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Annotations
by John Keene"Genius—brilliant, polished and of considerable depth." —Ishmael Reed An experimental first novel of poem-like compression, Annotations has a great deal to say about growing up Black in St. Louis. Reminiscent of Jean Toomer’s Cane, the book is in part a meditation on African-American autobiography. Keene explores questions of identity from many angles—from race to social class to sexuality (gay and straight). Employing all manner of textual play and rhythmic and rhetorical maneuvers, he (re)creates his life story as a jazz fugue-in-words.
Annotations
by John Keene"Genius—brilliant, polished and of considerable depth." —Ishmael Reed An experimental first novel of poem-like compression, Annotations has a great deal to say about growing up Black in St. Louis. Reminiscent of Jean Toomer’s Cane, the book is in part a meditation on African-American autobiography. Keene explores questions of identity from many angles––from race to social class to sexuality (gay and straight). Employing all manner of textual play and rhythmic and rhetorical maneuvers, he (re)creates his life story as a jazz fugue-in-words.
Annotations to William Faulkner's 'The Hamlet' (Routledge Library Editions: The American Novel #7)
by Catherine D. HolmesThe annotations in this volume, originally published in 1996, intend to assist the reader of Faulkner’s The Hamlet to understand obscure or difficult words and passages, including literary allusions, dialect, and historical events that Faulkner uses or alludes to. This title will be of great interest to students of literature.
Announcements: On Novelty (SUNY series, Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory)
by Kristina MendicinoWalter Benjamin claimed that the notion of novelty took on unprecedented importance with the growth of high capitalism in the nineteenth century. In this book, Kristina Mendicino analyzes a selection of canonical texts that reflect profound concern with novelty and its apparent contrary, the eternal return of the same, including Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Baudelaire's lyric and prose poetry, and Marx and Engels's Communist Manifesto. She also addresses Eternity by the Stars by Louis-Auguste Blanqui, who is less well known and often underestimated in considerations of his significance for revolutionary political theory.Mendicino argues that the notion of a novum cannot be understood without attentiveness to the language of announcement, not least of all because the "new" has always been associated with a particular mode of linguistic performance. Through close readings of emphatically annunciatory texts, she demonstrates how the extreme possibilities of expression that they present through specific citational and rhetorical praxes render the language of announcement overdetermined and anachronistic in ways that exceed any systematic account of historical time and experience. This excess in and through language is precisely what opens hitherto unheard of alternatives for conceiving of historical temporality and political possibility.
An Annoying ABC
by Barbara BottnerImagine a preschool classroom with 25 cranky kids and one beleaguered teacher. It only takes one small annoying act from Adelaide to set off a chain reaction of bad behavior. Dexter is drooling, Flora is fuming, Jasper is jeering, Kirby is kicking . . . and before you know it, Stella is stumbling, Todd is tumbling, and Winthrop is weeping. Oh, oh, oh! What will it take to turn this annoying day around? Readers will be amazed and amused to see what happens when Adelaide . . . apologizes.Barbara Bottner and Michael Emberley follow up their bestselling Miss Brooks Loves Books! (and I Don't) with this outrageously funny alphabet book that shows that kindness can be contagious, too.
An Annoying ABC: Read & Listen Edition
by Barbara BottnerImagine a preschool classroom with 25 cranky kids and one beleaguered teacher. It only takes one small annoying act from Adelaide to set off a chain reaction of bad behavior. Kids will want to read and listen along to all of the commotion. Dexter is drooling, Flora is fuming, Jasper is jeering, Kirby is kicking . . . and before you know it, Stella is stumbling, Todd is tumbling, and Winthrop is weeping. Oh, oh, oh! What will it take to turn this annoying day around? Readers will be amazed and amused to see what happens when Adelaide . . . apologizes. Barbara Bottner and Michael Emberley follow up their bestselling Miss Brooks Loves Books (and I Don't) with this outrageously funny alphabet book that shows that kindness can be contagious, too.This ebook includes Read & Listen audio narration.
The Annoying Crush
by Ray O'Ryan Jason KraftThe Super Advanced Robotic Assistant (SARA) develops an annoying crush on Zack in this Galaxy Zack chapter book adventure.Zack can't wait to test out Sara, the new Super Advanced Robotic Assistant that his dad's been working on. At first she's great and super helpful! Sara helps Mom unpack clothes for her store at lightning speed. She plays catch with Luna. And she turns into a one-bot band for the twins. But when Sara develops a huge crush on Zack, the fun is over! Can Zack figure out a way to fix this mixed-up robot? With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, the Galaxy Zack chapter books are perfect for beginning readers.
The Annoying Team
by Ilene CooperTim has a big problem. A big, tall problem named Jon. Jon always teases Tim. Then Tim gets the idea to start the Annoying Team. With the help of other kids who hate being picked on, Tim can bug Jon back. But will being annoying ever get . . . annoying? From the Trade Paperback edition.
Annoying the Victorians
by James KincaidWhat happens when bad criticism happens to good people? Annoying the Victorians sets the tradition of critical discourse and literary criticism on its ear, as well as a few other areas. James Kincaid brings his witty, erudite and thoroughly cynical self to the Victorians, and they will never read (or be read) quite the same.
Anns Krieg – Verrat
by Hannah HoweDie Krimireihe Anns Krieg Die Krimireihe Anns Krieg ist eine Reihe aus fünf Erzählungen, die in den Jahren 1944 bis 1945 spielen. Jede Geschichte ist circa 15.000 Wörter lang und beinhaltet einen in sich abgeschlossenen Fall. Die Geschichten sind: Betrayal (Verrat), Invasion (Invasion), Blackmail (Erpressung), Escape (Flucht) und Victory (Sieg). Der Handlungsbogen wird über die gesamte Reihe aufgebaut und findet seinen Abschluss im fünften Buch, Victory. Verrat Während ihr Mann auf einer streng geheimen Mission ist, macht sich Ann Morgan für einen weiteren Tag als Sekretärin in Trevor Bowmans Detektivbüro bereit. Aber dieser Tag wird alles andere als alltäglich werden. Innerhalb von 24 Stunden wird Anns Leben auf den Kopf gestellt, denn sie findet eine Leiche, trifft den gut aussehenden Witwer Detective Inspector Max Deveraux und stellt den Mörder in einer Geschichte voller Versuchungen und Lügen.
Ann's Spring
by Claudio HernándezPeter has an erotic dream and wakes up dripping with sweat from every pore. Sheriff Burt calls him and tells him that a friend of Ann's has been found murdered, lying on some flowers. The body shows few signs of violence and only one detail, her neck is cut like the stem of a flower. Her eyes, open, look at the sky with the only hope of dying in peace. In Boad Hill the nightmare has returned again, but this time it is not Jack Feet of Feathers, nor any imitator. This time there is insanity over the bodies that will appear throughout the spring of roses, as Sheriff Burt Duchamp calls it, who once again resorts to the power of Peter to clarify the deaths. Peter's "glow" sees love, madness and obsession in every murder. The face of the killer -at first- is that of Ann, his beloved in secret, but who is gaining ground in the difficult art of love. However, he knows it can’t be her. Therefore, he never names her. When they are finally together, as friends, he tells her the following; I know what you need, and then I know it’s not you. Peter’s gift plays on him now, bad tricks, seeing himself as the new killer since, he has some intimate clothing of all the victims in the drawers of his bedside table in his room. The friendship with Denny grows and he comes to confess that he sees himself lifting a scalpel straight at the neck of young women, closer to his age than high school students.
Ann's Story, 1747
by Joan Lowery NixonAnn McKenzie loves living in Williamsburg. All of her family and friends are nearby, and there's always something exciting happening in the colonial capital. Now that she's 9 years old, it's time for Ann to start acting like a proper young woman, learning how to knit, to cook, and to manage a household. She prefers assisting her father, Dr. McKenzie, with his patients and working in his apothecary. Ann knows it's unheard of for a woman to be a doctor. But there must be some way for her to care for people in the way her father does.
The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild
by Mathias ÉnardFrom the winner of the Prix Goncourt, an exciting comic masterwork rooted in the French countryside. To research his thesis on contemporary agrarian life, anthropology student David Mazon moves from Paris to La Pierre-Saint-Christophe, a village in the marshlands of western France. Determined to understand the essence of the local culture, the intrepid young scholar scurries around restlessly on his moped to interview residents. But what David doesn’t yet know is that here, in this seemingly ordinary place, once the stage for wars and revolutions, Death leads a dance: when one thing perishes, the Wheel of Life recycles its soul and hurls it back into the world as microbe, human, or wild animal, sometimes in the past, sometimes in the future. And once a year, Death and the living observe a temporary truce during a gargantuan three-day feast where gravediggers gorge themselves on food, drink, and language. Brimming with Mathias Énard’s characteristic wit and encyclopedic brilliance, The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild is a riotous novel where the edges between past and present are constantly dissolving against a Rabelaisian backdrop of excess.
Annual World's Best Science Fiction 1975
by Donald A. WollheimTOP NOTCH RELIABLE AUTHENTIC EXCELLENT BEST OF THE BEST HIGHLY RECOMMENDED These are just a few of the favorable comments made by reviewers about this series in past years. They will be made again for this prime and authentic selection of the superior science fiction stories of the year past. It is a DAW tradition that the "World's Best" is not merely the first of its kind each year but that it holds up as the most solidly certain selection of the finest and most memorable science fiction stories by the writers, old and new, of the highest talent. THE 1975 ANNUAL WORLD'S BEST SF is always what its name implies. A DAW BOOKS ORIGINAL-- NEVER BEFORE IN PAPERBACK
Annulments (Colorado Prize for Poetry)
by Zach SavichWinner of the 2010 Colorado Prize for Poetry Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University
Annulments
by Zach SavichWinner of the 2010 Colorado Prize for Poetry. "It is the poet who, undistracted by the imbecile telegraphy of this moment, dares to sustain a sustaining sound I most esteem and most warmly embrace. Zach Savich has written a book both intimate and vast, both tender and acidly candid. And with his long poem, 'The Mountains Overhead,' he has entered that visionary company of poets who, by overturning Babel, lay the heavens at our feet." --Donald Revell "Sparse, spare, these lines nonetheless overflow with a sheer and brilliant imagination- 'The crows: hearing our voices through wires'; 'the horses hold themselves like torches'; 'the sun a dial tone . . .' The tension between minimalism of form and maximalism of concept and feeling gives this work a vivid, oddly crystalline, momentum. The central long poem unfolds one small leaf at a time, yet resists accumulation; instead it presents us again and again with the opportunity to immerse ourselves in the slightly uncanny: what would it be to sing instead of to say? This book gives us an intimation." --Cole Swensen
The Annunciation of Francesca Dunn: A Novel
by Janis HallowellA remarkable debut novel that 'dares us to imagine mystery in our lives, in our time㿠book that sends us away refreshed, with the potential to see the sacramental in the everyday' – Boston Globe Told from the viewpoints of four unforgettable characters, The Annunciation of Francesca Dunn is the story of an ordinary girl who is believed to be a modern–day Holy Virgin. At the heart of the story is Francesca: a shy and moody teenager hungry for her absent father's love, she is frightened and intoxicated by her sudden elevation to the rank of divine. Chester is a visionary homeless man who first 'discovers' Francesca and makes himself her protector. Anne is Francesca's no–nonsense mother, whose religion is Darwin and biology. Sid is Francesca's troubled friend, who keeps a few secrets of her own. Tender and tragic, their intersecting stories probe the need to believe, and the relationship between divinity and madness. Beautifully crafted, here is a compelling first novel that heralds the arrival of a powerful new talent.
Annus Horribilis
by J. F. González EgidoEl camino más oscuro al que podía llevarle el amor. Elisabeth no llega a comprender por qué Adam, el viejo comerciante de Bristol que la crio y que ahora agoniza, se obceca en revelarle los pormenores de la muerte de sus padres. A través de manuscritos que se remontan a la fatídica fecha de 1666, que trajo a Inglaterra la guerra, la peste y el fuego de Londres; descubrirá cómo la vida de sus progenitores dio un vuelco al intentar entrometerse en el negocio de Christopher Harris, un bronco tratante de esclavos. Un viaje de amor e infortunio desde Bristol, boyante por el creciente tráfico de esclavos, hasta un decadente Londres amenazado por la sombra de la plaga.
Anny and Allie
by Nicole RubelThe author of the popular Rotten Ralph series &“spotlights a common identical-twin dilemma: when people can&’t tell you apart&” (Kirkus Reviews). Even though identical twins Anny and Allie are different in many ways, there is much confusion as to who&’s who. Anny and Allie come to the rescue with humorous results. Young readers follow the twins as they dream up a series of imaginative and hilarious plans to help teachers, friends, and family tell them apart—and discover how lucky they are to have each other along the way! Children&’s author Nicole Rubel—an identical twin herself—knows a lot about being a twin. Anny and Allie explores the subject of treating twins as individuals in a humorous new way, creating twice the fun for twins and non-twins alike! Children and parents chuckle through this imaginative story that helps teachers, friends, and family tell twins apart.
Anny's Mirrors
by Nancy E. Walker-GuyeAnny finds mirrors everywhere: in her mother's room, her spoon, her pot, and a puddle!
Año 1: Renegado (Academia del Ángel Guardián #1)
by Tamara Hart HeinerEl mal existe. Lo sé, fui creado a partir de él. Los ángeles nos llaman Renegados. Nosotros nos llamamos los Desamparados. Porque fuimos abandonados por el cielo y todos los seres celestiales, sometidos a vivir en la miseria en el infierno. Pero me las arreglé para entrar en la Academia del Ángel de la Guarda. Y es el momento de la venganza. Bienvenido a la Academia del Ángel de la Guarda. Año 1: Renegado es el primer libro de una nueva y emocionante serie de academia de ángeles paranormal para adolescentes/YA con un romance de enemigos a amantes de fuego lento. Perfecto para los fans de Supernatural Academy, Dark Angel Academy, Shadowspell Academy y Evermore Academy.
Año 1601 (Flash Relatos #Volumen)
by Mark TwainConsiderada obscena y tachada de pornográfica, Año 1601 es un cuento breve e irreverente, una «obra maestra casi desconocida» del genial Mark Twain. Reunidos en el camarín de una ya anciana reina Isabel I, una serie de personajes selectos, la mayoría tan ancianos como ella, charlan al amor de la lumbre: sir Walter Raleigh, el pirata; Francis Bacon, el filósofo; Ben Jonson y su joven discípulo, Francis Beaumonte; ladies, condesas y duquesas, y el asombroso maestro Shakespeare. ¿De qué pueden estar hablando? ¿De las glorias pretéritas del pirata, de la interpretación de la vida del filósofo, de los ingenios del arte...? Pues no, señoras y señores, la conversación es más banal, irreverente, rijosa y «maloliente» de lo que podría esperarse en tan excelso grupo y en el Siglo de Oro inglés... Divertimento, crítica a las convenciones literarias, engoladas y timoratas, de su época, una sátira contra el clero marca de la casa, chiste fácil... Todo esto es Año 1601, una obra que surgió como una broma entre amigos y sin firma, y circuló en ediciones privadas, muy privadas, hasta bien entrado el siglo XX.
Año 2: Redención (Academia del Ángel Guardián #2)
by Tamara Hart HeinerLos traicioné a todos. Entregué la daga al inframundo. Y sin embargo, los maestros de la academia no me expulsaron. A veces parece que han olvidado quién soy. Lo que soy. Cuando los arcángeles me ofrecen la oportunidad de ir a la tierra, la aprovecho. Significa que aprenderé más sobre la mortalidad. Cómo relacionarse con los humanos. Y significa que podré pasar más tiempo con Maalik. Excepto que la tierra es peligrosa. La tierra tiene tentaciones. La tierra es confusa. Y a no sé lo que está bien o mal. Y puede que acabo de marcar el comienzo de la Gran Guerra. Bienvenidos a la Academia Ángel de la Guarda. Año 2: Redención es el segundo libro de una nueva y emocionante serie de academias de ángeles paranormales para adolescentes/YA con un romance lento de enemigos a amantes. Perfecto para los fanáticos de Supernatural Academy, Dark Angel Academy, Shadowspell Academy y Evermore Academy.
Un Año Con Melissa
by Marcela Gutiérrez Bravo Alessandro Caselli Marzia BosoniRespeto por el ambiente, por los animales y por nosotros mismos, eso es de lo que tratan los diálogos entre Melissa, una niña de seis años con muchos deseos de comprender el mundo, y el Señor Gato, un sagaz gato vagabundo. Seis historias para contar un año de vida de la niña y para compartir un poco de la sabiduría que el gato ha reunido por las calles del mundo. Entre una historia y la otra, el gato se dirige a los padres y a los adultos en general para pedirles también a ellos el detenerse un momento y reflexionar sobre temas importantes de ecología, dolor y amistad. Un libro para niños, pero también un libro para grandes que saben todavía encontrar tiempo para hablar con los pequeños. Y con los gatos.
El año de gracia
by Kim LiggettEntre El cuento de la criada y El señor de las moscas, esta narración distópica explora hábilmente la psique de las adolescentes obligadas a vivir en una teocracia represiva En el condado de Garner, donde está prohibido hablar del "año de gracia", las niñas crecen convencidas de que al alcanzar la adolescencia su piel exhala una potente esencia de juventud que, gracias a sus poderes afrodisíacos, es capaz de seducir a los hombres y matar de celos a las mujeres. A fin de purificar esa magia sin dañar a nadie y poder regresar a casa listas para el matrimonio, las adolescentes son expulsadas del lugar y confinadas en plena naturaleza durante un año. Sin embargo, no todas vuelven... Aunque en el condado de Garner están prohibidos los sueños y cualquier cosa que pueda ofrecer privacidad y esperanza a las chicas, Tierney James, una joven de dieciséis años que está a punto de tener que cumplir su año de gracia y anhela una sociedad libre de disputas entre amigos y entre mujeres, descubrirá que el mayor peligro que deben enfrentar las adolescentes en su situación no radica en la naturaleza salvaje ni en los elementos, ni siquiera en los cazadores furtivos que se dedican a secuestrarlas para hacer una pequeña fortuna en el mercado negro, sino en la rivalidad y el enfrentamiento entre ellas. Con prosa afilada y descarnado realismo, El año de gracia examina las complejas, y a menudo tortuosas, relaciones entre jóvenes y las difíciles decisiones que deben tomar para convertirse en mujeres. Reseñas:«El envolvente relato de Liggett entrelaza sin aparente esfuerzo elementos de terror con una desgarradora y sorprendente historia de supervivencia. [...] Los mayores cambios comienzan a menudo con las rebeliones más pequeñas, y la conclusión calará hondo. Un libro conmovedor, inquietante y, por desgracia, extraordinariamente oportuno.»Kirkus Reviews «De lectura obligada.»Bustle «Una historia muy entretenida y muy relevante para los tiempos que corren.»Criminal Element «Inquietante, desgarrador, oportuno y atemporal, este thriller distópico, rico en detalles, no resulta fácil de leer, pero es imposible de dejar.»Common Sense Media «El año de gracia es un libro para cualquier mujer que alguna vez haya gritado a pleno pulmón y aun así se haya sentido ignorada. Un libro para cada persona que alguna vez se haya sentido pequeña o invisible. Un libro para todos nosotros a los que se nos ha dicho que nos sentemos y nos estemos en silencio, que sonriamos y aguantemos. La cautivadora historia de Tierney me recordó que a veces existir es en sí mismo un acto de valentía, y la existencia de este libro es un acto de coraje por el que estoy muy agradecida. Brutalmente inteligente, devastadoramente lírico, e Importante con i mayúscula, ¡quiero que todos lean este libro!»Jasmine Warga «Una novela visceral; todo un delirio febril, oscuro e inquietante, de apasionante lectura. [...] Liggett explora con brillantez el alto coste de un mundo misógino que niega el poder a las mujeres [...]. No pude dejar de leer.»Libba Bray «Este libro [...] desgarrador y absolutamente fascinante [...] renueva por completo el concepto de la distopía patriarcal.»Melissa Albert «Un libro para cualquier mujer que alguna vez haya gritado a pleno pulmón y aun así se haya sentido ignorada; para cualquiera que alguna vez se haya sentido pequeño o invisible; para todos nosotros, a quienes se nos ha dicho que nos sentemos y permanezcamos en silencio, que sonriamos y aguantemos. ¡Quiero que todo el mundo lo lea!»Jasmine Warga «Una historia [...] muy apropiada para los tiempos que corren.»Criminal Element