Grendel

This classic and much lauded retelling of Beowulf follows the monster Grendel as he learns about humans and fights the war at the center of the Anglo Saxon classic epic. The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic Beowulf , tells his own side of the story in this frequently banned book. This is the novel William Gass called "one of the finest of our…

The New Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness

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9781620971932

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377 p. : 22 cm.

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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9781982110994

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218 p. : 22 cm.

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CURIOS QUESTIONS & ANSWERS ABOUT THE ICE AGE

Do you have a lot of curious question? This book is full of amazing answer! Humorous illustrations and astounding facts explore all that is wild, wonderful and downrigth weird about the ice age.

AROUND THE WORLD 80 MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

Come on a journey around the globe to explore a musical cave, peek inside a piano and find out how to play an instrument without touching it. From ancient instruments made from shells to instruments that make music with lightning, discover an orchestra of instruments you can shake, pluck, scrape, hit and blow-and how you can make your own. Learn how instruments are used in celebrations, ceremon…

The Book of Time Adventures in The Past, Present, Future and Beyond

What, exactly, is time? Why does it sometimes seem to speed up or slow down? Is time on earth the same as time on mars? And is it possible to travel through time? This book holds the answer to these questions, and many more!

WELCOME TO THE FUTURE

In the future, will we teleport from place to place, keep dinosaurs as pets, or 3D-print our dinner? Will we live on Mars or upload our brains to computers? Could we solve climate change by making all our energy from mini stars we build here on earth? In this book, you'll meet the scientists working to bring science fiction to life and learn how soon we might have amazing new technology. You'll…

MILLIONS OF CATS

Once upon a time, an old man and old woman lived in a charming little house with so many beautiful flowers but they were not happy. they felt lonely, if only had a cat said the old woman sadly a cat ? asked the old man. An Old Man wanted to give a cat to his wife. He found one, two, three, then ... tens, hundreds, thousands, even millions of cats! He had a hard time choosing between them. F…

HOW TO MAKE A PICTURE BOOK

Ever dreamed of making your own picture book? Award-winning author Elys Dolan is here to show you how! Join ELys (the worm*) and her trusty sidekick Bert in a hilarious picture-book making adventure.

The Bee Sting

The Bee Sting , Paul Murray’s exuberantly entertaining new novel, is a tour de a portrait of postcrash Ireland, a tragicomic family saga, and a dazzling story about the struggle to be good at the end of the world.

Night

Night offers much more than a litany of the daily terrors, everyday perversions, and rampant sadism at Auschwitz and Buchenwald; it also eloquently addresses many of the philosophical as well as personal questions implicit in any serious consideration of what the Holocaust was, what it meant, and what its legacy is and will be.

The Things They Carried

The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three.

Dawn

Elisha is a young Jewish man, a Holocaust survivor, and an Israeli freedom fighter in British-controlled Palestine; John Dawson is the captured English officer he will murder at dawn in retribution for the British execution of a fellow freedom fighter. The night-long wait for morning and death provides Dawn, Elie Wiesel's ever more timely novel, with its harrowingly taut, hour-by-hour narrative…

A Raisin in the Sun

Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of black America--and changed American theater forever. The play's title comes from a line in Langston Hughes's poem "Harlem," which warns that a dream deferred might "dry up/like a raisin in the sun."

A Man Called Ove

A word-of-mouth bestseller that has caused a sensation across Europe, Fredrik Backman's irresistible novel about the angry old man next door is an uplifting exploration of the unreliability of first impressions and a gentle reminder that life is sweeter when it is shared with other people.

Nursery Rhymes

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9780709713050

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The Bears Autumn

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9780673805478

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What is a Wedding?

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9781402736483

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Draw the World!

The world is full of patterns and pictures. So pick up a pencil and draw the world!

The Stationery Shop of Tehran

Roya loves nothing better than to while away the hours in the stationery shop run by Mr Fakhri. The store, stocked with fountain pens, shiny ink bottles, and thick wads of writing paper, also carries translations of literature from all over the world. Bahman, with his burning passion for justice, is like no one else she has ever met. But all around them, as their relationship blossoms, life …

Life in Java : with sketches of the Javanese; volume 1

Experience life in Java through the eyes of W. Barrington D'Almeida, a British colonial officer stationed on the island in the late 19th century. This book provides an insightful look at Javanese culture and society, as well as the complexities of colonial rule. Featuring stunning illustrations and vivid descriptions, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in Southeast Asian history and…

The Once and Future King

Once upon a time, a young boy called “Wart” was tutored by a magician named Merlyn in preparation for a future he couldn’t possibly imagine. A future in which he would ally himself with the greatest knights, love a legendary queen and unite a country dedicated to chivalrous values. A future that would see him crowned and known for all time as Arthur, King of the Britons.

Turtles All the Way Down

Sixteen-year-old Aza is trying to be a good daughter, a good friend and a good student. She's also trying to track down fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, who has vanished without a trace. Alongside her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, Aza sets off in pursuit of the truth - and the $100,000 reward.

Beartown

Cut-off from everywhere else it experiences the kind of isolation that tears people apart. And each year more and more of the town is swallowed by the forest. Then the town is offered a bright new future. But it is all put in jeopardy by a single, brutal act. It divides the town into those who think it should be hushed up and forgotten, and those who'll risk the future to see justic…

The Namesake

Meet the Ganguli family, new arrivals from Calcutta, trying their best to become Americans even as they pine for home. The name they bestow on their firstborn, Gogol, betrays all the conflicts of honoring tradition in a new world—conflicts that will haunt Gogol on his own winding path through divided loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs.

Crime and Punishment

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9780679734505

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592 p. : 20 cm.

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His Dark Materials

Northern Lights introduces Lyra, an orphan, who lives in a parallel universe in which science, theology and magic are entwined. Lyra's search for a kidnapped friend uncovers a sinister plot involving stolen children and turns into a quest to understand a mysterious phenomenon called Dust. In The Subtle Knife she is joined on her journey by Will, a boy who possesses a knife that can cut windows …

A Vindication of the Rights of Women

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman , written by British philosopher and women's rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), is one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. In it, Wollstonecraft responds to those educational and political theorists of the eighteenth century who did not believe women should receive a rational education. She argues that women ought to have an education…

Pygmalion

This play is based on the Greek myth of Pygmalion. It tells the story of Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics (based on phonetician Henry Sweet), who makes a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering that he can successfully pass off a Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, as a refined society lady by teaching her how to speak with an upper class accent and training her in etiquette. In the proc…

The Buddha in the Attic

The Story of a group of young women brought from Japan to San Francisco as "picture brides" nearly a century ago. In eight unforgettable sections, The Buddha in the Attic traces the extraordinary lives of these women, from their arduous journeys by boat, to their arrival in San Francisco and their tremulous first nights as new wives; from their experiences raising children who would later rejec…