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OverDrive eBooks April 2018
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"The words loved me and I loved them in return." -- Sonia Sanchez
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April is National Poetry Month
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Shake Loose My Skin : New and Selected Poems
by Sonia Sanchez
An extraordinary retrospective covering over thirty years of work, Shake Loose My Skin is a stunning testament to the literary, sensual, and political powers of the award-winning Sonia Sanchez.
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Devotions : the Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
by Mary Oliver
The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet offers a carefully curated selection of her definitive writings in a volume spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career. By the author of Felicity.
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Sixty Poems
by Charles Simic
A compilation of sixty of the author's best known poetic works honors his appointment as the fifteenth Poet Laureate of the United States. By the author of The Voice at 3:00 A.M. and My Noiseless Entourage.
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Fire to Fire : New and Selected Poems
by Mark Doty
A collection of top-selected works and new poems by the author of Dog Years features pieces that meditate on such topics as mortality, the instructive presence of animals, and art's ability to give shape to human life.
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The Door
by Margaret Atwood
A volume of fifty works by the author of the Handmaid's Tale and Morning in the Burned House applies urgent, meditative, and prophetic tones to pieces that evaluate topics ranging from the personal to the political. Reprint.
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April is Mathematics & Statistics Awareness Month
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The Numerati
by Stephen Baker
In a study of the mathematical modeling of humankind, a financial journalist offers a provocative study of the Numerati, an elite, global cadre of mathematicians and computer scientists, and how their analyses and predictions are transforming the way we live, work, buy, vote, and more.
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The Signal and the Noise : Why So Many Predictions Fail--But Some Don't
by Nate Silver
The founder of FiveThirtyEight.com challenges myths about predictions in subjects ranging from the financial market and weather to sports and politics, profiling the world of prediction to explain how readers can distinguish true signals from hype, in a report that also reveals the sources and societal costs of wrongful predictions.
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