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Language & Literature Poetry, Essays, Humor, & More Summer 2022 |
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Jane Austen's table : recipes inspire by the works of Jane Austen
by Robert Tuesley Anderson
This beautiful collection of more than 50 recipes inspired by the novels of Jane Austen brings readers a sumptuous array of dishes that capture all the spirit and verve of Austen's world and the Regency era, adapted and reimagined for the modern day.
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Read Dangerously : The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
by Azar Nafisi
Drawing on her experiences as a woman and voracious reader in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a multi-award-winning New York Times best-selling author explores the most probing questions of our time, arming readers with a resistance reading list that includes Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie and James Baldwin.
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The turning point : 1851-a year that changed Charles Dickens and the world
by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
This rare glimpse into one of the greatest literary personalities to ever have lived takes readers to the year 1851 during which Dickens embraces his calling as a chronicler of ordinary people’s lives and develops a new form of writing revealing just how interconnected the world was becoming. Illustrations.
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In the Margins : On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
by Elena Ferrante
Here, in these four crisp essays, Ferrante offers a rare look at the origins of her literary powers. She writes about her influences, her struggles, and her formation as both a reader and a writer; she describes the perils of "bad language" and suggests ways in which it has long excluded women's truth; she proposes a choral fusion of feminine talent as she brilliantly discourses on the work of Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, Ingeborg Bachmann, and many others.
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Making History : The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past
by Richard Cohen
This fascinating book reveals how professional historians and other equally significant witnesses, such as the writers of the Bible, novelists and political propagandist, influence what becomes the accepted record,
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Rapture and Melancholy : The Diaries of Edna St. Vincent Millay
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
The English author Thomas Hardy proclaimed that America had two great attractions: the skyscraper, and the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay. In these diaries the great American poet illuminates not only her literary genius, but her life as a devoted daughter, sister, wife, and public heroine; and finally as a solitary, tragic figure. This is the first publication of the diaries she kept from adolescence until middle age, between 1907 and 1949, focused on her most productive years. Who was the girl who wrote "Renascence," that marvel of early twentieth-century poetry? What trauma or spiritual journey inspired the poem? And after such celebrity why did she vanish into near seclusion after 1940? These questions hover over the life and work, and trouble biographers and readers alike. Intimate, eloquent, these confessions and keen observations provide the key to understanding Millay's journey from small-town obscurity to world fame, and the tragedy of her demise.
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Black love matters : real talk on romance, being seen, and happily ever afters
by Jessica P. Pryde
An incisive, intersectional essay anthology that celebrates and examines romance and romantic media through the lens of Black readers, writers, and cultural commentators, edited by Book Riot columnist and librarian Jessica Pryde. Romantic love has been one of the most essential elements of storytelling for centuries. But for Black people in the United States and across the diaspora, it hasn't often been easy to find Black romance joyfully showcased in entertainment media. In this collection, revered authors and sparkling newcomers, librarians and academicians, and avid readers and reviewers consider the mirrors and windows into Black love as it is depicted in the novels, television shows, and films that have shaped their own stories.
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Customs : Poems
by Solmaz Sharif
A second collection of poems from the National Book Award finalist and author of Look that examine and critique the culture and social skills of American life and the English language.
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Time Is a Mother
by Ocean Vuong
Ocean Vuong's second collection of poetry looks inward, on the aftershocks of his mother's death, and the struggle - and rewards - of staying present in the world. Time Is a Mother moves outward and onward, in concert with the themes of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, as Vuong continues, through his work, his profound exploration of personal trauma, of what it means to be the product of an American war in America, and how to circle these fragmented tragedies to find not a restoration, but the epicenter of the break.
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Unlock Your Storybook Heart
by Amanda Lovelace
Amanda Lovelace, the bestselling & award-winning author of the “women are some kind of magic” poetry series, presents unlock your storybook heart, the third & final installment in her feminist poetry series, “you are your own fairy tale.” This is a collection about being so caught up in the fable that is perfectionism that you miss out on your own life. be honest: when was the last time you stopped to take in the everyday enchantment all around you?
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A year : & other poems
by Jos Charles
Jos Charles’s poems communicate with one another as neurons do: sharp, charged, in language that predates language.
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Zoom rooms : poems
by Mary Jo Salter
Both timeless and timely, and directing us to moments we may otherwise miss, this brilliant collection of poems considers the strangeness of our recent existence, together with the enduring constants in our lives.
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Refuse to be done : how to write and rewrite a novel in three drafts
by Matt Bell
Breaking down the writing process into three sections, this guidebook takes you through every step of the novel writing process, providing strategies that allow you to approach your work, day after day, month after month, with fresh eyes and sharp new tools.
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Write for your life
by Anna Quindlen
Write for Your Life is a guide for those who don't, won't, or think they can't write, what Anna Quindlen calls "civilians." Using examples past, present and future--from Anne Frank to Toni Morrison to members of her own family--Quindlen makes vivid all the ways in which writing connects us, to ourselves and to those we cherish. From love letters written after World War II to journal reflections from nurses and doctors today, and using her personal experiences not just as a writer but as a mother and daughter, Quindlen makes the case that recording our daily lives in an enduring form is more important than ever. All of our histories, of current events and personal challenges, can be understood and passed down through the written word; "to write the present," Quindlen says, "is to believe in the future." Write for Your Life is a clarion call to pick up the pen, and find yourself.
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