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The Streets Are The Stage
Art in America
Hired to write and direct a play about a rural Southern Colorado town, Steven Kearney unwittingly stumbles into a range war over property rights, a media circus, a diabolical plan that threatens the very safety of the town-and, with the help of a little romance, newfound self-confidence.
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The annual Edinburgh International Festival celebrates film, music, and comedy each summer. This year, the festival draws six unique individuals, who all come together to follow their dreams. Each of these characters is trying to discover their destiny, and during one magnificent summer, paths cross and lives are forever changed.
search Novelist® PlusUSA 101: A Guide to America's Iconic Places, Events, and Festivals
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Countless travel books display some aspect or region of America, but USA 101 stitches together a whole crazy quilt of iconic places, events, fairs, and festivals that celebrates our country in all its quirky diversity.
search Novelist® PlusJazz Fest Memories
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During the very first Jazz Fest, there were about three hundred musicians and only about fifty people in the audience. Today, tens of thousands of people swarm to the New Orleans Fairgrounds to experience the cacophony of culture that is the world-famous New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.
search Novelist® PlusLBD: It's a Girl Thing
Barred by their overprotective parents from attending a rock music festival, fourteen-year-olds Ronnie, Fleur, and Claude, also known as "Les Bambinos Dangereuses," decide to stage their own music festival at Blackwell School.
search Novelist® PlusDancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy
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Cultural historian Ehrenreich explores a human impulse that has been so effectively suppressed that we lack even a term for it: the desire for collective joy, historically expressed in ecstatic revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing. She uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture.
search Novelist® PlusThe Road to Woodstock
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On the ground with the talent, the townspeople, and his handpicked crew, organizer Lang had a unique perspective of the legendary festival. Enhanced by a plethora of interviews, this book tells the Woodstock story from inspiration to celebration, capturing all the magic, mayhem, and mud in between.
search Novelist® PlusFamily Acts
Meeting for the first time in Georgia after being notified that they have received a bequest-a stately but dilapidated opera house-Katie Harder and Randa Jennings set out to uncover their connection to the Venable Opera House.
search Novelist® PlusThis Is Burning Man: the Rise of a New American Underground
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A provocative look at Nevada's extraordinary annual Burning Man festival spotlights the radically self-reliant and vibrantly creative community that gathers for a week-long stay followed by the burning of a symbolic wooden man. The magnificent spirit of a festival where money and spectators are not allowed is captured here.
search Novelist® PlusThe Adventures of Johnny Vermillion
Heading a theater troupe that journeys throughout the wild western frontier, Johnny Vermillion uses their performances as a clever cover-up for a bank robbery operation that is investigated by a suspicious Pinkerton man.
search Novelist® PlusThe Playmaker
Set in an Australian prison two centuries ago, this novel depicts the complex interplay between unruly prisoners and their guards and Lieutenant Ralph Clark's attempt to stage a play using convict players.
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