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Norton Anthology of Latino Literature by Ilan Stavans
Call Number: PS508.H57 N65 2011
This groundbreaking Anthology includes the work of 201 Latino writers from Chicano, Puerto Rican, Cuban-American, and Dominican-American traditions, as well as writing from other Spanish-speaking countries.
Storycraft: The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction by Jack Hart
Call Number: PN3377.5.R45 H37 2011
Now in Storycraft, Jack Hart, a former managing editor of the Oregonian who guided several Pulitzer Prize–winning narratives to publication, delivers what will certainly become the definitive guide to the methods and mechanics of crafting narrative nonfiction.
Six Poets from the Mountain South by John Lang
Call Number: PS261 .L36 2010
In the most extensive work to date on major poets from the mountain South, John Lang explores the pervasive religious and spiritual concerns of many of the mountain South's finest writers, including Fred Chappell, Robert Morgan, Jeff Daniel Marion, Kathryn Stripling Byer, and Charles Wright.
Ents, Elves, and Eriador: The Environmental Vision of J. R. R. Tolkien by Matthew T. Dickerson
Call Number: PR6039.O32 Z636 2011
Tolkien's works do not express an activist agenda; instead, his environmentalism is expressed in the form of literary fiction. Nonetheless, Tolkien's vision of nature is as passionate and has had as profound an influence on his readers as that of many contemporary environmental writers.
A New Literary History of America by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors
Call Number: PS92 .N39 2009
A volume of more than 200 original essays traces the dynamic expression of the American experience and how the nation's evolving sense of identity can offer alternate perspectives into history, in an anthology that also explores modern cultural creations in a broad range of disciplines.

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