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A Cage Went in Search of a Bird

Ten Kafkaesque Stories

by Ali Smith, Tommy Orange, Naomi Alderman, Helen Oyeyemi, Keith Ridgway, Yiyun Li, Charlie Kaufman, Elif Batuman, Leone Ross, Joshua Cohen ...

'Kafka himself would love it' The i'As captivating as it is thought-provoking' Glamour'Unsettling and uneasy' Daily Mail'Glorious' Harper's BazaarA collection of brand-new short stories written by major international writers and inspired by KafkaWhat happens when Kafka's idionsyncratic imagination meets some of the greatest literary minds writing in E... ... Read more

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'Kafka himself would love it' The i'As captivating as it is thought-provoking' Glamour'Unsettling and uneasy' Daily Mail'Glorious' Harper's BazaarA collection of brand-new short stories written by major international writers and inspired by KafkaWhat happens when Kafka's idionsyncratic imagination meets some of the greatest literary minds writing in E...
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The Health Care Setting As A Context for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse

A Special Issue of children's Health Care

Edited by Keith L. Kaufman ...

This special issue was designed to explore the role of health care professionals in the assessment, treatment, and prevention of child maltreatment. The initial five articles were solicited to enhance our understanding of various forms of child maltreatment as well as approaches designed to effectively respond to this difficult problem. The final manuscripts in this issue represent a theoretical ... Read more

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This special issue was designed to explore the role of health care professionals in the assessment, treatment, and prevention of child maltreatment. The initial five articles were solicited to enhance our understanding of various forms of child maltreatment as well as approaches designed to effectively respond to this difficult problem. The final manuscripts in this issue represent a theoretical
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Protecting Children and Adults from Abuse After Savile

What Organisations and Institutions Need to Do

by Anne-Marie McAlinden, Ethel Quayle, Karen Baker, Joan Tabachnick, Jon Brown, Peter Spindler, Joanne Durkin, Jane Wonnacott, Hilary Shaw, Jane Foster, Alice Cave, Adele Eastman, David Smellie, Maria Strauss, Keith Kaufman ...

The high profile reporting of child sexual abuse carried out by Jimmy Savile over decades has had far reaching-consequences, raising public awareness and concern, yet we continue to uncover new cases of institutional abuse which have been taking place under the radar for years.This book distils the learning from 80+ public inquiries relating to Savile as well as related cases of institutional ... Read more

$49.49 CAD

The high profile reporting of child sexual abuse carried out by Jimmy Savile over decades has had far reaching-consequences, raising public awareness and concern, yet we continue to uncover new cases of institutional abuse which have been taking place under the radar for years.This book distils the learning from 80+ public inquiries relating to Savile as well as related cases of institutional
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Drunken Angel

by Alan Kaufman ...

Narrated by Keith Szarabajka ...

Unabridged

12 hours 2 min

Alan Kaufman recounts with unvarnished honesty the story of the alcoholism that took him to the brink of death, the post-traumatic stress disorder that drove him to the edge of madness, and the love that brought him back. Son of a French Holocaust survivor, Kaufman was a drinker so mauled by his indulgences that it is a marvel he hung on long enough to get into recovery. With his estranged ... Read more

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Alan Kaufman recounts with unvarnished honesty the story of the alcoholism that took him to the brink of death, the post-traumatic stress disorder that drove him to the edge of madness, and the love that brought him back. Son of a French Holocaust survivor, Kaufman was a drinker so mauled by his indulgences that it is a marvel he hung on long enough to get into recovery. With his estranged
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A Cage Went in Search of a Bird

Ten Kafkaesque Stories

by Ali Smith, Tommy Orange, Naomi Alderman, Helen Oyeyemi, Keith Ridgway, Yiyun Li, Charlie Kaufman, Elif Batuman, Leone Ross, Joshua Cohen ...

Narrated by Jessica Hayles, Minhee Yeo, Penelope Rawlins, Matt Reeves ...

Unabridged

5 hours 14 min

A collection of brand-new short stories written by prize-winning, bestselling writers and inspired by Kafka - published to commemorate the centenary of his death*Chosen as a 2024 highlight in the Guardian, the Financial Times, the Daily Mail, New Statesman, Esquire and the New European*Franz Kafka is widely regarded as one of the great geniuses of twentieth-century literature. What happe... ... Read more

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A collection of brand-new short stories written by prize-winning, bestselling writers and inspired by Kafka - published to commemorate the centenary of his death*Chosen as a 2024 highlight in the Guardian, the Financial Times, the Daily Mail, New Statesman, Esquire and the New European*Franz Kafka is widely regarded as one of the great geniuses of twentieth-century literature. What happe...
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Psalms For The End Of The World

the 'mind-bendingly clever and utterly gripping' genre-breaking thriller

by Cole Haddon ...

Narrated by Vaughn Johseph ...

Unabridged

17 hours 24 min

It's 1962 and physics student Grace Pulansky believes she has met the man of her dreams, Robert Jones, while serving up slices of pecan pie at the local diner. But then the FBI shows up, with their fedoras and off-the-rack business suits, and accuses him of being a bomb-planting mass-murderer.Finding herself on the run with Jones across America's Southwest, the discoveries awaiting Gracie will ... Read more

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It's 1962 and physics student Grace Pulansky believes she has met the man of her dreams, Robert Jones, while serving up slices of pecan pie at the local diner. But then the FBI shows up, with their fedoras and off-the-rack business suits, and accuses him of being a bomb-planting mass-murderer.Finding herself on the run with Jones across America's Southwest, the discoveries awaiting Gracie will
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Weekends at Bellevue

by Julie Holland ...

Narrated by Julie Holland ...

Unabridged

10 hours 53 min

Julie Holland thought she knew what crazy was. Then she came to Bellevue. For nine eventful years, Dr. Holland was the weekend physician in charge of Bellevue's psychiatric emergency room. Deciding who gets locked up and who gets talked down would be an awesome responsibility for most people. For her, it was just another day at the office...In an absorbing memoir laced with humor, Holland provides ... Read more

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Julie Holland thought she knew what crazy was. Then she came to Bellevue. For nine eventful years, Dr. Holland was the weekend physician in charge of Bellevue's psychiatric emergency room. Deciding who gets locked up and who gets talked down would be an awesome responsibility for most people. For her, it was just another day at the office...In an absorbing memoir laced with humor, Holland provides
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Gone Girl

A Novel

by Gillian Flynn ...

Narrated by Julia Whelan, Kirby Heyborne ...

Unabridged

19 hours 57 min

**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “mercilessly entertaining” (Vanity Fair) instant classic “about the nature of identity and the terrible secrets that can survive and thrive in even the most intimate relationships” (Lev Grossman, Time “One of the Best Books of the Decade”)—now featuring never-before-published deleted scenesONE OF TIME'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME, ONE OF ... Read more

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**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “mercilessly entertaining” (Vanity Fair) instant classic “about the nature of identity and the terrible secrets that can survive and thrive in even the most intimate relationships” (Lev Grossman, Time “One of the Best Books of the Decade”)—now featuring never-before-published deleted scenesONE OF TIME'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME, ONE OF
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Assembly

by Natasha Brown ...

This visionary and unflinching novel is about a black woman who has spent her life carefully navigating cutthroat worlds of privilege in her career and relationships—until one day she is pulled up short by a life and death decision.Come of age in the credit crunch. Be civil in a hostile environment. Go to college, get an education, start a career. Do all the right things. Buy an apartment. Buy art ... Read more

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This visionary and unflinching novel is about a black woman who has spent her life carefully navigating cutthroat worlds of privilege in her career and relationships—until one day she is pulled up short by a life and death decision.Come of age in the credit crunch. Be civil in a hostile environment. Go to college, get an education, start a career. Do all the right things. Buy an apartment. Buy art
... Read more

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A New New Me

A Novel

by Helen Oyeyemi ...

From the award-winning, bestselling “literary pied piper” (The New York Times Book Review) who brought us Boy, Snow, Bird and Gingerbread comes a charmingly surreal novel about self-sabotage, self-deception, self-love—and the many selves inside us sparring for control.Kinga is a woman who is just trying to make it through the week.There’s a Kinga for every day: on Mondays, you can catch Kinga A ... Read more

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From the award-winning, bestselling “literary pied piper” (The New York Times Book Review) who brought us Boy, Snow, Bird and Gingerbread comes a charmingly surreal novel about self-sabotage, self-deception, self-love—and the many selves inside us sparring for control.Kinga is a woman who is just trying to make it through the week.There’s a Kinga for every day: on Mondays, you can catch Kinga A
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Isolation: The horror anthology

by M.R. Carey, Ken Liu, Paul Tremblay, Tim Lebbon, Joe R. Lansdale, Lisa Tuttle, Michael Marshall Smith, Nina Allan, Laird Barron, A. G. Slatter, Mark Morris, Jonathan Maberry, Ramsey Campbell, Alison Littlewood ...

Paul Tremblay, Ramsey Campbell, and other modern masters of horror explore just how scary it is to be alone in this horror anthology featuring 20 horror short stories.Lost in the wilderness, or alone in the dark, isolation remains one of our deepest held fears. This horror anthology from Shirley Jackson and British Fantasy Award finalist Dan Coxon calls on leading horror writers to confront the ... Read more

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Paul Tremblay, Ramsey Campbell, and other modern masters of horror explore just how scary it is to be alone in this horror anthology featuring 20 horror short stories.Lost in the wilderness, or alone in the dark, isolation remains one of our deepest held fears. This horror anthology from Shirley Jackson and British Fantasy Award finalist Dan Coxon calls on leading horror writers to confront the
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Nagasaki

by Eric Faye ...

Translated by Emily Boyce ...

In a house on a suburban street in Nagasaki, meteorologist Shimura Kobo lives quietly on his own. Or so he believes.Food begins to go missing. Perturbed by this threat to his orderly life, Shimura sets up a webcam to monitor his home.But though eager to identify his intruder, is Shimura really prepared for what the camera will reveal?Based on real-life events, this prize-winning novel is a moving ... Read more

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In a house on a suburban street in Nagasaki, meteorologist Shimura Kobo lives quietly on his own. Or so he believes.Food begins to go missing. Perturbed by this threat to his orderly life, Shimura sets up a webcam to monitor his home.But though eager to identify his intruder, is Shimura really prepared for what the camera will reveal?Based on real-life events, this prize-winning novel is a moving
... Read more

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