The Rattle Bag

The Rattle Bag

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  • Author: Seamus Heaney
  • Publisher: Macmillan
  • ISBN: 0571225837
  • Category : Poetry
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 497

A collection of more than 400 hundred poems from all around the world.


Trigger Warning

Trigger Warning

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  • Author: Neil Gaiman
  • Publisher: Harper Collins
  • ISBN: 0062330292
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 339

Multiple award winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman returns to dazzle, captivate, haunt, and entertain with this third collection of short fiction following Smoke and Mirrors and Fragile Things—which includes a never-before published American Gods story, “Black Dog,” written exclusively for this volume. In this new anthology, Neil Gaiman pierces the veil of reality to reveal the enigmatic, shadowy world that lies beneath. Trigger Warning includes previously published pieces of short fiction—stories, verse, and a very special Doctor Who story that was written for the fiftieth anniversary of the beloved series in 2013—as well “Black Dog,” a new tale that revisits the world of American Gods, exclusive to this collection. Trigger Warning explores the masks we all wear and the people we are beneath them to reveal our vulnerabilities and our truest selves. Here is a rich cornucopia of horror and ghosts stories, science fiction and fairy tales, fabulism and poetry that explore the realm of experience and emotion. In Adventure Story—a thematic companion to The Ocean at the End of the Lane—Gaiman ponders death and the way people take their stories with them when they die. His social media experience A Calendar of Tales are short takes inspired by replies to fan tweets about the months of the year—stories of pirates and the March winds, an igloo made of books, and a Mother’s Day card that portends disturbances in the universe. Gaiman offers his own ingenious spin on Sherlock Holmes in his award-nominated mystery tale The Case of Death and Honey. And Click-Clack the Rattlebag explains the creaks and clatter we hear when we’re all alone in the darkness. A sophisticated writer whose creative genius is unparalleled, Gaiman entrances with his literary alchemy, transporting us deep into the realm of imagination, where the fantastical becomes real and the everyday incandescent. Full of wonder and terror, surprises and amusements, Trigger Warning is a treasury of delights that engage the mind, stir the heart, and shake the soul from one of the most unique and popular literary artists of our day.


All for Nothing

All for Nothing

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  • Author: Walter Kempowski
  • Publisher: New York Review of Books
  • ISBN: 1681372061
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 368

A wealthy family tries--and fails--to seal themselves off from the chaos of post-World War II life surrounding them in this stunning novel by one of Germany's most important post-war writers. In East Prussia, January 1945, the German forces are in retreat and the Red Army is approaching. The von Globig family's manor house, the Georgenhof, is falling into disrepair. Auntie runs the estate as best she can since Eberhard von Globig, a special officer in the German army, went to war, leaving behind his beautiful but vague wife, Katharina, and her bookish twelve-year-old son, Peter. As the road fills with Germans fleeing the occupied territories, the Georgenhof begins to receive strange visitors--a Nazi violinist, a dissident painter, a Baltic baron, even a Jewish refugee. Yet in the main, life continues as banal, wondrous, and complicit as ever for the family, until their caution, their hedged bets, and their denial are answered by the wholly expected events they haven't allowed themselves to imagine. All for Nothing, published in 2006, was the last novel by Walter Kempowski, one of postwar Germany's most acclaimed and popular writers.


U2

U2

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  • Author: Peter Williams
  • Publisher: Harmony
  • ISBN: 9780517572146
  • Category : Music
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 100

Tells the behind the scenes story of an Irish rock and roll band in America.


The American Poetry Anthology

The American Poetry Anthology

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  • Author: Daniel Halpern
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 042972599X
  • Category : Political Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 424

This book aims to gather a selection that represents the diversity and richness of American poetry written by poets who share a sophistication that promises to evolve, with continued effort and risk, a new and powerful poetic idiom.


By Heart

By Heart

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  • Author: Ted Hughes
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9780571192632
  • Category : American poetry
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 143

What has happened to the lost art of memorising poems? Why do we no longer feel that it is necessary to know the most enduring, beautiful poems in the English language 'by heart'? In his introduction Ted Hughes explains how we can overcome the problem by using a memory system that becomes easier the more frequently it is practised. The collected 101 poems are both personal favourites and particularly well-suited to the method Hughes demonstrates. Spanning four centuries, ranging from Shakespeare and Keats through to Thomas Hardy and Seamus Heaney, By Heart offers the reader a 'mental gymnasium' in which the memory can be exercised and trained in the most pleasurable way. Some poems will be more of a challenge than others, but all will be treasured once they have become part of the memory bank. This edition is part of a series of anthologies edited by poets such as Don Paterson and Simon Armitage and features an attractive new design to complement an anthology of classic poems.


I Live in a Hut

I Live in a Hut

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  • Author: S. E. Smith
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : American poetry
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 84

Poetry. Winner of the 2011 Cleveland State University Poetry Center First Book Prize, selected by Matthea Harvey. The poems in S. E. Smith's debut collection are caffeinated, wildly comic, assured maximalist performances introducing such characters as three slutty bears, a horse thief named Dirk, Becky Home-ecky, and a pony of darkness. Divided into sections appropriately titled "Parties," "Beauty," and "Devastation," Smith's book is at once free-spirited, metaphysically inquisitive, and romantically exuberant: "If god wanted us to be strangers, why would he place us / next to each other in the movie theater and make us think / our knees are touching when they're really a few inches / apart? Looking at Anita Ekberg's breasts, we can see / the future. It is soft, pink, and frolics in a fountain / where the sea gods bathe their weary feet."


The Rattlebang Picnic

The Rattlebang Picnic

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  • Author: Margaret Mahy
  • Publisher: Turtleback Books
  • ISBN: 9780606137287
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

The McTavishes have piled into their old rattlebang car for a picnic on the top of Mount Fogg. But when the mountain starts to shake and red-hot lava erupts, the McTavishes hope that the old rattlebang can stay together long enough to save them from disaster!?An original tall tale with an outrageously bizarre plot?AMahy's? writing is vivid, funny, and full of details that will be dear to a child's heart.' -- School Library Journal, starred reviewMargaret Mahy was awarded The Order of New Zealand, her country's highest honor, for her contribution to children's literature. She lives in New Zealand.Steven Kellogg is well known for his Pinkerton books, as well as his illustrations for the Jimmy's Boa books by Trinka Hakes Noble (all Dial and Puffin). He lives in Sandy Hook, Connecticut.


Collected Poems for Children

Collected Poems for Children

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  • Author: Ted Hughes
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9780571215027
  • Category : Children's poetry, English
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 259

This collection brings together the poems Ted Hughes wrote for children throughout his life. They are arranged by volume, beginning with those for reading aloud to the very young, progressing to the poems in Under the North Star and What is the Truth? and ending with Season Songs, which Hughes remarked was written 'within hearing' of children. Raymond Briggs brings to the collection two hundred original drawings that capture the wit, gentleness and humanity of these poems and make this a book any reader - child and adult - will return to again and again.


Zombie Apocalypse! Fightback

Zombie Apocalypse! Fightback

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  • Author: Stephen Jones
  • Publisher: Robinson
  • ISBN: 9781780334653
  • Category : Diary fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 544

In the near future, a desperate UK government attempts to restore a sense of national pride with a New Festival of Britain. But construction work on the site of an old church in south London releases a centuries-old plague that turns its victims into flesh-hungry ghouls whose bite or scratch passes the contagion on to others.