New Books

Women in the age of Shakespeare / Theresa D. Kemp

Shakespeare's heroines : characteristics of women: moral, political and historical / Anna Jameson

Shakespeare's England : life in Elizabethan & Jacobean times / R.E. Pritchard, ed.

"Global warming has killed the North Atlantic current, plunging Great Britain and much of the U.S. into an ice age. Fifteen-year-old Willo lives with his family deep in the wilderness, far from the government's controlling grasp. Willo arrives home one day to find his family gone. It could be the government; it could be scavengers--all Willo knows is he has to find refuge and his family. It is a journey that will take him into the city he's always avoided, with a girl who needs his help more than he knows." (Amazon.com ; 4/26/12) 

 

"Fifteen-year-old Aaron lives amongst the rubbish piles in the slums of Cairo. His job? To collect broken glass. His life? Wasted. His hope? To find a future he can believe in. Today in Cairo, Egypt, there is a city within a city: a city filled with garbage--literally. As one of the Zabbaleen people, Aaron makes his living sorting through waste. When his family kicks him out, his only alternatives are to steal, beg, or take the most nightmarish garbage-collecting job of all." (Amazon.com ; 4/26/12)