Would You Shut Up, Please

Would You Shut Up, Please

Author: Lewis Nordan

Publisher: Algonquin Books

Published: 2014-06-01

Total Pages: 21

ISBN-13: 1616204850

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“If you call yourself a serious reader but still haven’t discovered Lewis Nordan, shame on you.” —The Seattle Times Lewis Nordan’s cult following began in 1991 when Algonquin published his first novel, Music of the Swamp. His second novel, Wolf Whistle, was inspired by one of the nation’s most volatile and notorious racial incidents. Nordan was fifteen years old at the time, and living in Mississippi, just down the road from where young Emmet Till was murdered for daring to whistle at a white woman. Wolf Whistle was hailed by Randall Kenan in The Nation as “an immense and wall-shattering display of talent.” It was Nordan’s most acclaimed work and winner of the Southern Book Award. He published four more books with Algonquin, including Lightning Song, The Sharpshooter Blues, Sugar Among the Freaks, and a memoir, Boy with Loaded Gun. His fictional works, all set in the American South, have the ability to break your heart and keep you laughing at the same time. The Los Angeles Times review got it exactly right: “Lordy, Lordy, can Lewis Nordan write!Horrible things happen, and horribly funny things, too, in the Delta town of Arrow Catcher, Miss.” When Lewis Nordan died in 2012, he was working on a collection of stories. This story, Would You Shut Up, Please, is the tale of a man who investigates a disturbance at his elderly neighbors’ home and discovers more about their lives than he cares to know. Algonquin is committed to keeping all of Lewis Nordan’s remarkable work available in print and as e-books, to ensure that new generations of readers will continue to discover his wild imagination, his boundless talent, and his singular voice. We hope you’ll enjoy Would You Shut Up, Please and will want to read more from this legendary storyteller.


Go the F**k to Sleep

Go the F**k to Sleep

Author: Adam Mansbach

Publisher: Akashic Books

Published: 2011-06-14

Total Pages: 18

ISBN-13: 1453271023

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The #1 New York Times Bestseller: “A hilarious take on that age-old problem: getting the beloved child to go to sleep” (NPR). “Hell no, you can’t go to the bathroom. You know where you can go? The f**k to sleep.” Go the Fuck to Sleep is a book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don’t always send a toddler sailing blissfully off to dreamland. Profane, affectionate, and radically honest, it captures the familiar—and unspoken—tribulations of putting your little angel down for the night. Read by a host of celebrities, from Samuel L. Jackson to Jennifer Garner, this subversively funny bestselling storybook will not actually put your kids to sleep, but it will leave you laughing so hard you won’t care.


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Publisher: Lulu.com

Published:

Total Pages: 163

ISBN-13: 1447521048

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Defining and Redefining Gender Equity in Education

Defining and Redefining Gender Equity in Education

Author: Janice Koch

Publisher: IAP

Published: 2002-08-01

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1607525518

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In the past 25 years there has been an enormous increase in the amount of research exploring issues of gender and schooling. New journals have been established, and in the older journals, special issues have been devoted to addressing gender equity in education. For the editors this has raised some questions and concerns as we organized the topics for this first volume of the Research on Women and Education book series.


Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned

Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned

Author: Wells Tower

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2009-03-17

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 142991484X

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Viking marauders descend on a much-plundered island, hoping some mayhem will shake off the winter blahs. A man is booted out of his home after his wife discovers that the print of a bare foot on the inside of his windshield doesn't match her own. Teenage cousins, drugged by summer, meet with a reckoning in the woods. A boy runs off to the carnival after his stepfather bites him in a brawl. In the stories of Wells Tower, families fall apart and messily try to reassemble themselves. His version of America is touched with the seamy splendor of the dropout, the misfit: failed inventors, boozy dreamers, hapless fathers, wayward sons. Combining electric prose with savage wit, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned is a major debut, announcing a voice we have not heard before.


The Last Lecture

The Last Lecture

Author: Randy Pausch

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780340978504

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The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.


Dragon Knights Anthology Volume 3

Dragon Knights Anthology Volume 3

Author: Bianca D'Arc

Publisher: Hawk Publishing, LLC

Published:

Total Pages: 668

ISBN-13: 1370089686

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Dragons, gryphons, gypsies, time travel, magic…and a whole lot of love. The third set of three stories in the critically acclaimed Dragon Knights series from USA Today Bestselling Author, Bianca D’Arc. Epic fantasy menage romance at its best. Volume 3 contains Wings of Change, FireDrake, and Dragon Storm. Wings of Change A wounded dragon crawls off to die alone. Lucia meets the dragon and tries to save his life. Sir Kaden is his knight. Sir Marcus is his fighting partner. When Lucia seeks them out, they find not only the dragon, but a woman who could be their mate. The dragon is near death. Only a miracle can save him now, but Lucia might hold the key—and her love—which is the greatest miracle of all. FireDrake Drake is attracted to Krysta, the woman Mace has been courting. The three must rescue a kidnapped prince, and each day on their perilous journey, Krysta sinks deeper into the complicated relationship between the men and their matchmaking dragons. The safety of the stolen prince hanging in the balance, Krysta accepts the challenge to unite two strong men—and their dragons—into a family. Dragon Storm When Josie finds an injured man on her doorstep, her instincts say he’s much more than a man. And so is his brother. Her dragon lovers cannot fly free in the modern world. The only way to return them to their rightful place is to seek her estranged grandfather’s counsel. But returning Darius and Connor to where they belong could mean giving up everything. Even her only chance for true love. Note: For adults only. Contains graphic language, multi-partner sexual situations and swashbuckling knights riding dragons who meddle in their lives more than you’d think!


Wake Up, Sleeping Beauty

Wake Up, Sleeping Beauty

Author: Megumi Morino

Publisher: Kodansha Comics

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1682339971

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THE AWAKENING High schooler Tetsu Misato is hardworking, frugal, and easily scared, but he commits to a part-time job at the mansion on the hill—the one that’s rumored to be haunted. As he toils away, he notices a building separate from the estate, and the mysterious girl who lives within it: Shizu Karasawa. Tetsu slowly becomes enchanted by Shizu’s lonely smile, but by their second encounter, he quickly finds himself in over his head. There’s an unsettling feeling he can’t quite shake, but there’s love there, too.


Edgar Plays: 3

Edgar Plays: 3

Author: David Edgar

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2014-02-13

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 1408161842

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"David Edgar, like Balzac, seems to be the secretary for our times." - The Guardian This third collection of plays by David Edgar includes Our Own People, Teendreams, Maydays and That Summer, encompassing some of his best work from the late 1970s and early 80s, and demonstrating the range of one of Britain's major political playwrights. Our Own People: "A courageous and intelligent discussion of race and industrial relations." - City Limits Teendreams (written with Susan Todd of Monstrous Regiment theatre company) is about the failed revolutionary dreams of a set of teenagers. Maydays compares the phenomenon of post-war social rebellion from Western and Eastern perspectives. That Summer is an "elegantly tangential treatment of the 1984 miners' strike" (Plays and Players). "Edgar never lets his drama simplify into ideological diagram ... This elegant, humane play keeps its emphasis on the ... results that can ensue when diverse lives briefly brush against each other." (Independent)