Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Minneapolis, Milkweed Ed. (1996),, 1996
ISBN 10: 1571312153 ISBN 13: 9781571312150
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. 1st Edition, first printing. xiv + 202 pages, octavo (approx. 5 1/4" x 7 3/4"). Book and dust jacket are in Fine condition, F/F. 040414A. "A moving chronicle.of a childhood cut short by racism and abuse but reclaimed by intellect and leavened by humor." African-American.
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In den WarenkorbZustand: New. KlappentextrnrnIt s 1942. Thirteen-year-old Korinna Rehme is an active member of her local Jungmadel, a Nazi youth group, along with many of her friends. She believes that Hitler is helping Germany by instituting a program to deal with what he c.
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In den WarenkorbZustand: New. Nicholson, Trudy (illustrator). KlappentextrnrnHenry Bunks lives in crowded Miami in the 1950s. A nearby canal -- an entrance to what will become the Florida Everglades -- provides respite from his chaotic life in an uncaring family. Henry meets and befriends an alligator hunt.
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In den WarenkorbZustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThirteen-year-old Isabelle Lee struggles with an eating disorder while dealing with a turbulent home life and social pressures at school. The author brings a depth of characterization, humor, and a real adolescent s voice to this .
Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. Über den AutorCopper Nickel is the national literary journal housed at the University of Colorado Denver. It is edited by poet, editor, and translator Wayne Miller (author of four collections, including Post- and Th.
Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. Über den AutorCopper Nickel is the national literary journal housed at the University of Colorado Denver. It is edited by poet, editor, and translator Wayne Miller (author of four collections, including Post- and Th.
Zustand: New. Über den AutorCopper Nickel is the national literary journal housed at the University of Colorado Denver. It is edited by poet, editor, and translator Wayne Miller (author of Post- and The City, Our City, coedit.
Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnSet in New England just as troops are returning from World War I, this is a classic American coming-of-age story. Curious and impulsive, 12-year-old Jeremy is always getting into trouble. This time, after an argument with his fath.
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In den WarenkorbZustand: New. Über den AutorSusan Lowell s family has lived in the American West since Gold Rush days. She is the author of several picture books for children, including The Three Little Javelinas, a Reading Rainbow Book, The Bookmaker and t.
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In den WarenkorbZustand: New. Gregory, Fran (illustrator). KlappentextIn 1964, freedom workers come to a small Mississippi town to register blacks to vote. Cooper, the only white member of Oak Grove Baptist Church, must decide how to react when his father makes him attend Ku Klux Klan meetings. .
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In den WarenkorbZustand: New. KlappentextrnrnIn these edgy, elegant poems, Eireann Lorsung seeks balance in her world between the need for permanence and the heady seductiveness of the moment. Her intuitive knowledge of poetic form (line breaks, enjambment, repetition, punct.
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In den WarenkorbZustand: New. KlappentextrnrnA pioneering ethnobotanist, Gary Paul Nabhan credits the arts with sparking unlikely scientific breakthroughs and believes that such cross-pollination engenders new forms of expression that are essential to discovery. In this hi.
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Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. KlappentextAbout Issue 33 After a double issue in fall 2020 and a hiatus in the spring, issue 33 is a larger issue than normal, featuring a symposium on Ciaran Carson, five translations folios, and poetry, fiction, and no.
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In den WarenkorbZustand: New. KlappentextA poet, a mother, a lover of the land, and a student of zoology, Pattiann Rogers is at home in the vocabulary of nature. The Dream of the Marsh Wren reveals the genesis of some of her most admired poems as well as her concepti.
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In den WarenkorbZustand: New. KlappentextRick Bass s dog Colter is the brown dog of the Yaak who charges through the mountain valleys following the scent of game. Bass gives a history of his years with Colter as a way of understanding what is intuitive in his quest t.
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In den WarenkorbZustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThe North Woods tradition of making maple syrup serves as an illuminating backdrop for John Elder s reflections on nature, literature, playfulness, and fatherhood, as he builds a sugaring house with his sons.
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In den WarenkorbKartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnCoding and decoding are the themes of Anne-Marie Oomen s collection of poems, which together tell the story of a woman named Bead and her search for a safe harbor. The maritime International Code of Signals becomes a symbolic gu.
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In den WarenkorbZustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis debut collection of poetry by Katrina Vandenberg draws on different meanings of the title, carrying lines from one poem to the next and capturing the reverberations of events across time and place. One poem links an image of .
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In den WarenkorbZustand: New. KlappentextrnrnDescended from the great American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, Alison Deming appropriately begins this philosophical autobiography along the shores of the North Atlantic - on Grand Manan Island, in the Bay of Fundy. Moving on to Pr.
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In den WarenkorbKartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThe author of Wintergreen, The Thunder Tree and Chasing Monarchs describes in compelling detail his efforts to live and work in that special natural space Nabokov describes as a high ridge where the mountainside of knowledge .
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In den WarenkorbZustand: New. Day of the Child ebbs and flows, expanding and contracting, reflective of the altered movement of time that passes through the tangle of motherhood and childhood.Über den AutorArra Lynn Ross is the author of Day of the.
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In den WarenkorbZustand: New. A poet of our precarious moment . . . James s searing attention is upon the fleeting, the untethered, upon fecundity and decay, the cosmic and the molecular. -CAROLYN FORCHEÜber den AutorrnrnJohn James is the author of Chtho.
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In den WarenkorbZustand: New. A searing, urgent collection of poems centered around the Deepwater Horizon oil spillÜber den AutorRebecca Dunham is the author of three previous books of poetry: Glass Armonica, winner of Milkweed Editions.
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In den WarenkorbZustand: New. Über den AutorrnrnLeila Wilson s poems have appeared in Poetry, A Public Space, American Letters and Commentary, Denver Quarterly, The Canary, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a Friends o.
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In den WarenkorbZustand: New. KlappentextrnrnIn Playing the Black Piano, poet Bill Holm confronts themes of aging, AIDS, friendship, and music, revealing an everyman sensibility that celebrates the beauty, truth, and evanescence of everyday life. Typical is Playing Haydn fo.
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In den WarenkorbZustand: New. Über den AutorKathy Fagan is the author of four previous collections, including the National Poetry Series selection The Raft and the Vassar Miller Prize winner Moving & St Rage. Her work has appe.