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Linguistics, Literature, Film - February, 2013

A discovery of witches / Deborah Harkness
New York : Viking, 2011

A subversive voice in China : the fictional world of Mo Yan / Shelley W. Chan
Amherst, NY : Cambria Press, c2010

African languages : an introduction / edited by Bernd Heine and Derek Nurse
Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000

Alien vs predator / Michael Robbins
New York : Penguin Poets, 2012

And bid him sing : a biography of Countée Cullen / Charles Molesworth
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2012 ©2012

Arabic for reading and speaking / Abdirashid A. Mohamud
Hauppauge, NY : Barron's , 2008

Articulate while Black : Barack Obama language and race in the U S / H Samy Alim & Geneva Smitherman foreword by Michael Eric Dyson
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012

Arts du mime / [edited by Joëlle Garcia]
[Paris] : Bibliothèque nationale de France, c2012

Battleborn / Claire Vaye Watkins
New York : Riverhead Books, 2012 ©2012

Bestial traces : race, sexuality, animality / Christopher Peterson
New York : Fordham University Press, 2013

Byt po semu! : [roman iz serii "Romany ot Diksi"] / Oleg Osipov
880-03 Moskva : Izd-vo "Diksi Press", 2012

Can schools save indigenous languages? : policy and practice on four continents / edited by Nancy H. Hornberger
Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

Child of God / Cormac McCarthy
New York : Vintage Books, 1993

China in ten words / Yu Hua ; translated from the Chinese by Allan H. Barr
New York : Anchor Books, 2012, c2011

Collaborators / John Hodge
New York : Grove Press, 2011

Collected stories / Sherwood Anderson ; Charles Baxter, editor
New York, N. Y. : Library of America, c2012

Color and the moving image : history, theory, aesthetics, archive / edited by Simon Brown, Sarah Street, and Liz Watkins
New York : Routledge, 2013

Communion town : a city in ten chapters / Sam Thompson
London : Fourth Estate, 2012

Contact / Carl Sagan
New York : Pocket Books, 1986, c1985

Correspondance générale d'Eugène Sue / éditée par Jean- Pierre Galvan
Paris : Honoré Champion éditeur, 2010-

Dante and the sense of transgression : 'the trespass of the sign' / William Franke
London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

Days of the Bagnold summer / Joff Winterhart
London : Jonathan Cape, 2012

Directing the documentary / Michael Rabiger
Boston : Focal Press, c1998

Everyday reading : poetry and popular culture in modern America / Mike Chasar
New York : Columbia University Press, c2012

Go west, young women! : the rise of early Hollywood / Hilary A. Hallett
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2013

Good people / by David Lindsay-Abaire
New York : Dramatists Play Service, 2012

Good prose : the art of nonfiction / Tracy Kidder & Richard Todd
New York : Random House, c2013

Good-bye, Chunky Rice / Craig Thompson
New York : Pantheon Books, [2006]

How literature saved my life / David Shields
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013

Images that injure : pictorial stereotypes in the media / Susan Dente Ross and Paul Martin Lester editors
Santa Barbara Calif : Praeger, c2011

In praise of messy lives : essays / Katie Roiphe
New York : The Dial Press, c2012

Jumpy / April De Angelis
London : Faber and Faber, 2011

La lingua dei Promessi sposi / Giovanni Nencioni ; [presentazione di Francesco Bruni]
Bologna : Il Mulino, c2012

La lirica : dalle origini a Leopardi / Sergio Bozzola
Bologna : Il mulino, c2012

La poesia moderna : dal secondo Ottocento ad oggi / Andrea Afribo, Arnaldo Soldani
Bologna : Il mulino, c2012

Leopardi e l'antico / Marcello Gigante
Bologna : Il mulino, 2002

Mayakovsky's revolver / Matthew Dickman
New York : W W Norton & Company, c2012

Move over, scopes and other writings / Julian Silva
Dartmouth, MA : Tagus Press/University of Massachusetts Dartmouth ; [Hanover, N.H.] : Distributed by University Press of New England, 2011

Mysli mudrykh liudei na kazhdyi den / sobrannye grafom L.N. Tolstym
880-02 Moskva : AST : Astrel, 2011

One man, two guvnors : based on The servant of two masters by Carlo Goldoni / Richard Bean
London : Oberon Books, 2012, c2011

Peter and the starcatcher : the annotated script of the Broadway play / by Rick Elice ; foreword by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
New York : Disney Editions, c2012

Philida : a novel / André Brink
London : Harvill Secker, 2012

Pink thunder / by Michael Zapruder ; [illustrations by Arrington de Dionyso]
Boston : Black Ocean, c2012

Pocket Oxford Chinese dictionary : English-Chinese, Chinese-English / monolingual English text edited by Martin H. Manser ; English-Chinese dictionary edited and translated by Zhu Yuan, Wang Liangbi, Ren Yongchang ; Chinese-English dictionary edited by Wu Jingrong ... [et al.].
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press/Commercial Press, 2009

Quick question : new poems / John Ashbery
New York : Ecco, c2012

Raised from the ground / José Saramago translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012

Republic / Plato ; edited and translated by Chris Emlyn- Jones and William Preddy
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, c2013-

Revisiting the interpreter's role : a study of conference, court, and medical interpreters in Canada, Mexico, and the United States / Claudia Angelelli
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., c2004

Roberto Rossellini documentarista : una cultura della realtà / Luca Caminati
Roma : MiBAC, Centro sperimentale di cinematografia : Carocci, 2012

Shadow of night / Deborah Harkness
New York : Viking, 2012

Snow White and the seven dwarfs / Eric Smoodin
London ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute, 2012

Sono nato in America... : interviste 1951-1985 / Italo Calvino ; a cura di Luca Baranelli ; introduzione di Mario Barenghi
Milano : Mondadori, 2012, c2002

Tell the wolves I'm home : a novel / Carol Rifka Brunt
New York : Dial Press, c2012

The armageddon letters : Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro in the Cuban missile crisis / James G. Blight and Janet M. Lang ; graphic narrative by Andrew Whyte with storyline and dialogue by Koji Masutani ; [foreword by Peter Almond]
Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2012

The Avengers : the ultimate guide to Earth's mightiest heroes / written by Scott Beatty, Alan Cowsill, & Alastair Dougall
New York : DK Publishing, 2012

The challenge of a bilingual society in the Basque country / edited by Pello Salaburu and Xabier Alberdi
Reno, Nev. : Center for Basque Studies, c2012

The garlic ballads : a novel / Mo Yan ; translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt
New York : Arcade Pub., c2012

The girl with the dragon tattoo. Book 1 / adapted by Denise Mina ; art by Leonardo Manco and Andrea Mutti ; colors by Giulia Brusco and Patricia Mulvihill ; letters by Steve Wands ; cover by Lee Bermejo ; based on the novel The girl with the dragon tattoo by Stieg Larsson
New York : DC Comics/Vertigo, c2012

The handbook of contemporary semantic theory / edited by Shalom Lappin
Oxford OX UK ; Malden Mass USA : Blackwell Publ, 1997

The handyman / Carolyn See
New York : Ballantine, c2000

The hunger angel : a novel / Herta Müller translated by Philip Boehm
New York : Henry Holt and Co, 2012

The last runaway / Tracy Chevalier
New York : Dutton, c2013

The life of objects / Susanna Moore
New York : Alfred A Knopf, 2012

The lighthouse / Alison Moore
London : Salt Publishing, 2012

The long history of new media : technology historiography and contextualizing newness / edited by David W Park Nicholas W Jankowski Steve Jones
New York : Peter Lang, c2011

The Marlowe papers : a novel / Ros Barber

The motherfucker with the hat / by Stephen Adly Guirgis
New York : Dramatists Play Service, c2011

The mystified magistrate and other tales / Marquis de Sade ; translated and with an introduction by Richard Seaver
New York : Arcade Publishing, c2012

The Nao of Brown / Glyn Dillon
London : SelfMadeHero, 2012

The news from Spain : seven variations on a love story / Joan Wickersham
New York : Alfred A Knopf, 2012

The Norton anthology of English literature / Stephen Greenblatt, general editor ; M.H. Abrams, founding editor emeritus
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2012

The people of forever are not afraid : a novel / Shani Boianjiu
London ; New York : Hogarth, c2012

The tale of the Heike / translated by Royall Tyler
New York : Viking, 2012

The twelve tribes of Hattie / by Ayana Mathis
New York : Alfred A Knopf, 2012

The wives : the women behind Russia's literary giants / Alexandra Popoff
New York : Pegasus Books, 2012

Thomas Wyatt : the heart's forest / Susan Brigden
London : Faber and faber, 2012

Tony Hogan bought me an ice-cream float before he stole my ma / Kerry Hudson
London : Chatto & Windus, 2012

Tribes / by Nina Raine
London : Nick Hern, 2010

Umbrella / Will Self
London ; New York : Bloomsbury, 2012

Variazioni sul Novecento : figure, spazi, immagini / Rinaldo Rinaldi

Your friends & neighbors / Neil LaBute
London : Faber and Faber, 1998