DescriptionSet in small town Mississippi in the late 1950s, Mother of Pearl is populated by wonderfully rich and original characters with themes of identity and the true meaning of family interwoven throughout. The story revolves around 28-year-old Even Grade, a black man who grew up an orphan, and Valuable Komer, a 15-year-old white girl who is the daughter of the town whore and an unknown father. Their paths cross through Joody Two Sun, a seer, who becomes Even's lover. Both Even and Valuable are seeking the family, love, and commitment they never had, and their search ultimately takes both of them to places they never dreamed they'd go.
DescriptionRascals gives you the past, present, and future of stand-up comedy. Only Rascals can bring you comedy superstars before they were stars and the breaking stars of tomorrow, TODAY! Take a trip down comedy's memory lane and catch the routines that made comedy history. This is the "Behind the Music" of comedy and the comedy behind the comics. Join us live, from one of our A+ comedy clubs all over the country, to hear the best comedy routines from the comics you know and the ones you will know soon. For a great time the whole family can enjoy, take five for FUNNY! This selection features performances by Finis Henderson, Frankie Bastille, and Dina Marie Dominquiz.
DescriptionIt is 1946, and the eve of the harshest winter for a hundred years. Servicemen are pouring home from the war to a Britain beset by food and fuel shortages and a desperate housing crisis. Recently demobbed, Billy Greer has no intention of returning to his life in Somerset. But in an attempt to impress Annie, the woman he walked away from at the start of the war, he stays. As the country is brought to its knees by blizzards, the realities of immigration and propaganda in post-war life prove too hash for some.
DescriptionIllness came calling when Richard M. Cohen was twenty-five years old. A young television news producer with expectations of a limitless future, his foreboding that his health was not quite right turned into the harsh reality that something was very wrong…
DescriptionJames Patterson, author of the #1 best sellers Along Came a Spider and Kiss the Girls, has written one of America's suspense masterpieces. The Thomas Berryman Number begins with three terrifying murders in the South. It ends with a relentless and unforgettable manhunt in the North. In between is the riveting story of a chilling assassin, the woman he loves, and the beloved leader he is hired to kill with extreme prejudice.
DescriptionIn 1972, when she was seven, Firoozeh Dumas and her family moved from Iran to Southern California, arriving with no firsthand knowledge of this country beyond her father's glowing memories of his graduate school years here. In a series of deftly drawn s…
