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Publisher
HaperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
251 pages ; 22 cm
Description
In her first new work in 20 years, the author presents a collection of diverse, thematically linked and deeply powerful stories about men and women confronting their vulnerabilities in times of transition and challenge.
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Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xviii, 203 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"One of contemporary America's leading critics and scholars offers a provocative reassessment of the lives and work of eight influential twentieth- century American writers: Lionel Trilling Dwight Macdonald W.H. Auden William Maxwell Saul Bellow Alfred Kazin Norman Mailer Frank O'Hara Drawing on newly published letters and diaries, Edward Mendelson explores the responses of these writers, very public figures all, to major historical events--among...
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Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 22 cm
Description
In a dystopian future seventeen-year-old Josephine Monarch has grown up in the Ashes, the poverty stricken borderlands of New Georgia, but today is the Lineup and if she is chosen she gets a chance to leave that behind--even though it will mean leaving all her loved ones behind, and embracing an uncertain future.
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Series
Bloomsbury sigma volume 23
Publisher
Bloomsbury Sigma
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
288 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 22 cm.
Description
"In 2012, Vanessa Potter, a married advertising film producer with two young children, was stricken by Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder (NMOSD), a rare illness that resulted in sudden blindness and paralysis. She was hospitalized for two weeks. Over the next five months at home, she regained mobility but recovering her sight was more problematic. At first what she saw was monochromatic. As color reappeared, she encountered synesthesia (experiencing...
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Tears We Cannot Stop, a passionate call to America to finally reckon with race and start the journey to redemption. The night of May 25, 2020 changed America. George Floyd, a 43-year-old Black man, was killed during an arrest in Minneapolis when a white cop suffocated him. The video of that night's events went viral, sparking the largest protests in the nation's history and the sort of social unrest we...
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