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Rowboat in a Hurricane: My Amazing Journey Across a Changing Atlantic OceanIn 2005-06, Julie Angus, with her fianc Colin, rowed 10,000 kilometers across the Atlantic Ocean, becoming the first woman in the world to travel from mainland to mainland in a rowboat. The 145-day journey gave Angus, a trained scientist, a unique perspective on the...
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Locusts at the Edge of Summer: New and Selected PoemsA generous collection of poems by one of the most highly praised writers coming out of the Viet Nam War experience.Author: John BalabanPublisher: Copper Canyon PressPublished: 05/01/1997Pages: 150Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 8.82h x 5.83w x 0.47dISBN: 9781556591235Award: National Book Awards - NomineeReview Citation(s): Publishers...
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Layla's Happiness★ 2020 Ezra Jack Keats Award Winner for Illustration★ 2020 Ezra Jack Keats Honor for Writing★ A Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of 2020"Affirmations of black childhood abound, and whimsical wishes float like dandelion fluff. Equally as imaginative as the lyrical...
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Guys Like Girls Who . . .Every girl has wondered how they need to act or what they need to do to get a certain boy's attention. Now they can know!Chad Eastham will encourage girls to be confident in who they are and Whose they are. Girls need to know...
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Drift: StoriesWelcome to Newport Beach, California--a community often found glittering in the spotlight, but one that isn't always as glamorous as we imagine. Through the lives of waiters and waitresses, divorced and single parents, and alienated teens, Victoria Patterson's Drift offers a rare and rewarding...
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Yang the Youngest and His Terrible EarEveryone in the Yang family is a talented musician except for nine-year-old Yingtao, the youngest Yang. Even after years of violin lessons from his father, Yingtao cannot make beautiful music. Now that his family has moved from China to Seattle, Yingtao wants to learn...
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Without SayingIn Richard Howard's new collection, voices of myth and memory prevail, if only by means of prevarication: the voice of Medea's mother trying to explain her daughter's odd behavior to an indiscreet interviewer; or first and last the voice of Henry James, late in...
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We the ChildrenBenjamin Pratt's school is about to become the site of a new amusement park. It sounds like a dream come true! But lately, Ben has been wonder if he's going to like an amusement park in the middle of his town--with all the buses...
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The Story of HurryAfter a major invasion of the Gaza Strip in late 2008, twenty-year-old Mahmoud Barghout decided to become a zookeeper. He saw that the children around him were exhausted by war, and so to provide respite, he set up the Happy Land Zoo. But the...
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The Public Gardens: Poems and HistoryPoetry. Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Introduction by Fanny Howe. THE PUBLIC GARDENS: POEMS AND HISTORY is a memoir of place (Boston, New York, Oakland and San Francisco) and of the commons (gardens, streets, subways, marriage and family, libraries), a documentary (with lyrics) of a life...
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The Nature of BloodIn his most ambitious novel to date, Phillips creates a dazzling kaleidoscope of historical fiction, one that illuminates the dark legacy of Europe's obsession with race and blood. At the center of The Nature of Blood is a young woman, a Nazi death camp...
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The Mysterious Matter of I. M. FineIt started with jelly worms...Kids all over the country are acting strangely after reading the latest books in the mega-popular Chillers series. First, it's the seemingly innocent Jelly Worm fad. But it quickly turns sinister, with exploding headaches sweeping the nation, and then a...
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The JokersWho are the jokers? The jokers are the government, and the biggest joker of all is the governor, a bug-eyed, strutting, rapacious character of unequaled incompetence who presides over the nameless Middle Eastern city where this effervescent comedy by Albert Cossery is set. The...
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The Five Times I Met Myself"If you think fiction can't change your life and challenge you to be a better person, you need to read The Five Times I Met Myself."--Andy Andrews, New York Times bestselling author of How Do You Kill 11 Million People, The Noticer & The...
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The Ancient Southwest: A Guide to Archaelogical SitesTake a trip to the Ancient Southwest. McNamee guides you on a memorable tour through 50 national and state parks, monuments and other sites in the modern American Southwest. Simultaneously, he leads you far back in time, to the eras when the earliest human...
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Rise in the FallPoetry. LGBT Studies. Ana Bozičević is both a poet's poet and the people's poet. RISE IN THE FALL, her second full-length collection, is a revolutionary book and an ars poetica for the polis in which she excludes nothing. Navigating literary history, gender, sexuality, economics,...
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Poems of the Black ObjectWinner of the Publishing Triangle's 2010 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry and the 13th Annual Asian American Literary Award for Poetry. "I applaud Ronaldo Wilson's pathbreaking movement into what has never, never, in history, been said. About sexuality, in particular, these poems speak...
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Passover Parodies: Short Plays for the Seder TableWhat was the least interesting seder you ever attended? And what was the most interesting? If your experience is like most of ours, your worst seders were dry readings of the haggadah, unoriginal and done by rote. The better seders, on the other hand,...
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Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of "Latino"WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR NONFICTIONNAMED ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES' 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2023ONE OF TIME'S 100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2023 A TOP TEN BOOK OF 2023 AT CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY A new book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer about...
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Lark and TermiteNATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the award-winning author a "powerful and emotionally piercing" novel (The New York Times) set during the 1950 in West Virginia and Korea, that intertwines family secrets, war, dreams, and ghosts in a story about the love that unites us all....
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