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The Metaphysical poets
By Unknown, Helen Gardner. 1972
The Pushcart prize: best of the small presses, 1996 / XX (Pushcart Prize Ser.)
By Bill Henderson, Pushcart Prize Editors. 1995
Sixty selections of short fiction, essays, and poetry published first by noncommercial presses and magazines. This twentieth-anniversary edition features up-and-coming…
authors as well as such literary figures as John Updike and Joyce Carol Oates. Selections include a canto from Robert Pinsky's translation of Dante's "Inferno" and Eileen Pollack's "Milk." Descriptions of sex and some strong languageFirst published in 1930, this collection includes "The Picture of Dorian Gray," a novel about a beautiful youth whose portrait…
has supernatural qualities; "The Importance of Being Earnest," a comic, satirical play about a rakish nobleman; "Lady Windermere's Fan," a comedy of manners; "The Ballad of Reading Gaol," an autobiographical account of Wilde's imprisonment; and other short works of drama, prose, and poetryEvangeline and selected tales and poems
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 1964
Longfellow (1807-1882) was a very fashionable poet in his day as well as in twentieth-century America. These selections, which represent…
the romantic and lyrical side of Longfellow and show his skill in writing novella in verse form, include "The Wreck of the Hesperus," "The Children's Hour," "The Village Blacksmith," "Paul Revere's Ride," "The Courtship of Miles Standish," and selections from "The Song of Hiawatha."The Langston Hughes reader: The Selected Writings of Langston Hughes
By Langston Hughes, Langston Huges. 1958
Headbirths, or, The Germans are dying out: Or, the Germans Are Dying Out
By Günter Grass, Ralph Manheim. 1982
A mixed-up German couple on vacation in Asia ponders the political situation back home and agonizes over the pros and…
cons of having a baby. A satire of the German character contrasting Germany's shrinking population with the teeming billions of the Third WorldSeptuagenarian stew: stories & poems
By Charles Bukowski. 2009
Collection of short stories and poems by the author of Hollywood (DB 85240) and On Writing (DB 84046) exploring the…
lives of those who live in the backstreets of Los Angeles. In "I like your books," a gambler deals with an overly inquisitive person. Violence and strong language. 2007Black voices: an anthology of Afro-American literature
By Abraham Chapman. 1968
Butterflies in November
By Auður A. Ólafsdóttir, Auour Ava Olafsdottir, Brian FitzGibbon. 2014
The mothers: a novel
By Jennifer Gilmore. 2013
Brooklyn. Thirty-eight-year-old Jesse and her Spanish/Italian husband have difficulty conceiving a child and decide to adopt. But Jesse's past cancer…
diagnosis, her Jewish heritage, and new laws regulating international and open-adoption processes create complications. 2013L'urine des forêts: poésie (Les herbes Rouges/poésie Ser.)
By Denis Vanier. 2000
L'autre fille (Les affranchis)
By Annie Ernaux. 2011
"Yvetot, un dimanche d'août 1950. Annie a dix ans, elle joue dehors, au soleil, sur le chemin caillouteux de la…
rue de l'Ecole. Sa mère sort de l'épicerie pour discuter avec une cliente, à quelques mètres d'elle. La conversation des deux femmes est parfaitement audible et les bribes d'une confidence inouïe se gravent à jamais dans la mémoire d'Annie. Avant sa naissance, ses parents avaient eu une autre fille. Elle est morte à l'âge de six ans de la diphtérie. Plus jamais Annie n'entendra un mot de la bouche de ses parents sur cette soeur inconnue. Elle ne leur posera jamais non plus une seule question. Mais même le silence contribue à forger un récit qui donne des contours à cette petite fille morte. Car forcément, elle joue un rôle dans l'identité de l'auteur. Les quelques mots, terribles, prononcés par la mère ; des photographies, une tombe, des objets, des murmures, un livret de famille : ainsi se construit, dans le réel et dans l'imaginaire, la fiction de cette " aînée " pour celle à qui l'on ne dit rien. Reste à savoir si la seconde fille, Annie, est autorisée à devenir ce qu'elle devient par la mort de la première..." -- 4e de couvSelected poems, 1947-1995 (Perennial classics)
By Allen Ginsberg. 1996
Beat Generation poet Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) presents a half century of verse in a variety of forms and themes including…
the political, sexual, devotional, and spiritual. Contains selections from Howl, Kaddish, The Fall of America, Plutonian Ode, White Shroud, and others. Descriptions of sex and strong language. 1996Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo
By J. R. R. Tolkien. 1980
Minou
By Maude-Éloïse. 2022
Roman poétique réaliste, Minou se déroule dans une urbanité d'asphalte, de piscines publiques, d'alcool et de petites violences perpétrées sous…
les lumières rouges d'une station-service. Il dévoile un personnage éponyme qui a soif de l'autre avec un grand A. Minou a des passions exponentielles, des envies fortes, des fantasmes sans pudeur et ses humeurs débordent jusqu'au bar du coin. Les autres ce sont Chaton, Kitty, Minette, Matoue et Mon Lapin avec qui Minou entretient des relations complexes, jamais binairesIl y a des joies dont on ignore l'existence
By Cato Fortin. 2022
Une jeune femme adoptée par un couple de Québécois qui trouve du réconfort dans un restaurant, une enseignante de Montréal-Nord…
qui reconnecte avec ses racines grâce à ses élèves, deux femmes qui trouvent l'amour aux abords de la 40, une famille choisie qui imagine une maison de retraite en Gaspésie, un-e poète qui partage des portraits de ses ami-es, une religieuse qui joue au ballon-chasseur, une enfant qui apprend à retirer son nom de la bouche des autres, une fille qui trône sur une charrette, des chants religieux qui nous ramènent à la maison, la tête qui nous tourne dans une quinceañera, un périple depuis la plage vers Hochelaga, une série de réflexions sur notre rapport au mondeRosie colored glasses
By Brianna Wolfson. 2018
Whimsical, heartbreaking and uplifting, this is a novel about the many ways love can find you. Rosie Colored Glasses triumphs…
with the most endearing examples of how mothers and fathers and sons and daughters bend for one another. Just as opposites attract, they can also cause friction, and no one feels that friction more than Rex and Rosie's daughter, Willow. Rex is serious and unsentimental and tapes checklists of chores on Willow's bedroom door. Rosie is sparkling and enchanting and meets Willow in their treehouse in the middle of the night to feast on candy. After Rex and Rosie's divorce, Willow finds herself navigating their two different worlds. She is clearly under the spell of her exciting, fun-loving mother. But as Rosie's behavior becomes more turbulent, the darker underpinnings of her manic love are revealed. Rex had removed his Rosie colored glasses long ago, but will Willow do the same? UnratedApple of Sodom
By Mary Hoffman. 2015
Emily Crawford, a young American wife and mother, seeks a long-overdue self-respect in this absorbing and dramatic portrait of an…
expatriate family experi-encing life in an exotic Arab culture at the start of the 1960s. Revelatory episodes unfold against the enter¬tainments of the well-to-do and influential, among the lives of ordinary citizens, and during explorations of ancient cities in the Holy Land and beyond.All This Could Be Yours
By Joshua Trotter. 2011
Like the promise of its title, All This Could Be Yours is full of elusive gifts. Joshua Trotter's debut collection…
is a metaphysical hall of windows that seem to be mirrors and mirrors presenting themselves as windows.And After Many Days
By Jowhor Ile. 2016
An unforgettable debut novel about a boy who goes missing, a family that is torn apart, and a nation on…
the brink During the rainy season of 1995, in the bustling town of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, one family's life is disrupted by the sudden disappearance of seventeen-year-old Paul Utu, beloved brother and son. As they grapple with the sudden loss of their darling boy, they embark on a painful and moving journey of immense power which changes their lives forever and shatters the fragile ecosystem of their once ordered family. Ajie, the youngest sibling, is burdened with the guilt of having seen Paul last and convinced that his vanished brother was betrayed long ago. But his search for the truth uncovers hidden family secrets and reawakens old, long forgotten ghosts as rumours of police brutality, oil shortages, and frenzied student protests serve as a backdrop to his pursuit. In a tale that moves seamlessly back and forth through time, Ajie relives a trip to the family's ancestral village where, together, he and his family listen to the myths of how their people settled there, while the villagers argue over the mysterious Company, who found oil on their land and will do anything to guarantee support. As the story builds towards its stunning conclusion, it becomes clear that only once past and present come to a crossroads will Ajie and his family finally find the answers they have been searching for. And After Many Days introduces Ile's spellbinding ability to tightly weave together personal and political loss until, inevitably, the two threads become nearly indistinguishable. It is a masterful story of childhood, of the delicate, complex balance between the powerful and the powerless, and a searing portrait of a community as the old order gives way to the new.From the Hardcover edition.