Horace.

Summary: A new bilingual translation of the works of a Roman poet, with Latin and English versions on facing pages. In Discipline, one reads, "Sweet and proper it is to die for your country / But Death would just as soon come after him / Who runs away."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 1997

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 474.01 HOR

Akasaka, Aka

Summary: "Will Kaguya and Shirogane outsmart a psychological test designed to reveal their true feelings? Is spoon-feeding each other cake the way to each other's hearts? Then, Shirogane visits Kaguya's home for the first time, but she is too sick to enjoy it. Kaguya tries to befriend Shirogane's little sister, but Chika has beaten her to the punch. And summer vacation arrives, but the student council...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2018

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 KAG

Summary: "The armed conflict in the east of Ukraine brought about an emergence of a distinctive trend in contemporary Ukrainian poetry: the poetry of war. Directly and indirectly, the poems collected in this volume engage with the events and experiences of war, reflecting on the themes of alienation, loss, dislocation, and disability; as well as justice, heroism, courage, resilience, generosity, and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 891.7 WOR

Summary: Presents a bilingual version of the traditional Latin American song about a child's love of the many colors that make up the world.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lil' Libros 2019

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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: JE ROD Board Bookj

Natsume, Sōseki

Summary: "Natsume Soseki's Kusamakura follows its nameless young artist-narrator on a meandering walking tour of the mountains. At the inn at a hot spring resort, he has a series of mysterious encounters with Nami, the lovely young daughter of the establishment. Nami, or 'beauty, ' is the center of this elegant novel, the still point around which the artist moves and the enigmatic subject of Soseki's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2008

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NAT

Neruda, Pablo

Summary: "Pablo Neruda's debut, never before published in its entirety in English, is the latest volume in Copper Canyon's best-selling series"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 NER

Neruda, Pablo

Summary: "The first book to collect all of Pablo Neruda's odes, in any language; a bilingual edition"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 NER

Ovid

Summary: Ovid's poem brings together an array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation, often as a result of love or lust, in which men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, Ovid interweaves many of the best known myths and legends of...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audiobooks 2008

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: 871.01 OVI

Murakami, Haruki

Summary: Contains seventeen short fiction stories by Haruki Murakami about people whose lives veer off the path of normalcy.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1994

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUR

Ogawa, Yayoi

Summary: Sumire finally accepts Hasumi-senpai's proposal. But when Momo finds out, he makes a surprising resolution.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tokyopop 2006

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TRA

Summary: Overview: Offering insight into the arts of Great Lakes Native nations, this collection of stories, songs, poetry, speeches, autobiographies, and fiction, spans the centuries from deep past to the present. Elders, war chiefs, religious leaders, and contemporary artists share stories of the creation, stars, animals, heroes, and monsters, along with narratives of hunting, fishing, food-gathering,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ladyslipper 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398 BRE

Fujiwara, Kiyo.

Summary: "When Sachie Wakamura lost her mother, her estranged grandfather showed up to take care of her. The only problem is that Grandpa is the head of a yakuza gang! Sachie tries to continue living her normal life, but she can't run far since Rakuto, one of the most popular guys in school, is part of her grandfather's gang and her new protector. When Azuma visits his ailing grandfather in the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media 2009

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 WIL

Ogawa, Yayoi

Summary: Momo has been Sumire's secret pet for a long time. Little does she know that she's not the only one who has a pet. Confused with her feelings for both Hasumi and Momo, who will Sumire choose when the time comes?

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tokyopop 2006

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Summary: "Women poets in nineteenth-century France made important contributions to major stylistic innovations - from the birth of elegiac Romanticism to the inauguration of free verse - and many were prominent in their lifetime. Yet only a few are known today, and nearly all have been unavailable in English translation. Of the fourteen poets of this anthology - the third bilingual volume in the MLA...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Language Association of America 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 448.4 ANT

Summary: "This collection offers a rich sampling of significant Mexican short stories published from 1843 to 1918. Nine different tales range from the realism of López Portillo's 'Reloj sin dueño' and the modernismo saturating Gutiérrez Nájera's 'La mañana de San Juan' to the historical accuracy of Riva Palacio's 'Las mulas de Su Excelencia' and the vivid romanticism of 'Amor secreto' by Manual Payno,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2008

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC MEX
Call number: 863.0108 MEX

Foster, John L. (John Lawrence)

Contents: Some rather lively lines (Papyrus Chester Beatty I)--Songs inscribed on an earthen vessel (Cairo ostracon 25218)--Songs of the garden (Papyrus Harris 500)--Songs of great heart's ease (Papyrus Chester Beatty I)--Songs from a faded papyrus (Papyrus Harris 500)--Stanzaic love song (Papyrus Chester Beatty I)--Songs of the orchard (Papyrus Turin 1966)--Songs of the birdcatcher's daughter (Papyrus...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1974

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 493.1 FOS

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 RIL

Tranströmer, Tomas

Summary: "Tomas Tranströmer--the recipient of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature--can be clearly recognized not just as Sweden's most important poet, but as a writer of international stature whose work speaks to us now with undiminished clarity and resonance. Long celebrated as a master of the arresting, suggestive image, Tranströmer is a poet of the liminal: his verse is drawn again and again to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 439.7 TRA

Kagami, Takaya

Summary: After trumpets of the apocalypse proclaim the fall of humanity, vampires arise from the shadows to rule the earth. Yuichiro wants just one thing - to get revenge by killing each and every vampire. Three months have passed since the invasion in Nagoya and Yuichiro, Mika and Shinoa Squad are all on the run from both the vampires and the humans! Just as they resolve to ask Krul Tepes for help,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2017

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 SER

Summary: Though the Netherlands has been the site of vigorous literary activity since at least the poets of the Beweging van Vijftig (Movement of the Fifties), the status of Dutch as a "minor" language spoken by only fifteen million people has kept its rich poetry more or less a secret. This volume--featuring J. M. Coetzee's finely wrought English translations side-by-side with the originals--brings the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 439.31 LAN

Quasimodo, Salvatore

Summary: Born in Sicily and trained as an engineer, Quasimodo was brought into Italian literary circles by his brother-in-law Elio Vittorini, who drew him to Florence and introduced him to Umberto Saba, Eugenio Montale, and other contributors to the modernist journal Solaria. In the late 1930s, Quasimodo gave up engineering for journalism and literature, becoming editor in chief of the weekly Il Tempo...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy 1960

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 458.4 QUA

Takahiro

Summary: "Akame and her comrades enjoy a moment of calm before the impending assault against the Capital. Night Raid has lost many dear friends in their fight against the Empire and are resolved to do whatever must be done so that their comrades' sacrifices will not be in vain. But the Empire has brought more than resolve to the battlefield: Esdeath and the Minister have prepared a special 'welcoming...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2018

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 AKA