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Author
Publisher
Picador USA
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
As he cleans out his dead father's workshop, Jess Kirkman of North Carolina discovers a treasure map with the names of women. He goes to see them and obtains new insights into his father's character. Fourth installment in a family saga by the author of Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
Steeped in writer's block in the months after losing her husband, writer Stacey Lane enters a secret affair with Hollywood star and poetry fan Tommy DeMarco, who offers her a chance to escape into his glamorous world before they are forced to evaluate their growing bond.
Author
Publisher
Open Road Integrated Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Ever since her husband left her -- seemingly vanishing into thin air -- Charleen Forrest has supported herself and her fifteen-year-old son on what she earns as an obscure poet and part-time gofer for an even more obscure scientific journal. But when her estranged mother remarries -- prompting an unplanned reunion -- Charleen finds herself moving out of her familiar existence. -- from the back cover
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Out of print since 1987, "Life Is Elsewhere" is available again in an outstanding new translation. Kundera's epic of adolescence tenderly erodes such sacrosanct values as childhood, motherhood, revolution, and even poetry, in a "remarkable portrait of an artist as a young man" ("Newsweek").
Author
Series
Lays of the hearth-fire volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Cliopher Mdang has been appointed Viceroy of Zunidh by his beloved Radiancy, the Last Emperor, who has now left him behind in the Palace to safeguard the world during his absence on a quest to find an appropriately magical heir. When he returns, he will abdicate, and Cliopher will at last retire, satisfied with having achieved most of his life's political goals--even if his long-suppressed personal dreams are starting to bubble up. (Surely he used...
29) Regeneration
Author
Series
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
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Description
Set in a British military hospital during WWI, this novel blends fact and fiction, drawing its two protagonists from the pages of history. The author of Union Street (made into the film Stanley and Iris) portrays overwhelmed men who try to come to terms with their outrage of a futile war.
30) Rosewater
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Elsie is a sexy, funny, and fiercely independent woman in south London. But, at just twenty-eight, she is also tired. Though she spends her days writing tender poetry in her journal, her nights are spent working long hours for minimum wage at a neighborhood dive bar. Not even sleeping with her alluring coworker, Bea, can quell her existential dread. The difficulty of being estranged from her family, struggle of being continually rejected from jobs,...
31) Jubilee: a novel
Author
Publisher
Black Stone Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When Bianca appears late one night at her brother's house in Santa Ana, she is barely conscious, though not alone. Jubilee, wrapped in a fuzzy pink romper, is buckled into a car seat. Jubilee, who Bianca feeds and clothes and bathes and loves. Jubilee, who Bianca could not leave behind. Jubilee, a doll in her arms. Told in alternating points of view, Jubilee reveals both the haunting power of our lived experiences and the surreal possibility of the...
Author
Publisher
Solaris
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"Cadenza is the City of Words, a city run by poets, its skyline dominated by the steepled towers of its libraries ... Carlo Mazzoni, a young wordsmith, arrives at the city gates intent on making his name as the bells ring out with the news of the death of the city's poet-leader. Instead, he finds himself embroiled with the intrigues of a city in turmoil ... A war that threatens not only to destroy Cadenza but remove it from history altogether"--
33) Bright red fruit
Author
Publisher
Make Me A World
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Samira is determined to have a perfect summer filled with fun parties, exploring DC, and growing as a poet--until a scandalous rumor has her grounded and unable to leave her house. When Samira turns to a poetry forum for solace, she catches the eye of an older, charismatic poet named Horus. For the first time, Samira feels wanted. But soon she's keeping a bigger secret than ever before--one that that could prove her reputation and jeopardize her...
34) Poemsia
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
VEerity Wolf dreams of being a poet-not that she'd ever admit it to anyone. Her best friend, Jess, thinks she's definitely got what it takes, while her cat, Zorro, is characteristically indifferent. As for the cute boy she's just met, he's about to discover her best kept secret. When Verity stumbles on an old, mysterious book, Poemsia, she finds herself suddenly thrust into the dizzying world of social media stardom, where poets are the new rock stars...
35) The gentleman
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Distraught at the loss of his inspiration, Lionel Savage, a poet from Victorian London, accidentally conjures the Devil and realizes that he has inadvertently sold his rich wife's soul to him, and plots a rescue mission to Hell with an assortment of unlikely companions.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam BooksTrade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Not long after arriving at the English resort of Brighton, Jane finds herself caught up in the town's turmoil when the body of a beautiful young society miss is discovered, lifeless, in the bedchamber of none other than George Gordon--otherwise known as Lord Byron.
37) River of ink
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
"In thirteenth-century Sri Lanka, Asanka, poet to the king, lives a life of luxury, enjoying courtly life and a sweet, furtive love affair with a palace servant, a village girl he is teaching to write. But when Magha, a prince from the mainland, usurps the throne, Asanka's role as court poet dramatically alters. Magha is a cruel and calculating king--and yet, a lover of poetry--and he commissions Asanka to translate a holy Sanskrit epic into the Tamil...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
"Who is Yahya Bas? Revolutionary poet, notorious jihadist, misbegotten son, self-styled idiot-boy. When the enigmatic Yahya finds himself languishing in a UK detention center after fleeing the conflict in Syria, he has many questions to face. What was he doing in the desert? Why did he betray his country? What led him to to write the incendiary verses that launched him to international infamy? Mister, his interrogator, wants answers. So Yahya resolves...
Author
Publisher
Soft Skull
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
It's the end of summer 2003. George W. Bush has recently declared the mission in Iraq accomplished, the unemployment rate is at its highest in years, and Martha Stewart has just been indicted for insider trading. Meanwhile, somewhere in the Midwest, Troy Augustus Loudermilk (fair-haired, statuesque, charismatic) and his companion Harry Rego (definitely none of those things) step out of a silver Land Cruiser and onto the campus of The Seminars, America's...
40) Murder me now
Author
Series
Olivia Brown mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Happily ensconced in her Bedford Street brownstone, Olivia Brown is having the time of her life: writing sonnets and downing martinis, making conquests and making love. Indeed, she doubts that anything could tempt her away from her Village home until she succumbs to the lure of a house party in Croton that promises sparkling conversation, bucolic views, and plenty of free-flowing gin. Yet Olivia has barely arrived at the rustic farmhouse of Fordy...
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