 | 100 Must-read Classic Novels (Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide S.)
Release Date: April 1, 2010| ISBN-10: 0713675837 | ISBN-13: 978-0713675832Want to become a classic novel buff, or expand your reading of some of the finest novels ever published? With 100 of the best titles fully reviewed and a further 500 recommended, you’ll quickly set out on a journey of discovery. ...
 |  | The Liberated Imagination: Thinking Christianly about the Arts
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|  | Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife
Release Date: September 29, 2009In June, 1942, Anne Frank received a red-and-white checked diary for her thirteenth birthday, just weeks before she and her family went into hiding from the Nazis in an Amsterdam attic. For two years, with ever-increasing maturity, Anne crafted a memoir that has become one of the most compelling, intimate, and important documents of modern history - grappling with the unfolding events of World War II, until the hidden attic was raided in August, 1944. But the diary of Anne Frank, argues Francine Prose, is as much a work of art as an historical record. Through ...
|  | Pure Pleasure: A Guide to the 20th Century's Most Enjoyable Books
Publication Date: May 2001In Pure Pleasure, John Carey, one of Britain's most respected literary critics, introduces us to what he believes are the fifty most enjoyable books of the twentieth century based on sheer reading pleasure. Mixing fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, Carey includes literary heavyweights like James Joyce, Thomas Mann, and T. S. Eliot, as well as more populist writers like Arthur Conan Doyle, Kingsley Amis, and John Updike. Carey also discusses masterpieces like F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum, alongside lesser-known works like D. H....
|  | Teaching for Inquiry: Engaging the Learner Within
Publication Date: October 31, 2011| ISBN-10: 1555707556 | ISBN-13: 978-1555707552The American Association of School Librarians (AASL s) Standards for the 21st-Century Learner define inquiry as a stance toward learning in which the learner is engaged in asking questions and finding answers, not simply accumulating facts presented by someone else that have no relation to previous learning or new understanding. Inquiry follows a continuum of learning experiences, from simply discovering a new idea or an answer to a question to following a complete inquiry process. Inquiry is a crucial vanta...
|  | The Critical Pulse: Thirty-Six Credos by Contemporary Critics
Publication Date: September 18, 2012This unprecedented anthology asks thirty-six leading literary and cultural critics to elaborate on the nature of their profession. With the humanities feeling the pinch of financial and political pressures, and its disciplines resting on increasingly uncertain conceptual ground, there couldn't be a better time for critics to reassert their widespread relevance and purpose. These credos boldly defend the function of criticism in contemporary society and showcase its vitality in the era after theory.Essays address literature and politics, with some focusing ...
|  | Experience Reading, book 2 with Connect Reading 1.0 access card
Publication Date: March 9, 2011| ISBN-10: 0077513908 | ISBN-13: 978-0077513900| Edition: 1 Experience Reading engages students personally, actively, and critically through an integrated print and digital program designed to prepare them for college—and lifelong—reading.Here’s how:Eight scaffolded modules help students move from guided to independent reading with selections that are personal and relevant to their lives.Each module is arranged from least to most challenging in terms of reading level and includes pre- and post-reading activities that encourage students ...
|  | Book Was There: Reading in Electronic Times
Publication Date: October 8, 2012Andrew Piper grew up liking books and loving computers. While occasionally burying his nose in books, he was going to computer camp, programming his Radio Shack TRS-80, and playing Pong. His eventual love of reading made him a historian of the book and a connoisseur of print, but as a card-carrying member of the first digital generation—and the father of two digital natives—he understands that we live in electronic times. Book Was There is Piper’s surprising and always entertaining essay on reading in an e-reader world. Much ink has bee...
|  | Scout, Atticus, and Boo: A Celebration of Fifty Years of To Kill a Mockingbird
Release Date: June 8, 2010 To Kill a Mockingbird may well be our national novel. It is the first adult novel that many of us remember reading, one book that millions of us have in common. It sells nearly a million copies a year, more than any other twentieth-century American classic. Harper Lee's first and only novel, published in July 1960, is a beloved classic and touchstone in American literary and social history. To mark the fiftieth anniversary of To Kill a Mockingbird, Mary McDonagh Murphy reviews its history and examines how the novel has left its mark on a broad range of novelists,...
|  | The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books
Publication Date: January 20, 2007What if you asked 125 top writers to pick theirfavorite books? Which titles would come out ontop?You'll find the answer in The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books: the ultimate guide to the world's greatest books. As writers such as Norman Mailer, Annie Proulx, Stephen King, Jonathan Franzen, Claire Messud, Margaret Drabble, Michael Chabon and Peter Carey name the ten books that have meant the most to them, you'll be reminded of books you have always loved and introduced to works awaiting your discovery.The Top Ten includes summaries of 544 books ...
|  | The Book Lover's Cookbook: Recipes Inspired by Celebrated Works of Literature, and the Passages That Feature Them
Release Date: March 29, 2005THE BOOK LOVER’S COOKBOOKRecipes Inspired by Celebrated Works of Literature and the Passages that Feature ThemShaunda Kennedy Wenger and Janet Kay JensenWake up to a perfect breakfast with Mrs. Dalby’s Buttermilk Scones, courtesy of James Herriot’s All Things Bright and Beautiful and Ichabod’s Slapjacks, as featured in Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. There’s homey comfort food like Connie May's Tomato Pie, created with and inspired by Connie May Fowler (Remembering Blue); Thanksgiving Spinach Casserole (El...
|  | Invisible Forms: A Guide to Literary Curiosities
Publication Date: November 16, 2000| ISBN-10: 0312266065 | ISBN-13: 978-0312266066| Edition: First Edition Dedications, Titles, Epigraphs, Footnotes, Prefaces, Afterwords, Indexes... These and other "invisible" literary necessities form the skeletons of many a book, yet these unacknowledged and unexamined forms abound in wisdom, curiosities, or eccentricities.With both erudition and wit, and drawing on examples from every part of literature's history, ranging from the greats such as Shakespeare, Beckett, and T. S. Eliot to lesser known writers such as Fernando Pessoa.Jackson's mixture of...
|  | Best Books for Children: Preschool Through Grade 6 (Children's and Young Adult Literature Reference)
Publication Date: January 28, 2010| ISBN-10: 1591585759 | ISBN-13: 978-1591585756| Edition: 9 This indispensable selection guide brings together information on nearly 25,000 of the best fiction and nonfiction for children in grades K-6. Fully updated, including thousands of new entries published since the previous edition, it is an invaluable resource for making sure your children's collection is one your young patrons—and their parents and teachers—will enjoy. As always in the Best Books series, the authors have carefully culled the most trusted professional review sources...
|  | Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books
Release Date: January 2, 2007“It’s not that I don’t like people,” writes Maureen Corrigan in her introduction to Leave Me Alone, I’m Reading. “It’s just that there always comes amoment when I’m in the company of others—even my nearest and dearest—when I’d rather be reading a book.” In this delightful memoir, Corrigan reveals which books and authors have shaped her own life—from classic works of English literature to hard-boiled detective novels, and everything in between. And in her explorations of the heroes and h...
|  | The Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and Reviews
Release Date: August 29, 1990Much like her highly acclaimed One Writer's Beginnings, The Eye of the Story offers Eudora Welty's invaluable meditations on the art of writing. In addition to seven essays on craft, this collection brings together her penetrating and instructive commentaries on a wide variety of individual writers, including Jane Austen, E. M. Forster, Willa Cather, Anton Chekhov, William Faulkner, and Virginia Woolf. ...
|  | A to Zoo: Subject Access to Children's Picture Books (Children's and Young Adult Literature Reference)
Publication Date: June 17, 2010| ISBN-10: 1598844067 | ISBN-13: 978-1598844061| Edition: 8 It's back and it's better than ever, chock full of everything a children's librarian needs for reader's advisory and collection building. A to Zoo: Subject Access to Children's Picture Books, Eighth Edition is the latest version of the guide that has become the standard resource for up-to-date information on fiction and nonfiction picture books for children.This must-have volume provides thorough subject access to children's picture books, covering some 12,000-15,000 titles. The eighth edition has ...
|  | Looking for God in Harry Potter
Publication Date: September 21, 2007Millions of children, even Christian children, are reading the mega-selling Harry Potter book series and are exposed to the Harry Potter movies. John Granger, a devout Christian, teacher of classic literature, and father of seven children, first read the Harry Potter books so he could explain to his children why they weren't allowed to read them. After intense study, however, he became convinced that the books are underestimated as literature--and reflect important Christian truths. In Looking for God in Harry Potter, Granger gives parents and teachers a r...
|  | Unreliable Truth
Publication Date: May 2003Beginning with the idea that memory is nothing more than “an angle of perception,” Murdock explores the recurrent question asked by writers and readers of memoir alike: what actually happened? Prompted by the loss of identity that accompanied her mother’s struggle with Alzheimer’s and subsequent lost memories, Murdock proposes that perhaps the faithful recording of the past isn’t where the strength of memoir lies. Instead, Murdock looks at the basic components of memoir writing and the process of self-reflection it requires and how they ...
|  | Reading Harry Potter Again: New Critical Essays
Publication Date: May 19, 2009| ISBN-10: 0313361975 | ISBN-13: 978-0313361975As was argued in Reading Harry Potter: Critical Essays (Praeger, 2003), interpreting the underlying messages and themes of the Harry Potter series is vital for understanding the ways in which we perceive and interact with each other in contemporary society. The novels and corresponding film adaptations have broken records with their astonishing sales and widespread acclaim. They have also generated a plethora of writing—by critics, academics, and fans. J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books could easily be cal...
|  | Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind: A Bestseller's Odyssey from Atlanta to Hollywood
Publication Date: June 16, 2012Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind: A Bestseller's Odyssey from Atlanta to Hollywood presents the first comprehensive overview of how this iconic novel became an international phenomenon that has managed to sustain the public's interest for 75 years. Various Mitchell biographies and several compilations of her letters tell part of the story, but, until now, no single source has revealed the full saga. This entertaining account of a literary and pop culture phenomenon tells how Mitchell's book was developed, marketed, distributed, and otherwi...
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