J Ajlouny: 7 books
by J. Ajlouny
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
In this boisterous but sensitive drama, playwright J. Ajlouny looks beyond public image to find the heart of this young woman thrust wildly into fame as a sex symbol. Presented as a play-in-the-making within a play, Marilyn, Norma Jean and Me weaves biography with humor to explore the movie star’s...
The Trial of William Shakespeare
A dramatization of the authorship controversy in which the audience renders a verdict
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
Few men have endured the indignity of having their very existence challenged as thoroughly as William Shakespeare, late of Stratford-upon-Avon. From scholars to amateur enthusiasts, many cannot bring themselves to believe he wrote his own body of work. Playwright J. Ajlouny presents the arguments...
Meet William Shakespeare
A superbly entertaining one-person play starring The Bard himself
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2018
Much has been explored about Shakespeare and his life, but little is known about how this small-town boy with a grammar-school education came to pen masterworks like Hamlet and King Lear. In Meet William Shakespeare, playwright J. Ajlouny creates authentic and plausible explanations that answer centuries-old...
Figuratively Speaking: Thesaurus of Expressions &Phrases
Thesaurus of Expressions & Phrases
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
A figure of speech is an expression in which the words are used, but not in their literal sense, to create a more forceful or dramatic meaning. They are often in the form of metaphors, similes and hyperbole. “A fountain of knowledge,” is a good example. “Stretching the truth,” is another.
With...
Who Said That?
The Stories Behind Familiar Expressions
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2018
Who Said That? provides an entertaining and authoritative reference for the origins and meanings of our common figures of speech.
Who said 100+ famous expressions?
Who really said them?
What did they actually say?
What did they actually mean?
Why did they say them that way?
Who repeated what...
The Red Poppy
Josef Stalin at Home
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
Mention the name Josef Stalin and all you will hear are epithets like “brutal dictator” or “mass murderer” or “Communist reactionary.” And these are not untrue descriptions. But they don’t tell the whole story. Every terrible person in history was also just an ordinary person too. In...
Adventures in Leninland
An Intrepid Journalist’s Quest to Understand a Place Once Called the Soviet Union
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Prior to the collapse of Communism and the break-up of the Eastern-bloc empire of the U.S.S.R., a humorist and fledgling Kremlinologist was invited to tour the vast Red Landscape. Along the rails and roads traveled, he met a cast of colorful characters and faced a host of bizarre situations that only...