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The Son of Umbele: A Play in Three Acts
“…the contents of the play revealed a brilliant mind at work in an attempt to deal with some basic ambiguities of human existence,” wrote Julius S. Scott Jnr. of Spelma College-Atlanta, when he saw an American production of The Son of Umbele.
Indeed, this Ghana National Book Award winner has endeared itself to theatre enthusiasts as well as scholars since its premier at the Ghana Drama studio in 1972.
Bill Marshall’s sensitivity to realities of the human existence and the conflicts of the mind is eloquently manifest in his writing, be it a novel, a TV Drama or a Stage play.
The author appeared on the Ghanaian Arts scene in 1966 when he joined GBC-TV and helped to establish the Drama Department of the Television Station. He worked with the Corporation for several years, writing, production and directing plays for Television, He subsequently left for the private sector, working for Lintas Ghana Limited and in his own company, Studio Africain. In 1984, he was appointed the Director of the National Film and Television Institute (NAFTI) in Ghana.
Other published works by the author are Novels: Bukom, Brother Man, The Oyster Man, Uncle Blanko’s Chair; Plays: Shadows of an Eagle, Stranger to Innocence Asana, The Crows and Other plays.
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The Scarlet Letter (FingerPrint! Classics)
“Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!”
In the seventeenth-century Puritan community of Boston, Hester Prynne is trapped, first into a loveless marriage and then into adultery.
With the scarlet letter ‘A’—signifying an adulteress—fixed on her bosom, she is brought out of the prison and made to stand on the scaffold with her infant.
What happens when Hester, in spite of being
publicly shamed by the crowd and repeatedly
urged by a young priest, refuses to reveal
the identity of her daughter’s father?A tale of sin, punishment and atonement, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter exposes the moral rigidity and double standards of the society. One of the first mass-produced books in America, it became an instant bestseller on its first publication in 1850. it continues to remain Hawthorne’s masterwork.
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The Importance of Being Earnest & Other Plays (Macmillan Popular Classics)
Around the World in Eighty Days, one of his most popular books, was first serialized in late 1872 in a French newspaper. An instant success, the novel details the round-the-world adventures of the affluent Englishman Phileas Fogg who, accompanied by his French valet Passepartout, sets out on an impossible journey for a wager of £20,000. This groundbreaking novel has since been adapted numerous times for the theatre, television, radio and cinema.
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Esio Trot (Roald Dahl)
Age Range: 7 – 11 years
“A true genius . . . Roald Dahl is my hero” David Walliams
Phizzwhizzing new cover look and branding for the World’s NUMBER ONE Storyteller!
This is the wonderful and warm-hearted Roald Dahl classic, Esio Trot.
Mr Hoppy really loves his neighbour Mrs Silver, and Mrs Silver really loves her tortoise, Alfie. One day Mrs Silver asks Mr Hoppy how to make Alfie grow, and suddenly Mr Hoppy knows the way to win her heart. With the help of a magical spell and some cabbage leaves, can Mr Hoppy be happy at last?
₵40.00Esio Trot (Roald Dahl)
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More About Boy (Roald Dahl)
Age Range: 7 – 11 years
“A true genius . . . Roald Dahl is my hero” David Walliams
MORE ABOUT BOY contains a wealth of new photos, facts and writings about Roald Dahl and his childhood, together with the original text and illustrations from his much-loved memoir.
As a boy, all sorts of unusual things happened to Roald Dahl.
There was the time he and four school friends got their revenge on beastly Mrs Prachett in her sweet shop.
There are stories of holidays in fishing boats, African adventures and the days of tasting chocolate for Cadbury’s.
You’ll hear tales of horrible school bullies and the car accident when Roald’s nose was nearly sliced clean off . . Now you can discover even more about Roald Dahl’s childhood, including some secrets he left out. Some are painful, some are funny, but all of them are TRUE.
₵65.00More About Boy (Roald Dahl)
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Boy (Roald Dahl)
Age Range: 7 – 11 years
“A true genius . . . Roald Dahl is my hero” David Walliams
Phizzwhizzing new cover look and branding for the World’s NUMBER ONE Storyteller!
BOY, Roald Dahl’s bestselling autobiography, is full of hilarious anecdotes about his childhood and school days, illustrated by Quentin Blake.
As a boy, all sorts of unusual things happened to Roald Dahl. There was the time he and four school friends got their revenge on beastly Mrs Prachett in her sweet shop.
There are stories of holidays in fishing boats, African adventures and the days of tasting chocolate for Cadbury’s.
You’ll hear tales of horrible school bullies and the motor-car accident when Roald’s nose was nearly sliced clean off . . .
Roald Dahl vividly shares his memories; some are funny. Some are painful. Some are unpleasant. All are true.
₵45.00Boy (Roald Dahl)
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Boy and Going Solo (Roald Dahl)
Age Range: 7 – 11 years
Boy and Going Solo is the whole of Roald Dahl’s extraordinary autobiography in one volume.
Reissued in the exciting new Roald Dahl branding.
Roald Dahl wasn’t always a writer. Once he was just a schoolboy. Have you ever wondered what he was like growing up?
In BOY you’ll find out why he and his friends took revenge on the beastly Mrs Pratchett who ran the sweet shop. He remembers what it was like taste-testing chocolate for Cadbury’s and he even reveals how his nose was nearly sliced off.Then in GOING SOLO you’ll read stories of whizzing through the air in a Tiger Moth Plane, encounters with hungry lions, and the terrible crash that led him to storytelling.
Roald Dahl tells his story in his own words – and it’s all TRUE.
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Bediako (Asante Twi)
Nhoma Bediako yi yɛ ayɛsɛm a efa aberante Kwasi Bediako abrabɔ mu nsɛm ho. Kwasi yɛ obi a n’awofo de Onyamesuro ne ɔdɔ tetew no. Osii so no, ɔwaree ababaa fɛfɛ bi a odwo na ɔbɔ ne ho mmɔden yiye nso ne no tenaa ɔdɔ ne asomdwoee mu.
Sika kakra baa Bediako nsam no, ofii ase bɔ fekuw bɔne. Ɔpam ne yere a ɔne no fii ɔbra ase no kɔfaa sɛbe, ɔbea kohwini bi betoo ne ho so. Ankyɛ Kwasi Bediako nyaa amanne kopuee Nkran afiase. Ne ho fii asɛm no mu no, Kwasi siim sɛ ɔrekɔ Abigyan akɔpɛ paa bi adi wɔ hɔ nanso abɛbrɛsɛ a ɛtoo no ɔkwan mu no amma wankodu hɔ. Ode ne ho kaa wura kɔtenaa Sahwi kwae mu baabi yɛɛ kua. Ɛho nso n’adwuma yɛɛ ɔkwa enti ɔsan n’akyi baa fie. Ɔbra ne Kwasi dii no nwenweennwen nanso akyiri yi na Bediako bɛdan ɔdefo kase.
Wotintim nhoma yi nea edi kan no, wɔn a wɔhwɛ Ɔman yi adesua so ne akyerɛkyerɛfo pii nyaa ayɛsɛm yi ne ne kyerɛw ho anigye mmoroso. Ne saa nti,wɔpaw Bediako se nhoma a ɛsɛ se sukuufo sua de yɛ ‘G.C.E.’ Twi sɔhwɛ. Nhoma yi mu nsɛm yɛ huam enti ebɛsi nnɛ dodow biara a wobetintim no nso to koraa. Eyi ama Owura Amarteifio asiesie nhoma dedaw no asesa mu ayɛ no kɛse kakra ama wɔatintim pii. Nhoma foforo no ni. Nokwa, Bediako yɛ nhoma a ɛsɛ se obiara to bi to ne sumii ase.
₵24.00Bediako (Asante Twi)
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Disastrous Inferno
Age Range: 9+ years
Fire devastates a portion of a wood processing factory located at the outskirts of Sako, a semi-prosperous city in the West.
Kweku Minkah Eshun, the MD of the logging and wood processing company is faced with a dilemma: the company has to pay off an outstanding bank loan or face legal proceedings and at the same time, re-construct the destroyed building for business to thrive. In order to do these objectives, he decides to source for extra money through the back door insider trading, smuggling machine and currency trafficking.
Aside his business problems is the fact that Kweku has been married to his beautiful wife Afia for three years without a child – “enter” a gynaecologist, a pastor and a herbalist.
How will it all end?
₵25.00Disastrous Inferno
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Life Dies
This is a well-structured and properly explained content which explores the complexities of life and death. Life on earth takes the character of the earth; it revolves and rotates, always changing. Thus, every aspect of life lives and dies; there is nothing permanent.
Life Dies postulates that since every aspect of life will eventually change, we must live and enjoy any present situation we find ourselves. This book also admonishes us on the need to plan ahead, as detailed content have been explored in this regard.
In-depth insight has also been given on darkness and the need to overcome such and move into the light destined for us. Life is not sweet at all times, the metaphor in the book’s title has been expanded to provide understanding and impart the reader as well.
₵75.00Life Dies
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The Hobbit: Film tie-in Edition
The classic bestseller behind this year’s biggest movie, this film tie-in edition features the complete story of Bilbo Baggins’ adventures in Middle-earth as shown in the film trilogy, with a striking cover image from Peter Jackson’s film adaptation and drawings and maps by J.R.R. Tolkien.
Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely travelling further than the pantry of his hobbit-hole in Bag End.
But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard, Gandalf, and a company of thirteen dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an unexpected journey ‘there and back again’. They have a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon…
The prelude to The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit has sold many millions of copies since its publication in 1937, establishing itself as one of the most beloved and influential books of the twentieth century.
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Vacancy for a Lover
Vacancy for a Lover is the lead story in a collection that explores diverse themes—love, lust, mind-matter dichotomy, political intrigue and the tragedy of mortal despair.
A young man finds love in the most unusual of places; a poet pines over unrequited love, an intrepid author rethinks his philosophies and a bunch of political players makes plans. …
Vacancy for a Lover is a collection of 10 stories that highlight the author’s attempt at exploring the human condition.
₵30.00Vacancy for a Lover
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Bad Love (Twenty in 2020)
Against a backdrop of enigmatic nights scattered with spoken word poetry in London, Venice, Accra and Paris, Ekuah tries to reconcile her personal journey with the love she struggles with for Dee Emeka, a gifted musician who is both passionate and aloof in his treatment of Ekuah. After 18 months together, he disappears from her life, confirming her worst fears about the unstable foundation of their relationship. She attempts to graduate university whilst retreating into herself, searching for new validations and preoccupations from heartbreak.
Life marches on and Ekuah finds personal fulfilment in her poetry and community work. But when she must choose between her first love, and the promise of a new, unexpected love, in the form of Jay Stanley, can she handle the vulnerability and forgiveness required? Grappling with her examples of love, Ekuah must forge her own path. With an increasingly successful career, she finds herself traveling around the world. When her rise intersects with Dee’s own fame, the two are pushed to reach a final resolution.
₵75.00Bad Love (Twenty in 2020)
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Inspirational Quotes for Living
This pocket book is a compilation of personal quotes from the author. The phrases are a reflection on life’s journey and some aha moments, which have been crafted into motivational words to guide the reader through the highs and lows of life
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The Wish List
We all have wishes in life and sometimes we create fantasies about them. The Wish List is a collection of wishes and thoughts about People, Places, Society, Practices and Attitudes. It is aimed at shaping society. It is a compilation of articles on societal issues and some suggested solutions. Each story starts with “If I were”, with the writer putting herself in the position of an individual or a situation.
It captures the thoughts of a sociologist, communications specialist and a development advocate.
₵50.00The Wish List
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