Karr, Mary
Summary: "Long before she earned accolades for her genre-defining memoirs, Mary Karr was winning poetry prizes. Now the beloved author returns with a collection of bracing poems as visceral, deeply felt, and hilarious as her memoirs. In Tropic of Squalor, Karr dares to address the numinous--that mystery some of us hope toward in secret, or maybe dare to pray to. The "squalor" of meaninglessness that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1995
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Contents: Anything but tame (Rodney Crowell) -- If the law don't want you (Norah Jones) -- Just pleasing you (Vince Gill) -- God I'm missing you (Lucinda Williams) -- I'm a mess (Rodney Crowell) -- Momma's on a roll (Lee Ann Womack) -- Sister oh sister (Rosanne Cash) -- My father's advice (Rodney Crowell & Kris Kristofferson) -- Long time girl gone by (Emmylou Harris) -- Hungry for home (Rodney Crowell).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vanguard Records 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2006
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Summary: Karr breaks down the key elements of great literary memoir, opening our concepts of memory and identity, and illuminating the cathartic power of reflecting on the past; anybody with an inner life or complicated history, whether writer or reader, will relate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2015
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions 1993
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2001
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Summary: The author reveals how, shortly after giving birth to a child she adored, she drank herself into the same numbness that nearly devoured her charismatic but troubled mother, reaching the brink of suicide before a spiritual awakening led her to sobriety.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1977
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Summary: As the United Kingdom decides whether or not to remain a member of the European Union or go its own way in September of 2017, a group of ruthless killers will stop at nothing to keep a shocking secret at the very heart of the government that could change everything in an instant from being revealed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Overlook Press 2015
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Summary: Explores the private character of the queen behind her public persona, covering the circumstances of her early coronation, her relationship with international heads of state, and her struggles with family challenges.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2012
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Contents: The last ride (4:30) -- Caught up (4:25) -- Down on the corner (4:25) -- Need it (5:48) -- You are the magic (7:10) -- InBetweens (3:38) -- Another day (4:57) -- Headland (1:37) -- Long gone (4:37) -- Something to shout about (4:23) -- Bangin' on (5:06).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artist Direct 2003
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Summary: Seventeen-year-old Aislinn, who has the rare ability to see faeries, is drawn against her will into a centuries-old battle between the Summer King and the Winter Queen, and the survival of her life, her love, and summer all hang in the balance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen 2007
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Summary: A mother makes her baby feel safe by sharing how all kinds of mama animals care for their little ones.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2017
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Summary: Aislinn and Seth struggle with the unforeseen consequences of Aislinn's transformation from mortal girl to faery queen as the world teeters on the brink of cataclysmic violence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2009
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Summary: Seventeen-year-old Leslie wants a tattoo as a way of reclaiming control of herself and her body, but the eerie image she selects pulls her into the dangerous Dark Court of the faeries, where she draws on inner strength to make a horrible choice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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Summary: A surprising and very personal biography of a woman who may be the world's last great queen, published to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of her reign.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wea Corp 2022
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Summary: "After a tragedy, Vicky bands together with new friends to seek justice in dangerous Glass City, where the magical gargoyles are always watching"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2021
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Summary: A mother makes her baby feel safe by sharing how all kinds of mama animals care for their little ones.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2015
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Summary: The political and romantic tensions that began when Aislin became Summer Queen threaten to boil over as the Faerie Courts brace against the threat of all-out war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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Summary: Eleven-year-old Peijing and her family are adapting to their new life in Australia, but when cracks in her family life start to appear, she must find a way to cope with the uncertainties of her own little world and figure out where she fits in.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2022
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Summary: Rebecca Stead's The List of Things That Will Not Change gets a "Space Oddity" sci-fi twist in this moving middle grade novel about one boy's journey to go back in time to prevent his parents' divorce. The present is the last place James wants to be. Since his parents have separated, he's been living two different lives and neither of them add up to the great one he used to have. He thinks about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2024
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Summary: A major one-volume history of the Oregon Trail from its earliest beginnings to the present, by a prize-winning historian of the American West. Starting with an overview of Oregon Country in the early 1800s, a vast area then the object of international rivalry among Spain, Britain, Russia, and the United States, David Dary gives us the whole sweeping story of those who came to explore, to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2004