Jewish Community Center production of South Pacific. When her mother’s home aide, Serbian immigrant Ljuba, asks for help finding a husband, Lorraine takes on her most challenging role to date: matchmaker. 
   
  In Jesse Eisenberg’s hysterical and devastating play, Happy Talk, he reveals the absurd lengths people go to save themselves in the name of saving others.

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  Chamber Music

  James Joyce

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  Chamber Music is a collection of poems by James Joyce, first published in May of 1907. The collection originally comprised thirty-four love poems, but two further poems were added before publication ("All day I hear the noise of waters" and "I hear an army charging upon the land"). 
  Although the poems did not sell well, they received some critical acclaim. Ezra Pound admired the "delicate temperament" of these early poems, while Yeats described "I hear an army charging upon the land" as "a technical and emotional masterpiece". In 1909, Joyce wrote to his wife, "When I wrote [Chamber Music], I was a lonely boy, walking about by myself at night and thinking that one day a girl would love me." 
  Summary adapted from Wikipedia by Annie Coleman

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  Camano Island's Heartbeat - The...

  Short Story Press, Michael Knighton

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  In this story, you will experience a wide range of emotions while applying to the consistent theme of maintaining a positive outlook even in times of negativity and disarray. The story takes the reader and main character through a story that exemplifies: 
  ● The relatable occurrence of sadness that all beings have experienced 
  ● The importance of keeping a positive outlook in order to pull yourself out of the depths of sadness 
  ● The implication to not cling or hold on to the past and look towards the future 
  ● The ideology that serving and giving yourself brings happiness 
  ● The power of a relationship and bond between animal and man 
  ● The heavy weight of expectations that comes from friends and family that can keep people from following their dreams 
  ● Beautifies family relationships and the need for understanding as a person who is an introvert and desires to be alone 
  ● The ideology that action is important, and to take action immediately 
  ● The Buddhist ideology of having the option to be running from darkness to brightness or from darkness to more darkness - you decide. 
  ● The concept that all things rise, stay for some time, then pass away indicating there is no need to hate something viewed as negative or even love and attach oneself to something positive 
  ● A story that shows there is happiness where you look for it, and sadness if you desire it. 
  All the ideas portrayed in the story of Peter are to help the world today find the most out of the life they live. To realize they can give themselves if they feel that they don’t have enough and there is someone who needs it more than you know. It indicates to not wallow in sadness, even if it is all you have. It shows to take action and do good as this will be the best thing to heal you from your darkness. Stay bright! 
  HowExpert publishes quick 'how to' guides on all topics from A to Z by everyday experts.

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