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Author
Series
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
2000 Modern Library pbk. ed.
Language
English
Description
The definitive collection of Emerson's major speeches, essays, and poetry, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson chronicles the life's work of a true "American Scholar." As one of the architects of the transcendentalist movement, Emerson embraced a philosophy that championed the individual, emphasized independent thought, and prized "the splendid labyrinth of one's own perceptions." More than any writer of his time, he forged a style distinct...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
"The View from the Cheap Seats brings together... more than sixty pieces of his outstanding nonfiction. Analytical yet playful, erudite yet accessible, this cornucopia explores a broad range of interests and topics, including (but not limited to): authors past and present; music; storytelling; comics; bookshops; travel; fairy tales; America; inspiration; libraries; ghosts; and the title piece, at turns touching and self-deprecating, which recounts...
5) Chicken soup for the father's soul: stories to open the hearts and rekindle the spirits of fathers
Publisher
Health Communications
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Author
Series
History of Middle-earth volume 4
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1995, c1986
Edition
1st Ballantine Books ed.
Language
English
Description
Presents early versions of some of the first tales written by J.R.R. Tolkien in his development of the imaginary land of Middle-earth, including poems and prose writings, maps, and chronologies.
Series
Publisher
Editorial Alma
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
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Description
"Existen pocas fiestas tan populares como la Navidad, cuyas tradiciones m�as arraigadas, como cantar villancicos o hacerse regalos, datan de la �epoca victoriana. A la estela del famoso "Cuento de Navidad" de Charles Dickens eclosion�o todo un subj�enero literario, y numerosos autores de lenguas y g�eneros distintos, entre ellos Hans Christian Andersen, Louisa May Alcott, Charlotte Riddell, Artuhur Conan Doyle o Emilia Pardo Baz�an, se...
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
Well-known works including fables, folklore, fiction, drama, and more, by such authors as Aesop, Dickens, Tolstoy, Shakespeare, and Baldwin, are presented to teach virtues, including compassion, courage, honesty, friendship, and faith.
Publisher
Distributed by Ideals Publications
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"This timeless collection of traditional Christmas carols, stories, poems and rhymes contains all the delights of the season, from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol to Jingle Bells, Silent Night, and the story of the first Christmas. The book also includes adaptations of much-loved holiday scenes from classic tales including Wind in the Willows, Anne of Green Gables and Little Women"--P. [4] of cover.
15) The bedtime book
Author
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Offers an illustrated collection of poetry, nursery rhymes, and prayers about bedtime.
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Touchstone hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"In time for the one-year anniversary of the Trump Inauguration and the Women's March, this provocative, unprecedented anthology features original short stories from thirty bestselling and award-winning authors--including Alice Walker, Richard Russo, Walter Mosley, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Neil Gaiman, Michael Cunningham, Mary Higgins Clark, and Lee Child--with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen"--
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his groundbreaking podcast, John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet - from the QWERTY keyboard and Staphylococcus aureus to the Taco Bell breakfast menu - on a five-star scale. John Green's gift for storytelling shines throughout this...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
McPhee's books are about real people in real places. Over the past eight years, McPhee has spent considerable time in the company of people who work in freight transportation. This is his sketchbook of them and of his journeys with them. He rides from Atlanta to Tacoma alongside Don Ainsworth, owner and operator of a sixty-five-foot, eighteen-wheel chemical tanker carrying hazmats. He attends ship-handling school on a pond in the foothills of the...
Author
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Bender gathers a generous selection of new work along with treasure from Dean Young's twelve volumes. Strongly influenced by Surrealism, Dean Young's poems flash with extravagant imagery, humorous speech, sly views of the quotidian, and the exposed nerves of heartache. As the American Academy of Arts and Letters raved, "Young's poems are as entertaining as a three-ring circus and as imaginative as a canvas by Hieronymus Bosch. He is one of the most...
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