"Both mainstream and movement history too often focus on the lives of 'great men.' But who really does the work of grassroots movement-building? Singer, activist, working mother, poet, photographer, and writer, Marianne Robinson is one of many women who have held up their 'half of the sky' in progressive movements. Her moving autobiography spans many decades of cultural and political activity in People's Songs, labor, women's and anti-war movements from the 1940s onward." --Suzanne Gordon, journalist, writer, and author of Nursing Against the Odds As a chronicle of Marianne Robinson's unconventional life, Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire is a fast-moving personal story that describes her multidimensional life of commitment, change, and creativity. Poems, photos, and graphic images also serve to illustrate her restless journey.

Kya Martinley has been burned before, and she swears it's never going to happen again. But things are looking up for this strong woman with big dreams. She's in a great relationship-the best of her life, in fact-with Bruce, a prominent lawyer in Ponde, Louisiana. A former professional ball player, Bruce knows a thing or two about being a player, and that's just fine with Kya. After he romances her, he heads right home to another. It's the best of both worlds. Kya and her best friends-Chandenise, Airis, and Bailey-met in high school, where they formed an unusual club: BACK-or "Bountiful Ass Chicks Just Kicking It." The four friends created the club in order to turn the tables on all the shifty, lying, cheating men in their lives. Now the ladies do the using, and they get their revenge. Their friendship has never been stronger. But for someone who should know better, Kya lets herself get drawn in a little too close to the fire-literally and figuratively. With the help of her friends, she'll find a way to enjoy the heat all summer long-that is, until the fateful day a barbecue sends her running!

Comedy / Characters: 7 male, 5 female Set Requirements: Interior Produced in New York City. Three young men and three young women share an apartment in all innocence; they are would be stage folk and they are doing this for economic security. Their apartment is immediately above that of a Broadway producer who is about to cast a road company. They rehearse the play but how can they get him upstairs to see it? It happens that the producer is an amateur chef and, right in the middle of a culi

It all starts with the release of fidgety, suspicious Percy Talbott from state prison after serving a five-year sentence. We don't know why, only that she's released and on her way to Gilead and its "colors of paradise." But when she arrives it is February and bitter cold, and the only one around to meet her is restless Sheriff Joe Turner, who takes her to the Spitfire Grill to help the aging Hannah Ferguson run the diner. All is gray, dismal and listless around them, and the characters are in the "winter of their lives" emotionally and spiritually.

Linda's search for a place to call home leads her to Jacksonville, Florida, where she enters into marriage with a man she met only once. In the years that follow she experiences the pains of becoming a woman, wife, and mother. In Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire Linda experiences obstacles with which she has to cope alone just one of which is life with an alcoholic husband. She endures domestic violence that no woman should have to endure. You'll find yourself experiencing Linda's feelings of loneliness, of self-doubt, of being unloved and unwanted by the very man who promised to love and protect. You'll feel anger at this man as he neglects, belittles, and abuses his wife and the mother of his children. Linda's never-ending determination and inner strength will astonish you as she faces the twists and turns of being an adult, wife, and mother.