Viorst, Judith.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 VIOMcKinney, Jane
Summary: From a mother and daughter comes a book in prose and poetry about change, loss, and the joy they discover in small things, including a daily ritual they call their “chair chat.”After losing her husband of sixty-three years and six weeks later, her beloved dog, Jane McKinney finds solace in writing poetry. Feeling isolated from her six children, she relocates from Arizona to an independent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mission Point Press 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 MCKLimón, Ada
Summary: "Vulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the grace of acceptance. A daughter tends to aging parents. A woman struggles with infertility--"What if, instead of carrying / a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"--And a body seized by pain and vertigo as well as ecstasy. A nation convulses: "Every...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 LIMÖrnbratt, Susan
Summary: "From the shores of The Great Lakes to the slums of Bombay and a tiny island in between, this love story takes the reader on an intimate journey to unravel a family secret that's laid hidden for generations. To satisfy her wandering feet, eighteen-year-old Gillian McAllister is sent from Ireland to Canada in the summer of 1932. She arrives with her Irish ways intact, determined not to let the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Light Messages 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ORNHarjo, Joy
Summary: A magnificent selection of fifty poems to celebrate three-term US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo's fifty years as a poet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 HARHarjo, Joy
Summary: A collection of poems from the first Native American US Poet Laureate, informed by her tribal history and connection to the land, that opens a dialogue with history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 811 HARHarjo, Joy
Summary: A stunning new volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States, informed by her tribal history and connection to the land
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 HARRosen, Michael
Summary: "'They were there at the beginning of the war, but they were gone by the end. I suppose they died in the camps.' Thats all young Michael Rosen, born in England just after the end of the Second World War, was told about the six great-aunts and great-uncles who had been living in Poland or France at the beginning of that war. This wasnt enough for him. So, as an adult, he started to search. He...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 ROSHarjo, Joy
Summary: A stunning new volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States, informed by her tribal history and connection to the land
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT (8 paperbacks)Young, Alora
Summary: "A true American epic in verse, Walking Gentry Home tells the story of Alora Young's ancestors, from the unnamed women the historical record has forgotten but Alora brings to life through imagination; to Amy, the first of her foremothers to arrive in Tennessee, buried in an unmarked grave unlike the white man who enslaved her and fathered her child; through Alora's great-grandmother Gentry,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2022
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 811 YOUWeatherford, Carole Boston
Summary: A multi-generational family history told in the voices of the author's ancestors, spanning enslavement alongside Frederick Douglass at Maryland's Wye House plantation, service in the U.S. Colored Troops, and the founding of all-Black Reconstruction-era communities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J FIC WEANye, Naomi Shihab
Summary: A collection of poems about family and the love we share with one another throughout life's peaks and valleys.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Presents a series of brief poems in English and Spanish for each day of the week that celebrate the joys of family and other relationships.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc. 2017
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Summary: Poems for each month of the year celebrate the themes of family love, individuality, and Afro-American identity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811.54 THOYolen, Jane
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 YOLGrimes, Nikki.
Summary: A group of high school students grow in understanding of each other's challenges and forge unexpected connections as they prepare for a boys vs. girls poetry slam.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC GRIGrimes, Nikki
Summary: A group of high school students grow in understanding of each other's challenges and forge unexpected connections as they prepare for a boys vs. girls poetry slam. Includes author's note about foster home care.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Grimes 2018Crossan, Sarah
Summary: When her imagined perfect life with her estranged mother begins to unravel, fourteen-year-old Apple finds comfort in reading and writing poetry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CROCastle, Jiordan
Summary: "Moving and evocative, this YA memoir-in-verse follows author Jiordan Castle's coming-of-age as her family reckons with the aftershocks of her father's imprisonment"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 CASAbu-Jaber, Diana
Summary: "A mesmerizing breakthrough novel of family myths and inheritances by the award-winning author of Crescent. Amani is hooked on a mystery-a poem on airmail paper that slips out of one of her father's books. It seems to have been written by her grandmother, a refugee who arrived in Jordan during the First World War. Soon the perfect occasion to investigate arises: her Uncle Hafez, an advisor to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ABUSummary: ... Contains fifty genealogical sketches of heads of households living in what are today Berkshire, Hampden, Hampshire and Franklin Counties.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New England Historic Genealogical Society 2012
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.3744 WESSummary: For Angela, it came on the basketball court--while playing on the boys' team. For Penny, it came on a school field trip to the lake (making for some cringeworthy moments of humor). And to Layla's disappointment, it came at the start of her first fasting Ramadan, meaning that she won't be able to fast after all. Whether it spurs silence or celebration, whether the subjects are well prepared or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J FIC CALBirbiglia, Mike
Summary: "Mike Birbiglia never wanted to be a father. In fact, there are seven very specific reasons he never wanted a kid, including his aversion to sticky surfaces and his less-than-ideal genes: he's had Lyme Disease, a bladder tumor, diabetes, and dangerous sleepwalking, to name a few. Not to mention the fact that Mike generally doesn't think people (including himself) are really all that great. Then...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BIRBIGLIA, MIKE BIRHeppermann, Christine.
Summary: "Christine Heppermann's powerful collection of free verse poems explore how girls are taught to think about themselves, their bodies, their friends--as consumers, as objects, as competitors. Based on classic fairy tale characters and fairy tale tropes, the poems range from contemporary retellings to first person accounts set within the original stories. From Snow White cottage and Rapunzel's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2014