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Go the Fuck to Sleep is a satirical book written by American author Adam Mansbach and illustrated by Ricardo Cortés.Described as a "children's book for adults", [1] it reached No. 1 on Amazon.com's bestseller list a month before its release, thanks to an unintended viral marketing campaign during which booksellers forwarded PDF copies of the book by e-mail.
Mansbach wrote the "children's book for adults" Go the Fuck to Sleep, parodying bedtime stories. [2] Other books Mansbach has written include Angry Black White Boy , a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2005, [ 3 ] and The End of the Jews [ 4 ] (for which he won the California Book Award for fiction in 2008).
Downtown Bloomington and the McLean County Courthouse & Square are seen in this 1914 image. The McLean County Courthouse housed the McLean County Circuit Court from 1903 to 1976. The original construction was completed in 1868 at a cost of $461,640. [2] On June 19, 1900, a fire destroyed many of the buildings in the square and the courthouse.
In 2005, the book was the second most banned and challenged book in the United States. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] In August 2024, it was one of 13 books banned statewide by Utah 's state board of education, allegedly for its "objective sensitive material."
Before I Go to Sleep is the first novel by S. J. Watson, published in the spring of 2011. It became both a Sunday Times and The New York Times bestseller [ 1 ] and has been translated into over 40 languages, [ 2 ] and has become a bestseller in France, Canada, Bulgaria and the Netherlands. [ 3 ]
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The first book, The Glitch in Sleep, was nominated for the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award and a Vermont children's choice award. [12] It was also chosen as one of Amazon's Best Books of the Year (2007) for "Middle Readers" (older children) along with nine other books. [13] It was also named an Autumn Book Sense Children's pick in 2007. [14]
The Illinois Shakespeare Festival (ISF) is held in Bloomington, Illinois, United States at Ewing Theatre and in Normal, Illinois, United States at the Center for Performing Arts Theatre at Illinois State University. The Festival began in 1978 and celebrated its 45th season in 2023.