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How an understanding of intellectual disability transforms the pleasures of reading
Narrative informs everything we think, do, plan, remember, and imagine. We tell stories and we listen to stories, gauging their "well-formedness" within a couple of years of learning to walk and talk. Some argue that the capacity to understand narrative is innate to our species; others claim that while that might be so, the invention of writing then re-wired our brains....
11) Bedtime Stories
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Good things happen when your life is freed from the restrictions of gravity and time. Jake Spinner is a modern-day Don Quixote mixed in with a large dose of Winnie the Pooh.
Jake Spinner's life is filled with coffee, movies, buffalo, donuts, tuxedoes, trucks, cedar chests, polar bears, the fiery hooch of the steppes, cold-weather horses, kittens, Parisian circuses, urban rodeo, pizza, Hell's Angels, Buddhists, gunslingers, Scrabble, ZiegfieldnFollies...
13) The hollow beast
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Biblioasis international translation volume no. 46
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Biblioasis
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2024.
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"Don Quixote meets Who Framed Roger Rabbit in this slapstick epic about destiny, family demons, and revenge. In 1911, in a hockey game in Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula, local tough guy Billy Joe Pictou fires the puck into Monti Bouge's mouth. When Monti collapses with his head across the goal line, Victor Bradley, erstwhile referee and local mailman, rules that the goal counts. Monti's ensuing revenge for this injustice sprawls over three generations,...
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A writer finds himself trapped in an isolated village where anything imagined becomes reality in this wildly inventive contemporary fantasy Hoping to write his book in quiet and seclusion, Horton Smith has returned home to Pilot Knob. Here, in the tiny village where he passed so many carefree childhood years, he is untroubled by the pressures of the big city and can freely answer the call of his muse. Of course, back in the city Horton didn't have...
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"The Classic Collection of Heinrich Heine: Complete Poetical Works and Prose Writings" is a comprehensive anthology that brings together the timeless creations of the renowned German poet and writer, Heinrich Heine. This meticulously curated compilation spans Heine's prolific career, showcasing his poetic brilliance and insightful prose. Readers will delve into the profound themes, romantic lyricism, and social commentary that define Heine's literary...
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