Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Never after volume 4
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The League of Seven follows the yellow brick road to retrieve the sword of Excalibur and save Fil's mother from Olga's evil clutches.
Author
Publisher
Collins Crime Club
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
724 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the first major history of crime fiction in fifty years, the book traces the evolution of the genre from the eighteenth century to the present, offering brand-new perspective on the world's most popular form of fiction"--NoveList Plus.
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by forests, trees, leaves, roots, and seeds, The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape invites readers to discover an unexpected and imaginative language to better read and write the natural world around us and reclaim our relationship with it. In this gorgeously illustrated and deeply thoughtful collection, Katie Holten gifts readers her tree alphabet and uses it to masterfully translate and illuminate beloved lost...
Author
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xiv, 330 pages) : illustrations.
Language
English
Description
The author examines how debates over slavery in the three decades before the Civil War employed legal labguage to 'try' the case for slavery in the court of public opinion via popular print media.
Author
Series
Clearinghouse publication volume 62
Publisher
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
Pub. Date
1980.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (iii, 19 pages).
Language
English
Author
Series
Fables (Bill Willingham) volume 9
Publisher
Vertigo/DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
200 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Pinocchio suffers seriously divided loyalties between his father, the evil Adversary, and his fellow Fable refugees in New York. Plus, Bigby Wolf reluctantly decides it's finally time to square accounts with his long-estranged father, the North Wind, and makes a journey with Snow White and their kids to find him"--Publisher's web site
Author
Series
Fables (Bill Willingham) volume 1
Publisher
Vertigo/DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
228 pages : chiefly illustrations (all color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Prince Ambrose is released from trauma-induced amnesia and must pass a test after traveling through the lands of the dead in order to help Fabletown and the Homelands.
Author
Series
Fables (Bill Willingham) volume 13
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
224 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this crossover of all the Fables characters from various spinoff books, Kevin Thorn, the creator of the world and its stories, is angry such liberties were taken with his characters and is determined to destroy the Fablesverse and start over. The regular Fables cast, Snow White, Bigby Wolf, and Jack (the one with the beanstalk)--with a few additions such as gun-toting embodiments of the library sciences and Thorn's son, Mister Revise--try to stop...
12) The last rose
Author
Series
Sisters ever after volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
To rescue her beautiful older sister from the vicious Beast, Mera enters the Beast’s eerie, magic-haunted castle, where nothing is quite what it seems, and must face dark secrets that have bound her village to the Beast for so long to set them all free.
13) Hooked
Author
Series
Never after novel volume 1
Publisher
Emily McIntire
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Once upon a time, there was a little boy. His belly full of laughter, his life full of joy. Until one day, something changed; stripped his innocence away. The hole inside making space for the devil to come and play. His dreams gone forever, he grew up way too fast. An endless night of crocodiles, and watches made of glass. He grew into a villain, the taste of vengeance on his tongue. Craving to make his enemies pay for the misdeeds they had done....
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
vi, 263 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"These seventeen essays by celebrated writers of color start a more inclusive conversation about storytelling and encourage readers and writers to re-evaluate the codes and conventions that have shaped their assumptions about how fiction should be written"--
Series
Publisher
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xii, 260 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Highland Summer Writing Conference (HSC), held each summer along the banks of the ancient New River at Radford University's Selu Conservancy, brings together and inspires writers as they participate in the communal art of creating and sharing. Over the years, many prestigious Appalachian authors have taught workshops to like-minded students, many of whom became published authors in their own right. This book, a celebration of the HSC, is a collection...
Series
Publisher
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xi, 213 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Appalachian literature has no small share of silent or non-discursive characters, though the reasons for their wordlessness vary. This collection of new essays analyzes characters who are unable or unwilling to communicate orally, whose lack of voice conveys physical, mental or social hindrance"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Blue Box Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
547 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Visions of Flesh and Blood: a Blood and Ash/Flesh and Fire Compendium is a comprehensive companion guide for background, history, reader-favorite information, art, and reference materials. Combined with original short stories and scenes from some of the world's most beloved characters, as well as never-before-seen visual enticements, it's a treat for the senses. Told from the viewpoint of Miss Willa herself, the compendium acts like research material...
Series
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
x, 296 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In Civil War Writing: New Perspectives on Iconic Texts, editors Gary W. Gallagher and Stephen Cushman collect new scholarly essays which explore the significant texts about the American Civil War written by the people who lived through it, whether as civilians or combatants, southerners or northerners, women or men, blacks or whites. Several of the works discussed in the book, such as William Tecumseh Sherman's and Edward Porter Alexander's memoirs...
Interlibrary loan through ILLiad
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Knox County Public Library can be requested from other libraries to be delivered to your pickup location.
Suggest a purchase
If it is too new for interlibrary loan (6 months), you can place a suggestion with us. Suggest a Purchase