Call Me Zebra
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Call Me Zebra
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Author : Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2018
Call Me Zebra written by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Fiction categories.
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction "Hearken ye fellow misfits, migrants, outcasts, squint-eyed bibliophiles, library-haunters and book stall-stalkers: Here is a novel for you."--Wall Street Journal "A tragicomic picaresque whose fervid logic and cerebral whimsy recall the work of Bola o and Borges." --New York Times Book Review Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction * Longlisted for the PEN/Open Book Award * An Amazon Best Book of the Year * A Publishers Weekly Bestseller Named a Best Book by: Entertainment Weekly, Harper's Bazaar, Boston Globe, Fodor's, Fast Company, Refinery29, Nylon, Los Angeles Review of Books, Book Riot, The Millions, Electric Literature, Bitch, Hello Giggles, Literary Hub, Shondaland, Bustle, Brit & Co., Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Read It Forward, Entropy Magazine, Chicago Review of Books, iBooks and Publishers Weekly From an award-winning young author, a novel following a feisty heroine's quest to reclaim her past through the power of literature--even as she navigates the murkier mysteries of love. Zebra is the last in a line of anarchists, atheists, and autodidacts. When war came, her family didn't fight; they took refuge in books. Now alone and in exile, Zebra leaves New York for Barcelona, retracing the journey she and her father made from Iran to the United States years ago. Books are Zebra's only companions--until she meets Ludo. Their connection is magnetic; their time together fraught. Zebra overwhelms him with her complex literary theories, her concern with death, and her obsession with history. He thinks she's unhinged; she thinks he's pedantic. Neither are wrong; neither can let the other go. They push and pull their way across the Mediterranean, wondering with each turn if their love, or lust, can free Zebra from her past. An adventure tale, a love story, and a paean to the power of language and literature starring a heroine as quirky as Don Quixote, as introspective as Virginia Woolf, as whip-smart as Miranda July, and as spirited as Frances Ha, Call Me Zebra will establish Van der Vliet Oloomi as an author "on the verge of developing a whole new literature movement" (Bustle).
Call Me Zebra
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Author : Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi
language : ja
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-09-26
Call Me Zebra written by Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-26 with categories.
Japanese edition of [Call Me Zebra] by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi. Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the John Gardner Award for Fiction. Zebra is the last in a line of anarchists, atheists, and autodidacts. Alone and in exile, she leaves New York for Barcelona, retracing the journey she and her father made from Iran to the United States years ago. Books are her only companions--until she meets Ludo. Their connection is magnetic, and fraught. They push and pull across the Mediterranean, wondering if their love--or lust--can free Zebra from her past.
Worldly Spirits Extra Human Dimensions And The Global Anglophone Novel
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Author : Hilary Thompson
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2023-12-28
Worldly Spirits Extra Human Dimensions And The Global Anglophone Novel written by Hilary Thompson and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
Engaging a diverse range of contemporary anglophone literature from authors of the Asian, Middle Eastern and Caribbean diasporas, this book explores how such works turn to spirit forces, spirit realms and spirit beings - were-animals, mystical birds, and snake goddesses - as positive forces that assert perceptual dimensions beyond those of the human, and present a vision of Earth as agentive and animate. With previous scholarship downplaying these aspects of modern works as uncanny hauntings or symptoms of capitalism's or anthropocentrism's destructiveness, or within a blanket rubric of 'magical realism', Hilary Thompson rejects this partitioning of them as products of an exotic East or global South. By contrast, this book builds a new critical framework for analysis of worldly spirits, drawing on anthropological discussions of animism, the newly recovered 1930s boundary-crossing art movement Dimensionism, and multispecies theories of animals' diverse perceptual worlds. Taking stock of novels published from 2018-2020 by such writers as Amitav Ghosh, André Alexis, Yangsze Choo, Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, Zeyn Joukhadar, and Tanya Tagaq, Thompson illuminates how these works extend an ecological call to decentre the human and align with multidimensional theories of art and literature to provide ways to read for rather than reduce the extra-human dimensions emerging in contemporary fiction. A refreshing rejection of ecological apocalypticism, this book unsettles typical conceptualizations of both anglophone and Anthropocene literatures by invoking European art theory, philosophy, and non-Western ideas on animism and spirits to put forward perceptions of the extra-human as a form of dealing with the many uncertainties of today's different crises.
How Can I Help You
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Author : Laura Sims
language : en
Publisher: CMC Verve
Release Date : 2024-01-25
How Can I Help You written by Laura Sims and has been published by CMC Verve this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-25 with Fiction categories.
** 'A MARVELLOUSLY INTENSE, READ-IN-ONE-SITTING GAME OF CAT AND MOUSE AMONG THE BOOK STACKS' - GUARDIAN ** From the author of Looker comes this razor-sharp suspense about two librarians whose lives become dangerously intertwined. No one knows Margo's real name. Her colleagues and patrons at a small-town public library only know her middle-aged normalcy, congeniality and charm. They have no reason to suspect that she is, in fact, a former nurse with a trail of countless premature deaths in her wake. She has turned a new page, so to speak, and the library is her sanctuary, a place to quell old urges. That is, at least, until Patricia, a recent graduate and failed novelist, joins the library staff. Patricia quickly notices Margo's subtly sinister edge and watches her carefully. When a patron's death in the library bathroom offers a hint of Margo's mysterious past, Patricia can't resist digging deeper - even as this new fixation becomes all-consuming. Taut and compelling, How Can I Help You explores the dark side of human nature and the dangerous pull of artistic obsession. PRAISE FOR HOW CAN I HELP YOU ‘A dark and spellbinding descent into jolly madness’ – MONA AWAD ‘A gripping and dark psychological thriller... Delicious... I read it one sitting’ – HARLAN COBEN ‘A sly meditation on art and identity and the depths we'll go to protect our constructs. I couldn't have loved this book more’ – PAUL TREMBLAY ‘With transfixing dual female narrators and an artful, innovative structure, How Can I Help You is both a riveting commentary on false pretenses and an utterly beguiling cat and mouse thriller’ – KIMBERLY McCREIGHT 'Openly indebted to Shirley Jackson and Patricia Highsmith, this is a terrific two-hander... This makes for fine cat-and-mouse (or cat-and-cat?) suspense, but also an unsettling moral tale' - SUNDAY TIMES 'A fun and entertaining cat-and-mouse novel... a perfect book for when you just want to sit back, relax, and read about women behaving badly... you'll fly through the pages' - GLAMOUR ‘A delicious mystery begging to be enjoyed beachside... Sure to satisfy just about any thriller craving’ – ROLLING STONE ‘Unnerving... reads like a homage to Shirley Jackson’s work’ – NEW YORK TIMES ‘Sims plumbs the depths of obsession and madness... deftly building the tension until the explosive ending’ – WASHINGTON POST ‘Fresh and funny... A quick read that is reminiscent of Laura Lippman's Sunburn and Christine Mangan's Tangerine’ – BOOKLIST ** A Publishers Weekly Book of the Week ** ** A CrimeReads Book of the Month ** ** A Town & Country Must-Read Book of the Summer **
The Novel As Network
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Author : Tim Lanzendörfer
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-09-23
The Novel As Network written by Tim Lanzendörfer and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Novel as Network: Forms, Ideas, Commodities engages with the contemporary Anglophone novel and its derivatives and by-products such as graphic novels, comics, podcasts, and Quality TV. This collection investigates the meaning of the novel in the larger system of contemporary media production and (post-)print culture, viewing the novel through the lens of actor network theory as a node in the novel network. Chapters underscore the deep interconnection between all the aspects of the novel, between the novel as a (literary) form, as an idea, and as a commodity. Bringing together experts from American, British, and Postcolonial Studies, as well as Book, Publishing, and Media Studies, this collection offers a new vantage point to view the novel in its multifaceted expressions today.
The Anthology Of Rap
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Author : Adam Bradley
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2010-11-02
The Anthology Of Rap written by Adam Bradley and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-02 with Music categories.
From the school yards of the South Bronx to the tops of the "Billboard" charts, rap has emerged as one of the most influential cultural forces of our time. This pioneering anthology brings together more than 300 lyrics written over 30 years, from the "old school" to the present day.
Stage Four
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Author : Wendy Zizzo
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2017-10-31
Stage Four written by Wendy Zizzo and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-31 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Imagine two months after your twenty-first birthday getting a diagnosis of stage four cancer. For this young mother, it was a reality that could seem to anyone to be a death sentence. Still, despite the odds, now twelve years later and still going strong, Wendy Zizzo felt it necessary to share her experience and point of view in hopes to inspire, and ignite courage, love, grit and to see into the mind set and attitude that helped her beat the odds. In this truly inspirational memoir, you will get an up-close and personal look into this young womans journey of stage four cancer, along with the trials and tribulations leading up to her diagnosis. Giving you an intimate look into a survivors story of her enduring through treatments, and how she mentally, emotionally and spiritually overcame her disease. Showing you, that you never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.
Zeyna Lost And Found
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Author : Shafaq Khan
language : en
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books ®
Release Date : 2025-09-09
Zeyna Lost And Found written by Shafaq Khan and has been published by Carolrhoda Books ® this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-09-09 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
In 1970, twelve-year-old Zeyna has grown up in London but has never quite felt like she fits in. Her monotonous life is suddenly interrupted when Zeyna's parents decide to visit their native Pakistan—where Zeyna feels she doesn't fit in either. But then her parents disappear, leaving behind a string of clues that connect them to an international jewel heist. Along with her annoying little brother and her clever Pakistani cousin, Zeyna sets out to find her parents and clear their names. Along the way, she discovers that being shaped by two cultures doesn't have to mean she's always an outsider.
Toward An Integrated Science Of Wellbeing
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Author : Elizabeth Rieger
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2023-05-19
Toward An Integrated Science Of Wellbeing written by Elizabeth Rieger and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-19 with Psychology categories.
There has always been interest in understanding what constitutes the good life and the basis for creating it. Much has been written about health and wellbeing at multiple scales, from the physical and psychological through to the societal and environmental. Wellbeing has been studied from the perspectives of psychology, medicine, economics, social science, ecology, and political science. However, the interconnections between these scales and perspectives have received far less attention, even though understanding these interdependencies is critical to the comprehensive understanding of wellbeing and how to improve it. In Toward an Integrated Science of Wellbeing, the contributing authors connect these diverse scales and perspectives to better guide wellbeing research and public policy. The book is divided into four sections representing each domain of wellbeing research--psychological, human biological, societal, and environmental--but the authors extend their work to consider the interconnections between these domains, seeking integration across all scales throughout. Individual chapters explore topics such as indigenous perspectives and wellbeing, wellbeing in higher education, positive ageing, inequality and wellbeing, health and climate change, and greenspaces and wellbeing. This integrated approach offers a first step toward a more complete understanding of wellbeing that can propel wellbeing research and initiatives in novel and fruitful directions.
Critical Approaches Toward A Cosmopolitan Education
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Author : Sandra R. Schecter
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-08-29
Critical Approaches Toward A Cosmopolitan Education written by Sandra R. Schecter and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-29 with Education categories.
This book aims to reconceptualize teaching and learning in spaces with diverse populations of young people. Chapters focus on the schooling experiences and social and cultural adaptation issues of individuals who, through the meaning that they assign to their lived experiences, ascribe to multiple identity qualifiers. Contributors explore the impact of this cosmopolitan awareness on students, educators, and educational institutions, presenting issues such as curricular concerns around civic engagement, individual subjectivity versus social identity, and the convergence of context-specific policy and teaching environments on global dynamics in education reform. An emphasis on this understanding promises to better equip educators and policy-makers to plan instructional approaches and devise pedagogic resources that serve the needs and career aspirations of an expanding cohort of multifaceted learners.