Literature

Zombie Theory A Reader Sarah Juliet Lauro, Editor 2017 Fall

An interdisciplinary collection of the best international scholarship on zombies as the embodiment of anxieties, critiques, and desires

Onigamiising Seasons of an Ojibwe Year Linda LeGarde Grover 2017 Fall

Fifty short essays evoke the four seasons of the year, and of life, for the Ojibwe in northeastern Minnesota

Tales of Wonder Retelling Fairy Tales through Picture Postcards Jack Zipes 2017 Fall

A pictorial history of fairy-tale postcards throughout the world over two hundred years

Postcolonial Automobility Car Culture in West Africa Lindsey B. Green-Simms 2017 Fall

Globalizing the car’s role in modern culture

Seven Ways to Trick a Troll Lise Lunge-Larsen 2017 Fall

In seven whimsical, entertaining folktales, children discover trolls’ weaknesses, as well as their own strengths

Scenarios Aguirre, the Wrath of God; Every Man for Himself and God Against All; Land of Silence and Darkness; Fitzcarraldo Werner Herzog 2017 Fall

The first in a series: Urtexts of the quintessential early films of Werner Herzog

Infinite Variety The Life and Legend of the Marchesa Casati, The Ultimate Edition Scot D. Ryersson and Michael Orlando Yaccarino 2017 Fall

The biography of the most dazzling artistic and fashion muse of the twentieth century—in a fully revised and spectacularly illustrated edition

We Know How This Ends Living while Dying Bruce H. Kramer 2017 Fall

Surprising lessons in finding joy and personal growth in the last months of life

Enchantment Lake A Northwoods Mystery Margi Preus 2017 Fall

What’s wild in the northwoods turns out to be mostly human, when seventeen-year-old Francie is drawn into the strange mysteries threatening her great aunts’ Minnesota Up North world

Ice-Out Mary Casanova 2017 Fall

A young man’s future—and a budding romance—get caught up in bootlegging, blackmail, corruption, and murder along the U.S.–Canadian border in the 1920s

The Sacred Era A Novel Yoshio Aramaki 2017 Spring

A brilliant work of speculative fiction, blending science and metaphysics, by a Japanese master of the 1970s New Wave

Who Writes for Black Children? African American Children’s Literature before 1900 Katharine Capshaw and Anna Mae Duane, Editors 2017 Spring

Innovative essays that challenge us to imagine African American children’s literature during the slavery and reconstruction eras

Italian Chronicles Stendhal 2017 Spring

Nine bloody, revenge-filled tales—several translated for the first time—from French writer Stendhal

It Won’t Be Easy An Exceedingly Honest (and Slightly Unprofessional) Love Letter to Teaching Tom Rademacher 2017 Spring

A frank and funny behind-the-scenes look at teaching from a hard-working and highly entertaining Teacher of the Year

White Birch, Red Hawthorn A Memoir Nora Murphy 2017 Spring

A personal investigation into the multigenerational cost of immigration and genocide in the American heartland

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