Available for the first time in over thirty years, John Krizanc’s internationally acclaimed play redefined the limits of theatre with its haunting tale of art, sex, violence, and political intrigue in Fascist Italy. In the late twenties the poet, war hero, and lothario Gabriele d’Annunzio waits in his opulent villa — a gift from Benito Mussolini in return for his political silence — for the arrival of the artist Tamara de Lempicka, who is to paint his portrait. What follows is a tale of art, sex, violence and the meaning of complicity in an authoritarian state. The action is directed by the reader/audience member, who decides which characters to follow and which narratives to experience. John Krizanc’s masterpiece redefined theatre and won six L.A. Drama Critics Circle Awards, six Dora Mavor Moore Awards, six Drama-Logue Awards, and six Mexican Association of Theatre Critics, and Journalists Awards for its original productions. Now available in a handsome new A List edition, Tamara is an astonishing piece of experimental art and a penetrating look into ethical choices in times of encroaching autocracy.

Agreeing to model nude for Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka in 1927 Paris, young American Rafaela Fano inspires the artist's most iconic Jazz Age images and becomes her lover while discovering darker truths about Tamara's private life.

One moment can change a lifetime... Fourteen-year-old Jobeth Roberts' life careens out of control after a freak accident leaves her alone in the world. Her future is uncertain. A hard, desolate road filled with pain and heartache stretches ahead. She finds rays of hope in the friends who become her family; precious petals amongst the weeds. They are seeds scattered by the hands of fate...abandoned to the winds of time...

Kent, a happily single bachelor finds himself instantly hooked on Julianne and her adorable little girl, Tamara, who has no trouble deciding that "Mr. Kent" should be her new daddy. Julianne is overwhelmed when Kent pursues her and has difficulty accepting the unfamiliar feelings he's stirred up in her. Unfortunately, Tamara's paternal grandmother doesn't approve and a court battle for Tamara's custody ensues. Will Julianne have to choose between her newfound love and her child?

Tamara Contreras will never again settle for unmemorable sex. Her long-time boyfriend may look perfect to her traditional Mexican-American parents -- something Tamara has never been -- but at twenty-six she wants more from life than marriage and motherhood. So in front of everyone, Tamara does the unthinkable: She turns down her boyfriend's unexpected marriage proposal and leaves home for L.A. Tamara thinks she's got the single-girl-in-the-city thing down, until she runs into Will Benavides, the former high school bad boy turned firefighter. If Tamara's parents had known how Will lit up her teenage fantasies, she'd have been shipped off to the nuns for sure! Now Will wants to make those fantasies come true permanently. When an unexpected opportunity lands in her lap and Tamara has to choose between the career and the man of her dreams, she wonders if maybe la familia was right after all . . .

She always said they were just friends. But Tamara Hodges has never forgotten Micah Ross, her smart-as-a-whip college math tutor—and the guy who got away. Their ten-year reunion could be her chance to make things right. But the computer geek turned hip Beverly Hills record producer is giving her a very cool reception. Until Tamara turns up the heat…. Even after all these years, Micah is still hot for his gorgeous ex-pupil—and hurt by her cruel rejection. So when the sorority sister turned magazine writer shows up to interview a singer on his label, Micah seizes his opportunity for sweet revenge. But his scheme goes awry when passion ignites in an evening neither can forget. Is this Micah's chance to walk off with the ultimate prize— the homecoming queen of his dreams?

Glamorized, mythologized and demonized – the women of the 1920s prefigured the 1960s in their determination to reinvent the way they lived. Flappers is in part a biography of that restless generation: starting with its first fashionable acts of rebellion just before the Great War, and continuing through to the end of the decade when the Wall Street crash signalled another cataclysmic world change. Tamara de Lempicka, Diana Cooper, Nancy Cunard, Tallulah Bankhead, Zelda Fitzgerald and Josephine Baker and were far from typical flappers. Although they danced the Charleston, wore fashionable clothes and partied with the rest of their peers, they made themselves prominent among the artists, icons, and heroines of their age. Talented, reckless and wilful, with personalities that transcended their class and background, they re-wrote their destinies in remarkable, entertaining and tragic ways. And between them they blazed the trail of the New Woman around the world. Tamara’s Story is extracted from Judith Mackrell’s acclaimed biography, Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation.

Strategies and skills for therapists working with couples about to dissolve. Therapy with couples on the brink of relationship dissolution involves unique challenges. Partners present with high levels of conflict, low levels of intimate connection, disdain and discouragement, and limited patience or hope. These couples have often tried therapy without lasting success, and announce that “this is our last chance.” Partners want to see evidence in the first session that the therapist can offer something new and that change is possible. Peter Fraenkel presents a practical, creative, integrative approach that combines action- and insight-oriented techniques to help last-chance couples manage conflict, modulate intense negative emotions, address power struggles, develop mutual compassion, and restore emotional intimacy and pleasurable connection. Special attention is paid to developing a collaborative therapeutic alliance when partners have little motivation for therapy or faith that it can be effective. Through engaging in “nonbinding experiments in possibility,” partners can then better evaluate whether to “stay or go.”

Zuza is a teenage boy who finds himself living in Scotland with his horrible aunt after the death of his mother. Zuza finds Scotland dull and boring, well apart from the new Zimbabwean girl Tamar he had met in school. At home his aunt makes him read story books to his young cousin Malia. But this time Malia found a story book in the library that was to change Zuza's life forever. It was not an ordinary storybook. Annoyed at the thick story book, Zuza begins to read. However the book takes him into another world, a Kingdom called Napolia ruled by the wicked witch Acris. This was no ordinary Kingdom. The real Princess of Napolia had been lost and the Kingdom had turned into a land of complete darkness, a spell that Acris had cast on the land. Upon arriving in this Kingdom, Zuza must go on a quest to find the lost Princess of Napolia. He meets a talking eagle to take him on his journey, and finds himself in the Zimbabwean savannah talking to Shumba the white lion. In a race against time to save the Princess, Zuza meets a giant talking spider Shungu. In an action packed adventure of the underworld of mermaids, the ant's fascinating colony and an unlikely teenage romance, Zuza must save the Kingdom of Napolia. A heart warming action packed fantasy adventure that will capture your imagination as Zuza goes on a quest to unfold the mystery of this fascinating kingdom. It's a story of teenage love. It's a story of destiny. Its Napolia.

Almost everyone who's been to a nightclub has seen him - the 'old guy in the club', the greying, balding loner who looks like he could be everyone else's grandfather. Why is he there? This sensitive portrayal tells the story of a man desperately trying to recapture his youth. Some find him charming, some find him creepy - but this is not a habit he is ready to give up... Meet Elliott Thomas, 61 years old. His motivation for hanging out in clubs isn t fear of growing old; it s his desire to catch up on what he's missed.