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Features our annual Robert Watson Literary Prize winners, Mark Spero's "Pig Therapist" for poetry and Daniel S.C. Sutter's "Mantis" for fiction. This 115th issue is dedicated to Fred Chappell (1936…
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Charles Dickens, A. L. Kennedy
A beloved classic adult novel skilfully abridged to inspire and engage a new generation of middle-grade readers, from a multi-award-winning author.
Young orphan Pip, downtrodden and mistreated by his guardian…
Brianna L. Kennedy, Amy S. Murphy
Learn how you can successfully address persistent teaching dilemmas by reframing how you think about and respond to them. The authors show how adopting habits of mind, including curiosity and…
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From award-winning author A.L. Kennedy, an original Doctor Who novel featuring the beloved Fourth Doctor, as played by Tom Baker.
I shall make you the jewel at the heart of…
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A. L. Kennedy
A magical, charming and deeply moving fable about love, family, war and resilience from the Costa Prize-winning author of Day.
Novelist Kennedy takes readers with her on an assignment to the plazas del toros of Spain and inside the mesmerizing, mystifying, brutal, and beautiful world of the bullfight.
A magical, charming and deeply moving fable about the journey we all take through life, about love and family, about war and resilience, about how we live in this world…
A L Kennedy
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE Jon is 59 and divorced: a senior civil servant in Westminster who hates many of his colleagues and loathes his work, he is a…
Elizabeth Barber is crossing the Atlantic by liner with her boyfriend, Derek, who might be planning to propose. In fleeing the UK temporarily, Elizabeth may also be in flight from…
From one of Britain’s most acclaimed novelists comes a comic but terrifying love story about two alcoholics alternately battling and embracing their addiction, and each other.
From the prodigiously talented A.L. Kennedy comes an unabashedly moving novel about fathers and daughters, creativity and self-destruction, and love’s paradoxical power to heal its most devastated victims.
Twice selected for Granta’s list of Best Young British Novelists for her acclaimed novel Day, Kennedy returns with a collection of stories that captures contemporary social and spiritual malaise.
Kennedy L Mitchell
Just when I thought life couldn't get worse, a past nightmare returns. But this time he's after more than my body. He wants it all-me and my daughter.
Broken, abused…
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Kennedy tells the story of an unlikely courtship between an emotionally paralyzed woman and a self-despising man who find in each other a way to break out of their isolation.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
Harold L Senkbeil
"Join Fat Cat as he learns the Ten Commandments."--From back cover.
Badger Bill loves his best friend Uncle Shawn. But he has started to notice that Uncle Shawn is a bit unusual.
Dr P'Klawz hates Uncle Shawn. He has also noticed…
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Contains twelve stories which are variations on a theme of longing - the unassuagable human need for contact, for completion, for that most fugitive gift of all: reciprocal love. This…
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The heroes and heroines of this, A.L. Kennedy’s first collection of stories, are small people - the kind who inhabit the silence in libraries, who never appear on screen and…
Jennifer M. Wilson has decided to become a voice, a professional enunciator, an announcer, a voice-over artiste. Behind the sound-proof doors of the recording studio she must surely be safe…
Elizabeth Barber is crossing the Atlantic by liner with her perfectly adequate boyfriend, Derek, who might be planning to propose. In fleeing the UK - temporarily - Elizabeth may also…
A first novel which dissects the intricate difficulties of human relationships, from a Scotswoman’s passionate attachment to her father and her more problematic involvement with her lover, to the wider…
A magnificent novel about war by one of the finest living British writers
Features the Robert Watson Literary Prize-winning story, Molly Guinn Bradley’s ‘The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of Siena’, and the Prize-winning poem, L.A. Johnson’s ‘Theory When a Western Light Goes…
Adelina L Kennedy
For years, author Adelina L. Kennedy endured a long battle with anorexia and its complications. In A Girl with a Special Name, she chronicles her journey through hardship and her…
R L Kennedy
It was supposed to be an innocent childhood game - but not every kid made it home before dark.Twenty years later, I still think about that night - the night…
Features the Amon Liner Poetry Prize winner, An Imperfect Figure by Tegan Daly, plus the first selection in our new flash fiction category, Stephen Hundley’s Tiger Drill in Butterfly Class…
The spring 2020 issue of The Greensboro Review contains fiction by Cathy Rose, Will Hearn, Brendan Egan, Robert Garner McBrearty and Neil Serven. Poetry in the issue is by Maxine…
Features the winner of the Amon Liner Poetry Prize, Madeleine Poole's ""Pile of Maggots,"" flash fiction by Sasha Debevec-McKenney and Beth Konkoski, and an Editor's Note by Terry L. Kennedy.
The fall 2021 Greensboro Review features the Amon Liner Poetry Prize winner, Pygmalion by Megan Gower, new flash fiction by Julia Kenny, and an Editor’s Note from Terry L. Kennedy.
L A Kennedy
One group of Slayers stands between the Rancor Order and the irregulars. Their most trusted Slayer must decide between releasing his wicked darkness or losing the woman he loves.
Domination, obsession, possession–where the all-powerful Frost comes toe to toe with Juliet Sinclair, a submissive to no one, until her first touch of Frost.
After a chancy one-night stand, Juliet…
Ring-a-round the Rosie, a pocket full of posies, Ashes! Ashes! We all fall down.
There’s war brewing and only one group of Slayers to protect their race. Their second-in-command must choose between the life he’d be forced to live and the life he’d kill…
Leading a fierce battle to protect his race, Cael must choose between the life he has and the woman he wants. Fiercely loyal to his men, Cael has sacrificed himself…
War has bled onto the streets worldwide with only one group standing between The Order and all mankind. Their newest recruit must now decide between loyalty and love.
L. A. Kennedy
Because this book is specifically devoted to one-shot imaging, One-Shot Color Astronomical Imaging begins by looking at all the basics - what equipment will be needed, how color imaging is…
Rosa L. Kennedy
A School for Healing: Alternative Strategies for Teaching At-Risk Students describes an alternative school that dealt with students who were expelled or suspended from public school and who perceived themselves…
Micheal L Kennedy
"Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee: "
-Jeremiah…
David Kennedy
This collection of studies on the Roman Near East represents Professor Kennedy’s academic assessment of the region, which began with his doctoral thesis on the contribution of Syria to the…
The first book in a hilarious, heart-warming series for children from Costa Award-winning author A. L. Kennedy, illustrated by Gemma Correll.
The fourth book in a hilarious, heart-warming series for children from Costa Award-winning author A.L. Kennedy, illustrated by celebrated cartoonist Gemma Correll. Hold onto your underpants - there’s a mysterious…
The third book in a hilarious, heart-warming series for children from Costa Award-winning author A.L. Kennedy, illustrated by celebrated cartoonist Gemma Correll.
Uncle Shawn and his best friend Badger Bill…