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"Many of the poems and songs of Robert Burns (1759-96) are familiar to readers the world over: lyrical, acerbic, comic, bawdy, democratic. They include 'To a Mouse', 'John Anderson my Jo', 'A red red Rose', 'Auld lang syne', 'Tam o' Shanter' and many more, whose vernacular energy...
The debut full collection from celebrated British-Jamaican poet Raymond Antrobus.
"Has there ever been a more hated bird than the European starling? Let loose in New York City's Central Park by a misguided aristocrat, the starlings were supposed to help curb insect outbreaks and add to the tuneful choir of other songbirds. Rather than staying put, the dark and...
To pursue her dream of building a life free from violence for her son and herself, Yalda flees from her nightmarish past as well as her troubled homeland, Iran. But in her new haven, she realizes that nightmares haunt not only her past, but also her present and future. She does w...
Farm boy Jake lives for girls, guns, and adrenaline; his younger brother Greg loves poetry. The tensions and bitter rivalry between the two finally erupt into bloody, life-changing violence. With the dark clouds of war looming over England's green and pleasant land, it is Greg wh...
A comprehensive account of Churchill's lifelong involvement with Empire, from his childhood school days to his final premiership in the 1950s. Combining a lightness of touch and surprising detail with expert and insightful hypotheses, and drawing upon a wealth of published and un...
"In Raven's Echo, Tlingit artist and poet Robert Davis Hoffmann calls on readers to nurture material as well as spiritual life, asking beautiful and brutal questions about our individual positions within the universe and within history. The poems in this collection are brimming w...
"Native life today as seen through the eyes and the poetry of Mi'kmaw elder Rita Joe."
2018 Odyssey Honor Audiobook A YALSA 2018 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults Selection ALSC 2018 Notable Children's Recordings List A Newbery Honor Book A Coretta Scott King Honor Book A Printz Honor Book A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner for Young Adult Literature Longliste...