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1) Afterlife
Author
Language
English
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2023 Rogue Reads
Books in English for Adults & Teens / Libros en inglés para adultos y adolescentes
Gold Hill Library Book Club Picks 2021
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Books in English for Adults & Teens / Libros en inglés para adultos y adolescentes
Gold Hill Library Book Club Picks 2021
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Description
A Time Magazine Must-Read Book of 2020
A Most-Anticipated Book of the Year: O, The Oprah Magazine * The New York Times * The Washington Post *Vogue * Bustle * BuzzFeed * Ms. magazine * The Millions * Huffington Post * PopSugar * The Lily * Goodreads * Library Journal * LitHub * Electric Literature
The first adult novel in almost fifteen years by the internationally bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls...
2) Furia
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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2023-2024 OBOB 9th-12th Grade
American Library Association Youth Media Awards 2021
Hispanic Heritage Month: October 2023
American Library Association Youth Media Awards 2021
Hispanic Heritage Month: October 2023
Description
A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB YA PICK
Recipient of the 2021 Pura Belpré Young Adult Author Medal
One of BuzzFeed's Must-Read YA Books of 2020
A Best Book of the Year: Cosmopolitan * Kirkus Reviews * SheReads * New York Public Library
"An engrossing #OwnVoices novel."
-PopSugar
"This book will set your dreams on fire . . . It's fabulous."
- Reese Witherspoon
A powerful contemporary YA for fans of The...
4) My poet
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Patricia MacLachlan has written a lyrical ode to writing, to poetry, and to the celebrated American poet, Mary Oliver. In this mesmerizing picture book, a little girl wants to write, and one summer day she joins the poet who lives nearby to explore a town on Cape Cod. Together, they look. Together, they touch. Together, they find words. All things in the natural world, the girl discovers, bring words to the poet. Can the girl...
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English
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Description
"Everything Comes Next contains Naomi Shihab Nye's most beloved poems, including "Famous," "A Valentine for Ernest Mann," "Kindness," and "Gate A-4," as well as new, unpublished poems. It is an introduction to the poet's work for new readers, as well as a comprehensive edition for classrooms"--
10) Leave Your Sleep
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Language
English
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Description
Leave Your Sleep contains 26 new songs recorded live in the studio. Merchant used the poems, anonymous nursery rhymes, and lullabies of 19th and 20th century British and American writers as source material and set them to original music. Among the authors included are Ogden Nash, e.e. cummings, Robert Louis Stevenson, Christina Rossetti, Edward Lear, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Mervyn Peake, Eleanor Farjeon, Nathalia Crane, and Robert Graves. --Imbd.com....
11) Olive, again
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Language
English
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Description
"Olive Kitteridge has returned, as indomitable as ever, this time as a person getting older, navigating her next decade as she comes to terms with the changes--sometimes welcome, sometimes not--in her own life. Here is Olive, strangely content in her second marriage, still in an evolving relationship with her son and his family, encountering a cast of memorable characters in the seaside town of Crosby, Maine. Whether it's a young girl coming to terms...
12) Kiyoshi's walk
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Kiyoshi asks his grandfather, the wise poet Eto, where poems come from, and Eto takes him on a walk through the city to seek an answer.
Publisher
Fitzroy Dearborn
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Contains over 400 entries that treat a broad range of individual poets and poems, along with many articles devoted to topics, schools, or periods of American verse in the century. Entries fall into three main categories: poet entries, which provide biographical and cultural contexts for the author's career; entries on individual works, which offer closer explication of the most resonant poems in the 20th-century canon; and topical entries, which offer...
Author
Publisher
ACS
Pub. Date
c2014
Language
English
Description
"A picture book for children that illustrates a poem by the American poet William Stafford (1914-1993). This delightful lyric presents some of those things one sees in open country, among forests and mountains and streams, that makes one wonder about Bigfoot and other such crypt-ids, like Sasquatch and Yeti. The illustrations by Angelina Marino-Heidel are vivid, colorful elaborations of the poem, enhancing it with natural landscapes of compelling...
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