Mark McBeth

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Social Studies

Discourses and Discontents

Using a nationwide search of LGBTQ archives, this book tracks the homophobic discourses used by the usual sponsors of literacy learning and recovers the counter-literacy measures that Queer literates used to upend them.

Queer Literacies

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Kennilworthy Whisp

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

If you have ever asked yourself where the Golden Snitch came from, how the Bludgers came into existence, or why the Wigtown Wanderers have pictures of meat cleavers on their robes, you need Quidditch Through the Ages. This invaluable volume is consulted by young Quidditch fans on an almost daily basis. Proceeds from the sale of this book will go to Comic Relief, who will use your money to continue improving and changing lives -- work that is even more important and astonishing than the three-and-a-half-second capture of the Golden Snitch by Roderick Plumpton in 1921. -- Albus Dumbledore

Quidditch Through the Ages

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J. K. Rowling

The Tales of Beedle the Bard, a wizarding classic, first came to Muggle readers' attention in the book known as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Now, thanks to Hermione Granger's new translation from the ancient runes, we present this stunning edition with an introduction, notes, and illustrations by J.K. Rowling, and extensive commentary by Albus Dumbledore. Never before have Muggles been privy to these richly imaginative tales: "The Wizard and the Hopping Pot," "The Fountain of Fair Fortune," "The Warlock's Hairy Heart," "Babbitty Rabbitty and Her Cackling Stump," and of course "The Tale of the Three Brothers." But not only are they the equal of fairy tales we know and love, reading them gives new insight into the wizarding world. This purchase also represents another very important form of giving: From every sale of this book, Scholastic will give its net proceeds to Lumos, an international non-profit organization founded by J.K. Rowling that works globally to transform the lives of disadvantaged children. wearelumos.org

The Tales of Beedle the Bard

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Jack Thorne

John Tiffany

As an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and a father, Harry Potter struggles with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs while his youngest son, Albus, finds the weight of the family legacy difficult to bear.

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two (Special Rehearsal Edition Script)

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Original Screenplay

J.K. Rowling's screenwriting debut is captured in this exciting hardcover edition of the "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" screenplay. When Magizoologist Newt Scamander arrives in New York, he intends his stay to be just a brief stopover. However, when his magical case is misplaced and some of Newt's fantastic beasts escape, it spells trouble for everyone "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" marks the screenwriting debut of J.K. Rowling, author of the beloved and internationally bestselling Harry Potter books. Featuring a cast of remarkable characters, this is epic, adventure-packed storytelling at its very best. Whether an existing fan or new to the wizarding world, this is a perfect addition to any reader's bookshelf. "

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

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J.K. Rowling's five-film Fantastic Beasts adventure series continues with the original screenplay for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. At the end of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the powerful Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald was captured in New York with the help of Newt Scamander. But, making good on his threat, Grindelwald escapes custody and sets about gathering followers, most unsuspecting of his true agenda: to raise pure-blood wizards up to rule over all non-magical beings. In an effort to thwart Grindelwald's plans, Albus Dumbledore enlists Newt, his former Hogwarts student, who agrees to help once again, unaware of the dangers that lie ahead. Lines are drawn as love and loyalty are tested, even among the truest friends and family, in an increasingly divided wizarding world. This second original screenplay from J.K. Rowling, illustrated with stunning line art from MinaLima, expands on earlier events that helped shape the wizarding world, with some surprising nods to the Harry Potter stories that will delight fans of both the books and films.

Fantastic Beasts: the Crimes of Grindelwald: the Original Screenplay

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Lee Thomas

Sarah Langan

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Stories

Lee Thomas's newest short story collection offers twelve tales of suspense and horror. A boy is horrified to discover what his older brother is doing in their father's work shed; a Victorian dandy and his dog must save the world from terrible creatures from another dimension; an old man can whisper a word that sets his victims on the path to madness; suburbia is threatened when a zealous neighbor opens the gates of Hell. Thomas's fiction has earned him the Lambda Literary Award and Bram Stoker Award, and readers will not be disappointed by this new book from a master of the genre.

Like Light for Flies

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Cordelia Frances Biddle

Cordelia Biddle

The disappearance of her father, a wealthy financier in 1842 Philadelphia, draws Martha Beale into an alliance with Thomas Kelman as they investigate the case, one that could be tied to a series of ritual slayings of young prostitutes.

The Conjurer

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Andrew Meredith

A Memoir

A dark, poignant, and emotionally brave coming-of-age memoir: the story of a young man who, by handling the dead, makes peace with the living.

For almost twenty years I mistook my father's downfall as my own. But it wasn't. It was not my sister's either, nor my mother's.

A literature professor at La Salle University, Andrew Meredith's father was fired after unspecified allegations of sexual misconduct. It's a transgression Andrew cannot forgive, for it brought about long-lasting familial despair. In the wake of the scandal, Andrew's parents limp along, trapped in an unhappy marriage. Meanwhile, Andrew treads water, stuck in a kind of suspended adolescence--falling in and out of school, moving blindly from one half-hearted relationship to the next, slowly killing the nights drinking beer and listening to music with his childhood friends.

Broke, Andrew moves back home to his childhood neighborhood in Northeast Philadelphia and takes a job alongside his father as a "remover," the name for those unseen, unsung workers who take away the bodies of those who die at home. He describes, as only a professional can do, the intimate, horrific, poignant, and occasionally morbidly comedic aspects of handling the dead. Just how do you carry a 500-pound corpse down winding stairs? What actually happens to pacemakers, tooth fillings, surgical screws, artificial hips, and anything else that the deceased has within his or her body? Andrew begins to see his father not through the lens of a wronged and resentful child, but as a sympathetic, imperfect man who loves his family despite his flaws. Eventually the chip on his shoulder starts to lose its weight.

Poetic without being florid, and with the literary ability to transform the naturally grotesque into the exquisite, The Removers is a searing story of a young man who finds in death a redemptive path toward the forgiveness of the living, including himself.

The Removers

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Thaddeus J. Kozinski

S. J. Schall, SJ, James V.

Philosophy

And Why Philosophers Can't Solve It

In contemporary political philosophy, there is much debate over how to maintain a public order in pluralistic democracies in which citizens hold radically different religious views. The Political Problem of Religious Pluralism deals with this theoretically and practically difficult issue by examining three of the most influential figures of religious pluralism theory: John Rawls, Jacques Maritain, and Alasdair MacIntyre. Drawing on a diverse number of sources, Kozinski addresses the flaws in each philosopher's views and shows that the only philosophically defensible end of any overlapping consensus political order must be the eradication of the ideological pluralism that makes it necessary. In other words, a pluralistic society should have as its primary political aim to create the political conditions for the communal discovery and political establishment of that unifying tradition within which political justice can most effectively be obtained. Kozinski's analysis, though exhaustive and rigorous, still remains accessible and engaging, even for a reader unversed in the works of Rawls, Maritain, and MacIntyre. Interdisciplinary and multi-thematic in nature, it will appeal to anyone interested in the intersection of religion, politics, and culture.

The Political Problem of Religious Pluralism

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Vineet Thakur

Peter Vale

This book provides an alternative history of the 'birth' of International Relations.

South Africa, Race and the Making of International Relations

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Piero Moraro

A Philosophical Overview

This book shows how the notion of civil disobedience has evolved.

Civil Disobedience

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Sarah Ailwood

Katherine Bode

Frederick Burwick

Rainer Emig

Sarah S. G. Frantz

George E. Haggerty

Roxanne Harde

Angela Laflen

Shawn Lisa Maurer

Ellen McWilliams

Sara Pearson

Virginia Richter

Female Novelists and Their Male Characters, 1750 - 2000

Female novelists have always invested as much narrative energy in constructing their male characters—heroes and villains—as in envisioning their female protagonists, but this fact has received very little scholarly attention to date. In Women Constructing Men, scholars from Australia, Canada, Germany, Great Britain and the United States begin to sketch the outline of a new literary history of women writing men in the English-speaking world from the eighteenth century until today. By rediscovering forgotten texts, rereading novels by high canonical female authors, refocusing the interest in well-known novels, and analyzing contemporary narrative constructions of masculinity, the contributing scholars demonstrate that female authors create male characters every bit as complex as their male counterparts. Using a variety of theoretical models and coming to an equal variety of conclusions, the essays collected in Women Constructing Men skilfully demonstrate that the topic of female-authored masculinities not only allows scholars to re-read and re-discover almost every novel ever written by a woman writer, but also triggers reflections on a host of theoretical questions of gender and genre. In re-examining these male characters across literary history,these articles extend the feminist question of "Who has the authority to create a female character?" to "Who has the authority to create any character?".

Women Constructing Men

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Vassiliki Cryssanthopoulou

Efrosini Gavaki

Helaine Harris

Anna Karpathakis

Maria Kontos

Anastasia N. Panagakos

Marina Petronoti

Matoula Tomara-Sideris

Georgina Tsolidis

Maria Vouyouka-Sereti

Labor, Community, and Identity in Greek Migrations

Organized around the broad themes of women's labor, community activity, and identity as their organizing concept, Women, Gender, and Diasporic Lives intersects these issues with the concerns of ethnicity, class, generation, and masculinity. The country-specific case studies reveal women's intentionality and agency in labor, in building community institutions, and in negotiating and re-defining their identities. The broad range of contributor backgrounds make this book a valuable resource for anyone interested in gender, diaspora, labor, or modern Greek studies

Women, Gender, and Diasporic Lives

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Rowan Mucci

Rowan Mucci

@rowan805934

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Mark McBeth

Queer Literacies

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Quidditch Through the Ages

J. K. Rowling

The Tales of Beedle the Bard

J. K. Rowling; Jack Thorne; John Tiffany

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two (Special Rehearsal Edition Script)

J. K. Rowling

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

J. K. Rowling

Fantastic Beasts: the Crimes of Grindelwald: the Original Screenplay

Lee Thomas; Sarah Langan

Like Light for Flies

Cordelia Frances Biddle; Cordelia Biddle

The Conjurer

Andrew Meredith

The Removers

Thaddeus J. Kozinski; S. J. Schall, SJ, James V.

The Political Problem of Religious Pluralism

Vineet Thakur; Peter Vale

South Africa, Race and the Making of International Relations

Piero Moraro

Civil Disobedience

Sarah Ailwood; Katherine Bode; Frederick Burwick; Rainer Emig; Sarah S. G. Frantz; George E. Haggerty; Roxanne Harde; Angela Laflen; Shawn Lisa Maurer; Ellen McWilliams; Sara Pearson; Virginia Richter

Women Constructing Men

Vassiliki Cryssanthopoulou; Efrosini Gavaki; Helaine Harris; Anna Karpathakis; Maria Kontos; Anastasia N. Panagakos; Marina Petronoti; Matoula Tomara-Sideris; Georgina Tsolidis; Maria Vouyouka-Sereti

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Mark McBeth

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J. K. Rowling; Jack Thorne; John Tiffany

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two (Special Rehearsal Edition Script)

J. K. Rowling

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

J. K. Rowling

Fantastic Beasts: the Crimes of Grindelwald: the Original Screenplay

Lee Thomas; Sarah Langan

Like Light for Flies

Cordelia Frances Biddle; Cordelia Biddle

The Conjurer

Andrew Meredith

The Removers

Thaddeus J. Kozinski; S. J. Schall, SJ, James V.

The Political Problem of Religious Pluralism

Vineet Thakur; Peter Vale

South Africa, Race and the Making of International Relations

Piero Moraro

Civil Disobedience

Sarah Ailwood; Katherine Bode; Frederick Burwick; Rainer Emig; Sarah S. G. Frantz; George E. Haggerty; Roxanne Harde; Angela Laflen; Shawn Lisa Maurer; Ellen McWilliams; Sara Pearson; Virginia Richter

Women Constructing Men

Vassiliki Cryssanthopoulou; Efrosini Gavaki; Helaine Harris; Anna Karpathakis; Maria Kontos; Anastasia N. Panagakos; Marina Petronoti; Matoula Tomara-Sideris; Georgina Tsolidis; Maria Vouyouka-Sereti

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