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1) Invisible
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Poet and student Adam Walker meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born and his silent, seductive girlfriend, Margot, sending Adam into a perverse triangle that leads to a shocking act of violence that will alter his life.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
In the wake of the Tiananmen Square massacre, Nan Wu, who had studied in the U.S. in the mid-1980s, leaves China with his wife and son to seek the freedom of the West, embarking on a migration that takes them through the heart of contemporary America.
Author
Publisher
M P Publishing Limited
Language
English
Formats
Description
Both humorous and heartwarming, Dog is the story of Jill Rosen – a single, childless professor who has given up on finding love – and Phil, the wise, young dog she adopts, almost by accident. Although Jill finds her routines disrupted and her wistfulness about past loves stirred, she forges a connection with the dog that takes her by surprise in her solitary middle age.
Author
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. What is actual when our experiences are mediated by language, technology, medication, and the arts? Is poetry an essential art form, or merely a screen for the reader's projections? Instead of following the dictates of his fellowship, Adam's "research" becomes a meditation...
6) Pale fire
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1992
Physical Desc
xxvii, 239 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
John Shade, a homebody poet in New Wye, U.S.A., writes a 999-line poem in the last twenty days of his life which is then acquired and annotated by his crazy neighbor, Charles Kinbote.
Author
Language
English
Description
When the renowned poet Fiona Skinner is asked about the inspiration behind her iconic work, The Love Poem, she tells her audience a story about her family and a betrayal that reverberates through time. It begins in a big yellow house with a funeral, an iron poker, and a brief variation forever known as the Pause: a free and feral summer in a middle-class Connecticut town. Caught between the predictable life they once led and an uncertain future that...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
356 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In The Green and the Gold, his second historical novel, Christopher Peachment introduces us to Andrew Marvell, the beguiling 17th-century poet and writer of "To His Coy Mistress", also a spy and politician. Marvell delightfully captured in his metaphysical poetry every aspect of love lost and gained. And yet, ironically, the man himself was a solitary figure whose reflections and tremendous insight allowed beauty to spill from an otherwise lonely...
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Language
English
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In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.
10) The grammarians
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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Description
Laurel and Daphne Wolfe, identical, inseparable redheaded twins, share an obsession with words. As adults making their way in 1980s Manhattan, their verbal infatuation begins to push them apart. Their fraying twinship finally shreds completely when the sisters go to war over custody of their most prized family heirloom: Merriam Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition.
11) The Poet X
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Language
English
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Publisher Annotation: Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers?especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, who...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A contemporary story about the insular world of writers, centering on a notable female poet and the young woman to whom she reveals her long-guarded secret about a famous manuscript"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
1976, c1933
Physical Desc
185 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The famous literary romance of Elizabeth Barret and Robert Browning given a funny and poignant slant - being told from the viewpoint of Elizabeth's adored spaniel, Flush, who bore his mistress's virtual imprisonment as an invalid in her father's house, and shared her dramatic flight abroad and subsequent happy married life.
Flush belonged to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and followed its mistress from her confinement in her father's house in Wimpole...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 355
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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Description
Roland Mitchell has devoted his life to studying the life and works of 19th-century writer Randolph Henry Ash. When Roland discovers a provocative letter to an unnamed woman, he begins a quest for information. Along with fellow academician Maud Bailey, Roland discovers an unconventional love story that echoes through their own modern lives.
16) Wings of fire
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
When Scotland Yard's Inspector Ian Rutledge goes to Cornwall to probe mysterious suicides and accidents, he not only finds family skeletons but he also has a chance to think about his participation in World War I.
17) Cyrano
Author
Publisher
Full Cast Audio
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Ashamed of his ugliness, long-nosed Cyrano de Bergerac, a brilliant seventeenth-century poet and expert swordsman in the French army, helps a rival woo and win Roxane, the beautiful cousin Cyrano loves in silence.
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
205 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Piedra Negra is an isolated village, whose citizens consist mainly of soldiers injured in the revolution who pass the time drinking a firewater so intense, all hallucinate, and most never recover. The firewater distiller's daughter Elena longs to be a poet, and after a chance encounter with Daniel Arcilla, Cuba's most important poet, Elena wins a national poetry prize and leaves Piedra Negra behind for Havana. There she encounters a population adjusting...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
285 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
This collection presents characters in the midst of personal and national crises. We meet a failed poet who, envious of other people's wealth during the real-estate bubble, becomes an embezzler; a clavichordist whose dreams of art collapse under the obligations of marriage and fatherhood; and, in "Bronze," a sexually confused college freshman whose encounter with a stranger on a train leads to a revelation about his past and his future.
20) Martyr!
Author
Language
English
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Description
"A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a search that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum"--
"Cyrus Shams, the novel's hero, is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: a mother whose plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident and a father whose life in America was...
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