Hannah Johnson: 12 books

Book cover of Blood Libel

Blood Libel

The Ritual Murder Accusation at the Limit of Jewish History

by Hannah Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012

The ritual murder accusation is one of a series of myths that fall under the label blood libel, and describes the medieval legend that Jews require Christian blood for obscure religious purposes and are capable of committing murder to obtain it. This malicious myth continues to have an explosive afterlife...
Book cover of Know Not Why: A Novel
by Hannah Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012

Howie gets a job at Artie Kraft's Arts 'N Crafts hoping to score with his lady coworkers. After all, girls love a sensitive guy, and what's more sensitive than dedicating your life to selling yarn and ... stuff? (Okay, so maybe it'd be a good idea to actually learn what one sells at an arts 'n crafts...
Book cover of Toil & Trouble: A Know Not Why Halloween (Mis)adventure
by Hannah Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2014

It's that Halloweeny time of year, and Howie, Arthur, Kristy, and Cora are on a mission to create the perfect haunted house event at the store in order to win over new customers. Turns out, it's not as easy as it sounds -- especially when you're trying to charm the town's most popular (and...
Book cover of The Beautiful Thing: Fairytales Retold
by Hannah Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2012

A prince is caught between the doldrums of duty and the joys of (a most improper) love. A young woman sets no stock in all that dying-for-love nonsense, and woe betide the anguished knight who tries to brood at her. And a little girl observes more of life, love, and regret than anyone would have thought to expect from a clever and vengeful witch. Three old stories given new shapes.
Book cover of Fires I Would Like To Know
by Hannah Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012

'He tells me, like a regular Bluebeard, never to visit the third floor.' What if Jane Eyre had found another source of fascination at Thornfield Hall?
Book cover of The Critics and the Prioress

The Critics and the Prioress

Antisemitism, Criticism, and Chaucer's Prioress's Tale

by Hannah Johnson, Heather Blurton
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017

Of all the Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer’s Prioress’s Tale, in which a young schoolboy is murdered by Jews for singing a song in praise of the Virgin Mary, poses a problem to contemporary readers because of the antisemitism of the story it tells. Both the Tale’s antisemitism and its “Chaucerianism”—its...
Book cover of Quantitative Proteomics
by Bruno Domon, Phil Wright, Birgit Schilling
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014

As a component of post-genome science, the field of proteomics has assumed great prominence in recent years. Whereas quantitative analyses focussed initially on relative quantification, a greater emphasis is now placed on absolute quantification and consideration of proteome dynamics. Coverage of...
Book cover of Life Inside My Mind

Life Inside My Mind

31 Authors Share Their Personal Struggles

by Maureen Johnson, Robison Wells, Lauren Oliver
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018

“Who better to raise teens’ awareness of mental illness and health than the YA authors they admire?” —Booklist (starred review) “[A] much-needed, enlightening book.” —School Library Journal (starred review) Your favorite YA authors including Ellen Hopkins, Maureen Johnson,...
Book cover of Violent Ends
by Shaun David Hutchinson, Neal Shusterman, Brendan Shusterman
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015

In a one-of-a-kind collaboration, seventeen of the most recognizable YA writers—including Shaun David Hutchinson, Neal and Brendan Shusterman, and Beth Revis—come together to share the viewpoints of a group of students affected by a school shooting. It took only twenty-two minutes for Kirby...
Book cover of Arise

Arise

A Prophetic Call for Women to Receive Swords, Mantles, and Kingdom Assignments

by Patricia King, Larry Sparks, Karen Wheaton
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018

ARISE and PROPHESY! Are Christians personally walking in the supernatural power and releasing the societal Kingdom transformation that Jesus made available? From everything we see around us, we know there must be more! The last days outpouring prophesied in Joel 2 began its fulfillment...
Book cover of Writing for Animals

Writing for Animals

New perspectives for writers and instructors to educate and inspire

by John Yunker, Joanna Lilley, Lisa Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018

A unique anthology of articles and essays to inspire animal-themed creative writing Despite all we know about the sentience of animals, society tends to view and treat nonhuman animals as lesser creatures. And for society to change its views, writers must change their views. We must look closely...
Book cover of Thinking with Bruno Latour in Rhetoric and Composition
by Clay Spinuzzi, Carl G. Herndl, S. Scott Graham
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015

Best known for his books We Have Never Been Modern, Laboratory Life, and Science in Action, Bruno Latour has inspired scholarship across many disciplines. In the past few years, the fields of rhetoric and composition have witnessed an explosion of interest in Latour’s work. Editors Paul Lynch and...
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