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Life Lessons: Writings from the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the Florida State University
ISBN: 9781450253758 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of Tallahassee's richest cultural entities, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at FSU, has collected here an anthology of mostly true and some fictional stories and poems, all rich, warm and seasoned. You get tales: bird dogs sprayed yellow and sulfurous; a white girl walking dusty red clay Georgia back roads and meeting her first black woman alone; an offbeat mom zanier than Lucille Ball; a magical memory with hooting owls echoing across a Suwannee River of the past; the chilling monologue of an old man set on his last revenge. In a poem, the narrator talks about finding an old friend...
One of Tallahassee's richest cultural entities, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at FSU, has collected here an anthology of mostly true and some ...
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American Tensions: Literature of Identity and the Search for Social Justice
ISBN: 9780981559384 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This anthology of contemporary American poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction, explores issues of identity, oppression, injustice, and social change. Living American writers produced each piece between 1980 and the present; works were selected based on literary merit and the manner in which they address one or more pressing social issues. William Reichard has assembled some of the most respected literary artists of our time, asking whose voices are ascendant, whose silenced, and why. The work as a whole reveals shifting perspectives and the changing role of writing in the social... This anthology of contemporary American poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction, explores issues of identity, oppression, injustice, and social chang... |
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Rejoining the Common Reader: Essays, 1962-1990
ISBN: 9780810109919 / Angielski / Miękka / 231 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Rejoining the Common Reader" is suffused with the impulse that motivates Clara Claiborne Park's distinguished writing and teaching: the desire to related literature to the experience of its readers. This humane, balanced, and entertaining book will appeal to anyone who longs to recapture the pleasure of reading for personal enrichment and to teachers of literature who have grown to resent the intrusiveness of theory and theorizing and wish to reexamine what they are doing to, for, and with their students.
"Rejoining the Common Reader" is suffused with the impulse that motivates Clara Claiborne Park's distinguished writing and teaching: the desire to rel...
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122,40 |
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Elusive Light: A Collection of Poetry and Short Stories
ISBN: 9781450259095 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Elusive Light" offers valuable reflections on life and meaning through a collection of poetry and short stories. The poems comprise a generational series which first focuses on those who came of age during the Great Depression and World War II. The subject matter then shifts to reflections on the author's two lost sons and explores the nature of grief and loss, before concluding with poems which address the internal struggles of coping with grief and progressing to the processes of recovery and healing - ultimately discovering hope for the future. The short stories which comprise the second...
"Elusive Light" offers valuable reflections on life and meaning through a collection of poetry and short stories. The poems comprise a generational se...
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Literary Savannah
ISBN: 9781595340764 / Angielski / Miękka / 283 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The statues of Savannah's Monument Square are silent. The status of the solemn girl in Bonaventure Cemetery -- made famous in John Berendt's now legendary book, "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" -- cannot speak. Only Savannah's literary monuments can give voice to the rich and diverse history of one of America's greatest and most visited cities. Many have written about Savannah, but few have captured the true spirit of Southern grace most often associated with her history, as well as the mysteries and humor that await behind the walled gardens and gated homes. Whether born there or...
The statues of Savannah's Monument Square are silent. The status of the solemn girl in Bonaventure Cemetery -- made famous in John Berendt's now legen...
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These are the Breaks
ISBN: 9781935904144 / Angielski / Miękka / 105 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These Are The Breaks is the debut essay collection of NEA award-winning playwright, HBO Def Poet, and critically acclaimed "indie" rapper, Idris Goodwin. Diverse in scope and wickedly satirical, Goodwin's poetic essays sample race, class, and culture, transcending the page with hip-hop musicality. A rhythmic blend of biting wit and break-beat poetry, Goodwin's prose pulses with purpose. Remixing broken dreams and distorted legacies, Goodwin cross-fades past and present, personal and political: Motown's last vinyl factory juxtaposes against Bronx rap legends battling in open-air arenas;...
These Are The Breaks is the debut essay collection of NEA award-winning playwright, HBO Def Poet, and critically acclaimed "indie" rapper, Idris Goodw...
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69,36 |
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Reading Visual Poetry
ISBN: 9781611470628 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reading Visual Poetry examines works created in Spain, Latin America, France, Italy, Brazil, and the United States. Besides explicating individual works, it investigates the dynamics involved in reading (and viewing) visual poetry.
Reading Visual Poetry examines works created in Spain, Latin America, France, Italy, Brazil, and the United States. Besides explicating individual wor...
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406,51 |
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Well Versed: Literary Works 2010
ISBN: 9780979366635 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Whatever you like to read, the following pages probably include it. We have everything from A-"Afternews" to Z-"Zoom a Zoom and a Boom Boom." While most writers stay within their preference in writing, several write both poetry and prose, fiction or nonfiction. Brief biographies show our writers cover the gamut from first-time contributors to authors of multiple books, from Missourians to those who have left the confines of the state borders to live in other areas, be they shore, plains, or mountains. Wherever they are located, they share a love of writing. Well Versed showcases their work.
Whatever you like to read, the following pages probably include it. We have everything from A-"Afternews" to Z-"Zoom a Zoom and a Boom Boom." While mo...
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40,47 |
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Trial Balance: The Collected Short Stories of William March
ISBN: 9780817356866 / Angielski / Miękka / 530 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Collected Short Stories of William March The Collected Short Stories of William March |
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156,72 |
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Quills and Crossroads: An Anthology, Rowlett Writers Workshop
ISBN: 9781453762578 / Angielski / Miękka / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Grumpy New York trolls demand a magician to send them "anywhen." A twenty-pound cat teaches his owner about faith, as they both face the same life-threatening disease. Is there more to a tape measure than inches and feet? Might a tire-changing stranger be an angel in disguise? An odd "ape-man" pounding on a woman's door refuses to believe her when she tells him, "Nobody's Home." From horses to cats, homes to hospitals, hunting deer to hugging dear ones, Quills and Crossroads is sure to cater to every reader's taste.
Grumpy New York trolls demand a magician to send them "anywhen." A twenty-pound cat teaches his owner about faith, as they both face the same life-thr...
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72,63 |
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Willa Cather's The Song of the Lark: 1915 edition with revisions to the 1937 edition
ISBN: 9781449994594 / Angielski / Miękka / 552 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1915, when Cather was 42, she published the first edition of The Song of the Lark. in 1937, she revised and republished the novel. The two editions were published before and after a significant change for Cather, reflected in her statement: "the world broke in two in 1922 or there abouts" (Not Under Forty, v). Cather's revisions provides a study of her revision process.
In 1915, when Cather was 42, she published the first edition of The Song of the Lark. in 1937, she revised and republished the novel. The two editions...
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The Powell Papers: A Confidence Man Amok Among the Anglo-American Literati
ISBN: 9780810127036 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1849 months before the term confidence man was coined to identify a New York crook Thomas Powell (1809 1887), a spherical, monocled, English poetaster, dramatist, journalist, embezzler, and forger, landed in Manhattan. Powell in London had capped a career of grand theft and literary peccadilloes by feigning a suicide attempt and having himself committed to a madhouse, after which he fled England. He had been an intimate of William Wordsworth, Elizabeth Barrett, Robert Browning, Charles Dickens, and a crowd of lesser literary folk.
Thoughtfully bearing what he presented as a volume of... In 1849 months before the term confidence man was coined to identify a New York crook Thomas Powell (1809 1887), a spherical, monocled, English poetas...
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284,07 |
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Literary Capital: A Washington Reader
ISBN: 9780820338361 / Angielski / Twarda / 484 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Washington, D.C., has long been a magnet for writers and an object of interest and fascination to essayists, novelists, and poets. Literary Capital offers a compelling portrait of the city through the work of seventy authors ranging from early Americans such as Abigail Adams and Washington Irving to contemporaries such as Edward P. Jones and Joan Didion. Arranged by both period and theme, this anthology begins with the founding of Washington in 1800 and extends through the early twenty-first century. In the introduction Christopher Sten explores two broad categories of... Washington, D.C., has long been a magnet for writers and an object of interest and fascination to essayists, novelists, and poets. Literary Capi... |
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150,10 |
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The Scarlet Letter (The Classics: Student & Educator Series)
ISBN: 9780982910030 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Teachers have long understood that grasping the themes of great literature, while often times challenging, is well within the means of those readers willing to thoughtfully engage the text. Furthermore, teachers have long understood the value of margin notes as a powerful tool in accomplishing this end. Yet despite the collective wisdom of many educators, publishers continue to print the classics in a format little conducive to the kind of "text-grappling" that experts recommended. In listening to students and educators, Gladius Books has heeded the call by publishing a series of the most...
Teachers have long understood that grasping the themes of great literature, while often times challenging, is well within the means of those readers w...
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Seeing Stars: Memoirs of a Freelance Celebrity Articles Writer
ISBN: 9781593936280 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book tells how a little girl from Iowa came to meet, talk with, and write about dozens of well known and well-loved stars of stage, movies, and television who shared their personal likes, dislikes, and special interests with her. "All it took was a legitimate assignment with the editors of a respectable publication, an inquisitive mind, good will, and - sometimes - the assistance of a talented photographer," she readily admits.
This book tells how a little girl from Iowa came to meet, talk with, and write about dozens of well known and well-loved stars of stage, movies, and t...
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Songs of the Marrow Bone
ISBN: 9780982994504 / Angielski / Miękka / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Songs of the Marrow Bone is a distinguished collection of poetry and prose by nine contributors to Hobo Jungle, a literary magazine of new writing based in northwestern Connecticut. Each of the writers presented in this collection has a distinctive voice, but the themes of longing and despair, hope and reconciliation are tied together in a symphony of emotion that finds an outlet in this volume's five movements.
Songs of the Marrow Bone is a distinguished collection of poetry and prose by nine contributors to Hobo Jungle, a literary magazine of new writing bas...
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The Road Less Traveled
ISBN: 9781585351893 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is filled with the creative works of a poet, a singer/songwriter, an ordained minister of 38 years, and president/founder of THE SOCIETY OF AMERICAN POETS. His works have been widely published and compared to the likes of Robert Frost, Sidney Lanier and Robert Browning. This is a 244 page book of devotionals, life-experiences and poetry that will inspire and motivate.
This book is filled with the creative works of a poet, a singer/songwriter, an ordained minister of 38 years, and president/founder of THE SOCIETY OF ...
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14th Street Gold: Seasoned Thoughts
ISBN: 9781456457457 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every week for the last seven years a group of retired adults has gathered at the 14th Street Y to write together in an atmosphere of creativity and acceptance. NY Writers Coalition brings you this latest anthology of their luminous and heartfelt poetry and prose.
Every week for the last seven years a group of retired adults has gathered at the 14th Street Y to write together in an atmosphere of creativity and a...
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28,32 |
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The Best of PANIC!
ISBN: 9781456343330 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first anthology for the revolutionary downtown New York/Latino reading series PANIC , curated and edited by writer/literary activist Charlie Vazquez. Witness the cutting edge of the "new" New York underground writing scene...over thirty new voices featured "
The first anthology for the revolutionary downtown New York/Latino reading series PANIC , curated and edited by writer/literary activist Charlie Vazqu...
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Outskirts Press Presents Fandemonium: Selected Short Stories & Poems From Talented Facebook Writers
ISBN: 9781432770433 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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