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The Adventures of Nanabush: Ojibway Indian stories
By Sam Snake, Emerson S Coatsworth, David Coatsworth, Francis Kagige. 1979
During the 1930s, the stories told by the elders of the Rama Ojibway Band were compiled and translated into English.…
These 16 stories tell of Nanabush, one of the most powerful, and most mischievous, spirits of the Ojibway world. Grades 4-7 and older readers. 1979.Tales the elders told: Ojibway legends
By Basil Johnston. 1981
These legends, which include "Why birds go south in winter" and "The first butterflies", are an integral part of the…
spiritual and cultural heritage of the Ojibway people. For all ages.Novels and essays: Vandover and the brute ; McTeague ; The octopus ; Essays
By Frank Norris. 1986
The lover ; Wartime notebooks ; Practicalities (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)
By Marguerite Duras. 2018
A collection of three works of fiction and nonfiction. The Lover, translated in 1985, explores a forbidden love affair of…
a teenage girl. Wartime Notebooks, translated in 2008, recounts Duras' experiences during World War II. Practicalities, translated in 1990, includes meditations on challenges and joys found in daily life. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. 2018Contemporary fiction: a very short introduction (Very Short Introductions)
By Robert Eaglestone. 2013
Literature professor explores form, genre, and how present-day novels display patterns that make us more intelligible to ourselves. Discusses blurring…
the line between reality and fiction, and analyzes emblematic examples of how novels engage with the past, present, and future. Expresses views on the role of literary criticism. 20132015 Pushcart prize XXXIX: best of the small presses (Pushcart Prize #39)
By Various, Bill Henderson, Pushcart Prize Editors. 2015
Sixty-five pieces of poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, originally published by small presses. Includes works from Russell Banks, author of A…
Permanent Member of the Family (DB 77852), and Louise Glück, author of Poems 1962-2012 (DB 79850). Some violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2015Papa's mechanical fish
By Candace Fleming, Boris Kulikov. 2013
In the summer of 1851, with encouragement and ideas provided by his family, an inventor builds a working submarine and…
takes his family for a ride. Includes notes about Lodner Phillips, the real inventor on whom the story is based. For grades K-3 and older readers. 2013The opposite of loneliness: essays and stories
By Marina Keegan. 2014
Collection of essays and short stories by Keegan (1989-2012), who was killed in a car accident five days after her…
college graduation. In the title essay--which appeared in the graduation issue of the Yale Daily News--she reflects on the bright future awaiting the graduates. Bestseller. 2014The most of Nora Ephron
By Nora Ephron. 2013
Writings by the Oscar nominee Ephron (1941-2012) include essays, the screenplay for When Harry Met Sally, the novel Heartburn, and…
her last unpublished play Lucky Guy. Topics range from the personal to the political. Introduction by New Yorker editor Robert Gottlieb. Some strong language. 2013The Michigan reader for boys and girls: For Boys and Girls (Readers Ser.)
By Kathy-Jo Wargin, K. L. Darnell. 2001
Our neighbor is a strange, strange man (Orchard HC Picture Books)
By Inc. Staff Scholastic, Tres Seymour. 1999
Superman: the high-flying history of America's most enduring hero
By Larry Tye. 2012
An award-winning journalist and lifelong Superman fan looks beyond the legend of the man of steel and explores the awkward…
Ohio teenager whose Depression-era yearnings gave birth to America's mightiest mythical character, now more than 70 years old. Contains some strong language. For high school and adult readersThe invention of voice mail plus other memoirs and essay
By David P. Andersen. 2013
David P. Andersen started writing some years ago after retiring from his life as a computer design engineer. Fascinated by…
a wide variety of topics, he writes on work, cats, his relatives, life in India, and much moreWoolgathering
By Patti Smith. 2011
The death of Jayson Porter
By Jaime Adoff. 2009
In the Florida projects, sixteen-year-old Jayson struggles with the harsh realities of his life which include an abusive mother, a…
drug-addicted father, and not fitting in at his predominately white school, and bring him to the brink of suicideThe rings of Saturn
By Michael Hulse, W. G. Sebald, Winfried Georg Sebald. 1999
A walking tour of England's southeast coast frames a wide-ranging series of meditations on literature and stories from Britain's imperial…
past. A stay in a Norwich hospital prompts the protagonist to search for naturalist Thomas Browne's skull; a railroad bridge over the river Blyth recalls England's silk trade with China. 1998Sixty-three stories, essays, and poems from literary magazines, online and print journals, and small presses. In "Cartagena," Nam Le portrays…
a young Colombian assassin who is in over his head. Also features Rick Bass, Joyce Carol Oates, and Edward Hirsch. Strong language, some descriptions of sex, and some violence. 2008Weeds in bloom: autobiography of an ordinary man
By Robert Newton Peck. 2007
The author of more than sixty books for young people, including A Day No Pigs Would Die (DB 37104), discusses…
the folks he met--while growing up on a small Vermont farm and later in life--to show, he says, "how plain people can sparkle." For junior and senior high readers. 2005The W. Somerset Maugham reader: novels, stories, travel writing
By W. Somerset Maugham. 2004
Contains the novel The Hero (1901); large excerpts from Liza of Lambeth, Mrs. Craddock, The Magician, Of Human Bondage, and…
The Moon and Sixpence; and selections from The Trembling of a Leaf: Stories of the South Sea Islands, The Land of the Blessed Virgin..., and On a Chinese Screen. 2004The Thurber album: a collection of pieces about people
By James Thurber. 1952
Sixteen articles by American humorist James Thurber (1894-1961), all but one of which originally appeared in the New Yorker. Thurber…
offers comic portraits of relatives and friends as well as recollections of his boyhood in Columbus, favorite professors at Ohio State, and cub reporting at the Columbus Dispatch. 1942