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All the world's a stage

a novel in five acts
2011
Twelve-year-old orphan Christopher "Kit" Buckles becomes a stage boy in a London theater in 1598, tries his hand at acting, and later helps build the Globe Theater for playwright William Shakespeare and the Chamberlain's Men acting troupe.

Tempestuous

a novel
2011
Sonny Flannery joins a group of underground Lost Fae as he struggles to recover from his heartbreak over Kelley Winslow, while Kelley tries to uncover who is hunting Sonny's Green Magick so that she and Sonny can be together again.

Darklight

a novel
2010
After a dangerous encounter in Central Park, actress Kelley Winslow, who has only recently learned that she is a Faerie, journeys to the Otherworld and begins to untangle the strands of a magical conspiracy with far-reaching consequences.

Wondrous strange

a novel
2009
Seventeen-year-old actress Kelley Winslow, an understudy for a production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," meets Sonny Flannery, who guards the Samhain Gate that connects the mortal realm with the Otherworld and is determined to protect Kelley as she learns about her own magical fate.

Oprah Winfrey

the life of a media superstar
2007
A brief profile, written in graphic comic format, of the life and achievements of daytime talk show host Opra Winfrey.

Oprah Winfrey

profile of a media mogul
2008
A career profile of Oprah Winfrey, discussing her childhood and early teen troubles, her emergence as a high school leader, her rise to wealth, fame, and influence in the field of broadcasting, her ventures into acting, producing, and publishing, and her charity work.

Oprah Winfrey

"I don't believe in failure"
2005
Examines the life of Oprah Winfrey, discussing the experiences and influences that led her from a childhood of hardship in Mississippi, to become the wealthiest and most powerful woman in the entertainment industry.

Oprah Winfrey

2005
Chronicles the life and career of Oprah Winfrey from her roots as a farm girl in rural Mississippi to being the first African American woman to become a billionaire and discusses her film appearances, success as a talk-show hostess, and her humanitarian efforts in the area of child abuse.

King of shadows

1999
While in London as part of an all-boy acting company preparing to perform in a replica of the famous Globe Theatre, Nat Field suddenly finds himself transported back to 1599 and performing in the original theater under the tutelage of Shakespeare himself.

Good brother, bad brother

the story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth
2005
Tells the life stories of nineteenth-century actor Edwin Booth and his actor brother John Wilkes Booth, describing the differences between the two men, chronicling John's assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and examining the impact of John's crime on the Booth family for decades afterward.

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