Actors have entertained audiences for thousands of years. In the past, plays were performed both to entertain and to teach. Today, plays involve the use of lighting, sound systems, and elaborate sets and often have large casts that include many actors.
Like Water is an unforgettable story of two girls navigating the unknowable waters of identity, millennial anxiety, and first love, from the acclaimed author of The Mystery of Hollow Places.
In Savannah Espinoza's small New Mexico hometown, kids either flee after graduation or they're trapped there forever. Vanni never planned to get stuck but that was before her father was diagnosed with Huntington's disease, leaving her and her mother to care for him. Now she doesn't have much of a plan at all: living at home, working as a performing mermaid at a second-rate water park, distracting herself with one boy after another.
That changes the day she meets Leigh. Disillusioned with small-town life and looking for something greater, Leigh is not a 'nice girl.' She is unlike anyone Vanni has met, and a friend when Vanni desperately needs one. Soon enough, Leigh is much more than a friend. But caring about another person threatens the walls Vanni has carefully constructed to protect herself and brings up the big questions she's hidden from for so long.
A wealthy family. A deadly secret. A young woman with more to lose than she knows.
Josephine Montfort is from one of New York's oldest, most respected, and wealthiest families. Like most well-off girls of the Gilded Age, her future looks set - after a finishing school education, she will be favourably married off to a handsome gentleman, after which she'll want for nothing. But Jo has other dreams and desires that make her long for a very different kind of future. She wants a more meaningful and exciting life: she wants to be an investigative journalist like her heroine Nellie Bly.
But when Jo's father is found dead in his study after an alleged accident, her life becomes far more exciting than even Jo would wish. Unable to accept that her father could have been so careless, she begins to investigate his death with the help of a young reporter, Eddie Gallagher. It quickly becomes clear he was murdered, and in their race against time to discover the culprit and his motive, Jo and Eddie find themselves not only battling dark characters on the violent and gritty streets of New York, but also their growing feelings for each other.
One of Publishers Weekly's Best Picture Books of 2015. The Golden Gate Bridge is the most famous bridge in the world. It is also, not entirely coincidentally, the world's first bright-orange bridge. But it wasn't supposed to be that way. In this book, fellow bridge-lovers Dave Eggers and Tucker Nichols tell the story of how it happened-how a bridge that some people wanted to be red and white, and some people wanted to be yellow and black, and most people wanted simply to be gray, instead became, thanks to the vision and stick-to-itiveness of a few peculiar architects, one of the most memorable man-made objects ever created. Told with irresistible prose, This Bridge Will Not Be Gray is a joyful history lesson in picture-book form-a gorgeously crafted story that teaches us how beauty and inspiration tend to come from the most unexpected places. Sometimes you have to fight for what you believe in, even if it's just a color.
This series, in seven parts, tells the story of America from the earliest founding through the days of Woodrow Wilson and World War I. In Part 1, you'll hear stories of the exciting adventures of the explorers and pioneers, like Columbus and Cabot, who faced daunting trials to find the 'New World.'
Stories include:
How the Vikings of Old Sought and Found New Lands The Sea of Darkness and the Great Faith of Columbus How Columbus Fared Forth upon the Sea of Darkness and Came to Pleasant Lands Beyond How Columbus Returned in Triumph How America Was NamedHow the Flag of England Was Planted on the Shores of the New World How the Flag of France was Planted in Florida How the French Founded a Colony in Florida How the Spaniards Drove the French Out of FloridaHow a Frenchman Avenged the Death of His Countrymen The Adventures of Sir Humphrey Gilbert About Sir Walter Raleigh's Adventures in the Golden West
This series, in seven parts, tells the story of America from the earliest founding through the days of Woodrow Wilson and World War I. In Part 2, you'll hear stories of the settlement of the Virginia Colony.
Stories include:
The Adventures of Captain John Smith More Adventures of Captain John Smith How the Colony Was Saved How Pocahontas Took a Journey over the SeasHow the Redmen Fought against Their White Brothers How Englishmen Fought a Duel with TyrannyThe Coming of the CavaliersBacon's Rebellion The Story of the Knights of the Golden Horseshoe
This series, in seven parts, tells the story of America from the earliest founding through the days of Woodrow Wilson and World War I. In Part 3, you'll hear stories of the settlement of the New England Colonies.
Stories include:
The Story of the Pilgrim Fathers The Founding of Massachusetts The Story of Harry Vane The Story of Anne Hutchinson and the Founding of Rhode Island The Founding of Harvard How Quakers First Came to New England How Maine and New Hampshire Were Founded The Founding of Connecticut and War with the Indians The Founding of New Haven The Hunt for the Regicides King Philip's War How the Charter of Connecticut Was SavedThe Witches of Salem
This series, in seven parts, tells the story of America from the earliest founding through the days of Woodrow Wilson and World War I. In Part 4, you'll hear stories of the Middle and Southern Colonies.
Stories include:
The Founding of Maryland How New Amsterdam Became New York How a German Ruled New York Pirates! The Founding of New Jersey The Founding of PennsylvaniaHow Benjamin Franklin Came to Philadelphia The Founding of North and South Carolina War with the Indians in North and South CarolinaThe Founding of Georgia
This series, in seven parts, tells the story of America from the earliest founding through the days of Woodrow Wilson and World War I. In Part 5, you'll hear stories of the French in America.
Stories include:
Stories of the French in America How the Mississippi Was Discovered King Williams' War and Queen Anne's War The Mississippi Bubble How a Terrible Disaster Befell the British Army The End of French Rule in America The Rebellion of Pontiac
This series, in seven parts, tells the story of America from the earliest founding through the days of Woodrow Wilson World War I. Part 6 continues the series with the stories of the struggle for liberty.
Stories include:
The Boston Tea PartyPaul Revere's Ride - The Unsheathing of the SwordThe First Thrust - The Battle of Bunker Hill The War in Canada The Birth of a Great Nation The Darkest Hour - Trenton and Princeton Burgoyne's Campaign - Bennington and OriskanyBurgoyne's Campaign - Bemis Heights and SaratogaBrandywine - Germantown - Vally Forge War on the Sea The Battle of Monmouth - The Story of Captain MollyThe Story of a Great Crime A Turning Point in the World's History
This series, in seven parts, tells the story of America from the earliest founding through the days of Woodrow Wilson World War I. Part 7 continues the series with the development of the United States under the presidents from Washington to Wilson.
Stories include:
Washington: First in War, First in Peace Adams: How He Kept Peace with France Jefferson: How the Territory of the United States Was DoubledJefferson: How the Door into the Far West Was OpenedJefferson: About an American Who Wanted to Be a KingMadison: The Shooting Star and the ProphetMadison: War with Great BritainMonroe: The First Whispers of a Storm; Monroe's Famous Doctrine Adams: The Tariff of AbominationsJackson: 'Liberty and Union, Now and Forever'; Van Buren; Hard TimesHarrison: The Hero of TippecanoeTyler: Florida Becomes a StatePolk: How Much Land was Added to the United StatesPolk : The Finding of GoldTaylor: Union or Disunion Fillmore: The Underground RailroadPierce: The Story of 'Bleeding Kansas' Buchanan: The Story of the Mormons Buchanan: The First Shots Lincoln: From Bull Run to Fort Donelson Lincoln: The Story of the First Battle between Ironclads Lincoln: The Battle of Shiloh and the Taking of New Orleans Lincoln: The Slaves Are Made Free Lincoln: Chancellorsville; the Death of Stonewall Jackson Lincoln: The Battle of GettysburgLincoln: Grant's Campaign; Sheridan's RideLincoln: Sherman's March to the Sea; Lincoln Reelected PresidentLincoln: The End of the War; The President's DeathJohnson: How the President Was ImpeachedGrant: A Peaceful VictoryHayes; Garfield; ArthurCleveland; Harrison; ClevelandMcKinley: War and Sudden DeathRoosevelt; TaftWilson: Troubles with MexicoWilson: The Great War
