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Babi Yar Massacre, Ukraine, 1941 Fiction Comic books, strips, etc Japan Translations into English Detective and mystery comic books, strips, etc French poetry Women authors Graphic novels Russian poetry 20th century Russian poetry Translations into English Soviet Union History German occupation, 1941-1944 Fiction Spanish poetry Women authors Young adult fictionSummary: Some of the included authors are already familiar to readers in the West (Liu Cixin and Hao Jingfang, both Hugo winners); some are publishing in English for the first time. Because of the growing interest in newer SFF from China, virtually every story here was first published in Chinese in the 2010s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROSummary: "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,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 863.0108 MEXTranströmer, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 439.7 TRAContents: Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936): Naked life (La vita nuda) -- Federigo Tozzi (1883-1920): The crucifix (Il crocifisso) -- Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893-1973): The ash of distant battles (La cenere delle battaglie) -- Dino Buzzati (1906-1972): An important man (Un uomo importante) -- Alberto Moravia (1907-1990): My name is Alice I am a spinning top (Mi chiamo Alice sono una trottola) -- Tommaso Landolfi...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 458.3 FIC GRESummary: Written by authors from Quebec as well as France, the majority of these stories have been published in the last decade and reflect a rich diversity of styles and themes. From Daniel Boulanger's exploration of revenge and the desire for recognition in The Hunter's Cafe, to Alain Gerber's brief and poetic You Never Die, and the sardonic tales of Frederic Fajardie and Sylvie Massicotte, these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1999
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Summary: From the Publisher: From one of the most brilliant and influential thinkers of the twentieth century-two novels, six short stories, and a pair of essays in a single volume. In both his essays and his fiction, Albert Camus (1913-1960) deployed his lyric eloquence in defense against despair, providing an affirmation of the brave assertion of humanity in the face of a universe devoid of order or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMRilke, Rainer Maria
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 RILMurakami, Haruki
Summary: Contains seventeen short fiction stories by Haruki Murakami about people whose lives veer off the path of normalcy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MURContents: The aleph / Juan Luis Borges -- The balcony / Felisberto Hernández -- The third bank of the river / João Guimarães Rosa -- The one who came to save me / Virgilio Piñera -- Hell most feared / Juan Carlos Onetti -- Luvina / Juan Rulfo -- Blow-up / Julio Cortázar -- Love / Clarice Lispector -- Ana María / José Donoso -- The handsomest drowned man in the world / Gabriel García Márquez -- The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VINSummary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Language Association of America 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 448.4 ANTSummary: "These eleven tales are by four outstanding authors whose work brought new life to Spanish literature. Published between 1870 and 1900, they include 'El Hechicero,' by Juan Valera, an allegorical retelling of an Andalusian legend; Pedro Antonio de Alarcon's tale of bandits, 'La buenaventura,' and his 'La Comendadora,' inspired by an incident in a Granada convent; three tales by Leopoldo Alas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 SPASummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 439.31 LANChen, Qiufan
Summary: "Mimi is a 'waste girl', a member of the lowest caste on Silicon Isle. Located off China's southeastern coast, Silicon Isle is the global capital for electronic waste recycling, where thousands like Mimi toil day and night, hoping one day they too will enjoy the wealth they've created for their employers, the three clans who have ruled the isle for generations. Luo Jincheng is the head of one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QIUTranströmer, Tomas
Summary: "A collection of poetry and prose by Tomas Tranströmer, translated by Patty Crane"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 439.7 TRAToboso, Yana
Summary: "When students fail to return home from an English boarding school that numbers several elite bloodlines among its student body, Earl Ciel Phantomhive and his indomitable butler, Sebastian, infiltrate the lush grounds and stately halls of this distinguished house of learning at Her Majesty's behest. The butler takes on the role of tutor, his master that of student-- parts to which both are more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: Babi Yar is a ravine outside the Ukrainian capital of Kiev and a site of massacres carried out by German forces and by local Ukrainian collaborators during their campaign against the Soviet Union in World War II. The first and best documented of the massacres took place 29-30 September 1941, killing 33,771 Jews. This book records the author's experience under the Nazis in the Ukraine. Anatoli...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1970
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANASummary: "In Spain in the 1840s, a group of women had begun to publish poetry. Their verse - Romantic, predominantly lyric, and often linked to liberal reform - was novel and controversial because few women had ventured into print. The poets collected in this anthology asserted in different ways their imagination and literary voice." "Anna-Marie Aldaz offers a discussion of Spanish versification as well...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Language Association of America 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 ANTToboso, Yana
Summary: "His betrothed's unexpected skill with a sword having narrowly saved him from a gory fate at the gnashing jaws of the undead, Earl Ciel Phantomhive, along with his intrepid butler, Sebastian, fights to see another day aboard the doomed Campania. But as they draw nearer to the heart of the Aurora Society's scheme to reanimate the dead, the pair are met by the beautiful young 'Kaiser,' who holds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 BLAMolière
Summary: Collection of seven Moliere plays translated into English.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Franklin Library 1985
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MOLToboso, Yana
Summary: "With his royally sanctioned dinner party a shambles and a murderer on the loose, Earl Ciel Phantomhive is a veritable prisoner in his own home, alongside those of his guests who still live. And in the most shocking of turns, the young earl now finds himself without his indispensible manservant, Sebastian. But as the mystery deepens, there arrives upon the young earl's doorstep an odd vicar,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 BLASaramago, José.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt, Inc. 2000