Deborah M. Prum
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Deborah M. Prum

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Deborah M. Prum's humorous young adult novel, FATTY IN THE BACK SEAT, is about 15-year-old Cuss who is not a criminal. Well, maybe a slight criminal in the state of New York where he accidentally burns down his neighbor's barn. The judge tells Cuss to behave or he'll wide up behind bars. For Cuss, behaving is almost impossible. FIRST KISS AND OTHER CAUTIONARY TALES is a collection of Prum's essays most of which originally aired on NPR-member stations. In these essays, you will: Learn about: spring-loaded toilet seats in the Pisa Airport (a creation of the Devil). Find out why Googling "How to Pick Up a Chick" is not the best strategy for determining the best way to scoop up live poultry. Discover the ancient secret of an Italian grandmother's deadly chicken soup recipe. (Hint: it's all in the feet.) CZARS AND CZARINAS is a humorous and anecdotal account of the first nine centuries of Russian history, focusing on Ivan III, Ivan IV, Peter the Great and Catherine the Great. This cutting-edge book features: an introductory song, slide shows, charts, portraits that speak to you, various sound effects for artwork (bells ringing, horses whinnying, thunder, etc.) The humor is Monty Python-like in style. For example, when you click on a portrait of Peter's wife, Eudoxia, she tells the reader their troubled marriage was "All Peter's fault." Another example is a section of the book describing Ivan the IV's death--being poisoned during a chess match. When you click on the portrait of Ivan IV, you hear a recording of someone saying, "CHECKMATE!" in a Russian accent. This book will engage, entertain and inform even the most reluctant of readers. The iBook can be downloaded onto an iPad or any Mac device. Available at the iTunes Bookstore. BACK TALKING ON THE MOUNTAIN OF GOD (edited by Deborah Prum) is an interactive poetry anthology featuring poets Elizabeth Bohlke, Susan Cunningham, Stephen Hitchcock, and Kaili van Waveren. Their poems are paired with photographs taken by Stuart W. Scott. At the end of each chapter, the poet reads aloud three poems. The result is a splendid combination of words, sounds and images. The iBook can be downloaded onto an iPad or any other Mac device. Available at the iTunes Bookstore. RATS, BULLS AND FLYING MACHINES is Prum's funny and story-driven young adult book about the Renaissance and Reformation. Prum's award-winning fiction appeared twice in The Virginia Quarterly Review and in many other journals. Excerpts from her novel-in-progress The String Theory of Love have been included in several anthologies. She's written on the craft of writing for both The Writer magazine and The Writer's Handbook. Her humorous essays have aired on NPR-member stations and have appeared in many magazines and newspapers including The Washington Post.
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