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Nobody gets out alive : stories
\"A collection of stories by the former books editor at Oprah.com about women and girls living the frontier Alaskan lives we associate with men\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Cabin, Clearing, Forest
\"People break my heart. Every single one of them does.\" In settings
that range from rural fishing communities to the urban capital, the
stories of Cabin, Clearing, Forest are a lyrical road map
to the human landscape of contemporary Alaska. In \"Blue Ticket,\" a
stranger finds solace in a Juneau homeless encampment. Old friends
argue over the pleasures and perils of small-town life in \"A
Beginner's Guide to Leaving Your Hometown,\" and in \"Every Island
Longs for the Continent,\" a young family falls apart after moving
to Kodiak. In these thirteen stories, Zach Falcon explores the
burdens of familiarity and the pains of estrangement through
characters struggling with their place in the world.
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Cold Flashes
As the old adage goes, \"if you can't say it in a few pages, you
won't in a hundred.\" The selections in Cold Flashes- very
short prose and black-and-white photographs-embody perfectly this
transparency, thrift, and restraint. Found here are highly polished
micro-narratives, both fiction and nonfiction, and a series of
eloquent and artistic halftones that capture their sizeable
subjects in a nutshell. By minimizing the exposition, the
selections stimulate the imagination to reflect on the rich
diversity of people and places that make up Alaska. To be savored
piecemeal at coffee shops, on the bus, or while waiting in line,
the images and text in Cold Flashes will resonate with
both the reader and each other, fusing into something profound yet
elusive.
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Beyond the Page: Pairing Children’s Literature with Video Games
A patron walks in and asks for the latest Minecraft book—luckily a copy was just checked in! Like other media reinforcement books, popular video game books often demand multiple copies and frequent replacements. A satisfied patron might walk out with a target book and a stack of other titles.But what if the model were flipped, and instead of reinforcing a single franchise, connections among games and books represented the library’s wider book and media collection? We introduce recent narrative video games for tweens, encouraging exploration of themes and topical connections between games and the children’s literature collection.
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Lily's mountain
Unable to believe their father died while climbing Mount Denali, twelve-year-old Lily and her older sister, Sophie, climb the mountain in order to rescue him.
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Visual Art and Fashion as Part of an English Department’s Afrofuturism Syllabus
Images in film, paintings, sketches, and sculpture sometimes drive ideas home in ways that words on the page do not, prompting more visceral reactions and the desire to enact change instead of thinking about subjects on a more abstract level. This essay explores how the visual arts were used in a Fall 2020 course on Afrofuturist literature to supplement conventional readings, class discussions, and writing assignments, helping students to grasp many of the central principles of genre, such as re-visioning reality and undermining the “logics” established by colonial regimes, neo-colonial powers, and systemic racism; the ways that the past permeates the present; the possibilities of Africanist existence in a rich and productive future; how intersections of race, gender, and class influence artists' reconfigurations of artistic forms long dominated by White men. Several creative research projects, produced by students at the end of the semester, are described at length and analyzed to illustrate how they proccessed course concepts, and how Afrofuturist texts resonated in powerful ways during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Five Voices From the Four Directions: Indigenous Storytelling in a Place of Greater Hope and Infinite Gratitude
In this interview, we explore the current state of Indigenous children's literature and the creative process of five distinguished storytellers: Michaela Goade, Cynthia Leitich Smith, Carole Lindstrom, Kevin Noble Maillard, and Traci Sorell.
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