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Author
Publisher
Vintage Espanol
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
Español
Description
It the summer of 1960, Camila Henríquez Urena is about to travel from Poughkeepsie to Cuba to join Fidel Castro's revolution. As the daughter of Solomé Urena-the 19th -century revolutionary Dominicana poet-activism is part of Camila's inheritance. Yet she also knows the confusion of exile and a painful curiosity about the mother she never knew. Now, as she takes up her mother's legacy, she delves behind the public facts of her mother's life and...
23) Muse
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The story of an editor caught up in a publishing scandal around the manuscript of a renowned and beautiful female poet"--
24) The cemetery yew
Author
Series
Victoria Trumbull mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Victoria Trumbull, the astute, 92-year-old Vineyard native and deputy police officer, takes on her most bizarre case yet. An empty grave, a misplaced coffin and a missing hearse driver are the harbingers of a series of grotesque murders, whose victims turn out to share an odd South American connection involving smuggling and an exotic bird. The author lends ballast to an outlandish plot by lovingly depicting ordinary island people (awkward teens,...
Author
Series
Emily Dickinson mystery volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When a literary icon stays with the Dickinson family, Emily and her housemaid Willa find themselves embroiled in a shocking murder in this new mystery from USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award-winning author Amanda Flower. August 1856. The Dickinson family is comfortably settled in their homestead on Main Street. Emily's brother, Austin Dickinson, and his new wife are delighted when famous thinker and writer Ralph Waldo Emerson comes to Amherst...
26) Zoli: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A unique love story, a tale of loss, a parable of Europe, this haunting novel is an examination of intimacy and betrayal in a community rarely captured so vibrantly in contemporary literature.
Zoli Novotna, a young woman raised in the traveling Gypsy tradition, is a poet by accident as much as desire. As 1930s fascism spreads over Czechoslovakia, Zoli and her grandfather flee to join a clan of fellow Romani harpists. Sharpened by the world...
Zoli Novotna, a young woman raised in the traveling Gypsy tradition, is a poet by accident as much as desire. As 1930s fascism spreads over Czechoslovakia, Zoli and her grandfather flee to join a clan of fellow Romani harpists. Sharpened by the world...
27) Night and day
Author
Language
English
Description
Night and Day, Virginia Woolf's second novel, is both a love story and a social comedy in the tradition of Jane Austen; yet it also questions that tradition, recognizing that the goals of society and the individual may not necessarily coincide. At its centre is Katharine Hilbery, the beautiful grand-daughter of a great Victorian poet. She must choose between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic poet William Rodney and her attraction to Ralph Denham,...
28) Tell the rest
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Delia Barnes and Ernest Wrangham met as teens at Celebration Camp, a church-supported conversion therapy program-the dubious, unscientific, Christian practice meant to change a person's sexuality. After witnessing a devastating tragedy, they escaped in the night, only to take separate roads to their distant homes. They have no idea how each has fared through the years. Delia is a college basketball coach who prides herself on being an empowering...
30) The blue flower
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fictionalized biography of the 18th-century German poet, Friedrich Leopold von Hardenberg, who wrote under the nom de plume, Novalis. The novel centers on his philosophy ("My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it") and on his romance with Sophie von Kuhn, 12, who became his muse, but who died of tuberculosis before they could marry.
Author
Publisher
Editorial Planeta Mexicana
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"A comienzos de 1920, Guadalupe, la hija menor de los Amor, una de las familias m�as prominentes del porfiriato, ve c�omo las llamas de la Revoluci�on no terminan de apagarse y consumen su herencia, oblig�andola a dejar lejos los lujos y la vida de refinamiento para la que la hab�ian preparado.Desde entonces supo reconquistar a su modo lo que el destino le arrebat�o a su familia. Pita Amor, mujer de personalidad y pluma deslumbrante, estuvo...
32) Paris, 7 a. m
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"June 1937. Elizabeth Bishop, still only a young woman and not yet one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century, arrives in France with her college roommates. They are in search of an escape, and inspiration, far from the protective world of Vassar College where they were expected to find an impressive husband, a quiet life, and act accordingly. But the world is changing, and as they explore the City of Light, the larger threats of fascism...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Told through three unique interwoven narratives, this novel reimagines a chapter in the life of Sylvia Plath, telling the story behind the creation of her classic, semi-autobiographical novel The bell jar.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Disguising herself as a man to escape her loveless marriage and enjoy the exclusive freedoms of men, aspiring writer Aemilia Lanier falls in love and runs away with ragged poet William Shakespeare, with whom she secretly writes plays that bring him fame years later.
Author
Publisher
Redwood Press
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
Gossip was rife in the capital about the poetess of Qazvin. Some claimed she had been arrested for masterminding the murder of the grand Mullah, her uncle. Others echoed her words, and passed her poems from hand to hand. Everyone spoke of her beauty, and her dazzling intelligence. But most alarming to the Shah and the court was how the poetess could read. Was she only reading history-- or writing it as well?
36) Christmas bells
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1860, the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow family celebrated Christmas at Craigie House, their home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The publication of Longfellow's classic Revolutionary War poem, "Paul Revere's Ride," was less than a month hence, and the country's grave political unrest weighed heavily on his mind. Yet with his beloved wife, Fanny, and their five adored children at his side, the delights of the season prevailed. In present-day Boston, a...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When U.S. Army chaplain Robert Winter first meets Emily Dickinson, he is fascinated by the brilliance of the strange girl immersed in her botany lessons. She will become his confidante, obsession, and muse over the years as he writes to her of his friendship with the aspiring politician Abraham Lincoln, his encounter with the young newspaperman Samuel Clemens, and his crisis of conscience concerning the radical abolitionist John Brown.
38) Amherst
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A novel about two love affairs set in Amherst--one in the present, one in the past, and both presided over by Emily Dickinson.
39) Emily's house
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
©2021.
Language
English
Description
"From USA Today bestselling author of Flight of the Sparrow Amy Belding Brown comes an evocative new novel about Emily Dickinson's longtime maid, Margaret Maher, whose bond with--and ultimate betrayal of--the poet ensured Dickinson's work would live on. Massachusetts, 1869. Margaret Maher has never been one to settle down. At twenty-seven, she's never met a man who has tempted her enough to relinquish her independence to a matrimonial fate, and she...
40) Still life
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Wicomb's majestic new novel Still Life juggles with our perception of time and reality as Wicomb tells the story of an author struggling to write a biography of long-forgotten Scottish poet Thomas Pringle, whose only legacy is in South Africa where he is dubbed the "Father of South African Poetry." In her efforts to resurrect Pringle, the writer summons the specter of Mary Prince, the West Indian slave whose history Pringle had once published, along...
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