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Acting & Auditioning for the 21st Century covers acting and auditioning in relation to new media, blue- and green-screen technology, motion capture, web series, audiobook work, evolving live-streamed web series, and international acting and audio work. Listeners are given a methodology for changing artistic technology and the global acting market, with chapters covering auditions of all kinds, contracts, the impact of new technology, and issues relating to disabled actors, actors of color, and actors who are part of the LGBTQIA community.

Humanity begins to move out from a dying earth. On a particular planet, colonists are attacked by monsters looking like an ancient Egyptian God. On another planet, a young explorer finds a race of dragons through a transit portal. Befriending them, she discovers how to use powerful space ships left behind by another race, long gone.

In an effort to increase Romania’s population, the communist dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu, authorized Decree 770 in 1967 that criminalized contraception and abortion. Abandoned and unwanted by their parents, thousands of children ended up in state orphanages where they were neglected and abused, and later became homeless on the streets of Bucharest.

Great-Grandma Mittie’s Letters: The Space Adventures of Dara, Vesko, and Borko is a fun book series for all ages. Younger listeners will learn many interesting facts about the cosmos, whereas the older listeners will have fun refreshing their knowledge about nature and its laws. The main characters of the book, three young children, travel into space on an imaginary starship. They learn important information very fast since they are actively playing and experiencing everything.

Great-Grandma Mittie’s Letters: The Space Adventures of Dara, Vesko, and Borko is a fun book for all ages. Younger listeners will learn many interesting facts about the cosmos, whereas the older listeners will have fun refreshing their knowledge about nature and its laws. The main characters of the book, three young children, travel the space on an imaginary starship.

Disability and Theatre: A Practical Manual for Inclusion in the Arts is a step-by step manual on how to create inclusive theatre, including how and where to find actors, how to publicize productions, run rehearsals, act intricate scenes like fights and battles, work with unions, and deal with technical issues. This practical information was born from the author’s 16 years of running the first inclusive theatre company in New York City, and is applicable to any performance level: children’s theatre, community theatre, regional theatre, and touring companies.

The latest in the Correctly Political Tales series takes a satirical look at the L. Frank Baum classic The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Hear the story of how Dorothy deals with three nuts while trying to get back home for reasons no one understands.

Our intrepid hero Charlie strays too far from home. He finds himself involved in a Mad Professor's adventure which he is ill-prepared for. Luckily he meets up with his old monkey pal, Malcolm. All three go on a journey which takes them a year to complete. Charlie is a changed cat on his return.

Black Cat Charlie falls asleep on top of a haystack. The circus comes to town and he finds himself in conflict with some clowns. As usual Charlie gets out the fix with some help from the haystack heroes.

In this, the first in a series of childrens' books about Black Cat Charlie a kitten finds himself homeless and falls upon hard times. His adventures teach him that nothing is as it seems and that life can take you to strange places.

Charlie's little adventure on the river turns bad. He finds himself lost at sea and in dire straits but as usual manages to pull through.

Whilst out for a walk in New York City, Charlie meets a mouse. It turns out that the tiny mouse is something pretty special. Charlie finds out that little heroes can have a big impact in the world.

This remarkable historical novel is about Martyna, an 89 year old woman living in Germany who, on the 22nd of April, 2015, has a strange dream during her afternoon nap, then dies from a heart attack. But that is the beginning of the story, not the end. And the story—that she insists on experiencing in order to understand her just-completed life—is a powerful drama of courage and commitment, of love and loss, of longing and hope.