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Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Presents the full text of "The Star-Spangled Banner" in both its original version and in a translated version using everyday language. Describes the events that led to the creation of America's national anthem and its significance through history"--Provided by publisher.
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Pub. Date
2019
Description
A new, feminist translation of Beowulf by the author of the much-buzzed-about novel The Mere Wife.
Nearly twenty years after Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf-and fifty years after the translation that continues to torment high-school students around the world-there is a radical new verse translation of the epic poem by Maria Dahvana Headley, which brings to light elements that have never before been translated into English, recontextualizing...
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[2012]
Description
The author has fully realized both the potential for vocal expressiveness in his phrasing and the way his phrasing plays against - and with - his genius for metrical variation, thus becoming an amazingly flexible instrument of psychological and spiritual inquiry and which gives him access to an immense variety of feeling.
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This is a harrowing memoir of how one person has made a difference: Daoud Hari helped inform the world about the genocide in Darfur. Hari, a Zaghawa tribesman, grew up in a village in the Darfur region of Sudan. In 2003, traditional life was shattered when government-backed militias attacked Darfur's villages with helicopters and on horseback, raping and murdering citizens and burning villages. His family dispersed, Hari escaped. He and friends helped...
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Presents the Bill of Rights in both its original version and in a translated version using everyday language. Describes the events that led to the creation of the document and its significance through history"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This book presents the Gettysburg Address in its original version and in a translated version using everyday language, as well as information on events that led to the creation of the document and its significance in history.
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Presents the full text of the Pledge of Allegiance in both its original version and in a translated version using everyday language. Describes the events that led to the creation of the pledge and its significance through history"--Provided by publisher.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"When Enae's grandmaman passes away, Enae inherits something entirely unexpected: a diplomatic assignment to track down a fugitive who has been missing for over 200 years. No one actually expects Enae to succeed; it's an empty assignment meant to keep hir occupied. But Enae has never had a true purpose-no one ever expected hir to do more than care for grandmaman-so sie is determined to accomplish this task to the best of her ability. Reet knows nothing...
34) Sidewalks
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Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Valeria Luiselli is an evening cyclist; a literary tourist in Venice, searching for Joseph Brodsky's tomb; an excavator of her own artifacts, unpacking from a move. In essays that are as companionable as they are ambitious, she uses the city to exercise a roving, meandering intelligence, seeking out the questions embedded in our human landscapes.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"What letter does the word bee start with? If you said "B" you're right -- in English! But in many, many languages, it actually starts with A. Bee is Anū in Igbo, Aamoo in Ojibwe, Abelha in Portugese, and Arı in Turkish. Come and explore the gorgeous variations in the ways we talk about familiar things, unified and illuminated through Ellen Heck's eye-catching, graphic scratchboard details and hidden letterforms."--
Description
To achieve accuracy, the translator has made use of the best works of old and modern tafsir (Quran commentaries), and shared the work with several Imams in North America for feedback and insight. For clarity, every effort has been made to select easy to understand words and phrases that reflect the original text. Along with informative footnotes and Sura (chapter) introductions, verses have been grouped and titled based on their themes for a better...