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AIDS (Disease) Social aspects Gardens in literature Language and the Internet Lively, Penelope 1933- Lively, Penelope 1933- Knowledge Gardening Lyric writing (Popular music) Metaphor Metaphor in the Bible Novelists, English 20th century Biography Popular music Writing and publishingCassidy, Sara
Summary: "A simple board book that introduces little ones to the concept of metaphor."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD CASArcher, Micha
Summary: "Two curious children go for a walk, asking imaginative questions about the natural beauty that surrounds them"--.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Vox Publishing, a Library Ideas Company 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Heinrichs, Ann.
Summary: Provides an introduction to similes and metaphors, discussing grammar rules and word usage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 808.042 HEIMoore, Beth
Summary: "Join bestselling author Beth Moore in her life-changing quest of vine-chasing-and learn how everything changes when you discover the true meaning of a fruitful, God-pleasing, meaning-filled life. Most of us have times when, if we are honest, we'd admit to feeling like our lives are embarrassingly small and insignificant. Times when it seems like we're going through a whole lot of pain and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248.4 MOOSontag, Susan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books/Doubleday 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.461 SONCampbell, Joseph
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 291.13 CAMDeutscher, Guy
Summary: "Language is mankind's greatest invention--except, of course, that it was never invented." So begins linguist Deutscher's investigation into the genesis and evolution of language. If we started off with rudimentary utterances on the level of "man throw spear," how did we end up with sophisticated grammars, enormous vocabularies, and intricately nuanced degrees of meaning? Drawing on recent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 401 DEUBorg, Marcus J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 220.61 BORSontag, Susan
Summary: An unprecedented collection of the controversial later writings of the greatest and most provocative critic of our time. Susan Sontag was the most influential critic of her time. This second volume in Library of America's definitive Sontag edition gathers all the collected essays and speeches from her last quarter-century, brilliant works whose subjects, from the AIDS epidemic, 9/11, the Iraq...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 SONPattison, Pat
Summary: "Writing great song lyrics requires practice and discipline. Songwriting Without Boundaries makes it fun with more than 150 exercises and prompts designed to inspire and improve your work. For songwriters, poets--even novelists--it's a creative way to: tap into your senses and inject your writing with vivid details; effectively use metaphor and comparative language; [and] add rhythm to your...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Writer's Digest 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 PATFeinberg, Heather Hawk
Summary: A gentle metaphor for understanding and processing anxiety and sadness.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The essence of poetry, metaphors unite disparate objects and ideas, resulting in a new perception of reality. In this program, contemporary Mexican poets Alberto Blanco, Luis Cortes Bargallo, and Jose Luis Rivas discuss the creation and use of the metaphor in their own poetry and in the poetic traditions of their homeland. Stunning visuals and computer graphics accompanying the poets' readings...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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McCloud, Carol.
Summary: Children from around the world ask to be loved through the metaphor of filling a bucket.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ferne Press 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MCCJameson, Karen
Summary: "Jewel beetles, hummingbirds, rainbow boas, giant clams, and more burst from the pages in metaphor and rhyming verse."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press 2022
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Contents: Matters of substance -- Matters of structure -- Matters of symbol, myt & metaphor -- Matters of style -- Matters of soul -- Other matters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word SelginLively, Penelope
Summary: "Penelope Lively has always been a keen gardener. This book is partly a memoir of her own life in gardens, and an exploration of gardens in literature and of other writers and their gardens"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 LIVELY, PENELOPE LIVMcCulloch, Gretchen
Summary: "A linguistically informed look at how our digital world is transforming the English language. Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. Internet conversations are structured by the shape of our apps and platforms, from the grammar of status updates to the protocols of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 302.23 MCCCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.23 MCCCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word McCullochArt of Noise (Musical group)
Contents: Il pleure (at the turn of the century) -- Born on a Sunday -- Dreaming in colour -- On being blue -- Continued in colour -- Rapt: in the evening air -- Metaforce -- The holy egoism of genius -- La flpute de Pan -- Metaphor on the floor -- Approximate mood swing no: 2 -- Pause -- Out of this world (version 138) -- Metaforce -- Metaforce: the sighs of a metaphor (remix by Roni Size) -- Metaforce:...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Records 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ARTSummary: The effect of Jane Hirshfield's reading is almost transcendental, like the sound of distant echoes in a canyon. "I know that many of my poems don't evoke clapping," she says, "and I want to assure you that I take silence as a high compliment. In this program, Bill Moyers and Ms. Hirshfield discuss topics including her experience as a practitioner of Zen and the relative merits of sound and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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In Flames (Musical group)
Contents: Reroute to remain -- System -- Drifter -- Trigger -- Cloud connected -- Transparent -- Dawn of a new day -- Economic -- Minus -- Dismiss the cynics -- Free fall -- Dark signs -- Metaphor -- Black & white.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Nuclear Blast 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK INFLively, Penelope
Summary: "From the Booker Prize winner and national bestselling author, reflections on gardening, art, literature, and life Penelope Lively takes up her key themes of time and memory, and her lifelong passions for art, literature, and gardening in this philosophical and poetic memoir. From the courtyards of her childhood home in Cairo to a family cottage in Somerset, to her own gardens in Oxford and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LIVELY, PENELOPE LIVCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 Lively 2018Suri, Manil.
Summary: In a novel that incorporates elements of Hindu mythology, an apartment building becomes a metaphor for the divisions and cultural clashes of modern India.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SURLavery, Grace E.
Summary: "Lights up on little Grace Lavery: reformed druggie, unreformed pantie-dropper, and 100% all-natural, synthetically-cultivated female hormone monster. From the moment Grace solves what she affectionately calls her "penis problem" in the parking lot of an abandoned Japanese steakhouse (were the turkeys milling about the handicapped spaces following her?), she begins receiving accusatory letters...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2022