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This anthology comprises poems written about the particularities of nature in Australia and Japan, together with the multi-faceted emotions engendered thereby.
Japanese people cherish the tanka form as much now as they did in ancient times. And for English-speaking people, this anthology will provide an excellent way of experiencing tanka as English poetry.
Composed by poets in Australia and Japanese, the tanka within these pages reveal previously...
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Claire Bedard, a young, successful marketing director in Boston, is completing her morning run in the Common when the man of her dreams quite literally crashes into her. The man, Ryan James, is an aspiring chef restaurateur in the city, and has been in love with Claire since he first saw her. His plan to casually meet her goes awry, but ends with a request for coffee the following day. They immediately fall in love, and together begin a beautiful...
7) Tea Leaves
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Tea Leaves is an astonishing collection of fables for our time by a young writer of tremendous power and promise.
Tea Leaves presents 17 speculative short stories that place queer characters in larger-than-life situations to emphasize the surreal experience of marginalization. A queer romance spans multiple incarnations, but only in doomed cities. A gay medieval scholar must testify for his life to the otherworldly octopus who traps him in a cafe...
9) Just Leaves
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Welcome to a poet's introspective world of jubilance and turbulence, where life's cresting waves of love, grief, and rebirth collide with the profound power of poetry.
In Just Leaves, Lauren Best offers confessional glimpses into a deeply personal odyssey, unraveling the intricate threads of identity, creativity, and the human experience. With quirky candour, Best's immersive reflections celebrate the complexities that define us all.
Bringing vibrancy...
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A sharply witty novel about social ambitions and artistic pretensions by the author of Brave New World.
The widowed Mrs. Aldwinkle will tell anyone who will listen of her love for art, and in a quest to surround herself with her intellectual equals, she invites an entourage to an Italian palace. One guest, who supports his poetry habit by editing a magazine for rabbit fanciers, will become the target of her amorous advances. Another guest will use...
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Busy, Busy Leaves use sunlight to make food out of air and water. It's a process called photosynthesis! Some leaves are also delicious to eat. See how leaves help plants grow in this beautifully illustrated story set to music. Aligned with NGSS, this hardcover book comes with CD and online music access.
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The Brothers Grimm meets Knives Out in this unexpected, hilarious, and wholly original fantasy-murder-mystery.
The Lilac. The bard songs say that she's the world's most fearsome bounty hunter. That there's no criminal she can't catch, no mystery she can't solve.
None of that is true. Yet.
In reality, the Lilac is just a kid, and the bard who wrote all that is her best friend, Dulcinetta. But the Lilac has set her goals on becoming the best bounty...
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Literary legend Ana Castillo explores the secrets that are kept within households and the women they impact the most in this breakout collection that cements her place as a leading voice in feminist fiction.
The first person in her traditional Mexican American family to graduate from high school, Katia is entering adulthood at a time of turbulent change. Across the nation young people are fighting for civil and women's rights and protesting the Vietnam...
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Do you just turn your back on failures, too ashamed to ever look at them again?
Do you suspect there's something in that heap of unfulfilled promises and dreams?
Here's a little-big secret: Failure's got a gold side that you're leaving on the table every time you just move on.
Whether you're a middle manager or a first-time leader, a business owner, a creative, or a parent struggling with why things don't work out for you, Failure Leaves Clues will...
17) Throne of Leaves
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The Burnished King has escaped his tomb.
In the demi-god's wake, a stone-plague creeps across the lands and Never must stop the ancient decay before it swallows everyone he cares for.
Despite his determination, there is no cure and no guarantee that even his Amouni blood will be enough. Never's search for the means to fight back leads him to the Amber Isle once more, where the island continues to hold its secrets close.
But it is there that Never...
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7 Miraculous power Leaves Since time immemorial, plants have played a crucial role in the wellbeing and health maintenance of numerous civilizations across the globe. The natural bounty of the earth has continuously provided a rich source of therapeutic agents, with a significant proportion of modern pharmaceuticals having their roots in traditional herbal remedies. As the intersection between botanical science and healthcare becomes increasingly...
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Leaves come in all shapes, sizes, and colors-and that's not even mentioning when they change colors in the fall! Leaves can tell us what kind of tree we're near and are often gathered as natural treasure on nature walks or simply around the neighborhood. In this book, emerging readers are encouraged to have a leaf-finding adventure and discover leaves in nature around them. Full-color photographs showcase the leaves discussed and directly correlate...
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"LUTS is a collection of poems in the English language. These poems are the source of almost all the myths of the Norse gods, Greek gods and Indian gods-famous characters in popular culture such as Indra, Shiva, and Krishna-and also of the thrilling and tragic adventures of fictional heroes, especially Bazgeth, Zalaey, and a mouse Coco with his master. Apart from the spiritual hymns, the book is filled with romantic odes and ballads.
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