Carla Kaplan
Carla Kaplan is an award-winning professor and writer who holds the Stanton W. and Elisabeth K. Davis Distinguished Professorship in American Literature at Northeastern University. She is the author of The Erotics of Talk and Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters. A recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, Kaplan has been a fellow in residence at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the W. E. B. DuBois Institute and is a fellow of the Society of American Historians.
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Miss Anne in Harlem
- By: Carla Kaplan
- Narrator: Liisa Ivary
- Length: 13 hours 34 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: April 15, 2014
- Language: English
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New York City in the Jazz Age was host to a pulsating artistic and social revolution. Uptown, an unprecedented explosion in black music, literature, dance, and art sparked the Harlem Renaissance. While the history of this African-American awakening... Read more
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The Tin Woodman of Oz
The Tin Woodsman and the Scarecrow are visited by a young boy named Woot who learns that the Tin Woodsman was once a man who loved a young girl of Oz. Inspired, the three of them set off to find the girl. This novel, the twelfth in the Oz series, provides backstory for the original novel and reversed a trend of declining sales for the series, perhaps as a result of a desire for nostalgia amid the ...
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The Machine That Changed the World
The classic, nationally bestselling book that first articulated the principles of lean production, with a new foreword and afterword by the authors.When The Machine That Changed the World was first published in 1990, Toyota was half the size of General Motors. Twenty years later Toyota passed GM as the world’s largest auto maker. This management classic was the first book to reveal Toyota’s ...
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From the elite performance coach who authored the international bestseller Relentless, and whose clients have included Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, and Dwyane Wade, comes this brutally honest formula for winning in business, sports, or any arena where the battle is fiercely unforgiving. Featuring conversations with the authors recorded exclusively for the audiobook!In Winning, Tim Grover shows ...
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Paris, Paris
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Some Things I Still Can’t Tell You
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! From Misha Collins, actor, longtime poet, and activist, whose massive online following calls itself his “Army For Good,” comes his debut poetry collection, Some Things I Still Can’t Tell You. Trademark wit and subtle vulnerability converge in each poem; this book is both a celebration of and aspiration for a life well lived.#1 PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER! USA ...
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Extreme Pets!
Are you curious about slithery snakes, loungey lizards, spooky spiders, fuzzy ferrets, and freckled frogs? If so, this book is for you! Extreme Pets! introduces all the coolest creatures you’ve been wanting to know more about. You’ll learn about corn snakes, leopard geckos, blue-tongued skinks, veiled chameleons, bearded dragons, green anoles, ferrets, hedgehogs, chinchillas, sugar gliders, ...
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Elmer and the Dragon
A stand-alone sequel to My Father’s Dragon, in which Elmer Elevator and the flying baby dragon help the king of the canaries find treasure.
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Monster of Their Own Making
Recounting his experiences amongst far-right terrorists and extremists, Jack Buckby shows how conservatives and liberals are both wrong about the far right. As a teenager in a working-class English town, Jack Buckby found himself at the center of the biggest nationalist movement in modern British history. Looking for a political group that championed working people concerned about mass ...
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Beautiful Bitch
Picking up where Beautiful Bastard left off, Chloe Mills and Bennett Ryan continue their steamy, combative relationship in this new novella. Just when Chloe’s career starts to take off, Bennett wishes it would all slow down long enough to spend a wild night alone with his intern-cum-girlfriend. Preferably one in which he can show her he’s still the boss. After her continued refusals to take ...
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If you happen to be a fan of some of the actual or fictional stories of the wild and wooly American West in the nineteenth century, you might as well know that a lot of it was made up of cheap, sensational material that was often a pack of lies created by the vivid imagination of the writers. It was their way of drawing enough attention that they could sell their articles to magazines or ...
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