Departmental Acquisitions: 0-1 http://www.yoursite.com/http://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=480091Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=480091http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507233Description: "An Actor's Craft is a handbook for acting students that provides critical approaches and guidance.Speaking passionately about the art of acting, David Krasner illuminates the multifaceted job of an actor. Combining technique with personal examples, he demonstrates how to achieve excellence in performance, how to recognize quality acting, and how to use the technique of acting in an advanced way"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507233http://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=489960Description: An annotated version of Jane Austen's novel in which a spirited young woman copes with the courtship of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters. Includes historical context, citations, definitions, comments and analysis, maps, illustrations, and more.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489960http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489959Description: "In Art Matters, Robert Paul Lamb provides the definitive study of Ernest Hemingway's short story aesthetics. Lamb locates Hemingway's art in literary historical contexts and explains what he learned from earlier artists. including Edgar Allan Poe, Paul Cezanne, Henry James, Guy de Maupassant, Anton Chekhov, Stephen Crane, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, and Ezra Pound. Examining how Hemingway developed this inheritance, Lamb insightfully charts the evolution of the unique style and innovative techniques that would forever change the nature of short fiction."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489959http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490358Description: The decisions of a few industrial leaders shake the roots of capitalism and reawaken man's awareness of himself as an heroic being.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490358http://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=507277Description: When Ethan wakes after the chilling events of the Eighteenth Moon, his one goal is to return to Lena and his loved ones, while back in Gatlin, Lena vows to do whatever it takes to bring Ethan home--even trusting old enemies and risking the lives of those Ethan left to protect.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507277http://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=504707Description: "Anne Tyler gives us a wise, haunting, and deeply moving new novel in which she explores how a middle-aged man, ripped apart by the death of his wife, is gradually restored by her frequent appearances--in their house, on the roadway, in the market. Crippled in his right arm and leg, Aaron has spent his childhood fending off a sister who wants to manage him. So when he meets Dorothy, a plain, outspoken, independent young woman, she is like a breath of fresh air. Unhesitatingly, he marries her, and they have a relatively happy, unremarkable marriage. But when a tree crashes into their house and Dorothy is killed, Aaron feels as though he has been erased forever. Only Dorothy's unexpected appearances from the dead help him to live in the moment and to find some peace. Gradually he discovers, as he works in the family's vanity-publishing business, turning out titles that presume to guide beginners through the trials of life, that maybe for this beginner there is a way of saying goodbye. A beautiful, subtle exploration of loss and recovery, pierced throughout with Anne Tyler's humor, wisdom, and always penetrating look at human foibles"--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504707http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507358Description: "A collection of original travel stories told by some of the world's best novelists, including Isabel Allende, Peter Matthiessen, Alexander McCall Smith, Joyce Carol Oates, Tâea Obreht, DBC Pierre"--P. [4] of cover.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507358http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504862Description: "To read David Ferry's Bewilderment is to be reminded that poetry of the highest order can be made by the subtlest of means. The passionate nature and originality of Ferry's prosodic daring works astonishing transformations that take your breath away. In poem after poem, his diction modulates beautifully between plainspoken high eloquence and colloquial vigor, making his distinctive speech one of the most interesting and ravishing achievements of the past half century. Ferry has fully realized both the potential for vocal expressiveness in his phrasing and the way his phrasing plays against--and with--his genius for metrical variation. His vocal phrasing thus becomes an amazingly flexible instrument of psychological and spiritual inquiry. Most poets write inside a very narrow range of experience and feeling, whether in free or metered verse. But Ferry's use of meter tends to enhance the colloquial nature of his writing, while giving him access to an immense variety of feeling. Sometimes that feeling is so powerful it's like witnessing a volcanologist taking measurements in the midst of an eruption. Ferry's translations, meanwhile, are amazingly acclimated English poems. Once his voice takes hold of them they are as bred in the bone as all his other work. And the translations in this book are vitally related to the original poems around them"--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504862http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504708Description: In this work the author offers a collection of 11 previously uncollected stories, including a title piece that tracks the friendship between Elizabeth Short, famously known as the Black Dahlia, the victim of a markedly brutal murder in 1940s Los Angeles that remains unsolved, and her roommate, Norma Jeane Baker who became Marilyn Monroe. In each of these stories the author explores the menace that lurks at the edge of and intrudes upon even the seemingly safest of lives and maps the transformational cost of such instrusions.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504708http://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=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=489956Description: "From the execution sermons of the Colonial era to television programs like The Wire and The Sopranos, crime writing has played an important role in American culture. Its ability to register fear, desire and anxiety has made it a popular genre with a wide audience. These new essays, written for students as well as readers of crime fiction, demonstrate the very best in contemporary scholarship and challenge long-established notions of the development of the detective novel. Each chapter covers a sub-genre, from 'true crime' to hard-boiled novels, illustrating the ways in which 'popular' and 'high' literary genres influence and shape each other. With a chronology and guide to further reading, the Companion is a helpful guide for students of American literature and readers of crime fiction"--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489956http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=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=489955Description: A distinguished academic, influential Christian apologist, and best-selling author of children's literature, C. S. Lewis is a controversial and enigmatic figure who continues to fascinate, fifty years after his death. This Companion is a comprehensive single-volume study written by an international team of scholars to survey Lewis's career as a literary historian, popular theologian, and creative writer. Twenty-one expert voices from Oxford, Cambridge, Princeton, and Wheaton, among many other places of learning, analyze Lewis's work from theological, philosophical, and literary perspectives. Some chapters consider his professional contribution to fields such as critical theory and intellectual history, while others assess his views on issues including moral knowledge, gender, prayer, war, love, suffering, and Scripture. The final chapters investigate his work as a writer of fiction and poetry. This Companion shows that C. S. Lewis was much more than merely the man behind Narnia.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489955http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=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=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=489954Description: "Since the publication of Thomas More's genre-defining work Utopia in 1516, the field of utopian literature has evolved into an ever-expanding domain. This Companion presents an extensive historical survey of the development of utopianism, from the publication of Utopia to today's dark and despairing tendency towards dystopian pessimism, epitomised by works such as George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Chapters address the difficult definition of the concept of utopia, and consider its relation to science fiction and other literary genres. The volume takes an innovative approach to the major themes predominating within the utopian and dystopian literary tradition, including feminism, romance and ecology, and explores in detail the vexed question of the purportedly 'western' nature of the concept of utopia. The reader is provided with a balanced overview of the evolution and current state of a long-standing, rich tradition of historical, political and literary scholarship"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489954http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=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=507236Description: "The Cambridge History of the English Novel chronicles an ever-changing and developing body of fiction across three centuries. An interwoven narrative of the novel's progress unfolds in more than fifty chapters, charting continuities and innovations of structure, tracing lines of influence in terms of themes and techniques, and showing how greater and lesser authors shape the genre. Pushing beyond the usual period-centered boundaries, the History's emphasis on form reveals the range and depth the novel has achieved in English. This book will be indispensable for research libraries and scholars, but is accessibly written for students. Authoritative, bold and clear, the History raises multiple useful questions for future visions of the invention and re-invention of the novel. Some important English novels have been popular; some have not; but ours is not a history of bestsellers. To be sure, the novel is not an entirely autonomous literary form, developing in isolation from the influence of market forces or of politics, national or international. Far from it: no one could seriously make such an argument. And yet if the novel sees at all - if it offers unique insights - it does so above all through the ceaseless making, breaking, and remaking of literary forms. Every decision that a novelist makes is formally mediated, and thinking through those decisions provides access to the history of the novel as such. By attending to this history of formal innovations one begins to understand the range and depth of which the English novel has been capable. We hope, even though the Cambridge History concludes by affirming the enduring power of romance, that our way of turning the novel's progress into history is less quixotic than the quest of the Knight of the Woeful Countenance"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507236http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507068Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507068http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=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=504710Description: "The novel begins with generous stories about Captain Eighty, his young wife, the poker-playing genius named Quiver, and their children and grandchildren who live on a rustic houseboat. Captain Shammer, an extraordinary grandson reared on the houseboat and with no formal education, is appointed the chairman of a troubled Department of Native American Indian Studies at a prominent university. Shammer is a natural enterpriser and ironic showman in the tradition of trickster stories. He arrives at the first faculty meeting dressed in the uniform of Gen. George Armstrong Custer. Native students celebrate his conversion of the department into an academic poker parlor and casino, and a panic radio station. The most sensational enterprise is the training of service mongrels to detect the absence of irony."--P. [4] of cover.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504710http://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=507359Description: A concise portrait of the forefront Victorian novelist by the acclaimed actor and award-winning author of My Life in Pieces draws on his own experiences of portraying his subject on stage and screen to illuminate Dickens' genius and lesser-known status as a celebrity in his own time. - Publishers description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507359http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507237Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507237http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504863Description: Publisher description: Gathered in this volume readers will find more than fifty years of poems by the incomparable Jack Gilbert, from his Yale Younger Poets prize-winning volume to glorious late poems, including a section of previously uncollected work. There is no one quite like Jack Gilbert in postwar American poetry. After garnering early acclaim with Views of Jeopardy (1962), he escaped to Europe and lived apart from the literary establishment, honing his uniquely fierce, declarative style, with its surprising abundance of feeling. He reappeared in our midst with Monolithos (1982) and then went underground again until The Great Fires (1994), which was eventually followed by Refusing Heaven (2005), a prizewinning volume of surpassing joy and sorrow, and the elegiac The Dance Most of All (2009). Whether his subject is his boyhood in working-class Pittsburgh, the women he has loved throughout his life, or the bittersweet losses we all face, Gilbert is by turns subtle and majestic: he steals up on the odd moment of grace; he rises to crescendos of emotion. At every turn, he illuminates the basic joys of everyday experience. Now, for the first time, we have all of Jack Gilbert's work in one essential volume: testament to a stunning career and to his place at the forefront of poetic achievement in our time.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504863http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=498858Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=498858http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504711Description: The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 combines all eleven of Lucille clifton's published collections with more than sixty previously unpublished poems. The unpublished works feature early poems from 1965-1969, a collection-in-progress titled Book of Days (2008), and a poignant selection of final poems.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504711http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504882Description: A companion volume to George Stevens, Jr.'s, much admired book of American Film Institute seminars with the great pioneering moviemakers ((3)4z(BInvaluable(3)4y--(BMartin Scorsese). Those represented here--directors, producers, writers, actors, cameramen, composers, editors--are men and women working in pictures, beginning in 1950, when the studio system was collapsing and people could no longer depend on, or were bound by, the structure of studio life to make movies. Here also are those who began to work long after the studio days were over--Robert Altman, David Lynch, Steven Spielberg, among them--who talk about how they came to make movies on their own. Some--like Peter Bogdanovich, Nora Ephron, Sydney Pollack, Franðcois Truffaut--talk about how they were influenced by the iconic pictures of the great pioneer filmmakers. Others talk about how they set out to forge their own paths--John Sayles, Roger Corman, George Lucas, et al. In this series of conversations held at the American Film Institute, all aspects of their work are discussed. Here is Arthur Penn, who began in the early 1950s in New York with live TV, directing people like Kim Stanley and such live shows as Playhouse 90, and on Broadway, directing Two for the Seesaw and The Miracle Worker, before going on to Hollywood and directing Mickey One and Bonnie and Clyde, among other pictures, talking about working within the system. ((3)4z(BWhen we finished Bonnie and Clyde,(3)4y (Bsays Penn, (3)4z(Bthe film was characterized rather elegantly by one of the leading Warner executives as a 'piece of shit' . . . It wasn't until the picture had an identity and a life of its own that the studio acknowledged it was a legitimate child of the Warner Bros. operation.(3)4y) (BHere in conversation is Sidney Poitier, who grew up on an island without paved roads, stores, or telephones, and who was later taught English without a Caribbean accent by a Jewish waiter, talking about working as a janitor at the American Negro Theater in exchange for acting lessons and about Hollywood: It (3)4z(Bnever really had much of a conscience . . . This town never was infected by that kind of goodness.(3)4y (BHere, too, is Meryl Streep, America's premier actress, who began her career in Julia in 1977, and thirty odd years later, at sixty, was staring in The Iron Lady, defying all the rules about (3)4z(Bterm limits(3)4y (Band a filmmaking climate tyrannized by the male adolescent demographic . . . Streep on making her first picture, and how Jane Fonda took her under her wing ((3)4z(BThat little line on the floor,(3)4y (BFonda warned Streep, (3)4z(Bdon't look at it, that's where your toes are supposed to be. And that's how you'll be in the movie. If they're not there, you won't be in the movie(3)4y). (BStreep on the characters she chooses to play: (3)4z(BI like to defend characters that would otherwise be misconstrued or misunderstood.(3)4y (BThe Next Generation is a fascinating revelation of the art of making pictures.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504882http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489952Description: This book is a resource for researchers at every level, from first-year undergraduates to research reporters at corporations and government offices. Seasoned researchers and educators, the authors present an updated third edition of their classic handbook which explains how to build an argument that motivates readers to accept a claim; how to anticipate the reservations of readers and to respond to them appropriately; and how to create introductions and conclusions that answer that most demanding question, "So what?". It includes an expanded discussion of the essential early stages of a research task: planning and drafting a paper. The authors have revised and fully updated their section on electronic research, emphasizing the need to distinguish between trustworthy sources (such as those found in libraries) and less reliable sources found with a quick Web search. A chapter on warrants has also been thoroughly reviewed to make this difficult subject easier for researchers. Throughout, the authors have preserved the amiable tone, the reliable voice, and the sense of directness that have made this book indispensable for anyone undertaking a research project.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489952http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507363Description: A memoir from the Native American poet describes her youth with an abusive stepfather, becoming a single teen mom, and how she struggled to finally find inner peace and her creative voice.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507363http://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=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=504865Description: "Camden, New Jersey, with a population of 70,390, is per capita the poorest city in the nation. It is also the most dangerous. The city's real unemployment - hard to estimate, since many residents have been severed from the formal economy for generations - is probably 30 to 40 percent. The median household income is $24,600. There is a 70 percent high school dropout rate, with only 13 percent of students managing to pass the state's proficiency exams in math. The city is planning $28 million in draconian budget cuts, with officials talking about cutting 25 percent from every department, including layoffs of nearly half the police force. The proposed slashing of the public library budget by almost two-thirds has left the viability of the library system in doubt. There are perhaps a hundred open-air drug markets, most run by gangs like the Bloods, the Latin Kings, and MS-13. Camden is awash in guns, easily purchased across the river in Pennsylvania, where gun laws are lax.Camden, like America, was once an industrial giant. It employed some 36,000 workers in its shipyards during World War II and built some of the nation's largest warships. It was the home to major industries, from RCA Victor to Campbell's Soup. It was a destination for immigrants and upwardly mobile lower middle class families. Camden now resembles a penal colony.In Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges and American Book Award winning cartoonist Joe Sacco show how places like Camden, a poster child of postindustrial decay, stand as a warning of what huge pockets of the United States will turn into if we cement in place a permanent underclass. In addition to Camden, Hedges and Sacco report from the coal fields of West Virginia, Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and undocumented farm worker colonies in California. With unemployment and underemployment combined at far over ten percent, as Congress proposes to slash Medicare and Medicaid, Food Stamps, Pell Grants, Social Security, and other social services, Hedges and Sacco warn of a bleak near future-where cities and states fall easily into bankruptcy, neofeudalism reigns, and the nation's working and middle classes are decimated. A shocking report from the frontlines of poverty in America, Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt is a clarion call for reform"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504865http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504866Description: This collection of stories illuminates moments that shape a life, from a dream or a sexual act to simple twists of fate that turn a person out of his or her accustomed path and into another way of being. Set in the countryside and towns of Lake Huron, these stories about departures and beginnings, accidents, dangers, and homecomings both virtual and real, paint a portrait of how strange, dangerous, and extraordinary the ordinary life can be.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504866http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507364Description: George Orwell was an inveterate keeper of diaries. Eleven diaries are presented here covering the period 1931-1949 from his early years as a writer up to his last literary notebook.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507364http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507366Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507366http://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=496550Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496550http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496500Description: From stories of resurrected mummies and thousand-year-old curses to powerful pharaohs and the coveted treasures of the Great Pyramids, ancient Egypt has had an unfaltering grip on the modern imagination. Now, in Egyptian mythology, Geraldine Pinch offers a comprehensive introduction that untangles the mystery of Egyptian mythology spanning ancient Egyptian culture from 3200 BC to AD 400. Pinch opens a door to this hidden world and casts light on its often-misunderstood belief system. She discusses the nature of myths and the history of Egypt, from the predynastic to the postpharaonic period. She explains how Egyptian culture developed around the flooding of the Nile, or the "inundation," a phenomenon on which the whole welfare of the country depended, and how aspects of the inundation were personified as deities. She explains that the usually cloudless skies made for a preoccupation with the stars and planets. Indeed, much early Egyptian mythology may have developed to explain the movement of these celestial bodies. She provides a timeline covering the seven stages in the mythical history of Egypt and outlining the major events of each stage, such as the reign of the sun God. A substantial A to Z section covers the principal themes and concepts of Egyptian mythology as well as the most important deities, demons, and other characters. For anyone who wants to know about Anubis, the terrifying canine god who presided over the mummification of bodies and guarded burials, or Hathor, the golden goddess who helped women to give birth and the dead to be reborn, or an explanation of the nun, the primeval ocean from which all life came, Egyptian Mythology is the place to look. Spanning Ancient Egyptian culture (ca. 3200 BC to AD 400), the handbook of Egyptian mythology is the only complete survey of Egyptian mythology of its kind available in English.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496500http://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=489647Description: One of the most essential works on the 1960s counterculture, Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Test is the seminal work on the hippie culture, a report on what it was like to follow along with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters as they launched out on the "Transcontinental Bus Tour" from the West Coast to New York, all the while introducing acid (then legal) to hundreds of like-minded folks, staging impromptu jam sessions, dodging the Feds, and meeting some of the most revolutionary figures of the day.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489647http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493328Description: Describes how the trailblazing, post-war gay literary figures, including Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, and Allen Ginsberg, paved the way for newer generations, including Armistead Maupin, Edmund White, and Edward Albee.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493328http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490352Description: In film, television and theater, scripts often demand that actors reach intense emotional places. Great actors know how to personalize these emotions. They make them real, they make them specific, and they make us remember them. Emotion on Demand demystifies the process by breaking it down into a simple, straightforward technique. --from publisher descriptionhttp://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490352http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489949Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489949http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507365Description: Analyzes the New Testament chronologically through each book of the Bible, detailing how the core values of Christianity took shape and developed over time.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507365http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=498853Description: The Facts On File Companion to American Drama, Second Edition is a comprehensive guide to American dramatic literature, from its origins in the early days of the nation to American classics such as Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Thornton Wilder's Our Town to the groundbreaking works of today's best writers. Entries new to this edition include August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean and Radio Golf, Tracy Letts's August: Osage County, Lynn Nottage and her Pulitzer Prize-winning play Ruined, Nilo Cruz, Stephen Adley Guirgis, and much more. Coverage includes: Playwrights, such as Royall Tyler, Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Neil Simon, and Suzan-Lori Parks; Major plays, including Long Day's Journey into Night, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Angels in America; Influential directors and critics, such as Elia Kazan and Harold Clurman; Theater companies, movements and topics, including the Provincetown Players, the Theatre of the Absurd, and African-American drama. - Publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=498853http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507240Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507240http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507241Description: Two centuries ago, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published the first volume of Children's and Household Tales. Now Philip Pullman, one of the most accomplished authors of our time, makes us fall in love all over again with the immortal tales of the Brothers Grimm.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507241http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504884Description: In "Farther Away," which gathers together essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Franzen returns with renewed vigor to the themes, both human and literary, that have long preoccupied him.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504884http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507280Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507280http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=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=490351Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490351http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507281Description: Beginning with a general overview of film noir and covering its most important themes chapter by chapter (lovers plan murder, corrupt police, doomed love, psychological noir, and more), this illustrated handbook provides access to the film noir genre for amateurs and aficionados alike.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507281http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478517Description: The only single edition now available of this American classic about a mother obsessed with her disabled daughter.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478517http://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=507238Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507238http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504715Description: "Set in the wake of the Mau Mau rebellion and on the cusp of Kenya's independence from Britain, A Grain of Wheat follows a group of villagers whose lives have been transformed by the 1952-1960 Emergency. At the center of it all is the reticent Mugo, the village's chosen hero and a man haunted by a terrible secret. As we learn of the villagers' tangled histories in a narrative interwoven with myth and peppered with allusions to real-life leaders, including Jomo Kenyatta, a masterly story unfolds in which compromises are forced, friendships are betrayed, and loves are tested."--Publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504715http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504716Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504716http://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=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=504869Description: In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great. In this novel the author takes us around the world to show how one man fights to hold himself and his splintering family together in the face of the global economy's gale-force winds. This novel is an evocation of our comtemporary moment and how we got here.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504869http://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=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=455367Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=455367http://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=504870Description: "From the world-renowned Kenyan novelist, poet, playwright, and literary critic, the second volume of his memoirs, spanning 1955-1959, the author's high school years during the tumultuous Mau Mau Uprising. In the House of the Interpreter evokes a haunting childhood at the end of British colonial rule in Africa, and the formative experiences of a political dissident"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504870http://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=489947Description: One of the most popular and mysterious figures in American literary history, J.D. Salinger eluded fans and journalists for most of his life. Now comes a new biography. Filled with new information and revelations, garnered from countless interviews, letters, and public records, this work presents his extraordinary life that spanned nearly the entire twentieth century. The author explores Salinger's privileged youth, long obscured by misrepresentation and rumor, revealing the brilliant, sarcastic, vulnerable son of a disapproving father and doting mother and his entrance into a social world where Gloria Vanderbilt dismissively referred to him as a Jewish boy from New York. Here too are accounts of Salinger's first broken heart (Eugene O'Neill's daughter, Oona, left him for the much older Charlie Chaplin) and the devastating World War II service of which he never spoke and which haunted him forever. This work features all the dazzle of his early writing successes, his dramatic encounters with luminaries from Ernest Hemingway to Laurence Olivier to Elia Kazan, his surprising office intrigues with famous New Yorker editors and writers, and the stunning triumph of The Catcher in the Rye, which would both make him world famous and hasten his retreat into the hills of New Hampshire. Whether it is revealing the facts of his hasty, short lived first marriage or his lifelong commitment to Eastern religion, which would dictate his attitudes toward sex, nutrition, solitude, and creativity, this biography is Salinger's unforgettable story in full.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489947http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496483Description: "James Joyce has traditionally been viewed as the paradigm of international modernism in literature, supremely in his two great masterpieces, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. In this radical reappraisal of his life and writings, Andrew Gibson firmly resituates both in an Irish context, showing them to be intricately bound up in Irish history, politics and culture. In doing so, he argues that, whilst Joyce cannot be understood as exclusively engaged in an Irish-centred endeavour, it is just such an endeavour that powers his work."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496483http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496484Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496484http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=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=504871Description: This landmark biography of celebrated Romantic poet John Keats explodes entrenched conceptions of him as a delicate, overly sensitive, tragic figure. Instead, Nicholas Roe reveals the real flesh-and-blood poet: a passionate man driven by ambition but prey to doubt, suspicion, and jealousy; sure of his vocation while bitterly resentful of the obstacles that blighted his career; devoured by sexual desire and frustration; and in thrall to alcohol and opium. Through unparalleled original research, Roe arrives at a fascinating reassessment of Keats's entire life, from his early years at Keats's Livery Stables through his harrowing battle with tuberculosis and death at age 25. Zeroing in on crucial turning points, Roe finds in the locations of Keats's poems new keys to the nature of his imaginative quest.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504871http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496485Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496485http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496486Description: 'Ulysses' remains less widely read than most texts boasting such a canonical status, largely due to misunderstanding about how to read it, and this guide provides an easy to follow remedy.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496486http://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=496559Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496559http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489946Description: "What are the most widely spoken non-English languages in the USA? How did they reach the USA? Who speaks them, to whom, and for what purposes? What changes do these languages undergo as they come into contact with English? This book investigates the linguistic diversity of the USA by profiling the twelve most commonly used languages other than English. Each chapter paints a portrait of the history, current demographics, community characteristics, economic status, and language maintenance of each language group, and looks ahead to the future of each language. The book challenges myths about the 'official' language of the USA, explores the degree to which today's immigrants are learning English and assimilating into the mainstream, and discusses the relationship between linguistic diversity and national unity. Written in a coherent and structured style, Language Diversity in the USA is essential reading for advanced students and researchers in sociolinguistics, bilingualism, and education"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489946http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=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=507287Description: In this timely book, Walt Crawford explains the how, what, and why of libraries and community micropublishing. He details the use of no-cost/low-cost publishing tools Lulu and CreateSpace and equips librarians to guide their patrons in the production of quality print books. He offers step-by-step instructions for using MS Word to design and edit manuscripts that can be printed in flexible quantities via on-demand technology. No stone goes unturned as Crawford demonstrates how, with a little attention to detail, anyone can produce books that rival the output of professional publishers. His advice is geared to making it easy for librarians to support local publishing without any additional budget, and libraries purchasing the book are granted permission to reproduce and supply key sections to their aspiring authors.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507287http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504720Description: A satire of modern society and celebrity culture finds the seemingly simple pursuits of young Desmond Pepperdine hampered by his uncle Lionel's near-criminal habits, which become more prominent when Lionel wins the lottery.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504720http://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=496487Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496487http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504873Description: "Master of the Mountain," Henry Wiencek's eloquent, persuasive book--based on new information coming from archaeological work at Monticello and on hitherto overlooked or disregarded evidence in Jefferson's papers--opens up a huge, poorly understood dimension of Jefferson's world."--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504873http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489876Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489876http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493498Description: Truth and justice are blurred when American spy Howard Campbell is tried in Israel as a Nazi war criminal after World War II.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493498http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507290Description: Feeling adrift after ending a relationship, Julius, a young Nigerian doctor living in New York, takes long walks through the city while listening to the stories of fellow immigrants until a shattering truth is revealed.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507290http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490347Description: "When Hunter S. Thompson was on, there was no one better at capturing who Americans were and what America was, be it in politics, at the Kentucky Derby, or in the Hells Angels' lair. William McKeen became friends with Thompson after writing a monograph on his journalism. McKeen now has interviewed many of Thompson's associates who wouldn't speak before, from childhood friends to colleagues, to assistants who sat around the Woody Creek, Colorado, kitchen control room late at night when Thompson did most of his work. McKeen gets behind the drinking and drugs to show the man and the writer - one who was happy to be considered an outlaw but took the calling of journalism as his life."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490347http://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=493346Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493346http://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=507292Description: The collected works of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning writer explores her transfigured landscapes and offers insight into her unique form created to reflect the human drive to release the past in order to realize the yet-unimagined.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507292http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507248Description: Postapocalyptic Fiction and the Social Contract: We'll Not Go Home Again provides a framework for our fascination with the apocalyptic events. The popular appeal of the end of the world genre is clear in movies, novels, and television shows. Even our political debates over global warming, nuclear threats, and pandemic disease reflect a concern about the possibility of such events. This popular fascination is really a fascination with survival: how can we come out alive? And what would we do next? The end of the world is not about species death, but about beginning again. This book uses postapocalyptic fiction as a terrain for thinking about the state of nature: the hypothetical fiction that is the driving force behind the social contract. The first half of the book examines novels that tell the story of the move from the state of nature to civil society through a Hobbesian, a Lockean, or a Rousseauian lens, including Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank, Malevil by Robert Merle, and Into the Forest by Jean Hegland. The latter half of the book examines Octavia Butler's postapocalyptic Parable series in which a new kind of social contract emerges, one built on the fact of human dependence and vulnerability.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507248http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490345Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490345http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507249Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507249http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507250Description: Street lit, also known as urban fiction, addresses with unflinching grit the concerns and problems of city living. Controversial in some quarters, it is also wildly popular, and this readers' advisory by street lit expert Morris sketches out the rich history of the genre, showing why it appeals so strongly to readers and providing a quick way for street lit novices to get up to speed. It also covers a variety of subgenres in terms of scope, popularity, style, major authors and works, and suggestions for readers' advisory. --from publisher descriptionhttp://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507250http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=318556Description: Set in a British military hospital during WWI, this novel blends fact and fiction, drawing its two protagonists from the pages of history. The author of Union Street (made into the film Stanley and Iris) portrays overwhelmed men who try to come to terms with their outrage of a futile war.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=318556http://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=496506Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496506http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495843Description: The story of a Catholic war profiteer, Oskar Schindler, who risked his life and went bankrupt in order to save more than 1,000 Jews from certain death in concentration camps. He employed Jews in his crockery factory manufacturing goods for the German army. At the same time he tries to stay solvent with the help of a Jewish accountant and negotiates business with a vicious Nazi commandant who enjoys shooting Jews as target practice from the balcony of his villa that overlooks the prison camp he commands.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495843http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507369Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507369http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=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=489944Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489944http://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=504727Description: In this wise and intimate telling--which carries us through the seasons when her marriage was ending--Sharon Olds opens her heart to the reader, sharing the feeling of invisibility that comes when we are no longer standing in love's sight; the surprising physical bond that still exists between a couple during parting; the loss of everything from her husband's smile to the set of his hip. Olds is naked before us, curious and brave and even generous toward the man who was her mate for thirty years and who now loves another woman. -- Cover, p. [4]http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504727http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507370Description: "In 1934, Webster's Second was the great gray eminence of American dictionaries, with 600,000 entries and numerous competitors but no rivals. It served as the all-knowing guide to the world of grammar and information, a kind of one-stop reference work. In 1961, Webster's Third came along and ignited an unprecedented controversy in America's newspapers, universities, and living rooms. The new dictionary's editor, Philip Gove, had overhauled Merriam's long held authoritarian principles to create a reference work that had "no traffic with...artificial notions of correctness or authority. It must be descriptive not prescriptive." Correct use was determined by how the language was actually spoken, and not by "notions of correctness" set by the learned few. Gove's editorial approach had editors and scholars longing for Webster's Second. Reporters across the country sounded off on Gove and his dictionary. The New York Times complained that Webster's had "surrendered to the permissive school that has been busily extending its beachhead on English instruction," the Times called on Merriam to preserve the printing plates for Webster's Second, so that a new start could be made. And soon Dwight MacDonald, a formidable American critic and writer, emerged as Webster's Third's chief nemesis when in the pages of the New Yorker he likened the new dictionary to the end of civilization."--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507370http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489942Description: In this autobiographical novel, a young English biographer is researching a book about the late South African writer John Coetzee, focusing on Coetzee in his thirties, at a time when he was living in a rundown cottage in the Cape Town suburbs with his widowed father--a time, the biographer is convinced, when Coetzee was finding himself as a writer.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489942http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=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=490344Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490344http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493323Description: A young prince joins forces with a master wizard on a journey to discover a cause and remedy for the loss of magic in Earthsea.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493323http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489941Description: Theory After Theory provides an overview of developments in literary theory after 1950. It is intended both as a handbook for readers to learn about theory and an intellectual history of the recent past in literary criticism for those interested in seeing how it fits in with the larger culture.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489941http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504728Description: This is a collection of stories that explores the power of love in all its forms, obssessive love, illicit love, fading love, maternal love as it is shaped by passion, betrayal, and the echoes of intimacy.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504728http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507254Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507254http://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=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=489636Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489636http://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=496488Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496488http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504729Description: This work, a profile of the iconic author's early years offers insight into his efforts to bridge his dual cultural heritage while exploring how his French Canadian background enriched his prose.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504729http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489939Description: Wait finds C. K. Williams by turns ruminative, stalked by "the conscience-beast, who harries me," and "riven by idiot vigor, voracious as the youth I was for whom everything was going too slowly, too slowly." Poems about animals and rural life are set hard by poems about shrapnel in Iraq and sudden desire on the Paris Mâetro; grateful invocations of Herbert and Hopkins give way to fierce negotiations with the shades of Coleridge, Dostoevsky, and Celan. What the poems share is their setting in the cool, spacious, spotlit, book-lined place that is Williams's consciousness, a place whose workings he has rendered for fifty years with inimitable candor and style.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489939http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504730Description: "Two brothers, Njoroge and Kamau, stand on a garbage heap and look into their futures: Njoroge is to attend school, while Kamau will train to be a carpenter. But this is Kenya, and the times are against them: in the forests, the Mau Mau is waging war against the white government, and the two brothers and their family need to decide where their loyalties lie. For the practical Kamau, the choice is simple, but for Njoroge the scholar, the dream of progress through learning is a hard one to give up.First published in 1964, Weep Not, Child is a moving novel about the effects of the infamous Mau Mau uprising on the lives of ordinary men and women, and on one family in particular"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504730http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504731Description: Presents a guide to the classics of western literature, citing popular culture, information on literary hoaxes, and bad reviews to foster appreciation for the great works of the past.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504731http://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=504877Description: Facing his sixty-third winter, novelist Auster sits down to write a history of his body and its sensations. He takes us from childhood to the brink of old age as he summons a universe of physical sensation, of pleasures and pains, moving from the awakening of sexual desire to the ever deepening bonds of married love; from meditations on eating and sleeping to an account of his mother's sudden death.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504877http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507256Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507256http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507299Description: The Worm Ouroboros is a heroic high fantasy novel. The book describes the protracted war between the domineering King Gorice of Witchland and the Lords of Demonland in an imaginary world that appears mainly medieval and partly reminiscent of Norse sagas. The work is slightly related to Eddison's later Zimiamvian Trilogy, and collectively they are sometimes referred to as the Zimiamvian series. --Wikipedia.com.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507299http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507257Description: "This volume explores the contours and content of the Black Chicago Renaissance. A movement crafted in the crucible of rigid racial segregation in Chicago's "Black Belt" from the 1930s through the 1960s, its participants were also heavily influenced by--and influenced --the Harlem Renaissance and the Chicago Renaissance of white writers. Despite harsh segregation, black and white thinkers influenced one another particularly through their engagements with leftist organizations. In many ways, politically, racially, spatially, this was a movement invested in cross-pollination, change, and political activism, as much as literature, art, and aesthetics as it prepared the way for the literature of the Black Arts Movement and beyond. The volume begins with a look at Richard Wright, indisputably a central figure in the Black Chicago Renaissance with the publication of "Blueprint for Negro Writing." Wright sought to distance himself from what he considered to be the failures of the Harlem Renaissance, even as he built upon its aesthetic and cultural legacy." -- Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507257http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490725Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490725http://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