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An unflinching, heartbreaking collection of poetry about life in the U.S. as a Brazilian immigrant, Aline Mello's debut poetry collection, More Salt Than Diamond, is a true testament to the power of finding a home.
Born in Brazil, Aline Mello immigrated to the United States in 1997. Using her experience as an undocumented woman during a time of incredible flux and tension, Mello's debut collection of poetry, More Salt than Diamond, speaks to her...
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"At fifty-nine, I am now the age Virginia Woolf was when she took that final, heavy-pocketed walk into The River Ouse. I am the age at which she killed herself, and I am not going to kill myself, but I was by no means always sure of that."
Considered Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, Mrs. Dalloway tells the story of a single day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a high society woman in post-World War I England. As she is preoccupied with the last-minute...
2963) Can I Rest A While?
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Bold, bodied, and bristling with emotion, Heidi Lewis's poetry crosses the boundaries between man and woman, friction and peace, fear and faith, and the past and future. Her debut collection, Can I Rest Awhile?, is an embodiment of her being-it is a window into her childhood, a taste of womanhood, a hand in her relationships, a torch to her fears and furies, and a path for her hopes. Most importantly, it is a prayer and praise to the Almighty God,...
2964) The End of Pink
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Winner of the 2015 James Laughlin Award, Kathryn Nuernberger's The End of Pink is populated by strange characters-Bat Boy, automatons, taxidermied mermaids, snake oil salesmen, and Benjamin Franklin-all from the annals of science and pseudoscience. Equal parts fact and folklore, these poems look to the marvelous and the weird for a way to understand childbirth, parenthood, sickness, death, and-of course-joy.
2965) The Fever Chart
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Naomi Wallace, the rare writer who combines lyrical theatricality with political ferocity, turns her sight to the Middle East, with a new triptych for the stage. Vision One, A State of Innocence, is set-as the playwright describes, in "something like a small zoo, but more silent, empty, in Rafah, Palestine. Or a space that once dreamed it was a zoo"-and features a Palestinian woman, an Israeli architect, and an Israeli soldier. Vision Two, The Retreating...
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The story of a modern Asian young woman trying to straddle Western attitudes and traditional beliefs.
You've heard of an Essex Girl or even a Chelsea Girl but what is a Hounslow Girl? The term has become a byword for confident, young Muslim women who are grappling with traditional values, city life and fashion.
From the joys of Pakistani weddings to fights on the night bus, Ambreen Razia's The Diary of a Hounslow Girl is a funny, bold, provocative...
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Emotional Nudity (TM) is a way of living that starts with one simple act, telling the truth! In the second installment of the Her Chronicles series, another eleven women courageously come together, open up, and share their honest and raw stories of survival, sacrifice, and spiritual awakening.
This collection of tales once again takes us back into the deep twisted roots of womanhood as the writers share some of their most intimate stories of loss,...
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Depuis plus de vingt ans, le manga Fruits Basket trne au sommet des rayons des librairies. Succès planétaire, il est parvenu à toucher ses lecteurs grâce à ses puissants messages porteurs d'espoir. Pendant la décennie qu'a duré cette aventure, nous avons fait la connaissance d'un éventail de personnages variés et humains, aux ctés desquels nous avons ri et pleuré.
Dans cet ouvrage, nous replaçons Fruits Basket dans l'histoire du genre...
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A group of well-intentioned white teaching artists scramble to create an ambitious "woke" Thanksgiving pageant. Despite their eager efforts to put on the most culturally sensitive show possible, it quickly becomes clear that even those with good intentions can be undone by their own blind spots.
What Would Crazy Horse Do?
Twins Calvin and Journey, the last two members of the Marahotah tribe, make a suicide pact to end the Marahotah when the grandfather...
2971) À la recherche de soi
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"À la recherche de soi" est un voyage initiatique reflétant la nature éphémère des choses et la transformation de soi-même. À travers un éventail de sentiments, ce recueil de poésie vous invite à libérer vos émotions et votre esprit pour un nouveau départ.
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Dans son parcours littéraire, Elodie Milleret a évolué vers la création de haïkus. En 2021, un événement vient renforcer son engagement dans l'écriture,...
2972) L' Heure Bleue
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Elisa Gabbert's L'Heure Bleue, or the Judy Poems, goes inside the mind of Judy, one of three characters in Wallace Shawn's The Designated Mourner, a play about the dissolution of a marriage in the midst of political revolution. In these poems, Gabbert imagines a back story and an emotional life for Judy beyond and outside the play. Written in a voice that is at once intellectual and unselfconscious, these poems create a character study of a many-layered...
2973) Blood Orange
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A fictional coming of age story told as a novel through the art of the spoken word, and can be called "rap poetry."
As a young girl filled with dreams of love and success, eighteen year-old Carmen finds herself moving from suburban St. Paul to downtown Chicago to attend Columbia College. Navigating the dating world in the big city with her new best friends, she goes through five years of disaster dating, betrayal, and heartbreak, searching for love,...
2974) SoundMachine
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Through heartbreaking, often comic, genre-non-conforming pieces spanning the past 10 years, Rachel Zucker trains her relentless attention on marriage, motherhood, grief, the need to speak, depression, sex, and many other topics. Part poetry, part memoir, part lyric essay-and not limited by any of these categories-SoundMachine is a book written out of the persistent feeling that the human voice is both a meaningless sound and the only way we know we...
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The inner dialogue of how this Ice Queen came to be. A fantasy themed collection of poems recounting love, lust and heartbreak. She loved once and that was the romantic tragedy that started it all. A collection of Spanish and Haitian Kreyol language poems coloring heartache into blue hues of sorrow, bitterness, healing, and hope.
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The Church of England was at the heart of Jane Austen's world of elegance and upheaval. Fashionable Goodness: Christianity in Jane Austen's England explores the church's role in her life and novels, the challenges that church faced, and how it changed the world. In one volume, this book brings together resources from many sources to show the church at a pivotal time in history, when English Christians were freeing enslaved people, empowering the poor...
2977) Clin d'œil à la vie
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Chaque texte de ce recueil est une retranscription des sentiments et/ou émotions de l'auteure à un moment précis de son parcours terrestre. Les thèmes traités sont: la vie, la maladie, l'amitié, l'amour et la mort; une grande partie des éléments constituant l'existence des êtres humains. Ces poèmes sont un sourire à la vie, un câlin aux amis et un clin d'œil à qui s'y reconnaîtra.
2978) Still Celebrating
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Cynthia Shiver's life would appear to be an ordinary one. But this memoir exposes a rich life centered on finding magic in the mundane. Her collection of personal stories reveals lessons learned from a father returning to her in a dream; from a homeless man who gave everything with no expectation of return; from grieving strangers eating pie at a simple Kansas diner; from children, animals, and elders. Shiver's stories help us cope and believe in...
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Descubre los tesoros ocultos de tu ser con los conmovedores versos de 'Rincones Barridos: Poesías del interior'. Este breve poemario te guiará hacia un mundo de emociones y reflexiones profundas. En sus páginas, encontrarás preguntas sin respuestas, sombras del pasado, romances olvidados y fragmentos arrugados de historias no contadas. Esta colección de poesía te invita a reflexionar, a sentir y a conectar con tu propio ser de una manera pausada...
2980) Poèmes d'adolescence
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"Poèmes d'adolescence" aurait pu s'intituler Journal intime en vers. Ce recueil regroupe une variété de textes qui expriment des émotions profondes : joie, déception, espoir, regrets. Il reflète aussi des réflexions sur le monde et la société, ainsi que des moments de sensualité. En outre, il explore les dimensions de l'introspection, de la rêverie et de la sincérité.
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