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 Disconnect
Rob Ackerman
When marketing consultant Steve Gold invites near strangers to dinner,
his wife, Patty, helps put their home in order. But she can't do
the same for her husband. Hilarious and harrowing, Disconnect explores
marriage,
friendship and passion in the age of telecommunications. M-3, F-2.
Softcover, 55 pp. $9.99.
 Ice Glen
Joan Ackerman
In this touching period comedy, a beautiful poetess dwells in idyllic obscurity on a Berkshire estate with a band of unlikely cohorts, including an Irish cook, a lovesick gardener and an unlikely playmate. When neighbor Edith Wharton passes Sarah's poems on to a Boston publishing firm, editor Peter Woodburn comes calling. Sparks fly when this unlikely pair faces off, and all get caught in the crossfire. Softcover, 72 pp. $10.99.
 Stunning
David Adjmi
Sixteen year-old Lily knows nothing beyond the Syrian-Jewish community in Brooklyn where she lives a cloistered life with her much older husband. Soon an unlikely relationship with her enigmatic African-American maid opens Lily's world to new possibilities -- but at a huge price. 2m, 4f. Softcover, 126 pp. $12.99.
 The Play About the Baby
Edward Albee
The Play About the Baby is an absurdist black comedy, reminiscent of burlesque
in its high spirits and banter, that grapples with such issues as reality and
the games we play to define it, the ambiguity of existence, and the agonizing
bonds between parents and children. M-2, F-2. Softcover, 94 pp. $22.50.
 The
Collected Plays of Edward Albee
Volume One
Edward Albee
This first volume of this three volume collection contains the eight plays written
by Albee during his early years as a playwright, from 1958 through 1965. Hardcover,
637 pp. $67.50.
 The
Collected Plays of Edward Albee
Volume 2: 1966-77
Edward Albee
Edward Albee's oeuvre consists of more than twenty-six plays, the earliest
of which were collected in Volume 1 of his Collected Plays. Volume 2 contains
the nine plays written by Albee in the period between 1966 and 1977. These
range from the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Delicate Balance to
the brilliant and complex short plays Box and Quotations from Chairman Mao
Tse-Tung to his second Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Seascape,
to the scintillating one-act comedy Counting the Ways, and
closing with the controversial Lady from Dubuque. Hardcover,
669 pp. $65.00.
 The
Collected Plays of Edward Albee
Volume 3 1978-2003
Edward Albee
This third volume of the Complete Albee brings the reader some of his most iconoclastic
and influential plays. Plays included are Lolita; The
Who Had Three Arms; Finding the Sun; Marriage
Play; Three Tall Women; Fragments (A Sit Around); The
Play About the Baby; The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? (2001
Tony Award); Occupant and Knock! Knock! Who's There? Hardcover,
700 pp. $58.50.
 Who's
Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Edward Albee
This dazzling work of gut wrenching dark comedy presents the most memorable of
married couples in a searing night of dangerous fun and games with a pawn like
other couple who innocently become their weapons in the savaging of each other
and their life together. By the evening's end, a stunning, almost unbearable
revelation provides a climactic shock of recognition at bond and bondage of their
love. Hardcover, 243 pp. $38.00.
 Duck Hunter Shoots Angel
Mitch Albom
Duck Hunter Shoots Angel is the uproarious story of two bumbling Alabama brothers who have never shot a duck but think they shot an angel. As they lament their fates in a murky swamp, they are chased by a cynical tabloid journalist and his reluctant photographer, who don't believe any of it -- until feathers, wings and a tiara are discovered along the way. The play hysterically interweaves a love story, sibling rivalry, tawdry media, race relations and cultural stereotypes as the chase to find the angel builds to a crescendo in the swamp. Sosftcover, 58 pp. $10.99.
 And The Winner Is
Mitch Albom
And The Winner Is tells the story of Tyler Johnes, a self-obsessed movie star, who is finally nominated for an Oscar, then dies the night before the awards. Outraged at his bad luck and determined to know if he wins (even though he's dead), he bargains with a heavenly gatekeeper to return to earth for the big night. Along the way, he drags his agent, his acting rival, his bombshell girlfriend and his ex-wife into the journey, in a wildly twisting tale of Hollywood, the afterlife, and how we are judged. Softcover, 43 pp. $10.99.
 Three One-Act Plays
Riverside Drive / Old Saybrook / Central Park West
Woody Allen
Softcover, 213 pp. $21.00.
 Say You Love Satan
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
Late one rainy night in Baltimore, Andrew -- and affable graduate student researching
the works of Dostoevsky -- meets a handsome stranger named Jack. The two immediately
hit it off and start dating, despite the fact that Andrew already has a super-duper
boyfriend and that Jack has the mark of the beast -- you know, 666 -- burned
into his forehead. M-7, F-1. Softcover, 45 pp. $9.99.
 The Mystery Plays
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
This collection features two interrelated one acts, loosely based on the tradition
of the medieval mystery plays. Both The Filmmaker's Mystery --
a ghost story about the survivor of a train wreck -- and Ghost Children --
a tale of murder and other family secrets -- wrestle with the most profound
of human ideas: the mysteries of death, the afterlife, religion, faith, and
forgiveness. M-4, F-2 (with doubling). Softcover, 66 pp. $9.99.
 Proof
David Auburn
On the eve of her 25th birthday a troubled
young woman has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, a famous
mathematician. Now following his death, she must deal with her own volatile emotions;
the arrival of her estranged sister; and the attentions of a former student of her
father's who hopes to find valuable work in the notebooks her father left behind.
She must also deal with the most difficult problem of all: how much of her father's
madness or genius will she inherit? Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. $9.99.
 Smudge
Rachel Axler
A dark comedy about the changing face of the American family and the limits of love and cheesecake, as a hopeful couple gives birth to a smudge, written by two-time Emmy Award winner Rachel Axler. 2m, 1f. Softcover, 68 pp. $12.99.
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