Masterfully blending narrative and interpretation, and R.F. Foster's "Modern Ireland: 1600-1972" looks at how key events in Irish history contributed to the creation of the 'Irish Nation'. "The most brilliant and courageous Irish historian of his generation". (Colm Toibin, "London Review of Books").[...]
"The Pale King" is David Foster Wallace's final novel - a testament to his enduring brilliance. The Internal Revenue Service Regional Examination Centre in Peoria, Illinois, 1985. Here the minutaie of a million daily lives are totted up, audited and accounted for. Here the workers fight a never-endi[...]
Combines the author's essays with work published in the UK. This title collects fifteen essays.
Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman, a switchboard operator for the Frequent and Vigorous Publishing Company, tries to cope with her great-grandmother's escape from a nursing home, her insanely jealous but not-too-passionate beau, and a cockatiel that spouts psycho-babble, Auden, and Bible quotations. A fir[...]
A Newbery Honor Book
The day D Foster enters Neeka and her best friend's lives, the world opens up for them. Suddenly they're keenly aware of things beyond their block in Queens, things that are happening in the world--like the shooting of Tupac Shakur--and in search of their Big Purpose in life[...]
The "dazzling, exhilarating" ("San Francisco Chronicle") debut novel from one of this century's most groundbreaking writers, "The Broom of the System" is an outlandishly funny and fiercely intelligent exploration of the paradoxes of language, storytelling, and reality.
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"Beam presents both a sharp critique of foster-care policies and a searching exploration of the meaning of family."--"Publishers Weekly," starred review
Who are the children of foster care? What, as a country, do we owe them? Cris Beam, a foster mother herself, spent five years immersed in the [...]
What wears a sock on its bottom? Your leg of course! Come inside for more hilarious jokes and rhymes, as well as teasing tongue twisters, ridiculous riddles, loopy limericks, batty booklists, excellent excuses, and much much more. You'll laugh your pants off![...]
A collection of poems about one of children's favourite subjects - dinosaurs. Including the Stegosaurus, Tyrannosaurus Rex, the Bookoceros, together with dancing dinosaus and dinosaurs having a party. Korky Paul's lively illustrations to life this popular poetry book. John Foster and Korky Paul's po[...]
Presents a collection of funny, scary, and sad poems about monsters from space aliens to werewolves, including "The Grumposaurus," "The Sliver-Slurk," and "The Fire Monster"[...]
Why do we remember events from our childhood as if they happened yesterday, but not what we did last week? Why does our memory seem to work well sometimes and not others? What happens when it goes wrong? Can memory be improved or manipulated, by psychological techniques or even 'brain implants'? How[...]
'I'm not a thief. I'm an innocent man,' shouts Brown. He is angry because he is in prison and the prison guards hate him. Then one day Brown has an idea. It is dangerous - very dangerous.[...]
After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs, personal papers, and postwar Confederate ritua[...]
This poetry selection has been chosen to match topics relevant to this age group. The poems are completely independent of other Oxford Reading Tree Stories, but can be introduced alongside storybooks at Levels 5 and 6. Available as a mixed pack of six different books or as a class pack of 36 books.[...]