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|  | Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee
A comprehensive and magisterial biography of Virginia Woolf that emphasizes the reality of her life: her personal characteristics; her relationships with parents, husband, and friends; and the contradictions in her character. Lee is especially good at sifting objectively through the myths to get at the truth--and if the facts are vague or incomplete, she admirably resists the temptation to form conclusions. AUTHOR: Hermione Lee
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction 
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 | Haiku by Hiroe Nakata, Miriam Chaikin
These poems, which echo the haiku tradition of Japanese poetry, spin through the cycle of one day, celebrating the rapturous beauties of nature. Twenty-eight poems accompanied by ink-and-watercolor illustrations. AUTHOR: Hiroe Nakata, Miriam Chaikin
PUBLISHER: Holt, Henry & Company, LLC
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson, Thomas H. Johnson
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the man of letters to whom Emily Dickinson first entrusted her poems, was dumbfounded by them, and asked, What place ought to be assigned in literature to what is so remarkable, yet so elusive of criticism? His question was answered only after Dickinson's death: She is now considered one of America's greatest poets. Her terse, oblique, visionary poems have almost no relation to the conventions of the second half of the 19th century, when they were written. They play adventurously with meter and rhyme and are completely free of the saccharine sentiments popular at the time. Irreverent, frank, eccentric, and deeply personal, Dickinson's poetry remains fresh and unique, and is always scrupulously in search of truth. As Dickinson put it herself: Much Madness is divinest Sense--/To a discerning Eye... AUTHOR: Emily Dickinson, Thomas H. Johnson
PUBLISHER: Little, Brown & Company
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Code Sixty-One by Donald Harstad
In rural America, police detectives Carl Houseman and Hester Gorse investigate the murder of a young woman who may have been involved in a vampire cult. AUTHOR: Donald Harstad
PUBLISHER: Doubleday Publishing
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Sleeping Bones
L.A.P.D. Detective Kate Delafield returns -- with an iron-willed female lieutenant as her new boss -- in a murder investigation as sticky as the La Brea Tar Pits, which happens to be the scene of the crime. Kate is quickly drawn into a mystery which could uncover the truth of humanity's ancient past, or expose the corruption of the present. And everyone involved -- from an alluring scientist with a dark secret to a treacherous CIA officer with his own agenda -- is suspect. Author Katherine V. Forrest is in top form in this timeless puzzle of a mystery.
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Sudden Fiction by James Thomas, Robert Shapard
Description not available.Gathers seventy stories by Paley, Hannah, Barthelme, Cheever, Updike, Tallent, Carver, Boyle, Williams, Oates, Hemingway, and Malamud AUTHOR: James Thomas, Robert Shapard
PUBLISHER: Smith, Gibbs Publisher
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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