William's Birthday and Other Stories

William's Birthday and Other Stories
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Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Total Pages : 192
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781509844463
ISBN-13 : 1509844465
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis William's Birthday and Other Stories by : Martin Jarvis

Whether he's getting into adventures with his band of Outlaws, or driving his family crazy, there's never a dull minute with William Brown around! This bumper edition features 8 Meet Just William stories from the "voice of William" Martin Jarvis, with illustrations by Tony Ross. Includes: William's Birthday, The Christmas Truce, William Leads a Better Life, William and the Musician, William and the Hidden Treasure, William and the Snowman, Violet Elizabeth Runs Away and William Goes Shopping. Meet Just William is perfect for newly confident readers.

Go with the Flow

Go with the Flow
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Publisher : First Second
Total Pages : 338
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ISBN-10 : 9781250771100
ISBN-13 : 1250771102
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Synopsis Go with the Flow by : Karen Schneemann

High school students embark on a crash course of friendship, female empowerment, and women's health issues in Lily Williams and Karen Schneemann's graphic novel Go With the Flow. Good friends help you go with the flow. Best friends help you start a revolution. Sophomores Abby, Brit, Christine, and Sasha are fed up. Hazelton High never has enough tampons. Or pads. Or adults who will listen. Sick of an administration that puts football before female health, the girls confront a world that shrugs—or worse, squirms—at the thought of a menstruation revolution. They band together to make a change. It’s no easy task, especially while grappling with everything from crushes to trig to JV track but they have each other’s backs. That is, until one of the girls goes rogue, testing the limits of their friendship and pushing the friends to question the power of their own voices. Now they must learn to work together to raise each other up. But how to you stand your ground while raising bloody hell?

William's Wonderful Plan and Other Stories

William's Wonderful Plan and Other Stories
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Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Total Pages : 192
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781509844487
ISBN-13 : 1509844481
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis William's Wonderful Plan and Other Stories by : Martin Jarvis

Whether he's getting into adventures with his band of Outlaws, or driving his family crazy, there's never a dull minute with William Brown around! This second bumper edition features 8 Meet Just William stories from the "voice of William" Martin Jarvis, with illustrations by Tony Ross. Includes: William's Wonderful Plan, Parrots for Ethel, The Bishop's Handkerchief, William and St Valentine, William and the Prize cat, William's April Fool's Day, William and the Twins and Revenge is Sweet. Meet Just William is perfect for newly confident readers.

Attrib. and Other Stories

Attrib. and Other Stories
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Publisher : Anchor
Total Pages : 107
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ISBN-10 : 9780593312360
ISBN-13 : 0593312368
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis Attrib. and Other Stories by : Eley Williams

"It's just the real inexplicable gorgeous brilliant thing this book. I love it in a way I usually reserve for people." --Max Porter A dazzling, prizewinning short story collection that showcases a bold new talent Eley Williams has been a literary sensation ever since this collection of experimental short fiction was published in the UK. Lauded as "elegant" (The Guardian) and "exhilarating" (Vanity Fair), Attrib. and Other Stories won the James Tait Black Prize, was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, and was named a best book of the year by The Guardian. Attrib. presents a cast of unforgettable characters standing at the precipice of emotional events (a disastrous breakup, a successful date, an unexpected arrival) and finding it fiendishly impossible to express themselves. With intimate, irreverent, and playful prose, Eley Williams rejoices in both the possibilities and limitations of language, as well as the very human need to be known and understood--despite our own best efforts. Original and inventive in the vein of Lydia Davis, Deborah Eisenberg, and Amy Hempel, these stories are "emotionally delicate and tenderly introspective" (New Statesman) and "an absolute must-read" (The London Magazine).

William

William
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Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Total Pages :
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781509805259
ISBN-13 : 1509805257
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Synopsis William by : Richmal Crompton

Everyone's favourite troublemaker, William Brown, is back in Richmal Crompton's William, a hilarious collection of stories from the classic Just William series – with a gorgeous cover illustrated by the award-winning Lauren Child and an introduction by actress Bonnie Langford. Greyhound racing was a wonderfully exciting idea. After all, William's dog, Jumble was as likely to be a greyhound as anything, and surely no one would mind the Outlaws borrowing another dog to race against him. Would they? This tousle-headed, snub-nosed, hearty, lovable imp of mischief has been harassing his unfortunate family and delighting his admirers since 1922. Enjoy more of William's adventures in William the Bad and William's Happy Days.

It Chicks

It Chicks
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Publisher : Paw Prints
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1439598282
ISBN-13 : 9781439598283
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis It Chicks by : Tia Williams

Centering around a prestigious performing arts school in New York City, students Tangie, Skye, Eden, Trey, C.J., Izzy, and Regina learn valuable lessons in love, friendship, fame, and fortune.

The Black Church

The Black Church
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 338
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781984880338
ISBN-13 : 1984880330
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis The Black Church by : Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

The instant New York Times bestseller and companion book to the PBS series. “Absolutely brilliant . . . A necessary and moving work.” —Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., author of Begin Again “Engaging. . . . In Gates’s telling, the Black church shines bright even as the nation itself moves uncertainly through the gloaming, seeking justice on earth—as it is in heaven.” —Jon Meacham, New York Times Book Review From the New York Times bestselling author of Stony the Road and The Black Box, and one of our most important voices on the African American experience, comes a powerful new history of the Black church as a foundation of Black life and a driving force in the larger freedom struggle in America. For the young Henry Louis Gates, Jr., growing up in a small, residentially segregated West Virginia town, the church was a center of gravity—an intimate place where voices rose up in song and neighbors gathered to celebrate life's blessings and offer comfort amid its trials and tribulations. In this tender and expansive reckoning with the meaning of the Black Church in America, Gates takes us on a journey spanning more than five centuries, from the intersection of Christianity and the transatlantic slave trade to today’s political landscape. At road’s end, and after Gates’s distinctive meditation on the churches of his childhood, we emerge with a new understanding of the importance of African American religion to the larger national narrative—as a center of resistance to slavery and white supremacy, as a magnet for political mobilization, as an incubator of musical and oratorical talent that would transform the culture, and as a crucible for working through the Black community’s most critical personal and social issues. In a country that has historically afforded its citizens from the African diaspora tragically few safe spaces, the Black Church has always been more than a sanctuary. This fact was never lost on white supremacists: from the earliest days of slavery, when enslaved people were allowed to worship at all, their meetinghouses were subject to surveillance and destruction. Long after slavery’s formal eradication, church burnings and bombings by anti-Black racists continued, a hallmark of the violent effort to suppress the African American struggle for equality. The past often isn’t even past—Dylann Roof committed his slaughter in the Mother Emanuel AME Church 193 years after it was first burned down by white citizens of Charleston, South Carolina, following a thwarted slave rebellion. But as Gates brilliantly shows, the Black church has never been only one thing. Its story lies at the heart of the Black political struggle, and it has produced many of the Black community’s most notable leaders. At the same time, some churches and denominations have eschewed political engagement and exemplified practices of exclusion and intolerance that have caused polarization and pain. Those tensions remain today, as a rising generation demands freedom and dignity for all within and beyond their communities, regardless of race, sex, or gender. Still, as a source of faith and refuge, spiritual sustenance and struggle against society’s darkest forces, the Black Church has been central, as this enthralling history makes vividly clear.

Women are strange, and other stories

Women are strange, and other stories
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 382
Release :
ISBN-10 : OXFORD:590847462
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Synopsis Women are strange, and other stories by : Frederick William Robinson

Harrow

Harrow
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 225
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781984898807
ISBN-13 : 1984898809
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis Harrow by : Joy Williams

In her first novel since the Pulitzer Prize–nominated The Quick and the Dead, the legendary writer takes us into an uncertain landscape after an environmental apocalypse, a world in which only the man-made has value, but some still wish to salvage the authentic. "She practices ... camouflage, except that instead of adapting to its environment, Williams’s imagination, by remaining true to itself, reveals new colorations in the ecology around her.” —A.O. Scott, The New York Times Book Review Khristen is a teenager who, her mother believes, was marked by greatness as a baby when she died for a moment and then came back to life. After Khristen’s failing boarding school for gifted teens closes its doors, and she finds that her mother has disappeared, she ranges across the dead landscape and washes up at a “resort” on the shores of a mysterious, putrid lake the elderly residents there call “Big Girl.” In a rotting honeycomb of rooms, these old ones plot actions to punish corporations and people they consider culpable in the destruction of the final scraps of nature’s beauty. What will Khristen and Jeffrey, the precocious ten-year-old boy she meets there, learn from this “gabby seditious lot, in the worst of health but with kamikaze hearts, an army of the aged and ill, determined to refresh, through crackpot violence, a plundered earth”? Rivetingly strange and beautiful, and delivered with Williams’s searing, deadpan wit, Harrow is their intertwined tale of paradise lost and of their reasons—against all reasonableness—to try and recover something of it.

William's Haunted House and Other Stories

William's Haunted House and Other Stories
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Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Total Pages : 192
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781509844500
ISBN-13 : 1509844503
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Synopsis William's Haunted House and Other Stories by : Martin Jarvis

Whether he's getting into adventures with his band of Outlaws, or driving his family crazy, there's never a dull minute with William Brown around! This third bumper edition features 8 Meet Just William stories from the "voice of William" Martin Jarvis, with illustrations by Tony Ross. Includes: William's Haunted House, William's Truthful Christmas, William and Uncle George, Boys Will Be Boys, William's Day Off, William's Goodbye Present, William Plays Santa Claus and William's New Year's Day. Meet Just William is perfect for newly confident readers.