Hughes, Ted
Summary: Love poems from a husband to a wife who committed suicide. The writer is poet laureate to Queen Elizabeth II. His wife, Sylvie Plath, who was also a poet, gassed herself in 1963 after writing, "Dying is an art, like everything else." The couple are still the subject of controversy in England, some claiming he drove her to it, others that she was an impossible wife.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.914 HUGViorst, 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 VIOTrethewey, Natasha D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.6 TRECarson, Anne
Summary: The love affair, marriage, and disintigrating relationship between two unnamed people is revealed through the voice of a woman in twenty-nine interrelated "tangos" of narrative verse that explore such themes as desire, beauty, love, and betrayal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 CARHall, Donald
Summary: "The dying of a beloved wife and fellow poet makes for a bleak and lonely tale. But Donald Hall's poignant and courageous poetry, facing that dread fact, involves us all: the magnificent, humorous, and gifted woman, Jane Kenyon, who suffered and died; the doctors and nurses who tried but failed to save her; the neighbors, friends, and relatives who grieved for her; the husband who sat by her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 HALWaldman, Anne
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 WALBrimner, Larry Dane
Summary: "Richard Perry Loving and Mildred Jeter Loving wanted to live out their married life near family in Virginia. However, the state refused to let them--because Richard was white and Mildred was black. After being arrested and charged with a crime, the Lovings were forced to leave their home--until they turned to the legal system. In one of the country's most prominent legal battles, Loving v....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 306.845 BRIPearl, Nancy.
Summary: Presents lists of recommended book titles in more than 120 categories, including adoption, building blocks, civil rights, friends, fairy tales, marriage, poetry, siblings, opera, and many others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sasquatch Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 011.73 PEASmith, Sally Bedell
Summary: "When the Duke of Windsor abdicated the throne in 1936, his shy, uncertain, unprepared younger brother became King. Sally Bedell Smith was granted by Queen Elizabeth II special access to the letters and diaries of George VI and Elizabeth, to tell the story of how their love, devotion, and strong marriage led George VI to overcome insecurities and difficulty speaking and to become an exceptional...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023