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Scorched by Wajdi Mouawad
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTwin children Jeanne and Simon want to solve the mystery of their origins. In retracing the bitter history of their mother, who is about to die, other characters come into the story—witnesses or key players able to assist in the investigation. Carried aloft by poetic language, the inquiry pursued by Jeanne and Simon unfolds in a dreamlike atmosphere... -
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Selected Poems and Four Plays by W.B. Yeats, Macha Louis Rosenthal
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSince its first appearance in 1962, M. L. Rosenthal's classic selection of Yeats's poems and plays has attracted hundreds of thousands of readers. This newly revised edition includes 211 poems and 4 plays... -
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alphabet by Inger Christensen
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAwarded the American-Scandinavian PEN Translation Prize by Michael Hamburger, Susanna Nied's translation of alphabet introduces Inger Christensen's poetry to US readers for the first time. Born in 1935, Inger Christensen is Denmark's best known poet... -
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera: A Reader's Guide by Thomas Fahy
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years from The Remains of the Day to White Teeth... -
![The Book of Frank by C.A. Conrad, Eileen Myles]()
The Book of Frank by C.A. Conrad, Eileen Myles
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWinner of the 2009 Gil Ott Book Award, this expanded edition of The Book of Frank features additional "Frank" poems and an essay by Eileen Myles.Praised by poet Anne Waldman as a "voyeuresque surreal portrait," The Book of Frank is also, in the words of candid portrayal of human cruelty and its resultant fantasies of escape... -
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Galactic Survey by Richard F. Weyand
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTHEY FOUND HYPERSPACE. NOW WHAT?Chen JieMin hypothesized the existence of hyperspace. The government of Arcadia put a project together to build a hyperspace probe. Chen ChaoLi managed the project to build a successful probe and transition it there and back.But hyperspace is still just a curiosity, no more... -
![Mr. Handsome Hunk: A Manhattan Men Novel by Jacob Parker]()
Mr. Handsome Hunk: A Manhattan Men Novel by Jacob Parker
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI’ve wanted her my whole life.My best friend’s little sister. But things didn’t work out like they were supposed to.And now she’s back in my life and I’m not sure how I feel about it.She left for college without looking back, and I’m a billionaire bachelor with my eye on lots of prizes now.I’m not the boy she walked away from.Manhattan is my playground, and my family owns the city... -
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Altazor/Temblor del cielo by Vicente Huidobro
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAltazor y Temblor de cielo (1931), poemas en verso y prosa, respectivamente, son las abras clave del chileno Huidobro, uno de los importadores de las vanguardias a España. Altazor es una intensa abra metafísica, ademas de un ingenioso juego de palabras, culminación del creacionismo... -
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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Advanced Player's Guide by Jason Bulmahn, Stephen Radney-MacFarland
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTake your Game to the Next Level!Explore new and uncharted depths of roleplaying with the Pathfinder RPG Advanced Player's Guide! Empower your existing characters with expanded rules for all 11 Pathfinder Roleplaying Game core classes and seven core races, or build a new one from the ground up with one of six brand-new, 20-level base classes... -
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Viento del pueblo. II tomos by Miguel Hernández
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"Los poetas somos viento del nacemos para pasar soplando a través de sus poros y conducir sus ojos y sus sentimientos hacia las cumbres más hermosas", confiesa Miguel Hernández en la dedicatoria de "Viento del pueblo" (1936-1937). Y así surgen los poemas de este libro con su nota dinámica, su tono épico y su febril entusiasmo... -
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Trilce by César Vallejo
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratings'Trilce' is one of the great monuments of 20th-Century Hispanic poetry, as important in Hispanic letters as 'The Wasteland' and 'The Cantos' in the anglophone world, and all the more amazing for having been composed in remote Peru... -
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Solitudes Crowded With Loneliness by Bob Kaufman
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPublished in 1965, Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness assembles ten years' work of Bob Kaufman, celebrated in San Francisco as the original Beat and in France as "the American Rimbaud."Kaufman, one of fourteen children born in Louisiana to a German Jewish father and a Black Catholic mothers, ran away to sea when he was thirteen, circling the globe nine times in the next twenty years... -
![Flagger by Laramie Briscoe, Lindsay Hopper]()
Flagger by Laramie Briscoe, Lindsay Hopper
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFast Cars Quarter-miles Broken homes Vulnerable hearts Cash Montgomery likes fast cars, fast women, and living his life only as far as he can see with his own two eyes. There are very few people in his life who he answers to. One of them being his little brother Remington (Remy)... -
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![Draupadi by Mahasweta Devi]()
Draupadi by Mahasweta Devi
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMahasweta Devi situates her story against the Naxalite movement (1967-71), the Bangladesh Liberation War (1971) of West Bengal and the ancient Hindu epic of Mahabharata, engaging with the complex politics of Bengali identity and Indian nationhood... -
![The Occasions by Eugenio Montale]()
The Occasions by Eugenio Montale
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEugenio Montale's second book of poetry was first published in 1939. This book is his most experimental work, but a work no less tradition-saturated than Eliot's... -
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Los gallinazos sin plumas by Julio Ramón Ribeyro
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEn Los gallinazos sin plumas, primera publicación del autor, desfilan seres marginales retratados magistralmente por Ribeyro... -
![I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud (Read Me a Poem: Classic Poetry for Modern Children) (Read Me a Poem: Classic Poetry for Modern Children) by William Wordsworth]()
I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud (Read Me a Poem: Classic Poetry for Modern Children) (Read Me a Poem: Classic Poetry for Modern Children) by William Wordsworth
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis spring, children will look at daffodils in a whole new way, thanks to this joyful, vibrant picture book! Lonely l ittle Robot doesn't have much to be happy about, working all day in the factory. One day, while sadly walking by himself, he follows a bird over a hill, and discovers a field of daffodils. After dancing with them, his spirit is filled with joy... -
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The Black Heralds by César Vallejo
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOriginally published in Peru in 1919 before the poet fled to Europe to avoid incarceration, this collection of poems is the first from a man who would become a significant voice of Latin American poetry... -
![A Chorus Line: The Complete Book of the Musical by James Kirkwood Jr., Michael Bennett]()
A Chorus Line: The Complete Book of the Musical by James Kirkwood Jr., Michael Bennett
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratings(Applause Books). It is hard to believe that over 25 years have passed since A Chorus Line first electrified a New York audience. The memories of the show's birth in 1975, not to mention those of its 15-year-life and poignant death, remain incandescent and not just because nothing so exciting has happened to the American musical since... -
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![Extrait offert - After Saison 5 by Anna Todd, Claire Sarradel]()
Extrait offert - After Saison 5 by Anna Todd, Claire Sarradel
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLa vie n'a jamais été rose pour Tessa et Hardin, mais chaque nouveau défi auquel ils doivent faire face renforce leur amour et le lien passionné qui les unit est de plus en plus solide. Mais quand un pan de son passé, qu'il n'aurait pu imaginé, lui est révélé, Hardin est touché au cœur. Tessa de son côté subit une tragédie... -
![Olduğu Kadar Güzeldik by Mahir Ünsal Eriş]()
Olduğu Kadar Güzeldik by Mahir Ünsal Eriş
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsKimseyi istemiyorsun yanında, ama durup durup da yalnızlıktan şikâyet edesin geliyor. Bir şeyden şikâyet edebilmek için bile insan lazım. Öyle hileli bir şey bu.Okumuşlar, okuyamamışlar, fakirliğin batağındaki yaşamlar; ev içi kavgalar, terk edenler, terk edilenler; heba olan masum hayatlar. Ya da hayatını zindana çeviren sevgiliyi unutayım derken bir yabancının düğününde başkalığı tadanlar... -
![Lieblingstochter by Sarah Jollien-Fardel]()
Lieblingstochter by Sarah Jollien-Fardel
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSarah Jollien-Fardel erzählt die Geschichte einer Befreiung, die unter die Haut geht: In den Walliser Bergen wächst die kleine Jeanne mit einem gewalttätigen Vater, einer verängstigten Mutter und der eingeschüchterten Schwester auf. Alle im Dorf wissen von der willkürlichen Brutalität des Vaters, alle schauen weg. Jeanne flüchtet in ihre Phantasie, in die Welt der Bücher und später ins Internat... -
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October by Louise Glück
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings‘October’ by Louis Glück is a poem that describes the change in the natural world during October. It is the time of autumn when the earth takes a new shape. It wears the robe of new leaves and transforms into her former self again. The poet highlights the natural change at the beginning of autumn. Her voice seems confused at the sight... -
![The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion by Kei Miller]()
The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion by Kei Miller
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn this collection, acclaimed Jamaican poet Kei Miller dramatizes what happens when one system of knowledge, one method of understanding place and territory, comes up against another... -
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Rekreacje by Yuri Andrukhovych
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRecreations is a novel of carnivalesque vitality and acute social criticism. It celebrates newly found freedom and reflects upon the contradictions of post-Soviet society. Four poets and an entourage of secondary characters converge on fictional Chortopil for the Festival of the Resurrecting Spirit, an orgy of popular culture, civic dysfunction, national pride, and sex... -
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The Reading Strategies Book: Your Everything Guide to Developing Skilled Readers by Jennifer Serravallo
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWith hit books that support strategic reading through conferring, small groups, and assessment, Jen Serravallo gets emails almost daily asking, "Isn't there a book of the strategies themselves?" Now there is. "Strategies make the often invisible work of reading actionable and visible," Jen writes... -
![C Programming Language by Ritchie Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie]()
C Programming Language by Ritchie Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsClassic, bestselling introduction that teaches the language and illustrates useful algorithms, data structures and programming techniques... -
![180 Days: Two Teachers and the Quest to Engage and Empower Adolescents by Kelly Gallagher, Penny Kittle]()
180 Days: Two Teachers and the Quest to Engage and Empower Adolescents by Kelly Gallagher, Penny Kittle
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"Teaching is art-creation-and a curriculum map is only as good as the teacher who considers it, who questions it, and who revises it to meet the needs of each year's students." -Kelly Gallagher and Penny KittleTwo teachers. Two classrooms. One school year...
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