Departmental Acquisitions: 0-1 http://www.yoursite.com/http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475624Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475624http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475623Description: Lists "must-see" movies in a chronological arrangement, providing information on director, producer, screenplay writer, music, cast members, and awards, along with a detailed review of each.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475623http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504702Description: A collection of over four hundred poems written in many parts of the English-speaking world in the twentieth century, including works by Rudyard Kipling, James Joyce, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, Langston Hughes, Chinua Achebe, Bob Dylan, Sylvia Plath, and John Updike, with brief biographies of each poet represented.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504702http://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=475622Description: From the Publisher: This spirited anthology of contemporary American poetry focuses on the new poem-the hybrid-a synthesis of traditional and experimental styles. As Cole Swensen argues in the introduction to this comprehensive new anthology, the long-acknowledged "fundamental division" between experimental and traditional is disappearing in American poetry in favor of hybrid approaches that blend trends from accessible lyricism to linguistic exploration. The focus in American Hybrid is on the blend; the more than seventy poets featured here-including Jorie Graham, Albert Goldbarth, and LynHejinian-have found new and often unique ways to reconfigure the innumerable and sometimes conflicting voices of the past thirty years. The editors have crafted short introductory essays on each of the poets in the anthology, providing biographical backgrounds and positioning them within the current of contemporary poetry. This new anthology is essential reading for those who care about the present moment-and the future-of American verse.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475622http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475621Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475621http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479458Description: In the affairs of his dead wife, a British publisher discovers compromising pictures of the foreign secretary who was her lover. An opportunity for revenge on both the political and personal level.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479458http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490724Description: Bloom leads readers through the labyrinthine paths which link the writers and critics who have informed and inspired him for so many years.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490724http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475620Description: From the Publisher: In June 1942, Anne Frank received a red-and-white- checked diary for her thirteenth birthday, just weeks before she and her family went into hiding in an Amsterdam attic to escape the Nazis. For two years, with ever-increasing maturity, Anne crafted a memoir that has become one of the most compelling documents of modern history. She described life in vivid, unforgettable detail, explored apparently irreconcilable views of human nature-people are good at heart but capable of unimaginable evil-and grappled with the unfolding events of World War II, until the hidden attic was raided in August 1944. But Anne Frank's diary, argues Francine Prose, is as much a work of art as a historical record. Through close reading, she marvels at the teenage Frank's skillfully natural narrative voice, at her finely tuned dialogue and ability to turn living people into characters. And Prose addresses what few of the diary's millions of readers may know: this book is a deliberate work of art. During her last months in hiding, Anne Frank furiously revised and edited her work, crafting a piece of literature that she had hoped would be read by the public after the war. Read it has been. Few books have been as influential for as long, and Prose thoroughly investigates the diary's unique afterlife: the obstacles and criticism Otto Frank faced in publishing his daughter's words; the controversy surrounding the diary's Broadway and film adaptations; and the claims of conspiracy theorists who have cried fraud, along with the scientific analysis that proved them wrong. Finally, Prose, a teacher herself, considers the rewards and challenges of sharing one of the world's most read, and most banned, books with students. How has the life and death of one girl become emblematic of the lives and deaths of so many, and why do her words continue to inspire? Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife tells the extraordinary story of the book that became a force in the world. Along the way, Francine Prose definitively establishes that Anne Frank was not an accidental author or a casual teenaged chronicler, but a writer of prodigious talent and ambition. How has the life and death of one girl become emblematic of the lives and deaths of so many, and why do her words continue to inspire? Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife tells the extraordinary story of the book that became a force in the world. Along the way, Francine Prose definitively establishes that Anne Frank was not an accidental author or a casual teenage chronicler, but a writer of prodigious talent and ambition.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475620http://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=475619Description: "The Anthologist is narrated by Paul Chowder - a once-in-a-while-published kind of poet who is writing the introduction to a new anthology of poetry. He's having a hard time getting started because his career is floundering, his girlfriend Roz has recently left him, and he is thinking about the great poets throughout history who have suffered far worse and deserve to feel sorry for themselves. He has also promised to reveal many wonderful secrets and tips and tricks about poetry, and it looks like the introduction will be a little longer than he'd thought." "What unfolds is a wholly entertaining and beguiling love story about poetry: from Tennyson, Swinburne, and Yeats to the moderns (Roethke, Bogan, Merwin) to the staff of The New Yorker, what Paul reveals is astonishing and makes one realize how incredibly important poetry is to our lives. At the same time, Paul barely manages to realize all of this himself, and the result is a tenderly romantic, hilarious, and inspired novel."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475619http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475618Description: From the Publisher: Many of the world's greatest dramas have sprung not only from the creative impulses of the authors but also from the time-honored principles of structure and design that have forged those impulses into coherent and powerful insights. An understanding of these principles is essential to the craft of creating and interpreting works of drama for the stage or screen. The Architecture of Drama provides an introduction to these principles, with particular emphasis placed on how a drama's structural elements fit together to create meaningful and entertaining experiences for audiences.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475618http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475617Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475617http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475616Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475616http://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=475615Description: A comprehensive and eye-opening portrait of one of the most significant and improbable figures of the twentieth century--from her childhood in Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution to her years as a screenwriter in Hollywood, the publication of her blockbuster novels, and the rise and fall of the cult that formed around her in the 1950s and 1960s.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475615http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475954Description: In this story for both children and adults, kindergartner Gracie decides to find out just what beer is and why her father likes it so much. Along the way she discovers more than she probably expected.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475954http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478519Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478519http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490356Description: "David Orr provides a riveting tour of poetry as it actually exists today. Orr argues that readers should accept the foreignness of poetry in the way that they accept the strangeness of any place to which they haven't traveled--they should expect a little confusion, at least at first. Yet in the same way that we can, over time, learn to appreciate the idiosyncratic delights of, for instance, Belgium, we can learn to be comfortable with the odd pleasures of poetry by taking our time and pursuing what we like. Reading poetry, Orr suggests, is more a matter of building a relationship than proceeding systematically through a checklist. Beautiful & Pointless provides the foundation for such a relationship by examining the things poets and poetry readers talk about when they discuss poetry, such as why poetry seems especially personal and what it means to write "in form." Orr, by turns acerbic, incisive, hilarious, and keen, is what every reader hopes for: that perfect guide who points the way, doesn't talk too much, and helps you see what you might have missed. Stimulating, amusing, and utterly engrossing, Beautiful & Pointless allows us to see how an individual reader engages poetry, so that we may feel better equipped to appreciate it in our own way."--Book jacket.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490356http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490374Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490374http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475614Description: Synopsis: Entering its fourth year, Best New Poets has established itself as a crucial venue for rising poets and a valuable resource for poetry lovers. The only publication of its kind, this annual anthology is made up exclusively of work by writers who have not yet published a full-length book. The poems included in this eclectic sampling represent the best from the many that have been nominated by the country's top literary magazines and writing programs, as well as some two thousand additional poems submitted through an open online competition. The work of the fifty writers represented here provides the best perspective available on the continuing vitality of poetry as it's being practiced today.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475614http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507235Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507235http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504709Description: "No matter the situation in which her characters find themselves--an unforeseen love affair between adolescent cousins, a lifetime of memories unearthed by an elderly couple's decision to shoplift, the deathbed secret of a young girl's forbidden forest tryst with the tsar, the danger that befalls a wealthy couple's child in a European inn of misfits--Edith Pearlman conveys their experience with wit and aplomb, with relentless but clear-eyed optimism, and with a supple prose that reminds us, sentence by sentence, page by page, of the gifts our greatest verbal innovators can bestow" --Inside flap.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504709http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478725Description: Retired third-base coach George 'Granny' Grantham chronicles the story of Billy Blakely, a catcher called up from Iowa to play for the New Jersey Titans in the spring of 1957. A powerful hitter and passionate catcher, Blockade Billy becomes notorious for drawing blood out of runners who collide with him at home plate. However, Billy holds a sinister secret, one that causes baseball officials to remove his name from the record books.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478725http://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=489958Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489958http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489957Description: "Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series has met with astonishing commercial success--not just amongst adolescent girls, but with college students, middle-aged women, and writers and publishers who hope to capitalize on the author's achievements by tapping into a primed market. For all of these reasons, it becomes a vital enterprise to investigate the themes of the Twilight books and the ways they encourage readers to perceive and interact with the world around them. The essays in this collection approach Meyer's novels from diverse perspectives, and will be of interest to academic and lay readers alike: undergraduates and graduate students; instructors of young adult literature, contemporary U.S. writing, the Gothic, and popular culture; the myriad Twilight fans who seek to explore and re-explore the novels from a variety of angles"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489957http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475953Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475953http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478518Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478518http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490355Description: "Anthony Trollope was among the most prolific, popular, and richly diverse writers of the mid-Victorian period, with forty-seven novels and a variety of other writings to his name. Both a serial and series writer whose novels traversed Ireland, England, Australia and New Zealand, and genres from realism to science fiction, Trollope also published criticism, short fiction, travel writing and biography. The Cambridge Companion to Anthony Trollope provides a state-of-the-field review of critical perspectives on his work, with the volume's sixteen essays addressing Trollope's biography, autobiography, canonical fiction, short stories and travel writing, as well as surveying diverse topics including gender, sexuality, vulgarity, and the law"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490355http://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=493325Description: "This volume provides lively and authoritative introductions to twenty-nine of the most important British and Irish poets from Geoffrey Chaucer to Philip Larkin. The list includes, among others, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Wordsworth, Browning, Yeats and T. S. Eliot, and represents the tradition of English poetry at its best. Each contributor offers a new assessment of a single poet's achievement and importance, with readings of the most important poems. The essays, written by leading experts, are personal responses, written in clear, vivid language, free of academic jargon, and aim to inform, arouse interest, and deepen understanding"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493325http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478760Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478760http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493326Description: "In Russian history, the twentieth century was an era of unprecedented, radical transformations--changes in social systems, political regimes, and economic structures. A number of distinctive literary schools emerged, each with their own voice, specific artistic character, and ideological background. As a single-volume compendium, the Companion provides a new perspective on Russian literary and cultural development, as it unifies both emigrãae literature and literature written in Russia. This volume concentrates on broad, complex, and diverse sources--from symbolism and revolutionary avant-garde writings to Stalinist, post-Stalinist, and post-Soviet prose, poetry, drama, and emigrãae literature, with forays into film, theatre, and literary policies, institutions and theories. The contributors present recent scholarship on historical and cultural contexts of twentieth-century literary development, and situate the most influential individual authors within these contexts, including Boris Pasternak, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Joseph Brodsky, Osip Mandelstam, Mikhail Bulgakov and Anna Akhmatova"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493326http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489953Description: "The first major twenty-first century history of four hundred years of black writing, The Cambridge History of African American Literature presents a comprehensive overview of the literary traditions, oral and print, of African-descended peoples in the United States. Expert contributors, drawn from the United States and beyond, emphasise the dual nature of each text discussed as a work of art created by an individual and as a response to unfolding events in American cultural, political, and social history"--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489953http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475951Description: How do we identify something as comedy? How does reading a comic text differ from reading other kinds of texts? How does comedy relate to social, cultural, and political issues? From Aristotle to the commedia dell'arte, from Wilde to Albee, this Introduction uses these and many other examples from the vast history and range of the comedy genre to investigate comedy's patterns, characteristics, and mechanisms. Focusing on dramatic texts, the book also refers to literature, film, and television throughout, exploring how comedy affects and inhabits other worlds and genres.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475951http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507067Description: It would be impossible to exaggerate the influence, popularity, and prestige of The Canterbury Tales. Considered one the English language's most masterful works, Geoffrey Chaucer's series of tales has managed to stay relevant and prominent for more than six hundred years. by combining sharp wit with an acute awareness of human nature, Chaucer produces some of literature's most unforgettable characters, such as the Wife of Bath, the Knight, the Miller, and the Prioress. Though he intended to give each of his thirty characters four tales, Chaucer left his great work largely unfinished. Nevertheless, the twenty-four narratives that make up The Canterbury Tales stand complete as an artful array of stories that critique and satirize fourteenth-century English society. Accessible to first-time readers and Chaucerians alike, this volume provides an enjoyable approach to the complexities of The Canterbury Tales, with expert discussions of the stories that have enraptured, stunned, and enlightened six centuries of readers. Edited and with an introduction by Jack Lynch, Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University, it presents original essays along with classic and contemporary criticism to provide a unique insight into Chaucer's richly layered tales. Lynch's introduction describes the image of Chaucer as seen through the eyes of familiar poets such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Matthew Arnold. In highlighting the density of The Canterbury Tales, Lynch points out that the interpretations of Chaucer's work are both extensive and infinite. A biographical sketch of Geoffrey Chaucer by Judith Laird follows, along with a perspective by Benjamin Lytal, who, writing for The Paris Review, outlines Chaucer's career as an author and the shaky reception of his work that preceded his exquisite collection of tales. Four original essays then provide an introduction to the background and key themes of the tales. Dominick Grace surveys contemporary criticism of the Tales, Matthew J. Bolton discusses Chaucer's ability to incorporate earlier classical works into his material while managing to keep his own writings original, Rosemary M. Canfield Reisman presents an overview of feminist readings of The Canterbury Tales, and Lewis Walker examines how the culture and events of fourteenth-century England influenced Chaucer as he wrote his masterpiece. Also included in this volume is a broad collection of previously published essays written by esteemed scholars. E. Talbot Donaldson, Donald R. Howard, H. Marshall Leicester, Jr., and Barbara Nolan discuss the narrative voice within The Canterbury Tales and the distinct figures of Chaucer the pilgrim, Chaucer the man, and Chaucer the poet. Glending Olson addresses the work as a kind of a game, reminding readers that the pilgrims tell their tales as part of a contest. Douglas Brooks and Alastaire Fowler begin the analysis of Chaucer's individual tales by exploring the organization and characterization of The Knight's Tale. Martin Stevens turns his attention to The Merchant's Tale and Chaucer's recurring use of irony, while Katharina M. Wilson digs further into the precise misogynistic occurrences within the work. Susan Crane continues with a feminist reading of The Wife of Bath's Tale, and Cathy Hume uses The Franklin's Tale to explore the challenges faced when a stable marriage finds itself in a tumultuous world. Greg Wilsbacher considers how modern readers can respond to the anti-Semitism of The Prioress's Tale, and Steven F. Kruger focuses on the representation of Jews and the physical body in the same. Mark Miller provides insight into the topics of gender identity and eroticism within The Miller's Tale. Rita Copeland discusses the rhetoric of The Pardoner's Tale and the sexuality of its teller, and Lawrence Warner inspects the intricacies of The Man of Law's Tale and its Christian background. David Wallace concentrates on the meaning behind Chaucer's choice to start the pilgrimage in Southwark rather than London. Finally, Alice Miskimin discusses the illustrated editions of The Canterbury Tales that began to appear in the eighteenth century, providing a new angle from which to see Chaucer's works.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507067http://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=490373Description: In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated at the "cat's table"--as far from the Captain's Table as can be--with a ragtag group of "insignificant" adults and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean, through the Suez Canal, into the Mediterranean, the boys tumble from one adventure to another, bursting all over the place like freed mercury. But there are other diversions as well: one man talks with them about jazz and women, another opens the door to the world of literature. The narrator's elusive, beautiful cousin Emily becomes his confidante, allowing him to see himself "with a distant eye" for the first time, and to feel the first stirring of desire. Another Cat's Table denizen, the shadowy Miss Lasqueti, is perhaps more than what she seems. And very late every night, the boys spy on a shackled prisoner, his crime and his fate a galvanizing mystery that will haunt them forever. As the narrative moves between the decks and holds of the ship and the boy's adult years, it tells a spellbinding story--by turns poignant and electrifying--about the magical, often forbidden, discoveries of childhood and a lifelong journey that begins unexpectedly with a spectacular sea voyage.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490373http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490372Description: His life radically changed by an encounter with Ernest Hemingway in Cuba, journalist Daniel Quinn embarks on a turbulent journey marked by such historical events as the Albany race riots, the rise of Fidel Castro, and the assassination of Robert Kennedy.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490372http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493327Description: When Charles Dickens died in 1870, The Times of London successfully campaigned for his burial in Westminster Abbey, the final resting place of England's kings and heroes. Thousands flocked to mourn the best recognized and loved man of nineteenth-century England. His books had made them laugh, shown them the squalor and greed of English life, and also the power of personal virtue and the strength of ordinary people. In his last years Dickens drew adoring crowds, had met presidents and princes, and had amassed a fortune. Yet like his heroes, Dickens trod a hard path to greatness. His young life was overturned when his profligate father was sent to debtors' prison and Dickens was forced into harsh factory work--but this led to his remarkable eye for all that was absurd, tragic, and redemptive in London life. This biography gives full measure to Dickens's stature--his virtues both as a writer and as a human being--while observing his failings in both respects with an unblinking eye.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493327http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507069Description: A collection of essays relating to the life and writings of Charles Dickens.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507069http://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=478600Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478600http://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=475950Description: Venice, a city steeped in a thousand years of history, art and architecture, teeters in precarious balance between endurance and decay. Its architectural treasures crumble--foundations shift, marble ornaments fall--even as efforts to preserve them are underway. This book opens in 1996, when a dramatic fire destroys the historic Fenice opera house, a catastrophe for Venetians. Arriving three days after the fire, Berendt becomes a kind of detective--inquiring into the nature of life in this remarkable museum-city--while gradually revealing the truth about the fire. He introduces us to a rich cast of characters, Venetian and expatriate, in a tale full of atmosphere and surprise which reveals a world as finely drawn as a still-life painting. The fire and its aftermath serve as a leitmotif, adding elements of chaos, corruption, and crime and contributing to the ever-mounting suspense.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475950http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478757Description: A collection of stories set in Wyoming. They range from The Mud Below, on an itinerant rodeo cowboy, to People in Hell Just Want a Drink of Water, which is on a family feud.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478757http://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=478758Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478758http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475949Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475949http://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=490354Description: "The successful study of film combines criticism, theory and practice. This book covers all three areas and guides the student towards an engaged form of creative expression and an active role as reviewer and critic. Beautifully presented, this ground-breaking text offers all students an integrated understanding of film criticism and production"--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490354http://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=504706Description: New threats emerge to endanger the future of the Seven Kingdoms, as Daenerys Targaryen, ruling in the East, fights off a multitude of enemies, while Jon Snow, Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, faces his foes both in the Watch and beyond the great Wall of ice and stone.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504706http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489951Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489951http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507279Description: Seventeen-year-old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters--the chimaerae who form the only family she has ever known.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507279http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478599Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478599http://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=478724Description: Written between 1934 and 1942, these ten stories cover the details of social class; the tensions between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives; the manners and mannerisms of the French bourgeoisie; and questions of religion and personal identity. Moving from the drawing rooms of prewar Paris to the lives of men and women in wartime France.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478724http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475613Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475613http://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=490353Description: Using the methods of Edgar Allan Poe's sleuth C. Auguste Dupin, Kopley here offers surprising discoveries about Poe's detective tales and traces the origins of the modern detective tale genre.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490353http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504712Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504712http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475945Description: A volume of seventeen essays explores various aspects of the author's life, including his childhood in colonial Nigeria, encounters with the African-American diaspora, his family life, and the symbolism of Barack Obama's election.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475945http://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=489950Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489950http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507070Description: A collection of essays offers a diverse selection of criticism of Emily Dickinson.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507070http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475944Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475944http://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=475942Description: The outrageous bestseller that stars Sissy Hankshaw--flawlessly beautiful, almost. A small-town girl with big-time dreams and a quirk to match--hitchhiking her way into your heart, your hopes, and your sleeping bag. . . . Follow Sissy's amazing odyssey from Virginia to Manhattan to the Dakota Badlands, where FBI agents, cowgirls and ecstatic whooping cranes explode in a deliciously drawn-out climax.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475942http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504867Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504867http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478598Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478598http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477214Description: This work overturns traditional views of the origins of fairy tales and documents their actual origins and transmission. Where did Cinderella come from? Puss in Boots? Rapunzel? The origins of fairy tales are looked at in a new way in these highly engaging pages. Conventional wisdom holds that fairy tales originated in the oral traditions of peasants and were recorded for posterity by the Brothers Grimm during the nineteenth century. The author overturns this view in this account of the origins of these well loved stories. Charles Perrault created Cinderella and her fairy godmother, but no countrywoman whispered this tale into Perrault's ear. Instead, his Cinderella appeared only after he had edited it from the book of often amoral tales published by Giambattista Basile in Naples. Distinguishing fairy tales from folktales and showing the influence of the medieval romance on them, the author documents how fairy tales originated as urban writing for urban readers and listeners. Working backward from the Grimms to the earliest known sixteenth-century fairy tales of the Italian Renaissance, she argues for a book based history of fairy tales. The first new approach to fairy tale history in decades, this book answers questions about where fairy tales came from and how they spread, illuminating a narrative process long veiled by surmise and assumption.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477214http://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=493329Description: An anthology of top-selected "Rolling Stone" articles offers insight into both the late Thompson's early career and the magazine's fledgling years, in a volume that includes the stories of his infamous Freak Party sheriff campaign and his observations about the Bush-versus-Kerry presidential rivalry.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493329http://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=478753Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478753http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475612Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475612http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504714Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504714http://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=475610Description: A guide to proper American English word usage, grammar, pronunciation, and style features examples of good and bad usage from the media.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475610http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478597Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478597http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479456Description: As nine members of the Hegarty clan gather for the wake of their drowned brother Liam, his sister Veronica remembers the secret he shared with her about what happened in their grandmother's house thirty years ago, a betrayal that spans three generations.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479456http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478752Description: From the Publisher: In the first anthology to survey the full range of gay men's autobiographical writing from Walt Whitman to the present, Gay American Autobiography draws excerpts from letters, journals, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies to provide examples of the best life writing over the last century and a half. Volume editor David Bergman guides the reader chronologically through selected writings that give voice to every generation of gay writers since the nineteenth century, including a diverse array of American men of African, European, Jewish, Asian, and Latino heritage. Documenting a range of life experiences that encompass tattoo artists and academics, composers and drag queens, hustlers and clerks, it contains accounts of turn-of-the-century transvestites, gay rights activists, men battling AIDS, and soldiers attempting to come out in the army. Each selection provides important insight on the wide spectrum of ways gay men have defined and lived their lives, highlighting how self-awareness changes an author's experience. The volume includes an introduction by Bergman and headnotes for each of the nearly forty entries. Bringing many out-of-print and hard-to-find works to new readers, this challenging and comprehensive anthology chronicles American gay history and life struggles over the course of the past 150 years.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478752http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475609Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475609http://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=475608Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475608http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479455Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479455http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477205Description: "Lisbeth Salander-- the heart of Larsson's two previous novels-- lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. She's fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, she'll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for three murders. With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. And on her own, she will plot revenge-- against the man who tried to kill her, and the corrupt government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life."--Container.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477205http://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=490371Description: "The Gothic tradition continues to excite the popular imagination. John C. Tibbetts presents interviews and conversations with prominent novelists, filmmakers, artists, and film and television directors and actors as they trace the Gothic mode across three centuries, from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, through H.P. Lovecraft, to today's science fiction, goth, and steampunk culture. H. P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, Robert (Psycho) Bloch, Chris (The Polar Express, Jumanji) Van Allsburg, Maurice Sendak, Gahan Wilson, Ray Harryhausen, Christopher Reeve, Greg Bear, William Shatner, and many more share their worlds of imagination and terror"--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490371http://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=478596Description: Following the death of New York City painter Oscar Feldman, an artist known for his paintings of the female nude, two rival biographers compete and collide as they set out to tell his life story, with the help of his wife Abigail, sister Maxine, and Teddy, his longtime mistress, in a satirical novel of literary rivalry.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478596http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477767Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477767http://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=475939Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475939http://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=493433Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493433http://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=504717Description: Hendrickson focuses on the period from 1934 to 1961, from the pinnacle of Hemingway's fame to his suicide.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504717http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493435Description: A collection of the eloquent, insightful, and beautifully written prose works that Updike was compiling when he died in January 2009, this book opens with a self-portrait of the writer in winter--a Prospero who, though he fears his most dazzling performances are behind him, reveals himself in every sentence to be in deep conversation with the sources of his magic.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493435http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493330Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493330http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475937Description: After Earth is demolished to make way for a new hyperspatial expressway, Arthur Dent begins to hitch-hike through space.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475937http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475607Description: A free imaginative rendering of the lives of New York's fabled Collyer brothers depicts Homer and Langley as recluses in their once grand Fifth Avenue mansion, facing odyssean perils as they struggle to survive the wars, political movements, and technological advances of the last century.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475607http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478595Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478595http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489948Description: In this new collection, "America's most popular poet" covers the everlasting themes of love and loss, life and death, youth and aging, solitude and union.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489948http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504718Description: Sebastian Prendergast lives in a geodesic dome with his eccentric grandmother, who homeschools him in the teachings of futurist philosopher R. Buckminster Fuller. But when his grandmother has a stroke, Sebastian is forced to leave the dome and make his own way in town.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504718http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478716Description: In Scotland, the portrait of a petty crook who had one run-in with police too many. It is a series of reflections as he sits in jail, contemplating his fate. He had been in trouble before, but this time it's different, the latest brawl with police cost him his eyesight. Now in addition to all his other troubles he is blind.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478716http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493335Description: ...For any reader seeking a greater appreciation of their favorite novel, poem, or play. Offers a lively and straightforward guide to literary thinking. With a series of compact essays the...literary critic John Sutherland--...admired for his wit and clear reasoning--strips away the obscurity and pretension of literary study. His book offers concise definitions and clear examples of the fifty concepts that all book lovers should know. It includes basic descriptive terms (ambiguity, epic), the core vocabulary of literary culture (genre, style), and devices employed by authors (irony, defamiliarization). More broadly, "How Literature Works" explores the animating concepts behind literary theory (textuality, sexual politics), traces the forces that impact literature's role in the real world (obscenity, plagiarism), and grapples with the future of reading (fanfic, e-book).http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493335http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478750Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478750http://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=478594Description: Leavitt's novel centers on the relationship between mathematicians G.H. Hardy (1877-1947) and Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920). In January of 1913, Cambridge-based Hardy receives a nine-page letter filled with prime number theorems from S. Ramanujan, a young accounts clerk in Madras. Intrigued, Hardy consults his colleague and collaborator, J.E. Littlewood; the two soon decide Ramanujan is a mathematical genius and that he should emigrate to Cambridge to work with them. Hardy recruits the young, eager don, Eric Neville, and his wife, Alice, to travel to India and expedite Ramanujan's arrival; Alice's changing affections, WWI and Ramanujan's enigmatic ailments add obstacles. Meanwhile, Hardy, a reclusive scholar and closeted homosexual, narrates a second story line cast as a series of 1936 Harvard lectures, some of them imagined. Ramanujan comes to renown as the the Hindu calculator discussions of mathematics and bits of Cambridge's often risqueé academic culture (including D.H. Lawrence's 1915 visit) add authenticity.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478594http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490350Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490350http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478749Description: Presents a history of the English language, beginning with the Old English of the seventh century, through the Great Vowel Shift between the time of Chaucer and Shakespeare, and the later full emergence of modern English.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478749http://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=478748Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478748http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491123Description: Following an incident with an escaped tiger, nineteenth-century London street urchin Jaffy Brown goes to work for Mr. Charles Jamrach, the famed importer of exotic animals, alongside Tim, a good but sometimes spitefully competitive boy. Mr. Jamrach recruits the two boys to capture a fabled dragon during the course of a three-year whaling expedition to the Dutch East Indies. They succeed in catching the reptilian beast, but when the ship's whaling venture falls short of expectations, the crew begins to regard the dragon--seething with feral power in its cage--as bad luck.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491123http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493345Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493345http://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=475934Description: Closely examines Milton's participation in the English civil war and his startlingly modern ideas about capitalism, love, and marriage, reminding us that human liberty and autonomy should never be taken for granted. --from publisher descriptionhttp://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475934http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490349Description: "This edited collection of new and insightful critical essays brings together a wide range of academics whose work stages a forum exploring the key aspects of Kazuo Ishiguro's novels. Featuring an interview with Ishiguro, this groundbreaking book is ideal for anyone studying the work of this major contemporary author"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490349http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478747Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478747http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475933Description: An epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takes us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present. The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. It is about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption, and it is also about the power of fathers over sons-their love, their sacrifices, their lies.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475933http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478593Description: "The story of Harrison William Shepherd, a man caught between two worlds -- Mexico and the United States in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s -- and whose search for identity takes readers to the heart of the twentieth century's most tumultuous events"--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478593http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479453Description: In England three working-class buddies, united by pub-drinking and World War II experiences, drive the ashes of the fourth to the sea. In the process emerge the lives of four families and the reason no wife came. By the author of Ever after.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479453http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490348Description: "This comprehensive, encyclopedic text offers an overview of the life, career, and works of Leslie Marmon Silko, an accomplished poet, novelist and memoirist. Topics include genres, characters, themes, issues, and glossary of Pueblo terms. This will aid scholars and readers interested in the work and career of the first internationally-acclaimed native woman author in the United States"--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490348http://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=479454Description: From the author of Waiting for the Barbarians, another startling and disturbing portrait of today's South Africa, a land and a people beset by violence and siege. Coetzee here tells the story of a handicapped young man who has worked as a municipal gardener in Cape Town. His mother is dying, and she wishes to return to her birthplace out in the veldt. Without the required transit passes, mother and son set out on a journey that will end in death for her and in a new but temporary life on an abandoned farm for him. His respite in isolation and peace does not last long, however; grotesque reality soon returns to trouble this quiet new world. Against the solitude of this private drama, Coetzee paints an eloquent and pained picture of his homeland and of the bureaucrats, doctors, army deserters, and camp guards who reveal the stress and qualms of their existence and who uneasily sense that there is no conclusion to their troubles and no future for their lives.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479454http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479452Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479452http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489945Description: "The Literary Theory Toolkit offers readers a rich compendium of key terms, concepts, and arguments necessary for the study of literature in a critical-theoretical context. Includes varied examples drawn from readily available literary texts spanning all periods and genres Features a chapter on performance, something not usually covered in similar texts Covers differing theories of the public sphere, ideology, power, and the social relations necessary for the understanding of approaches to literature"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489945http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475932Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475932http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478715Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478715http://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=478744Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478744http://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=475930Description: A vivid, energetic account of the life of Louisa May Alcott that explores Alcott's life in the context of her works, all of which are to some extent autobiographical.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475930http://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=504722Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504722http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496487Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496487http://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=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=475605Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475605http://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=475604Description: She was a groomed for a gilded life in moneyed Houston, but Molly Ivins left the country club behind to become one of the most provocative, courageous, and influential journalists in American history. Presidents and senators called her for advice; her column ran in 400 newspapers; her books were bestsellers. But despite her fame, few people really knew her: what her background was, who influenced her, how her political views developed, or how many painful struggles she fought. This is a comprehensive, definitive narrative biography, based on intimate knowledge of Molly, interviews with her family, friends, and colleagues, and access to her personal papers. It is at once the saga of a powerful, pugnacious woman muscling her way to the top in a world dominated by men; a look behind the scenes of national media and politics; and a sobering account of the toll of addiction and cancer.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475604http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477668Description: "On a farm in western Missouri during the first half of the twentieth century, Matthew and Callie Soames create a life for themselves and raise four headstrong daughters. Jessica will break their hearts. Leonie will fall in love with the wrong man. Mary Jo will escape to New York. And wild child Mathy's fate will be the family's greatest tragedy. Over the decades they will love, deceive, comfort, forgive-- and, ultimately, they will come to cherish all the more fiercely the bonds of love that hold the family together" -- from publisher's web site.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477668http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478592Description: "Ms. Beatrice Hempel, teacher of seventh grade, is new -- new to teaching, new to the school, newly engaged, and newly bereft of her devoted father. Overwhelmed by her newness, she struggles to figure out what is expected of her in life and at work. Is it acceptable to introduce swear words into the English curriculum, enlist students to write their own report cards, or bring up personal experiences while teaching a sex-education class?"--P. [4] of cover.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478592http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478740Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478740http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475928Description: It is 1975, a perfect spring in Istanbul. Kemal, scion of one of the city's wealthiest families, is about to become engaged to Sibel, daughter of another prominent family, when he encounters Fusun, a beautiful shopgirl and a distant relation. Thus begins an obsessive but tragic love affair that will transform itself into a compulsive collection of objects--a museum of one man's broken heart--that chronicle Kemal's lovelorn progress and his afflicted heart's reactions.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475928http://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=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=478516Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478516http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478714Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478714http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507247Description: Reissued to celebrate the bicentenary of Charles Dickens's birth, The Oxford Companion to Charles Dickens (formerly The Oxford Reader's Companion to Dickens) draws together an unparalleled diversity of information on one of Britain's greatest writers: covering his life, his works, his reputation, and his cultural context.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507247http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490346Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490346http://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=508639Description: An anthology of twentieth-century American poetry, featuring Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Hayden, Gwendolyn Brooks, Derek Walcott, Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery, Anne Sexton, and many others.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508639http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478591Description: Wrongfully implicated when a mail bomb claims the life of a beloved computer scientist, math professor Lee receives a threatening letter that compels him to confront key events in his life, an exercise that inadvertently renders him all the more suspicious.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478591http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493347Description: Reveals the fascinating life of Phillis Wheatley, the first English-speaking person of African descent to publish a book, and only the second woman to do so in America, and also to do so while she was a slave and a teenager.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493347http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478736Description: "Although literary postmodernism has been defined in terms of difference, multiplicity, heterogeneity, and plurality, some of the most vaunted authors of postmodern American fiction--such as Thomas Pynchon, Paul Auster, and other white male authors--often fail to adequately represent the distinct subjectivities of African Americans, American Indians, Latinos and Latinas, women, the poor of the center, and the global periphery. In this groundbreaking study, W. Lawrence Hogue exposes the ways in which much postmodern American literature privileges a typically Eurocentric, male-oriented type of subjectivity, often at the expense of victimizing or objectifying the ethnic or gendered Other. In contrast to the dominant white male perspective on postmodernism, Hogue points to African American, American Indian, and women authors within the American postmodern canon--Rikki Ducornet, Kathy Acker, Ishmael Reed, and Gerald Vizenor--who work against these structures of stereotype and bias, resulting in a literary postmodernism that more genuinely respects and represents difference. He argues that most postmodern African American, American Indian, and women writers experience and write about postmodernity in ways that are substantially different from white men, since they are intimately concerned with the existence of racism and sexism."--Jacket.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478736http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478590Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478590http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480401Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480401http://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=475603Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475603http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478734Description: A profile of the late short-story master analyzes the myths and controversies attributed to his character and covers his struggles with alcohol, the role of a zealous editor in shaping his first collections, and his ability to portray the challenges of ordinary people.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478734http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475602Description: As was argued in Reading Harry Potter: Critical Essays (Praeger, 2003), interpreting the underlying messages and themes of the Harry Potter series is vital for understanding the ways that we perceive and interact with each other in contemporary society. The novels and corresponding film adaptations have broken records with their groundbreaking sales and widespread acclaim; they have also generated a plethora of writing-by critics, academics, and fans. These works could easily be called this generation's most formative narratives, and thus warrant critical attention. This new volume of essays covers the entire seven-book sequence. Contributors consider myriad themes from a variety of perspectives. Areas addressed include religion, morality, race, magic, and other themes popular in discussing the books. With this book in hand, fans of the series - indeed anyone interested in the Harry Potter phenomenon - will better appreciate and understand Rowling's work and the impact of her stories on our culture and on our times.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475602http://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=479451Description: Edmund Talbot recounts his voyage from England to the Antipodes, and the humiliating confrontation between the stern Captain Anderson and the nervous parson, James Colley, which leads to the latter's death.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479451http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493348Description: Evaluates the lesser-known Romantic revolution as a fundamental and far-reaching period while revealing the range of modern cultural axioms it inspired, from views about genius and sexuality to theories about dreams and the subconscious.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493348http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479450Description: En route to America with a cargo of African slaves, the crew of the Liverpool Merchant, enraged at the captain's impotence in the face of disease, carry out a mutiny that pits two cousins against each other.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479450http://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=478733Description: From the pen of a master-the #1 bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Atonement-comes an astonishing novel that captures the fine balance of happiness and the unforeseen threats that can destroy it. A brilliant, thrilling page-turner that will keep readers on the edge of their seats. Saturday is a masterful novel set within a single day in February 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man-a successful neurosurgeon, happily married to a newspaper lawyer, and enjoying good relations with his children. Henry wakes to the comfort of his large home in central London on this, his day off. He is as at ease here as he is in the operating room. Outside the hospital, the world is not so easy or predictable. There is an impending war against Iraq, and a general darkening and gathering pessimism since the New York and Washington attacks two years before. On this particular Saturday morning, Perowne's day moves through the ordinary to the extraordinary. After an unusual sighting in the early morning sky, he makes his way to his regular squash game with his anaesthetist, trying to avoid the hundreds of thousands of marchers filling the streets of London, protesting against the war. A minor accident in his car brings him into a confrontation with a small-time thug. To Perowne's professional eye, something appears to be profoundly wrong with this young man, who in turn believes the surgeon has humiliated him-with savage consequences that will lead Henry Perowne to deploy all his skills to keep his family alive.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478733http://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=478515Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478515http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491122Description: This intense new novel follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he has never much thought about until his oldest friends return with a vengeance, one of them from the grave another maddeningly present. Tony Webster thought he'd left all of this behind as he built a life for himself, and by now his marriage and family and career have fallen into an amicable divorce and retirement. But he is then presented with a mysterious legacy that obliges him to reconsider various things, and to revise his estimation of his own nature and his place in the world.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491122http://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=478732Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478732http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489943Description: A revelatory anthology of 19 personal essays and articles by the 20th-century literary master spans his career and includes a 1920 article written shortly after This Side of Paradise made him famous and a 1940 assessment of the times in which he lived.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489943http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491121Description: Witnessing the progression of regional corruption in his work as a British lawyer in early 2000s Moscow, Nick Platt rescues two sisters from a purse snatcher and pursues a glamorous romantic relationship with one of the sisters before he is asked to help with a dubious family endeavor.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491121http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504876Description: "Space, in Chains speaks in ghostly voices, fractured narratives, songs, prayers, and dark riddles as it moves through contemporary tragedies of grief and the complex succession of generations. In her eighth book of poetry, Laura Kasischke has pared the construction of her verse to its bones, leaving haunting language and a visceral strangeness of imagery. by turns mournful and celebratory, Kasischke's poetry insists upon asking hard questions that are courageously left unanswered."--Cover, p. [4].http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504876http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475926Description: A love story that takes place inside a pack of cigarettes reveals the moon's purpose, differentiates between outlaws and criminals, and presents portraits of powerful Arabs, exiled royalty, and pregnant cheerleaders.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475926http://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=475601Description: During her many years of teaching introduction to fiction courses, Ann Charters developed an acute sense of which stories work most effectively in the classroom. She also discovered that writers, not editors, have the most interesting and useful things to say about the making and the meaning of fiction. Accordingly, her choice of fiction in the first edition of her The Story and Its Writer was as notable for its student appeal as it was for its quality and range. And to complement these stories, she introduced a lasting innovation: an array of the writers' own commentaries on the craft and traditions of the short story. In subsequent editions her sense of what works was confirmed as the book evolved into the most comprehensive, diverse-- and bestselling -- introduction to fiction anthology. Instructors rely on Ann Charters' ability to assemble an authoritative and teachable anthology, and anticipate each edition's selection of new writers and stories.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475601http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478420Description: This is the Elia Kazan/Tennessee Williams film moviegoers would have seen had not Legion of Decency censorship occurred at the last minute. It features three minutes of previously unseen footage underscoring, among other things, the sexual tension between Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) and Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando), and Stella Kowalski's (Kim Hunter) passion for husband Stanley.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478420http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507253Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507253http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490970Description: Twelve year old Ava must travel into the Underworld part of the swamp in order to save her family's dynasty of Bigtree alligator wrestling. This novel takes us to the swamps of the Florida Everglades, and introduces us to Ava Bigtree, an unforgettable young heroine. The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline, and Swamplandia!, their island home and gator wrestling theme park, formerly no. 1 in the region, is swiftly being encroached upon by a fearsome and sophisticated competitor called the World of Darkness. Ava's mother, the park's indomitable headliner, has just died; her sister, Ossie, has fallen in love with a spooky character known as the Dredgeman, who may or may not be an actual ghost; and her brilliant big brother, Kiwi, who dreams of becoming a scholar, has just defected to the World of Darkness in a last ditch effort to keep their family business from going under. Ava's father, affectionately known as Chief Bigtree, is AWOL; and that leaves Ava, a resourceful but terrified thirteen, to manage ninety eight gators as well as her own grief. Against a backdrop of hauntingly fecund plant life animated by ancient lizards and lawless hungers, the author has written a novel about a family's struggle to stay afloat in a world that is inexorably sinking.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490970http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475600Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475600http://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=490344Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490344http://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=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=478730Description: The lives of two different couples-wealthy Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher, and Candido and America Rincon, a pair of Mexican illegals--suddenly collide, in astory that unfolds from the shifting viewpoints of the various characters.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478730http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478713Description: Max Trader, a solitary, quiet, responsible maker of guitars, and Johnny Devlin, a charming and usually drunk lady-killer, "inexplicably awake in each other's bodies."--Jacket.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478713http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476587Description: In this book the author continues his career long study of the ways that intellectual and philosophical ideas informed and transformed the work of America's major modernist writers. Here he shows how Fitzgerald and Hemingway wrestled with very specific intellectual, artistic, and psychological influences, influences particular to each writer, particular to the time in which they wrote, and which left distinctive marks on their entire oeuvres. Specifically, he addresses the idea of "translating" or "translation", for Fitzgerald the translation of ideas from Freud, Dewey, and James, among others; and for Hemingway the translation of visual modernism and composition, via Cezanne. Though each writer had distinct interests and different intellectual problems to wrestle with, as is demonstrated in this work, both had to wrestle with transmuting some outside influence and making it their own.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=476587http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480088Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480088http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475925Description: Why are readers so fascinated by Jane Austen's novels? In essays culled from the last 100 years of criticism, great authors and literary critics of the past and present offer insights into her writing and her unique appeal to readers across generations.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475925http://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=475924Description: These Pulitzer Prize-winning poems and essays by the author of No Nature range from the lucid, lyrical, and mystical to the political. All, however, share a common vision: a rediscovery of North America and the ways by which we might become true natives of the land for the first time.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475924http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489940Description: Foster explains how each of these twenty-five works has shaped our very existence as readers, students, teachers, and Americans. He shows how they captured an American moment, and how they influenced our perception of nationhood and citizenship.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489940http://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=478587Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478587http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490343Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490343http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490342Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490342http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479449Description: When sixteen kids are shot on high school grounds, everyone looks for someone to blame. Meet Vernon Little, under arrest at the sheriff's office, a teenager wearing nothing but yesterday's underwear and his prized logo sneakers. Moments after the shooter, his best buddy, turns the gun on himself, Vernon is pinned as an accomplice. Out for revenge are the townspeople, the cable news networks, and Deputy Vaine Gurie, a woman whose zeal for the Pritikin diet is eclipsed only by her appetite for barbecued ribs from the Bar-B-Chew Barn. So Vernon does what any red-blooded American teenager would do; he takes off for Mexico. Vernon God Little is a provocatively satirical, riotously funny look at violence, materialism, and the American media.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=479449http://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=496488Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496488http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475922Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475922http://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=478727Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478727http://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=478726Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478726http://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=478421Description: A couple is invited to the home of a professor and his sharp-tongued wife, and are treated to verbal battles by their hosts.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478421http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493350Description: Shares expert guidelines on how to read and appreciate Herman Melville's classic work, offering insight into its history, characters, and themes while explaining its literary relevance in the modern world.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493350http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480087Description: Joyce Carol Oates shares her struggle to comprehend a life absent of the partnership that had sustained and defined her for nearly half a century.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480087http://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=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=475599Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=475599http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478102Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478102http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489295Description: The daughter of author Joseph Heller shares the story of her childhood, marked by her father's fame, her parents' acrimonious divorce, and their unconventional parenting choices, in a lighthearted personal account that includes coverage of such topics as a summer at the Beverly Hills Hotel and her father's celebrity friendships.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489295