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Pandexicon: How the Language of the Pandemic Defined Our New Cultural Reality
Par Wayne Grady. 2023
Did you keep a list of the words coined by Covid? Wayne Grady did! They're deftly woven into a journal/timeline,…
taking us through two years of surrealism and limbo.—Margaret AtwoodThis exploration of the many new terms of the Covid-19 pandemic provides insight into the ways an ever-evolving vocabulary helped us cope with our anxiety and adapt to a new reality When the pandemic struck in early 2020, Wayne Grady started collecting the words and phrases that arose from our shared global experience. Some, such as "uptick" and "pivot," had existed before but now took on new meaning, and others, such as "covidivorce," "quarantini," "covexit," and "shecession," appeared for the first time, their meaning instantly clear. Through this new vocabulary, we became more able to adapt to change, to domesticate it in a sense, and to reduce our fears. Moving from the very beginning of the pandemic (the "Before Times") and our early response to it through the peaks and troughs of the various waves in countries throughout the world, and ending with a contemplation of what the "After Times" might look like, this book takes us on a journey through the pandemic and illuminates both how this new language has unfolded and how it has changed the way we think about ourselves and each other.Welcome, Dark
Par Charis St. Pierre, Rachel Wada. 2022
A stunningly illustrated picture book that introduces young readers to the importance of night as a time for animals to…
thrive, rains to fall, winds to blow and the world to rest.Here there be unicorns
Par Jane Yolen. 1994
This collection of eight poems and ten stories relates tales of the well-known mystical beast in both medieval and traditional…
settings. The story "Unicorn Tapestry" was inspired by two famous unicorn tapestries, the Hunt of the Unicorn and the Lady with the Unicorn. For grades 4-7 and older readersThe 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 3-6The night trilogy
Par Elie Wiesel. 1985
"Night" is the story of a Jewish boy who is deported with his family and community from Hungary to the…
horrors of the infamous Auschwitz. In "Dawn," Elisha, the sole survivor of his family, becomes a Jewish terrorist in Palestine and is ordered to execute an Englishman. In "The Accident," a concentration camp survivor tries to rebuild his life in New York City. Some violence and some descriptions of sexThe figured wheel: new and collected poems, 1966-1996
Par Robert Pinsky. 1996
A compendium of the first four books by the U.S. poet laureate, with twenty-one new poems. The title poem, The…
Figured Wheel, with its image of the wheel of life, illustrates the all-encompassing scope of the poemsMexico: biography of power : a history of modern Mexico, 1810-1996
Par Enrique Krauze. 1997
Krauze depicts the personalities and lives of Mexico's rulers and leaders to present the history of the country. Among the…
men he chronicles are Archduke Maximilian, Emiliano Zapata, Francisco Villa, Lazaro Cardenas, Miguel Aleman, and Gustavo Diaz OrdazSkin deep and other teenage reflections: poems
Par Angela Medearis. 1995
Collection of poems about the problems teenagers face in growing up. Expressing the pride, anger, and loneliness teens often feel,…
the verses cover concerns about school, family, friends, and appearances. For grades 6-9 and older readersAnts on the melon: a collection of poems
Par Virginia Adair. 1996
First collection of poetry from the octogenarian American poet. These eighty-three poems explore a broad range of subject matter and…
are organized into the following sections: "Ants on the Melon," "By Old Maps," "Driving Westward," "The Genesis Strain," "Exit Amor," and "Make Light of Darkness." Some descriptions of sexExtensive collection of poetry featuring the work of fifteen poets, such as Annie Dillard and Daniel Berrigan. Poems are divided…
into the following sections: The Cross, Transformation, Death, Injustice, Presence, God's Body, Fools, Wayfarers, Love, The Dark, Grace, Praise, The Mystical Body, Sacrament, The Leap, and HolyEven in quiet places: poems
Par William Stafford. 1996
Posthumous collection of four chapbooks from 1990 to 1995 by an award-winning poet. Stafford's poem "Pretty Good Day" supplies the…
line for the title Even in Quiet Places, which alludes to secluded areas of retreat. Nature is an important force in many of Stafford's poems. Contains an afterword by Stafford's son, Kim, who is his literary executorNew & selected poems
Par Donald Justice. 1995
Works of Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet written between 1959 and 1995. Includes selections from The Summer Anniversaries (1960), Night Light…
(1967), Departures (1973), Selected Poems (1979), and The Sunset Maker (1987), as well as a group of more recent poemsThe ballot box battle
Par Emily McCully. 1996
In 1880 the elderly feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton tells her young friend Cordelia about her efforts to win for women…
the right to vote. Cordelia listens to her neighbor's talk of women's suffrage even though she doesn't believe it has anything to do with her. Then Mrs. Stanton tells a story from her own childhood. For grades 4-7Sonnets from the Portuguese: a celebration of love
Par Elizabeth Browning. 1986
These forty-four sonnets by the Victorian author were probably written mostly during her courtship with Robert Browning. They represent one…
of the most famous sonnet sequences executed in English and include the well-known "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." For high school and older readersEdna St. Vincent Millay: selected poems : the centenary edition
Par Edna St. Vincent Millay. 1991
This gathering of poems begins with "Renascence," a poem Millay entered in a contest in 1912 and that brought her…
immediate recognition. The simplicity and accessibility that sometimes prompted critics to pass over her poems is the very skill that also created her appeal and made her work popular for nearly forty years. Her lyricism is discussed in an extensive introductionResurrection: the struggle for a new Russia
Par David Remnick. 1997
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist describes the post-Cold War struggle to establish a new Russian state. He provides close-up portraits and detailed…
reporting on war-torn Chechnya, the return of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and the reelection of Boris Yeltsin in 1996. He argues for greater Western involvement in Moscow's haphazard efforts to control corruption and entrench democratic freedomsSlaughterhouse: Bosnia and the failure of the West
Par David Rieff. 1995
Depicts persecution and genocide of the Muslims in Bosnia starting in 1992. Decries the acquiescence of Western nations in failing…
to intervene and the inaction of United Nations peacekeepers who simply enforce the status quo. Strong language and violenceBlake
Par Peter Ackroyd. 1996
Life of the eighteenth-century English poet, painter, and engraver who died in 1827. Ackroyd examines the influence of William Blake's…
dissenting parents on his philosophical and religious views. He also frames the complex and challenging body of Blake's work, which went largely unnoticed in his lifetime, within the great social and political changes of his eraThe collected poems
Par Reynolds Price. 1997
The South's well-known contemporary writer combines three of his older works of poetry with an additional collection. The latter poems…
were written after his near-fatal bout with spinal cancer. Throughout the work are themes of friendship, family, and deathSnakes and ladders: glimpses of India
Par Gita Mehta. 1997
Essays depicting the contrasts and disparities in modern Indian society. Describes a land that, during its fifty years of independence,…
has become a progressive, capitalist nation yet retains its traditional religious and cultural diversity. Touches on politics, religion, art, and other facets of the world's largest democracy