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| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
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| 9781319332938 | A Writer's Reference (Paperbound) | Diana Hacker, Nancy Sommers | Excellent Book | Bedford/St. Martin's; Tenth edition |
| All The Light We Cannot See | ||||
| 9781319413279 | Everything's An Argument With Readings | Andrea A. Lunsford, John J. Ruszkiewicz, Keith Walters | "Everything you need to analyze--and challenge--the arguments that affect you. Argument is all around us--in school hallways and on social media, from capitol buildings to television newsrooms. With more than thirty current arguments and lively, real-world examples on topics that matter, Everything's an Argument with Readings helps you listen--really listen--to the arguments that affect you and provides the tools to respond, challenge, and explore your own."--Publisher's description. | Bedford/st Martins |
| Fences | ||||
| 9781453067994 | Frankenstein | Mary Shelley | A monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator. | |
| 9780802132758 | Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead | Tom Stoppard | A new, beautiful updated edition of Tom Stoppard’s best-loved play and one of Grove Atlantic’s bestselling backlist titles, published with a new introduction by Tom Stoppard to coincide with the 50th anniversary of its debutRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is one of the most enduring and frequently performed plays of contemporary theater and has firmly established itself in the dramatic canon. Acclaimed as a modern masterpiece, it is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm’s-eye view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare’s play. In Tom Stoppard’s best-known work, this Shakespearean Laurel and Hardy finally get a chance to take the lead role, but do so in a world where echoes of Waiting for Godot resound, where reality and illusion intermix, and where fate leads our two heroes to a tragic but inevitable end. Revised and reissued to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the play’s first performance, this definitive edition includes a new introduction and previously unpublished ancillary material. | Grove Press |
| 9780312370848 | Sarah's Key | Tatiana de Rosnay | Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel’ d’Hiv’ roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours.Paris, May 2002: On Vel’ d’Hiv’s 60th anniversary, journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article about this black day in France's past. Through her contemporary investigation, she stumbles onto a trail of long-hidden family secrets that connect her to Sarah. Julia finds herself compelled to retrace the girl's ordeal, from that terrible term in the Vel d'Hiv', to the camps, and beyond. As she probes into Sarah's past, she begins to question her own place in France, and to reevaluate her marriage and her life.Tatiana de Rosnay offers us a brilliantly subtle, compelling portrait of France under occupation and reveals the taboos and silence that surround this painful episode. | St. Martin's Griffin |
| 9781457636967 | The Brief Bedford Reader | X. J. Kennedy, Dorothy M. Kennedy, Jane E. Aaron, Ellen Kuhl Repetto | PACKAGE THIS TITLE WITH OUR 2016 MLA SUPPLEMENT, Documenting Sources in MLA Style (package ISBN-13: 9781319084547). Get the most recent updates on MLA citation in a convenient, 40-page resource based on The MLA Handbook, 8th Edition, with plenty of models. Browse our catalog or contact your representative for a full listing of updated titles and packages, or to request a custom ISBN. A compact version of one of the most popular composition readers available today—at a significant savings to students—The Brief Bedford Reader provides 45 compelling readings by excellent writers and all the practical instructional material of the full-length book to connect critical reading to academic writing. The unique "Writers on Writing" feature illustrates the many ways writers create meaning from what they read and experience. The twelfth edition provides even more helpful guidance for students on critical reading and writing, a new appendix with advice on APA documentation, and an updated selection of compelling readings. The print text is now integrated with e-Pages for The Brief Bedford Reader, designed to take advantage of what the Web can do, with provocative new essays and multimodal selections. | Bedford/St. Martin's |
| 9780156031820 | The Color Purple | Walker, Alice | [banner] Now A Tony Award-winning Broadway Musical the Color Purple is The Story Of Two Sisters—one A Missionary To Africa And The Other A Child Wife Living In The South—who Remain Loyal To One Another Across Time, Distance, And Silence. Beautifully Imagined And Deeply Compassionate, This Classic Of American Literature Is Rich With Passion, Pain, Inspiration, And An Indomitable Love Of Life.intense Emotional Impact . . . Indelibly Affecting . . . Alice Walker Is A Lavishly Gifted Writer.—the New York Times Book Reviewplaces Walker In The Company Of Faulkner.—the Nationsuperb . . . A Work To Stand Beside Literature Of Any Time And Place.—san Francisco Chroniclethe Color Purple is An American Novel Of Permanent Importance.—newsweekmarvelous Characters . . . A Story Of Revelation . . . One Of The Great Books Of Our Time.—essence [banner] Winner Of The Pulitzer Prize And The National Book Award   [bio]bestselling Novelist alice Walker Is Also The Author Of Three Collections Of Short Stories, Three Collections Of Essays, Six Volumes Of Poetry And Several Children's Books. Her Books Have Been Translated Into More Than Two Dozen Languages. Born In Eatonton, Georgia, Walker Now Lives In Northern California.new York Times Book Review. . .intense Emotional Impact. | Harcourt Trade Publishers |
| 9781319105051 | The Compact Bedford Introduction To Literature | Michael Meyer | The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature is a bestseller for a reason: It brings literature to life for students, helping to make them lifelong readers, better writers, and more critical thinkers in any path they choose. Classic works drawn from many periods and cultures appear alongside a strong showing from today’s authors. There is plenty of support for students, with critical reading and writing support, helpful sample close readings, writing assignments, and student papers in up-to-date MLA style.And, because everyone teaches and learns differently, there are many options for working with the literature, including case studies on individual works and themes that everyone can relate to. In-depth chapters on major authors including Flannery O’Connor and Nathaniel Hawthorne take students deeper into their work, and three chapters on the fiction of Dagoberto Gilb and the poetry of Billy Collins and Julia Alvarez―created in collaboration with the authors themselves―are one more way that the anthology showcases literature as a living, changing art form.Achieve with Meyer, Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature, puts student reading, writing, and revision at the core of your course, with interactive close reading modules, reading comprehension quizzes for the selections in the book, videos of professional writers and students discussing literary works, and a dedicated composition space that guides students through draft, review, source check, reflection, and revision. For details, visit macmillanlearning.com/college/us/englishdigital. | Saint Martin's Press |
| 9780385490818 | The Handmaid's Tale | Margaret Atwood | #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” (The New York Times). Now an award-winning Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss.Look for The Testaments, the bestselling, award-winning the sequel to The Handmaid’s TaleIn Margaret Atwood’s dystopian future, environmental disasters and declining birthrates have led to a Second American Civil War. The result is the rise of the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian regime that enforces rigid social roles and enslaves the few remaining fertile women. Offred is one of these, a Handmaid bound to produce children for one of Gilead’s commanders. Deprived of her husband, her child, her freedom, and even her own name, Offred clings to her memories and her will to survive. At once a scathing satire, an ominous warning, and a tour de force of narrative suspense, The Handmaid’s Tale is a modern classic.Includes an introduction by Margaret Atwood | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| The Importance Of Being Earnest | ||||
| 9781594631931 | The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini | The #1 New York Times bestselling novel beloved by millions of readers the world over.“A vivid and engaging story that reminds us how long his people [of Afghanistan] have been struggling to triumph over the forces of violence—forces that continue to threaten them even today." –New York Times Book ReviewThe unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father’s servant, caught in the tragic sweep of history, The Kite Runner transports readers to Afghanistan at a tense and crucial moment of change and destruction. A powerful story of friendship, it is also about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption; and an exploration of the power of fathers over sons—their love, their sacrifices, their lies.Since its publication in 2003 Kite Runner has become a beloved, one-of-a-kind classic of contemporary literature, touching millions of readers, and launching the career of one of America's most treasured writers. | Riverhead Books |
| 9780385537070 | The Nickel Boys: A Novel | Colson Whitehead | PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • This follow-up to The Underground Railroad brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys unjustly sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. • "One of the most gifted novelists in America today." —NPRWhen Elwood Curtis, a black boy growing up in 1960s Tallahassee, is unfairly sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, he finds himself trapped in a grotesque chamber of horrors. Elwood’s only salvation is his friendship with fellow “delinquent” Turner, which deepens despite Turner’s conviction that Elwood is hopelessly naive, that the world is crooked, and that the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid trouble. As life at the Academy becomes ever more perilous, the tension between Elwood’s ideals and Turner’s skepticism leads to a decision whose repercussions will echo down the decades.Based on the real story of a reform school that operated for 111 years and warped the lives of thousands of children, The Nickel Boys is a devastating, driven narrative that showcases a great American novelist writing at the height of his powers and “should further cement Whitehead as one of his generation's best" (Entertainment Weekly).Look for Colson Whitehead’s new novel, Crook Manifesto! | Doubleday |
| 9780393602883 | The Norton Anthology Of World Literature | Martin Puchner, Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Wiebke Denecke, Barbara Fuchs, Caroline Levine, Pericles Lewis, Emily R. Wilson, W. W. Norton & Company | An incomparable resource, an unmatched value The Fourth Edition of the most trusted and widely used brief anthology of world literature retains and expands the most popular works from the last edition while offering exciting new selections and new translations of major works. As always, the Norton Anthology also provides helpful apparatus, beautiful illustrations, and a robust suite of digital resources―all at an affordable price.The ebook reflects the contents of the Shorter Fourth Edition and includes corresponding page numbers to each of the edition’s two volumes. | W. W. Norton & Company |
| 9781770864344 | The Pain Tree | Olive Senior | The Pain Tree tells stories that speak to all aspects of Jamaican life. We hear from poor folk making the best of past hardships ("Coal"); rich folk plotting future selfishness ("The Goodness of My Heart"); and a young girl, forced to shoulder her mother's burdens in addition to her own ("Lollipop"). Bookending these are two powerful stories about the inextricability of home and history: in "The Pain Tree," the protagonist realizes the love she abandoned, and the pain she left behind; in "Flying," the lead character, searching for his missing piece, comes home for good. | Cormorant Books |
| 9780307387899 | The Road (Oprah's Book Club) | Cormac McCarthy | WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son's fight to survive, this "tale of survival and the miracle of goodness only adds to McCarthy's stature as a living master. It's gripping, frightening and, ultimately, beautiful" (San Francisco Chronicle). • From the bestselling author of The PassengerA father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other.The Roadis the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire," are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris. | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| 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 |
| 9780385474542 | Things Fall Apart | Achebe, Chinua | things Fall Apart Tells Two Intertwining Stories, Both Centering On Okonkwo, A “strong Man” Of An Ibo Village In Nigeria. The First, A Powerful Fable Of The Immemorial Conflict Between The Individual And Society, Traces Okonkwo’s Fall From Grace With The Tribal World. The Second, As Modern As The First Is Ancient, Concerns The Clash Of Cultures And The Destruction Of Okonkwo's World With The Arrival Of Aggressive European Missionaries. These Perfectly Harmonized Twin Dramas Are Informed By An Awareness Capable Of Encompassing At Once The Life Of Nature, Human History, And The Mysterious Compulsions Of The Soul. a Classic Of Modern African Writing, This Is The Tale Of What Happens To Tribal Customs And Old Ways When White Man Comes. | Penguin Books |
| 9780735219090 | Where The Crawdads Sing | Owens, Delia | For Years, Rumors Of The Marsh Girl Have Haunted Barkley Cove, A Quiet Town On The North Carolina Coast. She's Barefoot And Wild; Unfit For Polite Society. So In Late 1969, When Handsome Chase Andrews Is Found Dead, The Locals Immediately Suspect Kya Clark. But Kya Is Not What They Say. Abandoned At Age Ten, She Has Survived On Her Own In The Marsh That She Calls Home. A Born Naturalist With Just One Day Of School, She Takes Life Lessons From The Land, Learning From The False Signals Of Fireflies The Real Way Of This World. But While She Could Have Lived In Solitude Forever, The Time Comes When She Yearns To Be Touched And Loved. Drawn To Two Young Men From Town, Who Are Each Intrigued By Her Wild Beauty, Kya Opens Herself To A New And Startling World--until The Unthinkable Happens.-- Delia Owens. | G.P. Putnam's Sons |