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Encountering the Spiritual in Contemporary Art by Leesa Fanning; Ladan Akbarnia; Stephen Gilchrist; Eleanor Heartney; Mary Jane Jacob; Karen Kramer Russell (Contribution by); Elizabeth Milbourne (Contribution by)
Category: Art and Design
An in-depth and current investigation of how the spiritual is manifestly present in contemporary art The spiritual is everywhere evident in contemporary art, and this publication fulfills a long-awaited need. Encountering the Spiritual in Contemporary Art addresses the subject in depth for the first tim ...Show more
Mindfulness and Self-Compassion for Teen ADHD - Build Executive Functioning Skills, Increase Motivation, and Improve Self-Confidence by Mark Bertin; Karen Bluth; Russell Barkley (Foreword by)
Category: Personal Development | Series: The\Instant Help Solutions Ser.
Build self-confidence, independence & the skills you need to thrive! As a teen with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), you want what most teens want: independence, good grades, and great friends. But your ADHD can also create challenges on the road to achieving these goals-which can be ...Show more
Orange World by Russell, Karen
Category: Fiction
'I loved Orange World... a collection of short stories in which demons live in drains, bog women come back from the dead and trees can grow inside the human body' Daisy Johnson, New Statesman BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A rare combination of literary brilliance and unbridled entertainment' Mark Haddon These exu ...Show more
Orange World by Karen Russell
Category: Fiction
Karen Russell's comedic genius and mesmerising talent for creating outlandish predicaments that uncannily mirror our inner lives are on display in these exuberant, unforgettable stories. In 'The Bad Graft', a couple on a road trip stop in Joshua Tree National Park, where the spirit of a giant tree accid ...Show more
Orange World and Other Stories by Karen Russell
Category: Fiction
From the Pulitzer finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases her extraordinary gifts of language and imagination These eight exuberant, arrestingly vivid, emotionally ...Show more
Sleep Donation by Karen Russell
Category: Fiction
Nine spine-tingling, mind-altering and deliciously atmospheric, journey into the dark side of America with nine of its most uncanny classics -- VINTAGE CLASSICS' AMERICAN GOTHIC SERIES 'Sleep Donation has a dreamlike beauty while remaining ominous and off-kilter. Parts of it gave me nightmares' Stephen ...Show more
Sleep Donation by Karen Russell
Category: Fiction
A haunting novella from the uncannily imaginative author of the national bestsellers Swamplandia! and Orange World: the story of a deadly insomnia epidemic and the lengths one woman will go to to fight it.Trish Edgewater is the Slumber Corps' top recruiter. On the phone, at a specially organized Sleep D ...Show more
St Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell
Category: Short Stories
Charting loss, love, and the difficult art of growing up, these stories unfurl with wicked humour and insight. Two young boys make midnight trips to a boat graveyard in search of their dead sister, who set sail in the exoskeleton of a giant crab; a boy whose dreams foretell implacable tragedies is sent ...Show more
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
Category: Fiction
The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline, and Ava, a resourceful but terrified twelve year-old, must battle to save it. After the death of her beautiful and legendary mother, Swamplandia!, Ava's island home in the Florida Everglades, is under threat from a nearby competitor; her sister Osce ...Show more
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
Category: Fiction
From the celebrated twenty-nine-year-old author of the everywhere-heralded short-story collection St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (“How I wish these were my own words, instead of the breakneck demon writer Karen Russell’s . . . Run for your life. This girl is on fire”—Los Angeles Times Book R ...Show more
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
Category: Fiction
The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline and Swamplandia!, their island home in the Florida Everglades and gator-wrestling theme park, is swiftly being encroached upon by a sophisticated competitor known as The World of Darkness. Ava, a resourceful but terrified twelve-year-old, must manage ...Show more
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries
A "New York Times" Best Book of the YearOne of "Granta's" Best Young American NovelistsSelected for the "New Yorker's" 20 Under 40Nominated for the Orange Prize Thirteen-year-old Ava Bigtree has lived her entire life at Swamplandia!, her family's island home and gator-wrestling theme park in the Florida ...Show more