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Searching for Harold

One Family's World War II Story in Letters

by Stephen Watts ...

Narrated by Auto Narrated ...

Series Audiobook 2 - Voices of American Legacy
Unabridged

7 hours 11 min

For a family separated by war but united through mail, what happens if the letters stop?Some families carry a name no one fully explains. A box of letters passed down without instructions. A silence that settles at the edge of every war story. Searching for Harold is built from exactly that silence. When the author inherits his father's genealogical archives, he discovers a family waiting to be ... Read more

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For a family separated by war but united through mail, what happens if the letters stop?Some families carry a name no one fully explains. A box of letters passed down without instructions. A silence that settles at the edge of every war story. Searching for Harold is built from exactly that silence. When the author inherits his father's genealogical archives, he discovers a family waiting to be
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Neanderthal Seeks Extra Yarns

by Penny Reid ...

Narrated by Jennifer Grace, Sebastian Yorke, Joy Nash, Will Watt, Stephen Dexter, Angela Dawe, Devra Woodward, Zachary Webber ...

Series Audiobook 8 - Knitting in the City Series
Unabridged

6 hours 34 min

From the New York Times Bestselling Author Penny ReidA comprehensive collection of all short stories, deleted scenes, and special features from the Knitting in the City series. ... Read more

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From the New York Times Bestselling Author Penny ReidA comprehensive collection of all short stories, deleted scenes, and special features from the Knitting in the City series.
... Read more
Searching for Harold

One Family's World War II Story in Letters

by Stephen Watts ...

Series series Voices of American Legacy
For a family separated by war but united through mail, what happens if the letters stop?Some families carry a name no one fully explains. A box of letters passed down without instructions. A silence that settles at the edge of every war story. Searching for Harold is built from exactly that silence. When the author inherits his father's genealogical archives, he discovers a family waiting to be ... Read more

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For a family separated by war but united through mail, what happens if the letters stop?Some families carry a name no one fully explains. A box of letters passed down without instructions. A silence that settles at the edge of every war story. Searching for Harold is built from exactly that silence. When the author inherits his father's genealogical archives, he discovers a family waiting to be
... Read more

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Searching for Charles

The Untold Legacy of an Immigrant's American Adventure

by Stephen Watts ...

Series series Voices of American Legacy
An inherited family tree project. A trail of old letters. A decades-long obsession.What began as a simple search for family roots transformed into an exhaustive hunt through microfilm, property deeds, and remote cemeteries. It all led to one pivotal moment: the sound of a metal rod striking buried granite. But the biggest surprise was yet to come.Charles Watts was one of millions of working-class ... Read more

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An inherited family tree project. A trail of old letters. A decades-long obsession.What began as a simple search for family roots transformed into an exhaustive hunt through microfilm, property deeds, and remote cemeteries. It all led to one pivotal moment: the sound of a metal rod striking buried granite. But the biggest surprise was yet to come.Charles Watts was one of millions of working-class
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Searching for Charles

The Untold Legacy of an Immigrant's American Adventure

by Stephen Watts ...

Narrated by Synthesized Voices ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Voices of American Legacy
Unabridged

26 hours 2 min

An inherited family tree project. A trail of old letters. A decades-long obsession.What began as a simple search for family roots transformed into an exhaustive hunt through microfilm, property deeds, and remote cemeteries. It all led to one pivotal moment: the sound of a metal rod striking buried granite. But the biggest surprise was yet to come.Charles Watts was one of millions of working-class ... Read more

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Also available as: eBook

An inherited family tree project. A trail of old letters. A decades-long obsession.What began as a simple search for family roots transformed into an exhaustive hunt through microfilm, property deeds, and remote cemeteries. It all led to one pivotal moment: the sound of a metal rod striking buried granite. But the biggest surprise was yet to come.Charles Watts was one of millions of working-class
... Read more

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The Worlds of John Wick

The Year's Work at the Continental Hotel

Edited by Caitlin G. Watt, Stephen Watt ...

Series series The Year's Work
Each John Wick film has earned more money and recognition than its predecessor, defying the conventional wisdom about the box office's action movie landscape, normally dominated by superhero movies and science fiction epics.As The Worlds of John Wick explores, the worldbuilding of John Wick offers thrills that you simply can't find anywhere else. The franchise's plot combines familiar elements ... Read more

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Each John Wick film has earned more money and recognition than its predecessor, defying the conventional wisdom about the box office's action movie landscape, normally dominated by superhero movies and science fiction epics.As The Worlds of John Wick explores, the worldbuilding of John Wick offers thrills that you simply can't find anywhere else. The franchise's plot combines familiar elements
... Read more
From the ‘Troubles’ to Trumpism

Ireland and America, 1960–2023

by Stephen Watt ...

In Shakespeare Our Contemporary (1964), Polish critic Jan Kott defines one purpose of scholarship in the humanities that summarises the chief aim of this project: ‘The writing of history and, above all, literary criticism can, and must, always be understood as an attempt to find in the past aspects of human experience that can shed light on the meaning of our own times’. That is precisely what ... Read more

$31.49 USD

In Shakespeare Our Contemporary (1964), Polish critic Jan Kott defines one purpose of scholarship in the humanities that summarises the chief aim of this project: ‘The writing of history and, above all, literary criticism can, and must, always be understood as an attempt to find in the past aspects of human experience that can shed light on the meaning of our own times’. That is precisely what
... Read more
The Year's Work at the Zombie Research Center

by Stephen Watt, Dan Hassler-Forest, Erik Bohman, Stephen Shapiro, Jack Raglin, Atia Sattar, Seth Morton, Andrea Ruthven, Tatjana Soldat-Jaffe, John Gibson, Jonathan P. Eburne, Stephen Schneider, Jeffrey T. Nealon ...

Series series The Year's Work: Studies in Fan Culture and Cultural Theory
"Playful and (un)deadly serious . . . chew[s] through a near-exhaustive array of films, television, literature, culture, music and even cocktails."— Times Literary SupplementThey have stalked the horizons of our culture, wreaked havoc on moribund concepts of dead and not dead, threatened our sense of identity, and endangered our personal safety. Now zombies have emerged from the lurking shadows of ... Read more

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"Playful and (un)deadly serious . . . chew[s] through a near-exhaustive array of films, television, literature, culture, music and even cocktails."— Times Literary SupplementThey have stalked the horizons of our culture, wreaked havoc on moribund concepts of dead and not dead, threatened our sense of identity, and endangered our personal safety. Now zombies have emerged from the lurking shadows of
... Read more
Get Started in Writing a Novel

How to write your first novel and create fantastic characters, dialogues and plot

by Nigel Watts, Stephen May, Jodie Daber ...

LEARN HOW TO WRITE YOUR FIRST NOVEL WITH THIS COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE.This new edition of an acclaimed guide to writing a novel helps you if you are just at the very beginning of your writing journey, showing you how to gain confidence and find inspiration. A classic book that has supported thousands of authors over the years, it contains a wealth of information on how to structure, craft and develop ... Read more

$2.99 USD

LEARN HOW TO WRITE YOUR FIRST NOVEL WITH THIS COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE.This new edition of an acclaimed guide to writing a novel helps you if you are just at the very beginning of your writing journey, showing you how to gain confidence and find inspiration. A classic book that has supported thousands of authors over the years, it contains a wealth of information on how to structure, craft and develop
... Read more
"Something Dreadful and Grand"

American Literature and The Irish-Jewish Unconscious

by Stephen Watt ...

Elaborate analogies between Irish and Jewish history, between Irish and Jewish subjectivities, occur with surprising frequency throughout American literature. They recall James Joyce's Leopold Bloom and episodes of Ulysses, Douglas Hyde's analogies during the Celtic Revival between learning Hebrew and learning Irish, and a myriad of claims of an unusual relationship between these peoples that goes ... Read more

$67.49 USD

Elaborate analogies between Irish and Jewish history, between Irish and Jewish subjectivities, occur with surprising frequency throughout American literature. They recall James Joyce's Leopold Bloom and episodes of Ulysses, Douglas Hyde's analogies during the Celtic Revival between learning Hebrew and learning Irish, and a myriad of claims of an unusual relationship between these peoples that goes
... Read more
Marketing Modernisms

Self-Promotion, Canonization, Rereading

Edited by Kevin J. H. Dettmar, Stephen Myers Watt ...

Rarely have genres of literary expression been looked upon or read as commodities within a market system; we tend to think of our literature as "pure," untainted by any interaction with the world of commerce. Critical accounts of modernism are frequently theorized across the divide between the project itself and the larger marketplace, the world of consumption. Marketing Modernisms calls into ... Read more

$53.99 USD

Rarely have genres of literary expression been looked upon or read as commodities within a market system; we tend to think of our literature as "pure," untainted by any interaction with the world of commerce. Critical accounts of modernism are frequently theorized across the divide between the project itself and the larger marketplace, the world of consumption. Marketing Modernisms calls into
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Bernard Shaw’s Fiction, Material Psychology, and Affect

Shaw, Freud, Simmel

by Stephen Watt ...

Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
This book traces the effects of materiality - including money and its opposite, poverty - on the psychical lives of George Bernard Shaw and his characters. While this study focuses on the protagonists of the five novels Shaw wrote in the late 1870s and early 1880s, it also explores how materialism, feeling, and emotion are linked throughout his entire canon. At the same time, it demonstrates how ... Read more

$28.49 USD

This book traces the effects of materiality - including money and its opposite, poverty - on the psychical lives of George Bernard Shaw and his characters. While this study focuses on the protagonists of the five novels Shaw wrote in the late 1870s and early 1880s, it also explores how materialism, feeling, and emotion are linked throughout his entire canon. At the same time, it demonstrates how
... Read more

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