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| Author | : Joy Williams |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 222 |
| Release | : 2010-09-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0307763838 |
Among the "best American short stories of the past two decades" (The Atlantic Monthly) from one of our most acclaimed writers. In short stories "so vibrant and alive they have heartbeats, the prose so electric and dazzling it makes the pulse race" (Vanity Fair), a masseuse breaks her rich client's wrist bone, a friend visits at the hospital long after she is welcome, and a woman surrenders her husband to a creepily adoring student. With her singular brand of gorgeous dark humor, Joy Williams explores the various ways—comic, tragic, and unnerving—we seek to accommodate diminishment and loss, offering a rich examination of our capacity for transformation and salvation.
| Author | : Ted Rall |
| Publisher | : Hill and Wang |
| Total Pages | : 273 |
| Release | : 2014-09-02 |
| Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
| ISBN | : 1429955589 |
An unflinching account—in words and pictures—of America's longest war by our most outspoken graphic journalist Ted Rall traveled deep into Afghanistan—without embedding himself with U.S. soldiers, without insulating himself with flak jackets and armored SUVs—where no one else would go (except, of course, Afghans). He made two long trips: the first in the wake of 9/11, and the next ten years later to see what a decade of U.S. occupation had wrought. On the first trip, he shouted his dispatches into a satellite phone provided by a Los Angeles radio station, attempting to explain that the booming in the background—and sometimes the foreground—were the sounds of an all-out war that no one at home would entirely own up to. Ten years later, the alternative newspapers and radio station that had financed his first trip could no longer afford to send him into harm's way, so he turned to Kickstarter to fund a groundbreaking effort to publish online a real-time blog of graphic journalism (essentially, a nonfiction comic) documenting what was really happening on the ground, filed daily by satellite. The result of this intrepid reporting is After We Kill You, We Will Welcome You Back as Honored Guests—a singular account of one determined journalist's effort to bring the realities of life in twenty-first-century Afghanistan to the world in the best way he knows how: a mix of travelogue, photography, and award-winning comics.
| Author | : Deborah Davis |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 309 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1439169829 |
Documents the 1901 White House dinner shared by former slave Booker T. Washington and President Theodore Roosevelt, documenting the ensuing scandal and the ways in which the event reflected post-Civil War politics and race relations.
| Author | : Peter Finn |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2019-09-24 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1524747343 |
A Guest of the Reich is the incredible true story of Gertrude “Gertie” Legendre, an American heiress taken prisoner by the Nazis. Born into a wealthy family, Legendre lived a charmed life in Jazz Age America. But when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, she joined the OSS—the wartime spy organization that preceded the CIA—and headed to Europe. In 1944, while on leave, Legendre accidentally crossed the front lines along the Luxembourg–Germany border and was captured. The Nazis treated her as a “special prisoner” of the SS and moved her from city to city throughout Germany, where she witnessed the collapse of Hitler’s Reich as no other American did, before escaping into Switzerland. A gripping portrait of a multifaceted and deeply fascinating woman, A Guest of the Reich is a propulsive account of a little-known chapter in the history of World War II.
| Author | : Marjabelle Young Stewart |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 338 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780312141035 |
Covering dozens of issues, such as the correct way to ask a colleague to refrain from smoking and the proper method of addressing a CEO (when is a first name basis appropriate?), this indispensable guide to corporate conduct will help launch and develop anyone's career.
| Author | : Charles Monroe Schulz |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 134 |
| Release | : 1973 |
| Genre | : Brown, Charlie (Fictitious character) |
| ISBN | : 9780030110269 |
Charlie Brown comic strip classics by Charles M. Schulz.
| Author | : Irving Wallace |
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| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 1989 |
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| Author | : Nadine Gordimer |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 513 |
| Release | : 2002-10-07 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0747559880 |
Brilliant and shocking novel set in South Africa by the Nobel Prize-winner
| Author | : Shahriar Mandanipour |
| Publisher | : Bellevue Literary Press |
| Total Pages | : 116 |
| Release | : 2022-01-25 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1942658966 |
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST The first English-language story collection from “one of Iran’s most important living fiction writers” (Guardian), “a playful, whip-smart literary conjuror: a Kundera or Rushdie of post-Khomeini Iran” (Wall Street Journal) In Seasons of Purgatory, the fantastical and the visceral merge in tales of tender desire and collective violence, the boredom and brutality of war, and the clash of modern urban life and rural traditions. Mandanipour, banned from publication in his native Iran, vividly renders the individual consciousness in extremis from a variety of perspectives: young and old, man and woman, conscript and prisoner. While delivering a ferocious social critique, these stories are steeped in the poetry and stark beauty of an ancient land and culture.
| Author | : Ashley Hope Pérez |
| Publisher | : Carolrhoda Lab ® |
| Total Pages | : 484 |
| Release | : 2015-09-01 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1467776785 |
A Michael L. Printz Honor Book "This is East Texas, and there's lines. Lines you cross, lines you don't cross. That clear?" New London, Texas. 1937. Naomi Vargas and Wash Fuller know about the lines in East Texas as well as anyone. They know the signs that mark them. They know the people who enforce them. But sometimes the attraction between two people is so powerful it breaks through even the most entrenched color lines. And the consequences can be explosive. Ashley Hope Pérez takes the facts of the 1937 New London school explosion—the worst school disaster in American history—as a backdrop for a riveting novel about segregation, love, family, and the forces that destroy people. "[This] layered tale of color lines, love and struggle in an East Texas oil town is a pit-in-the-stomach family drama that goes down like it should, with pain and fascination, like a mix of sugary medicine and artisanal moonshine."—The New York Times Book Review "Pérez deftly weaves [an] unflinchingly intense narrative....A powerful, layered tale of forbidden love in times of unrelenting racism."―starred, Kirkus Reviews "This book presents a range of human nature, from kindness and love to acts of racial and sexual violence. The work resonates with fear, hope, love, and the importance of memory....Set against the backdrop of an actual historical event, Pérez...gives voice to many long-omitted facets of U.S. history."―starred, School Library Journal
