Summer Reading 2020 Archives - Queens College Library

Here’s our second installment of e-books for Summer Reading.

No Knives in the Kitchens of This City by Khaled Khalifa; Leri Price (Translator)ISBN: 9789774167812Publication Date: 2016-10-15In the once beautiful city of Aleppo, one family descends into ruin in this novel from “one of the rising stars of Arab fiction”– New York Times

The Tales of the Heike by Burton Watson; Haruo Shirane
ISBN: 9780231138024
Publication Date: 2006-06-27

The Tales of the Heike is one of the most influential works in Japanese literature and culture, remaining even today a crucial source for fiction, drama, and popular media. Originally written in the mid-thirteenth century, it features a cast of vivid characters and chronicles the epic Genpei war, a civil conflict that marked the end of the power of the Heike and changed the course of Japanese history.

Inuit Stories of Being and Rebirth by Peter Frost (Translator); Claude Lévi-Strauss (Foreword by); Bernard Saladin d’Anglure
ISBN: 9780887558306
Publication Date: 2018-11-30

Ujarak, Iqallijuq, and Kupaaq were elders from the Inuit community on Igloolik Island in Nunavut. The three elders, among others, shared with Bernard Saladin d’Anglure the narratives which make up the heart of Inuit Stories of Being and Rebirth. Through their words, and historical sources recorded by Franz Boas and Knud Rasmussen, Saladin d’Anglure examines the Inuit notion of personhood and its relationship to cosmology and mythology.

For the Love of Pie by Felipa Lopez; Cheryl Perry; Lynne Hulsman (As told to); Tara Striano (Photographer)
ISBN: 9781423647690
Publication Date: 2017-08-22

Join the Pie Corps’ mission to create the finest-quality, handmade, soul-satisfying, savory and sweet pies. Cheryl Perry and Felipa Lopez, owners of Brooklyn’s Pie Corps, share their pie-making expertise and delicious recipes in their first cookbook.

Hidden Lives by Lenore Rowntree (Editor)ISBN: 9781927366547Publication Date: 2017-06-08A revised and updated edition of a collection of personal essays that illuminate what life is like for those who live with mental illness, and how it impacts their family members.

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Here’s our first installment of e-books to kick off Summer Reading 2020.

The Last Laugh by Trevor J. Blank
ISBN: 9780299292041
Publication Date: 2013-08-26

Widely publicized in mass media worldwide, high-profile tragedies and celebrity scandals–the untimely deaths of Michael Jackson and Princess Diana, the embarrassing affairs of Tiger Woods and President Clinton, the 9/11 attacks or the Challenger space shuttle explosion–often provoke nervous laughter and black humor. If in the past this snarky folklore may have been shared among friends and uttered behind closed doors, today the Internet’s ubiquity and instant interactivity propels such humor across a much more extensive and digitally mediated discursive space. New media not only let more people “in on the joke,” but they have also become the “go-to” formats for engaging in symbolic interaction, especially in times of anxiety or emotional suppression, by providing users an expansive forum for humorous, combative, or intellectual communication, including jokes that cross the line of propriety and good taste.

The World Is Waiting for You by Isabel Ostrer (Editor); Tara Grove (Editor)
ISBN: 9781620970904
Publication Date: 2015-04-01

The voices of conformity speak so loudly. Don’t listen to them’, cautioned acclaimed author and award-winning journalist Anna Quindlen, in a commencement speech for Grinnell College. With more than a dozen contemporary graduation speeches that dissect the world as it is and imagine what it could be, The World is Waiting for You brings forth the courageous people who’ve dared to transform the podium into a pulpit for championing peace, justice, protest and a better world.

‘The Big Book of Nature Activities by Jacob Rodenburg; Drew Monkman
ISBN: 9780865718029
Publication Date: 2016-06-17

Get out! Seasonal activities, information, stories, games and observations to foster engagement with the natural world.

Kindred: a Graphic Novel Adaptation by Octavia E. Butler; John Jennings (Illustrator); Damian Duffy (Adapted by)
ISBN: 9781419709470
Publication Date: 2017-01-10

Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller Octavia E. Butler’s bestselling literary science-fiction masterpiece, Kindred, now in graphic novel format. More than 35 years after its release, Kindred continues to draw in new readers with its deep exploration of the violence and loss of humanity caused by slavery in the United States, and its complex and lasting impact on the present day. Adapted by celebrated academics and comics artists Damian Duffy and John Jennings, this graphic novel powerfully renders Butler’s mysterious and moving story, which spans racial and gender divides in the antebellum South through the 20th century.

Selected Poems of Rumi by Jalalu’l-Din Rumi; Reynold A. Nicholson
ISBN: 9780486415833
Publication Date: 2011-03-17

In recent years the stirring, unforgettable poetry of Jalālu’l-Dīn Rūmī (1207-1273), the great Sūfi teacher and the greatest mystical poet of Iran, has gained tremendous popularity in the western world. Although he died over 700 years ago, his poetry is timeless. In the best modern translations, the passion and playfulness of his words reach across the ages to communicate themselves to people today with an undiluted fervor and excitement.

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