Recent Acquisitions: Literature

Homage to Catalonia is both a memoir of Orwell's experience at the front in the Spanish Civil War and a tribute to those who died in what he called a fight for common decency.

In this book, the Israeli author has created a genre-defying drama, part play, part prose, pure poetry, to tell the story of bereaved parents setting out to reach their lost children.

Poems translated from Polish and other languages; some originally in English.
Includes indexes.

Five classics of American Indian culture are collected for the first time here. They are: George Copway's Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh; Charles Eastman's Soul of the Indian; American Indian Stories; Coyote Stories; and Black Elk Speaks.

A young girl growing up in an Alabama town in the 1930s learns of injustice and violence when her father, a widowed lawyer, defends a black man falsely accused of rape.