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By Saki, A. J Langguth. 1981
Born in Burma and brought up by two unlovable but genteel maiden aunts, Munro became a newspaper correspondent, amateur historian,…
satirist, and finally, master of the humorous horror story. This biography is based on his letters and an examination of his writings. c1981.By Chickadee. 1984
By Chickadee. 1984
By Jim Murphy, Jon Scieszka, Douglas Florian, Sy Montgomery, Candace Fleming, Elizabeth Partridge, Nathan Hale, Steve Sheinkin, James Sturm, T. Edward Nickens, Thanhhà Lai. 2014
Award-winning authors and journalists provide a collection of essays, biographies, travelogues, and more--all geared to males. In "Sahara Shipwreck," author…
Steve Sheinkin tells the true story of capture, enslavement in the desert, and urine consumption in order to survive. For grades 5-8. 2014By Mitch Jayne, Diana Jayne. 2000
Mitch Jayne was a small-town radio DJ who joined 'The Dillards', a Bluegrass band that became famous as 'The Darling…
Boys' on the Andy Griffith TV show. When he began to lose his hearing, he moved back to his beloved Missouri Ozarks. In this memoir of stories and anecdotes of the quirky characters he encounters and the language they use, he is trying to preserve the memory of the old ways of thinking and talkingBy 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. 2006By Daniel Pinkwater, Daniel M. Pinkwater, Jill Pinkwater, Daniel Manus Pinkwater. 2001
Author and NPR commentator relates anecdotes--bizarre, outlandish, and poignant--about the dogs in his life and lessons he and the dogs…
have learned. Pinkwater has faced numerous training challenges, from the Pekingese presented to him in infancy by Uncle Boris to the malamutes acquired after his marriage. For senior high and older readers. 2001. For senior high and older readers. 2001By Tim Gautreaux. 1999
Eleven stories about life in rural Louisiana depicting a bibulous priest, a Creole princess, and a one-armed feminist hitchhiker, among…
others. In the title piece, an aging welder baby-sits for his unmarried daughters' four young children. During the day the befuddled granddad learns all about modern amoral lifestyles. Some strong language. 1999By Walter Dean Myers. 1999
The life of an African princess who was about to be killed in a ritual sacrifice in 1850 when she…
was rescued by Commander Forbes, taken to England, and presented to Queen Victoria as Sarah Forbes Bonetta. The queen became Sarah's protector and godmother to her first child. For grades 5-8By Bill Jr. Adler, Bill Adler. 1998
Anthology of twenty-two time travel short stories. Personal favorites of the editor ranging from Edgar Allan Poe's "Three Sundays in…
a Week" written in 1850 to Derryl Murphy's "What Goes Around" from 1997. For senior high and older readersBy Harriet Doerr. 1995
At eighty-five the author of Consider This, Senora (DB 38030) writes "a short account of my long life." Memoir and…
fiction blend in stories of her childhood in California; her college work, both before and after her marriage of forty-two years; her children; and her time in Mexico. The title is from her eye doctor, who said, "Don't belittle peripheral vision. That's how we see the tiger in the grass." BestsellerBy Margaret Atwood. 1994
Three dozen sketches that grin and sneer at taking life too seriously. "Good Bones" muses on the attention paid to…
the skeletal frame when it is what makes bones "bad" that is of interest. In "Gertrude Talks Back," Hamlet's mother delivers a monologue to her priggish son. And "Let Us Now Praise Stupid Women" is one of several pieces with a feminist view on the role of women in literature. Some strong languageBy M. F. K. Fisher, M. F. K Fisher, M.F.K. Fisher. 1992
Fisher has assembled a memoir of her first twenty-one years by collecting previously written pieces about her childhood and adolescence.…
Journal entries from 1927 are mixed with essays written between 1957 and 1992. The development of Fisher's sensibility as a gourmet and a writer can be traced through her reminiscences about family and friends. Prequel to Long Ago in France (DB 35012)By Paul Alexander. 1994
In 1955 twenty-four-year-old actor James Dean died in an automobile crash. Although he acted in only three movies, Dean is…
considered by some to be "the greatest actor that ever lived." Alexander claims that Dean had multiple homosexual relationships and attributes Dean's popularity in part to his sexual appeal to both genders. Some strong language and some explicit descriptions of sexBy Rebecca Harding Davis, Tillie Olsen. 1985
The title piece, first published in the Atlantic Monthly in April 1861, tells the story of an artist living in…
one of the early industrial towns of America and portrays the deprivation of the mill hands and their families. Also included are "The Wife's Story," "Anne," and a biographical sketch of Rebecca Harding Davis. These describe the lives of women constrained by society and by their own senses of dutyBy Stan Yogi. 1996
This multicultural anthology contains essays, fiction, poetry and drama showcasing seventy writers living along the length of Highway 99--the main…
artery through California's Central Valley. Explores how the agricultural opportunities of the region attract people from many walks of life: African American migrants, Oklahoma refugees, Filipino laborers, Chinese pioneers, Mexican workers, and Laotian immigrantsBy Peter Johnstone, Peter E. Palmquist. 2001
Literary anthology of stories, poems, natural history compositions, and articles selected from three hundred years of writing about the California…
redwoods. Authors Walt Whitman, John Muir, Jack London, Tom Wolfe, Armistead Maupin, and others who visited the groves felt inspired to write about their experiences and feelingsBy Drew Hayden Taylor. 2022
La diffusion d’un chant traditionnel haudenosaunee oublié attire sur Terre des visiteurs imprévus… Une intelligence artificielle développe des sentiments de…
tristesse et de révolte lorsqu’elle s’intéresse à l’histoire des Premières Nations… Trois hommes regardent jaillir d’un étrange objet descendu du ciel une créature aux allures de calmar géant… et savent immédiatement vers qui la diriger lorsqu’elle a exigé : Nous voulons voir votre chef ! Bref, voici neuf nouvelles issues de l’imaginaire débridé de Drew Hayden Taylor, et chacune d’elles est un argument indiscutable qui prouve hors de tout doute que, oui, la science-fiction autochtone existe… et qu’elle peut être drôlement bonne !By Esmé Raji Codell, LeUyen Pham. 2006
The author has pulled events from her own fifth-grade diaries to give the reader a taste of what it was…
like growing up in Chicago in 1978 as a member of a free-spirited family. For grades 5-8 and older readersBy Zitkala-Sa. 2003
Zitkala-Sa wrestled with the conflicting influences of American Indian and white culture throughout her life. Raised on a Sioux reservation,…
she was educated at boarding schools that enforced assimilation and was witness to major events in white-Indian relations in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Tapping her troubled personal history, Zitkala-Sa created stories that illuminate the tragedy and complexity of the American Indian experience. In evocative prose laced with political savvy, she forces new thinking about the perceptions, assumptions, and customs of both Sioux and white cultures and raises issues of assimilation, identity, and race relations that remain compelling today. .