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  • Audiobook

    Two Tales

    Jamli Kamali and ZundelState

    by Karen Chase ...
    Narrated by Vikas Adam ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 1 min

    Beautifully narrated by Golden Voice narrator Vikas Adams, these two tales of outsiders, one from the distant past and the other from the far-off future, explore love and beauty in the context of fear and threats and reflect upon one another in surprising ways. Jamali Kamali is a book-length poem about two men who lived in 16th century India. For hundreds of years, the story that these men were ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Two Tales: Jamali Kamali and ZundelState

    by Karen Chase ...
    Two tales of love and rebellion across time and cultures.Jamali Kamali, a book-length poem, explores the love between two men in 16th century India, their longing, separation, and death. Little is known about them, but their story has been passed down through generations. ZundelState, a novella in verse, unfolds in a repressive future where history is banned and dreaming has vanished. Joe, a ... Read more

    $11.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • History Is Embarrassing

    by Karen Chase ...
    A collection of essays full of startling directness, fearlessness, and surprise.Filled with profound reflections and snapshots from the past, Karen Chase’s History is Embarrassing weaves together threads from one single life—a girl suffering from polio, a poet, a Jewish woman, a writer, and a painter. Like Chase, the characters who populate these essays are outsiders—undercover cops, a gay couple ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Eros and Psyche (Routledge Revivals)

    The Representation of Personality in Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, George Eliot

    by Karen Chase ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    How does Victorian fiction represent personality? How does it express emotion and how does it imagine the mind? These questions stand at the centre of Eros and Psyche, first published in 1984. In examining how three authors – Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens and George Eliot – depict the mind and organise emotion, Chase approaches their works as expressive structures, and analyses their struggle ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Spectacle of Intimacy

    A Public Life for the Victorian Family

    Series series Literature in History
    Love of home life, the intimate moments a family peacefully enjoyed in seclusion, had long been considered a hallmark of English character even before the Victorian era. But the Victorians attached unprecedented importance to domesticity, romanticizing the family in every medium from novels to government reports, to the point where actual families felt anxious and the public developed a fierce ... Read more

    $86.39 USD

  • Land of Stone

    Breaking Silence Through Poetry

    by Karen Chase ...
    Series series William Beaumont
    The engaging autobiographical account of a poet-in-residence at a psychiatric hospital who helps a silent young man regain his speaking voice through writing poetry.For more than a decade, Karen Chase taught poetry writing to severely incapacitated patients at a large psychiatric hospital outside of New York City. During that time, she began working with Ben, a handsome, formerly popular and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Polio Boulevard

    A Memoir

    by Karen Chase ...
    Series series Excelsior Editions
    A unique chronicle of childhood polio told with a remarkable blend of provocative reflection, humor, and pluck.Finalist for the 2015 Eric Hoffer Award presented by Hopewell PublicationsIn 1954, Karen Chase was a ten-year-old girl playing Monopoly in the polio ward when the radio blared out the news that Dr. Jonas Salk had developed the polio vaccine. The discovery came too late for her, and Polio ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Audiobook

    Two Tales: Jamali Kamali and ZundelState

    by Karen Chase ...
    Narrated by Vikas Adam ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 1 min

    Beautifully narrated by Golden Voice narrator Vikas Adams, these two tales of outsiders, one from the distant past and the other from the far-off future, explore love and beauty in the context of fear and threats and reflect upon one another in surprising ways. Jamali Kamali is a book-length poem about two men who lived in 16th century India. For hundreds of years, the story that these men were ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Middlemarch in the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Karen Chase ...
    Middlemarch is the prime example of George Eliot's dictum that "interpretations are illimitable," and in this collection of new essays Middlemarch is re-examined as an open text responsive to gaps and fissures, and as resistant to authority as it is to other fixed notions of identity, idealism, and gender. What does the novel omit, and how do the omissions shape what is there? How shall we ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • FDR on His Houseboat

    The Larooco Log, 1924-1926

    Edited by Karen Chase ...
    Series series Excelsior Editions
    Presents and expands upon Roosevelt's daily nautical log as he was trying to regain the use of his polio-damaged legs.In the midst of the Jazz Age, while Americans were making merry, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was stricken by polio and withdrew from public life. From 1924 to 1926, believing that warm water and warm air would help him walk again, he spent the winter months on his new houseboat, the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Carrying Independence

    Series Book 1 - A Founding-Documents Novel
    What if one man carried the fate of American independence in his hands?In this gripping Revolutionary War fiction, Nathaniel Marten becomes the unlikely courier tasked with gathering the final signatures for the Declaration of Independence. Based on the true historical fact that not all delegates signed on August 2nd, Carrying Independence imagines the dangerous mission to complete America's ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Whole-Child Development, Learning, and Thriving

    A Dynamic Systems Approach

    Series series Elements in Child Development
    We discuss whole-child development, learning, and thriving through a dynamic systems theory lens that focuses on the United States and includes an analysis of historical challenges in the American public education system, including inequitable resources, opportunities, and outcomes. To transform US education systems, developmental and learning scientists, educators, policymakers, parents, and ... Read more

    $20.49 USD