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The fantastic family Whipple
\"For every child who's ever dreamed of being in the Guinness Book of World Records comes the story of eleven-year-old Arthur Whipple and his fantastic family of world record breakers...Unfortunately, unlike his siblings, Arthur hasn't broken a single, solitary world record! But when the Whipples suffer a spate of catastrophes and a curious amount of attention from a pair of irregularly sized and unusually menacing clowns, Arthur might be the only one who can save his family from losing their collective crown...or worse.\"--Publisher's website.
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Searching for Birth Parents or Adopted Children
Using concepts from Catherine Sheldrick Ross’s “Finding without Seeking: The Information Encounter in the Context of Reading for Pleasure,” a convenience sample of 129 romance novels about secret babies is examined to determine what information is imparted about the processes by which adoptees and birth parents search for each other.
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War of the world records : a Fantastic family Whipple novel
When the rivalry between the Whipples and the Goldwins escalates to an all-out war as the World Record World Championships draw near, recordless Arthur Whipple and his unlikely ally Ruby Goldwin unravel the mystery of the Lyon's Curse and the secrets of their fathers' shared past.
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Eww! what's on my shoe?
\"When his friend Alex becomes famous for breaking a world record, George has to learn to be a supportive friend\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Annual Bibliography of Works about Life Writing, 2022
Explories discourses on gender in both propaganda and high-art fictional writings by Iraqis, including women's autobiographical writings, and offers an alternative narrative of the literary and cultural history of Iraq. Recovers the history of the Southern Life History Project, a Federal Writers' Project initiative that put unemployed writers to work during the Great Depression by capturing the stories of everyday people across the Southeast through a new form of social documentation called \"life histories.\" Draws on personal letters, oral histories, psychiatric reports, as well as popular music and movies to show how the armed forces and civilian society have attempted to weaponize romantic love in pursuit of martial ends, from World War II to today. Locates evangelicalism as a media event rather than as a coherent religious tradition by focusing on the intertwined narratives of evangelical Christianity and emerging digital culture in the United States.
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“A Monstrously Difficult Subject”: Stanley Kubrick’s Aryan Papers (1991–1993)
While Stanley Kubrick long sought to make a film about World War II and the Holocaust, he never succeeded. He came very close in his attempt to adapt Louis Begley’s Wartime Lies as Aryan Papers between 1991 and 1993. Combining the latest insights in the emerging field of Kubrick Studies, specifically into Kubrick’s Jewishness, with the newly available archival material deposited in the Stanley Kubrick Archive at the University of Arts London, this article explores the pre-production of Aryan Papers before considering why it was never realized and then tentatively suggesting, in the absence of any shot footage, how it may have looked.
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\We Decided the Museum Would Be the Best Place for Them\: Veterans, Families and Mementos of the First World War
Although it is generally considered that there was relatively little interest in the First World War throughout the 1970s and 1980s in Britain, these decades constitute a key moment in time when the embodied memories of the war transitioned into the cultural memory we are familiar with today. This article examines the transmission of memories of the First World War from veterans and their families to museums. It uses the Durham Light Infantry Museum, a small regimental museum in the northeast of England, as a case study to examine who donated war-related objects and their reasons for doing so.
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Beyond resistance in Dominican American women’s fiction: Healing and growth through the spectrum of quietude in Angie Cruz’s Soledad and Naima Coster’s Halsey Street
The Dominican Republic and its relationship with Dominican America have often been studied in relation to the brutal regime of Rafael Trujillo, tíguere masculinity, and the political sphere. Writers like Julia Álvarez and Junot Díaz, as well as anthologies of Dominican women’s writing, form a literary archive that conceives of women’s writing as a perpetual act of rebellion, mostly against Trujillo and Trujillista models of masculinity. Starting from Lorgia García-Peña’s conception of “contradiction” (2016) and Kevin Quashie’s The Sovereignty of Quiet (2012), this article argues that Angie Cruz’s Soledad (2001) and Naima Coster’s Halsey Street (2017) are a counter-archive of woman-centered, Dominican American narratives of return dependent on feminized forms of expression and belonging—namely art, quiet, secrecy, surrender, and interiority. These novels reclaim the power of these acts and spaces along a spectrum of quietude, ranging from acts of alienation to tools for bonding, healing, and growth.
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Women's history from the ladies lounge to the daughters of freedom
The really exciting thing about the proliferation of publishing about history told from a female perspective -particularly within the historical fiction and narrative non-fiction/memoir genres-is the absolute hunger that audiences appear to have for this vein of research and writing. The most common response that I get to my book The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka-'which tells the story of the early gold rush generally and the Eureka Stockade in particular, from the point of view of the women who participated in the political, economic, commercial and social life of the diggings and the movement for democratic rights- is, 'Wow, I had no idea! The public prominence of the Anzac story-fortified by bucket-loads of federal funding into schools, museums, commemoration and media products- overshadows the possibility that there might be other critical and credible ways to understand the Australian story. Elizabeth Macarthur: A Life at the End of the World by Michelle Scott Tucker A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville Two versions-one biographical, the other fictional- of the life of Elizabeth Macarthur, the largely unacknowledged mother of the wool industry.
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