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"Young readers will learn about the lives and legacies of seventeen heroes of the queer community from both past and present. Marsha P. Johnson, Harvey Milk, Cleve Jones, Pauline Park, Richard Blanco, and Pete Buttigieg are just a few of the iconic figures represented in this wonderfully designed and colorful picture book with illustrations by Harry Woodgate. A perfect introduction to the people who have stood up for what they believed in, lived lives...
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"Twenty-seven poems look inside the dwellings of animals like elf owls, cathedral termites, Sumatran orangutans, and foam-nest tree frogs"--
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Das Komponisten-Paar Schönherz & Fleer ist der Schöpfer des mehrfach preisgekrönten Rilke Projekts. Renommierte Schauspieler und Sänger interpretieren ausgewählte Texte Rainer Maria Rilkes im Zusammenspiel mit eigens komponierter Musik - eine kongeniale Mischung. Erstmals widmen sie sich mit ihrem neuen Album WUNDERWEIßE NÄCHTE einem bestimmten Thema: der Schönheit, der Anmut und der Dramatik von Herbst und Winter. Das Hörbuch verströmt...
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Informed by the death of a beloved brother, here are the stories of childhood, its thicket of sex and sorrow and joy, boys and girls growing into men and women, stories of a brother who in his dying could teach how to be most alive. What the Living Do reflects a new form of confessional poetry, one shared to some degree by other women poets such as Sharon Olds and Jane Kenyon. Unlike the earlier confessional poetry of Plath, Lowell, Sexton et al.,...
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"First you must realize you're homesick for all the lives you're not living. Then, you must commit to the road and the rising loneliness. To the sincere thrill of coming apart. So begins Joy Sullivan's Instructions for Traveling West- a lush debut collection that examines what happens when we leave home and leap into the deep unknown. Mid-pandemic, Sullivan left the man she planned to marry, sold her house, quit her corporate job, and drove west....
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"Following several of his internationally acclaimed, beloved novels, A Year of Last Things is Michael Ondaatje's long-awaited return to poetry. In pieces that are sometimes wittily funny, moving, and always wise, we journey back through time by way of alchemical leaps, unearthing writings by revered masters, moments of shared tenderness, and abandoned landscapes we hold onto to rediscover the influence of every border crossed. Moving from a Sri Lankan...
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Hombres y mujeres del Romanticismo en español (1), incluye algunos de los poemas más conocidos de la poesía del Romanticismo en español, escritos por algunos de sus autores más importantes y reconocidos: José de Espronceda, Rosalía de Castro, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, y Carolina Coronado.
El Romanticismo fue un movimiento literario que revolucionó la mirada poética entre finales del Siglo...
13) Shentama
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The philosphy of the Prophet Tobias
Companion book to the novel Return of the Prophet by Phil Moore
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Bald ist Weihnachten, und noch immer sitzen die Puppe Annabella und der Bär Ladislaus im Schaufenster des Warenhauses. Kein Käufer hat sich für sie gefunden. Voller Mitleid lässt der gute alte Mann von der Wach- und Schließgesellschaft in diesem letzten Fenster das Licht an. Da klingelt plötzlich das Telefon. Es ist der Weihnachtsmann, und er braucht dringend eine Puppe und einen Bären. Was für ein Glück. So finden Ladislaus und Annabella...
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Within these pages of this little book you find a small collection of Thomas favorite poems. Thomas had a stroke in 0202 resulting in numbness down the whole of the left side of his body and often falls as not able feel the ground beneath his feet. He is still not fully steady on his feet but still ventures out into the community. Thomas's secret to staying hopeful is to never give in when your chips are down! After the stroke he became more interested...
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John Samurai – Reflection Poetry
A book full of inspiring and delightful ruminations. Exquisite poetry that will make you ponder and will get you closer to Satori. Enlightenment. This book was written in order to entertain and leave a gasped by its profundity every reader of any walk of life. You can be a housewife or a professor at MIT and you still will find something in this book that will make you want to read more of it. There are jokes in...
18) Space Struck
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Consider this glowing debut from Paige Lewis a menagerie of near-extinction. Space Struck explores the wonders and cruelties occurring within the realms of nature, science, and religion, with the acuity of a sage, the deftness of a hunter, and a hilarious sensibility for the absurd. The universe is seen as an endless arrow ". . . and it asks only one question: How dare you?"
The poems are physically and psychologically tied to the animal world, replete...
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These are the observations of war, seen through the eyes of the Observer, a gentle toy, a mascot, who has accompanied determined men and women, old and young, through the bewildering, realistic experiences of war.
The Observer witnesses the lives of ordinary people, their anguish, camaraderie, and hopes. So their sky, flowers, insects, and people are not forgotten but will survive.
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How would you feel if you were a person treated differently just because you see things others can't? Would you feel isolated and alone, or would you channel your frustration into motivation and perseverance? The White Falcon, through her life journey, was treated differently by society for seeing the wrong things people saw and assumed as right. Although she felt cut off and alone, that didn't stop her from her journey to help enlighten people and...