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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A rollicking look at popular culture’s most beloved sleuth: “For even the casual fan, the history of this deathless character is fascinating” (The Boston Globe).
Today he is the inspiration for fiction adaptations, blockbuster movies, hit television shows, raucous Twitter banter, and thriving subcultures. More than a century after Sherlock Holmes first capered into our world, what is it about Sir
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Edited by the daughter of Lolita’s original publisher, this brilliant collection of modern pieces from a wide range of celebrated writers that examine the bright and dark spell that Nabokov’s indelible left and still leaves on the cultural landscape.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A renowned scholar presents this biography of John Donne, the poet who, suffering from black surges of sadness, expressed his verse with electric joy and love, that shows the many sides of Donne’s extraordinary life, his obsessions, his fiery words and his tempestuous Elizabethan times.
Author
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Everyone knows Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created a unique literary character who has remained popular for over a century and is appreciated more than ever today. But what made this fictional character, dreamed up by a small-town English doctor in the 1880s, into such a lasting success, despite the author's own attempt to escape his invention? In From Holmes to Sherlock, Swedish author and Sherlock Holmes expert Mattias Bostrom recreates...
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Sharing candid interviews with 13 top children's and young adult authors who discuss why their books have faced censorship, a historian and critic puts First Amendment challenges into historical context and examines the support network that protects and defends young people's rights.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
At once a deeply personal and searching history of one woman’s reading life, and a wide-ranging and urgent intervention into our globalized conversations about why reading matters today, How to Read Now empowers us to embrace a more complicated, embodied form of reading, inviting us to acknowledge complicated truths, ignite surprising connections, imagine a more daring solidarity, and create space for a riskier intimacy—within ourselves, and with...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
In Wild Things, Vanity Fair contributing editor Bruce Handy revisits the classics of every American childhood, from fairy tales to The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and explores the back stories of their creators, using context and biography to understand how some of the most insightful, creative, and witty authors and illustrators of their times created their often deeply personal masterpieces. A clear-eyed love letter to the greatest children's books...
Author
Language
English
Description
In The Book of Delights, one of today's most original literary voices offers up a genre-defying volume of lyric essays written over one tumultuous year. The first nonfiction book from award-winning poet Ross Gay is a record of the small joys we often overlook in our busy lives. Among Gay's funny, poetic, philosophical delights: a friend's unabashed use of air quotes, cradling a tomato seedling aboard an airplane, the silent nod of acknowledgment between...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of Brother, I'm Dying, a collection of vividly imagined stories about community, family, and love. Rich with hard-won wisdom and humanity, set in locales from Miami and Port-au-Prince to a small unnamed country in the Caribbean and beyond, Everything Inside is at once wide in scope and intimate, as it explores the forces that pull us together, or drive us apart, sometimes in the same searing...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
George Saunders guides the reader through seven classic Russian short stories he's been teaching for twenty years as a professor in a prestigious graduate creative writing program. Saunders approaches each of these stories technically yet accessibly, and through them explains how narrative functions; why we stay immersed in a story and why we resist it; and the bedrock virtues a writer must foster.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In The Writer's Crusade, author Tom Roston examines the connection between Vonnegut's life and Slaughterhouse-Five. Did Vonnegut suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder? Roston probes Vonnegut's work, his personal history, and discarded drafts of the novel, as well as original interviews with the writer's family, friends, scholars, psychologists, and other novelists. The Writer's Crusade is a literary and biographical journey that asks fundamental...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
A nuanced biography and portrait of the last decades of the Russian empire and artful literary examination, this fascinating volume unravels Tolstoy's family, literary and day-to-day life during the period in which he wrote Anna Karenina.
19) Books for living
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Presents a highly personal celebration of reading, sharing impassioned recommendations for specific books that can offer guidance through daily life.
Author
Series
Anne of Green Gables volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Anne's youngest, Rilla, is about to turn 15, and all she can think of is her first dance at the Four Winds lighthouse. But her dreams are shattered with the announcement of war, for Canada gets involved in WWI that very night. Her brothers go off to fight, and Rilla brings home a war orphan in a soup tureen. The whole community is caught up in the agony of those terrible 4 years, but funny things still happen to lighten the days.
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