Departmental Acquisitions: 0-1 http://www.yoursite.com/http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480091Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480091http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454161Description: An Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure buried in the Pyramids. Along the way he meets a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself king, and an alchemist, all of whom point Santiago in the direction of his quest. No one knows what the treasure is, or if Santiago will be able to surmount the obstacles along the way. But what starts out as a journey to find worldly goods turns into a discovery of the treasures found within.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454161http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478764Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478764http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478763Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478763http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457928Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457928http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457927Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457927http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489959Description: "In Art Matters, Robert Paul Lamb provides the definitive study of Ernest Hemingway's short story aesthetics. Lamb locates Hemingway's art in literary historical contexts and explains what he learned from earlier artists. including Edgar Allan Poe, Paul Cezanne, Henry James, Guy de Maupassant, Anton Chekhov, Stephen Crane, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, and Ezra Pound. Examining how Hemingway developed this inheritance, Lamb insightfully charts the evolution of the unique style and innovative techniques that would forever change the nature of short fiction."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489959http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457885Description: From the Publisher: This is the long-awaited biography of one of the twentieth century's greatest playwrights, Arthur Miller, whose postwar decade of work earned him international critical and popular acclaim. Christopher Bigsby's gripping, meticulously researched biography examines his refusal to name names before the notorious House on Un-American Activities Committee, offers new insights into Miller's marriage to Marilyn Monroe, and sheds new light on how their relationship informed Miller's subsequent great plays.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457885http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507234Description: A travel to the Antarctic where weird beings have been living for millions of years.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507234http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478762Description: Presents Mark Twain's authentic and unsuppressed voice, brimming with humor, ideas, and opinions, and speaking clearly from the grave as he intended.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478762http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490357Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490357http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457884Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457884http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457043Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457043http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457042Description: From the Publisher: In a career that has earned her accolades, honorary degrees, and awards from both fellow poets and everyday poetry lovers, Nikki Giovanni has established herself as a writer who can entertain and challenge, inform and inspire. Sometimes controversial, sometimes ethereal, but always beautiful, her poems move readers of all hues and generations. With Bicycles, she's collected poems that serve as a companion to her 1997 Love Poems. An instant classic, that book-romantic, bold, and erotic-expressed notions of love in ways that were delightful unexpected. In the years that followed, Giovanni experienced losses both public and private. A mother's passing, a sister's, too. A massacre on the campus at which she teaches. And just when it seemed life was spinning out of control, Giovanni rediscovered love-what she calls the antidote. Here romantic love-and all its manifestations, the physical touch, the emotional pull, the hungry heart-is distilled as never before by one of our most talented poets.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457042http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456269Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456269http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493324Description: Shares the author's frank observations about her daughter as well as her own thoughts and fears about having children and growing old, in a personal account that discusses her daughter's wedding and her feelings of failure as a parent.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493324http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478761Description: One of America's finest historians shows us how one of the country's greatest and most enduring artists still surprises and moves us after all these years. Growing up in Greenwich Village, Sean Wilentz discovered the music of Bob Dylan as a young teenager; almost half a century later, he revisits Dylan's work with the skills of an eminent American historian as well as the passion of a fan. Drawn in part from Wilentz's essays as "historian in residence" of Dylan's official website, this book is a unique blend of fact, interpretation, and affinity--a book that, much like its subject, shifts gears and changes shape as the occasion warrants. Wilentz has had unprecedented access to studio tapes, recording notes, rare photographs, and other materials, all of which allow him to tell Dylan's story and that of such masterpieces as Blonde on Blonde with authenticity and richness.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478761http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457085Description: Brian Cox discusses and demonstrates the fine points of acting in tragedies.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457085http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489956Description: "From the execution sermons of the Colonial era to television programs like The Wire and The Sopranos, crime writing has played an important role in American culture. Its ability to register fear, desire and anxiety has made it a popular genre with a wide audience. These new essays, written for students as well as readers of crime fiction, demonstrate the very best in contemporary scholarship and challenge long-established notions of the development of the detective novel. Each chapter covers a sub-genre, from 'true crime' to hard-boiled novels, illustrating the ways in which 'popular' and 'high' literary genres influence and shape each other. With a chronology and guide to further reading, the Companion is a helpful guide for students of American literature and readers of crime fiction"--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489956http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489955Description: A distinguished academic, influential Christian apologist, and best-selling author of children's literature, C. S. Lewis is a controversial and enigmatic figure who continues to fascinate, fifty years after his death. This Companion is a comprehensive single-volume study written by an international team of scholars to survey Lewis's career as a literary historian, popular theologian, and creative writer. Twenty-one expert voices from Oxford, Cambridge, Princeton, and Wheaton, among many other places of learning, analyze Lewis's work from theological, philosophical, and literary perspectives. Some chapters consider his professional contribution to fields such as critical theory and intellectual history, while others assess his views on issues including moral knowledge, gender, prayer, war, love, suffering, and Scripture. The final chapters investigate his work as a writer of fiction and poetry. This Companion shows that C. S. Lewis was much more than merely the man behind Narnia.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489955http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457882Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457882http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475952Description: "The nineteenth century witnessed unprecedented expansion in the reading public and an explosive growth in the number of books and newspapers produced to meet its demands. These specially commissioned essays examine not only the full range and variety of texts that entertained and informed the Victorians, but also the boundaries of Victorian literature: the links and overlap with Romanticism in the 1830s, and the roots of modernism in the years leading up to the First World War. The Companion demonstrates how science, medicine and theology influenced creative writing and emphasizes the importance of the visual in painting, book illustration and in technological innovations from the kaleidoscope to the cinema. Essays also chart the complex and fruitful interchanges with writers in America, Europe and the Empire, highlighting the geographical expansion of literature in English. This Companion brings together the most important aspects of this prolific and popular period of English literature."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475952http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489954Description: "Since the publication of Thomas More's genre-defining work Utopia in 1516, the field of utopian literature has evolved into an ever-expanding domain. This Companion presents an extensive historical survey of the development of utopianism, from the publication of Utopia to today's dark and despairing tendency towards dystopian pessimism, epitomised by works such as George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Chapters address the difficult definition of the concept of utopia, and consider its relation to science fiction and other literary genres. The volume takes an innovative approach to the major themes predominating within the utopian and dystopian literary tradition, including feminism, romance and ecology, and explores in detail the vexed question of the purportedly 'western' nature of the concept of utopia. The reader is provided with a balanced overview of the evolution and current state of a long-standing, rich tradition of historical, political and literary scholarship"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489954http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457883Description: Renowned critic, historian, and biographer Ackroyd takes on what is arguably the greatest poem in the English language and presents the work in a prose vernacular that makes it accessible to modern readers while preserving the spirit of the original.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457883http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475706Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475706http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507068Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507068http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456268Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456268http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478717Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478717http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454160Description: John Cheever (1912-1982) spent much of his career impersonating a perfect suburban gentleman, the better to become one of the foremost chroniclers of postwar America. Written with unprecedented access to essential sources--including Cheever's massive journal, only a fraction of which has been published--Blake Bailey's biography reveals the troubled but strangely lovable man behind the disguises, an artist who delighted in the everyday radiance of the world while yearning, above all, "to be illustrious." Cheever's was a soul in conflict: a proud Yankee who flaunted his lineage while deploring the provincialism of his Massachusetts family; a high-school dropout who published his first story at eighteen; a pioneer of suburban realist fiction who continually pushed the boundaries of realism; a dire alcoholic who recovered to write the great novel Falconer; a secret bisexual who struggled with his longings and his fierce homophobia in a revolving door of self-loathing and hedonism.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454160http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477966Description: Provides information on manuscript preparation, punctuation, spelling, quotations, captions, tables, abbreviations, references, bibliographies, notes, and indexes, with sections on journals and electronic media.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477966http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454159Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454159http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507565Description: Still pursuing a cure for her mother's enchantment, Clary uses all her powers and ingenuity to get into Idris, the forbidden country of the secretive Shadowhunters, and to its capital, the City of Glass, where with the help of a newfound friend, Sebastian, she uncovers important truths about her family's past that will not only help save her mother but all those that she holds most dear.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507565http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456267Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456267http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504711Description: The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 combines all eleven of Lucille clifton's published collections with more than sixty previously unpublished poems. The unpublished works feature early poems from 1965-1969, a collection-in-progress titled Book of Days (2008), and a poignant selection of final poems.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504711http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478759Description: Presents a collection of short stories that portray contemporary American life.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478759http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479908Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479908http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=404673Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=404673http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=458233Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=458233http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457041Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457041http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456647Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456647http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475948Description: Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro explains when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote his plays.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475948http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475947Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475947http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457881Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457881http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454158Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454158http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454157Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454157http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476415Description: A treasury of essays, articles, and reviews by the late author includes pieces that explore such topics as religious fundamentalism, Russian literature, and the possibility of an African-American president.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476415http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456266Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456266http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456265Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456265http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455375Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455375http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476332Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476332http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454156Description: "All of Agatha Christie's 66 detective novels are covered here in detail. Each chapter begins with general comments on a novel's geographical and historical setting, identifying current events, fashions, fads and popular interests that relate to the story. A plot summary and character listing follow. An appendix translates Poirot's French and defines the British idiomatic words and phrases"--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454156http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455374Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455374http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455373Description: Four stories of comedy, deception, and revenge (including one previously unpublished) showcases heroes who suffer from willful self-deceit.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455373http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456109Description: Using the unabridged A Text version of the play, this lucid, stylish and energetic production captures perfectly both the horror and dark humour of Marlowe's tragic work.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456109http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457039Description: Documentaries and the process of creating them are studied in this guide, which comes with a bonus DVD featuring three award-winn ing documentaries discussed as case studies.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457039http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475946Description: Recounts the story of the author's childhood, covering his early years in World War II-era Kenya as the fifth child of a third wife, his thirst for learning that singled him out, and the political struggles that shaped his life.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475946http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478756Description: Selects poems from the author's first six books, on the themes of death and love, figures from Hebrew texts, contemporary poets, and the overlooked or neglected aspects of human life.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478756http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455372Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455372http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455371Description: The beloved author of Little Women was torn between pleasing her idealistic father and planting her feet in the material world. Now, Louisa May Alcott's name is known universally; yet, during her youth, the famous Alcott was her father, Bronson--an eminent teacher, lecturer, and friend of Emerson and Thoreau. Willful and exuberant, Louisa flew in the face of all her father's theories of child rearing. She, in turn, could not understand the frugal life Bronson preached, which reached its epitome in the failed utopian community of Fruitlands. In a family that insisted on self-denial and spiritual striving, Louisa dreamed of wealth and fame. At the same time, like most daughters, she wanted her father's approval. This story of their tense yet loving relationship adds dimensions to Louisa's life, her work, and the relationships of fathers and daughters.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455371http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=452724Description: Poe's tales haunt and thrill, read with perfection. Includes The Tell-Tale Heart, The Black Cat, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Cask of Amontillado, and more.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=452724http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=452288Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=452288http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478755Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478755http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457880Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457880http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504713Description: "While previous collections of Emerson essays have tended to be a sort of "stock-taking" or "retrospective" look at Emerson scholarship, the present collection follows a more "prospective" trajectory for Emerson studies based on the recent increase in global perspectives in nearly all fields of humanistic studies. The present collection is divided into four main sections: "Emerson, Europe, and Beyond"; "Emerson and Activism." The first category emphasizes the global perspective in Emerson's literary and cultural relations, followed closely by two other "transnational" categories--Emerson's relations in the international arenas of science and philosophy--and concluding with the final category, which addresses the end purpose of Emerson's project: fully realized human beings whose actions, directly and indirectly, help to create a society in which individuals are free to develop their capacities fully." "Transnational and global perspectives are becoming more recognized and more commonplace in the academy and the world at large. Evidence for such developing perspectives is not hard to find: national and international conferences, new books, and the increase in university courses and programs in World Literature, all reflect a move toward viewing Emerson and literature in general from broader, more inclusive perspectives. The first of four categories that follow--"Emerson, Europe, and Beyond"--gives us seven perspectives on Emerson's international influence, ranging from Stephen L. Tanner's gem-like essay on English Traits, to Steve Adisasmito-Smith's trail-blazing Hindu scholarship, to Jan Stievermann's explication of Emerson's vision of "an American World Literature."".http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504713http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490352Description: In film, television and theater, scripts often demand that actors reach intense emotional places. Great actors know how to personalize these emotions. They make them real, they make them specific, and they make us remember them. Emotion on Demand demystifies the process by breaking it down into a simple, straightforward technique. --from publisher descriptionhttp://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490352http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478754Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478754http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489949Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489949http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457879Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457879http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=498853Description: The Facts On File Companion to American Drama, Second Edition is a comprehensive guide to American dramatic literature, from its origins in the early days of the nation to American classics such as Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Thornton Wilder's Our Town to the groundbreaking works of today's best writers. Entries new to this edition include August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean and Radio Golf, Tracy Letts's August: Osage County, Lynn Nottage and her Pulitzer Prize-winning play Ruined, Nilo Cruz, Stephen Adley Guirgis, and much more. Coverage includes: Playwrights, such as Royall Tyler, Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Neil Simon, and Suzan-Lori Parks; Major plays, including Long Day's Journey into Night, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Angels in America; Influential directors and critics, such as Elia Kazan and Harold Clurman; Theater companies, movements and topics, including the Provincetown Players, the Theatre of the Absurd, and African-American drama. - Publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=498853http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455370Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455370http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456264Description: Sixteen-year-old Katya Spiva is walking with her two summer babysitting charges in Bayhead Harbor, New Jersey, when she's approached by silver-haired, gentlemanly Marcus Kidder, a local resident of some renown. What does this mysterious rich man really want from Katya, who is young enough to be his granddaughter? And what will he risk to get it?http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456264http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504884Description: In "Farther Away," which gathers together essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Franzen returns with renewed vigor to the themes, both human and literary, that have long preoccupied him.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504884http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507280Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507280http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455156Description: "Blair Labatt argues that Faulkner's fiction, regardless of its modernist gestures, is filled with and driven by sophisticated manifestations of plot - willed challenges, structural targets, gambits, designs, engagements, and battles - a language of competition and conflict and a syntax of events." "Labatt examines Faulkner's short stories, such as "Mountain Victory," "That Evening Sun," and "Barn Burning," and the architecture of the Snopes Trilogy (The Hamlet, The Town, and The Mansion), and finds that Faulkner's deployment of cause and effect is central to his narratives. Labatt also explores how Faulkner's use of plot creates an implied voice that lends a humorous element to the twists and turns of his stories that often brackets and encloses the pathos of his characters."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455156http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=452759Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=452759http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454155Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454155http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479457Description: Julian Treslove, a radio producer, and Samuel Finkler, a Jewish philosopher, have been friends since childhood and, as they enter middle age, they reminisce over their struggles with self-identity, anti-Semitism, women, love, and the past.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479457http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504868Description: Mark Doty's Fire to Fire collects the best of Mark Doty's seven books of poetry, along with a generous selection of new work. Doty's subjects--our mortal situation, the evanescent beauty of the world, desire's transformative power, and art's ability to give shape to human lives--echo and develop across twenty years of poems. His signature style encompasses both the plainspoken and the artfully wrought; here one of contemporary American poetry's most lauded, recognizable voices speaks to the crises and possibilities of our times.--Publisher's description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504868http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457038Description: An engaging and authoritative biography of Flannery O'Connor, who despite the chronic disease that eventually confined her to her mother's farm in Georgia, managed to fundamentally change the landscape of American literature with her fierce, sometimes comic novels and stories.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457038http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479909Description: Poems accompanied by photographs of Homestead, Pennsylvania, a former steel mill town now home to numerous chain stores. The new Waterfront mega shopping center contrasts with the declining steel-era part of town.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479909http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457878Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457878http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454091Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454091http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480090Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480090http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455376Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455376http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457877Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457877http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455368Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455368http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475940Description: Robert McCrum, coauthor of the best-selling book and television series The Story of English, shows how the language of the Anglo-American imperium has become the world's lingua franca --From vendor description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475940http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507073Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507073http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478751Description: Connected solely by a desk of enormous dimension and many drawers that exerts a power over those who possess it or give it away, three people--a lonely American novelist clinging to the memory of a poet who has mysteriously vanished in Chile, an old man in Israel facing the imminent death of his wife of 51 years, and an esteemed antiques dealer tracking down the things stolen from his father by the Nazis--struggle to create a meaningful permanence in the face of inevitable loss.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478751http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457037Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457037http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477213Description: "Though we have encountered our share of grief and troubles on this earth, we can still hold the line of beauty, form, and beat. No small accomplishment in a world as challenging as this one." So writes Alice Walker in this new book of poems, poems composed over the course of one year in response to joy and sorrow both personal and global: the death of loved ones, war, the deliciousness of love, environmental devastation, the sorrow of rejection, greed, poverty, and the sweetness of home. The poems embrace our connections while celebrating the joy of individuality, the power we each share to express our truest, deepest selves. Beloved for her ability to speak her own truth in ways that speak for and about countless others, she demonstrates that we are stronger than our circumstances. As she confronts personal and collective challenges, her works dance, sing, and heal.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477213http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454154Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454154http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457036Description: An unauthorized portrait of the influential pop-culture author evaluates the life experiences that shaped his literary achievements, from his disadvantaged childhood in rural Maine to his rapid fame as a writer and struggles with substance abuse.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457036http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479910Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479910http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457876Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457876http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475938Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475938http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457930Description: The American: American Christopher Newman is smart, educated and rich. He is a Civil War veteran and a self made tycoon who goes to Europe to see the 'treasures and entertain' himself. He meets Claire and after the fifth meeting he asks her to marry him.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457930http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457875Description: When Elspeth Noblin dies, she leaves everything to the 20-year-old American twin daughters of her own long-estranged twin, Edie. Valentina and Julia, as enmeshed as Elspeth and Edie once were, move into Elspeth's London flat and through a series of developing relationships a crisis develops that could pull the twins apart.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457875http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455164Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455164http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455369Description: What makes a story a story? What is style? What's the connection between realism and real life? These are some of the questions James Wood answers in How Fiction Works, the first book-length essay by the preeminent critic of his generation. Ranging widely--from Homer to David Foster Wallace, from What Maisie Knew to Make Way for Ducklings--Wood takes the reader through the basic elements of the art, step by step.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455369http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454153Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454153http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455367Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455367http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456263Description: What happens when all the ways that we convince ourselves of our solidity, all our life's performances--talent, love, sex, hope, energy, reputation--are stripped off? Simon Axler, one of the leading American stage actors of his generation, is about to find out. Now in his sixties, he has lost his magic, his talent, and his assurance. His wife has gone, his audience has left him, his agent can't persuade him to make a comeback. Consumed by an erotic desire, he plunges into a darker and more shocking end.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456263http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456315Description: Working in secret for a fourteenth-century Oxford professor who would translate the Bible into English, master illuminator Finn forms an alliance with Lady Kathryn, a widow desperate to protect her inheritance from the church and the monarchy.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456315http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=458280Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=458280http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493438Description: At a time when speculative fiction seems less and less far-fetched, Margaret Atwood lends her distinctive voice and singular point of view to the genre in a series of essays that brilliantly illuminates the essential truths about the modern world. This is an exploration of her relationship with the literary form we have come to know as "science fiction," a relationship that has been lifelong, stretching from her days as a child reader in the 1940s, through her time as a graduate student at Harvard, where she worked on the Victorian ancestor of the form, and continuing as a writer and reviewer. This book brings together her three heretofore unpublished Ellmann Lectures from 2010: "Flying Rabbits," which begins with Atwood's early rabbit superhero creations and goes on to speculate about masks, capes, weakling alter egos, and Things with Wings; "Burning Bushes," which follows her into Victorian otherlands and beyond; and "Dire Cartographies," which investigates Utopias and Dystopias. In Other Worlds also includes some of Atwood's key reviews and thoughts about the form. Among those writers discussed are Marge Piercy, Rider Haggard, Ursula Le Guin, Ishiguro, Bryher, Huxley, and Jonathan Swift. She elucidates the differences (as she sees them) between "science fiction" proper and "speculative fiction," as well as between "sword and sorcery/fantasy" and "slipstream fiction." For all readers who have loved The Handmaid's Tale, Oryx and Crake, and The Year of the Flood, In Other Worlds is a must.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493438http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507285Description: This new collection brings together some of Joyce Carol Oates's most brilliant and provocative pieces, covering a diverse range of subjects and ideas. The rough country is both the treacherous geographical/psychological terrains of the writers she analyses--Flannery O'Connor, Shirley Jackson, Cormac McCarthy, Annie Proulx, and Margaret Atwood among others--and also the emotional terrain of Oates's own life following the unexpected death of her husband.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507285http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456262Description: Reluctantly investigating a kidnapping threat against his ex-girlfriend's billionaire beau, Doc Sportello tackles a bizarre tangle of nefarious characters before stumbling on a mysterious entity that may actually be a tax shelter for a dental group.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456262http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457035Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457035http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457874Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457874http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475936Description: "The story of a mulatta woman, a slave and concubine, determined to take control of her own destiny in a society where that would seem impossible"--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475936http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489947Description: One of the most popular and mysterious figures in American literary history, J.D. Salinger eluded fans and journalists for most of his life. Now comes a new biography. Filled with new information and revelations, garnered from countless interviews, letters, and public records, this work presents his extraordinary life that spanned nearly the entire twentieth century. The author explores Salinger's privileged youth, long obscured by misrepresentation and rumor, revealing the brilliant, sarcastic, vulnerable son of a disapproving father and doting mother and his entrance into a social world where Gloria Vanderbilt dismissively referred to him as a Jewish boy from New York. Here too are accounts of Salinger's first broken heart (Eugene O'Neill's daughter, Oona, left him for the much older Charlie Chaplin) and the devastating World War II service of which he never spoke and which haunted him forever. This work features all the dazzle of his early writing successes, his dramatic encounters with luminaries from Ernest Hemingway to Laurence Olivier to Elia Kazan, his surprising office intrigues with famous New Yorker editors and writers, and the stunning triumph of The Catcher in the Rye, which would both make him world famous and hasten his retreat into the hills of New Hampshire. Whether it is revealing the facts of his hasty, short lived first marriage or his lifelong commitment to Eastern religion, which would dictate his attitudes toward sex, nutrition, solitude, and creativity, this biography is Salinger's unforgettable story in full.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489947http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456261Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456261http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457034Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457034http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496484Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496484http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457873Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457873http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475935Description: In Jane's Fame, Claire Harman gives us the complete biography--of both the author and her lasting cultural influence--making this essential reading for anyone interested in Austen's life, works, and remarkably potent fame.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475935http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480089Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480089http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457872Description: Drawing on insightful new findings in the study of seventeenth-century history and in a more nuanced exploration of notions like Puritanism, republicanism, radicalism, and dissent, this book sheds fresh light on the writings, the thought, and the life of poet John Milton, whose career spanned one of the most turbulent periods in English history. A more human Milton appears in these pages, a Milton who is flawed, self-contradictory, self-serving, arrogant, passionate, ruthless, ambitious, and cunning. He is also among the most accomplished writers of the period, the most eloquent polemicist of the mid-century, and the author of the finest and most influential narrative poem in English, Paradise Lost, which the book examines in detail. The authors also show how, amid the chaos sparked by the shifting political circumstances of the period, Milton emerged as a major political thinker and a significant systematic theologian. Working through Milton's polemical and imaginative works, the book unravels the evolution of his thought as he moves from a culturally advanced but ideologically repressive young manhood, to his struggle for a new reformation of the church and a defense of regicide and republicanism, and finally to his thinking about how to retain ideological integrity in the threatening context of the Restoration. The authors also examine his final years, years of creative fulfillment and renewed political engagement. What Milton achieved in the face of crippling adversity, blindness, bereavement, and political eclipse, remains wondrous. Here is a fascinating biography of this towering literary figure, the first new serious study in forty years, one that profoundly challenges the received wisdom about one of England's leading poets and thinkers.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457872http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456314Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456314http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454152Description: A narrative spanning nearly 400 years introduces more than 250 female writers, both famous and little known.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454152http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489946Description: "What are the most widely spoken non-English languages in the USA? How did they reach the USA? Who speaks them, to whom, and for what purposes? What changes do these languages undergo as they come into contact with English? This book investigates the linguistic diversity of the USA by profiling the twelve most commonly used languages other than English. Each chapter paints a portrait of the history, current demographics, community characteristics, economic status, and language maintenance of each language group, and looks ahead to the future of each language. The book challenges myths about the 'official' language of the USA, explores the degree to which today's immigrants are learning English and assimilating into the mainstream, and discusses the relationship between linguistic diversity and national unity. Written in a coherent and structured style, Language Diversity in the USA is essential reading for advanced students and researchers in sociolinguistics, bilingualism, and education"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489946http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456755Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456755http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457084Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457084http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478746Description: Caldwell reflects on her own coming-of-age in midlife, as she learns to open herself to the power and healing of sharing her life with a best friend, and how she deals with losing her.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478746http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455366Description: Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou's path to living well and living a life with meaning. Whether she is recalling such lost friends as Coretta Scott King and Ossie Davis, extolling honesty, decrying vulgarity, explaining why becoming a Christian is a "lifelong endeavor," or simply singing the praises of a meal of red rice--Maya Angelou writes from the heart to millions of women she considers her extended family.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455366http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455365Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455365http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504872Description: The fourth collection by the author portrays the light-headedness of a mind trying to pull against gravity and time. It sets what it means to be "light longing for lightness" against what it means to "burn with all the humanity fire strips away." Hayes navigates melancholy, irreverence, and the sublime.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504872http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478745Description: With a language disappearing every two weeks and neologisms springing up almost daily, understanding the origins and currency of language has never seemed more relevant.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478745http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475931Description: Lyndall Gordon, an award-winning biographer, tells the riveting story of the Dickinsons, and reveals Emily as a very different woman from the pale, lovelorn recluse that exists in the popular imagination.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475931http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478743Description: At the rock-bottom end of the sport of kings sits the ruthless and often violent world of cheap horse racing, where trainers and jockeys, grooms and hotwalkers, loan sharks and touts all struggle to take an edge, or prove their luck, or just survive. Equal parts Nathanael West, Damon Runyon and Eudora Welty, Lord of Misrule follows five characters, scarred and lonely dreamers in the American grain, through a year and four races at Indian Mount Downs, downriver from Wheeling, West Virginia.--book jackethttp://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478743http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478742Description: Susan Cheever's comprehensive and definitive biography sheds new light on of life of Louisa May Alcott, whose work has inspired generations of women. Cheever laces this provocative biography with musings on the genesis of genius, and her identification with Jo March when she was a rebellious girl in the throes of puberty.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478742http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475929Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475929http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476333Description: Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found and her beloved uncle is convinced she was murdered and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced investigative journalist Mickael Blomkvist and the tattooed and troubled yet resourceful computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476333http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455364Description: With warmth, wit, and good cheer, Standiford shows how the unlikely success of "A Christmas Carol" revitalized Charles Dickens's languishing career and revived the celebration of the near-forgotten Christmas holiday.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455364http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508638Description: The unlikely story of how Eon Productions-the owners of the Bond franchise-has kept James Bond at the top of the charts for forty-five years when originally only three or four films were planned. Through twenty-one films featuring three M's, two Q's, and six Bonds-from Sean Connery's career-transforming turn in 1962's Dr. No to Daniel Craig's debut in the 2006 blockbuster Casino Royale-the action superstar and perfect English gentleman reigns supreme.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508638http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475606Description: Mark Twain: Man in White brings the legendary author's twilight years vividly to life, offering surprising insights, including an intimate, tender look at his family life. Includes rare and never-published Twain photos, delightful anecdotes, and memorable quotes, including numerous recovered Twainisms.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475606http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=447988Description: A collection of acting workshops led by some of the world's most renowned practitioners of theorist Michael Chekhov's acting techniques.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=447988http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478741Description: "'The Memory Chalet' is a memoir unlike any you have ever read before. Each essay charts some experience or remembrance of the past through the sieve of Tony Judt's prodigious mind. His youthful love of a particular London bus route evolves into a reflection on public civility and interwar urban planning. Memories of the 1968 student riots of Paris meander through the divergent sex politics of Europe, before concluding that his generation 'was a revolutionary generation, but missed the revolution.' A series of road trips across America lead not just to an appreciation of American history, but to an eventual acquisition of citizenship. Foods and trains and long-lost smells all compete for Judt's attention; but for us, he has forged his reflections into an elegant arc of analysis. All as simply and beautifully arranged as a Swiss chalet-a reassuring refuge deep in the mountains of memory."--Dust jacket flap.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478741http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455363Description: "Miller and Middle America features eleven essays by some of the world's leading Arthur Miller scholars on the playwright's contribution to the literary life of the United States. The essays explore Miller's role as a playwright in relation to American society, both celebrating the land and its heritage, while cautioning the country and its people."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455363http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456260Description: Includes material on symbolism, decadence, impressionism, imagism, vorticism, futurism, expressionism, dada, surrealism, free verse, Thomas Mann, James Joyce, Italo Svevo, Wallace Stevens, Rainer Maria Rilke, Paul Valery, Joseph Conrad, Robert Musil, Franz Kafka, William Butler Yeats, Luigi Pirandello.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456260http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456259Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456259http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456258Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456258http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455362Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455362http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478739Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478739http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457871Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457871http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456257Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456257http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477950Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477950http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475927Description: "A contemporary musical that explores how one suburban household copes with crisis. With provacative lyrics and an electrifying score of more than thirty original songs, next to normal shows how far two parents will go to keep themselves sane and their family's world intact."--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475927http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507245Description: Includes the work of 201 Latino writers from the Chicano, Puerto Rican, Cuban American, and Dominican American traditions, as well as from the traditions of other Spanish-speaking countries. It traces five centuries of writing, from letters to the Spanish crown by sixteenth-century conquistadors to the cutting-edge expressions of twenty-first-century cartoonistas and artists of reggaetâon.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507245http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507246Description: An annotated list of approximately five hundred mainstream fiction titles published since 2000, grouped by their main appeal features in the categories of character, setting, language, and story; each with suggested read-alikes.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507246http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457033Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457033http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454151Description: The first book-length study that examines families and especially the parent-child relationship in Rushdie's core works. The book provides a sustained examination of how the parents and children that people Rushdie's fictions reflect the larger issues his work is concerned with: nationalism, religion, history and authorship.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454151http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457870Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457870http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478738Description: A fiercely vivid collection of stories about troubled California adolescents and misfits.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478738http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478737Description: "From the two time Booker Prize-winning author, an improvisation on the life of Alexis de Tocqueville, and an irrepressibly funny portrait of the impossible friendship between a master and a servant. Olivier is a French aristocrat, the traumatised child of survivors of the Revolution; Parrot the son of an itinerant English printer who always wanted to be an artist but has ended up a servant. Born on different sides of history, their lives will be joined by their travels in America. When Olivier sets sail for the New World - ostensibly to study its prisons but in reality to save his neck from one more revolution - Parrot is sent with him, as spy, protector, foe and foil. As the narrative shifts between the perspectives of Parrot and Olivier, and their picaresque travels together and apart - in love and politics, prisons and the world of art" -- from book jacket.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478737http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507291Description: An engrossing biography of Buck, a woman whose fascinating life gave her a unique outlook on the plight of women and the suffering of China's rural poor.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507291http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454162Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454162http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455361Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455361http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457869Description: Straightforward, practical guide designed to appeal to anyone who needs to use PowerPoint.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457869http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457868Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457868http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=452343Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=452343http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454150Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454150http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504724Description: "It is know as "the strange plague" and its unfortunate victims are referred to only as "unmentionables" or "dreadfuls." All over England, the dead are rising again, and now even the daughters of Britain's best families must devote their lives to mastering the deadly arts. Elizabeth Bennet is a fearsome warrior whose ability with a sword is matched only by her quick wit and even sharper tongue. But she faces her most formidable foe yet in the haughty, conceited, and somehow strangely attractive Mr. Darcy."--Publisher's description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504724http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478735Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478735http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475866Description: Like Alfred Nobel, Joseph Pulitzer is better known today for the prize that bears his name than his contribution to history. Yet, in 19th-century industrial America, Pulitzer invented the modern mass media. Morris offers the definitive biography of this remarkable icon.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475866http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457867Description: Presents a critical introduction to the fiction and drama of the American author, discussing his novels, plays, characters, language, and the major themes of his work.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457867http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476205Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476205http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=453546Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=453546http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457032Description: Louise Erdrich is a fearless and inventive storyteller. In her fictional world, the mystical can emerge from the everyday, the comic turn suddenly tragic, and violence and beauty inhabit a single emotional landscape. Each character in these stories is full of surprises, and the twists and leaps of Erdrich's imagination are made all the more meaningful by the deeper human truth that underlies them. In "Saint Marie," ardent longing propels a fourteen-year-old Indian girl up the hill to the Sacred Heart Convent, and into a life-and-death struggle with the diabolical Sister Leopolda. "Le Mooz" evokes the stinging flames of passion in old age with unexpected, and bitter-sweet, humor. And in "Naked Woman Playing Chopin," passion for music proves more powerful than any experience of carnal or spiritual love.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457032http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455359Description: Based on the Book of Genesis, Dinah, Jacob's only daughter, shares her perspectives on the origins of many of our modern religious practices and sexual politics, imparting the lessons she has learned from her father's wives.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455359http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455360Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455360http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454149Description: Apocalypse grips the earth; wildlife has disappeared; and starvation prevails. Amidst this bleak backdrop, a man and his young son slowly make their way toward the coast. Avoiding roves of marauding cannibals and fighting off starvation, they gain hope and stamina in knowing they are some of the remaining few virtuous people.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454149http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507078Description: "... This volume, containing both newly commissioned pieces and reprinted essays and book chapters, brings together an unusually wide range of approaches to Frost's poetry."-About this volume.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507078http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457866Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457866http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455358Description: An oveview of the best non-standard English writing of the past two centuries, with a focus on the most recent decades.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455358http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478589Description: Benji, one of the only black kids at an elite prep school in Manhattan, tries desperately to fit in, but every summer, he and his brother, Reggie, escape to the East End of Sag Harbor, where a small community of African American professionals has built a world of its own.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478589http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455357Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455357http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456110Description: Using the full text, this effervescent, hilarious, and beautifully staged production moves at high speed, challenging the audience to keep up with the intricately wrought and brilliant comedy of Sheridan's masterpiece.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456110http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507369Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507369http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457864Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457864http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504725Description: A tale inspired by Joseph Conrad's "Nostromo" follows the story of Colombian-born Josâe Altamirano, who reveals his integral role in the classic's writing and who pens his own version of events against a backdrop of a flourishing twentieth-century London and lawless Panama.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504725http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478588Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478588http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489944Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489944http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457865Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457865http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455356Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455356http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478731Description: Product Description: Finalist for the 2009 National Book Award and finalist for two 2010 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards: the prize-winning children's author depicts a childhood from hell in this searing yet redemptive graphic memoir. One day David Small awoke from a supposedly harmless operation to discover that he had been transformed into a virtual mute. A vocal cord removed, his throat slashed and stitched together like a bloody boot, the fourteen-year-old boy had not been told that he had cancer and was expected to die. In Stitches, Small, the award-winning children's illustrator and author, re-creates this terrifying event in a life story that might have been imagined by Kafka. As the images painfully tumble out, one by one, we gain a ringside seat at a gothic family drama where David-a highly anxious yet supremely talented child-all too often became the unwitting object of his parents' buried frustration and rage. Believing that they were trying to do their best, David's parents did just the reverse. Edward Small, a Detroit physician, who vented his own anger by hitting a punching bag, was convinced that he could cure his young son's respiratory problems with heavy doses of radiation, possibly causing David's cancer. Elizabeth, David's mother, tyrannically stingy and excessively scolding, ran the Small household under a cone of silence where emotions, especially her own, were hidden. Depicting this coming-of-age story with dazzling, kaleidoscopic images that turn nightmare into fairy tale, Small tells us of his journey from sickly child to cancer patient, to the troubled teen whose risky decision to run away from home at sixteen-with nothing more than the dream of becoming an artist-will resonate as the ultimate survival statement. A silent movie masquerading as a book, Stitches renders a broken world suddenly seamless and beautiful again. Finalist for the 2009 National Book Award (Young Adult); finalist for two 2010 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards (Best Writer/Artist: Nonfiction; Best Reality-Based Work).http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478731http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489942Description: In this autobiographical novel, a young English biographer is researching a book about the late South African writer John Coetzee, focusing on Coetzee in his thirties, at a time when he was living in a rundown cottage in the Cape Town suburbs with his widowed father--a time, the biographer is convinced, when Coetzee was finding himself as a writer.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489942http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457863Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457863http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455355Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455355http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=458131Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=458131http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507079Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507079http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455136Description: "Price stars in all three episodes, including Morella, in which a man is haunted after blaming his young daughter for the death of his wife. In The black cat, a pair of illicit lovers are buried alive by a jealous husband, and in The case of M. Valdemar, a sorcerer's spell backfires when he sentences an innocent man to living hell."--Container.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455136http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476331Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476331http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456256Description: P. D. James--one of the most widely admired writers of detective fiction at work today--gives us a personal, lively exploration of the human appetite for mystery and mayhem, and of those writers who have satisfied it. She examines the genre from top to bottom, beginning with the mysteries at the hearts of such novels as Charles Dickens's Bleak House, and bringing us into the present with such writers as Colin Dexter and Sara Paretsky. She compares British and American Golden Age mystery writing. She discusses detective fiction as social history, the stylistic components of the genre, her own process of writing, how critics have reacted over the years, and what she sees as a renewal of detective fiction--and of the detective hero--in recent years.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456256http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457031Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457031http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489941Description: Theory After Theory provides an overview of developments in literary theory after 1950. It is intended both as a handbook for readers to learn about theory and an intellectual history of the recent past in literary criticism for those interested in seeing how it fits in with the larger culture.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489941http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=452760Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=452760http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507297Description: Through essays contributed by modern thriller writers such as David Baldacci, Lee Child, Sandra Brown, and many others, this book explores 100 works of suspense from the ancient world to modern times.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507297http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455354Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455354http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479094Description: On his deathbed, surrounded by his family, George Washington Crosby's thoughts drift back to his childhood and the father who abandoned him when he was twelve.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479094http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507075Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507075http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490929Description: Collects new poems by the author, that celebrate social presence under enforced isolation, aggressive authority, and ancient and present wars.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490929http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456255Description: Nine new short works include the stories of a grieving mother who is aided by a surprising source, a woman's response to a humiliating seduction, and a nineteenth-century Russian âemigrâe's winter journey to the Riviera.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456255http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507260Description: "A tale of love and war, follows its enterprising heroine from Malayan jungle during World War II to the rugged Australian outback."--Cover, p.4.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507260http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478729Description: Silko takes readers along on her daily walks through the arroyos and ledges of the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, weaving tales from both sides of her family's past into her observations, and using the turquoise stones that she finds on her walks to unite the strands of her stories.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478729http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477947Description: "The essays in this volume explore Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series in the contexts of literature, religion, fairy tales, film, and the gothic. Some look at fan involvement in the Twilight world. Topics include Meyer's use of Quileute shape-shifting legends; Twilight's literary heritage and its references to classic works of literature; and the series's controversial depictions of feminity"--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477947http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456304Description: Shanti Behari Seth, brought up in India, was sent by his family in the 1930s to Berlin--though he could not speak a word of German--to study medicine and dentistry. Helga Gerda Caro, known to everyone as "Henny" was also born in 1908, in Berlin, to a Jewish family--cultured, patriotic, and intensely German. When the family decided to take Shanti as a lodger, Henny's first reaction was, "Don't take the black man!" But a friendship flowered, and when Henny fled Germany just one month before war broke out, she was met at Victoria Station by the only person in the country she knew: Shanti. Vikram Seth has woven together their story, which recounts the arrival into this childless couple's lives of their great-nephew from India--the teenage Vikram. The result is a tapestry of India, the Third Reich and the Second World War, Auschwitz and the Holocaust, Israel and Palestine, postwar Germany and 1970s Britain.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456304http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457862Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457862http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475923Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475923http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457030Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=457030http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454027Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454027http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489939Description: Wait finds C. K. Williams by turns ruminative, stalked by "the conscience-beast, who harries me," and "riven by idiot vigor, voracious as the youth I was for whom everything was going too slowly, too slowly." Poems about animals and rural life are set hard by poems about shrapnel in Iraq and sudden desire on the Paris Mâetro; grateful invocations of Herbert and Hopkins give way to fierce negotiations with the shades of Coleridge, Dostoevsky, and Celan. What the poems share is their setting in the cool, spacious, spotlit, book-lined place that is Williams's consciousness, a place whose workings he has rendered for fifty years with inimitable candor and style.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489939http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478728Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478728http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478586Description: A collection of short stories includes the title story, in which a famous writer, who just learned he may have a brain tumor, must decide how to care for his distant, American Indian father who is slowly dying.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478586http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475921Description: "Where I Live is a collection celebrating the remarkable poetic range of one of America's greatest living poets. Where I Live gathers poems from Maxine Kumin's five previous books. The poems take as their concern rural life, family, and poetic legacy, and they wrestle with political and social causes. Also included is a generous selection of twenty-three new poems, which expand upon themes that have preoccupied Kumin and bring her record of poetic mastery up to the present." "Kumin's rare kinship with the natural world is again seen in this collection."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475921http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475920Description: In this work, the poet treats the characteristic subjects of his career, the Caribbean's complex colonial legacy, his love of the Western literary tradition, the wisdom that comes through the passing of time, the always strange joys of new love, and the sometimes terrifying beauty of the natural world, with an intensity and drive that recall his greatest work. Through the mesmerizing repetition of theme and imagery, he creates an almost surflike cadence, broadening the possibilities of rhyme and meter, poetic form and language. This work is a moving new collection from one of the most important poets of the twentieth century, a celebration of the life and language of the West Indies. It is also a triumphant paean to beauty, love, art, and, perhaps most surprisingly, getting older.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475920http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455352Description: The first book to portray one of the most remarkable friendships in American letters, that of Emily Dickinson--recluse, poet--and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, minister, literary figure, active abolitionist.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455352http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475919Description: In 1953, William Golding was a provincial schoolteacher, rejected by every major publisher--until an editor pulled Lord of the Flies off the rejection pile. He went on to become one of the most popular and influential British authors since World War II--disheveled and darkly humorous, sometimes more disturbing than he is palatable, and above all fascinating. Yet despite the fame and acclaim, the renowned author saw himself as a monster--a reclusive depressive ruled by his fears, who battled alcoholism throughout his life. In addition to being a schoolteacher, Golding was a scientist, a sailor and a poet before becoming a bestselling author, and his embitterment and alienation, his family, the women in his past, along with his war experiences, inform his work. This is the first book to unpack the life and character of a man whose entire oeuvre dealt with the conflict between light and dark in the human soul.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475919http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456636Description: Assuming the power recently lost by the disgraced Cardinal Wolsey, Thomas Cromwell counsels a mercurial Henry VIII on the latter's efforts to marry Anne Boleyn against the wishes of Rome, a successful endeavor that comes with a dangerous price.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456636http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455583Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455583http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475918Description: A series of conversations between writer Alice Walker and other literary and cultural figures, including Gloria Steinem, Howard Zinn, Pema Chodron, and Claudia Tate; arranged chronologically from 1973 through 2009.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475918http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455353Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455353http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454148Description: Guide to expressive creative writing and effective professional prose that explains the techniques required for stylish and readable writing.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=454148http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456254Description: From the Publisher: The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners-a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as well as the preservation of all plant and animal life-has long predicted a natural disaster that will alter Earth as we know it. Now it has occurred, obliterating most human life. Two women have survived: Ren, a young trapeze dancer locked inside the high-end sex club Scales and Tails, and Toby, a God's Gardener barricaded inside a luxurious spa where many of the treatments are edible. Have others survived? Ren's bioartist friend Amanda? Zeb, her eco-fighter stepfather? Her onetime lover, Jimmy? Or the murderous Painballers, survivors of the mutual-elimination Painball prison? Not to mention the shadowy, corrupt policing force of the ruling powers. Meanwhile, gene-spliced life forms are proliferating: the lion/lamb blends, the Mo'hair sheep with human hair, the pigs with human brain tissue. As Adam One and his intrepid hemp-clad band make their way through this strange new world, Ren and Toby will have to decide on their next move, but they can't stay locked away. By turns dark, tender, violent, thoughtful, and uneasily hilarious, The Year of the Flood is Atwood at her most brilliant and inventive.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=456254