Here’s a selection of titles added to the collection in the past 2 weeks.

 A Dublin carol: a play /Conor McPherson.

Ah, wilderness! /Eugene O’Neill.The play takes place on the Fourth of July 1906 and focuses on the Miller family, The main plot deals with the middle son, 16-year-old Richard, and his coming of age in turn-of-the-century America. .

And then they came for me: remembering the world of Anne Frank /by James Still.  Part oral history, part dramatic action, part direct address, part remembrance, the ensemble-driven And Then They Came for Me breaks new ground and has been acclaimed by audiences and critics in world-wide productions.

 Aunt Dan and Lemon: a play /by Wallace Shawn. Aunt Dan & Lemon takes us into the world of a young recluse named Lemon  who spends her nights reading chronicles of Nazi atrocities. Lemon tells the audience about the overwhelming influence in her life of her parents’ friend “Aunt Dan,” an eccentric, passionate professor whose stories and seductive opinions enthrall Lemon from the time she is a young girl. A forceful play exposing the banality of society’s evil, Aunt Dan & Lemon explores the ease with which good and bad become reconciled in the human mind.

 Beau jest: a romantic comedy /by James Sherman. Sarah Goldman is secretly dating Chris who does not meet the approval of her traditionally-minded parents. To please them, Sarah invents the perfect boyfriend. When the parents want to meet him, Sarah, in desperation, hires Bob, and out of work actor, to pretend to be her make-believe beau.

Beckett the playwright /John Fletcher and John Spurling.  stresses Beckett”s success as an innovator in the theatre through a close reading and analysis of his plays.

 Calvin vs Wesley: bringing belief in line with practice /Don Thorsen. This book shows what Calvinist and Wesleyans actually believe about human responsibility, salvation, the universality of God’s grace, holy living through service, and the benefits of small group accountability–and how that connects to how people can live.

 Cotton patch gospel /book, Tom Key, Russell Treyz ; music and lyrics, Harry Chapin. Using a southern reinterpretation of the gospel story, the musical is often performed in a one-man show format with an accompanying quartet of bluegrass musicians, although a larger cast can also be used.

 Dancing at Lughnasa /Brian Friel. It is 1936 and harvest time in County Donegal. In a house just outside the village of Ballybeg live the five Mundy sisters, barely making ends meet, their ages ranging from twenty-six up to forty. The two male members of the household are brother Jack, a missionary priest, repatriated from Africa by his superiors after 25 years, and the seven-year-old child of the youngest sister. In depicting two days in the life of this menage, Friel evokes not simply the interior landscape of a group of human beings trapped in their domestic situation, but the wider landscape, interior and exterior, Christian and pagan, of which they are a part.

 Euripides: a collection of critical essays, edited by Erich Segal. This collection includes essays dealing with the plays of Euripides. Designed for use by both literary critics and secondary and college teachers of English, this work would also be of value to undergraduate and graduate students of literature. The essays deal with the theater of ideas, Euripides and the Gods, the virtues of Admetus, tragedy and religion, “Medea,””The Trojan Women,””Hippolytus,” and “Orestes.” A chronology of important dates in Euripides’ life, a brief set of biographical notes on the contributors to this collection, and a bibliography of works on Euripides complete the volume.

Five plays. Michael Weller’s Five Plays is the definitive look at the generation which came of age in the ’60s.

 Gospel reset : salvation made relevant /Ken Ham. Ham gives  a primer in creation science evangelism using two very different sermons from the book of Acts that were designed to reach two different audiences-Jew and Gentile – to effectively reach the lost. Outlines the social and moral consequences that modern culture’s war on the Bible is having on society. Provides helpful insight into understanding how to evangelize to young people. Offers guidance on how to ensure churches are properly equipping their members to defend their faith

 Great Sanskrit plays, in new English transcreations. The wonderful world of classical Indian drama has been obscured for most readers by the stilted style of the existing 19th-century translations. Here, an Indian Sanskrit scholar, P. Lal, who is also a fine poet in his own right, has produced new versions in modern idiom which brings across the full richness and vitality of the originals. And these transcreations are so presented that they will play on our stage today.

 If God made the universe, who made God?: 130 Arguments for Christian faith /Holman Bible Editorial Staff. Today’s most respected Christian apologists offer 130 essays in defense of biblical faith, covering topics such as Jesus Christ, God’s Existence, Ethics, and Heaven and Hell.

Introducing the Pseudepigrapha of Second Temple Judaism: message, context, and significance /Daniel M. Gurtner ; foreword by Loren T. Stuckenbruck. This book introduces readers to a much-neglected and misunderstood assortment of Jewish writings from around the time of the New Testament. Dispelling mistaken notions of “falsely attributed writings” that are commonly inferred from the designation “pseudepigrapha,” Gurtner demonstrates the rich indebtedness these works exhibit to the traditions and scriptures of Israel’s past. In surveying many of the most important works, Introducing the Pseudepigrapha of Second Temple Judaism shows how the pseudepigrapha are best appreciated in their own varied contexts rather than as mere “background” to early Christianity or emerging rabbinic Judaism.

 Jesus hopped the ‘A’ train /by Stephen Adly Guirgis. Angel Cruz is a thirty-year-old bike messenger from NYC who has lost his best friend to a religious cult. At the opening of the play, he is in his second night of incarceration, awaiting trial for shooting the leader of that cult.

 Lips together, teeth apart /by Terrence McNally. A beachside home on Fire Island proves a strange setting for two straight couples — sister and brother Chloe and Sam, and their spouses John and Sally– on the Fourth of July. With the companionship of each other, and the diversions of food, drink, and party games, the four characters reveal — through quick, funny, heartbreaking dialogue and intensely personal monologues — that they are nevertheless completely alone with their pain. Ambitious, poignant, and often riotously funny, Terrence McNally’s “Lips Together, Teeth Apart” is an indictment of ignorance and stagnancy in the fight against AIDS, as well as a powerful look inside dissolving marriages, lost hopes and dreams, and the looming, capricious nature of death.

 Making history /Brian Friel. The central character of this play is Hugh O’Neill, Earl of Tyrone, who led an Irish and Spanish alliance against the armies of Elizabeth I in an attempt to drive the English out of Ireland. The action takes place before and after the Battle of Kinsale, at which the alliance was defeated: with O’Neill at home in Dungannon, as a fugitive in the mountains, and finally exiled in Rome. In his handling of this momentous episode Brian Friel has avoided the conventions of ‘historical drama’ to produce a play about history, the continuing process.

 ‘Night, mother: a play /by Marsha Norman.

Nowhere else on earth: standing tall for the Great Bear Rainforest /Caitlyn Vernon. A hands-on guide to the magic and majesty of British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest, with suggestions for activism in any community.

 Our non-Christian nation: how atheists, Satanists, pagans, and others are demanding their rightful place in public life /Jay Wexler. In Our Non-Christian Nation, Wexler travels the country to engage the non-Christians who have called on us to maintain our ideals of inclusivity and diversity. With his characteristic sympathy and humor, he introduces us to determined champions of free religious expression. As Wexler reminds us, anyone who cares about pluralism, equality, and fairness should support a public square filled with a variety of religious and nonreligious voices.

 Patient A /by Lee Blessing. Commissioned by the Bergalis family to explore Kim’s case of contracting the AIDS virus, the playwright becomes part of the story as an essential observer to the story. Kim’s encounters with Lee reflect their relationship in real life as well as the “playwright” and “character” in the play. A third character, Matthew, represents a composite of the thousands of gay men who have suffered in the AIDS epidemic. As the play recounts Kim’s case, spotlighting the media and political circuses surrounding it, we see all three characters struggle with the debate and with their innermost feelings about themselves and each other.

Phaedra and Hippolytus: myth and dramatic form, edited by James L. Sanderson [and] Irwin Gopnik.

 Plays two /Brian Friel ; introduced by Christopher Murray. This second collection of Brian Friel’s plays includes some of his most acclaimed work for the stage. The plays included are Dancing at Lughnasa , Fathers and Sons , Making History , Wonderful Tennessee and Molly Sweeney.

Port-Royal, and other plays. English translations of 4 French dramas by Claudel, Mauriac, Copeland, and Montherlant.

 Principia scriptoriae ; with, Between East and West /Richard Nelson.In Principia Scriptoriae, two young writers meet in prison under an unnamed right-wing Latin American regime. Fifteen years later they find themselves on opposite sides of a conference table, bargaining for the freedom of a poet who has been jailed by the new, leftist government.

 Proof /by David Auburn. On the eve of her twenty-fifth birthday, Catherine, a troubled young woman, has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, a famous mathematician. Now, following his death, she must deal with her own volatile emotions

Romans disarmed: resisting empire, demanding justice /Sylvia C. Keesmaat and Brian J. Walsh. Following their successful Colossians Remixed, Sylvia Keesmaat and Brian Walsh unpack the meaning of Romans for its original context and for today. The authors demonstrate how Romans disarms the political, economic, and cultural power of the Roman Empire and how this ancient letter offers hope in today’s crisis-laden world. Romans Disarmed helps readers enter the world of ancient Rome and see how Paul’s most radical letter transforms the lives of the marginalized then and now. Intentionally avoiding abstract debates about Paul’s theology, Keesmaat and Walsh move back and forth between the present and the past as they explore themes of home, economic justice, creation care, the violence of the state, sexuality, and Indigenous reconciliation. They show how Romans engages with the lived reality of those who suffer from injustice, both in the first century and in the midst of our own imperial realities.

 Scotland Road /by Jeffrey Hatcher. In the last decade of the twentieth century, a beautiful young woman in nineteenth-century clothing is found floating on an iceberg in the middle of the North Atlantic. When rescued, she says only one word: Titanic.

Six degrees of separation /by John Guare. The play explores the existential premise that everyone in the world is connected to everyone else in the world by a chain of no more than six acquaintances,

Six plays of Plautus /edited and translated by Lionel Casson.

 States of shock /by Sam Shepard. The evening begins with a bang. The deceptive calm of a family restaurant, filled with two disgruntled customers and an inept waitress, is disrupted by offstage sounds of war and destruction. The real disruption begins with the entrance of the Colonel, a middle-aged brute of a man wearing the medals and uniform of a commander, who wheels on Stubbs, a mute paraplegic veteran who served with the Colonel’s son. Stubbs slowly regains the power of speech and memory, and the tables turn when he reveals his enormous battle scar and hints that he is the Colonel’s son. In increasingly bizarre and violent scenes, including a whipping and a food fight, STATES OF SHOCK reaches its shattering conclusion

 Teach yourself Irish ,by Myles Dillon [and] Donncha Ó Cróinín.

 The apocalyptic letter to the Galatians: Paul and the Enochic heritage /James M. Scott. TWU AUTHOR In this book, Scott argues that there is an essential continuity between the letter to the Galatians and Paul’s Jewish past, and that Paul uses the Epistle of Enoch (1 Enoch 92-105) as a literary model for his own letter.

 The belle of Amherst: a play based on the life of Emily Dickinson /by William Luce ; as produced on the stage by Mike Merrick and Don Gregory. A biographical play that draws on Emily Dickinson’s poems and letters and firsthand accounts of relatives and friends to recreate the life and spirit of the great American poet.

 The bomb: a partial history /[introduction by Nicolas Kent]. This play is a political history of the nuclear bomb and its proliferation from 1940 to the present day. Presented in two parts, “First blast: Proliferation” and “Second blast: present dangers.” Also includes ANADYR’ by Elena Gremina, translated from the Russian by Sasha Dugdale.

 The concept of freedom in Judaism, Christianity and Islam /edited by Georges Tamer and Ursula Männle. The third volume of the series “Key Concepts of Interreligious Discourses” investigates the roots of the concept of freedom in Judaism, Christianity and Islam and its relevance for the present time. The volume presents the concept of freedom in its different aspects as anchored in the traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It unfolds commonalities and differences between the three monotheistic religions as well as the manifold discourses about freedom within these three traditions. The book offers fundamental knowledge about the specific understanding of freedom in each one of these traditions, their interdependencies and their relationship to secular interpretations.

  The concept of peace in Judaism, Christianity and Islam /edited by Georges Tamer. The eighth volume of the series “Key Concepts of Interreligious Discourses” investigates the roots of the concept of “peace” in Judaism, Christianity and Islam and its relevance for the present time. The volume presents the concept of “peace” in its different aspects as anchored in the traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It unfolds commonalities and differences between the three monotheistic religions as well as the manifold discourses about peace within these three traditions. The book offers fundamental knowledge about the specific understanding of peace in each one of these traditions, their interdependencies and their relationship to secular world views.

 The concept of revelation in Judaism, Christianity and Islam /edited by Georges Tamer. The first volume of the nseries Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses points out similarities and differences of “revelation”. KCID aims to establish an archeology of religious knowledge in order to create a new conceptual platform of mutual understanding among religious communities.

The cripple of Inishmaan /by Martin McDonagh .Set on a remote island off the west coast of Ireland in 1934, THE CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN is a strange comic tale in the great tradition of Irish storytelling.

The dyskolos /by Menander ; translated with an introduction and notes by Carroll Moulton. The play begins with Pan, the god who acts as the driving force behind the play’s main actions. Setting the scene, he tells the audience about the farm belonging to Knemon, “the grouch” of the play, a bad-tempered and irritable old man, living with his daughter, Girl, and his servant, Simiche. He tells about the old man’s past, and about Knemon’s wife, who had a son with and was widowed by her first husband. She had given birth to their daughter and, not long after, she left Knemon because he treated her poorly. She went to live with her son, Gorgias, leaving Knemon with their daughter and Simiche. Pan, who feels a fondness for Girl, makes Sostratos fall in love with Girl at first sight of her.

 The foreigner /by Larry Shue. InShue’s hilarious farce, Charlie Baker, a proofreader by day and boring husband by night, adopts the persona of a foreigner who doesn’t understand English. When others begin to speak freely around him, he not only becomes privy to secrets both dangerous and frivolous, he also discovers an adventurous extrovert within himself

The freedom of the city. Set in Derry 1970, the play interweaves the ‘present’ –  and flashbacks to the main story – the final hours of the lives of three peaceful marchers . Most of the action revolves around the unwinding personal stories of the three as they attempt to wait out the violence so they can go home only to find that they are now the centre of the action. Lily, a 43-year-old mother of eleven, Michael, a 22-year-old man (unemployed), and ‘Skinner’, 21 and unemployed (signs himself as Freeman of the City in the Visitor’s Book), are the antiheroes, who perish as British soldiers shoot them in cold blood when they surrender.

 The gospel at Colonus /adaptation and original lyrics by Lee Breuer ; adapted lyrics by Bob Telson and Lee Breuer ; music by Bob Telson. The Gospel at Colonus is an African-American musical version of Sophocles’s tragedy, Oedipus at Colonus.

 The orange shirt story /author, Phyllis Webstad ; illustrations, Brock Nicol. When Phyllis Webstad (nee Jack) turned six, she went to the residential school for the first time. On her first day at school, she wore a shiny orange shirt that her Granny had bought for her, but when she got to the school, it was taken away from her and never returned. This is the true story of Phyllis and her orange shirt. It is also the story of Orange Shirt Day (an important day of remembrance for First Nations and non First Nations Canadians).

 The Palestinian manna tradition: the manna tradition in the Palestinian targums and its relationship to the New Testament writings /Bruce J. Malina. An exploration of the Palestinian Targumic literature relating to the mentions of manna in the Hebrew Bible, with application to the New Testament’s mentions of manna.

The plays of William Wycherley /edited by Peter Holland.|Mr Wycherley is universally allowed the first place among the English comic poets who have writ since Ben Jonson. His Plain-Dealer is the best comedy that ever was composed in any language.’ Yet in spite of the extreme praise many of his contemporaries accorded to his work, William Wycherley (1641-1715) is now only remembered for one play, The Country Wife.

 The shape of things /Neil LaBute. A young student drifts into an ever-changing relationship with an art major while his best friends’ engagement crumbles, so unleashing a drama that peels back the skin of two modern-day relationships, exposing the raw meat and gristle that lie beneath.

The stick wife /by Darrah Cloud. A play concerning the 1963 bombing of a church in Birmingham, Alabama, in which four Black girls were killed.

 The Theatre of images /edited with introductory essays by Bonnie Marranca. The three plays collected in The Theatre of Images challenge the conventional understanding of performance.   It is what author Lee Breuer calls “caption literature”, a radical alternative drama documenting the conception of dramatic work. With introductory essays by Bonnie Marranca, this reissue of The Theatre of Images brings back to print one of the most influential books on the American avant-garde in the last two decades.

 The weir /by Conor McPherson. n a bar in rural Ireland, the local men swap spooky stories in an attempt to impress a young woman from Dublin who recently moved into a nearby haunted house. However, the tables are soon turned when she spins a yarn of her own.

Vitruvius: the ten books on architecture. Translated by Morris Hicky Morgan. With illus. and original designs prepared under the direction of Herbert Langford Warren. The only full treatise on architecture and its related arts to survive from classical antiquity, the Architecture libri decem (Ten Books on Architecture) is the single most important work of architectural history in the Western world, having shaped architecture and the image of the architect from the Renaissance to the present.

What I wish my Christian friends knew about Judaism /Robert Schoen ; foreword by Alice Camille. The basics of Jewish life and customs described for Christians in a spirit of understanding and shared appreciation of common roots.

Why would anyone go to church?: a young community’s quest to reclaim church for good /Kevin Makins. Casting a new light on why church matters, Makins shares the unconventional story of starting a church for people that feel disenfranchised from religion, inviting readers to experience a diverse faith community that is both brutally honest and beautifully messy.