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Her stories: African American folktales, fairy tales, and true tales
By Virginia Hamilton. 1995
A collection of folktales, fairy tales, and true stories of legendary women, all taken from traditional African American folklore. These…
stories are variously humorous, touching, scary, magical,and inspiring. Grades 5-8. c1995.The store (The Library of Alabama classics)
By T. S Stribling. 1932
Chronicle of an Alabama family headed by Colonel Miltiades Vaiden, a southern gentleman who fought at Shiloh and was a…
Klan member during Reconstruction. The story depicts the ending of the old South and the beginning of the new. Strong language. 1933 Pulitzer Prize winner. Sequel to "The forge". Followed by "Unfinished cathedral". 1932.The following story
By Cees Nooteboom. 1994
Herman Mussert, a classics professor and travel writer, falls asleep in his Amsterdam apartment but awakens in Lisbon in the…
very room where he had a brief affair. He revisits other scenes of that liaison and then inexplicably embarks on a voyage to the Amazon. Some strong language. Winner of the 1993 European Literary Prize for Best Novel. 1994. Uniform title: Volgende verhaal.The sky is falling
By Kit Pearson. 1989
To escape the dangers of World War, Norah and her brother, Gavin, leave England and travel to Canada. Norah finds…
it difficult to make friends and she begins to resent Gavin who receives all Mrs. Olgivie's attention. Winner of the CLA's award for Book of the Year for Children. Followed by "Looking at the moon". Grades 5-8. 1989.Mazel
By Rebecca Goldstein. 1995
Seventyish Sasha Saunders believes in mazel -- luck in Yiddish. In fact it is mazel that has gotten Sasha to…
this place in life -- Lipton, New Jersey, where a granddaughter has recently married and is expecting her first child. And as they await the birth, Sasha looks back over her life as an actress in Poland between the world wars, and the luck that has brought her to this time. National Jewish Book Award. 1995.So big (Prairie State Bks.)
By Edna Ferber. 1995
A farm woman's indomitable spirit and quick response to beauty are unquenched by years of hardship-- all for the sake…
of her son. 1925 Pulitzer Prize winner. Originally published in 1924. c1995.The great fire
By Jim Murphy. 1995
An account of the conflagration that levelled much of Chicago in 1871. Chronicles events from the fire's outbreak and rapid…
spread to its extinguishment by rain, as reported by survivors and in documents of the period. Examines the origins, circumstances, and official failures that contributed to the disaster. Grades 5-8. A 1996 Newbery Honor Book. c1995.Memoirs of a geisha: a novel
By Arthur Golden. 1997
A fictionalized account of the life of a typical geisha in Japan in the 1930s and 1940s. Sayuri recalls how…
as a nine-year-old she and her sister are sold to a geisha house as their mother lies dying. From then on Sayuri learns the traditional exotic arts for pleasing men. Winner of the 1999 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. 1997.Rose
By Martin Cruz Smith. 1996
Set in mid-nineteenth-century Victorian England in the mining town of Wigan, this story involves Jonathan Blair, an American explorer. Blair…
agrees to help coal baron Bishop Hannay find his daughter's fiance, who disappeared on the same day that an explosion in one of Hannay's coal mines killed seventy-six people. Winner of the 1998 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. 1996.Behind the scenes at the museum
By Kate Atkinson. 1995
Bunty had never wanted to marry George but he was all that was left. She was stuck in a flat…
in York with Patricia, Gillian and Ruby. It is Ruby who tells the story of the family from the end of the nineteenth century, through to the memorable events of her own life. Strong language. c1995.I know this much is true
By Wally Lamb. 1998
Thomas Birdsey, a schizophrenic, walks into a Connecticut Public Library, prays to God, and then cuts off his right hand.…
The act changes his life and that of Dominick, his twin brother. Searching for his identity, Dominick struggles with being his brother's keeper and with his own survival. Violence, strong language, and some descriptions of sex. Winner of the 2000 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. 1998.Krik? Krak!
By Edwidge Danticat. 1995
Ten short stories that reflect, to some degree, the violence and despair of the author's native Haiti. "Children of the…
Sea" is an exchange of letters between a young woman and her lover, who is aboard a leaky boat en route to Miami. "Nineteen Thirty-Seven" describes the harsh treatment of a Haitian woman imprisoned for witchcraft. Winner of the 1995 National Book Award. 1995.Stories about life in a Chinese village during the Cultural Revolution. The clash between traditional values and duty to the…
Communist Party is an ongoing theme. Some strong language. Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. 1997.The medicine horn: book one of the buckskinners (Buckskinners trilogy. #1.)
By Jory Sherman. 1991
Lemuel Hawke is only fifteen when he marries Roberta, but his dream is to be self-sufficient on the land. By…
1807, he is farming outside Lexington, Kentucky, when Roberta moves to town leaving Lemuel with a son and a distrust of women. Some descriptions of violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. Golden Spur Winner. Followed by "Trapper's Moon". 1992, c1991. (Buckskinners trilogy ; 1)The Kiowa verdict: a western story (Western Ser.)
By Cynthia Haseloff. 1997
A fictional account of the 1871 arrest and trials of Kiowa chiefs Satanta and Adoltay that proved a downturn in…
the treatment of Native Americans by the U.S. government. Sequel to "Satanta's Woman". Some strong language. Spur Award. 1997.The onion girl (Newford series)
By Charles De Lint. 2001
Jilly Coppercorn is a talented painter whose works reveal the hidden life of the imaginary town of Newford. As the…
story opens, Jilly, nearly killed by a hit-and-run driver, lies half-paralyzed in a hospital bed. As her friends gather around her, Jilly's own story comes to the fore, filled with the mysteries and secrets she has hidden from herself as well as from others. Winner of the World Fantasy Award. 2001. (Newford series)If an egyptian cannot speak english
By Noor Naga. 2022
Winner of the Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize, a lush experimental novel about love as a weapon of empire. In…
the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobrakheit meet at a café in Cairo. He was a photographer of the revolution, but now finds himself unemployed and addicted to cocaine, living in a rooftop shack. She is a nostalgic daughter of immigrants "returning" to a country she's never been to before, teaching English and living in a light-filled flat with balconies on all sides. They fall in love and he moves in. But soon their desire?for one another, for the selves they want to become through the other?takes a violent turn that neither of them expected. A dark romance exposing the gaps in American identity politics, especially when exported overseas, If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English is at once ravishing and wry, scathing and tender. Told in alternating perspectives, Noor Naga's experimental debut examines the ethics of fetishizing the homeland and punishing the beloved . . . and vice versa. In our globalized twenty-first-century world, what are the new faces (and races) of empire? When the revolution fails, how long can someone survive the disappointment? Who suffers and, more crucially, who gets to tell about it?A wrinkle in time (Murray family series ; #1)
By Madeleine L'Engle. 1962
When an atomic physicist disappears, his children begin a bizarre search. Led by three whimsical characters, Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who,…
and Mrs. Which, they manage their interplanetary journey by "wrinkling" to span space and time. Grades 5-8. Newbery Medal 1962. (Murray family series ; 1)Frightful's mountain
By Jean Craighead George. 1999
When Frightful, the peregrine falcon raised by Sam Gribley, returns to the wild, she is not prepared to fend for…
herself. A male peregrine falcon courts her, and gradually Frightful adapts to her natural role. Companion to "My Side of the Mountain" . Grades 5-8. 1999.Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures: Stories
By Vincent Lam. 2022
Winner of the 2006 Scotiabank Giller PrizeAn astonishing literary debut centred around four students as they apply to medical school,…
qualify as doctors and face the realities of working in medicine, from a powerful voice in fiction.Following the interlinked stories of a group of medical students and the unique challenges they face, from the med school to the intense world of emergency rooms, evac missions, and terrifying new viruses. Riveting, convincing and precise, Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures looks with rigorous honesty at the lives of doctors and their patients, bringing us to a deeper understanding of the challenges and temptations that surge around us all.In this masterful collection, Vincent Lam weaves together black humour, investigations of both common and extraordinary moral dilemmas, and a sometimes shockingly realistic portrait of today’s medical profession.