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Wanna Read But Not Enough Time? Then, grab a SpeedyReads of Switch On Your Brain: The Key to Peak Happiness, Thinking, and Health by Dr. Caroline Leaf now! Here's a sample of what you'll see in this book: Summary of Switch On Your Brain Part 1: How to Switch on Your Brain 1:...

Children's literature is a rapidly expanding field of research which presents students and researchers with a number of practical and intellectual challenges. This research handbook is the first devoted to the specialist skills and complexities of studying children's literature at university level....

Bringing together leading and emerging scholars, this book argues for the significance of theory for reading texts written and produced for young people. Integrating perspectives from across feminism, ecocriticism, postcolonialism and poststructuralism, it demonstrates how these inform approaches to a range of contemporary literature and film.

“Wanna Read But Not Enough Time? Then, grab a SpeedyReads of Everything We Keep by Kerry Lonsdale now! Here's a sample of what you'll see in this book: Summary of ‘Everything We Keep: A Novel’ by Kerry Lonsdale On their would-be wedding day, Aimee Tierney has to attend her fiancé’s...

Wanna Read But Not Enough Time? Then, grab a SpeedyReads of Summary of Fifty Shades Freed and Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey as Told by Christian by EL James Now! Here's a sample of what you'll see in this book: CHAPTER 8 from Fifty Shades Freed Gia arrives to discuss their blueprints...

My favourite words, phrases, sentences, and paragraphs comprises a list of words, phases, and quotations accompanied by stories, anecdotes, and essays that explore the role of language and quotation as material and as method in contemporary writing. Favourite implies ‘a person or thing regarded...

“Wanna Read But Not Enough Time? Then, grab a SpeedyReads of The Shack by William P. Young now! Here's a sample of what you'll see in this book: Summary of The Shack by William P. Young Mackenzie Allen Phillips, who is known to his close friends and family as “Mack”, is not a typical...

The "Fresh Air" book critic investigates the enduring power of The Great Gatsby -- "The Great American Novel we all think we've read, but really haven't." Conceived nearly a century ago by a man who died believing himself a failure, it's now a revered classic and a rite...

A provocative, exuberant, and deeply researched investigation into Mark Twain’s writing of America’s favorite icon of childhood, Huckleberry Finn: “A boldly revisionist reading of Twain’s Huckleberry Finn…Twain’s masterpiece emerges as a compelling depiction of nineteenth-century troubles...

This user-friendly resource is the perfect reference for English-language readers who are eager to explore fiction from around the world. Profiling hundreds of titles and authors from 1945 to today, with an emphasis on fiction published in the past two decades, this guide introduces the styles, trends,...

First published in 1988, Peter Hughes explores the work of V. S. Naipaul, and the interplay of fictional and non-fictional patters in what is his obsessive vision of human life. Hughes shows how Naipaul’s narratives pair off histories and novels, travel-writing and psycho-biography, reinforcing...

Related to ideas of the great, the awe-inspiring and the overpowering, the sublime has been debated for centuries amongst writers, artists, philosophers and theorists and has become a complex yet crucial concept in many disciplines. In this thoroughly updated edition, Philip Shaw looks at: Early...

“[Ron Rosenbaum] is one of the most original journalists and writers of our time.” –David Remnick In The Shakespeare Wars, Ron Rosenbaum gives readers an unforgettable way of rethinking the greatest works of the human imagination. As he did in his groundbreaking Explaining Hitler, he...

“Wanna Read But Not Enough Time? Then, grab a SpeedyReads of Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult now! Here's a sample of what you'll see in this book: Background Information about ‘Small Great Things’ Small Great Things: A Novel by Jodi Picoult was published in October 2016 has...