University of Houston-Downtown, W.I. Dykes Library, One Main Street, Houston, TX 77002 Need an Answer? Ask a Librarian!
 

New Books in English

January 2008

The ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh : a woman in world history / Linda Colley.
New York : Pantheon Books, c2007.
GENERAL COLLECTION CT788.M2187 C65 2007

Dissing Elizabeth : negative representations of Gloriana / edited by Julia M. Walker.
Durham : Duke University Press, 1998.
GENERAL COLLECTION DA355 .D57 1998

1603 : the death of Queen Elizabeth I, the return of the Black Plague, the rise of Shakespeare, piracy, witchcraft and the birth of the Stuart era / Christopher Lee.
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2004.
GENERAL COLLECTION DA391 .L425 2004 c.2

Public relations inquiry as rhetorical criticism : case studies of corporate discourse and social influence / edited by William N. Elwood
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1995
GENERAL COLLECTION HM263 .P76568 1995

Written reliquaries : the resonance of orality in medieval English texts / Leslie K. Arnovick.
Amsterdam Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, c2006.
GENERAL COLLECTION P302.7 .A76 2006

Visual rhetoric in a digital world : a critical sourcebook / Carolyn Handa.
Boston : Bedford/St. Martins, 2004.
GENERAL COLLECTION P93.5 .H363 2004

Shaping information : the rhetoric of visual conventions / Charles Kostelnick and Michael Hassett.
Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2003.
GENERAL COLLECTION P93.5 .K67 2003

De oratore : Book III : De fato. Paradoxa stoicorum. De partitione oratoria / Marcus Tullius Cicero With an English translation by H. Rackham.
Cambridge Harvard University Press 1997
GENERAL COLLECTION PA6156.C6 D6 1942 v.2

The Cambridge encyclopedia of the English language / David Crystal.
Cambridge, U.K. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
REFERENCE PE1072 .C68 2003

The Cambridge grammar of the English language / Rodney Huddleston, Geoffrey K. Pullum in collaboration with Laurie Bauer ... [et al.].
Cambridge, UK New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
REFERENCE PE1106 .H74 2002

Oxford dictionary of pronunciation for current English / Clive Upton, William A. Kretzschmar, Jr., Rafal Konopka.
Oxford New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
REFERENCE PE1137 .U66 2003

Style : the basics of clarity and grace / Joseph M. Williams.
New York : Pearson Longman, c2006.
REFERENCE PE1421 .W5455 2006

Merriam-Webster's dictionary of English usage.
Springfield, Mass. : Merriam-Webster, Inc., c1994.
REFERENCE PE1460.M45 1994

Publication of the American Dialect Society
University, Ala. [etc.] Published for the Society by University of Alabama Press [etc.]
GENERAL COLLECTION PE1702 .A5 no. 92

Other colors : essays and a story / Orhan Pamuk translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
GENERAL COLLECTION PL248.P34 O8413 2007

A dry white season [videorecording] / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents a Paula Weinstein production in association with Star Partners II, Ltd. produced by Paula Weinstein screenplay by Colin Welland and Euzhan Palcy directed by Euzhan Palcy.
Culver City, Calif. : Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment : Distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Inc., [2005]
AV SERVICES PN 1995.9.D795 2005 DVD

Poetry & pedagogy : the challenge of the contemporary / edited by Joan Retallack and Juliana Spahr.
New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
GENERAL COLLECTION PN1101 .P575 2006

The omen [videorecording] / Twentieth Century-Fox presents a Harvey Bernhard-Mace Neufeld production written by David Seltzer produced by Harvey Bernhard directed by Richard Donner.
Beverly Hills, Calif : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2006]
AV SERVICES PN1995.9 .H6 O43 2006 DVD

Working stiffs, union maids, reds, and riffraff : an expanded guide to films about labor / Tom Zaniello.
Ithaca : ILR Press/COrnell University Press, 2003.
GENERAL COLLECTION PN1995.9.L28 Z36 2003

Hitch [videorecording] : Alfred the auteur / BBC Worldwide produced by Tim Kirby.
Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2004.
AV SERVICES PN1998.3.H58 H572 2004 DVD

Can these bones live? : translation, survival, and cultural memory / Bella Brodzki.
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007.
GENERAL COLLECTION PN241 .B67 2007

The stage and social struggle in early modern England / Jean E. Howard
London New York : Routledge, 1994
GENERAL COLLECTION PN2589 .H69 1994

The kingdom of fear : loathsome secrets of a star-crossed child in the final days of the American century / Hunter S. Thompson.
New York : Simon & Schuster, c2003.
GENERAL COLLECTION PN4874.T444 A3 2003

100 great poems of the twentieth century / [edited by] Mark Strand.
New York : W.W. Norton, c2005.
GENERAL COLLECTION PN6101 .A163 2005

Anatomy of criticism : four essays / Northrop Frye with a foreword by Harold Bloom.
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2000, c1957.
GENERAL COLLECTION PN81 .F75 2000

Literary theory : a guide for the perplexed / Mary Klages.
London New York, NY : Continuum, 2006.
GENERAL COLLECTION PN81 .K53 2006

A companion to US Latino literatures / edited by Carlota Caulfield, Darién J. Davis.
Woodbridge, UK : Tamesis Rochester, NY : Boydell & Brewer, 2007.
GENERAL COLLECTION PQ7070 .C66 2007

Mexican writers on writing / edited by Margaret Sayers Peden.
San Antonio, Tex. : Trinity University Press, c2007.
GENERAL COLLECTION PQ7236.5.A98 M49 2007

The English reader : what every literate person needs to know / edited by Diane Ravitch and Michael Ravitch.
Oxford New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
GENERAL COLLECTION PR1109 .E63 2006

Sin and evil : moral values in literature / Ronald Paulson.
New Haven [CT] : Yale University Press, c2007.
GENERAL COLLECTION PR149.E87 P38 2007

Doctor Faustus : with the English Faust book / Christopher Marlowe edited, with introduction and notes, by David Wootton.
Indianapolis : Hackett Pub. Co., c2005.
GENERAL COLLECTION PR2664.A2 W66 2005

Works. 1997. Norton;"The Norton Shakespeare / Stephen Greenblatt, general editor Walter Cohen, Jean E. Howard, Katharine Eisaman Maus [editors] with an essay on the Shakespearean stage by Andrew Gurr."
New York : W.W. Norton, c1997.
GENERAL COLLECTION PR2754 .G74 1997

Macbeth : texts and contexts / William Shakespeare edited by William C. Carroll.
Boston : Bedford/St. Martin's, c1999.
GENERAL COLLECTION PR2823.A2 C37 1999

The tempest : a case study in critical controversy / William Shakespeare edited by Gerald Graff and James Phelan.
Boston : Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000.
GENERAL COLLECTION PR2833.A2 G736 2000

Shakespeare survey
Cambridge [Eng.] New York, Cambridge University Press, 1948-
GENERAL COLLECTION PR2888 .C3 v. 60

A Shakespeare glossary / C.T. Onions enlarged and revised throughout by Robert D. Eagleson
Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press, 1986
GENERAL COLLECTION PR2892 .O6 1986

Shakespearean negotiations : the circulation of social energy in Renaissance England / Stephen Greenblatt
Berkeley : University of California Press, c1988
GENERAL COLLECTION PR2976 .G737 1988 c.2

Materialist Shakespeare : a history / edited by Ivo Kamps
London New York : Verso, 1995
GENERAL COLLECTION PR3024 .M38 1995

Shakespeare, race, and colonialism / Ania Loomba.
Oxford New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
GENERAL COLLECTION PR3069.R33 L66 2002

Shakespeare and gender : a history / edited by Deborah Barker and Ivo Kamps
London New York : Verso, 1995
GENERAL COLLECTION PR3069.S45 S53 1995

Emma [sound recording] / by Jane Austen.
Auburn, CA : Audio Partners, p1989.
AV SERVICES PR4034 .E5 1989 Book on CD
Writers, readers, and reputations : literary life in Britain, 1870-1918 / Philip Waller.
Oxford New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
GENERAL COLLECTION PR451 .W35 2006

The transforming draught : Jekyll and Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson and the Victorian alcohol debate / Thomas L. Reed, Jr.
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2006.
GENERAL COLLECTION PR5485 .R45 2006

Dubliners [sound recording] / by James Joyce.
New York, NY : HarperCollins Caedmon Audio, 2005.
AV SERVICES PR6019.O9 D8 2005c Book on CD
James Joyce and the act of reception : reading, Ireland, modernism / John Nash.
Cambridge New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
GENERAL COLLECTION PR6019.O9 Z7465 2006

Dracula [sound recording] / Bram Stoker.
Ashland, Or. : Blackstone Audiobooks, c1998, 2005.
AV SERVICES PR6037.T617 D7 2005 Book on CD
Ents, elves, and Eriador : the environmental vision of J.R.R. Tolkien / Matthew Dickerson and Jonathan Evans.
Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2006.
GENERAL COLLECTION PR6039.O32 Z636 2006

Virginia Woolf : feminism and the reader / Anne E. Fernald.
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
GENERAL COLLECTION PR6045.O72 Z6275 2006

My words echo thus : possessing the past in Peter Ackroyd / Barry Lewis.
Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, c2007.
GENERAL COLLECTION PR6051.C64 Z75 2007

Helliconia summer / Brian W. Aldiss.
New York : Atheneum, 1983.
GENERAL COLLECTION PR6051.L3 H44 1983

The drought / J.G. Ballard.
Harmondsworth New York : Penguin Books, 1977, c1965.
GENERAL COLLECTION PR6052.A45 D7 1977

The atrocity exhibition / by J.G. Ballard, with author's annotations.
San Francisco, CA : RE/Search Publications, c1990.
GENERAL COLLECTION PR6052.A46 A93 1990

Crash [by] J.G. Ballard.
New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux [1973]
GENERAL COLLECTION PR6052.A46C73 1973

High-rise / J.G. Ballard.
New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1977, c1975.
GENERAL COLLECTION PR6052.A46H55 1975

The player of games / Iain M. Banks.
New York : St. Martin's Press, c1989.
GENERAL COLLECTION PR6052.A485 P54 1989

Perdido Street Station / China Miéville.
New York : Del Rey/Ballantine Books, 2003, c2000.
GENERAL COLLECTION PR6063.I265 P47 2003

The scar / China Miéville.
New York : Ballantine Books, 2002.
GENERAL COLLECTION PR6063.I265 S33 2002

Galactic north / Alastair Reynolds.
New York : Ace Books, c2007.
GENERAL COLLECTION PR6068.E95 G35 2007

Textual intercourse : collaboration, authorship, and sexualities in Renaissance drama / Jeffrey Masten.
Cambridge New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
GENERAL COLLECTION PR658.T4 M37 1997

Catholic figures, queer narratives / edited by Lowell Gallagher, Frederick S. Roden and Patricia Juliana Smith.
Basingstoke [England] New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
GENERAL COLLECTION PR830.H67 C37 2007

Working fictions : a genealogy of the Victorian novel / Carolyn Lesjak.
Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.
GENERAL COLLECTION PR871 .L47 2006

Irish writers on writing / edited by Eavan Boland.
San Antonio, Tex. : Trinity University Press, c2007.
GENERAL COLLECTION PR8718 .I75 2007

Theorists of the modernist novel : James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson, Virginia Woolf / Deborah Parsons.
Abingdon [England] New York : Routledge, 2007.
GENERAL COLLECTION PR888.M63 P38 2007

Elizabeth Rex / by Timothy Findley with Paul Thompson.
Winnipeg : Blizzard Niagara Falls, N.Y. : Distributed in the U.S. by General Distribution Services, 2000.
GENERAL COLLECTION PR9199.3.F52 E45 2000

Ernestine Shuswap gets her trout : a string quartet for four female actors / Tomson Highway.
Vancouver, B.C. : Talonbooks, c2005.
GENERAL COLLECTION PR9199.3.H472 E76 2005

Bloodletting & miraculous cures / Vincent Lam.
New York : Weinstein Books, c2007.
GENERAL COLLECTION PR9199.4.L353 B56 2007

A distant shore : a novel / Caryl Phillips.
New York : Vintage Books, 2005.
GENERAL COLLECTION PR9275.S263 P4729 2005

The nature of blood / Caryl Phillips.
New York : Knopf, 1997.
GENERAL COLLECTION PR9275.S263 P47646 1997

Astounding science fiction, July 1939 / as edited by John W. Campbell, Jr. memoirs edited by Martin H. Greenberg foreword by Stanley Schmidt.
Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c1981.
GENERAL COLLECTION PS.648.S3.A74.1980

Critical companion to Mark Twain : a literary reference to his life and work / R. Kent Rasmussen with critical commentary by John H. Davis and Alex Feerst.
New York : Facts On File, c2007.
GENERAL COLLECTION PS1330 .R37 2007 v.1

Critical companion to Mark Twain : a literary reference to his life and work / R. Kent Rasmussen with critical commentary by John H. Davis and Alex Feerst.
New York : Facts On File, c2007.
GENERAL COLLECTION PS1330 .R37 2007 v.2

Gay men in modern southern literature : ritual, initiation, & the construction of masculinity / William Mark Poteet.
New York : Peter Lang, c2006.
GENERAL COLLECTION PS261 .P68 2006

A worldly county : new poems / John Ashbery.
New York : Ecco, c2007.
GENERAL COLLECTION PS3501.S475 W67 2007

Big sleep;"The big sleep & Farewell, my lovely / Raymond Chandler."
New York : Modern Library, 1995.
GENERAL COLLECTION PS3505.H3224 A6 1995

T.S. Eliot / Craig Raine.
Oxford New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
GENERAL COLLECTION PS3509.L43 Z8173 2006

Nobody said not to go : the life, loves, and adventures of Emily Hahn / Ken Cuthbertson.
Boston : Faber and Faber, 1998.
GENERAL COLLECTION PS3515.A2422 Z62 1998

Novels. Selections;"The Maltese falcon The thin man Red harvest / Dashiell Hammett with an introduction by Robert Polito."
New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, [2000].
GENERAL COLLECTION PS3515.A4347 A6 2000

Claude McKay : the literary identity from Jamaica to Harlem and beyond / Kotti Sree Ramesh and Kandula Nirupa Rani.
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2006.
GENERAL COLLECTION PS3525.A24785 Z87 2006

The singing bird : a Cherokee novel / John Milton Oskison edited by Timothy B. Powell and Melinda Smith Mullikin foreword by Jace Weaver.
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2007.
GENERAL COLLECTION PS3529.S545 S56 2007

Flight : a novel / Sherman Alexie.
New York : Black Cat : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2007.
GENERAL COLLECTION PS3551.L35774 F57 2007

Primary inversion / Catherine Asaro.
New York : TOR, 1995.
GENERAL COLLECTION PS3551.S29 P75 1995

The radiant seas / Catherine Asaro.
New York : Tor, 1999.
GENERAL COLLECTION PS3551.S29 R34 1999

One drop : my father's hidden life--a story of race and family secrets / Bliss Broyard.
New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2007.
GENERAL COLLECTION PS3552.R79154 Z46 2007

The sleeping doll / Jeffery Deaver.
New York : Simon and Schuster, c2007.
GENERAL COLLECTION PS3554.E1755 S58 2007

The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao / Junot Dìaz.
New York : Riverhead Books, 2007.
GENERAL COLLECTION PS3554.I259 B75 2007

Humpty Dumpty in Oakland / Philip K. Dick.
New York : Tor, 2007.
GENERAL COLLECTION PS3554.I3 H86 2007

The Indian clerk : a novel / David Leavitt.
New York : Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2007.
GENERAL COLLECTION PS3562.E2618 I63 2007

A clash of kings / George R.R. Martin.
New York : Bantam Books, 1999.
GENERAL COLLECTION PS3563.A7239 C58 1999

A feast for crows / George R.R. Martin.
New York : Bantam Books, 2005.
GENERAL COLLECTION PS3563.A7239 F39 2005

A game of thrones / George R.R. Martin.
New York : Bantam Books, 1996.
GENERAL COLLECTION PS3563.A7239 G36 1996

A storm of swords / George R.R. Martin.
New York : Bantam Books, 2000.
GENERAL COLLECTION PS3563.A7239 S7 2000

Beloved [sound recording] / by Toni Morrison.
New York : Random House Audio, p1998.
AV SERVICES PS3563.O8749B4 1998c Book on CD
Chango's fire : a novel / Ernesto Quiñonez.
New York : Rayo, c2004.
GENERAL COLLECTION PS3567.U3618 C47 2004

Exit ghost / Philip Roth.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2007.
GENERAL COLLECTION PS3568.O855 E95 2007

The Cambridge companion to Philip Roth / edited by Timothy Parrish.
Cambridge, UK New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
GENERAL COLLECTION PS3568.O855 Z617 2007

Bridge of sighs / Richard Russo.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
GENERAL COLLECTION PS3568.U812 B75 2007

Push : a novel / by Sapphire
New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1996
GENERAL COLLECTION PS3569.A63 P87 1996

Endymion / Dan Simmons.
New York : Bantam Books, 1996.
GENERAL COLLECTION PS3569.I47292 E53 1996

The rise of Endymion / Dan Simmons.
New York : Bantam Books, 1997.
GENERAL COLLECTION PS3569.I47292 R5 1997

Man and camel : poems / Mark Strand.
New York : Knopf, 2006.
GENERAL COLLECTION PS3569.T69 M36 2006

On Basilisk Station / David Weber.
Riverdale, NY : Baen, c1993.
GENERAL COLLECTION PS3573.E213062 1993

The honor of the Queen / David Weber.
Riverdale, NY : Baen Books New York : Distributed by Simon & Schuster, [2000]
GENERAL COLLECTION PS3573.E217 H69 2000

Reclamation / Sarah Zettel.
New York : Warner Books, c1996.
GENERAL COLLECTION PS3576.E77 R4 1996

Heartsick / Chelsea Cain.
New York : St. Martin's Minotaur, c2007.
GENERAL COLLECTION PS3603.A385 H43 2007

Then we came to the end : a novel / Joshua Ferris.
New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2007.
GENERAL COLLECTION PS3606.E774 T47 2007

The years and beyond : inspirational poetry / William Furr.
Bloomington, Ind. : AuthorHouse, 2006.
GENERAL COLLECTION PS3606.U77 Y43 2006

Strange as this weather has been : a novel / Ann Pancake.
Emeryville, CA : Shoemaker & Hoard, c2007.
GENERAL COLLECTION PS3616.A36 S77 2007

Not flesh nor feathers / Cherie Priest.
New York : Tor, 2007.
GENERAL COLLECTION PS3616.R537 N67 2007

The gang that wouldn't write straight : Wolfe, Thompson, Didion, and the New Journalism revolution / Marc Weingarten.
New York : Crown Publishers, c2006.
GENERAL COLLECTION PS366.R44 W45 2006

The origins of the American detective story / LeRoy Lad Panek.
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2006.
GENERAL COLLECTION PS374.D4 P33 2006

Calling the wind : twentieth-century African-American short stories / edited and with an introduction by Clarence Major
New York : HarperPerennial, c1993
GENERAL COLLECTION PS647.A35C35 1993

Archaeologies of the future : the desire called utopia and other science fictions / Fredric Jameson.
London : Verso, 2007.
GENERAL COLLECTION PS648.S3 J36 2007

Before I die / Jenny Downham.
New York : David Fickling Books, 2007.
JUVENILE COLLECTION PZ7.D75918 Be 2007

 

Top of Page

Archives
December 2007
November 2007
October 2007
September 2007
July/August 2007
June 2007
May 2007