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Kill Show
an utterly gripping, genre-bending crime thriller - welcome to your new obsession...
2023
EN
'A fun, clever read on our obsession with true crime. I loved it' THE OBSERVER'I raced through Kill Show. Gripping, fast-paced and oh so twisty' LOUISE JENSEN, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE GIFTTHE NATION IS OBSESSED. WHAT HAPPENED TO SARA?A MISSING GIRLOn a crisp April morning, Sara Parcell disappears without a trace. No one saw...
Technology For Transformation
Perspectives of Hope in the Digital Age
2016
EN
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This book serves as a platform for educators and researchers to unite educational technology and social justice. While educational technology is a rapidly changing and progressive field of research and practice, it remains largely separate from education for social justice. Current literature about educational technology is often approached from a technical, how-to perspective that emphasizes ways to implement technology into the classroom. Technology is often viewed as inevitable, yet neu...
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- Dan Bittner
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- The Ones
Unabridged
6 hours 57 min
2016
EN
We are not all created equal.Seventeen years ago, Cody and her boyfriend James were two of the lucky babies from 1% of the population randomly selected to receive genetic engineering.Known as the “Ones,” this generation of genetically enhanced teenagers is excelling. Cody, James, and their fellow Ones are healthy, beautiful, talented…and to some, that’s not fair. Mounting fear and jealousy of the Ones’ success leads to the creation of the Equality Movement, which quickly ga...
2011
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A valuable reference for improving outcomes in revision rhinoplasty surgeryRevision Rhinoplasty is an essential reference for addressing the manifold problems arising from unsuccessful rhinoplasty. In this book, internationally recognized experts provide their recommendations and describe techniques that will help the reader plan and perform a successful secondary rhinoplasty. The book opens by reviewing fundamental concepts of revision rhinoplast...
- Translated by
- Emma Ramadan
2015
EN
Sphinx is the remarkable debut novel, originally published in 1986, by the incredibly talented and inventive French author Anne Garréta, one of the few female members of Oulipo, the influential and exclusive French experimental literary group whose mission is to create literature based on mathematical and linguistic restraints, and whose ranks include Georges Perec and Italo Calvino, among others.A beautiful and complex love story between two characters, the narrator, "I,"...
A Perfect Souvenir
Stories about Travel from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
2020
EN
Travel, and the exhilarating experiences it offers us, is the shared concern of these stories, which have been chosen from among the hundreds that have appeared in the prestigious Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction series.More than seventy volumes, which include approximately eight hundred stories, have won the Flannery O'Connor Award. This stunning trove of always engaging, often groundbreaking short fiction is the common source for this anthology on childhood—and for plann...
Many Subtle Channels
In Praise of Potential Literature
2012
EN
What sort of society could bind together Jacques Roubaud, Italo Calvino, Marcel Duchamp, and Raymond Queneau—and Daniel Levin Becker, a young American obsessed with language play? Only the Oulipo, the Paris-based experimental collective founded in 1960 and fated to become one of literature’s quirkiest movements.An international organization of writers, artists, and scientists who embrace formal and procedural constraints to achieve literature’s possibilities, the Oulipo (the French...
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- The Ones
2017
EN
What happens when your own government turns against you?The Equality Team continues to round up and subject The Ones—the 1% of the American population who were genetically engineered in vitro—to a vaccine that will level the playing field. Desperate to save her boyfriend James from this fate, Cody flees into the wild to seek assistance from a shadowy rebel group dedicated to equal rights for the Ones at any cost.But when she grows closer to a radical named Ka...
Kill Show
an utterly gripping, genre-bending crime thriller - welcome to your new obsession...
Unabridged
7 hours 57 min
2023
EN
A genre-bending story told entirely through interviews about a reality TV crime show that follows a missing girl in America: Cara Hunter meets Serial by way of The Appeal.THE NATION IS OBSESSED. WHAT HAPPENED TO SARA?A MISSING GIRLOn a crisp April morning, Sara Parcell disappears without a trace. No one saw a thing.A NATIONAL OBSESSIONDesperate, her family agree to tak...
- Translated by
- Daniel Levin Becker
2021
EN
In 2015, the Argentinian novelist Eduardo Berti spent several weeks in a “medico-literary” residency at the University Hospital Centre in Rouen, France, observing and conversing with the staff and volunteers of its palliative care department. From that experience he created this series of lightly fictionalized testimonials from nurses, nursing aides, doctors, administrators, porters, volunteer musicians, and the other people who make the unit tick. The result is a distinctly intimate and o...
- Translated by
- Daniel Levin Becker
2024
EN
The daring, mischievous micro-essays of award-winning French humorist Éric Chevillard, published in English for the first timeÉric Chevillard is one of France’s leading stylists and thinkers, an endlessly inventive observer of the everyday whose erudition and imagination honor the legacy of Swift and Voltaire—with some good-natured postmodern twists.This ensemble of comic miniatures compiles reflections on chairs, stairs, stones, goldfish, objects found, st...
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- Jeffrey S. DukesMelissa WidhalmJanet G. McCabeGabriel M. FilippelliKimberly A. NovickJames ShanahanBen KravitzDouglas EdmondsChanh KieuTravis A. O'BrienScott RobesonPaul StatenBrian YanitesChen ZhuSarah MinceyRebecca LaveJohn BaetenJustin MaxwellRichard PhillipsEllen D. KettersonDaniel BeckerGeoffrey BrownAllison ByrdKeith ClayAdam FudickarMatthew HouserAlex JahnJennifer Ann LauSarah WanamakerJames Robert FarmerElizabeth Grennan BrowningHeather L. ReynoldsSamantha L. HamlinDana HabeebJeffrey S. WilsonDaniel MyersEric SandweissBeth EdwardsNathan GeigerAndrea WebsterDavid M. KoniskyNikolaos ZirogiannisSanya CarleyEva Sanders AllenLingxi Chenyang
2022
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Climate change is affecting Indiana's environment, threatening the way Hoosiers live and do business, and introducing new stresses to the state's economy, health, and infrastructure. And while scientists predict more days of extreme weather, increased public health risks, and reduced agricultural production in the coming years, Hoosiers still have a substantial say in determining their future environment.Climate Change and Resilience in Indiana and Beyond ...











