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|  | Persuasion by Ann Mavrolean, Claude Rawson, Gillian Beer, Jane Austen, John Davie
Jane Austen's last and most melancholy novel was posthumously published in 1818. In PERSUASION, Austen presents men and women as moral equals, inverting the conventional roles of hero and heroine, and creates a strong, mature, and independent heroine, Anne Elliot, who spurns the binding reins of paternal authority. She heeded the advice of a friend by breaking off an engagement eight years earlier to Frederick Wentworth, a naval officer who had not yet risen in his profession and was deemed unworthy of her. Anne has always remained in love with him, and has regretted her susceptibility to persuasion; now that Wentworth has become wealthy, the two are able to marry, but only after a series of painful misunderstandings. AUTHOR: Ann Mavrolean, Claude Rawson, Gillian Beer, Jane Austen, John Davie
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction 
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 | Paradise Lost by Alastair Fowler, Anton Lesser, Christopher Ricks, J. M. Evans, John Broadbent
Milton takes the traditional epic and transforms it with the clarity of his moral vision and with the power of his language, turning it into triumphant blank verse--seldom used in his day except in drama--that is moving, exciting, and full of the grandeur of Milton's poetic vision. In the early parts of Paradise Lost , he manages to convey sympathy with Satan's heroic energy. As the epic narrative progresses, however, our allegiance shifts subtly to Christ's message of love and a vision of Paradise free of Satan's destructive strivings. AUTHOR: Alastair Fowler, Anton Lesser, Christopher Ricks, J. M. Evans, John Broadbent
PUBLISHER: N A L
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Armitage's Garden Perennials by A. M. Armitage
This easygoing encyclopedia of perennials is backed up by its author's experience as a plant collector and professor of horticulture, and is illustrated with 1500 photographs. AUTHOR: A. M. Armitage
PUBLISHER: Timber Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Gardening
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 | The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, Vol. II by Christopher J. MacGowan, William Carlos Williams
Williams's poetry is characterized by formal freedom--inspired by the poetry of Walt Whitman--coupled with an imagistic conciseness; like Pound, Williams believed that concrete details need no explanation, that ideas must be embodied in images. His poems are full of everyday objects; they celebrate the ordinary and the seemingly trivial--though they do so in unfamiliar ways and often from a surprising perspective. This volume contains poems spanning three decades in Williams's career. AUTHOR: Christopher J. MacGowan, William Carlos Williams
PUBLISHER: New Directions Publishing Corporation
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Old Man & His Door by Gary Soto, Joe Cepeda
The story of an old man who is very good at some things, like gardening, and not very good at other things, like listening. When his wife asks him to bring el puerco --the main dish--to a barbecue, he thinks she says la puerta and ends up bringing the door of his house. Color illustrations accompany the text. AUTHOR: Gary Soto, Joe Cepeda
PUBLISHER: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Gardens by Intervisual Books Staff
Captures the beauty and tranquillity that gardens impart. AUTHOR: Intervisual Books Staff
PUBLISHER: Andrews McMeel Publishing
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Gardening
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