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"The sonnet, like poverty, teaches you what you can do / without," Diane Seuss writes in this brilliant, candid work, her most personal collection to date. These poems tell the story of a life at risk of spilling over the edge of the page, from Seuss's working-class childhood in rural Michigan to the dangerous allures of New York City and back again. With sheer virtuosity, Seuss moves nimbly across thought and time, poetry and punk, AIDS and addiction, Christ and motherhood, showing us what we can do, what we can do without, and what we offer to one another when we have nothing left to spare.

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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Dorothy Gale lives a quiet life on a gray Kansas farm until a cyclone lifts her house into the sky and sets it down in the Land of Oz. There she learns she has landed on the Wicked Witch of the East, meets the grateful Munchkins, and is sent along the...

Anne Frank stierf maart 1945 in Bergen-Belsen in nazi-Duitsland, is een Duitse tiener, die bekend staat voor het schrijven van een dagboek. Dit wordt gemeld in het boek Het dagboek van Anne Frank, geschreven tijdens de twee jaar verborg ze met haar gezin in Amsterdam, Nederland, vervolgens onder Duitse bezetting, om de Holocaust te voorkomen.

It seemed like an open-and-shut case. But they couldn’t have been more wrong. When a 25-year-old woman is found dead in Stockholm, detective Vanessa Frank knows that there is more to the case than meets the eye. And when Vanessa finds herself on the trail of a dangerous internet community who call themselves "incels", her world starts to unravel. These ‘involuntarily celibate’ men have fostered hatred towards the women who turn them down, and now women are turning up dead.

Death whispers through Stockholm once more... When two dead bodies appear in a park in Stockholm - a policeman and an unidentified young woman - the police focus solely on the murder of the officer, believing the woman to be nothing more than collateral damage. But Detective Vanessa Frank senses something lurking beneath the surface and as she delves deeper, her investigation becomes alarmingly personal, leading her toward a real terror threat.

It’s 1939, and the federal government has sent USDA agent Virginia Furman into the North Carolina mountains to instruct families on modernizing their homes and farms. There she meets farm wife Irenie Lambey, who is immediately drawn to the lady agent’s self-possession. Already, cracks are emerging in Irenie’s fragile marriage to Brodis, an ex-logger turned fundamentalist preacher: She has taken to night ramblings through the woods to escape her husband’s bed, storing strange keepsakes in a mountain cavern.

A treasure chest of never-before-collected essays from Frank McCourt, Pulitzer Prize–winning memoirist, and his boisterous brother Malachy, publishing on the 30th anniversary of Angela's Ashes, with a foreword by Colum McCann In 1996, a retired New York City high school English teacher...

This program is read by the author. WINNER OF THE 2018 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY The collected works of one of contemporary poetry’s most original voices Gathered together, the poems of Frank Bidart perform one of the most remarkable...

These eight new stories from the celebrated novelist and short-story writer Nathan Englander display a gifted young author grappling with the great questions of modern life, with a command of language and the imagination that place Englander at the very forefront of contemporary American fiction...

Setting out to create a collection of J. Frank Dobie’s writing that brings him to life and makes him relevant to current generations, Steven L. Davis has combed through the works of this renowned Texas author, gathering together in one volume Dobie’s most vital writings. Dobie’s stories and essays here are meticulously edited to prune away some of the brushy undergrowth and bring Dobie’s folksy, erudite voice bounding back to life.

Carlos Manuel Álvarez’s first novel is a masterful portrayal of a society in free fall. Diego, the son, is disillusioned and bitter about the limited freedoms his country offers him as he endures compulsory military service. Mariana, the mother, is unwell, prone to mysterious seizures, and forced to relinquish control over the household to her daughter, Maria, who has left school and is working as a chambermaid in a state-owned tourist hotel. The father, Armando, is a committed revolutionary, a die-hard Fidelista who is sickened by the corruption he perceives all around him.

Frank Moorhouse was legendary in Australian literary and cultural life, the author of a huge and diverse body of work - essays, short stories, journalism, scripts, the iconic Edith Trilogy - an unapologetic activist, intellectual, libertarian and champion of freedom of speech and sexual self determination. Though he lived his life publicly, his private stories have not been shared, the many paths he forged left unexamined, until now. This landmark study is the fascinating story of how one of Australia's most original writers and pioneer of the discontinuous narrative came to be.

The Diary of Anne Frank is a seminal piece of twentieth-century literature. It recounts the tragic and moving story of a young Jewish teenager faced with the horrors of Nazism. In it, Anne establishes a bond with her readers that transcends both time and space, making them her friends and confidants. Readers feel a connection with each dream she had, each fear she endured, and each struggle she confronted. Her diary ended, but her story did not.

Die Generation "Liegen lernen" 20 Jahre später mit allen dazugehörenden Erfahrungen: Kinder, Hausbau, große Liebe, Trennung, Tod. Nicht nur der Autor, auch seine Figuren sind erwachsen geworden.

The author examines in detail Baum's (1856-1919) many fantastical tales, including The Wizard of Oz , the 13 others he wrote about that magical kingdom, and others, as well as his evolution as a fantasy writer, illuminating in the process his philosophy concerning nature, civilization, and...

Hvad er det, der gør os til dem; vi er? Er det lige dele biologisk arv og det miljø, vi vokser op i? Eller handler det om, hvordan vi forholder os til den bagage, vi har med os? I "ALT DET VI BÆRER PÅ" vil en række kendte danskere fortælle om den arv, som de bærer rundt på i livet. I denne episode af "ALT DET VI BÆRER PÅ" kan du møde Frank Jensen, tidligere operativ chef for PET. Han blev født ind i en verden, hvor han dagligt blev konfronteret med, at tingene måske ikke helt var, som de så ud til.

In Work Song, tensions between master architect Frank Lloyd Wright and his tempestuous relationships are explored in this uniquely prismatic view of one of the great architects of the modern era. This engaging production includes a panel discussion with Wright biographer Harold Zellman. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Jim Beaver, Amy Brenneman, Chris Butler, Matthew Patrick Davis, Sean Dougherty, Robert Foxworth, Charles Janasz, Kathryn Meisle, Kali Rocha, and Raphael Sbarge.

Erfrischend ehrlich, wahrhaft komisch, entwaffnend sentimental - Frank Goosens geschichtensattes Hohelied auf das, was ihm und auch uns allen Heimat ist...

Willkommen im Reich der Hexen, Riesen, Könige und Prinzessinnen! Ob am Lagerfeuer erzählt, am Bett vorgelesen oder in Selbstlektüre - seit Jahrtausenden faszinieren Märchen Jung und Alt auf der ganzen Welt. Sie können romantisch, verzaubernd, lustig, aber auch schaurig, blutig, ja bitterböse sein. Bei den dreizehn deutschen Märchen, die hier erstmalig erzählt werden, handelt es sich vornehmlich um solche der letzteren Art. In Inhalt, Erzählweise und Schauplätzen erinnern sie am ehesten an die düstereren Märchen der Gebrüder Grimm.