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Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the most influential works of Western literature, inspiring artists and writers from Titian to Shakespeare to Salman Rushdie. These are some of the most famous Roman myths as you've never read them before―sensuous, dangerously witty, audacious―from the fall of Troy to birth of the minotaur, and many others that only appear in the Metamorphoses. Connected together by the immutable laws of change and metamorphosis,...
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Language
English
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"A fictional examination of the lives of real-life scientists and thinkers whose discoveries resulted in moral consequences beyond their imagining. When We Cease to Understand the World is a book about the complicated links between scientific and mathematical discovery, madness, and destruction. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrodinger: these are some of luminaries into whose troubled lives Labatut's book thrusts the...
12) The odyssey
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.3 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
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The epic poem recounting the experiences of Odysseus during his return from the Trojan War.
A new translation of the epic poem, and the first by a woman, brings alive Homer's tale of shipwrecks, monsters, and magic, and provides an introductory overview of the poem's major themes, controversial origin, and the scope of its influence.
A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 "Wilson’s language is fresh, unpretentious and lean…It is rare to find...
14) Crab cab
Author
Series
Publisher
Blue Apple Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Humorous illustrations and die-cut pages introduce short vowel sounds, consonant blends, and word families in this Flip-a-word book.
20) Agatha
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
This tantalizing tale posits what may have happened to the famed writer during her real-life 11-day disappearance in 1926. The world doesn't know and Dame Agatha never told.
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