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Mania : a novel / by Shriver, Lionel,author.;
"In an alternative 2011, the Mental Parity movement takes hold. Americans now embrace the sacred, universal truth that there is no such thing as variable human intelligence. Because everyone is equally smart, discrimination against purportedly dumb people is 'the last great civil rights fight.' Tests, grades, and employment qualifications are all discarded. Children are expelled for saying the S-word ("stupid") and encouraged to report parents who use it at home. A college English instructor, the constitutionally rebellious Pearson Converse rejected her restrictive Jehovah's Witness upbringing as a teenager, and so has an aversion to dogma of any kind. Made impotent in the university classroom, she's also enraged by the crushing of her exceptionally bright children's spirit in primary school. Fortunately, she enjoys the confidence of a best friend, a media commentator with whom she can speak frankly about her socially unacceptable contempt for the MP movement. Or at least she thinks she can ... until one day the political chasm between the two women becomes uncrossable, and a lifelong relationship implodes."--
Subjects: Satirical literature.; Novels.; Discrimination; Intelligence levels; Personality and intelligence; Trust;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Mania [text (large print)] : a novel / by Shriver, Lionel,author.;
"In an alternative 2011, the Mental Parity movement takes hold. Americans now embrace the sacred, universal truth that there is no such thing as variable human intelligence. Because everyone is equally smart, discrimination against purportedly dumb people is 'the last great civil rights fight.' Tests, grades, and employment qualifications are all discarded. Children are expelled for saying the S-word ("stupid") and encouraged to report parents who use it at home. A college English instructor, the constitutionally rebellious Pearson Converse rejected her restrictive Jehovah's Witness upbringing as a teenager, and so has an aversion to dogma of any kind. Made impotent in the university classroom, she's also enraged by the crushing of her exceptionally bright children's spirit in primary school. Fortunately, she enjoys the confidence of a best friend, a media commentator with whom she can speak frankly about her socially unacceptable contempt for the MP movement. Or at least she thinks she can ... until one day the political chasm between the two women becomes uncrossable, and a lifelong relationship implodes."--
Subjects: Large print books.; Satirical literature.; Novels.; Discrimination; Intelligence levels; Personality and intelligence; Trust;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Mania A Novel [electronic resource] : by Shriver, Lionel.aut; cloudLibrary;
Set in a parallel yet all too familiar near past, a brilliant subversive novel about a lifelong friendship threatened by culture wars, from the New York Times bestselling author. In an alternative 2011, the Mental Parity movement takes hold. Americans now embrace the sacred, universal truth that there is no such thing as variable human intelligence. Because everyone is equally smart, discrimination against purportedly dumb people is "the last great civil rights fight." Tests, grades, and employment qualifications are all discarded. Children are expelled for saying the S-word (“stupid”) and encouraged to report parents who use it at home. A college English instructor, the constitutionally rebellious Pearson Converse rejected her restrictive Jehovah’s Witness upbringing as a teenager, and so has an aversion to dogma of any kind. Made impotent in the university classroom, she’s also enraged by the crushing of her exceptionally bright children’s spirits in primary school. Fortunately, she enjoys the confidence of a best friend, a media commentator with whom she can speak frankly about her socially unacceptable contempt for the MP movement. Or at least she thinks she can . . . until one day the political chasm between the two women becomes uncrossable, and a lifelong relationship implodes. With echoes of Philip Roth’s The Human Stain, told in Lionel Shriver’s inimitable and iconoclastic voice, Mania is a sharp, acerbic, and ruthlessly funny book about the road to a delusional, self-destructive egalitarianism that our society is already on.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Dystopian; Literary; Family Life;
© 2024., HarperCollins,
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Soccer mania / by O'Connor, Jane.; Preiss-Glasser, Robin.;
As her third-grade class makes its selections for the "Graveyard of Boring Words" and learns about "superb synonyms," slow-footed Nancy enthusiastically plays on the soccer team, with the goal of just being mediocre, or maybe even a little better than average.Ages 6-10.LSC
Subjects: Soccer stories.; Fancy Nancy (Fictitious character); Vocabulary; Schools;
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Beetle mania / by Litwin, Megan.; Panczyszyn, Shauna Lynn.;
Best friends and fellow bug catchers Dirt and Bugsy gather a bunch of beetles and sort them into categories.
Subjects: Readers (Publications); Beetles; Friendship;
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Manga mania : how to draw Japanese comics / by Hart, Christopher;
Subjects: Comic books, strips, etc.; Cartooning; Drawing; Comic strip characters;
© 2001., Watson-Guptill Publications,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Space mania : discovering distant worlds without leaving your own / by DiSpezio, Michael A.;
Provides a history of the Universe, a look at galaxies, constellations, stars, and space-related activities.
Subjects: Astronomy.;
© c2003., Sterling Publishing,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Truck-mania! / by Bingham, Caroline,1962-;
This book presents a look at some of the most powerful machines ever to travel on land, including the Peterbilt 379 tractor, the Liebherr LTM 1500 crane, the Komatsu D575A super dozer, and the John Deere 9750 combine.4-8
Subjects: Trucks;
© 2004., Gareth Stevens Pub.,
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Customer mania! : it's never too late to build a customer-focused company / by Blanchard, Kenneth H.; Ballard, Jim,1933-; Finch, Frederic E.;
Subjects: Customer services;
© c2004., Free Press,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Monster truck mania! / by Lord, Cynthia.; Anderson, Derek,1969-;
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Subjects: Hot Rod Hamster (Fictitious character); Hamsters; Dogs; Mice; Amusement rides; Monster trucks;
© 2014., Scholastic Press,
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