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Fakes: an anthology of pseudo-interviews, faux-lectures, quasi-letters, "found" texts, and other fraudulent artifacts
Par David Shields, Matthew Vollmer. 2012
Selection of previously published works that parody or satirize common types of writing. Includes a police log showing officers' increasing…
exasperation with their community, a school's alumni newsletter, and a note on typefaces by Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Eating Animals (DB 70373). 2012Theoretical physicist and author of From Eternity to Here (DB 71474) explains the research involved in and the potential impact…
of the 2012 discovery of the Higgs boson, also known as the God particle, that gives particles their mass. Details the role of engineers, theorists, and experimentalists. 2012Classics for pleasure
Par Michael Dirda. 2007
Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic introduces roughly ninety literary authors and recommends some of his favorite works of fantasy, science fiction,…
horror, adventure, biography, history, and poetry. Contains essays on writers Ovid, Petronius, Agatha Christie, and Philip K. Dick and on Arthurian romances and H. Rider Haggard's She. 2007Novelist explores the relationships among five writers of the transcendentalist movement who clustered around the home of wealthy Ralph Waldo…
Emerson in Concord, Massachusetts, during 1840-1868. Highlights their intertwined families and the love affairs that contributed to the creation of their literary masterpieces. 2006Examines Albert Einstein's discoveries in the quantum world, the theory of relativity, and nuclear physics. Discusses the way his theories…
revolutionized scientific thinking about the universe and led to modern inventions, from the atom bomb to cell phones. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2007The science of The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
Par Michael Hanlon. 2008
Using the cosmology and theoretical physics found in Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books as starting points, the…
author discusses alien life, parallel universes, instant translation devices, sentient computers, genetic engineering, space tourism, time travel, and related concepts. 2005Miracles of life: Shanghai to Shepperton : an autobiography
Par J. G. Ballard. 2013
Autobiography of the author of Empire of the Sun (DB 22409). Describes his youth in Shanghai, incarceration in a Japanese…
prison camp, and later life in England. Includes introduction by China Mieville, author of The City and the City (DB 72153). 2008Works cited: an alphabetical odyssey of mayhem and misbehavior (American lives)
Par Brandon R. Schrand. 2013
Creative-writing professor tells his life story using fiction and nonfiction books as markers. References S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders (DB 22433),…
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (DB 16147), and George Orwell's 1984 (DB 34268), among others, as he grows from boy to man. Strong language. 2013A little gay history: desire and diversity across the world
Par R. B. Parkinson. 2013
Parkinson, a British Museum curator of ancient Egyptian culture, surveys the history of art objects representing lesbian, gay, bisexual, and…
transgendered (LGBT) individuals and experiences. Explores the ways changing attitudes toward LGBT individuals have been reflected in recorded history and material culture. 2013Washington Irving: an American original
Par Brian Jay Jones. 2008
Biography of Washington Irving (1783-1859), author of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (DB 51748, BR 8876). Chronicles Irving's New York…
upbringing, his years abroad, the 1809 death of his fiancée, and the publication of the satirical Knickerbocker's History of New York, which secured his literary reputation and celebrity. 2008Don't steal copyrighted stuff!: avoiding plagiarism and illegal Internet downloading
Par Ann Gaines. 2008
Defines plagiarism, copyright, and fair use, specifically applying these legal concepts to students. Discusses research projects, citations, music and software…
downloads, and the permissions process. Provides advice on protecting your own creative work. For junior and senior high readers. 2008Nobody knows my name: more notes of a native son (Vintage International)
Par James Baldwin. 1993
Essays drawn from Baldwin's personal experiences in America and Europe. Baldwin writes about race relations, the writer's role in society,…
a Paris conference of black artists and writers, and his association with novelists Richard Wright and Norman Mailer. Sequel to Notes of a Native Son (RC 33260). 1954Apollo 11: first men on the moon (Pocket space guide)
Par Robert Godwin. 2005
Provides a concise history of humankind's exploration of the Moon--from Greek astronomy to manned space flight. Profiles the three astronauts…
who traveled aboard Apollo 11 and chronicles their 1969 mission. Describes the scientific experiments conducted by the crew and their equipment. For grades 6-9. 2005The adventures of a cello
Par Carlos Prieto. 2006
Internationally acclaimed concert cellist details the history of the Piatti cello, made by Antonio Stradivari in 1720. Chronicles its owners…
and travels from eighteenth-century Italy to twenty-first-century North America. Discusses violin making, cello repertoire, and composers and cellists. 1998Notes of a native son (Beacon Paperback Ser.)
Par James Baldwin. 1984
Collection of autobiographical essays depicting the author's early life in Harlem and his later experiences as an African American living…
abroad. The selections reflect his personal focus on the black experience, calling it "the gate I had to unlock before I could hope to write about anything else." 1955Katherine Anne Porter: the life of an artist (Willie Morris books in memoir and biography)
Par Darlene Harbour Unrue. 2005
Professor uses personal letters to pen a biography of American author Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980). Describes Porter's impoverished childhood and…
numerous unsuccessful marriages as well as her health scares with tuberculosis and the 1918 Spanish flu. Analyzes the political and social conditions that influenced Porter's writing. 2005Here if you need me: a true story
Par Kate Braestrup. 2007
A chaplain for the Maine Warden Service relates being widowed with four children after her state-trooper husband was killed. Explains…
her decision to follow his dream of becoming a Unitarian Universalist minister. Describes her deep faith and comforting of those who lost loved ones. 2007A big little life: a memoir of a joyful dog
Par Dean R. Koontz. 2009
Recalls ways that Trixie, a three-year-old golden retriever and former service dog for Canine Companions for Independence, inspired the lives…
of bestselling novelist Dean Koontz and his wife, Gerda. Details fond and poignant memories of Trixie's short but full life. 2009Kids to space: a space traveler's guide
Par Lonnie Jones Schorer. 2006
Students aged three to eighteen ask questions about planning a trip to the moon or a future orbiting hotel. More…
than eighty experts provide the answers on traveling and living in outer space. Covers astronauts, space exploration, and going into space with disabilities. For grades 5-8 and older readers. 2006The dance of molecules: how nanotechnology is changing our lives
Par Ted Sargent. 2006
Professor provides an overview of nanotechnology, the science of engineering materials at atomic and molecular levels. Describes applications in medicine…
(growing replacement organs), in the environment (developing alternative energy sources), and in information technology (advancing computer and communication science). For senior high and older readers. 2006