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"A funny, over-the-top new spin on the classic Christmas poem! A hysterical new version of "The Night Before Christmas"! David Ercolini's over-the-top illustrations will have readers saying, "Ho! Ho! Ho!" Creatures of all shapes and all sizes will be stirring with laughter in this overly decked out, Christmas-splendored illustrated picture book! Ercolini breathes new life into an unrivaled classic with his vibrant illustrations featuring fun, accessible...
3) The Odyssey
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"The first great adventure story in the Western canon, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty, and power; about marriage and family; about travelers, hospitality, and the yearning for home. In this fresh, authoritative version--the first English translation of The Odyssey by a woman--this stirring tale of shipwrecks, monsters, and magic comes alive in an entirely new way. Written in iambic pentameter verse...
4) The prophet
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A. A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1923
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107 p. front., plates. 22 cm.
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English
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"In Kahlil Gibran's inspirational masterpiece--the most famous work of spiritual fiction of the twentieth century--a prophet named Almustafa is about to board a ship to travel back to his homeland after twelve years in exile when he's stopped by a group of people who ask him to share his wisdom before he leaves. In twenty-eight poetic essays, he does so, offering profound and timeless insights on many aspects of life, including love, pain, friendship,...
6) The Iliad
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English
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When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017--revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was "fresh, unpretentious and lean" (Madeline Miller, Washington Post)--critics lauded it as "a revelation" (Susan Chira, New York Times) and "a cultural landmark" (Charlotte Higgins, Guardian) that would forever change how Homer is read in English. Now Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory translation of Homer's other...
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Black History Month 2023
Top YA Books of All Time (Time Magazine List)
Women's History Month 2023-Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories
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"Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and...
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Gramercy Books
Pub. Date
[1992]
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224 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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A collection of poems by the four-time Pulitzer Prize winner, taken from his first three books published between 1913 and 1915, and including eighteen early works that have never appeared in any of Frost's books of poetry.
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Begun as an ambitious project by the versatile English courtier, diplomat, philosopher, and author Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century, The Canterbury Tales follows a group of people on their pilgrimage to the Cathedral of Saint Thomas Becket. The Prologue introduces all of the pilgrims in great detail, and through these descriptions Chaucer provides the entire spectrum of social classes and professions of his time. When the group stops at an inn...
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2019.
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Jonathan Hopkirk and Adam "Kurl" Kurlansky are partnered in English class, writing letters to one another in a weekly pen pal assignment. With each letter, the two begin to develop a friendship that eventually grows into love. But with homophobia, bullying, and devastating family secrets, Jonathan and Kurl struggle to overcome their conflicts and hold onto their relationship, and each other.
12) Vermont valley
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Vermont Books
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[c1958]
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187 p. 21 cm.
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English
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Stephen Daye Press
Pub. Date
[1955]
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Enlarged ed.
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208 p. ; 23 cm.
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English
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"Here is the Vermont that has captured the affections of Americans everywhere. To this ever-popular volume Walter Hard has added some of his best new poems--storytelling at its best, rich in genuine humor and friendly characterization..." -- Book flap.
18) Paradise lost
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English
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Presents John Milton's epic poem, which chronicles man's fall from grace and Satan's rebellion against God, with extensive notes, a chronology of events in Milton's life, a scholarly essay, and a 1694 biography of Milton.
19) Now we are six
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English
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A collection of poems reflecting the experiences of a little English boy growing up in the early part of the twentieth century.
Nonsense verses about people, animals, and situations. There is a beetle who is mistaken for a match, and a knight whose armour doesn't squeak.
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Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2011
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1st ed.
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
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English
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"As a curious little chipmunk leaves his nest to greet the twilight, he gazes at the glittering sky above him. He can't help but also notice the sparkling dewdrops on a spider's web, the lights of the fireflies, and the shimmers of moonlight on the water. 'How I wonder what you are!' marvels the tiny creature, launching a dreamlike quest to reach for the stars."--Amazon.com.
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