The supporting cast of the Bible : reading on behalf of the multitude / by Hens-Piazza, Gina, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Making a case for the supporting cast -- Foregrounding the backstory -- Violence in disguise : a study of a complementary character in 2 Kings 6:23-31 -- Unsung courage and fidelity : a study of bit-part characters in 2 Kings 5:1-19 -- Vessels of hope versus hallmarks of despair : a study of cameo appearance characters in 2 Kings 4:1-7 -- Lost in the telling but still present: a study of implied characters in 1 Kings 9:10-14.…”


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Art song composers of Spain : an encyclopedia by Draayer, Suzanne Rhodes, 1952-

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Boswell : citizen of the world, man of letters

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Anthology of American Negro literature

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A reader's guide to fifty British plays, 1660-1900 by Thompson, John Cargill

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Sondheim & Co. by Zadan, Craig

Table of Contents: “…-- Musical libretto -- Send in the clowns -- Music publishing -- The way the cookies crumbled -- Musical direction -- "The less said, the better" -- Casting -- Waiting around for the girls upstairs -- Musical staging -- An embarrassment of riches -- Orchestration -- The game is never over -- Original cast recordings -- Is Hans Christian Andersen ever risqué? …”


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Francis Grierson by Simonson, Harold P. (Harold Peter), 1926-2011

Table of Contents: “…. -- Phidias, and the Elgin marbles. -- The art of casting in plaster among the ancient Greeks and Romans. -- A conversation with Marcus Aurelius. -- Distortions of the English stage as instanced in Macbeth.…”


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Finishing the hat : collected lyrics (1954-1981) with attendant comments, principles, heresies, grudges, whines and anecdotes by Sondheim, Stephen

Table of Contents: “…Cast of characters -- Preface -- Introduction -- Rhyme and its reasons -- Saturday night -- West side story -- Gypsy -- A funny thing happened on the way to the forum -- Anyone can whistle -- Do I hear a waltz? …”


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Scars to prove it : the Civil War soldier and American fiction by Warren, Craig A.

Table of Contents: “…: female veterans in Gone with the Wind and None Shall Look Back -- The eggshell shibboleth of caste and color too: civilian narrators in Absalom, Absalom! …”


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Marcel Duchamp by Ades, Dawn, Cox, Neil, Hopkins, David, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Anti-art, Rose Sélavy and surrealism -- ch. 9. Replicas, casts and the infra-thin -- ch. 10. Etant donnés -- Duchamp after Duchamp.…”


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The flight of the mind : Virginia Woolf's art and manic-depressive illness by Caramagno, Thomas C.

Table of Contents: “…I owned to great egotism the neurotic model in Woolf criticism -- Never was anyone so tossed up & down by the body as I am The sympotom of manic-depression illness -- But what is the meaning of explained it countertransference and modernism -- In casting accounts, never forget to begin with the state of the body genetics and the Stephen family line -- How completely he satisfied her is proved by the collapse emblematic events in family history -- How immense must be the force of life the art of autobiography and Woolf's bipolar theory of being -- A novel devoted to influenza reading without resolution in the voyage out -- Does anybody know Mr. …”


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The sculpture of Robert Adams by Grieve, A. I. (Alastair Ian)

Table of Contents: “…The change to carving in marble and casting in bronze. Large sculptures in stainless steel. 1968-74 -- 11. …”


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Wallace Stegner : his life and work by Benson, Jackson J.

Table of Contents: “…-- Hard work at Harvard: climbing the Big Rock Candy Mountain -- Looking back at the West from Cambridge -- From the fight against rugged individualism to the fight against prejudice and racism -- Back to fiction, on to Stanford -- Abandoning the novel and embracing the short story -- From short story writer to environmentalist -- To the barricades for the environment -- Travel, travel literature, and the search for narrative voice -- An all-star cast -- The struggle to locate oneself -- Historian and "contemporary" -- Trouble in the sixties -- A new life -- The Pulitzer and beyond -- Back to biography and another prizewinning novel -- The past that comes back to haunt us -- Crossing to safety -- Giving all to time.…”


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The indomitable prophet : a biographical commentary on Jeremiah : the man, the time, the book, the tasks by White, R. E. O. (Reginald Ernest Oscar), 1914-

Table of Contents: “…An oddly confusing book -- Surveying the book -- The preservation of prophecy -- Studying the result -- 4. A very full cast -- Jeremiah's kings -- Jeremiah's friends -- Jeremiah's foes -- Female bit-parts -- 5. …”


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Blues & chaos : the music writing of Robert Palmer by Palmer, Robert, 1945-1997

Table of Contents: “…Mingus ain't no jive bassist ; Liner notes for Kind of blue, by Miles Davis ; Liner notes for Homecoming: live at the Village Vanguard, by Dexter Gordon ; Sun Ra casts special light on jazz ; Ornette Coleman and the circle with a hole in the middle -- The originators : "Where the hell did this man come from?" …”


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Charles Rennie Mackintosh

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Wes Anderson : the iconic filmmaker and his work by Nathan, Ian

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Elizabeth Bishop : one art

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Rust in peace : the inside story of the Megadeth masterpiece by Mustaine, Dave, Selvin, Joel

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Nick Cave : mercy on me by Kleist, Reinhard, 1970-

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