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Reading the river: a traveller's companion to the North Saskatchewan River
By Myrna Kostash, Duane Burton. 2006
A compendium of writings including poetry, fiction and non-fiction, from those who have spent time reading the river. Beginning at…
the rivers source, Kostash takes the reader through 21 communities along the North Saskatchewan. Includes the work of Hugh McLennan, Eli Mandel, Aritha van Herk, John V. Hicks and Thompson Highway. c2006.An anthology of the works of American expatriate author Paul Bowles (1910-1999). Includes The Delicate Prey and Other Stories (1950),…
A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard (1962), Things Gone and Things Still Here (1977), Midnight Mass (1981), and more. Edited by Daniel Halpern. Some strong language. 2002Grit lit: a rough South reader
By Tom Franklin, Brian Carpenter. 2012
Collection of twenty-eight previously published works, memoirs and fiction, that showcase life in the American South--without romanticism. In an excerpt…
from A Childhood: The Biography of a Place, Harry Crews reminisces about his Georgia birthplace. In Pinckney Benedict's "Pit" a dog fight ends in murder. Violence and strong language. 2012Not without laughter
By Langston Hughes. 1995
New Orleans, mon amour: twenty years of writings from the city
By Andrei Codrescu. 2006
Essays from a Romanian-born National Public Radio commentator about his adopted city of New Orleans. Includes some pieces written after…
Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Describes the Big Easy and its inhabitants, food, cemeteries, eccentrics, neighborhoods, Mardi Gras, and crime. 2006Nine short stories set in Hawaii featuring the nuanced voices and interior lives of housewives, mechanics, cabdrivers, aging hippies, and…
bargirls. The worlds of Pak's Hawaiians, Asian locals, and the haoles sometimes intersect and collide and other times remain parallel, but each world is haunted by the past. Whether Pak evokes shadows of World War II, the Vietnam War, the radical 60's, or the military dictatorship of Chun Doo Hwan in Korea, the larger historical context looms ominously in the background. Contains explicit descriptions of sexMy favorite spooky stories box set: 5 Silly, Not-too-scary Tales! A Halloween Book For Kids (I Can Read Level 2 Ser.)
By Herman Parish, Jane O'Connor, Alvin Schwartz, David Keane. 2013
Five books, written between 1984 and 2013, feature tales of Halloween and creepy things. Includes In a Dark, Dark Room…
and Other Scary Stories, Happy Haunting, Amelia Bedelia, Flat Stanley and the Haunted House, Monster School: First Day Frights, and Lulu Goes to Witch School. For grades K-3. 2013The Sleeper wakes: Harlem renaissance stories by women
By Marcy Knopf-Newman. 1993
Twenty-eight stories written in the 1920s and 1930s by fourteen African American women. Most were originally published in magazines and…
chronicle the struggles of race, gender, and poverty. In the title piece, a woman passes for white until her husband's bigotry breaks her silence. Violence and strong language. 1993The best Christmas pageant ever: A Christmas Holiday Book For Kids
By Barbara Robinson. 2005
The Herdmans are the worst kids in town, so when they take over the lead roles in the church's annual…
Christmas pageant, they cause quite a commotion. For grades 4-7. 1972Omoo: adventures in the South Seas (Pacific Basin books)
By Herman Melville. 1985
This realistic novel recapitulates the ending of Typee (RC 9738), as a British whaler rescues Melville, an American sailor. He…
and the ship's doctor become fast friends and share many adventures in the South Pacific: mutiny, imprisonment, and a beachcombing existence in TahitiRécits de Mathieu Mestokosho, chasseur innu
By Mathieu Mestokosho. 2004
En 1970, jeune anthropologue, Serge Bouchard recueillait les propos de Mathieu Mestokosho, chasseur montagnais de la Minganie. Grâce à la…
parole de Mathieu, c’est tout un monde qui revit, celui des enfants de la Terre de Caïn que les colons européens avaient choisi d’ignorer. Heureusement pour nous, la mémoire de Mathieu Mestokosho nous permet de nous réapproprier — bien tardivement — toute une part de notre héritage culturel que nous avons failli laisser perdre.The Grandissimes
By George Washington Cable, Michael Kreyling. 1988
The House Behind the Cedars
By Charles W. Chesnutt, Donald B. Gibson. 1993
An early masterwork among American literary treatments of miscegenation, Chesnutt's story is of two young African Americans who decide to…
pass for white in order to claim their share of the American dream.The Marrow of Tradition
By Charles W. Chesnutt. 2002
Stay here beside her major I shall not he needed for an hour yet Meanwhile I…
ll go downstairs and snatch a bit of sleep or talk to oldJane The night was hot and sultry Though the windows of the chamber were wide open and the muslin curtains looped back not a breath of air was stirring Only the shrill chirp of the cicada and the muffled croaking of the frogs in some distant marsh broke the night silence The heavy scent of magnolias overpowering even the strong smell of drugs in the sickroom suggested death and funeral wreaths sorrow and tears the long home the last sleep The major shivered with apprehension as the slender hand which he held in his own contracted nervously and in a spasm of pain clutched his fingers with a viselike grip Major Carteret though dressed in brown linen had thrown off his coat for greater comfort The stifling heat in spite of the palm-leaf fan which he plied mechanically was scarcely less oppressive than his own thoughts Long ago while yet a mere boy in years he had come back from Appomattox to find his family one of the oldest and proudest in the state hopelessly impoverished by the war -even their ancestral home swallowed up in the common ruin His elder brother had sacrificed his life on the bloody altar of the lost cause and his father broken and chagrined died not many years later leaving the major the last of his line He had tried in various pursuits to gain a foothold in the new life but with indifferent success until he won the hand of Olivia Merkell whom he had seen grow from a small girl to glorious womanhood With her money he had founded the Morning Chronicle which he had made the leading organ of his party and the most influential paper in the State The fine old house in which they lived was hers In this very room she had first drawn the breath of life it had been their nuptial chamber and here too within a few hours she might die for it seemed impossible that one could long endure such frightful agony and liveThe Yellow Briar: A Story of the Irish on the Canadian Countryside
By Michael Gnarowski, Patrick Slater. 2008
Folktale, memoir, fiction, literary hoax, The Yellow Briar is all of these. Ostensibly the charming remembrance of an Irish orphan…
who escapes the Great Famine of 1840s Ireland and comes to the New World to seek a fresh start on the streets of Toronto and in the pioneer hinterland of Canada West (Ontario), the book was actually a fictional humbug perpetrated by John Mitchell, a Toronto lawyer, who first published the tale in 1933. Patrick Slater, the protagonist of the "memoir," is said to have died in 1924 but not before setting his saga down on paper. And what an account it is! The Globe and Mail felt that the book "gives a picture of Ontario to be found in no other work of fiction we know and has won for itself a permanent place in Canadian literature." If nothing else, Slater/Mitchell captures perfectly the lilt of the Irish and the wry wisdom of an old soul to paint an affecting portrait of trials and tribulations in a long-ago time.The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man: The Autobiography Of An Ex-colored Man (Dover Thrift Editions)
By James Weldon Johnson. 1995
One of the most prominent African-Americans of his time, James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) was a successful lawyer, educator, social reformer,…
songwriter, and critic. But it was as a poet and novelist that he achieved lasting fame. Among his most famous works, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man in many ways parallels Johnson's own remarkable life. First published in 1912, the novel relates, through an anonymous narrator, events in the life of an American of mixed ethnicity whose exceptional abilities and ambiguous appearance allow him unusual social mobility -- from the rural South to the urban North and eventually to Europe. A radical departure from earlier books by black authors, this pioneering work not only probes the psychological aspects of "passing for white" but also examines the American caste and class system. The human drama is powerful and revealing -- from the narrator's persistent battles with personal demons to his firsthand observations of a Southern lynching and the mingling of races in New York's bohemian atmosphere at the turn of the century. Revolutionary for its time, the Autobiography remains both an unrivaled example of black expression and a major contribution to American literature.Tales of Conjure and The Color Line: 10 Stories (Dover Thrift Editions: Black History)
By Charles Waddell Chesnutt. 1998
Outstanding, affordably priced volume presents a selection of 10 best stories by a pioneer in the development of African-American fiction:…
"The Goophered Grapevine," "Po' Sandy," "Sis' Becky's Pickaninny," "The Wife of His Youth," "Dave's Neckliss," "The Passing of Grandison," "A Matter of Principle," "The Sheriff's Children," "Baxter's Procrustes," and "The Doll." Redolent with wit, charm, and insight; essential reading for students of African-American culture. Edited and with an Introduction by Joan Sherman.Tales of Foreign Settlements in Japan
By Harold S. Williams. 1958
Here are twenty-five tales about the Foreign Settlements or Concessions in Japan following the opening of the country to foreign…
trade in 1859, and an additional ten strange stories that revoke around those times. The tales are historically accurate, sociologically significant and, most important of all, eminently readable.These Tales of Foreign Settlements in Japan are the product of years of painstaking and scholarly research by a writer who is a business man and a recognized authority on the history of the Foreign Concessions in Japan, a man who has resided here for over thirty-five years.The Yellow Wall-Paper, Herland, and Selected Writings
By Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Denise D. Knight. 1999
A superb collection of fiction and poetry from a major feminist voice in American literature Wonderfully sardonic and slyly humorous,…
the writings of landmark American feminist and socialist thinker Charlotte Perkins Gilman were penned in response to her frustration with the gender-based double standard that prevailed in America as the twentieth century began. Perhaps best known for her chilling depiction of a woman?s mental breakdown in her unforgettable 1892 short story ?The Yellow Wall-Paper,? Gilman also wrote Herland, a cunning, wry novel that imagines a peaceful, progressive, environmentally conscious country from which men have been absent for two thousand years. Both are included in this volume, along with a selection of Gilman?s major short stories and her poems. .Tranquilas: Historias para ir solas por la noche
By María Folguera, Carmen G. de la Cueva. 2019
LUMEN REÚNE A CATORCE DE LAS MEJORES ESCRITORAS ESPAÑOLAS DE LA ACTUALIDAD. Un proyecto de María Folguera y Carmen G.…
de la Cueva. Con Marta Sanz, Edurne Portela, María Folguera, Lucía Asué Mbomío Rubio, Sabina Urraca, Silvia Nanclares, Roberta Marrero, Carme Riera, Jana Leo, Nerea Barjola, María Fernanda Ampuero, Gabriela Wiener, Aixa de la Cruz y Carmen G. de la Cueva. Ilustrado por Sara Herranz. Desde niñas nos alimentamos de relatos terroríficos acerca del bosque, primero, y de la calle después. Los barrios peligrosos, los bares de madrugada, el despacho a puerta cerrada de un jefe, el coche o la casa de un desconocido: en realidad, el mundo entero es una amenaza con la que negociamos cada noche y cada día, porque no queremos dejar de vivir intensamente. Catorce escritoras españolas de excepción borran loslímites entre la autoficción y la literatura con estas historias, maravillosamente ilustradas por Sara Herranz. Cada una de ellas abre un camino para identificarnos, conmovernos, reaccionar y caminar sin miedo por las calles que nos pertenecen.