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A Short Introduction to Helping Young People Manage Anxiety by Carol Fitzpatrick
Category: Parenting | Series: JKP Short Introductions Ser.
Anxiety is an increasingly common problem in young people, but there are many different causes and types, and it can be difficult to know where to start in order to understand it and know how best to help.This easy-to-read guide provides information about the different types of anxiety and why some youn ...Show more
Big Sur by KEROUAC JACK
Category: Fiction | Series: JK
Written some time after his best-known works, "Big Sur" follows Jack Kerouac's comedown from his carefree youth and unwanted fame, presenting his mature confrontation of some of his most troubling emotional issues.
Book of Haikus by Jack Kerouac
Highlighting a lesser-known aspect of one of America's most influential authors, this new collection displays Jack Kerouac's interest in and mastery of haiku. Experimenting with this compact poetic genre throughout his career, Kerouac often included haiku in novels, correspondence, notebooks, journals, ...Show more
Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac
Category: Fiction | Series: JK
"Desolation Angels" is the wild and soulful story of the legendary road trip that Jack Kerouac took before the publication of "On the Road", told through the persona of Jack Duluoz and accompanied by his thinly-disguised Beat cohorts Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and William Burroughs. As they hitch, ho ...Show more
Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: JK
Published just one year after "On The Road", this is the story of two men engaged in a passionate search for Dharma or truth. Their major adventure is the pursuit of the Zen Way, which takes them climbing into the High Sierras to seek the lesson of solitude.
Doctor Sax by Jack Kerouac
Category: Fiction | Series: JK
Jack Kerouac called Doctor Sax, the enigmatic figure who haunted his boyhood imagination, 'my ghost, personal angel, private shadow, secret lover'. In this extraordinary autobiographical account of growing up in Lowell, Massachusetts, told through his fictional alter ego Jack Duluoz, he mingles real peo ...Show more
JK Haru Is a Sex Worker in Another World: Summer - Summer by Ko Hiratori; Emily Balistrieri (Translator); Aimee Zink (Editor)
Category: Eastern | Series: JK Haru Is a Sex Worker in Another World Ser.
I got transported another world; every otaku's wet dream, right? But women are basically powerless here, so I had to become a sex worker to survive... This is my story.*record scratch*A collection of stories about Haru and her friends during the events of the original novel This story collection was ori ...Show more
JK Haru is a Sex Worker in Another World by Ko Hiratori
Category: Eastern | Series: JK Haru Is a Sex Worker in Another World Ser.
Based on the hit web novel, this light novel tells the story of a women transported to another world where women are basically powerless, so she becomes a sex worker just to survive.
Maggie Cassidy by Jack Kerouac
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: JK
Moodily atmospheric, full of verve and energy, "Maggie Cassidy" is Kerouac's poignant tale of teenage romance in New England. The story of Jack and Maggie, in love with the idea of being in love, looking ahead to marriage with hope and trepidation, is told with touching simplicity. It skillfully capture ...Show more
ON THE ROAD 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION by KEROUAC JACK
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: JK
A 50th anniversary hardcover edition of Kerouac's classic novel that defined a generation Few novels have had as profound an impact on American culture as "On the Road." Pulsating with the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, illicit drugs, and the mystery and promise of the open road, Kero ...Show more
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Category: Fiction | Series: JK
"On the Road" swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat. Now recognized as a modern classic, its American Dream is nearer that of Walt Whitman than Scott ...Show more
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Category: Classics | Series: JK
The legendary 1951 scroll draft of "On the Road," published as Kerouac originally composed it IN THREE WEEKS in April of 1951, Jack Kerouac wrote his first full draft of "On the Road"atyped as a single-spaced paragraph on eight long sheets of tracing paper, which he later taped together to form a 120-fo ...Show more