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Monsters in the Archives

My Year of Fear with Stephen King

by Caroline Bicks ...

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A fascinating, first-of-its-kind exploration of Stephen King and his most iconic early books, based on groundbreaking research and interviews with King—all conducted by the first scholar to be given extended access to his private archives“A treat for fans of Stephen King.”—Paul Tremblay“A master class in craft—and a peek behind the curtain.”—Stephen Graham Jones ... Read more

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**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A fascinating, first-of-its-kind exploration of Stephen King and his most iconic early books, based on groundbreaking research and interviews with King—all conducted by the first scholar to be given extended access to his private archives“A treat for fans of Stephen King.”—Paul Tremblay“A master class in craft—and a peek behind the curtain.”—Stephen Graham Jones
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Shakespeare, Not Stirred

Cocktails for Your Everyday Dramas

by Caroline Bicks, Michelle Ephraim ...

In Shakespeare, Not Stirred, two professors mix equal parts booze and Bard to help you through your everyday dramas. It’s like having Shakespeare right there in your living room, downing a great drink and putting your crappy day in perspective. So get out your cocktail shaker and lend him your ears.Each original cocktail and hors d’oeuvre recipe connects Shakespeare’s characters to life’s daily ... Read more

$4.99 USD

In Shakespeare, Not Stirred, two professors mix equal parts booze and Bard to help you through your everyday dramas. It’s like having Shakespeare right there in your living room, downing a great drink and putting your crappy day in perspective. So get out your cocktail shaker and lend him your ears.Each original cocktail and hors d’oeuvre recipe connects Shakespeare’s characters to life’s daily
... Read more
Cognition and Girlhood in Shakespeare's World

Rethinking Female Adolescence

by Caroline Bicks ...

This groundbreaking study of girlhood and cognition argues that early moderns depicted female puberty as a transformative event that activated girls' brains in dynamic ways. Mining a variety of genres from Shakespearean plays and medical texts to autobiographical writings, Caroline Bicks shows how 'the change of fourteen years' seemed to gift girls with the ability to invent, judge, and remember ... Read more

$25.49 USD

This groundbreaking study of girlhood and cognition argues that early moderns depicted female puberty as a transformative event that activated girls' brains in dynamic ways. Mining a variety of genres from Shakespearean plays and medical texts to autobiographical writings, Caroline Bicks shows how 'the change of fourteen years' seemed to gift girls with the ability to invent, judge, and remember
... Read more
Midwiving Subjects in Shakespeare’s England

by Caroline Bicks ...

Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
At the intersections of early modern literature and history, Shakespeare and Women's Studies, Midwiving Subjects explores how Shakespearean drama and contemporary medical, religious and popular texts figured the midwife as a central producer of the body's cultural markers. In addition to attending most Englishwomen's births and testifying to their in extremis confessions about paternity, the ... Read more

$77.99 USD

At the intersections of early modern literature and history, Shakespeare and Women's Studies, Midwiving Subjects explores how Shakespearean drama and contemporary medical, religious and popular texts figured the midwife as a central producer of the body's cultural markers. In addition to attending most Englishwomen's births and testifying to their in extremis confessions about paternity, the
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Monsters in the Archives

My Year of Fear with Stephen King

by Caroline Bicks ...

Narrated by Caroline Bicks ...

Unabridged

8 hours 1 min

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A fascinating, first-of-its-kind exploration of Stephen King and his most iconic early books, based on groundbreaking research and interviews with King—all conducted by the first scholar to be given extended access to his private archives“A treat for fans of Stephen King.”—Paul Tremblay“A master class in craft—and a peek behind the curtain.”—Stephen Graham Jones ... Read more

$22.00 USD

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**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A fascinating, first-of-its-kind exploration of Stephen King and his most iconic early books, based on groundbreaking research and interviews with King—all conducted by the first scholar to be given extended access to his private archives“A treat for fans of Stephen King.”—Paul Tremblay“A master class in craft—and a peek behind the curtain.”—Stephen Graham Jones
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The Revolutionists

The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s

by Jason Burke ...

Narrated by Kristin Atherton ...

Unabridged

25 hours 20 min

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE • An epic, authoritative, gripping account of the years when a new wave of revolutionaries held the world for ransomIn the 1970s, an unprecedented wave of international terrorism broke out. Ambitious, networked, and far-reaching, new armed groups terrorized the world with intricately planned plane hijackings and hostage missions, leaving governments ... Read more

$32.00 USD

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE • An epic, authoritative, gripping account of the years when a new wave of revolutionaries held the world for ransomIn the 1970s, an unprecedented wave of international terrorism broke out. Ambitious, networked, and far-reaching, new armed groups terrorized the world with intricately planned plane hijackings and hostage missions, leaving governments
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Seasons of Glass and Iron

Stories

by Amal El-Mohtar ...

Narrated by Rachel Elizabeth Smith ...

Unabridged

6 hours 58 min

**Full of glimpses into gleaming worlds and fairy tales with teeth, Seasons of Glass and Iron: Stories is a collection of acclaimed and awarded work from Amal El-Mohtar."Narrator Rachel Elizabeth Smith’s absorbing performance makes each story unforgettable.” — Kirkus Reviews**"Rachel Elizabeth Smith narrates so crisply that listeners won't miss a single word...and delivers with a straightforward ... Read more

$22.99 USD

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**Full of glimpses into gleaming worlds and fairy tales with teeth, Seasons of Glass and Iron: Stories is a collection of acclaimed and awarded work from Amal El-Mohtar."Narrator Rachel Elizabeth Smith’s absorbing performance makes each story unforgettable.” — Kirkus Reviews**"Rachel Elizabeth Smith narrates so crisply that listeners won't miss a single word...and delivers with a straightforward
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I Am Behind You

by John Ajvide Lindqvist ...

Narrated by Peter Noble ...

Unabridged

14 hours 38 min

**A compelling, eerie new audiobook from the internationally bestselling author of Let the Right One In."At the top of his game, Lindqvist gives Stephen King and John Saul at their best a run for the money." —Library Journal (starred)"Dubbed the Stephen King of Sweden, Lindqvist lives up to the billing." —New York Post**Four families wake up one morning in their trailer on an ordinary campsite. ... Read more

$32.99 USD

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**A compelling, eerie new audiobook from the internationally bestselling author of Let the Right One In."At the top of his game, Lindqvist gives Stephen King and John Saul at their best a run for the money." —Library Journal (starred)"Dubbed the Stephen King of Sweden, Lindqvist lives up to the billing." —New York Post**Four families wake up one morning in their trailer on an ordinary campsite.
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What We Knew

Terror, Mass Murder, and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany

by Eric A. Johnson, Karl-Heinz Reuband ...

Narrated by BJ Harrison ...

Unabridged

17 hours 36 min

An American historian and a German sociologist seek answers from those who lived through Nazi Germany: how did the country stand by while one of the biggest genocides in history took place?**“A very important book.” —**Financial TimesThe horrors of the Nazi regime and the Holocaust still present some of the most disturbing questions in modern history: Why did Hitler's party appeal to millions of ... Read more

$24.99 USD

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An American historian and a German sociologist seek answers from those who lived through Nazi Germany: how did the country stand by while one of the biggest genocides in history took place?**“A very important book.” —**Financial TimesThe horrors of the Nazi regime and the Holocaust still present some of the most disturbing questions in modern history: Why did Hitler's party appeal to millions of
... Read more

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The Sixth Nik

by Daniel Kraus ...

Narrated by Kimberly Woods ...

Unabridged

17 hours 21 min

Perfectly aligned for readers of Iain M. Banks’s The Culture series and Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”, The Sixth Nik is a galaxy spanning adventure from the New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Angel Down and Whalefall.Deep into space, far past the triworld outposts, beyond range of the lethal trollbot internet, soars The Sickness... ... Read more

$29.99 USD

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Perfectly aligned for readers of Iain M. Banks’s The Culture series and Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”, The Sixth Nik is a galaxy spanning adventure from the New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Angel Down and Whalefall.Deep into space, far past the triworld outposts, beyond range of the lethal trollbot internet, soars The Sickness...
... Read more

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The Sixth Nik

by Daniel Kraus ...

Perfectly aligned for readers of Iain M. Banks’s The Culture series and Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”, The Sixth Nik is a galaxy spanning adventure from the New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Angel Down and Whalefall.Deep into space, far past the triworld outposts, beyond range of the lethal trollbot internet, soars The Sickness... ... Read more

$14.99 USD

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Perfectly aligned for readers of Iain M. Banks’s The Culture series and Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”, The Sixth Nik is a galaxy spanning adventure from the New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Angel Down and Whalefall.Deep into space, far past the triworld outposts, beyond range of the lethal trollbot internet, soars The Sickness...
... Read more

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Seasons of Glass and Iron

Stories

by Amal El-Mohtar ...

A Library Reads pick!A Best Book of the Year from Esquire. Featured on NPR.Full of glimpses into gleaming worlds and fairy tales with teeth, Seasons of Glass and Iron: Stories is a collection of acclaimed and awarded work from Amal El-Mohtar.With confidence and style, El-Mohtar guides us through exquisitely told and sharply observed tales about life as it is, was, and could be. Like miscellany ... Read more

$12.99 USD

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A Library Reads pick!A Best Book of the Year from Esquire. Featured on NPR.Full of glimpses into gleaming worlds and fairy tales with teeth, Seasons of Glass and Iron: Stories is a collection of acclaimed and awarded work from Amal El-Mohtar.With confidence and style, El-Mohtar guides us through exquisitely told and sharply observed tales about life as it is, was, and could be. Like miscellany
... Read more

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