Emily Wilson
1) Falcons
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Series
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"What makes falcons different from other birds of prey? If it isn't their small size, it's their unique ability to be trained by people to hunt. Readers learn these facts and more through this volume, which offers an exciting perspective on important elementary life science topics. Readers will delight in learning about this raptor's appearance, survival techniques, predatory behavior, and more. Popular falcon species such as the Peregrine falcon...
Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The Three Graces of Val-Kill changes the way we think about Eleanor Roosevelt. Emily Wilson examines what she calls the most formative period in Roosevelt's life, from 1922 to 1936, when she cultivated an intimate friendship with Marion Dickerman and Nancy Cook, who helped her build a cottage on the Val-Kill Creek in Hyde Park on the Roosevelt family land. In the early years, the three women--the "three graces," as Franklin Delano Roosevelt called...
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
Emily Paige Wilson's inspiring YA novel in verse is at times gripping and dripping with teenage angst, but always heartwarming and inspiring. Told in captivating lyrical verse, Four Months Past Florence follows an aspiring high school journalist's journey through friendship breakups, a moral dilemma that threatens her family, and the realization that life, like the weather, doesn't always unfold as predicted.
Four Months Past Florence...
Four Months Past Florence...
Author
Series
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Beavers are nature s engineers, and their industriousness begins at home! These busy animals work tirelessly to create elaborate lodges. Though they re important sites of food storage, safety, and raising kits, beaver homes also create and sustain ecosystems. This book, which was written to support elementary science curricula, allows readers to explore important science concepts, including habitat welfare and relationships in the natural world....
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Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Stories are sly things . . . they can be hard to catch and kill.
Inanna is an impossibility. The first full Anunnaki born on Earth in Ancient Mesopotamia. Crowned the goddess of love by the twelve immortal Anunnaki who are worshipped across Sumer, she is destined for greatness.
But Inanna is born into a time of war. The Anunnaki have split into warring factions, threatening to tear the world apart. Forced into a marriage to negotiate a peace, she...
11) The Odyssey
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Series
Language
English
Description
Odysseus--soldier, sailor, trickster, and everyman--is one of the most recognizable characters in world literature. His arduous, ten-year journey home after the Trojan War, the subject of Homer's Odyssey, is the most accessible tale to survive from ancient Greece, and its impact is still felt today across many different cultures. This lively free verse translation, from one of today's leading Homeric scholars, preserves the clarity and simplicity...
12) The Iliad
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Series
Language
English
Description
"When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017-revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that "combines intellectual authority with addictive readability" (Edith Hall, The Sunday Telegraph)-critics lauded it as "a revelation" (Susan Chira, The New York Times) and "a cultural landmark" (Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian) that would forever change how Homer is read in English. Now Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory...
13) Six tragedies
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Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
This is a lively, readable and accurate verse translation of the six best plays by one of the most influential of all classical Latin writers. The volume includes 'Phaedra', 'Oedipus', 'Medea', 'Trojan Women', 'Hercules Furens', and 'Thyestes', together with an invaluable introduction and notes.
Author
Publisher
Baraka Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
The local and the universal come together in these 37 short stories, brought into English by 37 different translators from all over the world.
The result gives readers a flavour of the fresh new writing coming out of Quebec-and a reminder that there are at least 37 different ways to translate an author's voice.
Translators include literary translation students, first-time and up-and-coming literary translators, world-renowned translators who have...