emmett till is always in my heart. his story is devastating, and he 100% deserved better. heartbreaking to think he still hasn’t been given justice. this book is a poem written to honor him, i highly recommend. #hardcover #emmetttill #blacklivesmatter #poem #neverread #popular #wreath #illustration #awardwinner #socialchange 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Illinois

Presents fifteen interlinked sonnets to pay tribute to Emmitt Till, a fourteen-year-old African American boy who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 for whistling at a while woman, and whose murderers were acquitted.

A Wreath for Emmett Till

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Good condition, shelf wear on dust jacket. #hardcover #poetry #alicewalker #nonfiction #poems #drawings #poem #art 

Massachusetts

Poems and Drawings

In this illuminating book, Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist and acclaimed poet Alice Walker reveals her remarkable philosophy of life. Curiously, this labor of love started with the author’s signature: Faced with the daunting task of providing autographs for multiple copies of one of her poetry collections, Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth, Walker turned an act of repetition into an act of inspiration. For each autograph became something more than a name: a thoughtful reflection, an impromptu sketch, a heartfelt poem. The result is this spontaneous burst of the unexpected. A Poem Traveled Down My Arm is a lovely collection of insights and drawings—by turns charming and humorous, provocative and profound—that represent the wisdom of one of today’s most beloved writers. The essence of Walker’s independent spirit emanates from words and images that are simple but deep in meaning. An empowering approach to life...the inspiration to live completely in the moment...the chance to nurture one’s creativity and peace of mind—all these beautiful elements are evoked by this unusual and original book.

A Poem Traveled Down My Arm

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Connecticut

A Novel Based on an Untrue Story

Can honesty lead to heartbreak if the truth is subjective? A compelling novel in verse from Sonya Sones.

Her friends
have a joke about her:
How can you tell if Colette is lying?

Her mouth is open.

Fifteen-year-old Colette is addicted to lying. Her shrink says this is because she's got a very bad case of Daughter-of-a-famous-movie-star Disorder--so she lies to escape out from under her mother's massive shadow. But Colette doesn't see it that way. She says she lies because it's the most fun she can have with her clothes on. Not that she's had that much fun with her clothes off. At least not yet, anyway...

When her mother drags her away from Hollywood to spend the entire summer on location in a boring little town in the middle of nowhere, Colette is less than thrilled. But then she meets a sexy biker named Connor. He's older, gorgeous, funny, and totally into her. So what if she lies to him about her age, and about who her mother is? I mean, she has to keep her mother's identity a secret from him. If he finds out who she really is, he'll forget all about Colette, and start panting and drooling and asking her for her mother's autograph. Just like everyone always does.

But what Colette doesn't know is that Connor is keeping a secret of his own...

To Be Perfectly Honest

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#children #childrens #poem #poems #poetry 

Florida

If you had a giraffe and he stretched another half … you would have a giraffe and a half. And if you glued a rose to the tip of his nose … And … if he put on a shoe and then stepped in some glue … And if he used a chair to comb his hair … And so it goes until … but that would be telling. Children will be kept in stitches until the very end, when the situation is resolved in the most riotous way possible. Shel Silverstein’s incomparable line drawings add to the hilarity of his wildly funny rhymes.

A Giraffe and a Half

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Mild wear on dust jacket, clean, smoke free,lovely illustrations accompany this whimsical poem for young people #poetry #childrens #poem #hardcover 

Virginia

"If I looked down and found a wishing penny winking from a weedy sidewalk crack, I'd wish for you. . ."
An ordinary day in the park becomes a magical journey in this touching poem by Ruth Tiller. Lucky objects are scattered throughout the pages of the poem, waiting to be wished upon. And as the wishes come true, this tale of love and friendship leads you on a wondrous adventure.
Debrah Santini's evocative watercolors capture the images of reality and translate them into the enchanting language of the imagination. And as you read on to discover what the next wish will bring, you'll turn the pages in more ways than one....



Wishing

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#paperback #tender #family #ya #YA #booktok #dinawmengestu #poetry #poem #teen #fiction #nonfiction #learning 

The book has some pink pen markings. See photo two. 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New Jersey

Seventeen years ago, Sepha Stephanos fled the Ethiopian Revolution for a new start in the United States. Now he finds himself running a failing grocery store in a poor African-American section of Washington, D.C., his only companions two fellow African immigrants who share his bitter nostalgia and longing for his home continent. Years ago and worlds away Sepha could never have imagined a life of such isolation. As his environment begins to change, hope comes in the form of a friendship with new neighbors Judith and Naomi, a white woman and her biracial daughter. But when a series of racial incidents disturbs the community, Sepha may lose everything all over again.

Watch a QuickTime interview with Dinaw Mengestu about this book.

The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

Arkansas

Poems

In 2018, acclaimed poet Todd Boss sold his belongings and began to circle the globe in a series of consecutive housesits. Reeling from marital, parental, and societal losses, Boss risks everything to be at one with the world. These poems conjure Spanish dust, English rain, French moss, Arizona cliffs, and Hungarian light, ringing all the while with timeless humor and wisdom. As much a commentary on modern-day America as a personal history replete with grief, Someday the Plan of a Town is a sensual, intellectual, and arrestingly musical map of one nomadic troubadour's journey to self.

Someday the Plan of a Town

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©1994

 #paperback #nonfiction #juvenile #money #poem 

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Michigan

A Fun Book for Young People

Who taught you everything you know about money? Most folks learn the traditional way. . .trial and error. . .which is the hard way!

Who Taught You About Money?introduces basic money concepts in an interesting, unique, informative, and fun way. It will hold your attention and cause you to come back to it time and again. . .and hopefully you will want to share this book with others.

Learning how money works will increase your opportunity for success and long-term security. "Banker Sawbuck" is an expert in these matters. Use him to help teach your kids about one of the most important elements in human society--money.

⭐Who Taught You about Money?

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Annotated throughout. #paperback #poetry #penguin #penguinclassics #annotated #poem #classic #persian #religion #mythology

Composed in the twelfth century in north-eastern Iran, Attar's great mystical poem is among the most significant of all works of Persian literature. A marvellous, allegorical rendering of the Islamic doctrine of Sufism - an esoteric system concerned with the search for truth through God - it describes the consequences of the conference of the birds of the world when they meet to begin the search for their ideal king, the Simorgh bird. On hearing that to find him they must undertake an arduous journey, the birds soon express their reservations to their leader, the hoopoe. With eloquence and insight, however, the hoopoe calms their fears, using a series of riddling parables to provide guidance in the search for spiritual truth. By turns witty and profound, The Conference of the Birds transforms deep belief into magnificent poetry.

The Conference of the Birds

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California

in twenty one, you are taken to a deeper level of the mind to explore the curiosity beyond the world's surface and you are challenged to take in the thoughts on topics that are usually avoided, for instance, things that became the norm because society said so. we are used to the earth we live on and what we already know, but we must put thought into exploring the possibilities that there is definitely more.

Twenty One

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#hardcover #fiction #ya #YA #poetry #poem #versenovel #novelinverse #africanamerican #kwamealexander #crossover #newberry #youngadult #basketball #crossover #newberry #basketball 

A middle-grade novel in verse follows the experiences of twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan, who struggle with challenges on and off the court while their father ignores his declining health. 20,000 first printing.

The Crossover

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#hardcover #fiction #poetry #poem #love #romance #psychology #selfhelp #spiritual  #nonfiction 

South Carolina

Collection of poetry from the author's blog called "I Wrote This for You" from the years 2007 to 2017.

I Wrote This for You: 2007 - 2017

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From the Great Poets series--exquisite small-format collections of classic poetry enhanced by full-color reproductions of period art, and readable, scholarly introductions. 12 full-color illustrations.

Emily Dickinson

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#paperback #myth #folklore #finland #finnish #kalevala #poem Some yellowing with age.

New York

An Epic Poem after Oral Tradition by Elias Lönnrot

The Finnish language belongs to a non-Indo-European group of languages whose origins have been traced to a region just west of the Urals. During the first milennium of our era, Uralic-speakers in the Baltic region developed the oral poetry which is the basis of the Kalevala, the epic poem of Finland which was assembled only 150 years ago as a portrait of an ancient people in war and peace. This poem, which has often been compared with the epics of Homer, played a central role in the process towards Finnish independence and inspired the classical composer Sibelius.

The Kalevala

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#hardcover #exlibrary #civilwar #children #poem #historical #livingbook #poetry #poetryteatime #history 

Oregon

An illustrated edition of the poem describing Barbara Fritchie's dramatic stand with the Union flag against the rebel troops invading her town.

Barbara Frietchie

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#paperback #alphabet #poem #children #butterfly

The Butterfly Alphabet

This is a wonderful book and it is a novel in verse! #fiction #juvenilefiction #ya #youngadult #hardcover #novelinverse #poem #poetry 

Pennsylvania

#paperback #poem #NativeAmerican #trudell #louiseerdrich #erdrich #poetry

The Words of John Trudell

Lines from a Mined Mind brings together lyrics and musings from the twenty-five-year recording career of John Trudell, an internationally acclaimed poet, musician, and leader of the American Indian Movement. More than a simple anthology, this collection goes deeper, revealing the incendiary intersection of music and activism.

Lines from a Mined Mind

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#paperback #Hiawatha #poem #Longfellow #NativeAmerican #Indian #Minnehaha #poetry #Ojibwe

Maryland

Illustrated

The Song of Hiawatha is an 1855 epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that features Native American characters. The epic relates the adventures of an Ojibwe warrior named Hiawatha and the tragedy of his love for Minnehaha. Events in the story are set in the Pictured Rocks area on the south shore of Lake Superior. Longfellow's poem, though based on native oral traditions surrounding the figure of Manabozho, represents not a work of transmission but an original work of American Romantic literature.In his book on the development of the image of the Indian in American thought and literature, Pearce wrote about The Song of Hiawatha: "It was Longfellow who fully realized for mid-nineteenth century Americans the possibility of image of the noble savage. He had available to him not only poems on the Indian . . . but also the general feeling that the Indian belonged nowhere in American life but in dim prehistory. He saw how the mass of Indian legends which Schoolcraft was collecting depicted noble savages out of time, and offered, if treated right, a kind of primitive example of that very progress which had done them in. Thus in Hiawatha he was able, matching legend with a sentimental view of a past far enough away in time to be safe and near enough in space to be appealing, fully to image the Indian as noble savage. For by the time Longfellow wrote Hiawatha, the Indian as a direct opponent of civilization was dead, yet was still heavy on American consciences . . . . The tone of the legend and ballad... would color the noble savage so as to make him blend in with a dim and satisfying past about which readers could have dim and satisfying feelings."

The Song of Hiawatha

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Utah

A Poem

Made of Stars

Mild age yellowing, small stain in one corner of back cover, appears unread #poem #poetry #paperback #french #epicpoetry #classics

This classic of Medieval literature tells the timeless story of war and vengeance, of Good versus Evil. At the center of this tale, translated by Harrison from the Old French, is Roland--the supreme embodiment of chivalry and honor--and his last stand at Roncesvals in 778. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

The Song of Roland

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Ex-library book with markings. 
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©1982

 #hardcover #fiction #eugenefield #poem #picturebook #juvenile #amblesideonline #charlottemason #homeschool

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The famous poem about the voyage in a pea-green boat excellently illustrated.

⭐ Wynken Blynken, and Nod

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#paperback #poetry #bestseller #romance #ya #adult #poem #botm

Poetry & Prose Paperback 

The much anticipated new book by international bestselling author Lang Leav. A breathtakingly beautiful collection of contemporary poetry and prose, offering powerful insights into love, heartbreak, relationships, and self-empowerment. Filled with wisdom and encouragement, every single page is a testament to the power of words, and the impact they can have on the relationships you build with others. And most importantly, the one you have with yourself. Lang Leav captures the intricacies of emotions like few others can. It's no wonder she has been recognized as a major influencer of the modern poetry movement and her writing has inspired a whole new generation of poets to pick up a pen. Love Looks Pretty on You is truly the must-have book for poetry lovers all over the world.

Love Looks Pretty on You

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#paperback #odyssey #mythology #epic #fiction #myth #greek #poem 

Lombardo's Odyssey offers the distinctive speed, clarity, and boldness that so distinguished his 1997 Iliad .

Marilyn Nelson; Philippe Lardy (Illustrator)

A Wreath for Emmett Till

Alice Walker

A Poem Traveled Down My Arm

Sonya Sones

To Be Perfectly Honest

Shel Silverstein (Illustrator)

A Giraffe and a Half

Ruth Tiller; Debrah Santini (Illustrator)

Wishing

Dinaw Mengestu

The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

Todd Boss

Someday the Plan of a Town

Richard Harris

⭐Who Taught You about Money?

Farid ud-Din Attar; Afkham Darbandi (Translator); Dick Davis (Translator, Introduction by)

The Conference of the Birds

Amal Abdul-Hussein

Twenty One

Kwame Alexander

The Crossover

Iain S. Thomas

I Wrote This for You: 2007 - 2017

Peter Porter; Geoffrey Moore (Introduction by)

Emily Dickinson

Elias Lönnrot; Keith Bosley (Translator)

The Kalevala

John Greenleaf Whittier; Nancy Winslow Parker (Illustrator)

Barbara Frietchie

Kjell B. Sandved

The Butterfly Alphabet

Kwame Alexander

The Crossover

John Trudell

Lines from a Mined Mind

Henry Longfellow; N. Wyeth (Illustrator)

The Song of Hiawatha

Mark H Fitzpatrick

Made of Stars

Robert Ligon Harrison

The Song of Roland

Eugene Field; Susan Jeffers (Illustrator)

⭐ Wynken Blynken, and Nod

Lang Leav

Love Looks Pretty on You

Homer; Stanley Lombardo (Translator); Sheila Murnaghan (Introduction by)

Odyssey