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Annuals for Every Purpose by Larry Hodgson
Description not available.Provides information on making an annual garden covering such topics as choosing seeds, buying annuals, designing a garden, grooming, and fertilizing, and includes profiles of a variety of annuals.

AUTHOR: Larry Hodgson
PUBLISHER: Rodale Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Gardening

Rose in Bloom by Flo Gibson, Hattie L. Price, Louisa May Alcott
This sequel to Eight Cousins continues the story of orphan Rose Campbell and her friendship with her seven male cousins.

AUTHOR: Flo Gibson, Hattie L. Price, Louisa May Alcott
PUBLISHER: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction

Renunciation by Corey Marks, Philip Levine
In this lyrically rich first book, a 1999 National Poetry Series selection, Marks`s subjects include Keats, Theseus, Doubting Thomas, a young blind girl, and survivor of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

AUTHOR: Corey Marks, Philip Levine
PUBLISHER: University of Illinois Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction

Cool Salsa by Lori Carlson
A collection of poetry by Latino-Americans about growing up in the United States.

AUTHOR: Lori Carlson
PUBLISHER: Ballantine Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction

Silver Boxes by Florence Littauer
Florence Littauer tells us how to recognize and relate to people who are hurt and need help, offering a workable formula for exercising the gift of encouragement.

AUTHOR: Florence Littauer
PUBLISHER: W Publishing Group
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass by Donald Rackin
Two of the world's most popular children's books, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1864) and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (1871) by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), are also the favorites of adults, who find profound observations in their delightful nonsense . Carroll's education as a minister and a mathematician influenced his creation of stories that play upon common notions of wisdom, logic and reality. His humorous prose and verse fashion a world in which the familiar and expected are suddenly turned upside down. In her dream journeys Alice encounters fanciful creatures and situations--the Queen of Hearts, the Mad Hatter, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Cheshire Cat, a tea party where it is always six o'clock--that challenge her assumptions about how the world is ordered, or whether it is ordered at all. Alice is in turn delighted and discouraged by the reversal of familiar rules in the places she visits; she is intrigued to meet such wondrous characters as live chessmen and yet confused about her own place in a world inhabited by usually inanimate objects. Generations of readers have been as entertained and puzzled as Alice herself when trying to understand Wonderland and the world behind the looking-glass. Donald Rackin's study of Carroll's masterpieces examines how, in addition to being classic works of entertainment and imagination, the Alice books address issues that concerned mid-Victorians on the brink of the modern era. Alice, a character representative of the assumptions, fears, and desires of her time, encounters a fast-paced, confusing, and disorderly world where rules do not apply, where inanimate objects come alive, and where everyoneseems to be rushing but going nowhere. In many ways, the worlds Alice encounters are exaggerated versions of the evolving modern society that many Victorians feared. In chapters that explore the historical context, critical reception and interpretation of the Alice books, Rackin demonst

AUTHOR: Donald Rackin
PUBLISHER: Gale Group
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction