Core Collections 3 Collection Development & Readers’ Advisory Created by Librarians, for Librarians Thousands of Recommended Titles for Your Specific Collection Each volume highlights thousands of recommended books and resources for each type of collection. Whether you’re collecting for a public library, a high school, a middle school, or an elementary school, Core Collections gives you immediate access to the best titles you and your patrons won’t want to miss—easy-to-locate starred entries throughout the text highlight the “most highly recommended” works in a given category or subject area. The careful selection in each Core Collection makes it easy to locate the best-of-the-best titles to potentially add to your collection, or to find titles that can be weeded out. Walk Through Your Shelves with Core Collections in-Hand Core Collections makes it easy to identify titles to add to your collection and those that are candidates to be weeded out. Since the organization of each Core Collection mirrors the organization of your library shelves (Fiction sections are organized by Author and Nonfiction by Dewey Classification), many of our library users walk their shelves with their Core Collection in-hand, so they can quickly and easily highlight titles in the text that they don’t have, or pull titles not included in Core Collections that are candidates for weeding. “I don’t know how librarians can do collection management without H.W. Wilson’s Core Collections. I routinely purchase the newest editions of Public Library Core Collection: Nonfiction, Fiction Core Collection and Children’s Core Collection. I plan to give my old copies to a library that doesn’t have one...it’s that necessary.” – K.B., Librarian, McLean County, IL • Fiction Core Collection • Public Library Core Collection: Nonfiction • Young Adult Fiction Core Collection • Graphic Novels Core Collection NEW! • Children’s Core Collection • Senior High Core Collection • Middle & Junior High Core Collection • Children’s Core Collection • Graphic Novels Core Collection NEW! For Public Libraries For School Libraries 701 LIST OF FICTIONAL WORKS er.” After being adopted she grows up to be the “first woman president of an Ivy League university. . . . Involved with a secret lover whose feelings for her are teasingly undefined, and concerned with the intensifying crisis of the American political climate as the United States edges toward war with Iraq, M.R. is confronted with challenges to her leadership that test her in ways she could not have anticipated.” (Pub- lisher’s note) Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Rape; a love story. Carroll & Graf 2004 154p $16 ISBN 0-7867-1294-5 A novel “about the nearly fatal beating and gang rape of Teena MacGuire on the Fourth of July in the small town of Niagara Falls. Teena and her 12-year-old daughter, Bethel, are walking home from a party when the vicious attack takes place, and Bethel only narrowly escapes her mother’s terri- ble fate. Terrorized but valiant, Bethel identifies their assail- ants and is determined to testify, but the townspeople close ranks behind the indicted brutes, their sons and brothers, and Teena is assaulted all over again in court. But there is one man on the case who possesses a clear and unshakable sense of justice, and his empathic connection with Bethel is at the heart of this lean and potent tale.” Booklist Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Sourland; stories. Ecco/HarperCollins 2010 373p $25.99 ISBN 978-0-06-199652-8; 0-06-199652-1 “This collection could be used as a master class in the art of pure, suspenseful storytelling. There are real plots here, fascinating psychological and domestic mysteries we need to solve, portraying people we want to understand...Oates is a dangerous writer in the best sense of the word, one who takes risks almost obsessively, with energy and relish. For a writer in her early 70s, she continues to be wonderfully, un- nervingly anarchic, experimental, angry. As if her aim were not to satisfy or entertain—though she always does both— but to do the vandalistic prose equivalent of spray-painting or setting fire to bins in public parks.” N Y Times Book Rev Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Them; introduction by Greg Johnson; afterword by the author. 2000 Modern Library ed; Modern Lib. 2000 xxiv, 546p $21.95 ISBN 0-679-64025-8 LC 99-54471 A reissue of the title first published 1969 by Vanguard Press “Violent and explosive in both incident and tone, the work is set in urban Detroit from 1937 to 1967 and chron- icles the efforts of the Wendell family to break away from their destructive, crime-ridden background. Critics praised the novel for its detailed social observation and its bitter indictment of American society.” Merriam-Webster’s Ency of Lit Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- We were the Mulvaneys. Dutton 1996 454p ISBN 0-525-94223-8 LC 96-17267 “Oates has written an uncharacteristically cathartic book with a provocatively happy ending. . . . Oates eloquently employs daily details, cataloguing Corinne’s antiques, map- ping Patrick’s Ithaca jogging route, calculating the number of paint gallons required to spruce up High Point Farm. She is a vivid storyteller, and the occupations, names and places are rich in allusive imagery. . . . Oates is fascinated by the markings of kinship. Particularly impressive is her shaping of siblings’ passions, allegiances and resentments.” Nation Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Wild nights! stories about the last days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway. Ecco 2008 238p $24.95 ISBN 978-0-06-143479-2; 0-06-143479-5 LC 2008-273051 “The classic authors who appear as fictionalized charac- ters in ‘Wild Nights!’ aren’t the ones most of us met in Intro to American Literature. Edgar Allan Poe copulating with a one-eyed amphibian? Mark Twain pursuing pubescent girls? Henry James clubbing a cat to death? Joyce Carol Oates may cause a few elderly professors to keel over, but the rest of us can take perverse delight in her five surreal tales. In each, Oates imagines the final days of a famous author, drawing from biographical fact but freely embroidering with Gothic excess. “ Buffalo News Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Will you always love me? and other stories. Dut- ton 1996 326p LC 94-43865 “Joyce Carol Oates’s readers have come to expect from her a sensationalistic terrain of accident, suicide, rape, murder and madness, all of which are well represented in this collec- tion, which includes none of the small, too-precious moments that can vitiate the short story.” N Y Times Book Rev Obioma, Chigozie « The fishermen; a novel. Chigozie Obioma. Little, Brown & Co. 2015 304 p. illustrations, map (hardcover) $26 ISBN 9780316338370; 9780992918248; 0316338370 LC 2014959603 Los Angeles Times Book Prize: Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction (2015) NAACP Image Award: Outstanding Literary Work--De- but Author (2016) Man Booker Prize Shortlist (2015) Written by Chigozie Obioma, this novel is “told from the point of view of nine year old Benjamin, the youngest of four brothers. . . . ‘The Fishermen’ is the Cain and Abel- esque story of an unforgettable childhood in 1990’s Nigeria, in the small town of Akure. . . . At the ominous, forbidden nearby river, they meet a dangerous local madman who per- suades the oldest of the boys that he is destined to be killed by one of his siblings.” (Publisher’s note) “Obioma excels at juxtaposing sharp observation, rich images of the natural world, and motifs from biblical and tribal lore; his novel succeeds as a convincing modern nar- rative and as a majestic reimagining of timeless folklore.” Pub Wkly STARRED ENTRIES INDICATE THE “MOST HIGHLY RECOMMENDED TITLES” IN A SUBJECT AREA AWARDS & PRIZES PUBLISHER’S NOTES & CONTENT DESCRIPTION REVIEWS FROM POPULAR LIBRARY SOURCES COMPLETE BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION, INCLUDING SUBJECT HEADINGS, GRADE LEVEL, & DEWEY CLASSIFICATION PUBLISHER, ISBN & PRICE MAKE ORDERING TITLES QUICK & EASY Core Collections have been the trusted source for thoughtful collection development guidance for over 60 years! H.W. Wilson 844.630.6369 www.hwwilsoninprint.com