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Conversations and Poetry's title derives from the author's refreshing blend of chat about his life and interests--and about the nature of the process of composition--with rich, deep poems that a lifetime of training in observing people at close quarters has brought him. "Like Theodore Roethke, " writes Bernard Dick, author of "The Star-Spangled Screen" and other volumes of criticism, "Milano's heart keeps open house, welcoming the reader to a ...

You there-the one with the wedding ring. Ask yourself: To Facebook or not to Facebook? That's the question of the day. With over 500 million active users, Facebook is the global leader in online social networking, and people, married people especially, are reconnecting each day with friends from their past and rediscovering identities they might have lost. "Love, Marriage...and Facebook" gathers stories inspired by what happens when some marri...

Here's a book that provides every woman with the advice she needs, delivered in the manner she has always wanted-loving, unconditional, and wise. Into the hectic and cynical pace of today's demanding world, these words fall like rain on parched earth. Zulma Reyo reminds us where our real strengths lie as women. She shows us how to live and love and express it emotionally and physically. But more to the point, this book is about being centered ...

On a struggling Montana ranch in 1970, 14-year-old Winona dreams of escape from the cruelty of her stepfather and the narrowness of her surroundings. Increasingly aware of the entrenched bigotry of most of her family and community, she finds herself attracted to Bell, a Native American. When an unexpected discovery turns Win's family upside down, not only they but the whole town must confront the consequences of their beliefs, and Win begins t...

As parents and caretakers of our children, there are times when we feel our patience and faith is being tested-and we question, at times, how we should respond. "I hope, " says author Marie Parks Pinto, "that, through this series, we can help parents better master child-raising skills from the kids' own perspective." In today's difficult times, such appropriate responses can very easily elude us. The series shows situations through the eyes of...

As parents and caretakers of our children, there are times when we feel our patience and faith is being tested-and we question, at times, how we should respond. "I hope, " says author Marie Parks Pinto, "that, through this series, we can help parents better master child-raising skills from the kids' own perspective." In today's difficult times, such appropriate responses can very easily elude us. The series shows situations through the eyes of...

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This series shows situations through the eyes of a child to illustrate how adults appear to them. That way, it becomes easier to respond appropriately, thereby modeling healthy interpersonal skills for both adult and child.

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Some of Elisa B. Chalem's most effective results as a sculptor combine elegance of line with great visual imagery and compositional strength. This book-the first of two volumes of her memoirs-does the same in words. the writing is suave, informed, and deeply European in sensibility, it also rests on a solid sense of reality, of observation and assessment, that clarifies other people's lives as well as her own. Her life during the period covere...

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Charlene Thomas needed a job and she took one quick at the Gay Channel. After being plopped into the brewing cauldron of a start-up network, she seizes the chance to rebuild her life following a traumatic divorce. Charlene is center stage when the media phenomenon shoots to #1 while juggling plenty of drama in her personal life-fighting a custody battle for her two children and comforting a best friend whose husband was caught "on the down-low...

Downtown c.1 is inscribed by the author.

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Adele Schwartz's writing clings like dew, at once tenacious and evanescent, to the hard surfaces of life. She has an unerring eye for the sufferings and lonelinesses we all share, uncompromising humanity, and an exquisite ear for the rhythms of language and speech. Her poems stop people in their tracks, clear as a bell, vivid and unavoidable, coaxing them to remember that our existence is a continual unpeeling of layers of conscious awareness ...

The great strength of Chris Rainey's poetry rests on its lucid directness. The surprising range of subjects it engages, the various ways it exposes them, offer blissfully little ambiguity-though he leaves the world more richly mysterious for us than he finds it. The book is dedicated to the man who left a parcel of land, on the Palisades near the Hudson river in new Jersey, to be used as a public park. That resource has served the poet well, h...

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Welcome my friends to the Upside Down House, " a topsy-turvy place where anything is possible. Inside its wacky walls you'll meet a girl with a beard, a boy who never gets out of bed, a sword swallower, a pirate, a dinosaur who plays basketball, and the Grunk, who would love to take you to a dance-and maybe even have you for dinner. Find out what really happened to the three little pigs. Dare to ride your sled down Speedwell Street. Have lunch...