Alyssa Sanchez's Library
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| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9781481499187 | The Chaos Of Standing Still | Brody, Jessica | Ryn, Eighteen, Trapped By A Massive Blizzard In The Denver Airport, Meets Some Unique Characters Who Help Her Cope With Survivor's Guilt On The First Anniversary Of Her Best Friend's Death. | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers |
| 9780801314872 | The Companion To Classical Mythology | Robert J. Lenardon, Mark P. O. Morford, Michael Sham | This study guide complements Classical Mythology, 6/e, reviewing chapters 1-24 of the text and providing practice tests with answers. By isolating this important information, the Companion helps students to quickly and firmly grasp the source material, giving them more time to study the meaning and interpretation of the myths themselves. | Addison-Wesley |
| 9780670785476 | The Dark Days Club (A Lady Helen Novel) | Goodman, Alison | In April 1812, As She Is Preparing For Her Debut Presentation To Queen Charlotte, Lady Helen Wrexhall Finds Herself In The Middle Of A Conspiracy Reaching To The Very Top Of Society, And Learns The Truth About Her Mother, Who Died Ten Years Ago-- | Viking Books for Young Readers |
| 9780140431896 | The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire (Penguin Classics) | Edward Gibbon | Edited, abridged, and with a critical Foreword by Hans-Friedrich MuellerIntroduction by Daniel J. BoorstinIllustrations by Giovanni Battista PiranesiEdward Gibbon’s masterpiece, which narrates the history of the Roman Empire from the second century A.D. to its collapse in the west in the fifth century and in the east in the fifteenth century, is widely considered the greatest work of history ever written. This abridgment retains the full scope of the original, but in a breadth comparable to a novel. Casual readers now have access to the full sweep of Gibbon’s narrative, while instructors and students have a volume that can be read in a single term. This unique edition emphasizes elements ignored in all other abridgments—in particular the role of religion in the empire and the rise of Islam. | Penguin Classics |
| 9780525478812 | The Fault In Our Stars | John Green | Dutton Books | |
| 9780684867625 | The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon : A Novel | King, Stephen | The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted is the first sentence of this extraordinary new novel. Eager to escape the bickering of her recently-divorced mother and her older brother, Pete, nine-year-old Trisha McFarland wanders off the main path of the Appalachian Trail between Maine and New Hampshire, where they have embarked on a weekend outing. As she tries to take a short-cut to catch up to her family, she strays further from the trail and deeper into the second-growth, untrodden woods, where she has no means of navigation and little defense against the elements. Bruised, battered, and riddled with wasp and mosquito bites, Trisha elevates her spirits and preserves her connection with civilization by tuning into the radio station that broadcasts the Boston Red Sox games. She spends her first night alone, listening as her hero — #36, the closing pitcher Tom Gordon, whose jersey and baseball cap she wears on her hiking trip — strikes out the Yankees. She imagines him as her companion, and tunes into his games sporadically, as she braves treacherous slopes and fetid swamps, bacteria-ridden (and vomit-inducing) water, insatiable insects, extremes of New England weather, and many, many, lonely, uncomfortable, terrifying nights. Stalked by an unidentified creature that leaves slaughtered animals and mangled trees in its wake, Trisha bravely follows the river — and her instincts — in the hope of surviving. A classic tale that combines elements of adventure and spiritual awe, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon engages our hearts and minds at the most primal level.People MagazineYou may not care about Gordonbut you will about Trisha. | Scribner |
| 9781250147905 | The Hazel Wood: A Novel (The Hazel Wood, 1) | Albert, Melissa | Seventeen-year-old Alice And Her Mother Have Spent Most Of Alice's Life On The Road, Always A Step Ahead Of The Uncanny Bad Luck Biting At Their Heels. But When Alice's Grandmother, The Reclusive Author Of A Cult-classic Book Of Pitch-dark Fairy Tales, Dies Alone On Her Estate, The Hazel Wood, Alice Learns How Bad Her Luck Can Really Get. Melissa Albert. | Flatiron Books |
| 9780226469409 | The Iliad Of Homer / Translated With An Introd. By Richmond Lattimore | Homer | "The finest translation of Homer ever made into the English language."—William Arrowsmith"Certainly the best modern verse translation."—Gilbert Highet"This magnificent translation of Homer's epic poem . . . will appeal to admirers of Homer and the classics, and the multitude who always wanted to read the great Iliad but never got around to doing so."—The American Book Collector"Perhaps closer to Homer in every way than any other version made in English."—Peter Green, The New Republic"The feat is decisive that it is reasonable to foresee a century or so in which nobody will try again to put the Iliad in English verse."—Robert Fitzgerald"Each new generation is bound to produce new translations. [Lattimore] has done better with nobility, as well as with accuracy, than any other modern verse translator. In our age we do not often find a fine scholar who is also a genuine poet and who takes the greatest pains over the work of translation."—Hugh Lloyd-Jones, New York Review of Books"Over the long haul Lattimore's translation is more powerful because its effects are more subtle."—Booklist"Richmond Lattimore is a fine translator of poetry because he has a poetic voice of his own, authentic and unmistakable and yet capable of remarkable range of modulation. His translations make the English reader aware of the poetry."—Moses Hadas, The New York Times | Chicago, London: The Univ. of Chicago Press |
| 9780452009271 | The Meridian Handbook Of Classical Mythology | Edward Tripp | The ultimate single-volume reference guide to Greek and Roman mythologyAn ideal resource for students, teachers, librarians, writers, and readers of great literature, the Meridian Handbook has set the standard for over three decades as the classic guide to the myths of Greece and Rome. From Athena to Zeus, Abantes to Zninthe, the epic heroes and gods who inhabit the pantheon of great literature are covered in fascinating detail. Complete stories and short identifications of characters, events, place names, and constellations are included. For a fuller perspective of the mythological realm, there are maps of the classical world and genealogical charts of the great royal lines. Comprehensive and accessible, the Meridian Handbook is an indispensable aid to understanding and enjoying mythology. | Plume |
| 9781250246073 | The Night Country: A Hazel Wood Novel (Hazel Wood) | Albert, Melissa | The New York Times Bestselling Sequel To Melissa Albert’s Beloved The Hazel Wood! In The Night Country, Alice Proserpine Dives Back Into A Menacing, Mesmerizing World Of Dark Fairy Tales And Hidden Doors Of The Hazel Wood. Follow Her And Ellery Finch As They Learn The Hazel Wood Was Just The Beginning, And That Worlds Die Not With A Whimper, But A Bang. With Finch’s Help, Alice Escaped The Hinterland And Her Reclusive Grandmother’s Dark Legacy. Now She And The Rest Of The Dregs Of The Fairy Tale World Have Washed Up In New York City, Where Alice Is Trying To Make A New, Unmagical Life. But Something Is Stalking The Hinterland’s Survivors—and She Suspects Their Deaths May Have A Darker Purpose. Meanwhile, In The Winking Out World Of The Hinterland, Finch Seeks His Own Adventure, And—if He Can Find It—a Way Back Home... Don’t Miss Tales From The Hinterland, Coming January 12, 2021! | Flatiron Books |
| 9780147512963 | The Passion Of Dolssa | Berry, Julie | In Mid-thirteenth Century Provence, Dolssa De Stigata Is A Fervently Religious Girl Who Feels The Call To Preach, Condemned By The Inquisition As An Unnatural Woman, And Hunted By The Dominican Friar Lucien Who Fears A Resurgence Of The Albigensian Heresy; Botille Is A Matchmaker Trying To Protect Her Sisters From Being Branded As Gypsies Or Witches--but When She Finds The Hunted Dolssa Dying On A Hillside, She Feels Compelled To Protect Her, A Decision That May Cost Her Everything. | Penguin Books |
| 9780618706419 | The Things They Carried (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) | O'Brien, Tim | One of the first questions people ask about The Things They Carried is this: Is it a novel, or a collection of short stories? The title page refers to the book simply as "a work of fiction," defying the conscientious reader's need to categorize this masterpiece. It is both: a collection of interrelated short pieces which ultimately reads with the dramatic force and tension of a novel. Yet each one of the twenty-two short pieces is written with such care, emotional content, and prosaic precision that it could stand on its own. The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and of course, the character Tim O'Brien who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. They battle the enemy (or maybe more the idea of the enemy), and occasionally each other. In their relationships we see their isolation and loneliness, their rage and fear. They miss their families, their girlfriends and buddies; they miss the lives they left back home. Yet they find sympathy and kindness for strangers (the old man who leads them unscathed through the mine field, the girl who grieves while she dances), and love for each other, because in Vietnam they are the only family they have. We hear the voices of the men and build images upon their dialogue. The way they tell stories about others, we hear them telling stories about themselves. With the creative verve of the greatest fiction and the intimacy of a searing autobiography, The Things They Carried is a testament to the men who risked their lives in America's most controversial war.It is also a mirror held up to the frailty of humanity. Ultimately The Things They Carried and its myriad protagonists call to order the courage, determination, and luck we all need to survive. In 1979, Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato -- a novel about the Vietnam War -- won the National Book Award. In this, his second work of fiction about Vietnam, O'Brien's unique artistic vision is again clearly demonstrated. Neither a novel nor a short story collection, it is an arc of fictional episodes, taking place in the childhoods of its characters, in the jungles of Vietnam and back home in America two decades later. | Turtleback Books |
| 9781616203726 | The Walls Around Us | Suma, Nova Ren | Algonquin Young Readers | |
| 9781481497343 | The Wicked Deep | Ernshaw, Shea | Three Sisters, Drowned As Witches In Sparrow, Oregon, In The 1800s, Return Each Summer For Revenge But Penny, Seventeen, Is Determined To Stop Them To Save The Boy She Loves. | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers |
| 9780525426011 | There's Someone Inside Your House | Perkins, Stephanie | Hawaii-born Makani Young's New Life In Nebraska Is Thrown Into Chaos When A Serial Killer Begins To Target Her Fellow High School Students-- | Dutton Books for Young Readers |
| 9781841767031 | Troy C. 1700-1250 BC (Fortress, 17) | Nic Fields | Hisarlik is a small place, a sandy stone strewn hillock cut up into gullies and hummocks. Yet its historical significance is immense, for this is the site of Troy - the legendary city whose story sprawls across cultures, time and geography. The tale of the siege of Troy is the greatest secular story ever told, and has captured the imagination of the Western World for some 3,000 years. Although there are many difficulties in using Greek myths, oral traditions and the Homeric epics to reconstruct the Trojan War, this title uses the latest archaeological evidence to reconstruct in detail the fortifications of Troy as well as making more general observations about the possible historical events behind the epics of Homer. | Osprey Publishing |
| 9780865165380 | Vergil's Aeneid: Selections From Books 1,2,4,6,10&12 | Barbara Weiden Boyd | This edition is designed for high school Advanced Placement and college level courses: a newly updated and revised version of selected passages from Vergil's Aeneid, Books I-VI, by Clyde Pharr (whose user-friendly format revolutionized Latin textbooks), plus additional passages from Books 10 and 12, not found in Pharr. Passages included are: 1.1-519; 2.1-56; 199-297, 469-566, 735-804; 4.1-448, 642-705; 6.1-211, 450-476, 847-901; 10.420-509; 12.791-842, 887-952.-- General introduction and introduction to each section-- Latin text with selected vocabulary and notes on the same page-- Six new full-color illustrations by Thom Kapheim-- Ancient illustrations-- Grammatical appendix, including newly revised sections: "Vergil's Meter" and "Rhetorical Terms, Figures of Speech, and Metrical Devices"-- Index to Grammatical Appendix-- New, updated, selected bibliography-- New, full vocabulary at the back of the book-- Pull-out General Word List | Bolchazy Carducci Pub |
| 9780062409799 | War Of The Cards (Queen Of Hearts, 3) | Oakes, Colleen | HarperTeen | |
| 9781250189943 | Warrior Of The Wild | Levenseller, Tricia | Feiwel & Friends | |
| 9780195079777 | Women Of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary (Oxford Paperback Reference) | Robert E. Bell | Everyone is familiar with some of the women of classical myth. Athena, goddess of wisdom, and Aphrodite, goddess of love and beauty are particularly well-known, as are the snake-haired Gorgon Medusa, and the vicious harpies, half woman, half beast. Humans, too, have their place in the ancient lore: Medea, who killed her own children to gain revenge upon her husband Jason, and Helen of Troy, whose abduction by Paris incited the ten-year Trojan War. But these figures represent only a handful of the hundreds and hundreds of female characters who played essential roles in the poetry, drama, and folklore that arose from Greek and Roman mythology. And despite the rich diversity of these figures, standard reference works on mythology and related subjects often give them short shrift.This fascinating book is the first and only comprehensive biographical dictionary devoted to mythological women. It offers unprecedented access to information on hard-to-find women in Greek and Roman myth, as well as a fresh look at the better-known figures. From the famous to the obscure, all of them are here--from Cardea, a Roman divinity who protected the hinges of doors, to Echidna, a half-woman, half-serpent who mated with her fire-breathing brother Typhon, to Ate, the goddess of error. In addition, readers will learn new facts about old favorites: how Zeus ordered the proverbially garrulous Echo to distract Hera while he enjoyed sexual relations with Echo's sister nymphs; that Melpomene, muse of tragedy, was reputed to be mother of the sirens; that Diana--known as the Roman equivalent of Artemis, goddess of chastity and the hunt--had been worshiped as a Latin and Sabine diety from a much earlier era.The approximately 2,600 lively, engagingly written entries are arranged alphabetically and completely cross-referenced for easy access, and vary from one sentence to several pages. Each entry places its subject both in the overall context of classical myth, and in the frame of reference of her better-known male counterparts. For each figure there is a description of her particular contribution to folklore, and a list of the various poems, tragedies, epics, and other types of stories in which she plays a central role. In addition, the handy special index "The Men in Their Lives" makes it simple to locate a particular women known primarily through relations, for instance, Theseus's mother, or Achilles's wife.Heroines, murderers, lovers, wives, animals, hermaphrodites, monsters, and transsexuals--the Women of Classical Mythology offers a unique and rich guide to an aspect of ancient literature often overlooked. It will provide readers not only with a valuable reference source, but with hours of delightful browsing. | Oxford University Press |