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Language & Literature Poetry, essays, humor, etc. Spring 2019
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Writers : their lives and works
by James Naughtie
Illustrated with photographs and paintings of writers’ homes, studies and personal artifacts, a collection of profiles features more than 100 of the world’s greatest writers, from Shakespeare and Jane Austen to Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Toni Morrison.
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Louisa on the front lines : Louisa May Alcott in the Civil War
by Samantha Seiple
An examination of Little Women author Louisa May Alcott's service as a Civil War nurse reveals how her experiences shaped her writing and activism, from her commitment to abolitionism to the creation of her book, Hospital Sketches.
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The flame : poems, notebooks, lyrics, drawings
by Leonard Cohen
An eloquent valedictory collection of lyrics, poems, notebook sketches and self-portraits maps the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee's singular creative journey through the weeks just prior to his death.
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Monument : poems : new and selected
by Natasha D. Trethewey
The two-term U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Native Guard poetically links the human struggles and resilience of African-American women throughout history to the collective trauma of national wounds.
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Dear Mother : Poems on the Hot Mess of Motherhood
by Bunmi Laditan
The first collection of poetry from Bunmi Laditan, bestselling author of Confessions of a Domestic Failureand creator of The Honest Toddler, capturing the honesty, rawness, sheer joy and total madness of motherhood. With the compassion and wit that have made her a social media sensation among mothers around the world, Bunmi Laditan puts into evocative and relatable words what so many of us feel but can’t quite express. For mothers who love their children with a fiery fierceness but know what it is to feel crushed at the end of those long days, Dear Mother is like a warm hug that says, “I get it.”
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She Just Wants to Forget
by R. H. Sin
A beautiful dedication to powerful women who are tired of wasting their thoughts on people who were never worth thinking about. She Just Wants to Forget is the second title in the "What She Felt" series.
By the author of Rest in the Mourning.
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Empty bottles full of stories
by Robert M. Drake & R. H. Sin
Two virally popular and best-selling poets join forces for a new collection of prose that reflects on taking the chance to tell the stories hidden in the soul and reflects on the truth in the lies people tell themselves.
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Bookends : collected intros and outros
by Michael Chabon
The Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author of Moonglow presents an idiosyncratic compilation of introductions, afterwords and liner notes from classic works of literature to explore how they influenced his literary life.
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A world without "whom" : The Essential Guide to Language in the BuzzFeed Age
by Emmy J. Favilla
As language evolves faster than ever before, what is the future of "correct" writing? Favilla was tasked with creating a style guide for BuzzFeed, and opted for spelling, grammar, and punctuation guidelines that would reflect not only the site's lighthearted tone, but also how readers actually use language IRL. Now she makes a case for breaking the rules laid out by Strunk and White: she offers a world with more room for writing that's clear, timely, pleasurable, and politically aware.
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What if this were enough? : essays
by Heather Havrilesky
A collection of essays from an acclaimed critic, memoirist and advice columnist discusses the allure of shiny, new material things and how it relates to misunderstandings of romance, success and happiness in modern life.
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Babel : around the world in twenty languages
by Gaston Dorren
The celebrated author of Lingo presents a whistle-stop tour of the world's 20 most-spoken languages, exploring the history, geography, linguistics and cultures that have been shaped by languages and their customs.
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The point of it all : a lifetime of great loves and endeavors
by Charles Krauthammer
A collection of the influential columnist's most notable works and writings includes never-before-published speeches on his political philosophy and personal history and a major, new essay about the state of global democracy
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