 | Domestic Work
Publication Date: September 1, 2000In this debut collection, Natasha Trethewey draws moving domestic portraits of families, past and present, caught in the act of earning a living and managing their households. Small moments taken from a labor-filled day reveal the equally hard emotional work of memory and forgetting, the extraordinary difficulty of trying to live with or without someone. ...
 |  | Moon Shell Beach: A Novel
Release Date: June 23, 2009Lexi Laney and Clare Hart grew up together having wondrous adventures across picturesque Nantucket. And when it was time to share intimate secrets and let their imaginations run free, they escaped to their private hideaway: Moon Shell Beach. But nothing stays the same. With the complicated pressures of adulthood, their intense bond is frayed, hurtful words are exchanged, and Lexi flees Nantucket to a life of luxury while Clare stays behind. Ten years later, a newly divorced Lexi returns to make amends with those she left in her wake–particularly Clare, who st...
|  | The Torn Skirt
Release Date: October 15, 2002I was born with a fever, but it seemed to subside for sixteen years. . . . And then as I turned sixteen and stopped smiling, the fever returned though my skin stayed pale and sure, showing no sign of the heat inside me.At Mt. Douglas (a.k.a. Mt. Drug) High, all the girls have feathered hair, and the sweet scent of Love's Baby Soft can't hide the musk of raw teenage anger, apathy, and desire. Sara Shaw is a girl full of fever and longing, a girl looking for something risky, something real. Her only possible salvation comes in the willowy form of the mysterious Ju...
|  | Drive Down Ruby Road
Publication Date: October 23, 2011Life gives Dallas O'Donnell a swift kick in the rear when he participates in a dark rite of passage for the boys in the small town of Ruby. "Bloody Bill" Hawkins has been plagued by these teenage boys for years, suffering their torment each time they throw red paint on his porch. It's meant to look like blood-the blood of Bloody Bill's younger brother, who was shot twenty years ago on Ruby Road, just as he began his senior year in high school. Great student, great kid, the school's local football hero.When Dallas is caught "red"-handed dumping paint on Bill'...
|  | The Delectable Mountains: or, Entertaining Strangers
Release Date: November 1, 2002Life seems to have little to offer Devin Donahue at the age of 23. Graduation thrust him out of college against his will, and the love of his life just left him to marry his older brother. With a broken heart and no direction to speak of, Devin pounces on his first opportunity to skip town-an invitation to help run a summer theater in Colorado with his high-school sweetheart.Upon arrival, Devin is shoved into a torrential melodrama of barroom brawls, outrageous love triangles and the worst performance of Hedda Gabler ever produced. He is sucked into the action b...
|  | Slaughterhouse-Five
Release Date: November 3, 1991Slaughterhous-Five is one ofthe world's great anti-war books. Centering on theinfamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim'sodyssey through time reflects the mythic journeyof our own fractured lives as we search for meaningin what we are afraid to know. ...
|  | Far North: A Novel
Release Date: June 22, 2010Far North is a 2009 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.My father had an expression for a thing that turned out bad. He’d say it had gone west. But going west always sounded pretty good to me. After all, westwards is the path of the sun. And through as much history as I know of, people have moved west to settle and find freedom. But our world had gone north, truly gone north, and just how far north I was beginning to learn.Out on the frontier of a failed state, Makepeace—sheriff and perhaps last citizen—patrols a city’s ruins, salvaging...
|  | Classical Literature and its Reception: An Anthology
Publication Date: November 28, 2006| ISBN-10: 1405112948 | ISBN-13: 978-1405112949| Edition: 1 This anthology presents a selection of works that illustrates the traffic between British poetry and classical literature.Gives readers the classical background they need in order to really appreciate British poetry. Divided into two halves – the first half presenting a selection of the best British poems, and the second presenting relevant classical works in translation. Notes and introductions highlight the connections between British works and their classical forebears....
|  | The Babbler Bird's Daughter: A Novel
Publication Date: April 22, 2010Sometimes, all it takes to face your own demons, is to betray your family....When Rachel Sen´s estranged father unexpectedly offers her an olive branch and invites her to live at Dalby Manor, she suspects there is more to his sudden interest in their relationship. But despite her initial misgivings, Rachel is lulled by her husband´s doubts into believing there might be a chance for her and her father to put the past behind.Nicknamed Torpedo because of his early encounters with the law, her husband Espen Toren has the street smarts Rachel lacks. The o...
|  | The Complete Love Poems of May Swenson
Publication Date: August 15, 2003Collected here are the complete love poems of May Swenson -- poems full of kindness, of sensuousness, of gentle affection, of love satisfied. As Maxine Kumin writes in her foreword to this collection, "the majority of Swenson's love poems are human you-and-I poems, exquisitely tender and understated." Culled from Swenson's published poetry as well as from her unpublished manuscripts, the poems in this collection provide an intimate glimpse of one of the most beloved American poets of the twentieth century, "a poet of dazzling gifts" (Joyce Carol Oates). ...
|  | Romanticism and Colonial Disease (Medicine and Culture)
Publication Date: December 3, 1999| Series: Medicine and Culture Colonial experience was profoundly structured by disease, as expansion brought people into contact with new and deadly maladies. Pathogens were exchanged on a scale far greater than ever before. Native populations were decimated by wave after wave of Old World diseases. In turn, colonists suffered disease and mortality rates much higher than in their home countries. Not only disease, but the idea of disease, and the response to it, deeply affected both colonizers and those colonized.In Romanticism and Colonial Disease, Alan Bew...
|  | The Appropriated Voice: Narrative Authority in Conrad, Forster, and Woolf
Publication Date: July 1, 1990Uses feminist theory, cultural criticism, cultural ethnography, and narrative theory in critiquing traditional and revisionist criticism ...
|  | Break of Day (French Modernist Library)
Publication Date: December 1, 2008| Series: French Modernist Library Originally published in France in 1934, Break of Day is André Breton’s second collection of critical and polemical essays, following The Lost Steps (Nebraska 1996). In fewer than two hundred pages, it captures the first full decade of the surrealist movement. The collection opens with an essay composed in 1924 that examines key elements of surrealism and concludes with Breton’s harsh revaluation in 1933 of automatic writing. Among the other essays in the volume are “Burial Denied” and &...
|  | A Pepys Anthology
Publication Date: May 18, 2000| ISBN-10: 0520221672 | ISBN-13: 978-0520221673| Edition: 1 Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) is known as the first published diarist. His eleven-volume work, written between 1660 and 1669, was first published in 1825. Ever since, this chronicler of his time has held readers' fascination. The essential anthology of selections from Samuel Pepys's famous diary is finally available in paperback. By collecting passages by subject, it provides a fresh look at some of the themes running through Pepys's massive work. Robert and Linnet Latham's lively presentation shows Pepy...
|  | A Wisconsin Boy in Dixie: Civil War Letters of James K. Newton (North Coast Books)
Publication Date: March 17, 1995| Series: North Coast Books “Unlike many of his fellows, [James Newton] was knowledgeable,intuitive, and literate; like many of his fellows he was cast into therole of soldier at only eighteen years of age. He was polished enough towrite drumhead and firelight letters of fine literary style. It did nottake long for this farm boy turned private to discover the grand designof the conflict in which he was engaged, something which many of theofficers leading the armies never did discover.”—Victor Hicken, Journal of the Illinois State Historical S...
|  | The Matter of the Page: Essays in Search of Ancient and Medieval Authors (Wisconsin Studies in Classics)
Publication Date: January 6, 2011| Series: Wisconsin Studies in Classics Ancient and medieval literary texts often call attention to their existence as physical objects. Shane Butler helps us to understand why. Arguing that writing has always been as much a material struggle as an intellectual one, The Matter of the Page offers timely lessons for the digital age about how creativity works and why literature moves us. Butler begins with some considerations about the materiality of the literary text, both as a process (the draft) and a product (the book), and he traces the c...
|  | MEN DON'T LEAVE
Publication Date: September 10, 2004Shannon, Lori, Debra and Nicole, in search of the same goal. Happiness.Shannon the married member of the group and the leader and counselor, finds her life spiraling out of control. Lori, cool and collected, watches as she looses herself and her cool in a runaway relationship with her dream man. Debra, shy but intelligent, struggles, to gain confidence and a sense of self, without looking before she leaps. Nicole, with the voice of an angel and quick to turn a phrase, struggles to find the right combination to make her life with her long time lover a song....
|  | Star Wars: Feel the Force! (DK READERS)
Publication Date: January 17, 2011| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Aesop's Fables for Children: Includes a Read-and-Listen CD (Dover Read and Listen)
Publication Date: September 19, 2008| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | The Tale of The Firebird
Release Date: September 30, 2002| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up In all the world there is said to be nothing more beautiful than the Firebird. When Ivan-Tsarevitch, youngest son of the Tsar, goes on a quest for the amazing bird, he finds himself flying over mountains and woods on a talking wolf, confronting a wicked Baba Yaga, and rescuing an enchanted princess from Koshchei the Immortal. But when he returns from his magical journey, he brings home the most precious treasure of all. Gennady Spirin brings this original version of the Firebird tale from his native Russia and has ...
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