Literature
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Isabelle Day Refuses to Die of a Broken Heart Jane St. Anthony 2018 Spring
- How can Isabelle ever express to Margaret and Grace how grateful she is for their friendship, just when she needed it most?
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Wild Child Intensive Parenting and Posthumanist Ethics Naomi Morgenstern 2018 Spring
- Exploring how the figure of the “wild child” in contemporary fiction grapples with contemporary cultural anxieties about reproductive ethics and the future of humanity
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The Improvisatore A Novel of Italy Hans Christian Andersen 2018 Spring
- A semi-autobiographical novel inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s travels in Italy—and one of the author’s best-known works in his native Denmark
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The Right to Be Cold One Woman’s Fight to Protect the Arctic and Save the Planet from Climate Change Sheila Watt-Cloutier 2018 Spring
- A “courageous and revelatory memoir” (Naomi Klein) chronicling the life of the leading Indigenous climate change, cultural, and human rights advocate
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Inside the Gate Sigrid Undset’s Life at Bjerkebæk Nan Bentzen Skille 2018 Spring
- Nobel Prize winner Sigrid Undset’s life at Bjerkebæk, her retreat in Lillehammer, Norway
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Once in a Blue Moon Lodge A Novel Lorna Landvik 2018 Spring
- The long-awaited sequel to Lorna Landvik’s best-selling Patty Jane’s House of Curl: a story brimming with life, humor, and hope
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Wild Mares My Lesbian Back-to-the-Land Life Dianna Hunter 2018 Spring
- A wry memoir of growing up, coming out, and going back to the land as a lesbian feminist in the rural Midwest of the 1960s and 70s
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The Infamous Harry Hayward A True Account of Murder and Mesmerism in Gilded Age Minneapolis Shawn Francis Peters 2018 Spring
- A fascinating tale of seduction, murder, fraud, coercion—and the trial of the “Minneapolis Monster”
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Homemade Finnish Rye, Feed Sack Fashion, and Other Simple Ingredients from My Life in Food Beatrice Ojakangas 2018 Spring
- A celebrated cook’s recipes and reflections on growing up in a big Finnish family in northern Minnesota
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Double Visions, Double Fictions The Doppelgänger in Japanese Film and Literature Baryon Tensor Posadas 2018 Spring
- A fresh take on the doppelgänger and its place in Japanese film and literature—past and present
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The Modernist Corpse Posthumanism and the Posthumous Erin E. Edwards 2018 Spring
- An unconventional take on the corpse challenges traditional conceptions of who—and what—counts as human while offering bold insights into the modernist project
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Arranging Marriage Conjugal Agency in the South Asian Diaspora Marian Aguiar 2018 Spring
- The first critical analysis of contemporary arranged marriage among South Asians in a global context
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A Literature of Questions Nonfiction for the Critical Child Joe Sutliff Sanders 2017 Fall
- A critical analysis of children’s nonfiction that focuses on the extent to which such works invite young readers to ask questions
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Postcolonial Biology Psyche and Flesh after Empire Deepika Bahri 2017 Fall
- Rethinking the body of the colonized and its ongoing transformation in today’s global order
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Ecology without Culture Aesthetics for a Toxic World Christine L. Marran 2017 Fall
- Reconfiguring the intentions and parameters of ecocriticism