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  • Degree of Separation
    Stephen C. Evans
    When an inexplicable explosion rocks the very foundation of a technological utopia, the citizens find everything crumbling around them. More than just their technology begins to fail, Officer Jacob Clark and seven strangers find their lives inexorably shattered and indelibly linked in a fight for survival. Uncovering a terrifying experiment that is linked to the very heart of r...
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    19,40 €

  • Tourists
    Stephen Evans
    In Stephen Evans’ Tourists , an evening of one-act plays, audiences encounter three sets of characters on their own unique journeys.In A Visitor to your Planet, a boatman working on a beach encounters an alien life-form investigating extinction events.In At the Still Point, ex-lovers meet a a train station and wonder if there is time for one more change of direction. In No Surp...
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    10,94 €

  • Spooky Action at a Distance
    Stephen Evans
    In Stephen Evans’ play Spooky Action at a Distance, a despondent physicist chooses to exit this universe in a Las Vegas casino hotel room. In the midst of the attempt, he is interrupted by an exotic dancer in an angel costume. Instead of talking him out of suicide, she decides to join him. And when the effort fails for them both, has a miracle occurred?  What are the odds?Spook...
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    10,98 €

  • Experience
    Stephen Evans
    This volume contains three one-act plays in which Ralph Waldo Emerson is the principal character, imaging three critical periods in Emerson’s life.The first play, Monuments, takes palace in 1873, toward the end of Emerson’s life, as he is sailing down the Nile river with his daughter Ellen, struggling with memory and memories.The second play, Solid Seasons, is set in Henry Davi...
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    10,48 €

  • The Ghost Writer
    Stephen Evans
    As Stephen Evans’ The Ghost Writer opens, playwright Michael and producer Harry are hiding in the theater to avoid the audiences who saw their last opening (and closing) night. Their lawyer Kate - Michael’s current and Harry’s former partner - sees in their latest failure a chance to draw Michael away from the crass influence of Harry and unleash his artistic potential.But Harr...
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    10,90 €

  • Whose Beauty is Past Change
    Stephen Evans
    In this 'engaging modern-day fairy tale' (Kirkus Reviews), Whose Beauty is Past Change tells the coming of age story story of Lissa, a young girl who journeys through beautiful distractions to find herself, and her future in a fantastic undersea realm.While visiting Key West, Florida, with her father (a professor of poetry), Lissa falls into the Gulf while watching a beautiful ...
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    7,95 €

  • Small Gifts
    Stephen Evans
    Small Gifts by author Stephen Evans is a collection of sketches exploring the diminutive wonders that share our world. From the abundant ecosystem of an azalea bush, the lessons offered by an invasion of cicadas, or the titanic struggle of a bug climbing a blade of grass, the author encourages us to be attentive to the ephemeral life that surrounds us, and to find joy in its fr...
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    9,95 €

  • Memory Plays
    Stephen Evans
    'Evans has proven capable of producing unforgettable work and has gifted us with many deeply affecting stories. Memory Plays feels like a collection of his best, the most distilled and elemental presentation of his subtle and remarkable talents. It’s a fine starting point for readers new to his work, and required reading for anyone already acquainted with his impressive previou...
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    15,91 €

  • The Island of Always
    Stephen Evans
    Nick is charismatic. Brilliant. Quixotic. And possibly Delusional. His passion for environmental and animal rights constantly gets him in trouble. And his ex-wife and former law partner, Lena inevitably comes to his rescue.While Lena fights to save Nick from being committed or going to prison, she allows him to move back in with her. Quickly, her hopes for a normal life are lef...
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    17,70 €

  • The Marriage of True Minds
    Stephen Evans
      'Poignant and outrageous, moving and profound, Evans’ delectable debut novel thrums with zesty dialogue and a memorably zany cast of irresistible characters.' -Booklist  'Evans demonstrates his playwright’s mastery of dialogue and tension in his accomplished and whimsical first novel about love and the bizarre behavior it ignites.'-Publishers Weekly'Love is not love which alt...
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    14,01 €

  • At the Still Point
    Stephen Evans
    'The only way of catching a train that I have discovered is to miss the train before.'―G. K. Chesterton In this two-act play by playwright and author Stephen Evans, two former college sweethearts meet again for the first time forty-some years later at a nearly deserted train station. During this encounter, the couple explore the events that broke them apart, the attraction that...
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    11,00 €

  • Generations
    Michael Gilles / Morey Norkin / Stephen Evans
    Generations is an evening of three thought-provoking one-act plays inspired by the mysteries and magic between generations. In Monuments by Stephen Evans, an aging Ralph Waldo Emerson travels down the Nile river with his daughter, struggling with memory yet suffused in memories.In Last Laugh by Morey Norkin, an ailing and unsuccessful comic attempts to bridge the gaps with a yo...
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    7,95 €

  • The Crooked Mirror
    Stephen Evans
    The Crooked Mirror is a collection of verse in assorted styles and colors.From the Poet:So here’s what I think.A poem is a linguistic unity. It has no narrative flow. It has no time. It has no tempo, no pauses. It is the opposite of music. It coalesces in the mind as the last element is read or heard; only then does it exist, like a quantum state collapsing into reality from th...
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    11,09 €

  • The Marriage Gift
    Stephen Evans
    'Beneath wordplay, double entendres, dry sarcasm, and pop culture references is a sweet and meaningful novel about love at every stage of a relationship.' --Foreword Clarion ReviewsA 'Snappy intimately comic stage satire of marriage life.' -BooklifeIn this 'delicious romp through the maze of modern wedlock' (author Rosy Cole), James and Paula, a Minneapolis couple, receive a we...
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    10,91 €

  • Sonets from the Chesapeke
    Stephen Evans
    Sonets from the Chesapeke is a collection of American sonets by poet, playwright, and author Stephen Evans.From the Prologue:The American sonet is a verse form. I found (or maybe invented) this form years ago and it suits me and my short attention span. This book documents my attempts to explore the possibilities of the form. I have lived most of my life near the Chesapeake Bay...
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    11,10 €

  • Limerosity
    Stephen Evans
    Limerosity is an anapestic journey, a collection of limericks inspired by well-known figures in the (mostly) western literary canon. From the Author:A limerick is a verse form-five lines of generally iambic or anapestic verse, with a rhyme scheme of AABBA. The origin of the limerick is a bit of a mystery, though it may be fairly recent as verse forms go. The form seems to have ...
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    11,03 €

  • Limerositus
    Stephen Evans
    Philosophy translates from the Greek into love of wisdom. I don’t know how much wisdom there is in it, but I have always been attracted to it, not the ideal life so much as a life of ideas. This little book likely has no wisdom in it, but perhaps the fact of it will demonstrate an appreciation for those men who spent their lives pursuing it. Though the fact that fewer women hav...
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    11,00 €

  • The Mind of a Writer and other Fables
    Stephen Evans
    'a lovely collection, imbued with warmth, wit, and wonder' -BlueInk ReviewThe Mind of a Writer and other Fables collects the often playful occasionally charming always quirky tales, short plays, verse, and other inhabitants of the imagination of playwright and author Stephen Evans. ...
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    14,25 €

  • Funny Thing Is
    Stephen Evans
    Funny Thing Is melds philosophy, science, and personal observations to result in a multifaceted take on modern comedy-one with a heartfelt message.-Foreword Clarion ReviewsIn this thought-provoking book, playwright and author Stephen Evans explores the complex human phenomenon of comedy, looking far back into prehistory for evidence of how the various systems that make up comed...
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    11,00 €

  • The Laughing String
    Stephen Evans
    The Laughing String collects author and playwright Stephen Evans’ thoughts on writing and the writing life: what inspires him, what confuses him, and what makes him smile.The title comes from a poem by W. B. Yeats:'Bred to a harder thingThan Triumph, turn awayAnd like a laughing stringWhereon mad fingers playAmid a place of stone,Be secret and exult,Because of all things knownT...
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    10,86 €

  • Monuments
    Stephen Evans
    Monuments is a play in one act exploring the tragic life and remarkable mind of America’s greatest philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson. In July of 1872, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s house in Concord, Massachusetts, caught fire. His many friends and admirers raised money for repairs, and to send him on a journey across the ocean while those repairs were being made. At the time of this voy...
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    10,95 €

  • Solid Seasons
    Stephen Evans
    Set in July 1847, Solid Seasons imagines an encounter by Henry David Thoreau with his mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson in Thoreau’s cabin at Walden Pond. Emerson attempts to convince Thoreau to leave Walden, while Thoreau struggles to maintain his personal and creative independence.The play received its World Premiere reading at the 2023 annual gathering of the Thoreau Society in Con...
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    5,48 €

  • A Transcendental Journey
    Stephen Evans
    'A road-tripping travel memoir that’s graced with humor, adventure, and wisdom.' -Foreword Clarion Reviews A Transcendental Journey is the insightful and often humorous account of playwright and author Stephen Evans’ journey across America, exploring America and American Transcendental Philosophy.  Ralph Waldo Emerson’s life, thought, and influence is explored through five of h...
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    11,68 €

  • A Breast Cancer Guide For Spouses, Partners, Friends, and Family
    Ian Evans / Ian M. Evans / Luanna H. Meyer / Luanna Meyer / Stephen Haynes / Stephen N. Haynes
    This practical, science-based book focuses on helping partners, family and friends understand breast cancer. It guides them in how to provide the best emotional and practical support when helping someone with breast cancer to cope, recover and thrive, while maintaining their own physical and psychological health. ...
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    43,45 €

  • The Pacific Western Group of Companies Guide to
    Stephen Evans
    There really isn’t much material available dealing with bus and motorcoach safety. Most of it is about compliance with regulations, which doesn’t deal with the day-to-day challenges of operating a fleet. Or it is material borrowed from the occupational health & safety side, which doesn’t apply very well, because commercial vehicles are not traditional worksites.And much of it t...
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    11,56 €

  • Liebestraum
    Stephen Evans
    Liebestraum is a collection of family memories and related stories and poems. The book includes the following pieces:Prologue; Harpman; My Dream in Chicago; Bowie Court; Pets; Gene; Eulogy; Proof; At Peter’s Gate; Catch and Release; Gene Evans World Famous Trapper Sandwich; Slumgullion; My Father the Writer; Eternity in a Grain of Sand; My Father the Singer; The Three Pillars o...
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    7,90 €

  • Perspectives On Thinking And Reasoning
    Stephen Newstead / Jonathan St.B.T. Evans
    This collection of essays focuses on three reasoning problems devised by Peter Wason - the selection task, the 2-4-6 task, and the THOG problem. ...
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    91,85 €

  • A Transcendental Journey
    Stephen Evans
    'Any journey to enlightenment is a comedy.'There was no plan. Just an old car, an old map, an old book, and a new life. A Transcendental Journey is the thoughtful and often witty account of playwright and author Stephen Evans’ journey across America, encountering natural wonders during the day, and the essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson at night. Emerson’s life, thought, and influen...
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    10,23 €

  • Negotiating Shorter Working Hours
    Alastair Evans / Stephen Palmer
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    48,02 €

  • Be Brilliant at GCSEs
    Joanne Calladine-Evans / Stephen Calladine-Evans
    A step by step guide to succeeding at GCSEs. These turning point examinations often cause students to feel uncertain and insecure. How do you know what you have to do? From choosing the right GCSEs to last minute nerves, this book gives every student a clear insight into what they need to do to succeed. It includes action points to take to improve study skills and plenty of re...
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    15,87 €


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