Telling tales

Publishing Date: 2004

Classification: 800

Call Number: 808.83

The Nobel Prize-winning author brings together twenty-one short stories in a special anthology aimed at HIVAIDS preventative education and treatment for the people in southern Africa, with contributions by Chinua Achebe, Margaret Atwood, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, John Updike, Amos Oz, Kenzaburo Oe, Arthur Miller, Hanif Kureishi, Paul Theroux, and other notable authors.

Walking in Cornwall

By Le Guin, Ursula K.

Publishing Date: 1976, 2013

Classification: 800

Call Number: 811.54 LEG

This is a new edition of a poetry book by the American author Ursula Le Guin published in the mid-1970s, Walking In Cornwall. The poems are about a visit to Cornwall in the West of England. Walking In Cornwall is illustrated with paintings by Cornish artists Paul Lewin and Paul Evans, and includes images of some of the places described in Ursula Le Guin's poems.

You better be lightning

By Gibson, Andrea

Publishing Date: 2021

Classification: 800

Call Number: 811.6 GIB

A queer, political, and feminist collection guided by self-reflection. The poems range from close examination of the deeply personal to the vastness of the world, exploring the expansiveness of the human experience from love to illness, from space to climate change, and so much more in between. One of the most celebrated poets and performers of the last two decades, Andrea Gibson's trademark honesty and vulnerability are on full display in You Better Be Lightning, welcoming and inviting readers to be just as they are.

Road novels, 1957-1960

By Kerouac, Jack

Publishing Date: c2007

Classification: 800

Call Number: 813.54 KER

A collector's edition of five works by the late Beat Generation classic writer combines the eminent "On the Road" with the novels, "The Dharma Bums," "The Subterraneans," "Tristessa," and "Lonesome Traveler."