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The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Par Robert Browning. 1993
Folktale in verse. The town of Hamelin employs a mysterious piper to save them from a plague of rats. When…
the townspeople refuse to pay him for his work, the piper takes magical revenge. For grades 3-6Intimate worlds: life inside the family
Par Maggie Scarf. 1995
Analyzes the family structure using the Beaver Family Systems model. The system classifies groups in levels from severely disturbed to…
optimally adjusted. Scarf interviewed four families to illustrate her theories. She also discusses bonding and relationship boundariesRemember laughter: a life of James Thurber
Par Neil Grauer. 1994
Biography of the twentieth-century American humorist best known for his stories and cartoons featured in the New Yorker in the…
1930s and 1940s. Thurber, who published most of his writing after the onset of blindness in the early 1940s, was renowned for such works as My Life and Hard Times (RC 21038) and Thurber Carnival (RC 18374). Some strong languageInventing Mark Twain: the lives of Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Par Andrew Hoffman. 1997
Life of the beloved American writer and humorist who died in 1910 at the age of seventy-four. Hoffman explores the…
persona of Clemens's alter ego Mark Twain, an idealized public image used not only as a vehicle for self-promotion but also to rewrite a painful past. Some strong languageThe three Theban plays (Penguin classics)
Par Sophocles. 1984
Plays from the fifth century B.C. In Oedipus the King, a young man is warned by an oracle that he…
will kill his father and marry his mother. Oedipus at Colonus describes how the people of Thebes seek the return of the aged exile. In Antigone, the new king of Thebes refuses to permit his nephew's burial. Antigone defies his edict and suffers the consequencesTanglewood tales (Airmont classics)
Par Nathaniel Hawthorne. 1968
Even the stars look lonesome
Par Maya Angelou. 1997
Twenty essays on topics such as aging, fame, family, marriages, sexuality, and Africa. In "A House Can Hurt, a Home…
Can Heal," Angelou discusses how her marriage breakup was related to her house, and the contentment she felt in her new home. Some descriptions of sex. BestsellerThe social contract
Par Jean-Jacques Rousseau. 1947
How to travel with a salmon & other essays
Par Umberto Eco. 1994
Forty-one pieces give Eco's curmudgeonly commentaries on the follies of modern life. His topics include telegrams, fax machines and celluar…
phones, private and public libraries, and sequels. One lengthy parody entitled "Stars and Stripes" is a science fiction tale of intergalactic sex and espionage. Some violence and some descriptions of sexThe portable Emerson (The Viking portable library)
Par Ralph Emerson. 1946
Selections from the works of essayist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882). Includes his first published work, Nature, which contains…
the essence of his transcendentalist philosophy; his address to the Phi Beta Kappa society at Harvard, "The American Scholar"; and his controversial address to the graduating class of the Cambridge Divinity School in 1838. Also includes other essays and twenty-two poemsA devil in paradise
Par Henry Miller. 1993
Sequel to Saved by the Light (RC 38855, BR 9540). Brinkley tells how he adjusted to the psychic ability he…
acquired after his near-death experiences and found his life's mission in helping hospice patients face deathThe Idylls
Par Theocritus. 1988
English translations of verse by Theocritus, a Greek born in Sicily around 300 B.C. His works range from bucolic idylls…
depicting the simple lives of country herdsmen, to mythological narratives, to accounts of urban affairs in the city of Alexandria. These poems helped inspire the development of later European literatureOscar Wilde (Lives of notable gay men and lesbians)
Par Jeff Nunokawa. 1995
Shows how Wilde achieved fame in London as a poet, playwright, and the author of The Picture of Dorian Gray…
(BR 9281), though he was later imprisoned for his homosexuality. Born in 1854 to a prominent Irish family, Wilde first gained notoriety at Oxford for his flamboyant manner and nontraditional religious views. For senior high and older readersA course in miracles: combined volume
Par Foundation for Inner Peace. 1996
Designed to help readers increase awareness of love in their lives. Explains theoretical concepts on which the course is based…
and includes a workbook with lessons for each day of the year and a teacher's manual. Subject of Return to Love (BR 09979)The jazz age
Par F. Fitzgerald. 1931
Five autobiographical essays depicting the exuberant, sybaritic years of the Jazz Age. Written during the Great Depression, the stories wistfully…
reflect on the excesses and abandon of the 1920s with a sense of disappointment, passing youth, and paradise lostAnatomy of restlessness: selected writings, 1969-1989
Par Bruce Chatwin. 1996
Seventeen pieces--essays, short stories, book reviews, and writings on travel--by the noted journalist and author. Chatwin explores themes of nomadism…
and exile in "I Always Wanted to Go to Patagonia," "The Attractions of France," "Bedouins," and "The Nomadic Alternative." Some strong language and some descriptions of sexThis sequel to Wishcraft (RC 14031, BR 4309) offers practical advice and techniques for discovering one's true likes and aspirations…
and for overcoming common obstacles to finding and living the "good life."Finish strong: living the values that take you the distance
Par Richard Capen. 1996
Capen identifies personal values that lead to success and that benefit family and community. Each chapter focuses on a specific…
value--such as character, humility, and optimism--and includes comments from political, business, and spiritual leaders like Barbara Jordan and John GardnerThe road less traveled and beyond: spiritual growth in an age of anxiety
Par M. Peck. 1997
In this sequel to Further Along the Road Less Traveled (RC 37302, BR 9391), Peck offers additional ways in which…
people can lead more fulfilling lives in a world full of stress and anxiety, and discusses how "we can come to exist in a closer relationship to the Holy."