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God Land

God Land
Author: Lyz Lenz
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2019-07-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0253041546

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“Will resonate with any readers interested in understanding American landscapes where white, evangelical Christianity dominates both politics and culture.” —Publishers Weekly In the wake of the 2016 election, Lyz Lenz watched as her country and her marriage were torn apart by the competing forces of faith and politics. A mother of two, a Christian, and a lifelong resident of middle America, Lenz was bewildered by the pain and loss around her—the empty churches and the broken hearts. What was happening to faith in the heartland? From drugstores in Sydney, Iowa, to skeet shooting in rural Illinois, to the mega churches of Minneapolis, Lenz set out to discover the changing forces of faith and tradition in God’s country. Part journalism, part memoir, God Land is a journey into the heart of a deeply divided America. Lenz visits places of worship across the heartland and speaks to the everyday people who often struggle to keep their churches afloat and to cope in a land of instability. Through a thoughtful interrogation of the effects of faith and religion on our lives, our relationships, and our country, God Land investigates whether our divides can ever be bridged and if America can ever come together. “God Land, Lyz Lenz’s much-anticipated debut book, is a marvel. Not only is it a window into the middle America so many like to stereotype but fail to fully understand in all of its complexity, but it mixes reportage, memoir, and gorgeous prose so seamlessly I wanted to know how she did it.” —Sarah Weinman, author of The Real Lolita


The Lenz

The Lenz
Author: Damien Lutz
Publisher: Damien Lutz
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2019-10-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0994627548

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It’s been years since the Earth Shift devastated the world with tsunamis, and some believe there’ll be more. To forget the uncertain future, the citizens of the coastal city of Shibido immerse themselves in the Maya Lenz—an augmented reality contact lens that hides what they don’t want to see. Even when rising seas force an islander tribe to take up residence by Shibido’s sea wall, it’s months before the refugees are noticed—and even then, the Lenz makes them easy to forget. Struggling Actor Yoshi Goto sees the refugees, though, and he fears becoming just as invisible—he hasn’t had a decent role in a year. If only he could afford a Lenz, then he could focus on his reinvention and forget about the sea coming for them all. So when Maya offer Yoshi a Lenz and a role in their next mixed-reality project, he’s all in. But the deeper he’s immersed in the Lenz’s illusions, the more a magnetic stranger named Kai challenges him to see more. The last thing his re-invention needs, however, is an inconvenient awareness or an impossible romance. But something even more magical than the Lenz, and more profound than love, is demanding Yoshi rise to his most challenging role—to be someone real in a world of uncertainty.


Belabored

Belabored
Author: Lyz Lenz
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2020-08-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1541762827

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In Belabored, Lyz Lenz will "make you cry in one paragraph and snort-laugh in the next" (Chloe Angyal, contributing editor at MarieClaire.com). Written with a blend of wit, snark, and raw intimacy, Belabored is an impassioned and irreverent defense of the autonomy, rights, and dignity of pregnant people. Lenz shows how religious, historical, and cultural myths about pregnancy have warped the way we treat pregnant people: when our representatives enact laws criminalizing abortion and miscarriage, when doctors prioritize the health of the fetus over the life of the pregnant patient in front of them, when baristas refuse to serve visibly pregnant women caffeine. She also reflects on her own experiences of carrying her two children and seeing how the sacrifices demanded during pregnancy carry over seamlessly into the cult of motherhood, where women are expected to play the narrowly defined roles of "wife" and "mother" rather than be themselves. Belabored is an urgent call for us to trust women and let them choose what happens to their own bodies, from a writer who "is on a roll" (Bitch Magazine).


Follow the Leader?

Follow the Leader?
Author: Gabriel S. Lenz
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2013-01-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0226472159

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In a democracy, we generally assume that voters know the policies they prefer and elect like-minded officials who are responsible for carrying them out. We also assume that voters consider candidates' competence, honesty, and other performance-related traits. But does this actually happen? Do voters consider candidates’ policy positions when deciding for whom to vote? And how do politicians’ performances in office factor into the voting decision? In Follow the Leader?, Gabriel S. Lenz sheds light on these central questions of democratic thought. Lenz looks at citizens’ views of candidates both before and after periods of political upheaval, including campaigns, wars, natural disasters, and episodes of economic boom and bust. Noting important shifts in voters’ knowledge and preferences as a result of these events, he finds that, while citizens do assess politicians based on their performance, their policy positions actually matter much less. Even when a policy issue becomes highly prominent, voters rarely shift their votes to the politician whose position best agrees with their own. In fact, Lenz shows, the reverse often takes place: citizens first pick a politician and then adopt that politician’s policy views. In other words, they follow the leader. Based on data drawn from multiple countries, Follow the Leader? is the most definitive treatment to date of when and why policy and performance matter at the voting booth, and it will break new ground in the debates about democracy.


The German Lesson

The German Lesson
Author: Siegfried Lenz
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2021-03-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0811222268

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In this quiet and devastating novel about the rise of fascism, Siggi Jepsen, incarcerated as a juvenile delinquent, is assigned to write a routine German lesson on the “The Joys of Duty.” Overfamiliar with these joys, Siggi sets down his life since 1943, a decade earlier, when as a boy he watched his father, a constable, doggedly carry out orders from Berlin to stop a well-known Expressionist artist from painting and to seize all his “degenerate” work. Soon Siggi is stealing the paintings to keep them safe from his father. “I was trying to find out,” Lenz says, “where the joys of duty could lead a people.” Translated from the German by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins


The Locusts

The Locusts
Author: Jesse Lenz
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9780578679471

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The Locusts is the first monograph by photographer and publisher Jesse Lenz. His images transport the reader to rural Ohio where his children run wild in the fields, build forts in the attic, and fall asleep surrounded by lightsabers and superheroes. The microcosmic worlds of plants, insects, animals, and children create a brooding landscape where dichotomies of nature play out in front of his growing family. The backyard becomes a labyrinth of passages as the children experience the cycles of birth and death in the changing seasons. The Locusts depicts a world in which beautiful and terrible things will happen, but offers grace and healing within the brokenness and imperfection of life.


The Selected Stories of Siegfried Lenz

The Selected Stories of Siegfried Lenz
Author: Siegfried Lenz
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1989
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780811211055

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Siegfried Lenz is one of Germany's foremost writers, ranking in popularity as well as critical esteem with Gunter Grass and Heinrich Boell. He is considered one of the best short story writers of the post-war generation. These twenty-six stories make up the first comprehensive collection of his short works to appear in English.


Image and Text: J.M.R. Lenz

Image and Text: J.M.R. Lenz
Author: Stipa Madland
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2023-11-27
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9004654593

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Bernice Buttman, Model Citizen

Bernice Buttman, Model Citizen
Author: Niki Lenz
Publisher: Yearling
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2021-01-26
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1524770434

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Bernice Buttman is tough, crass, and hilarious, and she just might teach you a thing or two about empathy in this novel for fans of The Great Gilly Hopkins. When you're a Buttman, the label "bully" comes with the territory, and Bernice lives up to her name. But life as a bully is lonely, and if there's one thing Bernice really wants (even more than becoming a Hollywood stuntwoman), it's a true friend. After her mom skedaddles and leaves her in a new town with her aunt (who is also a real live nun), Bernice decides to mend her ways and become a model citizen. If her plan works, she just might be able to get herself to Hollywood Hills Stunt Camp! But it's hard to be kind when no one shows you kindness, so a few cheesy pranks may still be up her sleeve. . . . Get ready to laugh out loud--and maybe even shed a tear--with this fantastic new middle-grade voice!