Rutherford B., Who Was He?
Rutherford B., Who Was He?

Author: Marilyn Singer

Publisher: Disney-Hyperion

Published: 2013-12-17

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781423171003

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Forty-three men with forty-three passions, but with one thing in common: a presidential place in America's history. With her gift for unforgettable rhythm and innovative rhyme, Marilyn Singer brings the presidents of the United States to life-from Washington to Obama-and contextualizes them in their time. Illustrations by John Hendrix are full of hilarious wit and refined exuberance, and backmatter enriches the experience with short biographies, quotes by each president, and more.

Apple
Apple

Author: Eric Gansworth

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 2020-10-06

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 1646140141

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National Book Award Longlist TIME's 10 Best YA and Children's Books of 2020 NPR's Best Book of 2020 Shelf Awareness's Best Books of 2020 Publishers Weekly's Big Indie Books of Fall Amazon's Best Book of the Month AICL Best YA Books of 2020 CSMCL Best Multicultural Children's Books of 2020 PRAISE "Stirring.... Raw and moving." —TIME "Beautiful imagery and with words that soar and scald." —The Buffalo News "Easily one of the best books to be published in 2020. The kind of book bound to save lives." —LitHub "A powerful narrative about identity and belonging." —Paste Magazine FOUR STARRED REVIEWS ★ "Timely and important." —Booklist, starred review ★ "Searing yet dryly funny." —The Bulletin, starred review ★ "Exceptional." —Shelf-Awareness, starred review ★ "Captivating." —School Library Journal, starred review The term "Apple" is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly "red on the outside, white on the inside." In APPLE (SKIN TO THE CORE), Eric Gansworth tells his story, the story of his family—of Onondaga among Tuscaroras—of Native folks everywhere. From the horrible legacy of the government boarding schools, to a boy watching his siblings leave and return and leave again, to a young man fighting to be an artist who balances multiple worlds. Eric shatters that slur and reclaims it in verse and prose and imagery that truly lives up to the word heartbreaking.

The Invisible Girl
The Invisible Girl

Author: Christina Nixon

Publisher: Christina Nixion

Published: 2016-03-28

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13: 9780994992406

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Many teenage girls feel alone and misunderstood. Christina Nixon wrote these incredible poems when she was a teenager and has now published them to offer young girls and women who may be feeling alone, yearning to be seen, to be valued or to be loved and yet feel, like The Invisible Girl. I believe we can all relate to the pain of our youth.

Yeshiva Boys
Yeshiva Boys

Author: David Lehman

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2009-11-17

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 1439156263

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David Lehman, a poet of wit, ingenuity, and formidable skill, draws upon his heritage as a grandson of Holocaust victims and offers a stirring autobiographical collection of poems that is his most ambitious work to date. Yeshiva Boys covers an expansive range of subjects -- from love, sex, and romance to repentance, humility, the meaning of democracy, Existentialism, modern European history, military intelligence, and the rituals associated with faith and prayer. The title poem is a work in twelve parts that blends the elements of espionage fiction, memory, history, and moral philosophy. It reflects David's experience as a student in an orthodox Yeshiva, and it, along with many other poems in the book, explores what it means to be a Jew in America, what is gained and lost in assimilating to secular culture, how to understand the peculiar destiny of the Jewish people, and how to reconcile the existence of God with the knowledge of evil. Beautiful, provocative, and accessible, this is David Lehman's most inspired collection.

Worth the Wait
Worth the Wait

Author: Sherice Nixon

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-08-27

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 9781537223025

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This short collection of poems is designed to encourage single young women to love and serve God with their whole hearts and bodies as they await their future mates. These poems and songs are literally pieces of the author's heart throughout the years as she herself walks through this journey.

The Poems of Mao Zedong
The Poems of Mao Zedong

Author: Zedong Mao

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2008-06-14

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13: 0520935004

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Mao Zedong, leader of the revolution and absolute chairman of the People's Republic of China, was also a calligrapher and a poet of extraordinary grace and eloquent simplicity. The poems in this beautiful edition (from the 1963 Beijing edition), translated and introduced by Willis Barnstone, are expressions of decades of struggle, the painful loss of his first wife, his hope for a new China, and his ultimate victory over the Nationalist forces. Willis Barnstone's introduction, his short biography of Mao and brief history of the revolution, and his notes on Chinese versification all combine to enrich the Western reader's understanding of Mao's poetry.

Carrying the Darkness
Carrying the Darkness

Author: William Daniel Ehrhart

Publisher:

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780896721876

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An anthology of Vietnam War poetry, featuring the work of seventy-five poets.

Much Loved
Much Loved

Author: Mark Nixon

Publisher: Abrams

Published: 2013-10-29

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 1613125755

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Award-winning photographer Mark Nixon has created a trove of quirky and nostalgic portraits of teddy bears and other stuffed animals that have been lovingly abused after years of play. MuchLoved collects 60 of these images along with their accompanying background tales. An exhibit in the photographer’s studio led to a small sensation on the Internet when a few of the pictures circulated unofficially on scores of blogs and on many legitimate news sites. Viewers have been intrigued by the funny, bittersweet images and their ironic juxtaposition of childhood innocence and aged, loving wear and tear. When you see these teddy bears and bunnies with missing noses and undone stuffing, you can’t help but think back to childhood and its earliest companions who asked for nothing and gave a lot back. Praise for Much Loved: “Much Loved is impossibly endearing in its entirety.” —Brain Pickings