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Selected Poems of Walt Whitman by Harold Bloom, Walt Whitman
Whitman`s poetry, with its energetic style, looseness of form, and breadth of subject matter, revolutionized American writing. His declared intention was to create poetry that was distinctively American, to give something to our literature that will be our own... --a democratic vision that encompassed and celebrated all races and classes. Whitman`s technique often involved making lists of the wonders and varieties of the human experience: contraltos, carpenters, duck-shooters, lunatics, machinists, immigrants, reformers, squaws, deckhands, millgirls, opium eaters, the President, fishermen, patriarchs, old folks--all these categories of people, plus hundreds more, appear in his work. He referred to himself in a poem as Walt Whitman, an American.../Disorderly, fleshly and sensual, and he prophesied his own popularity when he wrote, Missing me in one place search another,/I stop somewhere waiting for you.

AUTHOR: Harold Bloom, Walt Whitman
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, LLC
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction

The Stranger by Albert Camus, Joseph Laredo, Matthew Ward, Peter Dunwoodie, Richard Howard
In this stylistically simple, first-person tale of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed the nakedness of man faced with the absurd. Through Meursault, Camus portrays a man who rejects the beliefs and life styles imposed on him by society. The events that lead to his execution only serve to reinforce his feelings of utter isolation. A classic existentialist work, the novel influenced many of Camus's contemporaries, including Roland Barthes, Alain Robbe-Grillet, and Nathalie Sarraute.

AUTHOR: Albert Camus, Joseph Laredo, Matthew Ward, Peter Dunwoodie, Richard Howard
PUBLISHER: Knopf, Alfred A. Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction

Querido Senor Henshaw/Dear Mr. Henshaw by Alan Tiegreen, Beverly Cleary, Gabriela Bustelo
Times are rough for sixth-grader Leigh Botts. He's new at school and misses his dog Bandit, his father is on the road a lot, and he has to endure the bullying of the school lunch-thief. But it is his parents' divorce that hits him the hardest. When he has to write a letter to his favorite author as a school assignment, Mr. Henshaw's surprising answer helps Leigh change his life. Spanish translation.

AUTHOR: Alan Tiegreen, Beverly Cleary, Gabriela Bustelo
PUBLISHER: Morrow/Avon
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction

The Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly
Description not available.Her family and dreams shattered by her father's untimely death at the hands of a ruthless tea baron, Fiona Finnegan flees East London and eventually establishes herself at the head of the tea trade in New York. 25,000 first printing.

AUTHOR: Jennifer Donnelly
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, LLC
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction

Cliffs Complete Carroll's Alice in Wonderland by J. Otto Seibold
A delightful re-telling, with beautiful color illustrations, of the classic story by Lewis Carroll about a young girl named Alice, who followed the White Rabbit down the big rabbithole. Imagine having a conversation with a Blue Caterpillar on top of a mushroom. Or sitting down to tea with a March Hare, a Mad Hatter & a very gentle little Dormouse! Of course it wasn't much fun listening to the tearful Mock Turtle telling her his sad story, or being the guest of the Queen of Hearts. Off with his head! or Off with her head! was the terrible Queen's favorite command when any of the players at her Croquet Party upset her. No wonder Alice was glad to make her escape!

AUTHOR: J. Otto Seibold
PUBLISHER: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Science Fiction & Fantasy

The Poetry Untitled by Mary Oliver
Both the cycles and the singular moments of nature comprise the subject matter of this collection of poems by Oliver, recipient of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for AMERICAN PRIMITIVE.

AUTHOR: Mary Oliver
PUBLISHER: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction