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By Sally Hobart Alexander. 2000
A writer who went blind at age twenty-six answers questions that children have frequently asked during her visits to schools.…
She discusses reading, working with her guide dog, meeting her husband, and parenting her two children, as well as her reactions to being blind. For grades 4-7. 2000By Caledonia Kearns. 1997
A collection of twenty-four short stories and excerpts from novels by twentieth-century writers of Irish American heritage. Includes several new…
authors and some already well-known such as Mary McCarthy, Maureen Howard, Tess Gallagher, Alice McDermott, Anna Quindlen, and Mary Gordon. 1997By Angela Carter. 1998
A substantial selection of Carter's journalism--articles, criticism, personal essays, and reviews--from the 1960s until her death in 1992. These cultural…
and social commentaries are grouped under broad categories: body languages, food fetishes, home and away, travelling, Japan, Amerika, screen and dream, stories and tellers, writers and readers. Some strong language. 1997By Gustave Flaubert, Gerard Manley Hopkins. 1999
A young middle-class Frenchwoman, Emma Bovary, is bored with her husband (an inept doctor) and their country existence. Her romantic…
fantasies lead her astray, into adultery and self-destruction. Translated by Gerard Hopkins. Originally published in 1857By Frederick Buechner. 1997
Nineveh, circa 650 B.C. Archangel Raphael carries two prayers for death to the Most High and fulfills the command to…
set everything right. Tobit, a blind man, and Sarah, a reluctant bride accused of murdering seven grooms, find unexpected answers to their mutual prayerBy Herman Melville, Geraldine McCaughrean, Victor G. Ambrus. 1998
A classic sea adventure. Ishmael recounts the last voyage of the whaling ship Pequod and how the one-legged Captain Ahab…
is obsessed with finding the white whale Moby Dick. A retelling of Herman Melville's novel originally published in 1851. For grades 5-8By Charles Dickens. 1994
Classic nineteenth-century novel portrays a changing society and prison life. William Dorrit, who owes money, lives in debtor prison at…
Marshalsea with his children Edward, Fanny, and Amy--known as Little Dorrit. Amy falls in love with and marries her middle-aged benefactorBy F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli, Judith S. Baughman. 1994
Collection of Fitzgerald's correspondence portraying his life and work. The chronological arrangement of letters reflects his literary development through the…
years, his friendships with Hemingway and other writers, and his tragic marriage and personal lifeBy Thomas Pynchon. 1986
A wild, discursive tale of two men and an unknown woman called "V." Benny Profane, inveterate victim, is set in…
contrast to the young adventurer called Stencil, whose life quest is to discover the identity of V., whose initial appears in his dead father's journal. Some strong language and some violenceBy Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott. 1995
First published in 1817. In eighteenth-century England, when the poetic Frank Osbaldistone refuses to enter the family business, he is…
banished to his uncle's home. There he learns he has falsely been named an outlaw by his corrupt cousin because they love the same woman. Jacobite outlaw Rob Roy helps Frank clear his name. Some violenceBy Alma Flor Ada, Leslie Tryon. 1994
Remember the three pigs who built houses of straw, sticks, and bricks? Goldilocks, who broke Baby Bear's chair? Peter Rabbit,…
who barely escaped from Mr. McGregor's garden? Now Pig One wants Peter Rabbit to come to a housewarming at his new straw house, and the Bears have invited Goldilocks for cake. Peter Rabbit has a cold from hiding in Mr. McGregor's watering can, but finally they all gather for a party at Goldilocks's house. For grades K-3By Laurence Yep. 1993
An anthology of twenty-five stories, poems, and essays by Asian Americans that enlighten, probe, and examine the experiences and emotions…
of young people with roots in Japan, China, India, Korea, and Southeast Asia. Selections are set in the past, present, and future, and most raise questions about identity and about preserving or rejecting the values of ancestors. For junior and senior high readersBy V. S. Pritchett, V. S Pritchett, V. S. Pritchett. 1991
The essays--all 203 of them--are among the numerous publications of this British biographer, short story writer, travel writer, memoirist, literary…
critic, and novelist. An avid reader, Pritchett reveals his delight in other authors ranging from the classic to the modern. And, although his emphasis is on English writers, the essayist explores and comments on foreign prose writing from America to RussiaBy Howard Fast, Theodore Dreiser. 1989
Although Dreiser worked as a newspaperman in St. Louis, Chicago, Pittsburgh, and New York, he is best remembered for his…
fiction. This collection of his short stories includes "The Shadow," "The Old Neighborhood," and "The Prince Who Was a Thief."By Herman Melville, Tony Tanner, John Dugdale. 1989
First published in 1857, this social satire attacks all humankind and reveals the ease with which most people can be…
duped. It features a group of objectionable characters on a passenger boat from St. Louis to New OrleansBy Willa Cather. 1988
By Herbert Mitgang. 1988
A correspondent for the "New York Times," with a background in Army Air Corps counterintelligence during World War II, brings…
to light the policies and procedures by which the FBI developed dossiers on authors thought to be subversive. His purpose is to demonstrate how dangerous the practice is--damaging not only to individual freedom, but also to national valuesBy Chuck Miller, Mario Pei, Tim Underwood. 1965
Of Pei's more than fifty books, this was his best-known effort to put all of language--its origin, history, growth, forms,…
and functions--into perspective. Pei's love for languages began at the age of seven when his family emigrated from Italy to the United States. As a teacher, he considered language study as part of the humanities, and promoted his hope of achieving a better understanding among peoples with a universal languageBy Heinrich Böll, Leila Vennewitz, Heinrich Boll. 1987
Twenty-two sketches and stories written by the Nobel laureate, who died in 1985. They reflect his experiences as an infantry…
corporal during World War II, along with his perceptions of everyday life in postwar GermanyBy Heinrich Böll, Leila Vennewitz. 1986
Taking into account his World War II experience as a young man and the political utterances of his later years,…
these stories by the Nobel laureate grow out of Boll's entire career. They display his humane sensibility and eye for the mindless cruelty and desolation of war. Some strong language