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Praise for Mary Malloy’s work: “A tour de force—fascinating, highly readable, and meticulously researched.”—Nathaniel Philbrick “Meticulously researched and engagingly written.”—Seattle Times “In the tradition of Byatt’s Possession, Malloy’s debut novel is a complex and masterfully woven tale that will keep readers up far into the night.”—Caroline Preston, author of Jackie by Josie and Gatsby’s Girl Historian Lizzie Manning didn’t set out to become a sleuth, and she had no intention of becoming personally involved in a medieval mystery. Her expertise lay in eighteenth-century maritime voyages, and her assignment was to find a Tlingit Indian corpse robbed from its grave two hundred years ago during Captain Cook’s Pacific voyage. First accident, then compulsion, pull her deeper into the past, through thirty generations of one British family. Lizzie’s sources aren’t fingerprints and firearms, but documents, artifacts, paintings, architecture, and even the landscape—though modern forensic science helps clarify what happened to a few ancient corpses. Lizzie’s work takes on personal meaning as she is drawn into her own family’s history of insanity and a search for a Crusader’s disembodied heart. As with Elizabeth Peters’ Amelia Peabody and Amanda Cross’ Kate Fansler, Mary Malloy creates a heroine who is a respected scholar in her field, and who draws on her expertise to solve the mysteries that come her way. Mary Malloy, PhD, is the author of four maritime history books. She is a professor of maritime history at Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and of museum studies at Harvard University.

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Praise for Mary Malloy's The Wandering Heart:"An impressive fiction debut. . . . Malloy mixes history and fantasy with flair and delivers a wonderfully satisfying puzzler."—Publishers Weekly"A fabulous thriller. . . . A modern psychological tale with strong implications of horror."—MBR The Bookwatch"Mystery à la Gothic. . . . Historian Malloy does her research proud."—Mystery SceneThe second book in the Lizzie Manning trilogy. Following the path of a medieval pilgrimage, historian Lizzie Manning finds unexpected danger. Chaucer may have based his Wife of Bath on a real woman, whose descendant holds certain artifacts, but will the investigation lead to something more sinister? Are the bones of St. Thomas Becket, believed to have been destroyed nearly six hundred years ago, hidden in Canterbury Cathedral, and is someone willing to kill to protect the secret?Mary Malloy is the author of four maritime history books, including Devil on the Deep Blue Sea, which won the 2006 John Lyman Book Award for best maritime biography. Her first historical mystery The Wandering Heart introduced historian Lizzie Manning. Malloy has a PhD from Brown University and teaches maritime history at the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and Museum Studies at Harvard University.

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Winner of the 2010 Leapfrog Fiction Contest. «Excellent and lively. A sharp wit, the apt metaphor, the turn of phrase that pleases and surprises.»—Marge Piercy, contest judge «Bright, brassy, spunky, intelligent. Ingenious writing. . . . Quirky and filled with metaphoric twists that often startle.»—Michael Mirolla, contest judge «Smart, funny, biting, and, above all, touching. A collection to savor over and over.»—Michael White, author of Beautiful Assassin Praise for Joan Connor's previous collections: «Brilliantly quirky wit and wordplay.»—Syndey Lea, author of A Little Wilderness «A deeply talented writer.»—Alyce Miller, author of Water «Candor, bracing wit, and skewering insight that could kill if she let it.»—Rosellen Brown, author of Half a Heart Joan Connor's collection investigates love and loss, sex, family, and the ways they echo back through memory, sometimes to comfort and sometimes to bite. Some comic, some dark, the stories range from lyrical to laugh-out-loud funny. The title story is a mock self-help manual on how to fall out of love. «Men in Brown» is a rollicking account of a woman infatuated with her UPS man. «Aground» is a dark account of male lust and violence on a lonely island in Maine. Joan Connor is a professor at Ohio University and at Fairfield University's low residency MFA program. She received the AWP award for her collection History Lessons, and the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize for The World Before Mirrors. Her two earlier collections are We Who Live Apart and Here on Old Route 7.

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Mr. Turbulent (1682) is an anonymous city comedy which starred popular comic actors and young actresses of great appeal. The play was produced in the immediate aftermath of the Exclusion Crisis. This first-ever critical edition offers a fully annotated modernized version of the text, together with an introduction that examines the contexts of the play. The editor also discusses at length such topics as the political dimension of the Moorfields setting and the green spaces of Restoration London. He examines as well the rethorical use of madness associated with the Bedlam hospital for the insane, the other pivotal cityscape setting in the comedy.

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When the Bloomsbury critics Roger Fry and Clive Bell introduced an aesthetically conservative English public to recent Parisian avant-garde painting, they explained its disconcerting imagery by way of a late nineteenth-century metaphysical tradition which had long intrigued musicians and Symbolist writers on the European continent. The Post-Impressionist aesthetic they devised advocated a direct response to the formal ingenuity of the work of art without recourse to prior knowledge and emphasized the significance of visionary genius, albeit to the detriment of narrative acuity and technical accomplishment, values hitherto upheld by the Edwardian art establishment. The provocation was calculated, the author suggests, and its domestic ramifications were predictable: the reaction of an Anglo-conformist public in New York, on the other hand, was anything but. Recreating an Anglo-American dialogue inspired by Fry and Bell, and framed within a period encompassing Fry’s Manet and the Post-Impressionists exhibition in 1910 and Alfred Barr Jr’s Cubism and Abstract Art exhibition in 1936, the author demonstrates how key components of Bloomsbury’s aesthetic bypassed a pre-existent modernist practice in New York and were instead taken up by an urban intelligentsia which adapted them to the requirements of an increasingly professionalized institutional practice during the 1920s.

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Pictured on the cover, in his younger, more athletic years before he ventured into stand-up comedy and literally tried his hand at writing, Jon D. Webster is seen sporting the coveted green jacket awarded to all Masters Tournament winners. He was the youngest champion on record and per his request, the first in the tournament's history and quite possibly the last to celebrate his win with a Mickey Mouse balloon.
As for the content of this book, here is a sneak preview. As Shang Tsung said in Mortal Kombat. «And now for a taste of things to come.»
I'm an incurable insomniac. I like to say that sleep and I have a strained relationship. In the evening she plays hard to get and in the morning she's clingy. I actually have to take prescription sleeping pills in order to fall asleep. On my bottle of prescription sleeping pills, there is a warning label which says «May cause drowsiness.» No. It had better cause drowsiness. That's what I'm paying for.
Frequently, on the interstate, I will see signs that say «Expect potholes. Use caution.» I think they need to replace those signs with what they really want to say. They need to put up some signs which say «We really fucking don't feel like fixing the road.»
Recently, someone I know moved into a new house. When they moved in, there was a sticker on the front door which said «This property protected by angels.» Not ADT. Not a home security system. Angels. I told them I think they need to remove that sticker because nothing makes a would-be robber say «We're gonna rob this place» quicker than a sticker that says «This property protected by angels.»
Jon has written for outlets such as the Modesto Atheism Examiner, Guardian Liberty Voice, Unreal News, and Back Room Knox and has been featured on The Pink Atheist, Road to Reason, Freethought Forum, The Freethought Radio Hour, Atheist Analysis, and Reason TV. Jon has a Bachelor of Science in Theatre and Communication Arts and is working on a Masters Degree in Applied Psychology. He is the author of Nothing Sacred: An Atheist Quote-A-Day Calendar, Blasphemy: Atheist Quotes and Essays By An Apostate, Unreal News: A Collection of Satire, and 10 Decisions I Could Have Made Better Than God: And Other Audacious Atheist Articles, all of which can be purchased through Fastpencil.com.

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What if someone told you that they had come up with 10 alternatives to some of God's decisions that were more efficient, caused less harm, and in general, were more loving than the 10 decisions God had supposedly made? What if you were told that you could too? In this book, that topic is covered as the author provides entertaining analysis, satire, and criticism of a so-called perfect book while making fun of religion in a way that would make even the most fervent religious zealot laugh.
As for the cover. Yes. You read that correctly. David Mills, the author of Atheist Universe said of this book «This is the greatest thing I have ever seen.» Other feedback on many other articles contained within the pages of this book include «This is gold.» «Love love love this!» “Brilliant!” “Wow… just wow!” “Thank you for that! I never thought of it that way!” “Clever.” “Very interesting!” “Wow. I have read the Bible, and never looked at it like that before.” “Very insightful!” «This is amazing. I read it like 4 times. Love at first sight.» «Oh, that is good.» “Genius!” How will you react to this book? Flip through the first few pages and see for yourself. Note: If you are viewing this book online, there should be a preview function you can use to check it out.
As far as the content is concerned, this book has everything: atheist satire (one of which is entitled Joel Osteen Hospitalized After Smiling So Big He Broke His Face), atheist poetry (including a tribute to Christopher Hitchens entitled Tonight I Drink Johnnie Walker Black), critiques of Christian films such as God's Not Dead, Left Behind, Persecuted, and Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas. Included in this work are four passages that each won first place in an atheist quote submission contest. There were around 60 competing entries total in each competition. In this book you will find interviews with prominent atheists such as Camels with Hammers' Philosopher Dr. Daniel Fincke and the founder of Global Secular Humanist Movement, Faisal Saeed Al Mutar as well as a song about the ineptitude of Ray Comfort entitled «Google that Shit!» What more could you ask for? Buy one for yourself. Buy one for a friend. Hell, buy a whole bunch and stock hotel rooms with them like the Gideons do with the Bible.
Jon is also the author of three other books as well. Nothing Sacred: An Atheist Quote-A-Day Calendar, Blasphemy: Atheist Quotes and Essays By An Apostate, and Unreal News: A Collection of Satire can be purchased through FastPencil.com. Jon has written for Guardian Liberty Voice, Unreal News Online, and wrote for four and a half years for the Modesto Atheism Examiner. He has been featured on and interviewed by The Pink Atheist, Freethought Forum, Atheist Analysis, and Reason TV. He has a Bachelor of Science in Theatre and Communication Arts and is working on a Masters Degree in Applied Psychology. Jon hopes you get as much enjoyment out of reading this book as he did writing it.

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"Hilarious!" «Funny stuff!» «That's funny!» These are just some of the reviews of the contents of this book. The title of the original site to which many of these articles were published was Unreal News Online. Its tagline was «We write the news stories you won't hear about anywhere else. You can make this stuff up; because we did.» The site description reads «Some people look at the way things are and ask why. Some people dream of things that never were and ask why not. I think of things that could be and make them funny. My name is Jon Webster and I’m a satirical writer.» This, however, did not stop some people from believing some stories to be true. One even received over 118,000 views in one day, over 10,000 shares on Facebook, and 671 tweets on Twitter. In this book, you will find out the true meaning of the Bible verse which reads, «Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind.» As you read the pages of this book, you will come across a parody of Bruce Springsteen's Fire about how much Mitt Romney likes to fire people, an announcement of the next book in Bill O'Reilly's «Killing» series entitled Killing Tupac, how the equality signs on people's Facebook profiles confused prominent Republicans, the recall of a male enhancement product called «Bee» Massive which used live bee venom to sting, inflame, and enlarge men's penises, and over 130 more satirical articles! Jon began writing satire in March of 2013. He would go on to write satire for the Guardian Express – Las Vegas as well. Over half of the articles in this book are being published for the first time and can only be seen in this collection! Jon Webster is the published author of two other books as well. Nothing Sacred: An Atheist Quote-A-Day Calendar and Blasphemy: Atheist Quotes and Essays by an Apostate can also be purchased through FastPencil.com, Amazon.com, and BarnesandNoble.com

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• World premiere in 2014 at Soho Rep (New York, Off-Broadway). Production sold out, extended, and was met with rave reviews. • Shared the 2014 Obie Award for Best New American Play with Appropriate, also written by Jacobs-Jenkins. • Based on An Octoroon, an 1859 melodrama by Irish writer Dion Boucicault. • Should be of interest to academic audiences interested in investigating race, ethnicity, discrimination and stereotypes. • Jacobs-Jenkins, 30 years old, is a rising star among young playwrights. • Appropriate premiered in 2012 at the Humana Festival of New American Plays (Actors Theatre of Louisville, Kentucky). It has also been produced at Victory Gardens Theatre (Chicago), Woolly Mammoth Theater (Washington DC), and Signature Theatre (New York, Off-Broadway)• Jacobs-Jenkins is one of the Residency Five playwrights at Signature Theatre. As part of the residency, Signature Theatre will mount three full productions of his work.• Upcoming productions of new plays include War at Yale Repertory Theater in New Haven, CT (fall 2014) and Gloria; or Ambition at Vineyard Theatre in New York (Off-Broadway, spring 2015).• Past productions also include Neighbors at The Public Theater (2010)

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No one in their right mind travels across Siberia in the middle of winter in a modified Russian jeep, with only a CD player (which breaks on the first day) for company. But Jacek Hugo-Bader is no ordinary traveler. As a fiftieth birthday present to himself, he sets out to drive from Moscow to Vladivostok, traversing a continent that is two and a half times bigger than America, awash with bandits, and not always fully equipped with roads. But if his mission sounds deranged it is in keeping with the land he is visiting. For Siberia is slowly dying — or, more accurately, killing itself. This is a traumatized post-Communist landscape peopled by the homeless and the hopeless: alcoholism is endemic, as are suicides, murders, and deaths from AIDS . As he gets to know these communities and speaks to the people, Hugo-Bader discovers a great deal of tragedy, but there is also dark humor to be found amongst the reindeer shepherds, the former hippies, the modern-day rappers, the homeless and the sick, the shamans, and the followers of ‘one of the six Russian Christs,’ just one of the many arcane religions that flourish in this isolated, impossible region.

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