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Author |
: Maurice Blanchot |
Publisher |
: Stanford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0804742243 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780804742245 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Book to Come by : Maurice Blanchot
Featuring essays originally published in La Nouvelle Revue Française, this collection clearly demonstrates why Maurice Blanchot was a key figure in exploring the relation between literature and philosophy.
Author |
: Kevin Kantor |
Publisher |
: SCB Distributors |
Total Pages |
: 102 |
Release |
: 2021-03-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781943735952 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1943735956 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis Please Come Off-Book by : Kevin Kantor
Please Come Off-Book queers the theatrical canon we all grew up with. Kantor critiques the treatment of queer figures and imagines a braver and bolder future that allows queer voices the agency over their own stories. Drawing upon elements of the Aristotelian dramatic structure and the Hero's Journey, Please Come Off-Book is both a love letter to and a scathing critique of American culture and the lenses we choose to see ourselves through.
Author |
: Wally Lamb |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 517 |
Release |
: 2012-12-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781471105340 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1471105342 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis She's Come Undone by : Wally Lamb
Meet Dolores Price. She's thirteen, wise-mouthed but wounded. Beached like a whale in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the chocolate, crisps and Pepsi her anxious mother supplies. When she finally rolls into young womanhood at 257 pounds, Dolores is no stronger and life is no kinder. But this time she's determined to rise to the occasion and give herself one more chance before really going belly up. In his extraordinary coming-of-age odyssey, Wally Lamb invites us to hitch an incredible ride on a journey of love, pain, and renewal with the most heartbreakingly comical heroine to come along in years. At once a fragile girl and a hard-edged cynic, so tough to love yet so inimitably loveable, Dolores is as poignantly real as our own imperfections.
Author |
: Ian Manuel |
Publisher |
: Pantheon |
Total Pages |
: 225 |
Release |
: 2021 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781524748524 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1524748528 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis My Time Will Come by : Ian Manuel
"The ... story of a fourteen-year-old sentenced to life in prison, of the extraordinary relationship that developed between him and the woman he shot, and of his release after twenty-six years of imprisonment through the efforts of ... legal activist Bryan Stevenson"--
Author |
: Metra Farrari |
Publisher |
: Wise Ink Creative Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 271 |
Release |
: 2021-06-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781634894272 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1634894278 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis All the Blues Come Through by : Metra Farrari
With her smart and playful writing, debut author Metra Farrari cleverly blends chick-lit with a dash of Greek mythology—the product a winning combination of smart-alecky wit, dreamy escapism, and a quirky yet lovable heroine. Ryan Bell is your typical millennial: surviving on a diet of wine and Netflix, woefully single enough to qualify for cat-lady membership, and renting from a seventy-something Tinder-swiping landlord-turned-bestie. But underneath her chipped-off manicure lies a green thumb that has created miraculous flowers capable of saving mankind from cataclysmic climate change. There's one problem: Only Ryan can grow them. An unusual audience comes to an unorthodox conclusion: Ryan is the heir of the Greek god Artemis. Although Ryan thinks these strange, toga-wearing folks are one kalamata olive short of a Greek salad, she reluctantly enters a hidden world where the Olympians are real and magic flows freely (plus a generous serving of Greek hunks). Talk about one epic identity crisis. Magical demigod or not, the fate of civilization—both mortal and godly—now rests on Ryan's shoulders.
Author |
: Dara Horn |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 340 |
Release |
: 2006-10-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780393066876 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0393066878 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis The World to Come: A Novel by : Dara Horn
"Nothing short of amazing." —Entertainment Weekly A million-dollar Chagall is stolen from a museum during a singles' cocktail hour. The unlikely thief, former child prodigy Benjamin Ziskind, is convinced that the painting once hung in his parents' living room. This work of art opens a door through which we discover his family's startling history—from an orphanage in Soviet Russia where Chagall taught to suburban New Jersey and the jungles of Vietnam.
Author |
: Sara Gran |
Publisher |
: Soho Press |
Total Pages |
: 107 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781569473283 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1569473285 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Come Closer by : Sara Gran
Instead of a book she had ordered by mail, Amanda receives "Demon Possession, Past and Present." Soon after, something seems to take her over, and she wonders if she has been possessed by a female demon known to students of the Kabbalah as Naamah.
Author |
: Oscar Cásares |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2019-05-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780525655442 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0525655441 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Where We Come From by : Oscar Cásares
A stunning and timely novel about a Mexican-American family in Brownsville, Texas, that reluctantly becomes involved in smuggling immigrants into the United States. From a distance, the towns along the U.S.-Mexican border have dangerous reputations--on one side, drug cartels; on the other, zealous border patrol agents--and Brownsville is no different. But to twelve-year-old Orly, it's simply where his godmother Nina lives--and where he is being forced to stay the summer after his mother's sudden death. For Nina, Brownsville is where she grew up, where she lost her first and only love, and where she stayed as her relatives moved away and her neighborhood deteriorated. It's the place where she has buried all her secrets--and now she has another: she's providing refuge for a young immigrant boy named Daniel, for whom traveling to America has meant trading one set of dangers for another. Separated from the violent human traffickers who brought him across the border and pursued by the authorities, Daniel must stay completely hidden. But Orly's arrival threatens to put them all at risk of exposure. Tackling the crisis of U.S. immigration policy from a deeply human angle, Where We Come From explores through an intimate lens the ways that family history shapes us, how secrets can burden us, and how finding compassion and understanding for others can ultimately set us free.
Author |
: Hemley Boum |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 350 |
Release |
: 2022 |
ISBN-10 |
: 194964135X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781949641356 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (5X Downloads) |
Synopsis Days Come and Go by : Hemley Boum
"Chronicles the beauty and turmoil of a rapidly changing Cameroon through the story of three generations of women"--
Author |
: Maryanne Wolf |
Publisher |
: HarperCollins |
Total Pages |
: 233 |
Release |
: 2018-08-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780062388797 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0062388797 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reader, Come Home by : Maryanne Wolf
The author of the acclaimed Proust and the Squid follows up with a lively, ambitious, and deeply informative book that considers the future of the reading brain and our capacity for critical thinking, empathy, and reflection as we become increasingly dependent on digital technologies. A decade ago, Maryanne Wolf’s Proust and the Squid revealed what we know about how the brain learns to read and how reading changes the way we think and feel. Since then, the ways we process written language have changed dramatically with many concerned about both their own changes and that of children. New research on the reading brain chronicles these changes in the brains of children and adults as they learn to read while immersed in a digitally dominated medium. Drawing deeply on this research, this book comprises a series of letters Wolf writes to us—her beloved readers—to describe her concerns and her hopes about what is happening to the reading brain as it unavoidably changes to adapt to digital mediums. Wolf raises difficult questions, including: Will children learn to incorporate the full range of "deep reading" processes that are at the core of the expert reading brain? Will the mix of a seemingly infinite set of distractions for children’s attention and their quick access to immediate, voluminous information alter their ability to think for themselves? With information at their fingertips, will the next generation learn to build their own storehouse of knowledge, which could impede the ability to make analogies and draw inferences from what they know? Will all these influences change the formation in children and the use in adults of "slower" cognitive processes like critical thinking, personal reflection, imagination, and empathy that comprise deep reading and that influence both how we think and how we live our lives? How can we preserve deep reading processes in future iterations of the reading brain? Concerns about attention span, critical reasoning, and over-reliance on technology are never just about children—Wolf herself has found that, though she is a reading expert, her ability to read deeply has been impacted as she has become increasingly dependent on screens. Wolf draws on neuroscience, literature, education, and philosophy and blends historical, literary, and scientific facts with down-to-earth examples and warm anecdotes to illuminate complex ideas that culminate in a proposal for a biliterate reading brain. Provocative and intriguing, Reader, Come Home is a roadmap that provides a cautionary but hopeful perspective on the impact of technology on our brains and our most essential intellectual capacities—and what this could mean for our future.