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|  | 512 Ants on Sullivan Street by Bill Morrison, Laurence B. White, Ray Broekel
At this family picnic, four ants take a barbecued chip, eight take a bacon strip, and the march goes on and on in this Level 4 book about doubling. Full color. AUTHOR: Bill Morrison, Laurence B. White, Ray Broekel
PUBLISHER: Scholastic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction 
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 | Sacramental Acts by Elaine Laura Kleiner, Kenneth Rexroth, Sam Hamill
Poet, essayist, translator, Kenneth Rexroth was arguably the most influential poet west of the Mississippi. From his encouragement of the poets of the San Francisco Renaissance and the Beat Generation, to his own translations of Japanese and Chinese poetry, he almost single-handedly redefined the way in which American poetry was written, taught, and read. Most importantly, he was one of the finest poets of the twentieth century and nowhere is this more evident than in his love poems. In their introduction to Sacamental Acts, Sam Hamill and Elaine Laura Kleiner write, By turns revolutionary and conservative, simultaneously spiritual and worldly, Asian and Western, Kenneth Rexroth created what must surely be regarded as the most original synthesis of transcendent metaphysical and erotic verse ever written by an American poet. A polyglot iconoclast, Rexroth was steeped in the world`s spiritual and literary traditions.... Whether writing of idealized love, love lost, a father`s love, or of the deepest spiritual engagement, he achieved again and again in his poetry what he most longed for but could not find in his life, a passionate but utterly calm self-transcendent state of infinite connectedness ... transformed into something larger than either of the lovers themselves. He achieved something almost impossibly simple -- a glimpse of grace within our temporal flesh in a fragile world . AUTHOR: Elaine Laura Kleiner, Kenneth Rexroth, Sam Hamill
PUBLISHER: Copper Canyon Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | White Teeth by Zadie Smith
An Englishman, Archie Jones, and a Bengali Muslim named Samad Iqbal, who first met after World War II in Turkey, encounter each other again 30 years later in the North-West London neighborhood where they live with their families. The daughter of Archie and his Jamaican wife falls in love with Samad's radical fundamentalist son. Archie's sister-in-law is a fervent Jehovah's witness. Samad is plagued by guilt over his affair with his children's schoolteacher. And a nearby Jewish family tries to interfere in their lives. In a stew of often competing multicultural elements, Archie, Samad, and their families struggle to find their identities amid the complexities of the 1970s. Zadie Smith calls her acclaimed novel a utopian view of race relations: It's what it might be and what it should be and maybe what it will be. A New York Times Editors' Choice for one of the best books of 2000. Nominated in 2001 for a National Book Critics Circle Award. AUTHOR: Zadie Smith
PUBLISHER: Random House, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Swimming by Joanna Hershon
Unfolding over one summer weekend in New Hampshire, Joanna Hershon's first novel is about a family that finds itself in the midst of sudden horror. Years later, one person who was present attempts to find out what really happened. AUTHOR: Joanna Hershon
PUBLISHER: Ballantine Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Neruda's Garden by Maria Jacketti, Pablo Neruda, Yvette E. Miller
A large bilingual selection from Neruda's crucial late collection, Odas Elementales . AUTHOR: Maria Jacketti, Pablo Neruda, Yvette E. Miller
PUBLISHER: Latin American Literary Review Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Bless the Day by June Cotner
Following on the heels of her two successful collections Graces and Bedside Prayers , June Cotner has once again created a wonderfully diverse and inspiring collection of prayers and poems that nurture the spirit and lift up the heart. AUTHOR: June Cotner
PUBLISHER: Kodansha America, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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