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 |  | Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work (Vintage Contemporaries)
Release Date: September 20, 2011| Series: Vintage Contemporaries A New York Times Notable BookA Miami Herald Best Book of the YearIn this deeply personal book, the celebrated Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat reflects on art and exile. Inspired by Albert Camus and adapted from her own lectures for Princeton University’s Toni Morrison Lecture Series, here Danticat tells stories of artists who create despite (or because of) the horrors that drove them from their homelands. Combining memoir and essay, these moving and eloquent pieces examine what it means to be an artist from ...
|  | US Four Plus Four: Eight Russian Poets Conversing
Publication Date: May 16, 2009While Us Four Plus Four is an expansive collection of poetry from eight of Russia?s most well-known and influential poets, its arrangement as a conversation is what distinguishes it from those that precede it. ...
|  | 60 Classic Australian Poems
Publication Date: January 1, 2010Featuring notable verses dating from the 19th century to contemporary times, this unique compilation offers a superb introduction to Australia’s poetry scene. With contributions by a prolific poet, this examination includes a short essay following each poem that justifies its “classic” status. Offering such distinct and renowned voices as Adam Lindsay Gordon, Banjo Paterson, and John Kinsella, this collection is sure to be a treasured collection among both poetry fans and English students. ...
|  | Poems & Translations
Publication Date: December 31, 1994First published in 1931, it includes Flower's own work as well as translations of medieval Irish poetry. ...
|  | Passage to the Center: Imagination and the Sacred in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney (Irish Literature, History, and Culture)
Publication Date: March 11, 1999| Series: Irish Literature, History, and Culture " Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, author of nine collections of poetry and three volumes of influential essays, is regarded by many as the greatest Irish poet since Yeats. Passage to the Center is the most comprehensive critical treatment to date on Heaney's poetry and the first to study Heaney's entire body of work (including his recent volumes, Seeing Things and The Spirit Level ). It is also the first to examine the poems from the perspective of religion, one of Heaney's guiding preoccupations. According to Tob...
|  | Irritable Bodies and Postmodern Subjects in Pynchon, Puig, Volponi (Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature)
Publication Date: January 4, 2008| ISBN-10: 0820497134 | ISBN-13: 978-0820497136Irritable Bodies and Postmodern Subjects in Pynchon, Puig, Volponi examines the recurrence of violent body figuration in the fiction of Pynchon, Puig, and Volponi, and also in the fiction of several other postmodern authors who published their literature during the last quarter of the twentieth century. Different as they may be, these authors engage in analogous representative strategies, as their prose is frequently and similarly disrupted by obscene images of wounded, torn, or deformed bodies. In their mix ...
|  | Arthurian Poets: John Masefield (Arthurian Poets Series)
Publication Date: August 11, 1994| Series: Arthurian Poets Series At the end of the nineteenth century, a homeless runaway teenager in New York found a job in a bar and discovered Malory. So began the lifelong interest of the future Poet Laureate, John Masefield (1878-1967), in the story of King Arthur. After becoming a popular, successful narrative poet and playwright, Masefield turned to the Arthurian material in earnest, producing the verse drama Tristan and Isolt in 1927 and Midsummer Night a year later with its Arthurian cycle. All29 of Masefield's previously published Arthurian poems f...
|  | The Rowan Tree (The second Toby and Sox Adventure) (Toby & Sox Adventure)
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|  | Africa: She is...Africa
Publication Date: August 20, 2012Aaliyah is a beautiful but misunderstood girl growing up in ancient tribal Africa. Her future as both the wife of a local prince and medicine woman of her village seems predetermined until she meets Fedell and falls in love. Their forbidden relationship is torn apart when she is kidnapped by Egyptians and dragged halfway across the continent to be forced into a loveless marriage with the reluctant Prince Mohammed. As she transforms into the Queen of Egypt, Aaliyah is torn between embracing her new life and longing for her home and family. When Fedell reappear...
|  | It's Another Fine Day . . . (Adventures in Odyssey)
Publication Date: September 16, 2005| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Question Time: Reptiles (Question Time)
Release Date: September 1, 2002| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | Tomas y la Senora de la Biblioteca (Spanish Edition)
Release Date: September 23, 1997| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Basado en la historia real del educador Mejicano-Americano Tomás Rivera, un hijo de trabajadores inmigrantes que llegó a convertirse, dentro del sistema de la Universidad de California, en el Canciller del primera minoría, esta inspiradora historia sugiere lo que las librerías-y la educación-pueden hacer posible. "Las bellas ilustraciones esgrafiadas de Colón, en su rítmico estilo texturizado y brillantemente colorido, capturan el calor y los sueños que el chico encuentra en ...
|  | One Little Chicken: A Counting Book
Publication Date: September 1, 2007| Age Level: 3 and up One chicken twirls like a top.Two chickens do the bunny hop.Chickens everywhere are breaking into dance. Count-and boogie-up to ten and join the fun, as chickens shake, shimmy, and samba till the cows come home. This whimsical counting book, featuring snappy verse and hilarious art, is sure to have young readers dancing in their seats. ...
|  | Cities (Sustaining Our Enviroment)
Publication Date: July 20, 2010| Age Level: 11 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up...
|  | Hard Hat Area
Release Date: August 12, 2004A unique day-in-the-life look at a real girl named Kristen who works as an ironworkers apprentice on some of New York City's tallest buildings. Following Kristen around the construction site, readers will learn what tools the workers use, how they use them, and how they work as a team.With a fascinating variety of materials, labels, and photographs from an actual site where Kristen worked, Susan L. Roth has created a masterpiece of creative collage-and an eye-popping learning experience for readers of all ages.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailabl...
|  | California pioneer decade of 1849: The Presbyterian Church, with some mention of other churches, and incidental reference to current events and civil affairs of early and later date
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|  | Ministerial Ethics and Etiquette
Publication Date: September 1987| ISBN-10: 0687270340 | ISBN-13: 978-0687270347| Edition: Revised A classic guide to ethics since 1928. Nolan Harmon studied the ethical codes of conduct of five major denominations and secured the opinions of eighty-six leading pastors. Harmon uses this wisdom to show ministers how to conduct themselves ethically in virtually every phase of ministry, including special occasion rituals. ...
|  | Job Interview Tips for People With Not-So-Hot Backgrounds: How to Put Red Flags Behind You! (Career Savvy)
Publication Date: February 25, 2004| Series: Career Savvy Here's the book that speaks to millions of individuals who have difficult but promising backgrounds. It examines how to best prepare to answer sensitive job interview questions. Shows how to provide honest and positive answers that demonstrate you are the most promising candidate despite your background. ...
|  | Getting Behind the Resume: Interviewing Today's Candidates
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