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  • We Think The World of You

    by J.R. Ackerley ...
    We Think the World of You combines acute social realism and dark fantasy, and was described by J.R. Ackerley as “a fairy tale for adults.” Frank, the narrator, is a middle-aged civil servant, intelligent, acerbic, self-righteous, angry. He is in love with Johnny, a young, married, working-class man with a sweetly easygoing nature. When Johnny is sent to prison for committing a petty theft, Frank ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • My Dog Tulip

    by J.R. Ackerley ...
    The distinguished British man of letters J. R. Ackerley hardly thought of himself as a dog lover when, well into middle age, he came into possession of a German shepherd. To his surprise, she turned out to be the love of his life, the “ideal friend” he had been searching for in vain for years. My Dog Tulip is a bittersweet retrospective account of their sixteen-year companionship, as well as a ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Hindoo Holiday

    by J. R. Ackerley ...
    In the 1920s, the young J. R. Ackerley spent several months in India as the personal secretary to the maharajah of a small Indian principality. In his journals, Ackerley recorded the Maharajah’s fantastically eccentric habits and riddling conversations, and the odd shambling day-to-day life of his court. Hindoo Holiday is an intimate and very funny account of an exceedingly strange place, and one ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • My Father and Myself

    by J. R. Ackerley ...
    **NYRB CLASSICS: An adult son and acclaimed author offers a heartfelt gay memoir about uncovering his late father’s secrets.“A cross between Dickens’s David Copperfield, Rousseau’s Confessions, and the new pornography.”** —Donald Windham, novelist and memoiristWhen his father died, J. R. Ackerley was shocked to discover that he had led a secret life. And after Ackerley himself died, he left a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    My Dog Tulip

    by J. R. Ackerley ...
    Narrated by Geoffrey Howard ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 38 min

    Distinguished British man of letters J. R. Ackerley hardly thought himself a dog lover when, well into middle age, he came into possession of a German shepherd named Tulip. To his surprise, she turned out to be the love of his life, the "ideal friend" he had been seeking in vain for years.My Dog Tulip is a bittersweet retrospective account of their sixteen-year companionship, as well as a profound ... Read more

    $11.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fated

    A Short Story

    by Brandy Ackerley ...
    It’s a burden knowing that magic exists…For as long as she can remember, Phedre has seen a much different world than the rest of us. Sprites and spirits dance around and through us and everybody is surrounded by brightly coloured auras. Despite that touch of magic, she lived a normal life. But when her new step-father breaks the peace in their home, Phedre runs without a plan. Offered an escape ... Read more

    $0.94 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism

    by Seán Hewitt, Luke Gibbons, Gregory Castle, Simon During, Damien Keane, Susanne S. Cammack, Jeremy Lakoff, Enda Duffy, Chris Ackerley, Alan Graham, Katherine Ebury, Andrew Kalaidjian ...
    Series series Irish Studies
    Since W. B. Yeats wrote in 1890 that "the man of science is too often a person who has exchanged his soul for a formula," the anti-scientific bent of Irish literature has often been taken as a given. Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism brings together leading and emerging scholars of Irish modernism to challenge the stereotype that Irish literature has been unconcerned with scientific and ... Read more

    $25.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Spaghetti is NOT a Finger Food

    ( and other life lessons )

    by Jodi Carmichael ...
    Illustrated by Sarah Ackerley ...
    In this humorous chapter book about an eight-year-old boy with AspergersSyndrome, Connor struggles to make his way through a typical school day. In his attempt to be as cool as everyone else, he leaves a hilarious trail of destruction. But, by the end of the day, and despite many miscommunications and misunderstandings, Connor realizes that he is exactly as cool as he is supposed to be. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Spaghetti Is Not A Finger Food

    (and other life lessons)

    by Jodi Carmichael ...
    Illustrated by Sarah Ackerley ...
    This deliciously entertaining and humorous chapter book gets top marks for presenting a delightfully quirky day in the life of an eight-year-old boy with Asperger's Syndrome.Being eight, Connor knew a lot. He knew that Mrs. Winters did not like to be interrupted, but he was sure she would appreciate his fact-finding methods—and who wouldn' t want to know more about geckos? He knew he needed the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Importing Faith

    The Effect of American "Word of Faith" Culture on Contemporary English Evangelical Revivalism

    by Glyn J. Ackerley ...
    Many twenty-first-century evangelical charismatics in Britain are looking for a faith that "works." They want to experience the miraculous in terms of healings and God-sent financial provision. Many have left the mainstream churches to join independent charismatic churches led by those who are perceived to have special insights into faith and to teach principles that will help believers experience ... Read more

    $30.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Studies in Learner Corpus Linguistics

    Research and Applications for Foreign Language Teaching and Assessment

    Edited by Erik Castello, Katherine Ackerley, Francesca Coccetta ...
    Series Book 190 - Linguistic Insights
    This volume explores the potential of using both cross-sectional and longitudinal learner corpora to investigate the interlanguage of learners with various L1 backgrounds and to subsequently apply the findings to language teaching and assessment. It is made up of 18 chapters selected from papers presented at the international conference «Compiling and Using Learner Corpora», held in May 2013 at ... Read more

    $122.29 USD

  • The 1940 Under the Volcano

    A Critical Edition

    by Malcolm Lowry, Chris Ackerley, David Large ...
    Series series Canadian Literature Collection
    The 1940 Under the Volcano—hidden for too long in the shadows of Lowry’s 1947 masterpiece—differs from the latter in significant ways. It is a bridge between Lowry’s 1930s fiction (especially In Ballast to the White Sea) and the 1947 Under the Volcano itself. Joining the recently published Swinging the Maelstrom and In Ballast to the White Sea, The 1940 Under the Volcano takes its rightful place ... Read more

    $13.09 USD