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Starting with the Old Testament
Par Stephen Travis. 1994
Song of Rita Joe: autobiography of Mi'kmaq poet
Par Lynn Henry, Rita Joe. 1996
Mi'kmaq poet Rita Joe reflects on the tumultuous events of her life. Raised in foster homes and educated in an…
Indian residential school, she endured prejudice, sexism, and poverty. She began to write poetry, and soon discovered the voice through which she could reclaim her Aboriginal heritage. 1996.Small expectations: society's betrayal of older women
Par Leah Cohen. 1984
After a lifetime as home-makers and wage earners, most older women end up poor and alone. This book looks at…
the causes and workings of the prejudice endured by women as they age. 1984.Something more: excavating your authentic self
Par Sarah Ban Breathnach. 1998
The author asserts that human beings are divided into two groups - the resigned, who think their time on earth…
is beyond their control, and the exhausted, who believe there is "something more" to life. To the exhausted she offers nine steps to achieving happiness: sensing, surviving, settling, stumbling, selling out, starting over, searching, striving, and something more. Bestseller. 1998.Spirals: a woman's journey through family life
Par Joan Gould. 1988
Sobbing superpower: selected poems of Tadeusz Różewicz
Par Edward Hirsch, Tadeusz Różewicz, Joanna Trzeciak. 2011
Widely held to be the most influential Polish poet of a generation that includes Czeslaw Milosz and Wislawa Szymborska, Tadeusz…
Róźewicz gives voice in the sharpest, most disturbing way to the crisis of values that has plagued our civilization. Joanna Trzeciak's new translation displays Róźewicz's supernatural simplicity, his stark diction and sudden turns. Includes violence. 2011. Uniform title: Poems.Soulmate secret: manifest the love of your life with the law of attraction
Par Arielle Ford. 2009
The woman who helped launch the careers of Deepak Chopra, Neale Donald Walsch, and Jack Canfield shows readers how to…
take control of their romantic destiny. Finding true love is possible for anyone at any age if you're willing to prepare yourself, on all levels, to become a magnet for love. Rather than sitting around, lamenting their loneliness, readers will learn how to use the law of attraction to attract their soulmate to them. 2009.Something more
Par Catherine Marshall. 1974
Songs of innocence and of experience (Oxford Student Texts)
Par William Blake, Richard Willmott. 1990
This edition provides comprehensive notes on the poems and an approaches section offering commentary and activities on key themes and…
techniques, such as Blake's political beliefs and the role of imagery within his poetry. The poems were originally written in 1789 and 1794. 1990.Bach offers advice on how couples can keep their financial lives in sync, with strategies on such concerns as investments,…
retirement and insurance. Bach also believes that all couples (gay and straight, married and unmarried) need to identify values as well as goals as their first step toward achieving financial security. 2003.Singing from the darktime: a childhood memoir in poetry and prose
Par S Weilbach. 2011
Escaping Germany, Weilbach describes her surreal experience aboard the refugee ship the St Louis, refused the right to land by…
Cuba, the United States and Canada, and finally forced to turn back to Europe, where England and other countries eventually provided some sanctuary. She recalls her experiences in London - loneliness, confusion, and an incomprehensible language but also the healing acceptance of classmates and teachers. With the approach of World War Two, the mass evacuation of her school to the countryside brings a return to village life, with surprising happiness and the hint of a better future, despite the immediate chaos of war. c2011.Sightlines
Par Harriet Harvey Wood, P. D James. 2001
Published to promote and support the work of the Royal National Institute for the Blind's Talking Books, Sightlines includes pieces…
from many of Britain's foremost writers, all of whom have contributed their work without fee. Introduced by Sue Townsend, who recently lost her sight, Sightlines includes many previously unpublished stories, essays, and poems by authors such as Louis de Bernieres, Antonia Fraser, Frederick Forsyth, Doris Lessing, A.S.Byatt, and Reginald Hill. 2001.Seventh generation: contemporary native writing
Par Heather Hodgson. 1989
Section lines: a Manitoba anthology
Par Mark Duncan. 1988
Settler education: poems
Par Laurie D Graham. 2016
In the stunning poems of "Settler Education", Graham explores the Plains Cree uprising at Frog Lake -- the death of…
nine settlers, the hanging of six Cree warriors, the imprisonment of Big Bear, and the opening of the Prairies to unfettered settlement. In ways possible only with such an honest act of imagination, and with language at once terse and capacious, she reckons with how these pasts repeat and reconstitute themselves in the present. Poems from this book won the 2013 Thomas Morton Poetry Prize. 2016. Uniform title: Poems.Shadow child: an apprenticeship in love and loss
Par Beth Powning. 2005
Like many young women, Beth Powning faced decisions of whether and when to start a family. At age twenty-four she…
became pregnant, but eleven days past her due date, she delivered a perfect, stillborn son. In this exploration of motherhood and loss, we're taken on a powerful journey into the heart of grief and renewal. National Bestseller. 2005.Seven nights
Par Jorge Luis Borges. 1986
Seven lectures in which the famous Argentine writer shares his personal observations on poetry and on great poetic works such…
as "The Divine Comedy" and "The Thousand and One Nights." In the final essay he reminisces on his blindness and how blindness has served him and other blind poets. 1986.Sex and the city
Par Candace Bushnell. 1996
Collection of pieces from Bushnell's "Sex and the City" column originally published in the New York Observer. Essays discuss the…
relationships of Bushnell and women friends, who have what she describes as "a never-ending series of freakish and horrifying experiences with men." Descriptions of sex and strong language. 2001. Uniform title: New York observer (New York, N.Y.)Sex and destiny: the politics of human fertility
Par Germaine Greer. 1984
Beginning with a simple comparison between the parent-child relationship in the affluent West and the villages in the Third World,…
the author leads the reader to ask some disturbing questions about our pre-conceived ideas of the nuclear family. Some descriptions of sex. 1984.Scattered poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Ser.)
Par Jack Kerouac. 1990