Celena Lewis' Library
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| 9781565129771 | A Reliable Wife | Goolrick, Robert | Algonquin Books | |
| 9780743253970 | A Separate Peace | John Knowles | Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to World War II. Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world. | Scribner |
| 9780736807487 | After Suicide: Living With The Questions (Grief And Loss) | Retold by: | Capstone Press | |
| 0385755910 | All The Bright Places | Niven, Jennifer | Ember | |
| 9780451191137 | Anthem | Rand, Ayn | The year 2005 marks Ayn Rand’s Centennial Year. Ayn Rand’s classic tale of a future dark age of the great “We”—a world that deprives individuals of name, independence, and values—anticipates her later masterpieces, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.Library JournalThe difference between this long-forgotten exercise in paranoia and other futuristic visions of a world controlled by the state, such as Aldous Huxley's or George Orwell's, is the extremist tone of Rand's story. The author lived in a black-and-white world in which things social or communal are evil and things individual and selfish are exalted. This "anthem" culminates in a hymn to the concepts of "I" and "ego," where the rebels are those who resist group action; the oppressors are government officials and others who attempt to provide a safety net for the less fortunate. The production is not improved by the theatricality of narrator Paul Meier, which is reminiscent of a ham Victorian actor intoning an overwrought melodrama. Not recommended.-Mark Pumphrey, Polk Cty. P.L., Columbus, NC | Signet |
| 9780679732259 | As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text | Faulkner, William | 'i Set Out Deliberately To Write A Tour-de-force. Before I Ever Put Pen To Paper And Set Down The First Word I Knew What The Last Word Would Be And Almost Where The Last Period Would Fall.' -william Faulkner On as I Lay Dying as I Lay Dying Is Faulknerâs Harrowing Account Of The Bundren Familyâs Odyssey Across The Mississippi Countryside To Bury Addie, Their Wife And Mother. Narrated In Turn by Each Of The Family Members-including Addie Herself-as Well As Others The Novel Ranges In Mood, From Dark Comedy To The Deepest Pathos. as I Lay Dying Is The Harrowing, Darkly Comic Tale Of The Bundren Family's Trek Across Mississippi To Bury Addie, Their Wife And Mother, In The Town Of Her Choice. The Story Is Told By Each Family Member -- Including Addie Herself. Faulkner's Use Of Multiple Viewpoints To Reveal The Inner Psychological Make-up Of The Characters Is One Of The Novel's Chief Charms. | Vintage |
| 9780737726930 | At Issue Series - Alternatives To Prisons (Hardcover Edition) | Greenhaven Press | ||
| 9780307387158 | Atonement | McEwan, Ian | Anchor | |
| 9780385721790 | Atonement | McEwan, Ian | Set in 1935 England, this New York Times bestseller is enthralling in its depiction of childhood, love and war, England and class, making it a profound—and profoundly moving—exploration of shame and forgiveness, of atonement and the difficulty of absolution. Abridged. 5 CDs.Book MagazineOn an English country estate in the jittery, gilded era between the two great wars, two young people stand in the summer's heat, arguing by an ancient fountain. Cecilia is the daughter of the household, and Robbie is the cleaning woman's son, a brilliant boy whose Cambridge education has been benevolently financed by Cecilia's father. During their quarrel, the two manage to break a valuable porcelain vase, and in a fury largely engendered by her unacknowledged feelings for the young man, Cecilia strips off her clothes, leaps into the fountain and retrieves the fragments. It is a dazzling moment, full of beauty and ruin, lust and innocence, so highly charged that it's no wonder Cecilia's little sister, Briony, observing unseen from a window, feels a sense of menace. She concludes that Robbie has compelled her sister to do something shameful. This assumption, when combined with later events, brings disaster not simply to the two young people who are discovering themselves to be lovers, but to everyone else in the well-intentioned, prosperous family. This is a crucial scene in the latest, luminous novel by Ian McEwan. As happens often with poetry, but much more rarely with novels, the book creates a curiously satisfying conflict of emotions. The pain and chaos of events are leavened by the delight of technical mastery. There is pleasure in having even our sorrows named with such precision. Sentences turn on a dime, or rather on an unexpected adjective, as when a litigious couple is described as defending their good names with a most expensive ferocity. Consider the description of the room of twelve-year-old Briony. In a slovenly household, it is an oasis of tidiness. Ona broad windowsill is set out a treasured model farm, consisting of the usual animals, but all facing one way—towards their owner—as if about to break into song. The attentive air of this little army of animals perfectly catches the vanity of childhood, when it seems only proper and desirable to have universal attention focused on oneself. The little barnyard world so neatly deployed is also emblematic of the slightly bigger world of the Tallis' estate, which has both the pleasing quality of a miniature and an innocent vanity, a smugness in the contentment so shortly to be swept away. McEwan is well aware of this, as when he describes the way Briony perceives that writing stories not only involved secrecy, it also gave her all the pleasures of miniaturisation. A world could be made in five pages, and one that was more pleasing than a model farm. What lies beyond that safe, well-controlled realm shows up in the novel's second half. Just as the first portion of the novel begins with the emblematic breaking of the vase, the second commences with a hallucinatory image of a child's smooth, severed leg caught in the branches of a tree. Robbie, enrolled as a private in the British Army, bears witness to such atrocities. In France during World War II, he participates in the hasty retreat that culminates with the evacuation at Dunkirk. Cecilia, a nurse in a veterans hospital in London, is coping with a parallel universe of brutality and absurdity, rigor and privation. This latest work by McEwan is no less intricate than 1987's The Child in Time and 1998's Amsterdam, two of his previous eight novels that won the Whitbread Prize and the Booker Prize, respectively. In sensibility the world of Atonement is achingly reminiscent of that created by Richard Hughes in his classic novels, A High Wind in Jamaica and The Fox in the Attic. There is the same sharply detailed delight in life and the same dismaying awareness of how easily the treasures of normalcy can be lost. In both men's work, there is a grave acknowledgment that a child's moral sense and judgment are vastly different from an adult's—and that the consequences of this difference can be enormous. But Hughes, writing fifty years ago, made no sign that he, or his narrator, was aware of the reader's steady gaze. McEwan offers an additional challenge. He makes us ache for the young lovers to be reunited, and Briony—whom we discover is the narrator— seems to grant our wish. But does she? The novel closes with an event postponed for sixty years. As in life, recurrence and familiar places give the narrator a sort of yardstick to gauge the changes in herself. Meanwhile, readers following a story over decades arrive at an apparent conclusion, then see the conclusion neatly undone, all the shining details exposed as invention, all replaced with circumstantial evidence. Clarity has bred not certainty but a sudden, rueful awareness of our own expectations, and of our nature as revealed in what we hope for. —Penelope Mesic | Anchor / Random House |
| 9780060850524 | Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | huxley S Vision Of The Future In His Astonishing 1931 Novel brave New World -- A World Of Tomorrow In Which Capitalist Civilization Has Been Reconstituted Through The Most Efficient Scientific And Psychological Engineering.saturday Review Of Literaturemr. Huxley Is Eloquent In His Declaration Of An Artist's Faith In Man, And It Is His Eloquence, Bitter In Attack, Noble In Defense, That, When One Has Closed The Book, One Remembers. | Harper Perennial |
| 9780553386936 | Charlie St. Cloud: A Novel | Sherwood, Ben | In a snug New England fishing village, Charlie St. Cloud tends the lawns and monuments of an ancient cemetery where his younger brother, Sam, is buried. After surviving the car accident that claimed his brother's life, Charlie is graced with an extraordinary gift: He can see, talk to, and even play catch with Sam's spirit. Into this magical world comes Tess Carroll, a captivating woman training for a solo sailing trip around the globe. Fate steers her boat into a treacherous storm that propels her into Charlie's life. Their beautiful and uncommon connection leads to a race against time and a choice between death and life, between the past and the future, between holding on and letting go — and the discovery that miracles can happen if we simply open our hearts.The Washington PostFans of Sherwood's earlier novel, The Man Who Ate the 747, may enjoy this romantic fantasy of life after death and spirits who remain vigilantly by the sides of the ones they love. Sherwood is an effortless storyteller with a nice rhythm. — Susan Adams | Bantam |
| 0545340810 | College 101, A Read 180 Guide | Don Rauf | A Guide To Aid Teenagers In The Process Of Applying To College In Easy To Understand Steps. They Will Learn How To Prepare Themselves While In High School, The Different Types Of Colleges/schools They Can Apply For, How To Decide What Is Right For Them And What They Need To Do To Apply. Readers Will Follow Three Different Students Through The Process As They Share Their Experiences In Searching For Their Chosen School. | |
| 9780545340816 | College 101, A Read 180 Guide | Don Rauf | A Guide To Aid Teenagers In The Process Of Applying To College In Easy To Understand Steps. They Will Learn How To Prepare Themselves While In High School, The Different Types Of Colleges/schools They Can Apply For, How To Decide What Is Right For Them And What They Need To Do To Apply. Readers Will Follow Three Different Students Through The Process As They Share Their Experiences In Searching For Their Chosen School. | |
| 9780345804341 | Colson Whitehead Collection 3 Books Set (The Nickel Boys, The Underground Railroad, The Colossus Of New York) | Colson Whitehead | Fleet | |
| 9780465017720 | Come Hell Or High Water: Hurricane Katrina And The Color Of Disaster | Dyson, Michael Eric | A searing assessment of the meaning of Hurricane Katrina combining interviews with survivors of the disaster and the historical context that has been sorely missing from public conversation. Publishers Weekly The first major book to be released about Hurricane Katrina, Dyson's volume not only chronicles what happened when, it also argues that the nation's failure to offer timely aid to Katrina's victims indicates deeper problems in race and class relations. Dyson's time lines will surely be disputed, his indictments of specific New Orleans failures defended or whitewashed. But these points are secondary. More important are the larger questions Dyson (Between God and Gangsta Rap, etc.) poses, such as What do politicians sold on the idea of limited governance offer to folk who need, and deserve, the government to come to their aid? Does George Bush care about black people? and Do well-off black people care about poor black people? With its abundance of buzz-worthy coinages, like Aframnesia and Afristocracy, Dyson's populist style sometimes gets too cute. But his contention that Katrina exposed a dominant culture pervaded not only by active malice toward poor blacks but also by a long history of passive indifference to their problems is both powerful and unsettling. Through this history of neglect, Dyson suggests, America has broken its social contract with poor blacks who, since Emancipation, have assumed that government will protect all its citizens. Yet when disaster struck the poor, the cavalry arrived four days late. (Jan. 16) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information. | Civitas Books |
| 9780822509103 | Cooking The Greek Way (Easy Menu Ethnic Cookbooks) | Lynne W. Villios | Lerner Pub Group (L) | |
| 9780345803788 | Crazy Rich Asians (Crazy Rich Asians Trilogy) | Kwan, Kevin | Crazy Rich Asians Is The Outrageously Funny Debut Novel About Three Super-rich, Pedigreed Chinese Families And The Gossip, Backbiting, And Scheming That Occurs When The Heir To One Of The Most Massive Fortunes In Asia Brings Home His Abc (american-born Chinese) Girlfriend To The Wedding Of The Season. When Rachel Chu Agrees To Spend The Summer In Singapore With Her Boyfriend, Nicholas Young, She Envisions A Humble Family Home, Long Drives To Explore The Island, And Quality Time With The Man She Might One Day Marry. What She Doesn't Know Is That Nick's Family Home Happens To Look Like A Palace, That She'll Ride In More Private Planes Than Cars, And That With One Of Asia's Most Eligible Bachelors On Her Arm, Rachel Might As Well Have A Target On Her Back. Initiated Into A World Of Dynastic Splendor Beyond Imagination, Rachel Meets Astrid, The It Girl Of Singapore Society; Eddie, Whose Family Practically Lives In The Pages Of The Hong Kong Socialite Magazines; And Eleanor, Nick's Formidable Mother, A Woman Who Has Very Strong Feelings About Who Her Son Should-and Should Not-marry. Uproarious, Addictive, And Filled With Jaw-dropping Opulence, Crazy Rich Asians Is An Insider's Look At The Asian Jetset; A Perfect Depiction Of The Clash Between Old Money And New Money; Between Overseas Chinese And Mainland Chinese; And A Fabulous Novel About What It Means To Be Young, In Love, And Gloriously, Crazily Rich. | Anchor |