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“geoffrey becker”

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  • Black Elvis

    Stories

    by Geoffrey Becker ...
    Series series
    In this funny, touching collection about music, identity, liars, and love, Geoffrey Becker brings us into the lives of people who have come to a turning point and lets us watch as they take, however clumsily, their next steps.In the title story, an aging black singer who performs only Elvis songs despite his classic bluesman looks has his regular spot at the local blues jam threatened by a newly ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Dangerous Men

    by Geoffrey Becker ...
    Series series
    Geoffrey Becker's Dangerous Men was selected by Charles Baxter as the winner of the fifteenth annual Drue Heinz Literature Prize. His manuscript was selected from nearly three hundred submitted by published writers.In these tightly drafted stories, Becker creates a wide variety of distinct voices, peculiar characters, and odd stettings, with tantalizing emphasis on lonliness, loss, and the ever ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • A Perfect Souvenir

    Stories about Travel from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction

    by Gail Galloway Adams, Geoffrey Becker, Daniel Curley, Philip F. Deaver, Dennis Hathaway, Mary Hood, Tom Kealey, Peter LaSalle, E. J. Levy, Susan Neville, Dianne Nelson Oberhansly, Lori Ostlund, Anne Panning, Melissa Pritchard, Margot Singer, Sandra Thompson ...
    Series series
    Travel, and the exhilarating experiences it offers us, is the shared concern of these stories, which have been chosen from among the hundreds that have appeared in the prestigious Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction series.More than seventy volumes, which include approximately eight hundred stories, have won the Flannery O'Connor Award. This stunning trove of always engaging, often ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Climate Change and Resilience in Indiana and Beyond

    by Janet G. McCabe, Gabriel M. Filippelli, Kimberly A. Novick, James Shanahan, Eva Sanders Allen, Lingxi Chenyang1, Jeffrey S. Dukes2, Melissa Widhalm3, Ben Kravitz4, Douglas Edmonds5, Chanh Kieu6, Travis A. O'Brien7, Scott Robeson8, Paul Staten9, Brian Yanites0, Chen Zhu1, Sarah Mincey2, Rebecca Lave3, John Baeten4, Justin Maxwell5, Richard Phillips6, Ellen D. Ketterson7, Daniel Becker8, Geoffrey Brown9, Allison Byrd0, Keith Clay1, Adam Fudickar2, Matthew Houser3, Alex Jahn4, Jennifer Ann Lau5, Sarah Wanamaker6, James Robert Farmer7, Elizabeth Grennan Browning8, Heather L. Reynolds9, Samantha L. Hamlin0, Dana Habeeb1, Jeffrey S. Wilson2, Daniel Myers3, Eric Sandweiss4, Beth Edwards5, Nathan Geiger6, Andrea Webster7, David M. Konisky8, Nikolaos Zirogiannis9, Sanya Carley0 ...
    Climate change is affecting Indiana's environment, threatening the way Hoosiers live and do business, and introducing new stresses to the state's economy, health, and infrastructure. And while scientists predict more days of extreme weather, increased public health risks, and reduced agricultural production in the coming years, Hoosiers still have a substantial say in determining their future ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

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  • All We Can Save

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    Edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson ...
    Series series One World Essentials
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  • I Hate Everyone...Starting with Me

    by Joan Rivers ...
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  • The Secrets You Keep

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  • The Story of Stuff

    How Our Obsession with Stuff Is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health-and a Vision for Change

    by Annie Leonard ...
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  • My First Five Husbands...And the Ones Who Got Away

    A Memoir

    by Rue McClanahan ...
    Rue McClanahan, best known for her portrayal of Blanche Devereaux on the Emmy-award winning series The Golden Girls reveals her life in and out of the spotlight in a laugh-out-loud funny memoir about love, marriage, men, and getting older that is every bit as colorful as the characters she played.Raised in small-town Oklahoma in a house “thirteen telephone poles past the standpipe north of town,” ... Read more

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  • Cradle to Cradle

    Remaking the Way We Make Things

    by William McDonough, Michael Braungart ...
    A manifesto for a radically different philosophy and practice of manufacture and environmentalism"Reduce, reuse, recycle" urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. But as this provocative, visionary book argues, this approach perpetuates a one-way, "cradle to grave" manufacturing model that dates to the Industrial Revolution and casts off as much as 90 ... Read more

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