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Nuts to you! / by Ehlert, Lois.; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.pbl;
A rascally squirrel has an indoor adventure in a city apartment.
Subjects: Dust jackets (Bindings); Squirrels; Tricksters; Curiosity; City and town life; Animal welfare; Friendship; Apartments; Begging; Plants; Peanuts; Stories in rhyme.; Squirrels; Stories in rhyme.;
© c1993, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
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American Indian myths and legends / by Erdoes, Richard,1912-2008.; Ortiz, Alfonso,1939-1997.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 522-525) and index.Rabbit boy kicked that blood clot around: tales of human creation -- The place of emergence: tales of world creation -- The eye of the great spirit: tales of the sun, moon, and stars -- Ordeals of the hero: monsters and monster slayers -- Counting coup: war and the warrior code -- The sound of flutes: tales of love and lust -- Coyote laughs and cries: trickster tales -- Four legs, two legs, and no legs: stories of animals and other people -- Something whistling in the night: ghosts and the spirit world -- Only the rocks and mountains last forever: visions of the end.Indian (Native American) myths and legends of creation, sun, moon, stars, heroes, monsters, warriors, love, lust, Coyote the trickster, animals, ghosts, and the end of the world.
Subjects: Indians of North America; Indian mythology; Indians of North America; Indians of North America; Indians of North America;
© ©1984., Pantheon Books,
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Ethnic American literature : an encyclopedia for students / by Nelson, Emmanuel S.(Emmanuel Sampath),1954-editor.; Gale (Firm);
Includes bibliographical references and index.African American autobiography -- African American drama -- African American gay literature -- African American lesbian literature -- African American novel -- African American poetry -- African American science fiction -- African American slave narrative -- African American stereotypes -- African American young adult literature -- Alexie, Sherman Joseph, Jr. -- Alvarez, Julia -- American born Chinese -- Anaya, Rudolfo -- Angelou, Maya -- Arab American autobiography -- Arab American novel -- Arab American stereotypes -- Assimilation -- Autobiography of Malcolm X, The -- Baldwin, James -- Bambara, Toni Cade -- Beloved -- Bilingualism -- Black Boy -- Blanco, Richard -- Blues, The -- Bluest Eye, The -- Border narratives -- Brooks, Gwendolyn -- Canon -- Caribbean (Anglophone) American autobiography -- Caribbean (Anglophone) American novel -- Caribbean (Anglophone) American poetry -- Chinese American autobiography -- Chinese American drama -- Chinese American novel -- Chinese American poetry -- Chinese American stereotypes -- Cisneros, Sandra -- Civil Rights movement -- Cliff, Michelle -- Color Purple, The -- Cooper, J. (Joan) California -- Cuban American autobiography -- Cuban American novel -- Cuban American poetry -- Culture clash -- Danticat, Edwidge -- Diaz, Junot -- Dominican American novel -- Dominican American poetry -- Douglass, Frederick -- Dove, Rita -- Down these mean streets -- Ellison, Ralph Waldo -- Erdrich, Louise -- Ethnicity -- Eurocentrism -- Filipino American novel -- Gaines, Ernest J. -- Galarza, Ernesto -- Garcia, Cristina -- Haley, Alex -- Hansberry, Lorraine -- Harlem renaissance -- Hawai'i literature -- Hawaiian literature -- Hosseini, Khaled -- House on Mango Street, The -- Hughes, Langston -- Hurston, Zora Neale -- I know why the caged bird sings -- Identity -- Internment -- Invisible man -- Iranian American literature -- Islas, Arturo, Jr. -- Jacobs, Harriet -- Japanese American autobiography -- Japanese American novel -- Jasmine -- Jazz -- Jones, Edward P. -- Joy Luck Club, The -- Kincaid, Jamaica -- King, Martin Luther, Jr. -- Kingston, Maxine Hong -- Korean American literature -- Lahiri, Jhumpa -- Larsen, Nella -- Laviera, Tato -- Lee, Chang-rae -- Lesson before dying, A -- Lorde, Audre -- Marshall, Paule -- McBride, James -- Mexican American autobiography -- Mexican American children's literature -- Mexican American drama -- Mexican American gay literature -- Mexican American lesbian literature -- Mexican American poetry -- Mexican American stereotypes -- Momaday, Navarre Scott -- Moody, Anne -- Morrison, Toni -- Mukherjee, Bharati -- Multiculturalism -- Native American autobiography -- Native American drama -- Native American novel -- Native American oral texts -- Native American poetry -- Native American stereotypes -- Naylor, Gloria -- Nuyorican -- Obama, Barack Hussein -- Okada, John -- Ortiz, Simon J. -- Ortiz Cofer, Judith -- Passing -- Pedagogy and U.S. ethnic literatures -- Piero, Miguel -- Puerto Rican American autobiography -- Puerto Rican American drama -- Puerto Rican American Gay literature -- Puerto Rican American lesbian literature -- Puerto Rican American novel -- Puerto Rican American poetry -- Puerto Rican stereotypes -- Race -- Racism -- Raisin in the sun, A -- Rechy, John -- Rivera, Tomas -- Rodriguez, Richard -- Signifying -- Silent dancing -- Silko, Leslie Marmon -- Song of Solomon -- South Asian American literature -- Spirituals -- Street, The -- Tan, Amy -- Their eyes were watching God -- Thomas, Piri -- Trickster, African American -- Trickster, Native American -- Valdez, Luis -- Vietnamese American literature -- Villarreal, Jose Antonio -- Vizenor, Gerald -- Walker, Alice -- Way to rainy mountain, The -- Whiteness -- Wilson, August -- Wilson, Harriet E. -- Woman warrior : memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts, The -- Wright, Richard.This book introduces the American mosaic of multicultural literature by chronicling the achievements of American writers of non-European descent and highlighting the ethnic diversity of works from the colonial era to the present. It contains entries on African American, Asian American, Latino/a, and Native American literary traditions, among others, and features topics like the civil rights movement, bilingualism, assimilation, and border narratives.Description based on print version record.
Subjects: American literature; Minorities; Minority authors; Minorities in literature; Ethnic groups in literature; Ethnicity in literature;
On-line resources: https://libproxy.kirtland.edu/login?url=https://link.gale.com/apps/pub/9781610698818/GVRL?u=lom_kirtlandcc -- Available online. Click here to access.;
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Tap dancing America : a cultural history / by Hill, Constance Valis.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-408) and index.Trickster Gods and rapparees (1650-1900) -- Buck-and-wing (turn of the century) -- Over-the-top and in-the-trenches (teens) -- Simply full of jazz (twenties) -- Swing time (thirties) -- Jumpin' jive (forties) -- Beat, bebop, birth of the cool (fifties) -- Tap happenings (sixties) -- Nostalgia, and all that tap (seventies) -- Black and blue (eighties) -- Noise and funk (nineties) -- Hoofing in heels (millennium).
Subjects: Tap dancing; Steptanz.;
© 2010., Oxford University Press,
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Eating to excess : the meaning of gluttony and the fat body in the ancient world / by Hill, Susan E.;
Introduction: the glutton and the fat body in the ancient world -- All fat is the lord's -- Philosophizing excess in Plato and Aristotle -- Inside and out: medicine, health, and physiognomy in the ancient world -- Popular gluttons and fat bodies: the trickster Herakles, Petronius's Satyricon, and Anthenaeus's The learned banqueters -- Ingest the world, not the world: early Christian ideas of excess and self-restraint -- Gluttony becomes a deadly sin.Includes bibliographical references and index."This provocative book explores how ancient notions about the fat body and the glutton in western culture both challenge and confirm ideas about what it means to be overweight and gluttonous today"--Provided by publisher."This book is about Eating to Excess - The Meaning of Gluttony and the Fat Body in the Ancient World"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Food habits; Gluttony; Human body; Obesity; Excess (Philosophy); Civilization, Ancient.; History, Ancient.;
© c2011., Praeger,
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The classic fairy tales : texts, criticism / by Tatar, Maria,1945-editor.;
Includes bibliographical references.Little Red Riding Hood --The Story of Grandmother -- Little Red Riding Hood -- Little Red Cap -- The False Grandmother -- Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf --The Three Little Pigs -- The Tale of the Tiger Woman -- Tselane and the Marimo -- Introduction: Beauty and the Beast -- Beauty and the Beast -- The Pig King -- The Frog King, or Iron Heinrich -- The Tiger's Bride -- Urashima the Fisherman -- The Enchanted Frog -- The Swan Maiden -- Chonguita -- The Dog Bride -- Introduction: Snow White -- The Young Slave -- Snow White -- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs -- Snow, Glass, Apples -- Introduction: Sleeping Beauty -- The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood -- Briar Rose -- Sleeping Beauty and the Airplane -- The Sleeping Beauty -- Introduction: Cinderella -- Rhodopis -- Yeh-hsien -- Cinderella -- Donkeyskin -- The Three Gowns -- Catskin -- The Story of the Black Cow -- Lin Lan [Cinderella] -- The Princess in the Suit of Leather -- Introduction: Bluebeard -- Bluebeard -- Pitcher's Bird -- The Robber Bridegroom -- Mr. Fox -- Mr. Bluebeard -- The Forbidden Room -- Mast-Truan -- Bluebeard's Egg -- Bluebeard -- Introduction: Tricksters -- Hansel and Grelel -- Fulano de Tal and His Children -- The Juniper Tree -- The Rose-Tree -- The Singing Bones -- Little Thumbling --Vasilisa the Fair -- Momotaro, or the Peach Boy -- Jack and the Beanstalk -- Introduction: Hans Christian Andersen -- The Little Mermaid -- The Little Match Girl -- The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf --The Red Shoes --The Emperor's New Clothes -- The Nightingale -- Introduction: Oscar Wilde -- The Selfish Giant -- The Happy Prince -- The Nightingale and the Rose -- Criticism --The Fairy Tale Moves on Its Own in Time -- From Better Castles in the Sky at the Country Fair and Circus, in Fairy Tales and Colportage --From The Storyteller: Reflections on the Works of Nikolai Leskov -- Peasants Tell Tales: The Meaning of Mother Goose -- Abstract Style -- [Snow White and Her Wicked Stepmother] -- From To Spin a Yarn: The Female Voice in Folklore and Fairy Talc -- From The Old Wives' Tale -- Breaking the Disney Spell -- From Yours, Mine, or Ours? Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, and the Ownership of Fairy Tales -- From Sex and Violence: The Hard Core of Fairy Tales -- From Slipping the Trap of Appetite -- From Female Tricksters as Double Agents -- From The Fairy-Tale Web -- From Magical Illusion: Fairy-Talc Film -- From The Types of International Folktales -- From Folklore and Literature -- From Morphology of the Folktale"This Norton Critical Edition includes seven different tale types: 'Little Red Riding Hood,' 'Beauty and the Beast,' 'Snow White,' 'Sleeping Beauty,' 'Cinderella,' 'Bluebeard,' and 'Tricksters.' These groupings include multicultural versions, literary rescriptings, and introductions and annotations by Maria Tatar. [Also includes] tales by Hans Christian Andersen and Oscar Wilde [and] more than fifteen critical essays exploring the various aspects of fairy tales."--From: https://books.google.com.
Subjects: Fairy tales;
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Soul of the deep : [electronic resource] : Skin of the sea series, book 2. by Bowen, Natasha.; Badaki, Yetide.;
Narrator: Yetide Badaki.One life. One choice. One sacrifice. To save those closest to her, Simi traded away everything: her freedom, her family, and the boy she loves. Now she is sworn to serve a new god, watching over the Land of the Dead at the bottom of the ocean. But when signs of demons begin to appear, it's clear there are deeper consequences of Simi's trade. These demons spell the world's ruin . . . and because of Simi, they now have a way into the human realm. With the fate of the world at stake, Simi must break her promise and team up with a scheming trickster of a god. And if they succeed, perhaps Simi can also unbreak her heart along the way, and find herself again.Text Difficulty 4 - Text Difficulty 5890Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 312627 KB).
Subjects: Electronic books.; Young Adult Fiction.; Fantasy.; Historical Fiction.; Young Adult Literature.;
© 2022., Listening Library,
On-line resources: http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=8781379 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive.;
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Norse mythology / by Gaiman, Neil.;
The players -- Before the beginning, and after -- Yggdrasil and the nine worlds -- Mimir's head and Odin's eye -- The treasures of the gods -- The master builder -- The children of Loki -- Freya's unusual wedding -- The mead of poets -- Thor's journey to the land of the giants -- The apples of immortality -- The story of Gerd and Frey -- Hymir and Thor's fishing expedition -- The death of Balder -- The last days of Loki -- Ragnarok : The final destiny of the gods."--Book jacket."Neil Gaiman stays true to the myths in envisioning the major Norse pantheon: Odin, the highest of the high, wise, daring, and cunning; Thor, Odin's son, incredibly strong yet not the wisest of gods; and Loki, son of a giant, blood brother to Odin, and a trickster and unsurpassable manipulator. Gaiman fashions these primeval stories into a novelistic arc that begins with the genesis of the legendary nine worlds and delves into the exploits of deities, dwarfs, and giants. Once, when Thor's hammer is stolen, Thor must disguise himself as a woman -- difficult with his beard and huge appetite -- to steal it back. More poignant is the tale in which the blood of Kvasir -- the most sagacious of gods -- is turned into a mead that infuses drinkers with poetry. The work culminates in Ragnarok, the twilight of the gods and rebirth of a new time and people.
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Myths.; Mythology, Norse.; Bestsellers, New York Times - Fiction; Mythology, Norse.;
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Ottawa stories from the Springs : anishinaabe dibaadjimowinan wodi gaa binjibaamigak wodi mookodjiwong e zhinikaadek / by Webkamigad, Howard,translator,editor.;
"Sometimes things come to people out of the blue and seemingly for a reason. The Anishinaabe word for this is nigika. The stories contained in this collection reached Howard Webkamigad nearly eighty years after they were recorded, after first being kept in their original copper wire format by the American Philosophical Society and later being converted onto cassettes and held by Dr. James McClurken of Michigan State University. These rich tales, recorded by Anishinaabe people in the Harbor Springs area of Michigan, draw on the legends, fables, trickster stories, parables, and humor of Anishinaabe culture. Reaching back to the distant past but also delving into more recent events, this book contains a broad swath of the history of the Ojibwe/Chippewa, Ottawa, Pottawatomi, Algonkian, Abenaki, Saulteau, Mashkiigowok/Cree, and other groups that make up the broad range of the Anishinaabe-speaking peoples. Provided here are original stories transcribed from Anishinaabe-language recordings alongside Howard Webkamigad's English translations. These stories not only provide a textured portrait of a complex people but also will help Anishinaabe-language learners see patterns in the language and get a sense of how it flows. Featuring side-by-side Anishinaabe/English translations"--Note on the recordings / by James McClurken -- Foreword / by Frank Ettawageshik -- Introduction -- Anishinaabemowin sounds -- Part 1. Nenibozhoo stories -- Part 2. Legends and cultural stories -- Part 3. Historical stories -- Part 4. Contemporary stories.
Subjects: Ojibwa Indians; Ottawa Indians; Ojibwa Indians; Ottawa Indians; Ojibwa language;
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The book of Greek and Roman folktales, legends, and myths / [electronic resource]. by Hansen, William.;
The first anthology ever to present the entire range of ancient Greek and Roman stories -- from myths and fairy tales to jokes Captured centaurs and satyrs, talking animals, people who suddenly change sex, men who give birth, the temporarily insane and the permanently thick-witted, delicate sensualists, incompetent seers, a woman who remembers too much, a man who cannot laugh—these are just some of the colorful characters who feature in the unforgettable stories that ancient Greeks and Romans told in their daily lives. Together they created an incredibly rich body of popular oral stories that include, but range well beyond, mythology -- from heroic legends, fairy tales, and fables to ghost stories, urban legends, and jokes. This unique anthology presents the largest collection of these tales ever assembled. Featuring nearly four hundred stories in authoritative and highly readable translations, this is the first book to offer a representative selection of the entire range of traditional classical storytelling. Set mostly in the world of humans, not gods, these stories focus on figures such as lovers, tricksters, philosophers, merchants, rulers, athletes, artists, and soldiers. The narratives range from the well-known -- for example, Cupid and Psyche, Diogenes and his lantern, and the tortoise and the hare -- to lesser-known tales that deserve wider attention. Entertaining and fascinating, they offer a unique window into the fantasies, anxieties, humor, and passions of the people who told them. Complete with beautiful illustrations by Glynnis Fawkes, a comprehensive introduction, notes, and more, this one-of-a-kind anthology will delight general readers as well as students of classics, fairy tales, and folklore.Electronic reproduction.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Nonfiction.; Literary Criticism.; Sociology.;
© 2017.,
On-line resources: http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=3031075 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive.;
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