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American Psychological Association Professor Thomas Cats Guide to Understanding the Human Brain
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Random House Children's Books Harley Quinn Redemption
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Ediciones Urano Taxonomía del Amor, La
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Faber & Faber Kingdomland
Book SynopsisPOETRY BOOK SOCIETY CHOICE Kingdomland is the debut poetry collection of Rachael Allen a writer of rare vision and flair. The world she creates is suffused with surreal images and uncanny incidents. Unexplained violences and strange metamorphoses take shape in the glowering dusk'. And yet, all too clearly, we recognise life here on earth, its everyday griefs, dysfunctions and injustices. Where distinctions between murder and bloodletting, corruption and consumption are blurred. Where a pet tarantula or mimic octopus might find itself beside glands and processed meats. Landscapes shift and identities dissolve: the red bricks of the day' exist in a woman's chest', a human presence is embedded in the walls'. All appears changed, but familiar.Intercut with oblique verse fragments and a series of linked sequences, Allen blends elements of fiction and ekphrasis to create a haunting and unforgettable debut.
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Random House Children's Books Harley Quinn Ravenous
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Random House Children's Books Harley Quinn Ravenous
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Random House USA Inc Harley Quinn Reckoning
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc 17 First Kisses
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Faber & Faber God Complex
Book SynopsisGod Complex is a sweeping and corrosive epic, a narrative poem that tells the story of the breakdown of a relationship against a backdrop of progressive environmental degradation. A grieving body moves through states of toxicity, becoming an instrument for measuring the impact of pollutants. an entwining of human and non-human, built environment and natural landscape blurs perspective and distorts logic, creating an erratic decline into disorder. Loss is divined everywhere: in human relations, in the ruptures of class and privilege, and the poisoning of the planet.It is through a purgatorial leavening of pain that the narrator comes to terms with the delicate, shifting states of the ecological systems that merge with and surround us to create new forms of being and devotion. The result is visionary a book that vibrates with urgency and feeling.
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Abrams A Taxonomy of Love
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Random House Children's Books Harley Quinn Redemption
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Salt Publishing The Salt Book of Younger Poets
Book SynopsisThe Salt Book of Younger Poets showcases a new generation of British poets born since the mid-80s. Many of these poets embrace new technologies such as blogs, social networking and webzines to meet, mentor, influence and publish their own work and others’. Some poets here were winners of the Foyle young poet awards when at school. Some have published pamphlets in series such as tall-lighthouse Pilot and Faber New Poets. All of them are working away on first collections. This is a chance to encounter the poets who will dominate UK poetry in years to come.Trade ReviewLumsden hosts a supremely eclectic party for 85 "new" British and Irish poets — more women than men, for once — whose newness turns on book-length debuts within the past 15 years rather than calendar age. -- Boyd Tonkin * The Independent *Identity Parade is an anthology which clearly achieves its objective of introducing its audience to a broad-church of today’s talent. -- Phil Brown * Hand + Star *This ambitious anthology offers a rewarding glimpse into the health of current poetry, bringing together 50 poets aged from 18 to 26 who have yet to publish their first full-length collection. It’s a coup for the editors to have found work of such potential. What is immediately striking is the extraordinary range and variety presented here, from the colloquial energy and playfulness of Ashna Sarkar (‘Trawlerman is the most southerly chippie in North Weezy / to do chips with onion gravy’) to Andrew Jamison’s mock-casual meditation on Northern Irish life (‘touching down to a province of ‘politics’ – / we’d call it something else if there was a word for it’), from Oli Hazzard’s deft Ashbery-influenced manoeuvres to Jay Bernard’s compelling ‘11.16’, which bitterly reworks graffiti in a station toilet to evoke Larkin’s famous opening lines: ‘They fuck you up the government / You may not know it but they see / That you’re a mug and so you’ll spend / Nine grand on what they got for free.’ -- Charles Bainbridge * The Guardian *The 10 Best Valentine’s gifts. Poetry is always a winner. This anthology showcases the new crop of young British poets and runs the gamut from lovey-dovey stuff to verses about technology. -- Samuel Muston * The Independent *What is most lovely to see in the Salt anthology is a wide range of well-written experimental poetry. Rachael Allen produces some stunningly controlled prose poems under that heading. Phil Brown plays with an impressive crossword poem, entitled ‘Diptych’. Amy De’Ath writes tongue-tripping poems reminiscent of free association, setting up meaningful sound echoes that work the brain and are pleasant on the ear. Witness this from ‘Poetry for Boys’. At the other end of the scale, poets such as Emily Tesh, Jack Underwood, James Brooks, Ben Wilkinson and Dai George are writing lavish, well-executed and fairly conventional lyrics that seek to communicate directly with the reader. Jack Belloli, too, wants to speak clearly, to be both accurate and resonant with language (‘Yurt’). Sarah Howe is another original. Her poems surprise and hotwire themselves into your brain as you read. -- Jane Holland * Poetry Society *The Salt Book of Younger Poets is both valuable, as an introduction to future big names and an indication of trends in the most contemporary poetry, and enjoyable, as an anthology of intelligent and energetic writing. -- Tess Somervell * Tower Poetry *The writing is assured, erudite and beautifully crafted. It is effortless to read, by which I mean that it is accessible — the poets are too good not to be clear, they do not need to impress by obfuscation and obscurity, but communicate directly, as good writing should, to the intellect, the emotions and the senses.This collection should be an inspiration to older students considering English at degree levels, and also to those who wish to write. The poets here are a demonstration of what is possible, given ‘wide-ranging, hard work and talent’, and an introduction to the ways in which new voices can be heard, not just via the excellent publication cited here, but also through websites on which writers such as these, their ideas and work in progress will be easily accessible. -- Frank Startup * School Librarian *Table of Contents Rachael Allen Daniel Barrow Jack Belloli Jay Bernard James Brookes Phil Brown Niall Campbell Kayo Chingonyi Miranda Cichy John Clegg Nia Davies Amy De’Ath Inua Ellams Charlotte Geater Tom Gilliver Dai George Emily Hasler Oli Hazzard Dan Hitchens Sarah Howe Andrew Jamison Annie Katchinska Andrew McMillan Siofra McSherry Ben Maier Laura Marsh Annabella Massey James Midgley Helen Mort Charlotte Newman Richard O’Brien Richard Osmond Vidyan Ravinthiran Sophie Robinson Charlotte Runcie Ashna Sarkar William Searle Colette Sensier Warsan Shire Lavinia Singer Adham Smart Martha Sprackland Eloise Stonborough Emily Tesh Jack Underwood Ahren Warner Ben Wilkinson Sophie Yeo
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Salt Publishing The Best British Poetry 2014
Book SynopsisThe Best British Poetry 2014 presents the finest and most engaging poems found in literary magazines and webzines over the past year. The material gathered represents the rich variety of current UK poetry. Each poem is accompanied by a note by the poet explaining the inspiration for the poem.Trade ReviewMark Ford has gathered together poems born of London, in conversation with London, in combat with London, in awe of London, most of which were first published in London, centre of print and power. Covering six and a half centuries of wandering, whoring, watching, drinking, dancing, praying, building, courting, and cursing, here can be found Wordsworth’s ‘endless stream of men and moving things’, even when, as Fleur Adcock puts it, ‘the traffic’s as abominable as ever’. Packed as the Underground, this is as essential a guide to London as the A–Z. -- Frances Wilson...the boy Ford done good, has done us proud, has played a blinder. I have never come across a London anthology... as rich, as bold, as multifarious as this... Olympic visitors should lug this brick back home for a pungent souvenir of the original "maximum city" in all it grot and grandeur... -- Boyd Tonkin * The Independent *Table of Contents Contents Foreword by Roddy Lumsden Introduction by Mark Ford Mir Mahfuz Ali MIG-21 Raids at Shegontola Rachael Allen Science and Math Robert Anthony Clouds Simon Armitage Emergency Michael Bayley Estuary Fiona Benson Toboggan Run Emily Berry Picnic Liz Berry Scenes from The Passion – The First Path Rachael Boast The North Porch Alan Brownjohn Index of First Lines Colette Bryce Don’t speak to the Brits, just pretend they don’t exist John Burnside Choir Dominic Bury A Prism of Signs Anthony Caleshu from The Victor Poems Geraldine Clarkson The thing about Grace and Laura Sophie Collins Desk Joey Connolly Chekhov’s Gun Siân Melangell Dafydd Big Cats Joe Dresner a glass of ice cold milk Laura Elliott Skype Blinks Malene Engelund The Terns Richard Evans Space Invader Ruth Fainlight The Motorway Matthew Francis Silverfish, Moth Claudia Friedrich My Disseration No Plagiarisation! Matthew Gregory A Room at the Grand Hotel des Roches Noires, 1971 David Harsent Fire: end-scenes and outtakes Lee Harwood The Oak Coffer Oli Hazzard from Within Habit Sarah Howe A loop of jade Caoilinn Hughes Bruisewort Kirsten Irving No Fish Are We Now Alan Jenkins Deptford Mimi Khalvati Bringing Down the Stars Hannah Lowe The Other Family Lydia MacPherson Lithium Lovesong Glyn Maxwell Modu and Mahu Chris McCabe The Duchess of Malfi Christopher Middleton Go With Isaac Rosenberg Andrew Motion The Mill André Naffis-Sahely Through the Rockies John North Summer Solstice, Cumbria Ruth Padel The Chain Abigail Parry Girl to Snake Christopher Riesco Caliban Life Carol Rumens Easter Snow Declan Ryan Ethiopia Shall Stretch Forth Her Hands Richard Scott Pilgrimage Ian Seed Prize-Giving Martha Sprackland ‘Dooms’ Julian Stannard September 1939 Jon Stone Endings to Adventure Gamebooks 22 Todd Swift Red Shoes George Szirtes Sealed With a Kiss Rebecca Tamás A Trip With Werner Herzog Philip Terry Inferno: Canto I Helen Tookey Fosse Way Jack Underwood Thank you for your email Mark Waldron First off, Kate Wakeling Riddle Sarah Wardle Freeman Sarah Westcott Messenger Sam Willetts Caravaggio Hugo Williams from Notes from Dialysis John Hartley Williams I Inspect the Storm William Wootten The Harvest
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Prototype Publishing Ltd. PROTOTYPE 3
Book SynopsisThe 3rd issue of Prototype’s annual anthology: a space for new work, open to all and free from formal guidelines or restrictions. Poetry, prose, visual work and experiments in between.With contributions from Rachael Allen, Campbell Andersen, Edwina Attlee, Rowland Bagnall, Tom Betteridge, Sam Buchan-Watts, Pavel Büchler, Paul Buck, Theodoros Chiotis, Natalie Crick, Raluca de Soleil, Roisin Dunnett, Maia Elsner, Yuri Felsen trans. Bryan Karetnyk, SJ Fowler, Ella Frears, Sam Fuller, James Gaywood, Chris Gutkind, J L Hall, Ziddy Ibn Sharam, Daniel Kramb, Dal Kular, Eric Langley, Neha Maqsood, Helen Marten, Lila Matsumoto, Otis Mensah, Calliope Michail, Lauren de Sá Naylor, Astra Papachristodoulou, James Conor Patterson, Oliver Sedano-Jones, Marcus Slease, Maria Sledmere, Andrew Spragg, Nick Thurston, Olly Todd, Nadia de Vries, Stephen Watts, Karen Whiteson, Frances Whorrall-Campbell, Alice Willitts, Frannie Wise and Antosh Wojcik.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Revenge Playbook
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Abrams The Summer of Impossibilities
Book SynopsisTrade Review**STARRED REVIEW** "To Allen’s credit, the story covers potentially toxic elements with grace, humor, and maturity, never getting bogged down or growing maudlin. Instead, it stays firmly rooted in the gentle affection among the characters and their sturdy humanity, which never falters." * School Library Journal *Allen's well-rounded, realistic teen characters grow throughout, and she interlaces the story with complicated relationships that reveal each character's idea of friendship. . . An engaging coming-of-age story. * Kirkus Review *The characters’ alternating first-person voices are distinctive, the writing is sharp, and messages about honesty and being oneself add ballast to this satisfying multigenerational story of four girls finding the people they need. * Publishers Weekly *
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Abrams Taxonomy of Love
Book SynopsisA YA romance that explores a relationship over six years with a sparkling commercial voice and a dash of scienceTrade Review**STARRED REVIEW** " This book is groundbreaking in its demonstration of the complexity of human emotion." * School Library Connection *In this sincerely charming account of one friendship in flux over the course of six years—eons in adolescence—the pair wrestle with their relationship. Simple summer crush? Tireless support through family strife and personal illness? Lovelorn confidante? Through sparkling prose (and Spencer’s clever doodles), Allen depicts how debasing unrequited love can feel, and just how consuming that connection can be when shared at long last. * Booklist *Allen (The Revenge Playbook) presents an honest look at adolescent attraction and life with a neurological disorder in a story populated by fully believable characters who are trying to figure out who they are and how they fit in the world. * Publishers Weekly *A multilayered and charming novel that blends humor, romance, tragedy, and other universal coming-of-age themes * School Library Journal *Hope and Spencer are realistic and experience events most teens live through. Like two orbiting planets, they are both drawn to and repulsed by each other as they age and mature . . . Light-hearted, joyful, and yet serious, it bring up topics such as suicide, mental illness, and medication research and side effects. This story, which includes interesting taxonomies, will enthrall readers, bringing them into the life of a struggling and love-ridden teen. * VOYA Magazine *There are things that happen in these pages that just gut the reader . . . There's so much emotion packed into these pages. * YA Books Central *Serve as refreshing reminders that the complexities of adolescent friendship and relationships take place in the context of whole lives, making this a pleasant change from usual teen romance fare. * The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books *
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Random House USA Inc Harley Quinn Reckoning
Book SynopsisIn this new launch of a trilogy within the DC Icons universe, experience the origin story of a Super-Villain. This is the Harley Quinn backstory fans have been waiting for.“Allen’s Harley is a fierce, righteous, brilliant, and preternaturally brace ball of chaos. I loved and feared every single minute with her.” –Dahlia Adler, author of Cool for the SummerWhen Harleen Quinzel scores an internship in a psych lab at Gotham University, she''s more than ecstatic; she''s desperate to make a Big Scientific Discovery that will land her a full-ride college scholarship and get her away from her abusive father. But when Harleen witnesses the way women are treated across STEM departments--and experiences harassment herself--she decides that revenge and justice are more important than her own dreams. Harleen finds her place in an intoxicating vigilante girl gang called the Reckoning, who creates chaos to inspire change. And when Harleen falls for another girl in the gang, it finally seems like she''s found her true passions. But what starts off as pranks and mischief quickly turns deadly as one of the gang members is found murdered--and a terrifying conspiracy is uncovered that puts the life Harleen has worked so hard for at stake. Will she choose her future--or will she choose revenge?In this refreshingly feminist spin on the story of our favorite villainess, Harley Quinn: Reckoning traces Harleen''s journey from precocious, revenge-obsessed teenage girl to a hardcore justice-seeker on her way to becoming the most captivating Super Villain of all time. This is one story that you won''t be able to put down.Trade ReviewA RISE Feminist Book Selection!"An engaging, refreshing page-turner." -Kirkus Reviews“Perfect for hard-core fans and new readers looking to fall in love with this smart, rebellious, iconic character.” –Julian Winters, Award-winning author of As You Walk On By"Maniacally plotted and diabolically feminist, Harley Quinn: Reckoning shreds misogyny with science and features a girl gang that readers won’t be able to get enough of. Every girl who’s ever been pushed aside, overlooked, or held back will root for Harleen and be clamoring for more."—Lisa Maxwell, author of the New York Times Bestselling The Last Magician series“Harley Quinn: Reckoning is a powerhouse of a villain origin story that sizzles with tension and terror, humor and heart. Allen deftly weaves weighty themes, such as sexism, classism, the way our experiences shape who we become and the way we shatter expectations, into a gripping and witty whodunit. This version of Harley Quinn is my new fave supervillain-in-the-making and I can't wait to read more!”—Gilly Segal, New York Times bestselling author of I'm Not Dying With You Tonight
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Abrams The Summer of Impossibilities
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAllen's well-rounded, realistic teen characters grow throughout, and she interlaces the story with complicated relationships that reveal each character's idea of friendship. . . An engaging coming-of-age story. * Kirkus Review ***STARRED REVIEW** "To Allen’s credit, the story covers potentially toxic elements with grace, humor, and maturity, never getting bogged down or growing maudlin. Instead, it stays firmly rooted in the gentle affection among the characters and their sturdy humanity, which never falters." * School Library Journal *The characters’ alternating first-person voices are distinctive, the writing is sharp, and messages about honesty and being oneself add ballast to this satisfying multigenerational story of four girls finding the people they need. * Publishers Weekly *
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Random House USA Inc Harley Quinn Reckoning
Book SynopsisIn this new launch of a trilogy within the DC Icons universe, experience the origin story of a Super-Villain. This is the Harley Quinn backstory fans have been waiting for.“Allen’s Harley is a fierce, righteous, brilliant, and preternaturally brace ball of chaos. I loved and feared every single minute with her.” –Dahlia Adler, author of Cool for the SummerWhen Harleen Quinzel scores an internship in a psych lab at Gotham University, she's more than ecstatic; she's desperate to make a Big Scientific Discovery that will land her a full-ride college scholarship and get her away from her abusive father. But when Harleen witnesses the way women are treated across STEM departments--and experiences harassment herself--she decides that revenge and justice are more important than her own dreams. Harleen finds her place in an intoxicating vigilante girl gang called the Reckoning, who creates chaos to inspire ch
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