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Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"During childhood summers in Louisiana, Andre Dubus III's grandfather taught him that men's work is hard. As an adult, whether tracking down a drug lord in Mexico as a bounty hunter or grappling with privilege while living with a rich girlfriend in New York City, Dubus worked--at being a better worker and a better human being. In Ghost Dogs, Dubus's nonfiction prowess is on full display in his retelling of his own successes, failures, triumphs, and...
Author
Publisher
Autumn House Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Erica Reid's debut collection, Ghost Man on Second, traces a daughter's search for her place in the world after estrangement from her parents. Reid writes, "It's hard to feel at home unless I'm aching." Growing from this sense of isolation, Reid's stories create new homes in nature, in mythology, and in poetic forms--including sestinas, sonnets, and golden shovels--containers that create and hold new realizations and vantage points. Reid stands up...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Diane Seuss's signature voice--audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its attitude--has become one of the most original in contemporary poetry. Her latest collection takes its title, Modern Poetry, from the first textbook Seuss encountered as a child and the first poetry course she took in college, as an enrapt but ill-equipped student, one who felt poetry was beyond her reach. Many of the poems make use of the forms and...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From New York Times columnist, Pulitzer Prize winner, and bestselling author Nicholas D. Kristof, an intimate and gripping memoir about a life in journalism Since 1984, Nicholas Kristof has worked almost continuously for The New York Times as a reporter, foreign correspondent, bureau chief, and now columnist, becoming one of the foremost reporters of his generation. Here, he recounts his event-filled path from a small-town farm in Oregon to every...
Author
Publisher
Futurepoem Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The story to be written -- Missing -- At Hobby Lobby -- Dear María -- Voice activation -- Heritage speaker -- My body's production -- Offering -- Purity & danger: a performance -- This is not the end of my film career -- The 11th day of Occupy Wall Street -- Natural disaster: a dream -- Mother, monster: a lecture -- Questionnaire -- Projection -- Trace of lovers -- Paramour -- Getting around the subject -- Dear stranger -- Pedagogy: a dream -- Training...
Author
Publisher
Notting Hill Editions
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"'The dilemma my friends suppose me to be in,' writes the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 'has, for its two horns, the endurance of a sleepless night, and the adoption of some recipe for inducing sleep.' In this delightful book - the perfect gift for all insomniacs - are collected a splendid variety of entertainments devised to help pass 'the wakeful hours'. Ranging from puzzles, rhymes and limericks to simple number problems, calming...
Publisher
NCircle Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A spin-off of the beloved Strawberry Shortcake series, "Berry in the Big City" takes place in the fanciful, colorful community of Big Apple City. Like communities everywhere, the citizens of Big Apple City live and work together.
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