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21) No Man's Land
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The Great War gave birth to some of the twentieth century's most celebrated writing; from D. H. Lawrence to Siegfried Sassoon, the literature generated by the war is etched into collective memory. But it is in fiction that we find some of the most profound insights into the war's individual and communal tragedies, the horror of life in the trenches, and the grand farce of the first industrial war.
Featuring forty-seven writers from twenty different...
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"A broad sampling of deeply impressive writings-essays, memoirs, poetry, letters, stories-by women from the Southern Highlands." -Kirkus Reviews
Winner of the 1997 Appalachian Studies Award
Appalachian Writers Association 1999 Book of the Year
Winner of the Susan Koppleman Award of the Popular Culture Association for Best Edited Collection in Women's Studies
Thirty-five women writers from Appalachia define the region in a larger, more...
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A collection of poetic reflections on life and death. Ranging from musings on youth and age, and elegies on bereavement and grief to meditations on the nature of mortality, these are poems that explore our precious time on this earth and perhaps even offer some comfort for those seeking consolation.
24) Plainsongs 41.1
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Plainsongs' title suggests not only its location on the Great Plains but also its preference for the living language, whether in free or formal verse. Published twice a year from our home base in Hastings, Nebraska, Plainsongs presents poems that seem to be aware of modernist and postmodernist influences, not necessarily by imitation or allusion, but by using the tools provided by that rich heritage. Featuring poetry that runs the gamut from traditional...
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The fourth volume of The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology includes selections from the books shortlisted for the 2004 Griffin Poetry Prizes, chosen by the jurors Billy Collins (U.S. Poet Laureate 2001-2003); Bill Manhire (New Zealand Poet Laureate); and Phyllis Webb (recipient of the Governor General's Award for poetry), who also provide an introduction to the book.
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This unique collection is prepared for the heroines of the future:
Novels:
Little Women
Anne of Green Gables Series
Rose in Bloom
Pride and Prejudice
Emma
Jane Eyre
Heidi
Emily of New Moon
Alice in Wonderland
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The Secret Garden
A Little Princess
Peter and Wendy
The Girl from the Marsh Croft
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
The Princess and the Goblin
At the Back of the North Wind
A Girl of the Limberlost
Rebecca of Sunnybrook...
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These stories amount to something more than a celebration of the holidays dotting our calendars from month to month. Even though holidays can occasion a return to the familiar, these stories challenge traditional associations. Each story serves to complicate how we observe the human observation of holidays and offers a nuanced understanding of related themes such as family and motherhood, travel, grief and mourning processes, and memory. More generally,...
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In the mythical town of Winesburg, Indiana, there lives a cleaning lady who can conjure up the ghost of Billy Sunday, a lascivious holy man with an unusual fetish and a burgeoning flock, a park custodian who collects the scat left by aliens, and a night janitor learning to live with life's mysteries, including the zombies in the cafeteria. Winesburg, Indiana, is a town full of stories of plans made and destroyed, of births and unexpected deaths, of...
29) Fae Dreams
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This book consists of a string of poems influenced by different aspects of real-life events that occurred. Behind every poem lies a relatable connection that we are human and sometimes things happen to us. It's through general conversations with close friends, family, strangers, and colleagues about life, death, politics, love, and spirituality among others that prompted the penning down of this book. Although I found the experience and journey of...
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It is a commonplace that poetry is the literary form that best expresses our deepest feelings. Those who seldom read poetry regularly turn to it for weddings or funerals. The poems in this gift-size anthology speak to the seasons of Maine, celebrating familiar scenery and events in a common language. The 20 poems (five for each season) represent the range of seasonal landscapes and activities from the coast to the northernmost border.
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This is not a book about the apocalypse.
In these pages, you won't find the hero. You won't find the ticking clock. You will not be in the room when they press the big red button. Instead, you'll find new life in the face of certain death, a boy whose prayers are answered in the worst way, mothers and sisters and friends who just want another second with their loved ones, and those who just want a moment to themselves.
These are the stories...
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Welcome to the third volume (and first bookazine) of our ongoing experiment with illustrated prose at Penny. One year ago, we chose 'The Other' as the theme for this collection. Trump had won the election and we grappled with an urgent question: How could we support marginalized communities with our limited personal resources?
Thinking that a greater understanding of 'otherness' would foster empathy across borders small and large, we began by calling...
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In the foreword to El Chiquito Big Book, poet Melissa Castro Almandina writes, "The works in this book will touch you, will remind you of what it's like to be a child again and will change you from root-to-soot-to-gold." The students of Pickard Elementary spent their year with 826CHI exploring poetic forms, experimenting with language, and finding ways to wrap words around the world that go beyond what is typical taught in schools. Some poems are...
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We live our lives through stories. They shape how we see the world, how we relate to it, and not the least, how we engage with it. Now more than ever, we need compelling stories that inspire both individual and collective action. The nine short stories presented in Our Entangled Future are rooted in the complex reality of the climate crisis. Rather than painting a dystopic future, they present agency-driven characters, whose insights will, inspire...
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The prestigious and highly anticipated annual anthology of the best Canadian and international poetry from the 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist.
Each year, the best books of poetry published in Canada and internationally in English are honoured with the Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the world's richest literary awards. Since 2001, this annual prize has spurred interest in and recognition of poetry, focusing worldwide attention on the formidable...
36) Baring My Heart
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Baring My Heart is the 3rd Collective Poetry Book by Sail Publishing. In this book, our poets have dived right into their deepest vulnerabilities, and bared their hearts with us, to share some of the most intimate feelings, thoughts, and emotions, in an act that only a brave and courageous poet can do. It's in such sharing, that we all can feel redeemed, seen, and validated. And so we hope in this book, you will see fragments of yourself in it, and...
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Great Short Poems. This outstanding 150-poem anthology spans over 400 years of English and American literary history. Memorable compositions include Donne's "Death Be Not Proud," Blake's "The Tyger," Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," Byron's "She Walks in Beauty," Shelley's "Ozymandias," as well as works by Tennyson, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats, Frost, and many others. Includes three selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative:...
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Set sail on the high seas with this collection of 21 unforgettable short stories featuring dashing rogues, daring rebels, and wily pirates searching for treasures of all kinds, including a forgotten journal, a heavenly sword, a young girl's lucky sock, and even the Fountain of Youth. Some pirates are familiar-complete with parrots, peg legs, and eye patches-but most are unique: a twelve-year-old computer hacker, a heroic rabbit on an unusual quest,...
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This treasury of beloved poems collects all your favorite poets in one book. Whether you're looking for a love poem or something to mend a broken heart, perhaps you're feeling patriotic or struggling to understand the nature of man, the timeless words of Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, John Milton, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti are at your fingertips.
From the Romantic poets like Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats to the Transcendentalists like Ralph...
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Now in its fourth year, the Cuffer Prize is sponsored by The Telegram and Creative Book Publishing. It showcases the best short fiction from Newfoundland and Labrador writers, both young and established. Entries in 2010 ran the gamut from high-end literary fiction to science fiction, humor, and even horror. The stories were then reviewed by acclaimed authors Joan Sullivan, Russell Wangersky, and Kathleen Winter. The Cuffer Anthology 2011 will showcase...