Naomi Shihab Nye
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"Everything Comes Next contains Naomi Shihab Nye's most beloved poems, including "Famous," "A Valentine for Ernest Mann," "Kindness," and "Gate A-4," as well as new, unpublished poems. It is an introduction to the poet's work for new readers, as well as a comprehensive edition for classrooms"--
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A collection of poems for adults by the Palestinian American author exploring her identity, war, and the violence that separates the human race. The pro-Palestine poems are inspired by seven-year-old Janna Jihad Ayyad, who captured videos of anti-occupation protests with her mother's smartphone.
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Honey. Beeswax. Pollinate. Hive. Colony. Work. Dance. Communicate. Industrious. Buzz. Sting. Cooperate. Where would we be without them? Where would we be without one another? In eighty-two poems and paragraphs, Naomi Shihab Nye alights on the essentials of our time, our loved ones, our dense air, our wars, our memories, our planet, and leaves us feeling curiously sweeter and profoundly soothed.
7) Transfer
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Naomi Shihab Nye is one of the most beloved and widely read poets in America. Her speaking engagements are booked by the Steven Barclay Agency, and she appears at schools, festivals, and conferences in excess of 100 times per year.
In January 2010 Naomi Shihab Nye was elected to the Board of Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets. Along with this honor, Nye has received a
Lannan Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Witter Bynner Fellowship...
8) Fuel
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Poems that find meaning in a world where we are "so tired of meaning nothing."
Narrated by the author.
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Nye's last BOA collections, Red Suitcase, and, Fuel, have each sold over 12,000 copies. They are best-selling back titles. Red Suitcase is in its 5th printing. Fuel is in its 4th printing. This is her first collection since Fuel in 1998, so her many fans will be eager to read her new poems.
10) Red Suitcase
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Poet, teacher, essayist, anthologist, songwriter and singer, Naomi Shihab Nye is one of the country's most acclaimed writers. Her voice is generous, her vision true, her subjects ordinary people, and ordinary situations which, when rendered through her language, become remarkable. In this, her fourth full collection of poetry, we see with new eyes - a grandmother's scarf, an alarm clock, a man carrying his son on his shoulders.
Narrated by the author....
11) Sitti's secrets
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Arab American Heritage Month for Young People
Diverse Books - Near East/Levant/Arabian Peninsula Picture Books
Diverse Books-Muslim Children and Families
Palestine: Analysis, Fiction, Film, Poetry, and Children's Literature
Diverse Books - Near East/Levant/Arabian Peninsula Picture Books
Diverse Books-Muslim Children and Families
Palestine: Analysis, Fiction, Film, Poetry, and Children's Literature
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A young girl describes a visit to see her grandmother in a Palestinian village on the West Bank.
When Mona, a young Arab-American girl, journeys with her father to the Middle East to meet her grandmother, she discovers that they share the universal bonds of family love
13) Habibi
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When fourteen-year-old Liyanne Abboud, her younger brother, and her parents move from St. Louis to a new home between Jerusalem and the Palestinian village where her father was born, they face many changes and must deal with the tensions between Jews and Palestinians.
14) Lullaby raft
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When the sun goes down, Mama sings a lullaby which tells of animals getting ready for the night.
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Using humor as the common denominator, a multicultural cast of YA authors steps up to the mic to share stories touching on race.
Listen in as ten YA authors — some familiar, some new — use their own brand of humor to share their stories about growing up between cultures. Henry Choi Lee discovers that pretending to be a tai chi master or a sought-after wiz at math wins him friends for a while — until it comically backfires.