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The Day The World Fell Out Of My Bottom

by Norman Will ...

Bang!Bang!Bang!The blows came in hard and sure, and each one found its mark. I was immediately left reeling, dazed, confused and nauseated.This was September 1989 and I was sitting in Northampton General Hospital in a Doctor's office. I had just been told that I had Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, a type of cancer, and that it was in its final stage: stage four, that there was not a lot they could do for me ... Read more

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Bang!Bang!Bang!The blows came in hard and sure, and each one found its mark. I was immediately left reeling, dazed, confused and nauseated.This was September 1989 and I was sitting in Northampton General Hospital in a Doctor's office. I had just been told that I had Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, a type of cancer, and that it was in its final stage: stage four, that there was not a lot they could do for me
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Knee Deep in Murder

A Detective Inspector Steve Wicks Novel (Book 1)

by Norman Wills ...

A crime mystery set in WiganDetective inspector Steve Wicks works in the Wigan borough for the Greater Manchester Police Force. (GMP)Along with his Major Incident team he is tasked with finding the killer of Daniel Thomas who had been found hidden in the poly-tunnel in the gardens of Greenacres, a community hub in Atherton.Things weren't as simple as they seemed at first and with more bodies found ... Read more

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A crime mystery set in WiganDetective inspector Steve Wicks works in the Wigan borough for the Greater Manchester Police Force. (GMP)Along with his Major Incident team he is tasked with finding the killer of Daniel Thomas who had been found hidden in the poly-tunnel in the gardens of Greenacres, a community hub in Atherton.Things weren't as simple as they seemed at first and with more bodies found
... Read more
Transatlantic Aliens

Modernism, Exile, and Culture in Midcentury America

by Will Norman ...

Series series Hopkins Studies in Modernism
"A cogent and innovative account of the politics of literary and artistic modernism in the early years of the Cold War . . . an exceptional book." — TransatlanticaIn Transatlantic Aliens, Will Norman reorients our understanding of midcentury American culture by thinking dialectically about the interfusion of aesthetic and intellectual practices across both the cultural hierarchy and the Atlantic ... Read more

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"A cogent and innovative account of the politics of literary and artistic modernism in the early years of the Cold War . . . an exceptional book." — TransatlanticaIn Transatlantic Aliens, Will Norman reorients our understanding of midcentury American culture by thinking dialectically about the interfusion of aesthetic and intellectual practices across both the cultural hierarchy and the Atlantic
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Complicity in American Literature after 1945

Liberalism, Race, and Colonialism

by Will Norman ...

Series series Oxford Studies in American Literary History
Complicity in American Literature after 1945 offers a literary and intellectual history of the idea of complicity in the United States, proposing a new frame for understanding American literature in the period. The term “complicity” derives etymologically from the Latin complicãre, which means “to fold.” If one is complicit, one is folded into a larger system of social harm over which one has ... Read more

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Complicity in American Literature after 1945 offers a literary and intellectual history of the idea of complicity in the United States, proposing a new frame for understanding American literature in the period. The term “complicity” derives etymologically from the Latin complicãre, which means “to fold.” If one is complicit, one is folded into a larger system of social harm over which one has
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To Save the Country

A Lost Treatise on Martial Law

by Francis Lieber, G. Norman Lieber ...

Series series Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference
A Civil War-era treatise addressing the power of governments in moments of emergencyThe last work of Abraham Lincoln’s law of war expert Francis Lieber was long considered lost—until Will Smiley and John Fabian Witt discovered it in the National Archives. Lieber’s manuscript on emergency powers and martial law addresses important contemporary debates in law and political philosophy and stands as a ... Read more

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A Civil War-era treatise addressing the power of governments in moments of emergencyThe last work of Abraham Lincoln’s law of war expert Francis Lieber was long considered lost—until Will Smiley and John Fabian Witt discovered it in the National Archives. Lieber’s manuscript on emergency powers and martial law addresses important contemporary debates in law and political philosophy and stands as a
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Every Man is a Dead Man Walking

a guide to living with women, well . . . sort of . . .

by WILL S NORMAN ...

Hello I’m Will,And I’ve written a book for men, all about women…all the things that I think they need to know. However there is a problem - like a lot of men I started out clueless, and never really improved from there.I speak as the authority…the authority on failing miserably with women for most of my life – if failing with women was an education, I’d have a PHD in it.All that said however, one ... Read more

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Hello I’m Will,And I’ve written a book for men, all about women…all the things that I think they need to know. However there is a problem - like a lot of men I started out clueless, and never really improved from there.I speak as the authority…the authority on failing miserably with women for most of my life – if failing with women was an education, I’d have a PHD in it.All that said however, one
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Nabokov, History and the Texture of Time

by Will Norman ...

Series series Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
This book argues that the apparent evasion of history in Vladimir Nabokov’s fiction conceals a profound engagement with social, and therefore political, temporalities. While Nabokov scholarship has long assumed the same position as Nabokov himself — that his works exist in a state of historical exceptionalism — this study restores the content, context, and commentary to Nabokovian time by reading ... Read more

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This book argues that the apparent evasion of history in Vladimir Nabokov’s fiction conceals a profound engagement with social, and therefore political, temporalities. While Nabokov scholarship has long assumed the same position as Nabokov himself — that his works exist in a state of historical exceptionalism — this study restores the content, context, and commentary to Nabokovian time by reading
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Mortals

by Norman Rush ...

Narrated by Will Damron ...

Unabridged

31 hours 19 min

The greatly anticipated new novel by Norman Rush—whose first novel, Mating, won the National Book Award and was everywhere acclaimed—is his richest work yet. It is at once a political adventure, a social comedy, and a passionate triangle. It is set in the 1990s in Botswana—the African country Rush has indelibly made his own fictional territory.Mortals chronicles the misadventures of three ex-pat ... Read more

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The greatly anticipated new novel by Norman Rush—whose first novel, Mating, won the National Book Award and was everywhere acclaimed—is his richest work yet. It is at once a political adventure, a social comedy, and a passionate triangle. It is set in the 1990s in Botswana—the African country Rush has indelibly made his own fictional territory.Mortals chronicles the misadventures of three ex-pat
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French Girl with Mother

A Novel

by Norman Ollestad ...

Narrated by Will Damron ...

Unabridged

7 hours 31 min

French Girl with Mother is a provocative, propulsive thriller that marries the spirit of James Salter with a hint of Patricia Highsmith and the velocity of The Art Forger.Nathan is a young artist traveling across Europe in search of the emotional fire that has been missing from his work. He’s been deemed by his mentors and critics to be technically skillful but uninspired—criticisms he fears to be ... Read more

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French Girl with Mother is a provocative, propulsive thriller that marries the spirit of James Salter with a hint of Patricia Highsmith and the velocity of The Art Forger.Nathan is a young artist traveling across Europe in search of the emotional fire that has been missing from his work. He’s been deemed by his mentors and critics to be technically skillful but uninspired—criticisms he fears to be
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Whites

by Norman Rush ...

Narrated by Cassandra Campbell, Beth Hicks, Rob Shapiro, Michael Obiora ...

Unabridged

5 hours 49 min

A collection of short stories from the National Book Award-winning author of Mating • "Powerful and original...always convincingly authentic. The ironies keep cutting in new directions." —The New York TimesWhether they are Americans, Brits, or a stubborn and suicidally moral Dutchman, Norman Rush’s whites are not sure why they are in Botswana. Their uncertainty makes them do odd things.Driven half ... Read more

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A collection of short stories from the National Book Award-winning author of Mating • "Powerful and original...always convincingly authentic. The ironies keep cutting in new directions." —The New York TimesWhether they are Americans, Brits, or a stubborn and suicidally moral Dutchman, Norman Rush’s whites are not sure why they are in Botswana. Their uncertainty makes them do odd things.Driven half
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Frances and Bernard

by Carlene Bauer ...

Narrated by Angela Brazil, Stephen R. Thorne ...

Unabridged

6 hours 40 min

Bernard Elliot, a poet, and Frances Reardon, a fiction writer, meet at a writers' colony during the summer of 1957 and begin a friendship and correspondence. Bernard, well-born and Harvard-educated, is gregarious, reckless, and passionate; Frances, the precocious daughter of a middle-class Irish family, is circumspect, wry, and more than a little judgmental. What starts as an exploration of faith ... Read more

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Bernard Elliot, a poet, and Frances Reardon, a fiction writer, meet at a writers' colony during the summer of 1957 and begin a friendship and correspondence. Bernard, well-born and Harvard-educated, is gregarious, reckless, and passionate; Frances, the precocious daughter of a middle-class Irish family, is circumspect, wry, and more than a little judgmental. What starts as an exploration of faith
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Mating

A Novel (National Book Award Winner)

by Norman Rush ...

Narrated by Alexandra Ryan ...

Unabridged

26 hours 35 min

**NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • Is love between equals possible? This modern classic is a delightful intellectual love story that explores the deepest canyons of romantic love even as it asks large questions about society, geopolitics, and the mystery of what men and women really want.“Luminous . . . Few books evoke the state of love at its apogee.” —The New York Times Book Review****“The best ... Read more

$34.00 USD

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**NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • Is love between equals possible? This modern classic is a delightful intellectual love story that explores the deepest canyons of romantic love even as it asks large questions about society, geopolitics, and the mystery of what men and women really want.“Luminous . . . Few books evoke the state of love at its apogee.” —The New York Times Book Review****“The best
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