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1943In the throes of WWII, German soldier, Johannes Gertner is captured in Egypt and sent to Camp 23 — a prisoner of war camp in the wilds of Canada’s boreal forest. Far from Rommel’s Afrika Korps, Johannes forms an unlikely friendship with a black bear, and Alfred—an anti-Nazi philosopher. But when tragedy strikes camp, Johannes is relocated to a Canadian farm.Under the watchful eye of Violet Earle — the farmer’s 16-year-old daughter — Johannes escapes the ...

We Find Ourselves in Other People’s Stories: On Narrative Collapse and a Lifetime Search for Story is a collection of five essays that dissolves the boundary between personal writing and academic writing, a longstanding binary construct in the discipline of composition and writing studies, in order to examine the rhetorical effects of narrative collapse on the stories we tell about ourselves and others. Taken together, the essays theorize the relationships between language and vio...

Too much is everywhere. It’s a Netflix series. It’s a meme. It’s a song by Dove Cameron. If I’m too much, the story goes, go find less. Women everywhere are talking back to a cultural norm that would have them shrink, whisper, stifle their feelings, and hide. They are saying no to patriarchy’s claims that they are too much.In this book, Robillard theorizes the ideological content and effects of the label “too much,” used so often when a female-identifying...

When Andrew Cuomo was forced to resign as governor of New York in August 2021, a commentator on CNN remarked that he had "not gotten his own memo" on sexual harassment that he had signed into law two years earlier. Misogyny in English Departments theorizes the results of a qualitative empirical study of the ways women in U.S. college and university English departments experience misogyny, and the effects that misogyny has on their personal and professional lives. It seems that we ...

This volume explores a dimension of authorship not given its due in the critical discourse to this point—authorship contested. Much of the existing critical literature begins with a text and the proposition that the text has an author. The debates move from here to questions about who the author is, whether or not the author’s identity is even relevant, and what relationship she or he does and does not have to the text. The authors contributing to this collection, however, ask about circum...

**An I Weigh Book Club Pick“I have been a fan of Henry’s work for a long time and I’m excited for more people to see it.” —Jameela JamilFrom the creator of Drawings of Dogs, a warmly illustrated and thoughtful examination of empathy and the necessity of being kinder**The kindness we owe one another goes far beyond the everyday gestures of feeding someone else's parking meter--although it's important not to downplay those small acts. Kindness can also mean much more....

In The Tumbleweed Society, Allison Pugh offers a moving exploration of sacrifice, betrayal, defiance, and resignation, as people cope in a society where relationships and jobs seem to change constantly. Based on eighty in-depth interviews with parents who have varied experiences of job insecurity and socio-economic status, Pugh finds most seem to accept job insecurity as inevitable but still try to bar that insecurity from infiltrating their home lives. Rigid expectations for endu...

New York Times and USA Today BestsellerWith the dead of a bitter Vermont winter closing in, evil is alive and well . . .Frank Rath thought he was done with murder when he turned in his detective's badge to become a private investigator and raise a daughter alone. Then the police in his remote rural community of Canaan find an '89 Monte Carlo abandoned by the side of the road, and the beautiful teenage girl who owned the car seems to have disappea...

Outspoken critic Jessa Crispin delivers a searing rejection of contemporary feminism . . . and a bracing manifesto for revolution.Are you a feminist? Do you believe women are human beings and that they deserve to be treated as such? That women deserve all the same rights and liberties bestowed upon men? If so, then you are a feminist . . . or so the feminists keep insisting. But somewhere along the way, the movement for female liberation sacrificed meaning for acceptance, and left ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The renowned author of The Women presents a poignant, funny, luminous novel about a mother and daughter—the complex ties that bind them, the past that separates them, and the healing that comes with forgiveness.“[Kristin] Hannah is superb at delving into the characters’ psyches and delineating nuances of feeling.”—Washington Post Book WorldYears ago, Nora Bridge walked out on her marria...

A mother-daughter legal scholar team "offers unabashedly straightforward advice in a how-to primer for ambitious women . . . [A]ttention-grabbing revelations" (Debora L. Spar, The New York Times Book Review)What Works for Women at Work is a comprehensive and insightful guide for mastering office politics as a woman. Authored by Joan C. Williams, one of the nation's most-cited experts on women and work, and her daughter, Rachel Dempsey, this unique...

Ever-dogged Bergen PI Varg Veum is forced to dig deep into his own past as he investigates the murder of a former classmate. Vintage, classic Nordic Noir from international bestselling author Gunnar Staalesen.'A vibrant look at the life, loves and betrayals of the past and the ways in which their tentacles cling, never letting you go' John Harvey'One of my very favourite Scandinavian authors' Ian Rankin'Masterful pa...