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Transient dancing
By Gale Garnett. 2003
Johnny Reed is a gifted black actor who leaves America for Greece, where he now has a job and a…
family. Theddo Daniels is an African-American civil rights activist and a closeted homosexual in the early stages of AIDS, in Greece to write his memoirs. The two men meet and become friends, while they and Johnny's wife must deal with the secrets and horrors of their pasts. Some strong language. Some descriptions of sex and violence. 2003.The simple gift: a novel (UQP young adult fiction)
By Steven Herrick. 2000
Billy runs away from an unhappy family situation to set up house in an abandoned freight car. The story is…
revealed in alternating verse, describing the innermost thoughts of the three main characters: 16-year-old Billy; Caitlin, the wealthy townie with whom he forms a bond; and Old Bill, the lawyer-turned-alcoholic hobo to whom Billy reaches out - and who gives Billy an astonishing gift in return. For senior high readers. 2004, c2000.Solo
By Kwame Alexander, Mary Rand Hess. 2017
New York Times bestseller! Blade never asked for a life of the rich and famous. In fact, he'd give anything…
not to be the son of Rutherford Morrison, a washed-up rock star and drug addict with delusions of a comeback. Or to no longer be part of a family known most for lost potential, failure, and tragedy, including the loss of his mother. The one true light is his girlfriend, Chapel, but her parents have forbidden their relationship, assuming Blade will become just like his father. In reality, the only thing Blade and Rutherford have in common is the music that lives inside them. And songwriting is all Blade has left after Rutherford, while drunk, crashes his high school graduation speech and effectively rips Chapel away forever. But when a long-held family secret comes to light, the music disappears. In its place is a letter, one that could bring Blade the freedom and love he's been searching for, or leave him feeling even more adrift. "A contemporary hero's journey, brilliantly told."-Kirkus Reviews, starred review "A rhythmic, impassioned ode to family, identity, and the history of rock and roll." -Booklist, starred review "Many readers will identify with Blade's struggle to find his place in a family where he feels like an outsider." -Publishers Weekly "The authentic character development and tone will strike a chord with young adults." -School Library JournalSolo
By Kwame Alexander, Mary Rand Hess. 2017
A novel in verse. Blade endeavors to resolve painful issues from his past and navigate the challenges of his rock-star…
father's addictions, scathing tabloid rumors, and a protected secret that threatens his own identity. Some strong language. For senior high and older readers. 2017Near to the wild heart
By Clarice Lispector, Alison Entrekin. 2012
Three lives & tender buttons
By Gertrude Stein. 2003
Two of Stein's most recognizable works are together in one volume. "Three Lives, " Stein's most accessible work, is the…
psychological portrait of three immigrant women and their lives in a new country. "Tender Buttons" is a collection of prose poems which employ repetitive sentences and simple language to build images. OriginalProse and poetry: Maggie: a girl of the streets ; The red badge of courage ; Stories, sketches, and journalism ; Poetry
By Stephen Crane, J. C. Levenson. 1996
More than one hundred works of the nineteenth-century author and reporter Stephen Crane (1871-1900). Includes five novellas; dispatches from Asbury…
Park, New Jersey, and New York state; war reports from Greece during the Greco-Turkish wars and from Cuba during the Spanish-American War; and poetry. 1984Letters from Father Christmas
By J. R. R. Tolkien, Baillie Tolkien. 2004
A collection of Christmas letters penned by J.R.R. Tolkien and signed as Father Christmas that were sent to Tolkien's children…
from 1920-1943. Each recapped activities of the preceding year at the North Pole, including reindeer running amok and the North Polar Bear breaking the moon into four pieces. 2004The Metaphysical poets
By Unknown, Helen Gardner. 1972
The Pushcart prize: best of the small presses, 1996 / XX (Pushcart Prize Ser.)
By Bill Henderson, Pushcart Prize Editors. 1995
Sixty selections of short fiction, essays, and poetry published first by noncommercial presses and magazines. This twentieth-anniversary edition features up-and-coming…
authors as well as such literary figures as John Updike and Joyce Carol Oates. Selections include a canto from Robert Pinsky's translation of Dante's "Inferno" and Eileen Pollack's "Milk." Descriptions of sex and some strong languageFirst published in 1930, this collection includes "The Picture of Dorian Gray," a novel about a beautiful youth whose portrait…
has supernatural qualities; "The Importance of Being Earnest," a comic, satirical play about a rakish nobleman; "Lady Windermere's Fan," a comedy of manners; "The Ballad of Reading Gaol," an autobiographical account of Wilde's imprisonment; and other short works of drama, prose, and poetryEvangeline and selected tales and poems
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 1964
Longfellow (1807-1882) was a very fashionable poet in his day as well as in twentieth-century America. These selections, which represent…
the romantic and lyrical side of Longfellow and show his skill in writing novella in verse form, include "The Wreck of the Hesperus," "The Children's Hour," "The Village Blacksmith," "Paul Revere's Ride," "The Courtship of Miles Standish," and selections from "The Song of Hiawatha."The Langston Hughes reader: The Selected Writings of Langston Hughes
By Langston Hughes, Langston Huges. 1958
Headbirths, or, The Germans are dying out: Or, the Germans Are Dying Out
By Günter Grass, Ralph Manheim. 1982
A mixed-up German couple on vacation in Asia ponders the political situation back home and agonizes over the pros and…
cons of having a baby. A satire of the German character contrasting Germany's shrinking population with the teeming billions of the Third WorldSeptuagenarian stew: stories & poems
By Charles Bukowski. 2009
Collection of short stories and poems by the author of Hollywood (DB 85240) and On Writing (DB 84046) exploring the…
lives of those who live in the backstreets of Los Angeles. In "I like your books," a gambler deals with an overly inquisitive person. Violence and strong language. 2007Black voices: an anthology of Afro-American literature
By Abraham Chapman. 1968
Butterflies in November
By Auður A. Ólafsdóttir, Auour Ava Olafsdottir, Brian FitzGibbon. 2014
The mothers: a novel
By Jennifer Gilmore. 2013
Brooklyn. Thirty-eight-year-old Jesse and her Spanish/Italian husband have difficulty conceiving a child and decide to adopt. But Jesse's past cancer…
diagnosis, her Jewish heritage, and new laws regulating international and open-adoption processes create complications. 2013Selected poems, 1947-1995 (Perennial classics)
By Allen Ginsberg. 1996
Beat Generation poet Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) presents a half century of verse in a variety of forms and themes including…
the political, sexual, devotional, and spiritual. Contains selections from Howl, Kaddish, The Fall of America, Plutonian Ode, White Shroud, and others. Descriptions of sex and strong language. 1996Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo
By J. R. R. Tolkien. 1980