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Report copyright infringementby Giggle Spoon (Created by)This illustrated picture book and its catchy sing-along song celebrate the quesadilla, a tasty and easy-to-make snack of Mexican origin. While dishing out laughs, this book also introduces kids to the joys of cooking and the life-skills that knowing how to cook can provide. Does that mean an extra helping of self-confidence and self-reliance along with happy tummies? Yes, please! Additionally, this story and song introduce our kids to s...

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Report copyright infringementby Nancy Bond (Author), Emily Lux (Illustrator)Written by a former schoolteacher, this illustrated poetry book is for children, teachers, parents, and counselors to help young people express their thoughts, live up to their fears, obtain greater understanding of their uncertainties, rejoice in their happiness, and just plain laugh with delight. Number of Pages: 78 Dimensions: 0.21 x 9.25 x 7.5 IN Illustrated: Yes ...

It's Snot Fair!: and other gross & disgusting jokes

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Report copyright infringementby Brenda Ponnay (Author), Brenda Ponnay (Illustrator)Get ready to laugh out loud with this hilarious collection of gross and goofy jokes! In "It's Snot Fair," author and illustrator Brenda Ponnay delivers joke after joke of boogers, farts, burps, and more to tickle the funny bones of 7 to 10-year-old readers. Kids will giggle at silly questions like "What's invisible and smells like carrots?" (Bunny farts!) or "How does a kid take a bubble bath without soap?" (H...

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Report copyright infringementby John Morrin (Author)From the bestselling author of Riddles in the Dark: The Never-Ending Battle comes a new and powerful collection of poems focused on growth and healing.Colorado Springs, Colo. - - Tactical 16 Publishing announced today the signing of John Morrin II for Fractured Reflections. In his brand-new book of poems, Morrin empowers readers to address their many emotions and reflect on their personal journeys. Morrin's book can be purchased at T16, the ...

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Report copyright infringementby Douglas Florian (Author), Douglas Florian (Illustrator)This book is bound To pick you up. To give a little lift. If you take half A change you'll laugh. We know you won't be miffed. So find a home Inside a poem. Take off your shoes and sit And if you smile Once in a while, We won't mind it one bit! "Sure to draw fans of Shel Silverstein and Jack Prelutsky . . . [These poems] provoke laughter while playfully manipulating language to capture the comical essence...

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Williams Wood (Author)How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers is a whimsical and delightful book of children's verse. Each verse centers around two things that resemble one another and each poem is wonderfully illustrated. This facsimile edition includes the wonderfully illustrative hand drawn lettering. The Harrier harassed by the Hare Presents a picture of despair; Although as far as I'm concerned I love to see the tables turned. The Harrier flies with ...

Day I Fell Down the Toilet and Other Poems

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Report copyright infringementby Steve Turner (Author), David Mostyn (Illustrator)Have you ever been punched by a cabbage or fallen head first down the loo?Have you ever had fun with a poem? You haven't? Then this book's for you.Whacky poems that take a roller-coaster ride from the crazy corners of dreams to the big questions of life.This collection of over seventy poems for children by Steve Turner is regularly in the best-seller lists. Full of wit and fun, his thought-provoking poetry has be...

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Report copyright infringementby Barbara Toboni (Author), Sandy Ferguson Fuller (Illustrator)Join in the next picture book adventure from the author/illustrator creators of the beloved Bunny Poets! Percy and Bonny, visit the library to find ideas for Bonny's next opus. They bring a book home and compose a new poem on a creative mountain picnic. They are inspired by The Swing by Robert Louis Stevenson. "Look, look inside the book" for playful rhyme and colorful fun! Full color illustrations. 28...

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Report copyright infringementby Samantha Mineroff (Author)Inspired by real women, Samantha Mineroff shares an inside look at what mothers and daughters go through with this moving chapbook of epistolary poetry. Examine how women relate to one another by exploring the stories that make you think about your life: from grief and societal pressure to acceptance and empowerment.Each section-"Apologies," "Warmth," and Encouragement"-is written with a particular message in mind, making it a guideboo...

High Notes of Poetry: Finding Your Courage

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Report copyright infringementby Ellen Brown Harrison (Author)Author Ellen Harrison releases her first poetry collection that soothes the soul, encourages empowerment, and reveals the inner strength of every reader. She began reading poetry as a source of comfort and found strength and liberation in the inspirational words of Maya Angelou.When Ellen lost her father, she turned to poetry as a way to cope and process her emotions. What she didn't realize was the transformative power that words w...

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seedfall: a journal of poetry + prose + visual art

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Report copyright infringementby Lynne Ellis (Editor)This inaugural edition of seedfall, new from Tulipwood Books, showcases work from eighteen celebrated authors and artists, all on the theme "atmosphere"-the invisible force that makes life possible on our planet. This is a literary anthology for a general audience, reaching out to many different kinds of readers. Here is the hope of atmospheric phenomena, celestial objects, space travel, inevitable mortality, new relationship energy; of how ...

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Report copyright infringementby Sarah Wimbush (Author)It's March 1984 and the miners' strike has just started. By exploring both famous and previously unseen photographs through the lens of poetry, STRIKE captures the turbulence of one of the longest industrial disputes in British history, and the spirit of a marginalised community on the verge of profound change.In STRIKE we journey from the North East which inspires Billy Elliot, to Wivenhoe Docks where flying pickets attempt to stop coal i...

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Report copyright infringementby Matthew Tierney (Author)Taking its title from lossless data compression algorithms, Lossless transmits through time and space those 'stabs of self' that intensify with loss of relationships, of faith, of childhood, of people. The qualities of light, colour, and movement in the book's forty-eight sonnets conjure a sense of arrested time, of motes in the air, while chapters of Borgesian prose poems extract knowledge from information to reconstruct a subjectivity...

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Report copyright infringementby Kenneth Koch (Author)Kenneth Koch has been called "one of our greatest poets" by John Ashbery, and "a national treasure" in the 2000 National Book Award Finalist Citation. Now, for the first time, all of the poems in his ten collections-from Sun Out, poems of the 1950s, to Thank You, published in 1962, to A Possible World, published in 2002, the year of the poet's death-are gathered in one volume. Celebrating the pleasures of friendship, art, and love, the poet...

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Report copyright infringementby Nihar Sharma (Author)Dear Dreamer is a collection of poetry and prose about healing, growth and acceptance. It is a celebration of sensitivity and uniqueness.It is divided into four chapters: Confusion - The inception of insanity, of always feeling that you are looking at the world from the outside, trying terribly hard to fit in. Burying yourself beneath a facade the world may find more favourable.Realization - The process of understanding that sensitivity is ...

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Report copyright infringementby Ian Watt (Author)""The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding"" by Ian Watt is a literary criticism book that explores the origins and development of the novel as a literary genre in the 18th century. The book focuses on three prominent authors of the time, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, and Henry Fielding, and their contributions to the development of the novel. Watt examines how these authors used narrative techniques, character develo...

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Report copyright infringementby Kathleen Lynch (Author)One senses that Kathleen Lynch -- in her brilliant, sometimes devastating book -- intends her title to be read un-ironically. As in Ingmar Bergman films, the poems cast a light on various darknesses that in their exposures, their witnessing, are the essential cries and whispers of poetry. In "Throes," she says, "The saint flung himself / into a thorn bush to incur / wounds worthy of his joy." Lynch's poems have that kind of complexity, an...

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Report copyright infringementby Robert W. Service (Author)This antiquarian volume contains a collection of some of Robert William Service's most influential and esteemed poetry, including 'The Shooting of Dan McGrew' and 'The Cremation of Sam McGee'. This wonderful collection constitutes a must-have for fans and collectors of Service's work, and would make for a worthy addition to anyone's bookshelf. The chapters of this book included: 'The Land God Forgot', 'The Spell of the Yukon', 'The Thr...

When Sun Meets Moon: Gender, Eros, and Ecstasy in Urdu Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby Scott Kugle (Author)The two Muslim poets featured in Scott Kugle's comparative study lived separate lives during the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries in the Deccan region of southern India. Here, they meet in the realm of literary imagination, illuminating the complexity of gender, sexuality, and religious practice in South Asian Islamic culture. Shah Siraj Awrangabadi (1715-1763), known as "Sun," was a Sunni who, after a youthful homosexual love affai...

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Report copyright infringementby Evan S. Connell (Author)"We have here on the planet with us a man of such courage and strength of spirit that he has not lost what Alfred Adler calls 'the nerve for excellence.' He has kept it despite the burden of an awareness not only of the enormity of his project and of the limitations of his own human understanding, but also of the abject ignorance and indifference of his audience... "Somehow Connell makes you care. Many modern poets demand a good deal of ...

Quiddity, Roguery, Rue: A Compendium of Light(er) Verse

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Report copyright infringementby Adam LeFevre (Author) Number of Pages: 46 Dimensions: 0.1 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: August 24, 2018

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Report copyright infringementby Percy Bysshe Shelley (Author)Shelley is one of the most revered figures in the English poetical landscape. Born on the 4th August 1792 he has, over the years, become rightly regarded as a major Romantic poet. Yet during his own lifetime little of his work was published. Publishers feared his radical views and possible charges against themselves for blasphemy and sedition. On 8th July 1822 a month before his 30th birthday, during a sudden storm, his tragic early...

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Report copyright infringementby Aphra Behn (Author)Aphra Behn was a prolific and well established writer but facts about her remain scant and difficult to confirm. What can safely be said though is that Aphra Behn is now regarded as a key English playwright and a major figure in Restoration theatre. Aphra was born into the rising tensions to the English Civil War. Obviously a time of much division and difficulty as the King and Parliament, and their respective forces, came ever closer to conf...

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Report copyright infringementby Chrétien de Troyes (Author), Nigel Bryant (Translator)Chrétien de Troyes' Perceval is the most important single Arthurian romance. It contains the very first mention of the mysterious grail, later to become the Holy Grail and the focal point of the spiritual quest of the knights of Arthur's court. Chrétien left the poem unfinished, but the extraordinary and intriguing theme of the Grail was too good to leave, and other poets continued and eventually completed i...

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Report copyright infringementby Kathleen Peirce (Author)"Everyone who's ever read Rilke's "Archaic Torso of Apollo" knows the depth, the loss, the bewilderment, the vision and discovery one has when encountering the work of art that's truly talismanic. This encounter lies at the heart of Kathleen Peirce's poetics. This poetics is aware that an encounter with a piece of art, (and, perhaps, language, too) is like entering a soul itself. She might be looking at a watercolor or at a statuette, or...

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Garcia (Author)Richard Garcia's Porridge is a fractious mash-up of fairy tales, nursery rhymes, cartoons, games, dances, popular songs and the Bible-with an occasional nod to the greatest hits of English literature. Imagine Shakespeare, Walt Disney and the Brothers Grimm on a road trip, and you'll have an idea of the invention, wit, and virtuosity of this mesmerizing collection of prose poems. Garcia's quirky fables are by turns playful, humorous, and h...

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Report copyright infringementby César Vallejo (Author), Georgette de Vallejo (Editor)Esta antología de Poemas de César Vallejo reúne la totalidad de su poesía publicada hasta el presente. Vallejo es una de las voces poéticas más singulares de Latinoamérica. Desde sus inicios modernistas, adoptó un tono intimista de fuerte carga social, con una honda preocupación por el desvalimiento y el sufrimiento de sus semejantes. Su lenguaje se abre a la experimentación, con diversos registros y con la p...

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Report copyright infringementby Bongasu Tanla Kishani (Author)Bold, original and stimulating in its inspirational insights, A Basket of Kola Nuts explores Cameroon's cultures as remarkable pivots of moral rectitude and such sickening vicious-circles as bribery and corruption. Ethnically grass-rooted and globalizing rather than alarmingly exotic and exclusive, this poetic diction of form-content aims at revitalizing its material contents to sever it from extinction and revamp cultural values t...

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew J. Calis (Author)A sidewalk there is still stained with his blood. Through metered poetry and a focus on sound and image, Pilgrimages traces a journey to God and self-knowledge via the side streets, stumbles, and uncertainties of the human experience. The poems in this volume explore the difficulties and burdens of life, softened by the solace of faith. Despite moments of desperation and failure, there is endless hope and beauty found in divine love.Auth...

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Report copyright infringementby Adrian Armanca (Author)Depicting feelings generated by life events, mostly recent. Places, friendships, loves, described through emotion's language. Number of Pages: 84 Dimensions: 0.17 x 7.81 x 5.06 IN Publication Date: August 18, 2020

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Report copyright infringementby Regina Vincent-Williams (Author)This book is a compilation of old and new poetry - and an Anniversary Edition reflecting back over the author's almost 50 years of writing poetry. Still using a portion of the title of the first book Dr. Regina Vincent-Williams published in 1988, the author puts emphasis on "Still Surviviving" life between a rock and a very hard place. She writes from her heart and brings her story up to date to deal with today's societal issues:...