101 Great American Poems

7 best books like 101 Great American Poems (The American Poetry and Literacy Project): A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems, Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems, Dreaming Anastasia, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War, Lost Kingdom: Hawaii's Last Queen, the Sugar Kings and America's First Imperial Adventure, The God of Nightmares, 100 Best-Loved Poems

A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems

Author	Lawrence Ferlinghetti
ISBN	0811200418

This is one of the best-selling poetry books of all time, and, although that is no guarantee of poetic excellence—after all, Rod McKuen and Martin Farquar Tupper both sold a lot of books in their day—it is a sign that the author had his finger on the pulse of his time, that his work embodies the yearnings...

Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems

Author	Billy Collins
ISBN	0679644059

The first volume of New and Selected poetry in twelve years from the two-time Poet Laureate of the United States.

Aimless Love gives the reader an opportunity to assess the rich scope of Collins' gifts. Containing more than fifty new poems and a generous gathering from his collections of the...

Dreaming Anastasia

Author	Joy Preble
ISBN	1402218176

What really happened to Anastasia Romanov? Anastasia Romanov thought she would never feel more alone than when the gunfire started and her family began to fall around her. Surely the bullets would come for her next. But they didn't. Instead, two gnarled old hands reached for her. When she wakes up...

Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War

Author	Clive Barker
ISBN	0060596384

All things in their time . . .

Candy Quackenbush's adventures in the Abarat are getting stranger by the hour. Why has the Lord of Midnight sent his henchman after her? Why can she suddenly speak words of magic? Why is this world familiar?

Candy and her companions must solve the mystery...

Lost Kingdom: Hawaii's Last Queen, the Sugar Kings and America's First Imperial Adventure

Author	Julia Flynn Siler
ISBN	0802120016

Around 200 A.D., intrepid Polynesians arrived at an undisturbed archipelago. For centuries, their descendants lived with little contact from the western world. In 1778, their isolation was shattered with the arrival of Captain Cook.

Deftly weaving together a memorable cast of characters,...

The God of Nightmares

Author	Paula Fox
ISBN	0393322874

In 1941, twenty-three-year-old Helen Bynum leaves home for the first time and sets out from rural New York to find her Aunt Lulu, an aging actress in New Orleans. There she finds a life of passion and adventure, possibilities and choices. Falling in with a bohemian group of intellectuals, she discovers...

100 Best-Loved Poems

Author	Philip Smith
ISBN	0486285537

Here are some of the most-loved poems in the English language, chosen not merely for their popularity, but for their literary quality as well. Dating from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, these splendid poems remain evergreen in their capacity to engage our minds and refresh our spirits.
Among...