Oliver, Mary
Summary: In A THOUSAND MORNINGS, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her lifes work, transporting us to the marshland and coastline of her beloved home, Provincetown, Massachusetts. In these pages, Oliver shares the wonder of dawn, the grace of animals, and the transformative power of attention. Whether studying the leaves of a tree or mourning her adored dog, Percy, she is ever...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Cunningham, Michael.
Summary: "Provincetown, eccentric, physically remote, and heartbreakingly beautiful, has been amenable and intriguing to outsiders for as long as it has existed. 'It is the only small town I know of where those who live unconventially seem to outnumber those who live within the prescribed bounds of home and licensed marriage, respectable job, and biological children,' says Cunningham. 'It is one of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.4 CUNFrancis, Patry
Summary: "A passionate and page-turning saga with an unsolved murder that consumes three lives over several decades in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Told through these three voices, The orphans of Race Point is a novel of suspense, betrayal, and the different ways we find transcendence and meaning in our lives. But most of all, it is a gorgeous and unforgettable love story"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRAKosa, S. F.
Summary: "After a tense argument, Alex drops everything to patch things up with his new wife, Mina. But Mina has vanished, leaving behind her wedding band and a string of secrets in her wake. Meanwhile, Layla is a mystery in Provincetown. When coworkers start asking questions about who she is and where she came from, Layla would love to answer them...but she can't. All she knows is someone has hurt her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOSLoomis, Jon.
Summary: "Beleaguered Police Detective Frank Coffin is on the trail of a firebug in Fire Season, the third in this sharply witty mystery series set in Provincetown, Massachusetts Until a replacement can be found, Frank Coffin is pulling double duty as a detective and interim police chief for the Provincetown, Mass. Police. The off-season has just started for this tourist town and the streets should be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOOBrenner, Jamie
Summary: Ruth Cooperman arrives in beautiful beachside Provincetown for her retirement, renting the perfect waterfront cottage while she searches for her forever home. After years of hard work and making peace with life's disappointments, Ruth is looking forward to a carefree summer of solitude. But when she finds a baby girl abandoned on her doorstep, Ruth turns to her new neighbors for help and is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRELisicky, Paul
Summary: "When Paul Lisicky arrived in Provincetown in the early 1990s, he was leaving behind a history of family trauma to live in a place outside of time. In this idyllic haven, known for its values of inclusion, acceptance, and art, Lisicky searches for love and soon finds a sense of belonging. At the same time, the community is consumed by the AIDS crisis, and the very structure of Town life is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greywolf Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LISICKY, PAUL LISSinger, Marilyn
Summary: "This warm and engaging poetry collection that follows a family of five as they discover and celebrate all of the Jewish holidays"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Holiday SingerMacLachlan, Patricia
Summary: "A little girl wants to write poetry. One sumer day, she explores a town on Cape Cod, along with the poet who lives nearby. Inspired by the life and craft of Mary Oliver."--Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MACEl-Kurd, Mohammed
Summary: Each day after school, Mohammed El-Kurd's grandmother welcomed him at the door of his home with a bouquet of jasmine. Her name was Rifqa -- she was older than Israel itself and an icon of Palestinian resilience. With razor-sharp wit and glistening moral clarity, El-Kurd lays bare the brutality of Israeli settler colonialism. His poems trace Rifqa's exile from Haifa to his family's current...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Haymarket Books 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: ... 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 WESGrass, Günter
Summary: A bilingual poetry collection. In Nursery Rhyme, he writes: "Who laughs here, who has laughed? / Here we have ceased to laugh. / To laugh here is now treason / The laugher has a reason."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 GRALongfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Summary: The famous narrative poem recreating Paul Revere's midnight ride in 1775 to warn the people of the Boston countryside that the British were coming.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811.3 LONLongfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Summary: The famous narrative poem recreating Paul Revere's midnight ride in 1775 to warn the people of the Boston countryside that the British were coming.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 1990
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811.3 LonRilke, Rainer Maria
Summary: "The definitive bilingual version of Rilke's New Poems--faithful to the original German, with insightful commentary on every poem. Rainer Maria Rilke is one of the world's best-selling poets, and New Poems contains many of his most iconic pieces. Throughout, Rilke he is obsessed with shapes and different layers of physical containment--from an image held in a panther's eye to a cathedral...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 RILAlarcón, Francisco X.
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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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH 811 ALAContents: Plat book of Newaygo County, Michigan ([1900]) -- Farm plat book (1955) -- Farm plat book with index to owners (1962) -- Tri-annual atlas & plat book (1965) -- Triennial atlas & plat book (1968, 1971) -- Atlas & plat book (1974, 1977) -- Land atlas & plat book (1980) -- Land atlas and plat book (1982) -- Land atlas, plat book and sportsman's guide (1983, 1986, 1988) -- Land atlas, plat book,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rockford Map Publishers 1900
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1 available in Genealogy Atlas Stand, Call number: R GEN 912 PLAT Newaygo 2010-11Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Summary: "The poems in the collection are told by a group of adults in the tavern of the Wayside Inn in Sudbury, Massachusetts, 20 miles from the poet's home in Cambridge, and a favorite resort for parties from Harvard College. The narrators are friends of the author who, though they were not named, were so plainly characterized as to be easily recognizable. Among those of wider fame are Ole Bull, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Longfellow's Wayside Inn 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 LONMerrell, Billy
Summary: "Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, and was raised by his grandmother, who told him many stories of the Black American experience and taught him to be proud of his race from a young age. With her guidance, Langston became a talented writer in high school, creating dramatic plays, poetry, and articles for the school paper. His career as a writer would continue to blossom. Langston...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HUGMarciuliano, Francesco
Summary: Poems penned by cats reveal their every desire, their every conflict, and their every moment of neurotic genius.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 MARSummary: We Begin Here: Poems for Palestine and Lebanon contains poems written in response to the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon together with new ones rising from the 2006 Israeli war on Lebanon. Following a great tradition of poetry throughout history, this book shows the vast conscience and lyrical spirit of resistance on the part of poets in support of the dignity, rights, and humanity of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interlink Books 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Yolen, Jane.
Summary: In 1881 Amherst, Massachusetts, six-year-old Gilbert finds it both challenging and wonderful to spend time with his aunt, the reclusive poet Emily Dickinson, who lives next door.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Yolen 2009Milton, John
Summary: "This Norton Critical Edition is designed to make Paradise Lost accessible for student readers, providing invaluable contextual and biographical information and the tools students need to think critically about this landmark epic. Gordon Teskey's freshly edited text of Milton's masterpiece is accompanied by a new introduction and substantial explanatory annotations. Spelling and punctuation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2020