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Too Bright to See
A Newbery Honor Book • Winner of the Stonewall Book Award • A National Book Award Finalist "A gentle, glowing wonder, full of love and understanding." –The New York Times Book Review Cover may vary. It's the summer before middle school and eleven-year-old Bug's best friend Moira has decided the two of them need to use the next few months to prepare. For Moira, this means figuring out the right clothes to wear, learning how to put on makeup, and deciding which boys are cuter in their yearbook photos than in real life. But none of this is all that appealing to Bug, who doesn't particularly want to spend more time trying to understand how to be a girl. Besides, there's something more important to worry about: A ghost is haunting Bug's eerie old house in rural Vermont...and maybe haunting Bug in particular. As Bug begins to untangle the mystery of who this ghost is and what they're trying to say, an altogether different truth comes to light--Bug is transgender.
Flamenco and Bullfighting
Flamenco dance and bullfighting are parallel arts with shared traditions, performance conventions and vocabularies of movement. This volume introduces readers to an ongoing discussion in Spanish scholarship about the links between these two quintessentially Spanish arts. The author--a dancer and a student of bullfighting--describes the informal practice of both arts in private settings and their emergence as formal public rituals in the bullfighting arena and on the flamenco stage. Key bullfighting techniques and their influence on flamenco dance style are discussed in the context of understanding the worldview and kinesthetic culture of Spain.
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Italian Literature Before 1900 in English Translation
"Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation provides the most complete record possible of texts from the early periods that have been translated into English, and published between 1929 and 2008. It lists works from all genres and subjects, and includes translations wherever they have appeared across the globe. In this annotated bibliography, Robin Healey covers over 5,200 distinct editions of pre-1900 Italian writings. Most entries are accompanied by useful notes providing information on authors, works, translators, and how the translations were received. Among the works by over 1,500 authors represented in this volume are hundreds of editions by Italy's most translated authors - Dante Alighieri, [Niccoláo] Machiavelli, and [Giovanni] Boccaccio - and other hundreds which represent the author's only English translation. A significant number of entries describe works originally published in Latin. Together with Healey's Twentieth-Century Italian Literature in English Translation, this volume makes comprehensive information on translations accessible for schools, libraries, and those interested in comparative literature."--Pub. desc.
The Thirsty Sword: A Story of the Norse Invasion of Scotland (1262-1263)
Robert Leighton's 'The Thirsty Sword: A Story of the Norse Invasion of Scotland (1262-1263)' is a gripping historical novel that delves into the tumultuous period of the Norse invasion of Scotland. The book's vivid descriptions and attention to historical detail immerse the reader in the violent clashes between the invading Norse forces and the Scottish defenders. Leighton's literary style effectively captures the brutality of medieval warfare while also exploring themes of loyalty, honor, and sacrifice. Set against the backdrop of a turbulent historical era, 'The Thirsty Sword' combines action-packed battle scenes with poignant character development. This book is a must-read for those inter...
Sleep Fictions
The literary response to the dawning cult of wakefulness A turn-of-the-century influx of new technologies and the enormous impact of the electric light transformed not only individual sleeping habits but the ways American culture conceived and valued sleep. Hannah L. Huber analyzes the works of Henry James, Edith Wharton, Charles Chesnutt, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman to examine the literary response to the period’s obsession with wakefulness. As these writers blurred the separation of public and private space, their characters faced exhaustion in a modern world that permeated every moment of their lives with artificial light, traffic noise, and the social pressure to remain active at all ...
Pippin's Wedge
The sleepy Township of PippinÕs Wedge sits nestled in a mountain valley on the westernmost edge of the kingdom. It is a place that adventurers often pass through on their way to more interesting places, such as the dangerous, orkan-controlled, Western Mountains, or the bustling hub of trade and intrigue that is Silverton, the county seat. The few adventurers that decide to stay in the township and look past its fa ade will find a place as intriguing as any backroom meeting of the WeaversÕ Guild and as mysterious as any lost ruin in a mountain valley. For those who get to know the people and the places of PippinÕs Wedge, there is a wealth of grudges, hopes, dreams, deceit, monsters, magic, and adventure. This setting guide is for them.
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