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Bits of String Too Small to Save
Author: Peru Ruby
Publisher:
Published: 2017-05-15
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780692513453
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Persnickety ElizabethAnn must save the doomed land of Bumblegreen from greedy watchmakers, toxic babies, and one particularly obnoxious Lothario. In her efforts, she unites a teenaged queen, fish-lipped butler, and genderless sorcerer to restore the elusive balance of magic and technology, and even find love, in this illustrated adventure fantasy.
Bits of String Too Small to Save
Author: Ruby Peru
Publisher:
Published: 2017-05-15
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780692513484
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Prim, persnickety ElizabethAnn must restore a delicate balance of technology and magic to the mysterious land of Bumblegreen, all despite greedy watchmakers, toxic babies, and one particularly obnoxious Lothario. This imaginative fantasy novel, with its beautiful pen-and-ink cover and illustrations, is a perfect gift for any artist or bibliophile.
Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts
Author: Jorie Graham
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2011-11-14
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 140083144X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"How I would like to catch the world / at pure idea," writes Jorie Graham, for whom a bird may be an alphabet, and flight an arc. Whatever the occasion--and her work offers a rich profusion of them--the poems reach to where possession is not within us, where new names are needed and meaning enlarged. Hence, what she sees reminds her of what is missing, and what she knows suggests what she cannot. From any event, she arcs bravely into the farthest reaches of mind. Fast readers will have trouble, but so what. To the good reader afraid of complexity, I would offer the clear trust that must bond us to such signal poems as (simply to cite three appearing in a row) "Mother's Sewing Box," "For My Father Looking for My Uncle," and "The Chicory Comes Out Late August in Umbria." Finally, the poet's words again: ". . . you get / just what you want" and (just before that), "Just as / from time to time / we need to seize again / the whole language / in search of / better desires."--Marvin Bell
Motherhood
Author: Carmela Ciuraru
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: 2005-04-05
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1400043565
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Celebrating mothers and daughters, mothers and sons, grandmothers and grandchildren, Motherhood is a glorious, wonderfully intimate tribute to the first love in every reader’s life. From tenth-century Japan’s Izumi Shikibu, colonial America’s Anne Bradstreet, and Victorian England’s Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Israel’s Yehuda Amichai, Ireland’s Paul Muldoon, and Russia’s Anna Akhmatova, poets across the centuries and around the world have immortalized this elemental relationship. Among the more than seventy poets in this anthology, Audre Lorde recalls “How the days went / While you were blooming within me”; Jorie Graham muses on her mother’s sewing box; Allen Ginsberg says goodbye in “Kaddish”; and Langston Hughes invokes a mother’s empowering example: “Don’t you fall now— / For I’se still goin’, honey, / I’se still climbin’, / And life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.” From Emily Brontë’s “Upon Her Soothing Breast” and Seamus Heaney’s “Mother of the Groom” to Sylvia Plath’s “Morning Song” and Frank O’Hara’s “Ave Maria,” the more than one hundred poems collected here enshrine the miracle of motherhood and the richness of feeling and experience it inspires.
The Journey is Everything
Author: Helen Bevington
Publisher: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"'What does one learn by taking a journey, any journey?' Helen Bevington asks. 'I've taken a shaky trip through a decade (to Russia, to the mailbox, to bed) to the end of the 1970s, about which uncomplimentary and increasingly anxious remarks were made by us all--you, me, and the media.' This is a book of journeys, to places--Russia, Hawaii, Italy, Yugoslavia, Greece, the South Seas, the Rhine, Australia, New Zealand, New Mexico--and to the classroom at Duke University where she was Professor of English until her retirement in 1976. Since everything is a journey, the book is concerned with travel of all kinds, in books, in memories, in people living and dead, a lighthearted search for Eden on this planet but a more serious search for survival in the troubled decade of the 1970s"--Publisher.
String Too Short to be Saved
Author: Donald Hall
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781567925548
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a collection of stories diverse in subject but united by the limitless affection the author holds for the land and the people of New England. Donald Hall tells about life on a small farm where, as a boy, he spent summers with his grandparents. Gradually the boy grows to be a young man, sees his grandparents aging, the farm become marginal, and finally, the cows sold and the barn abandoned. But these are more than nostalgic memories, for in the measured and tender prose of each episode are signs of the end of things: a childhood, perhaps a culture. In an Epilogue written for this edition, Donald Hall describes his return to the farm twenty-five years later, to live the rest of his life in the house that held a box of string too short to be saved.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Overcoming Procrastination, 2E
Author: Michelle Tullier
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2012-09-04
Total Pages: 183
ISBN-13: 1615642676
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Everyone procrastinates from time to time. But when putting things off becomes a habit, it can be debilitating and have devastating effects. Clear, concise, and highly usable, The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Overcoming Procrastination, Second Edition, will help anyone who has a hard time getting things done - from the occassional procrastinator to the worst of the worst. This new edition is more streamlined and written to give readers strategies they can apply right away. Part 1 starts with key insights on why we procrastinate, how our surroundings (and our brains) affect our tendency to put things off, and how simply changing our thinking can be key to changing our bad habits. Part 2 gets more into the nitty gritty of how we can begin to change our behaviors, and gives clear, simple steps so they can quickly banish the clutter, get organized, and get things done. Part 3 moves into more strategic thinking with specialized strategies for overcoming procrastination at work, in school, in relationships, and with everyday matters (even in a reader's digital life).
Art Making, Collections, and Obsessions
Author: Lynne Perrella
Publisher:
Published: 2010-04
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 1592536263
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Profiles the creative processes of thirty-five artists who feel compelled to collect a wide variety of found objects which provide inspiration or are incorporated into their mixed-media artworks.
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