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The Cambridge Introduction to Ernest Hemingway

by Michael Thurston ...

Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
One hundred years after the publication of his first major work, Ernest Hemingway remains an important author. His work addressed the search for meaning in the wake of a 'Great War' and amid the challenges of rapidly changing social conventions, and his prose style has influenced generations of journalists and writers. Hemingway was wounded on the battlefield and caught up throughout his life in ... Read more

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One hundred years after the publication of his first major work, Ernest Hemingway remains an important author. His work addressed the search for meaning in the wake of a 'Great War' and amid the challenges of rapidly changing social conventions, and his prose style has influenced generations of journalists and writers. Hemingway was wounded on the battlefield and caught up throughout his life in
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Making Something Happen

American Political Poetry between the World Wars

by Michael Thurston ...

Series series Cultural Studies of the United States
“Poetry makes nothing happen,” wrote W. H. Auden in 1939, expressing a belief that came to dominate American literary institutions in the late 1940s — the idea that good poetry cannot, and should not, be politically engaged. By contrast, Michael Thurston here looks back to the 1920s and 1930s to a generation of poets who wrote with the precise hope and the deep conviction that they would move ... Read more

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“Poetry makes nothing happen,” wrote W. H. Auden in 1939, expressing a belief that came to dominate American literary institutions in the late 1940s — the idea that good poetry cannot, and should not, be politically engaged. By contrast, Michael Thurston here looks back to the 1920s and 1930s to a generation of poets who wrote with the precise hope and the deep conviction that they would move
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Cape Cod, Revisited

by Michael Thurston, Russ Rymer ...

Series Book 18 - Working Titles
Knowing that the Cape is more than tourist-riddled beaches and overpriced ice cream, Michael Thurston takes us on a late-summer retread of one of Thoreau's most famous walks. Blending travel writing and literary criticism, Thurston takes us along two centuries of the shore, reconsidering the dreadful shipwreck of the St. John, and considering the pliability of a hand-painted postcard. From artists ... Read more

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Knowing that the Cape is more than tourist-riddled beaches and overpriced ice cream, Michael Thurston takes us on a late-summer retread of one of Thoreau's most famous walks. Blending travel writing and literary criticism, Thurston takes us along two centuries of the shore, reconsidering the dreadful shipwreck of the St. John, and considering the pliability of a hand-painted postcard. From artists
... Read more
Reading Postwar British and Irish Poetry

by Michael Thurston, Nigel Alderman ...

Series Book 16 - Wiley Blackwell Reading Poetry
Combining detailed explorations of both mainstream and experimental poets with a clear historical and literary overview, Reading Postwar British and Irish Poetry offers readers at all levels an ideal guide to the rich body of poetic works published in Britain and Ireland over the last half-century.Features detailed discussions of individual poems that are widely available in anthologies and ... Read more

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Combining detailed explorations of both mainstream and experimental poets with a clear historical and literary overview, Reading Postwar British and Irish Poetry offers readers at all levels an ideal guide to the rich body of poetic works published in Britain and Ireland over the last half-century.Features detailed discussions of individual poems that are widely available in anthologies and
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On the Quay at Smyrna

by Margot Demopoulos, Michael Thurston ...

Series Book 13 - Working Titles
ON THE QUAY AT SMYRNA narrates in awful detail the violence and suffering wrought by the Turks during the Greco-Turkish War, seen primarily through the eyes of a teenage girl. It conveys the vibrant sights and smells, the sounds and tastes, the daily routines—with all their tedium and richness—that characterized the lives of its inhabitants from the days before the city's sacking. Margot ... Read more

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ON THE QUAY AT SMYRNA narrates in awful detail the violence and suffering wrought by the Turks during the Greco-Turkish War, seen primarily through the eyes of a teenage girl. It conveys the vibrant sights and smells, the sounds and tastes, the daily routines—with all their tedium and richness—that characterized the lives of its inhabitants from the days before the city's sacking. Margot
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A Storm Too Soon

A True Story of Disaster, Survival, and an Incredible Rescue

by Michael J. Tougias ...

Narrated by Charlie Thurston ...

Series Audiobook 2 - The True Rescue Series
Unabridged

8 hours 34 min

A heart-stopping true-life tale of maritime disaster, survival, and daring rescue from a master storytellerSeventy-foot waves batter a torn life raft 250 miles out to sea in one of the world's most dangerous places, the Gulf Stream. Hanging on to the raft are three men, a Canadian, a Brit, and their captain, Jean Pierre de Lutz, a dual citizen of America and France. Their capsized forty-seven-foot ... Read more

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A heart-stopping true-life tale of maritime disaster, survival, and daring rescue from a master storytellerSeventy-foot waves batter a torn life raft 250 miles out to sea in one of the world's most dangerous places, the Gulf Stream. Hanging on to the raft are three men, a Canadian, a Brit, and their captain, Jean Pierre de Lutz, a dual citizen of America and France. Their capsized forty-seven-foot
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Oscar Wars

A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears

by Michael Schulman ...

Narrated by Charlie Thurston ...

Unabridged

21 hours

The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively history of the Academy Awards, focusing on the brutal battles, the starry rivalries, and the colorful behind-the-scenes drama.America does not have royalty. It has the Academy Awards. For nine decades, perfectly coiffed starlets, debonair leading men, and producers with gold in their eyes have chased ... Read more

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The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively history of the Academy Awards, focusing on the brutal battles, the starry rivalries, and the colorful behind-the-scenes drama.America does not have royalty. It has the Academy Awards. For nine decades, perfectly coiffed starlets, debonair leading men, and producers with gold in their eyes have chased
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Men I’ve Never Been

A Memoir

by Michael Sadowski ...

Narrated by Charlie Thurston ...

Unabridged

7 hours 41 min

Men I've Never Been recounts Michael Sadowski's odyssey as a boy who shuns his own identity—and, ultimately, his sexual orientation—in order to become who he thinks he's supposed to be. Beginning with the memory of a four-year-old sitting in a dingy dive bar, sounding out newspaper headlines while his boasting father collects drinks from onlookers, each chapter highlights a different image of ... Read more

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Men I've Never Been recounts Michael Sadowski's odyssey as a boy who shuns his own identity—and, ultimately, his sexual orientation—in order to become who he thinks he's supposed to be. Beginning with the memory of a four-year-old sitting in a dingy dive bar, sounding out newspaper headlines while his boasting father collects drinks from onlookers, each chapter highlights a different image of
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Carnie King

The Story of Patty Conklin and Conklin Shows

by John Thurston ...

Narrated by Michael Butler Murray ...

Unabridged

18 hours 54 min

Enter the realm of the carnie king, Patty Conklin, the flamboyant founder of what would become the world's largest carnival company. Patty started on the mean streets of New York selling peanuts before becoming a a small-time operator. Winning the midway contract for the Canadian National Exhibition in 1937, he made it his personal world's fair. It became the foundation for his son and grandson to ... Read more

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Enter the realm of the carnie king, Patty Conklin, the flamboyant founder of what would become the world's largest carnival company. Patty started on the mean streets of New York selling peanuts before becoming a a small-time operator. Winning the midway contract for the Canadian National Exhibition in 1937, he made it his personal world's fair. It became the foundation for his son and grandson to
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Modernism, Inc.

Body, Memory, Capital

Edited by Jani Scandura, Michael Thurston ...

Series series Cultural Front
Drawing on a variety of interdisciplinary debates in cultural studies and contemporary theory, Modernism, Inc. provides a new look at the relationship between modernism and postmodernism within the critical frame of twentieth-century American culture.Organized around the idea of "incorporation"--embodiment, repressed memory, and advanced capitalism--Modernism, Inc. covers a wide range of topics: ... Read more

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Drawing on a variety of interdisciplinary debates in cultural studies and contemporary theory, Modernism, Inc. provides a new look at the relationship between modernism and postmodernism within the critical frame of twentieth-century American culture.Organized around the idea of "incorporation"--embodiment, repressed memory, and advanced capitalism--Modernism, Inc. covers a wide range of topics:
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Ten Hours until Dawn

The True Story of Heroism and Tragedy aboard the Can Do

by Michael J. Tougias ...

Narrated by Joe Barrett ...

Unabridged

10 hours 58 min

During the height of the blizzard of 1978, a tanker foundered on the shoals off the Massachusetts coast. The Coast Guard dispatched a patrol boat that was soon in trouble, too.A pilot-boat captain, Frank Quirk, heard of the Coast Guard’s plight on his radio. He gathered his crew of four, readied his forty-nine-foot steel boat, the Can Do, and entered the maelstrom of the blizzard soon to be known ... Read more

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During the height of the blizzard of 1978, a tanker foundered on the shoals off the Massachusetts coast. The Coast Guard dispatched a patrol boat that was soon in trouble, too.A pilot-boat captain, Frank Quirk, heard of the Coast Guard’s plight on his radio. He gathered his crew of four, readied his forty-nine-foot steel boat, the Can Do, and entered the maelstrom of the blizzard soon to be known
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Rescue of the Bounty

Disaster and Survival in Superstorm Sandy

by Michael J. Tougias, Douglas A. Campbell ...

Narrated by Tom Weiner ...

Series Audiobook 6 - The True Rescue Series
Unabridged

7 hours 37 min

Rescue of the Bounty is the harrowing story of the sinking and rescue of Bounty—the tall ship used in the classic 1962 film Mutiny on the Bounty—which was caught in the path of Hurricane Sandy with sixteen aboard.On Thursday, October 25, 2012, Captain Robin Walbridge made the fateful decision to sail Bounty from New London, Connecticut, to St. Petersburg, Florida. Walbridge was well aware that a ... Read more

$19.95 USD

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Rescue of the Bounty is the harrowing story of the sinking and rescue of Bounty—the tall ship used in the classic 1962 film Mutiny on the Bounty—which was caught in the path of Hurricane Sandy with sixteen aboard.On Thursday, October 25, 2012, Captain Robin Walbridge made the fateful decision to sail Bounty from New London, Connecticut, to St. Petersburg, Florida. Walbridge was well aware that a
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