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    Creator:
    Richter, Amanda M.
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    This collection of stories spans a range of content: the personal, the domestic, the political, and the downright terrifying. In “Ilka the Flyer,” a young man is faced with his own crisis and that of his veteran uncle. Sister relationships bloom and fade as the entire family deals with changes...
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    face in a large book. “What are you doing?” I shouted. He blinked slowly and closed the Encyclopedia

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    Aguilar, Joseph R.
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    This novel-in-progress is an attempt to struggle with the complicated process of forging one’s identity in the murk of urban Northwest life. The protagonist of this piece is confused, to put it lightly: bi-racial, torn between the affections of divorced parents, unsure about his religious views, and baffled by his...
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    again, my point is, imagine Farnsburg struggling through those Clinton books and Newsweek bits

  • Patoka : four stories of Southern Indiana

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    Drew, Christopher M. (Christopher Max)
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    These stories are an attempt to give a distinct literary voice to the people and places of rural Southern Indiana. They also strive to deal with certain elements indigenous to that region, some of which can be described generally as the tension between modernization and tradition, family and marriage as...
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  • Fitzgerald’s idealism and the question of wealth

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    Wood, Amy
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    In This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, and several of his short stories, F. Scott Fitzgerald questions the importance of wealth as a factor in supporting happiness and fostering the American Dream on an individual basis. With these texts, Fitzgerald acknowledges that wealth is a factor and, simultaneously, a...
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    sigh, her face a rare cameo of pathos . . . . “My nerves are on edge—on edge.” (20-21

  • Beneath this roof : stories

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    Carpenter, Claire
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    These stories follow the lives of women in a variety of roles—housewife, deli employee, artist, bird keeper, and sitter for the elderly—and at different stages of life. In “Beneath this Roof,” a young housewife’s life is rocked by a visit from an old friend who has changed in unexpected ways....
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    something in the heat couldn’t compare with this Sally. I thumbed through the book for the next break so I

  • Mirage

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    Houghton, Melissa G.
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    This collection of poems spans a range of content. They pose many questions that consider issues surrounding identity, perception, and the relationship between the self and other. The collection consists of four parts. Parts I and IV explore the self and other by using personal experience and persona. Part II...
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    You shoved your books in my lap, luring me in like you would a reader. You should read Seamus

  • May we all wake up one by one

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    Ludden, Jason
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    May We All Wake Up One By One is the beginning of a novel set in the West African country of Guinea. The story follows Sean Wake, a twenty-something American who finds himself working for the Feed the World Program as the country falls apart around him. While his co-workers...
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    everything about her family. I told her about the books I read, mostly started and stopped Louis L’Amour

  • Water, fire, and stone : images and meaning in Melville

    Creator:
    Martin, Brian D.
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    This thesis is a study of Herman Melville’s symbolism. I have chosen to investigate the elemental images of water, fire, and stone in Moby-Dick (1851), Pierre; Or, The Ambiguities (1852), and Clarel; A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876). This work is a semiotic study, insofar as the...
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    of, and anger towards, Christianity has been well established. One important book on this subject

  • The accessible Chaucer

    Creator:
    Luepke, Natasha M.
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    In this thesis I explore the ways in which twenty-first century Americans have access to Geoffrey Chaucer and his works. I look at issues surrounding Chaucer within the canon debate, high school history and literature textbooks, and Chaucer in popular culture, such as in movies like A Knight's Tale. I...
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    the list is dropped no books are going to be read. Becoming a text book is a book’s only chance

  • Half-life : essays

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    Fath, Lauren
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    Lauren Fath, in her non-fiction collection Half-Life: Essays, examines the underpinnings of her upbringing in suburban Fort Wayne, Indiana, focusing primarily on familial relationships and the importance of hindsight in understanding how our families make an imprint on our lives. By looking at our relationships through the lens offered by...
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    doesn’t love us.” She’d sit down next to me on the couch, take the picture book out of my hands, and