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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • The bravely imagined, wildly acclaimed debut novel from the author of Vampires in the Lemon Grove—about a thirteen year old girl who sets out on a mission through magical swamps to save her family. "Ms. Russell is one in a million.... A suspensfuly, deeply haunted book." —The New York Times Thirteen-year-old Ava Bigtree has lived her entire life at Swamplandia!, her family’s island home and gator-wrestling theme park in the Florida Everglades. But when illness fells Ava’s mother, the park’s indomitable headliner, the family is plunged into chaos; her father withdraws, her sister falls in love with a spooky character known as the Dredgeman, and her brilliant big brother, Kiwi, defects to a rival park called The World of Darkness. As Ava embarks on her mission to save them all, we are drawn into a lush debut that takes us to the shimmering edge of reality.

From the author of the novel Swamplandia!—a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize—comes a magical and uniquely daring collection of stories that showcases the author’s gifts at their inimitable best. Within these pages, a community of girls held captive in a Japanese silk factory slowly transmute into human silkworms and plot revolution; a group of boys stumble upon a mutilated scarecrow that bears an uncanny resemblance to a missing classmate that they used to torment; a family’s disastrous quest for land in the American West has grave consequences; and in the marvelous title story, two vampires in a sun-drenched lemon grove try to slake their thirst for blood and come to terms with their immortal relationship. Named a Best Book of the Year by: The Boston Globe O, The Oprah Magazine Huffington Post The A.V. Club A Washington Post Notable Book An NPR Great Read of 2013

Here is the debut short story collection from the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Swamplandia! and the New York Times bestselling Vampires in the Lemon Grove. In these ten glittering stories, the award-winning, bestselling author Orange World and Other Stories takes us to the ghostly and magical swamps of the Florida Everglades. Here wolf-like girls are reformed by nuns, a family makes their living wrestling alligators in a theme park, and little girls sail away on crab shells. Filled with inventiveness and heart, St. Lucy''s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves is the dazzling debut of a blazingly original voice.

Newly illustrated and available for the first time in years, a haunting novella from the uncannily imaginative author of the national bestsellers Swamplandia! and Orange World: the story of a deadly insomnia epidemic and the lengths one woman will go to to fight it. Trish Edgewater is the Slumber Corps'' top recruiter. On the phone, at a specially organized Sleep Drive, even in a supermarket parking lot: Trish can get even the most reluctant healthy dreamer to donate sleep to an insomniac in crisis--one of hundreds of thousands of people who have totally lost the ability to sleep. Trish cries, she shakes, she shows potential donors a picture of her deceased sister, Dori: one of the first victims of the lethal insomnia plague that has swept the globe. Run by the wealthy and enigmatic Storch brothers, the Slumber Corps is at the forefront of the fight against this deadly new disease. But when Trish is confronted by "Baby A," the first universal sleep donor, and the mysterious "Donor Y," whose horrific infectious nightmares are threatening to sweep through the precious sleep supply, her faith in the organization and in her own motives begins to falter. Fully illustrated with dreamy evocations of Russell''s singular imagination and featuring a brand-new "Nightmare Appendix," Sleep Donation will keep readers up long into the night and long after haunt their dreams.

Charting loss, love, and the difficult art of growing up, these stories unfurl with wicked humour and insight. Two young boys make midnight trips to a boat graveyard in search of their dead sister, who set sail in the exoskeleton of a giant crab; a boy whose dreams foretell implacable tragedies is sent to ''Sleepaway Camp for Disordered Dreamers'' (Cabin 1, Narcoleptics; Cabin 2, Insomniacs; Cabin 3, Somnambulists. . . ); a Minotaur leads his family on the trail out West, and finally, in the collection''s poignant and hilarious title story, fifteen girls raised by wolves are painstakingly re-civilised by nuns. These ten extraordinary stories introduce an audacious new talent, and a world in which weird and wonderful predicaments magically reveal the truth of our own lives. A blazingly original voice, a dazzling debut, a breathtaking discovery.

From Pulitzer finalist, MacArthur Fellowship recipient, and bestselling author of Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove Karen Russell: a gripping dust bowl epic about five characters whose fates become entangled after a storm ravages their small Nebraskan town The Antidote opens on Black Sunday, as a historic dust storm ravages the fictional town of Uz, Nebraska. But Uz is already collapsing—not just under the weight of the Great Depression and the dust bowl drought but beneath its own violent histories. The Antidote follows a "Prairie Witch,” whose body serves as a bank vault for peoples’ memories and secrets; a Polish wheat farmer who learns how quickly a hoarded blessing can become a curse; his orphan niece, a basketball star and witch’s apprentice in furious flight from her grief; a voluble scarecrow; and a New Deal photographer whose time-traveling camera threatens to reveal both the town’s secrets and its fate. Russell''s novel is above all a reckoning with a nation’s forgetting—enacting the settler amnesia and willful omissions passed down from generation to generation, and unearthing not only horrors but shimmering possibilities. The Antidote echoes with urgent warnings for our own climate emergency, challenging readers with a vision of what might have been—and what still could be.

From the Pulitzer Finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases Karen Russell’s extraordinary, irresistible gifts of language and imagination. Karen Russell’s comedic genius and mesmerizing talent for creating outlandish predicaments that uncannily mirror our inner in lives is on full display in these eight exuberant, arrestingly vivid, unforgettable stories. In“Bog Girl”, a revelatory story about first love, a young man falls in love with a two thousand year old girl that he’s extracted from a mass of peat in a Northern European bog. In “The Prospectors,” two opportunistic young women fleeing the depression strike out for new territory, and find themselves fighting for their lives. In the brilliant, hilarious title story, a new mother desperate to ensure her infant’s safety strikes a diabolical deal, agreeing to breastfeed the devil in exchange for his protection. The landscape in which these stories unfold is a feral, slippery, purgatorial space, bracketed by the void—yet within it Russell captures the exquisite beauty and tenderness of ordinary life. Orange World is a miracle of storytelling from a true modern master.

This streamlined, step-by-step guide provides students and newcomers in the field of media with an overview of the complete production process, from conceiving of an idea to marketing the final product. Readers will learn what it takes to create a concept, develop it, and then market and sell it. Chapters discuss pitching, producing, marketing visionary concepts, financing, and distributing content. Focused on traditional and non-traditional platforms including social media, websites, and online advertising, this book explores currently evolving media platforms, ideas, and practices and provides examples of how to navigate these unique creative processes. Interviews with business executives offer insider tips and tricks to creating a marketable project. In this book, you will learn how to: Distinguish between a "great idea" and a "marketable idea." Condense your concept into an effective "elevator pitch." Build a basic business plan. Create a marketing strategy, be it traditional, digital, or both. Establish a personal brand and portfolio that will grab the right attention. This book will be of great help to the student, independent filmmaker, and content creator looking to understand the process of getting their work produced, distributed, and marketed.

In this revelatory story about first love from Karen Russell’s Orange World, a young man falls in love with a two thousand year old girl that he’s extracted from a mass of peat in a Northern European bog. Through a darkly comic lens, Russell explores the vertigo of falling in and out of love, and the way that our shallow projections and fairytale fantasies can cover over the mysterious reality of another human being. A Vintage Short.

AVAILABLE DISCOUNT: 55% off for bookstores! PAPERBACK COLOUR EDITION Do you know how to properly use the air fryer to cook delicious and tasty recipes? This fantastic appliance is useful for people who want to save either time and money, and yet cannot give up the idea of cooking low-fat foods, fundamental for a healthier diet. - YOUR COSTUMERS WILL LOVE THIS COLLECTION - "HOW TO COOK WITH AIR FRYER" series includes the following titles: How to cook BREAKFAST with air fryer How to cook SEAFOOD with air fryer How to cook VEGETARIAN with air fryer How to cook DEHYDRATED with air fryer How to cook SNACKS AND APPETIZERS with air fryer Moreover, it also comes with 2 bundles: Low fat meal prep recipes Quick and easy air fryer cookbook WHY ARE SO MANY PEOPLE FASCINATED BY THIS SPECIAL COOKING METHOD? Here some Air Fryer benefits: Low-fat meals Easy clean up The air fryer cooks your ingredients from all angles thanks to the hot-air circulation at its inside. Summing up, it gives you healthier foods, without having that unwanted aroma of fried foods. This fantastic tool serves up many ways to be useful in our life; consider: Do you find yourself short on time to cook? Are you having hard time letting go those fat rich foods, but still want to lose weight? Do you want to invest your money in something that gives you positive feedbacks? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you can easily understand why the air fryer can be an effective solution for your costumers. One more information for you: it can cook multiple dishes at once within minutes, and it is super easy to clean!! Since I discovered the benefits of the air fryer, I use it almost every day and still I have not finished learning new dishes! That''s why I made this cookbook for all of you that want to get in touch with this amazing cooking tool that helped me a lot by giving me more time for myself and feeling better thanks to a healthier meal plan! I hope you will enjoy this book and don''t forget to check out the other ones from the collection, your costumers won''t stop to use this yummy cookbook! Karen Russell

Finaliste du Prix Pulitzer pour son formidable roman Swamplandia, la jeune Karen Russell, à l''imaginaire débridé, excelle dans tous les registres et s''impose une fois encore, avec ce recueil, comme un maître du réalisme magique. Des fillettes retenues prisonnières dans une manufacture japonaise sont lentement métamorphosées en vers à soie... Une masseuse se découvre dotée d''étranges pouvoirs en manipulant les tatouages d''un jeune soldat revenu d''Irak... Deux vampires prisonniers d''une citronneraie brulée par le soleil tentent désespérément d''étancher leur soif de sang, au risque de mettre un terme à leur relation immortelle... Autant de mondes parallèles fascinants, entre mythe et réalité, qui confirment la subtile extravagance et l''inventivité hors pair d''un des meilleurs écrivains de sa génération. « Inspirée par George Saunders, Stephen King ou encore Carson McCullers, Karen Russell a une voix bien à elle, tour à tour lyrique et drôle, fantastique et méditative. » The New York Times

« Votre nouvelle amie bénévole est AUGIE RODDENBERRY. Cordialement, La Direction du Grand Large ». Le vieux Sawtooth trouvait l’idée stupide, et le slogan l’annonçant, bien plus encore : « Aucune Personne Âgée n’est une Île ». Mais rien n’empêche une rencontre entre un homme âgé et une jeune délinquante. Même si elle risque de laisser des traces... ? Cette nouvelle est extraite du livre Foyer Sainte-Lucie pour jeunes filles élevées par les loups. Temps de lecture estimé : à partir de 20 minutes.

Uma epidemia assola os Estados Unidos. Milhares de pessoas perdem a capacidade de dormir. Conheça a Corpo do Sono, uma organização que persuade sonhadores saudáveis a fazer doações para os insones. Sob o comando dos enigmáticos irmãos Storch, o alcance da Corpo do Sono só cresce, e ela já está presente nas principais cidades norte-americanas. Trish Edgewater, cuja irmã, Dori, foi uma das primeiras vítimas da insônia letal, há sete anos recruta doadores para a organização. Mas sua crença na empresa e nas próprias motivações começa a vacilar quando ela é confrontada com a Bebê A, a primeira doadora universal, e com o misterioso e maligno Doador Q.

El parque temático que la dinastía de los Bigtree, domadores de caimanes, posee en una de las pantanosas Diez Mil Islas frente a las costas de Florida sufre un duro revés con la muerte de Hilola Bigtree. Ésta, madre de tres hijos, era la estrella del parque gracias a sus arriesgados y espectaculares números con los caimanes; para colmo, a unos kilómetros, acaba de inaugurarse un sofisticado competidor, el parque temático Universo Oscuro. La familia empieza a desmoronarse: el Jefe Bigtree, ahora viudo, parece ausente... y acaba, efectivamente, ausentándose; Kiwi, el hijo mayor, se pasa a la competencia en un intento por mantener a flote el negocio familiar, y Ossie, la segunda, empieza a tener extrañas visiones. De modo que Ava, la pequeña, una adolescente de trece años, queda a cargo de noventa y ocho caimanes en medio del vasto y desolador paisaje de su dolor, pero con una conmovedora energía para afrontar cualquier peligro.

En el cuento que da título a este volumen, dos vampiros en un limonar inundado de sol intentan desesperadamente saciar su sed de sangre, en una inolvidable parábola sobre la adicción y el ansia, el pavor y el amor mortales. Le siguen siete relatos protagonizados por los más sorprendentes personajes: un adolescente (enamorado) que descubre que el universo se comunica con él a través de unos talismanes abandonados en un nido de gaviotas, una comunidad de mujeres que se transforman lentamente en gusanos de seda humanos para tejer delicados hilos extraídos de sus propias entrañas, una masajista que descubre su poder sanador manipulando los tatuajes en el torso de un veterano de guerra... El drama de una familia de colonos en el Oeste y una siniestra historia de culpa y expiación cierran esta colección de relatos de Rusell.

Aussi originales et excentriques que soient les huit nouvelles réunies ici, toutes traitent de la condition humaine et du rapport entre les êtres avec une étonnante richesse et une audace sans pareille. On y découvre deux amies à l''époque de la Grande Dépression qui espèrent faire fortune dans l''Oregon en dépouillant les prospecteurs d''or et se retrouvent dans un chalet habité par des fantômes ; une jeune femme possédée par l''esprit d''un arbre depuis sa visite d''un grand parc national, et une autre réputée pour son utilisation de l''écholocation, à la manière des chauves-souris, dans une Floride futuriste engloutie par les eaux ; ou encore un veuf installé au Nebraska qui a consacré sa vie à l''élevage de tornades jusqu''à ce que l''une d''elles blesse sa fille et qu''ilprenne sa retraite. On y fait même la connaissance du lévrier d''Emma Bovary ! Véritables trésors d''imagination et d''empathie, ces histoires nous entraînent à la lisière du réalisme magique et donnent à voir avec un oeil neuf, quasi prophétique, le monde qui est le nôtre ainsi que ses travers.

A Delicious Solution for digestive issues, allergies, fibromyalgia, and many more health issues. Learn what to eat and get tasty, easy recipes that have some fiber and are low in sugar to keep you balanced and satisfied. Eating gluten free can decrease inflammation, bloating, insomnia and lead to increased energy. It can even help you to manage your weight.

AVAILABLE DISCOUNT: 55% off for bookstores! PAPERBACK COLOUR EDITION Do you know how to properly use the air fryer to cook delicious and tasty recipes? This fantastic appliance is useful for people who want to save either time and money, and yet cannot give up the idea of cooking low-fat foods, fundamental for a healthier diet. - YOUR COSTUMERS WILL LOVE THIS COLLECTION - "HOW TO COOK WITH AIR FRYER" series includes the following titles: How to cook BREAKFAST with air fryer How to cook SEAFOOD with air fryer How to cook VEGETARIAN with air fryer How to cook DEHYDRATED with air fryer How to cook SNACKS AND APPETIZERS with air fryer Moreover, it also comes with 2 bundles: Low fat meal prep recipes Quick and easy air fryer cookbook WHY ARE SO MANY PEOPLE FASCINATED BY THIS SPECIAL COOKING METHOD? Here some Air Fryer benefits: - Low-fat meals - Easy clean up - The air fryer cooks your ingredients from all angles thanks to the hot-air circulation at its inside. - Summing up, it gives you healthier foods, without having that unwanted aroma of fried foods. This fantastic tool serves up many ways to be useful in our life; consider: - Do you find yourself short on time to cook? - Are you having hard time letting go those fat rich foods, but still want to lose weight? - Do you want to invest your money in something that gives you positive feedbacks? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you can easily understand why the air fryer can be an effective solution for your costumers. One more information for you: it can cook multiple dishes at once within minutes, and it is super easy to clean!! Since I discovered the benefits of the air fryer, I use it almost every day and still I have not finished learning new dishes! That''s why I made this cookbook for all of you that want to get in touch with this amazing cooking tool that helped me a lot by giving me more time for myself and feeling better thanks to a healthier meal plan! I hope you will enjoy this book and don''t forget to check out the other ones from the collection, your costumers won''t stop to use this yummy cookbook! Karen Russell

AVAILABLE DISCOUNT: 55% off for bookstores! HARDCOVER EDITION Do you know how to properly use the air fryer to cook delicious and tasty recipes? This fantastic appliance is useful for people who want to save either time and money, and yet cannot give up the idea of cooking low-fat foods, fundamental for a healthier diet. - YOUR COSTUMERS WILL LOVE THIS COLLECTION - "HOW TO COOK WITH AIR FRYER" series includes the following titles: How to cook BREAKFAST with air fryer How to cook SEAFOOD with air fryer How to cook VEGETARIAN with air fryer How to cook DEHYDRATED with air fryer How to cook SNACKS AND APPETIZERS with air fryer Moreover, it also comes with 2 bundles: Low fat meal prep recipes Quick and easy air fryer cookbook WHY ARE SO MANY PEOPLE FASCINATED BY THIS SPECIAL COOKING METHOD? Here some Air Fryer benefits: - Low-fat meals - Easy clean up - The air fryer cooks your ingredients from all angles thanks to the hot-air circulation at its inside. - Summing up, it gives you healthier foods, without having that unwanted aroma of fried foods. This fantastic tool serves up many ways to be useful in our life; consider: - Do you find yourself short on time to cook? - Are you having hard time letting go those fat rich foods, but still want to lose weight? - Do you want to invest your money in something that gives you positive feedbacks? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you can easily understand why the air fryer can be an effective solution for your costumers. One more information for you: it can cook multiple dishes at once within minutes, and it is super easy to clean!! Since I discovered the benefits of the air fryer, I use it almost every day and still I have not finished learning new dishes! That''s why I made this cookbook for all of you that want to get in touch with this amazing cooking tool that helped me a lot by giving me more time for myself and feeling better thanks to a healthier meal plan! I hope you will enjoy this book and don''t forget to check out the other ones from the collection, your costumers won''t stop to use this yummy cookbook! Karen Russell

Qu''est-ce que grandir et devenir adulte ? Ces dix nouvelles aux allures de contes fantastiques explorent la question. Parmi les héros : des jeunes filles élevées par des loups-garous (et rééduquées par des religieuses), un astronome amateur qui étudie la délinquance estivale, deux gamins à la recherche du fantôme de leur soeur. Comme un défi au renoncement, la plume virevoltante de Karen Russell exalte la part d''animalité, d''innocence et de folie qui fut, ou demeure, en chacun de nous. L''auteur de Swamplandia, finaliste du prix Pulitzer, a su créer un univers singulier, où l''on croise des enfants terribles et des monstres tendres. Un imaginaire comparable à celui de Lewis Carroll et de Stephen King. Un nouveau chef-d''oeuvre de songes ubuesques, de crapahutages dans le cosmos et de monstres mythologiques. Emily Barnett, Les Inrockuptibles.