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Catapult
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
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"In this intimate collection, Amanda Peters melds traditional storytelling with beautiful, spare prose to describe the dignity of the traditional way of life, the humiliations of systemic racism and the resilient power to endure. A young man returns from residential school only to realize he can no longer communicate with his own parents. A grieving mother finds purpose and healing on the front lines as a water protector. And a nervous child dances...
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Publisher:
Ratatoskr Press
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
Prohibition ended on December 5, 1933. But just because alcohol is legal doesn't mean it's easy to find. Anna Olsen wants her sister to have all the best for her engagement party. And the best means champagne. Only scarcity thwarts her every attempt to find any. She knows where to find all she could ever want. But getting it? Not so easy. George Andrews appreciates his mentor trying to find him a bride. But none of the candidates at his mentor's New...
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Publisher:
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
Description:
Long Night Moon continues the story of the Vigils and the Silvas, begun in the authors' first two award-winning novels, Sunlight and Shadow and A Growing Season, depicting a complicated extended family in New Mexico's beautiful Rio Grande Valley.
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English
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Chicago Poems is an early collection of poems by American poet Carl Sandburg. This little volume includes the following poems: Chicago, Sketch, Masses, Lost, The Harbor, They Will Say, Mill-Doors, Halsted Street Car, Clark Street Bridge, Passers-by, The Walking Man of Rodin, Subway, The Shovel Man, A Teamster's Farewell, Fish Crier, Picnic Boat, Happiness, Muckers, Blacklisted, Graceland, Child of the Romans, The Right to Grief, Mag, Onion Days, Population...
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Publisher:
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date:
2016
Lexile measure:
AD: Adult Directed 500L
Language:
English
Description:
On the first night of winter, Little Miss Bear will not go to sleep. She simply refuses. "Winter is for sleeping," Mother Bear tells her. "But why, Mother?" Little Miss asks. "Because that's what bears do. All bears sleep, all winter long." All winter long is much too long for Little Miss Bear. She is going to miss her stars and her moon, and she is going to miss rolling on hills. Most of all, she is going to miss Mother Bear. But Mother finds a special...
9. Backflash
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Series:
Parker novel volume 18
Language:
English
Description:
Parker's got a couple of rules that have helped keep him alive throughout his long career. One of those is never to work on a boat. But with a gambling boat cruising down the Hudson, stuffed to the gunwales with cash, Parker's got a plan, a team, and a new rule: a shot at a big enough score makes any rule worth breaking. Parker and his crew hit the boat, hard, but as always, there are a lot of complications-and a lot of bodies-before this one's in...
10. Morgan Le Fay
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Publisher:
Argante Press
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Description:
The child fated to shape destinies ... Morgan is a little girl who lives in Tintagel Castle by the sea, loved and sheltered by her noble parents, the Duke and Duchess of Belerion. An extraordinarily clever child, extremely sharp-eyed, exceptionally curious. A little girl unlike other children. One stormy night a ship is wrecked off the coast, bringing with it new friends - Fleur the princess from a far-off land, Safir the stowaway with a secret, and...
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Publisher:
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
"Noura can't wait for the sun to go down. The month of Ramadan is almost over, and she and Mama and Papa are headed for the hills for a moonsighting picnic. It would be truly special if Noura's first fast ended with a glimpse of a silvery crescent in the night sky. If the moon stays hidden, that means one more long day before Noura gets to put on her sparkly new dress and the joyful Eid celebrations begin!" -- Jacket flap
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Publisher:
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
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Doty Meets Coyote is an audio tapestry of traditional and original Native American stories from the American West told by master storyteller Thomas Doty. It is Thomas Doty's work as a storyteller to not only perpetuate the Old Time myths with integrity but to add new stories to the collective basket of folklore, just as tellers before him have done for centuries. Storytelling is an ancient tradition as well as a living art. Thomas Doty's adventures...
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Publisher:
Steve Howard
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
Crap. I hope no one expects me to clarify the first lengthy entry. Book 19, as far as I remember and judging from the first many pages, 282 it was. Let's try a little. It is breaking through. The old world is passing and the new one is pulling us in like a new vacuum sucking up dust bunnies that have been sleeping under the bed. But not into a bag to be discarded. Into a world where dust bunnies are the gods and have all the clover they need and are...
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Huzzah! I made it to my twenty-third birthday! Given how much dragon magic I have rolling through me now, doing its best to cook me from the inside out, this feat is no small thing. I've earned a hearty celebration and then some. I'm gonna party down at Sharmayne's and let her ply me with as many of her cocktails as she wants. Her magic touch is exactly what I need after how nutty life in Traitor's Den has been lately. I deserve every hypnotic, milky,...
17. Moon Waker
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Publisher:
S L Davies
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Description:
Ceana was used to being poor. She grew up in the Shetland Islands, Scotland. Her father had died when she was just a small child, and her mother had done her best to keep them going. But there was never quite enough. She and her sister Saorise had gone to bed hungry on more than one occasion. On the eve of her eighteenth birthday, Ceana's mam is acting strange. She had sat Ceana down for a long talk about the moon and something about the moon waking....
18. The Pack
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Publisher:
iUniverse
Pub. Date:
2011
Language:
English
Description:
It is the fifteenth century, and three kingdoms are caught up in the dire conflicts of their time. As the possibility of a peaceful resolution provides hope that a decade-long war will finally end, no one realizes that dark forces are waiting to invoke chaos as a full moon rises. On a farm nestled beneath the Euralene Mountains along the western border of Medinia, young Willie works for the Smythes as a serf. One moonlit evening when the Smythes are...
Author:
Publisher:
Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
Description:
Rainy night on Union Square, full moon. Want more poems? Wait till I'm dead. Allen Ginsberg, August 8, 1990, 3:30 A.M. The first new Ginsberg collection in over fifteen years, Wait Till I'm Dead is a landmark publication, edited by renowned Ginsberg scholar Bill Morgan and introduced by award-winning poet and Ginsberg enthusiast Rachel Zucker. Ginsberg wrote incessantly for more than fifty years, often composing poetry on demand, and many of the poems...