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Mo Willems
It’s Nanette’s first trip to get the baguette! Is she set? You bet! –
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Donald E. Morse
Morse argues that Vonnegut deserves acclaim as a pre-eminent post-World War II American story-teller with a sharply critical, satiric vision, who against formidable odds retains his belief in the humanity…
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Jerome Klinkowitz
In this comprehensive introductory study, originally published in 1982, Jerome Klinkowitz traces Vonnegut’s influences within the American middle class, his early efforts as a short-story writer for magazines in the…
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One of the 20th century’s preeminent novelists, Kurt Vonnegut satirically explored the wrongs of humanity, most notably in Slaughterhouse-Five and Cat’s Cradle . Part of the Bloom’s Modern Critical Views…
John Tomedi
One of the 20th century’s pre-eminent novelists, Vonnegut satirically explores the wrongs of humanity, most notably in his acclaimed ‘Slaughterhouse Five’ and ‘Cat’s Cradle’. This biographical text provides a perspective…
Charles D. Augello
A collection of 29 interviews explores the outer reaches of the Kurt Vonnegut universe. A valuable resource for students, scholars and fans, this book offers windows into Vonnegut's life and…
N M Opperman
This is a story of a determined young girl finding a way to fill her summer vacation days with fun and adventure. Join her as she goes on her journey…
M E Dawson
I AM NANETTE. I BREAK ALL THE RULES. During the war I was a spy for the British and helped save the world. I’ve kept my secrets for fifty years…
Nanette Opperman
This is a story of a determined young girl finding a way to fill her summer vacation days with fun and adventure. Join her as she gets into mischief and…
Paula Croyle
Everybody wants to be a princess! What could be better? In Today Nanette Will Be a Princess, one little heroine craves the royal treatment until she learns that princesses don’t…
Nanette’s Grandest Adventure is an autobiographical children’s book about a young girl who goes on an adventure that changes her life in a profound way. It is suspenseful, thought provoking…
Nanette's Great Adventure, is an autobiographical children's book about a young girl who goes on an adventure that changes her life in a profound way. It is suspenseful, thought provoking…
Hannah Gadsby
The memoir from Australia’s much-loved comedian, Hannah Gadsby, whose stand-up show and self-described swan-song, Nanette, played to sold-out houses in Australia, the UK and the US. Its launch on Netflix…
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Multi-award-winning Hannah Gadsby broke comedy with their show Nanette. Now they take us through the defining moments in their life and their powerful decision to…
Nanette, Spurway
Apartheid in South Africa affected many people most of all those of colour. This story although completely fictional, brings home some of the hardships and cruelty a small coloured girl…
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Korean edition of Welcome to the Monkey House: A Collection of Short Works by Kurt Vonnegut Jr, author of Slaughterhouse-Five. This collection of short stories showcase Vonnegut’s creativity, humor, and…
A short story by Kurt Vonnegut originally written in 1953. It was first published in Galaxy Science Fiction magazine in January 1954. The title is the protagonist’s euphemism for dying.
The author questions the condition of modern man in this novel depicting a science fiction writer’s struggle to find peace and sanity in the world.
Norb Vonnegut
Vonnegut lends his unique insider’s perspective and his intuitive, darkly humorous writing to a fast-talking suspense thriller that takes readers inside the dangerous, high-rolling world of global finance.
The title is pronounced 2 B R naught 2 B , referencing the famous phrase to be, or not to be from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. In this…
Look at the Birdie evokes a world in which squabbling couples, high school geniuses, misfit office workers, and small-town Lotharios struggle to adapt to changing technology, moral ambiguity, and unprecedented…
Kurt Vonnegut takes the listener back one million years. A simple vacation cruise suddenly becomes an evolutionary journey. Thanks to an apocalypse, a small group of survivors stranded on the…
For eight years, big game hunter and war hero Harold Ryan has been presumed dead, lost in the Amazon rainforest while hunting for diamonds. Though his hunting trophies remain, an…
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This is the second volume of Vonnegut’s autobiographical writings - a collage of his own life story, snipped up and stuck down alongside his views on everything from suicidal depression…
Peppered with insights, one-liners and missives to the likes of Norman Mailer, Gunter Grass and Bernard Malamud, the author is funny, wise and modest. As he himself said: ‘I am…
Mark Vonnegut
The son of novelist Kurt Vonnegut offers this vivid and moving account of his devastating bout with schizophrenia and his long and difficult battle toward recovery. A highly readable, touching…
Before winning international fame, Vonnegut was a master of the drugstore paperback and the popular short story. This authoritative collection of his brilliant early work display his matchless talent for…
It decides to wind the clock back a decade to 1991, making everyone in the world endure ten years of deja-vu and a total loss of free will - not…
Setting the tone for a collection of stories that is shot through with the author’s acrid wit, and his bewilderment at the corruption of humanity, this work includes a title…
He is Dr Wilbur Daffodil-II Swain and Slapstick or Lonesome No More! is his story - one of monstrous twins, orgies, revenge, golf, utopian schemes, and very little tooth brushing…
Most diseases can be separated from one’s self … schizophrenia is something we are. So begins Mark Vonnegut’s depiction of his descent into, and eventual emergence from, mental illness. This…
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An anthology of previously uncollected short stories features twenty-four of the author’s favorite tales, including Any Reasonable Offer, The Powder-Blue Dragon, Hal Irwin’s Magic Lamp, and Lovers Anonymous. .
Now in paperback: our finest black-humourist (The Atlantic Monthly) Kurt Vonnegut’s first and last works come together for the first time in print, in a collection aptly titled after his…
Andrew Vonnegut
This comprehensive and informed text offers a clear and pragmatic introduction to the workings of the global economy. Vonnegut explains economic concepts and illustrates them with cogent case studies. He…
A young PR man working at General Electric sold his first magazine piece. That young man was Kurt Vonnegut. Bagombo Snuff Box collects Vonnegut’s favourite stories from the postwar years…
A never-before-seen collection of deeply personal love letters from Kurt Vonnegut to his first wife, Jane, compiled and edited by their daughter
A glimpse into the mind of a writer…
Comic riffs and diatribes on the America of G.W. Bush from the author of Slaughterhouse 5
Reflections from a life lived in medicine.
Pediatrician Mark Vonnegut has spent forty years treating children for coughs, fevers, ear infections, and sometimes more serious complaints. In that time he…
With the satirical eye of his science fiction author alter ego Kilgore Trout, the author of Slaughterhouse-Five delivers a classic of modern American literature. Eliot Rosewater, President of the fabulously…
One of America’s greatest writers gives us his unique perspective on our fears of nuclear annihilation
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Using the laid-back, ironic voice that has become his stademark, Vonnegut combines fiction and fact to construct an ingenious, wry morality play’ - Newsweek Vonnegut’s riotous urban fairytale about the…
Tarkington College, a small, exclusive college in upstate New York, is turned upside down when ten thousand prisoners from the maximum security prison across Lake Mohiga break out and head…