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The fall of Freddie the leaf: a story of life for all ages
By Leo F Buscaglia, Leo F. Buscaglia. 1982
As Freddie learns about the changing seasons along with the other leaves on a tall tree, he discovers the delicate…
balance between life and death. For grades K-3 and older readers. 1982Prairie school: story (I Can Read Level 4)
By Avi, Bill Farnsworth. 2001
When Aunt Dora, a schoolteacher, comes to visit Noah's family in 1880, nine-year-old Noah feels no need to read or…
write. But Aunt Dora changes his mind by expanding his world while he pushes her wheelchair across the prairie. For grades 2-4. 2001. For grades 2-4. 2001The Broadview anthology of Victorian poetry and poetic theory (Broadview anthologies of English literature)
By Percy Bysshe Shelley, Stephen C. Behrendt. 2000
Large selection of poems from major nineteenth-century English poets, including women; representative pieces from lesser-known poets; and essays on poetic…
theory. Among those presented, in roughly chronological order, are: Hemans, Landon, the Brownings, Tennyson, Lear, Brontë, Arnold, the Rossettis, Swinburne, Hardy, Hopkins, Field, Meynell, Wilde, Kipling, Johnson, and Mew. 2000Blind fate
By Pierre Nubar. 2000
Memoir of a blind Frenchman, who came to the United States in 1953. Nubar recalls his years in an orphanage…
in Marseilles, coming to America seeking medical treatment for his deteriorating eyesight, and how a policeman from his past changed his fortune. 2000The man with the golden arm: 50th Anniversary Critical Edition
By Nelson Algren, Kurt Vonnegut, Art Shay, William J. Savage, Daniel Simon, Mike Royko, Studs Terkel. 1999
The underworld of Chicago's West Side in the late 1940s is portrayed through Frankie Machine--a poker dealer with a "golden…
arm" and morphine-addicted hustler with a bad conscience. Complete text followed by critical essays. Some strong language. National Book Award. 1949Do you remember the color blue?: and other questions kids ask about blindness
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. 2000Cabbage and bones: an anthology of Irish American women's fiction
By 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. 1997Shaking a leg: collected writings
By 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. 1997The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: an experiment in literary investigation, I-II / Vol. 1, parts I-II
By Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Thomas P. Whitney. 1974
A scathing portrayal of the Soviet prison system drawn from eyewitness accounts and the Nobel Prize winner's own recollection of…
his eleven-year internment in the Archipelago. Prequel to The Gulag...Volume 2, Parts 3-4 (DB 49270). Bestseller. 1973Things remembered
By Georgia Bockoven. 1998
Twenty years ago when her parents were killed, Karla Esterbrook and her sisters went to live with their grandmother, Anna…
Olsen. Karla and Anna have never been close, but now that Anna is dying, Karla has returned to California to put Anna's affairs in orderMadame Bovary: life in a country town (Oxford World's Classics #Vol. 4)
By 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 1857Rebound
By Eric Walters. 2001
On the first day of eighth grade Sean gets into a fight with David, a new kid in a wheelchair.…
The two gradually become buddies because of their mutual love of basketball and a growing interest in girls. For junior and senior high readers. 2000On the road with the archangel: a novel
By 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 prayerMoby Dick, or The white whale: or The White Whale (Oxford world's classics)
By 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 5-8The Berenstain Bears and the wheelchair commando (A big chapter book)
By Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain. 1993
Harry McGill has started spending all of his time on the computer instead of playing wheelchair basketball with his friends.…
His parents hope that when they move to the country, Harry will make some new nondisabled pals. Brother and Sister try to become Harry's friends, but it isn't easy. Yet they are in for quite a surprise when Too-Tall starts bullying Harry. For grades 2-4Popularity has its ups and downs
By Meg F Schneider, Meg F. Schneider. 1991
Explains the meaning of popularity and suggests ways to cope with this issue in school and social situations. Discusses the…
concept of self-confidence and how to achieve it. The author also stresses the value of true friendship and the importance of learning to deal with rejection and change. For junior and senior high readersLittle Dorrit (Oxford Illustrated Dickens #12)
By 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 benefactorThe Simpsons: a complete guide to our favorite family
By Matt Groening. 1997
Seven years in Tibet: Official Agents' Handbook
By Heinrich Harrer, Dawn Margolis. 1996
Harrer recalls how in 1943 he escaped from a British internment camp in India and, after an arduous journey, arrived…
on foot in Lhasa, the holy capital of Tibet. He was granted refuge and later became a tutor to the Dalai Lama. In late 1950, the Chinese invasion of Tibet forced Harrer to leave Lhasa, which had become his spiritual home. BestsellerA life in letters: A New Collection
By 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 life