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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"Built on her wildly popular Modern Love column, 'When a Couch is More Than a Couch' (9/23/2016), a breathtaking memoir of living meaningfully with 'death in the room' by the 38 year old great-great-great granddaughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson, mother to two young boys, wife of 16 years, after her terminal cancer diagnosis"--
"An exquisite memoir about how to live--and love--every day with 'death in the room, ' from poet Nina Riggs, mother of two young...
Author
Series
American novels (Norman Lock) volume 5
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
pages ; cm.
Language
English
Description
When U.S. Army chaplain Robert Winter first meets Emily Dickinson, he is fascinated by the brilliance of the strange girl immersed in her botany lessons. She will become his confidante, obsession, and muse over the years as he writes to her of his friendship with the aspiring politician Abraham Lincoln, his encounter with the young newspaperman Samuel Clemens, and his crisis of conscience concerning the radical abolitionist John Brown.
44) Shooting star
Author
Series
Victoria Trumbull mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Large type ed.
Physical Desc
395 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of an African girl brought to New England as a slave in 1761 who became famous on both sides of the Atlantic as the first Black poet in America.
Author
Publisher
Curbstone Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
28 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
A Mixteca Indian from Oaxaca, Am?rica Soliz, suffers from the poverty and hopelessness of her Chicago ghetto, made more endurable by a desire and determination to be a poet.
Author
Series
Baroness Pontalba novels volume 4
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
304 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
112 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Follows the life of one of America's first black poets from her sale as a child slave on the Boston auction block to her death as an impoverished freedwoman in 1784.
53) Phillis Wheatley
Author
Series
Publisher
Bridgestone Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Persea Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"In sixteen intimate essays, poet Molly McCully Brown explores living within and beyond the limits of a body-in her case, one shaped since birth by cerebral palsy, a permanent and often painful movement disorder. In spite of-indeed, in response to-physical constraints, Brown leads a peripatetic life: the essays comprise a vivid travelogue set throughout the United States and Europe, ranging from the rural American South of her childhood to the cobblestoned...
56) Amanda Gorman
Author
Series
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From an early age, Little Amanda read everything she could get her hands on, from books to cereal boxes. Growing up with an auditory processing disorder and a speech impediment, Amanda had to work hard, but ultimately she took great strength from her experiences. After hearing her teacher read aloud to the class, she knew that she wanted to become a poet, and nothing would stand in her way. At the age of 19, she became America's first-ever National...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
352 pages 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Nora May French and Carrie Sterling arrive at Carmel-by-the-Sea at the turn of the 20th century with dramatically different ambitions. Nora, a stunning, brilliant, impulsive writer in her early twenties, seeks artistic recognition and bohemian refuge among the most celebrated counter-culturalists of the era. Carrie, long-suffering wife of the poet George Sterling, wants the opposite: a semblance of the stability she thought her advantageous marriage...
58) Wings of fire
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
St. Martin's Paperbacks ed.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
Inspector Ian Rutledge is quickly sent to investigate the sudden deaths of three members of the same eminent Cornwall family, but the World War I veteran soon realizes that nothing about this case is routine.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
400 pages
Language
English
Description
"An important debut work of narrative nonfiction: the timely, never-before-told story of five brilliant, passionate women who, in the early 1960s, converged at the newly founded Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study, stepping outside the domestic sphere and shaping the course of feminism in ways that still resonate today. In 1960, at the height of an era that expected women to focus solely on raising families, Radcliffe College announced the founding...
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