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10 best books like Acolytes (Nikki Giovanni): Nelson Mandela: The Authorized Comic Book, Kids Pick The Funniest Poems: Poems That Make Kids Laugh, Fuel, We Speak Your Names: A Celebration, Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant: And Other Poems, Our World, Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women, White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems, 1946-2006, The Book of Light, Ellington Was Not a Street

Nelson Mandela: The Authorized Comic Book
AuthorNelson Mandela Foundation
ISBN0393336468
Freedom fighter, fugitive, president of his nation, hero of the world, Nelson Mandela was called a terrorist, forced into hiding, captured, threatened with death, and eventually thrown into jail. But nothing could stop him from fighting to liberate his country from Apartheid. All of this and much...
Kids Pick The Funniest Poems: Poems That Make Kids Laugh
AuthorBruce Lansky
Betcha laugh!

This is one of the most popular collections of funny poetry for kids ever published. It’s a classic because it’s the first collection of poems selected by kids! It includes clever creations from some of the most popular names in children’s poetry, including Bill Dodds,...
Fuel
AuthorNaomi Shihab Nye
ISBN1880238632
Hidden

If you place a fern
under a stone
the next day it will be
nearly invisible
as if the stone has
swallowed it.

If you tuck the name of a loved one
under your tongue too long
without speaking it
it becomes blood
sigh
the little sucked-in...
We Speak Your Names: A Celebration
AuthorPearl Cleage
ISBN0345490274
For centuries, African American women have been remaking the world, giving testament to the power of hope, courage, and resilience. But it took the inspired generosity of Oprah Winfrey to honor fully the many gifts of sisterhood. For three amazing days–from May 13 to 15, 2005–a distinguished...
Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant: And Other Poems
AuthorJack Prelutsky
ISBN0060543175
What do you get when you cross . . .
A toaster with a toad?
A tuba with a baboon?
A clock with an octopus?
A hat with a chicken?
An umbrella with an elephant?

Why . . .
A Pop-up Toadster
A Tubaboon
The Clocktopus
A Hatchicken
and . . .
The Bold Umbrellaphant

And...
Our World
AuthorMary Oliver
ISBN0807068802
Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, is one of the most celebrated poets in America. Molly Malone Cook, who died in 2005, was Oliver's partner for many years, a pioneer gallery owner and photographer. Our World weaves forty-nine of Cook's photographs and selections from her journals...
Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women
AuthorJane Hirshfield
ISBN0060925760
A combination of spiritual poetry and history of the poets. Really expansive, beautiful, informative collection.

My favorites were:

p 21, Zi Ye
All night I could not sleep / because of the moonlight on my bed. / I kept on hearing a voice calling: / Out of Nowhere, Nothing answered...
White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems, 1946-2006
AuthorDonald Hall
White Apples and the Taste of Stone is the definitive lifetime work of an American master -- with a bound-in audio CD of selections read by the author.

One of the most significant poets of his generation, Donald Hall has garnered numerous accolades and honors, including the Frost Medal from...
The Book of Light
AuthorLucille Clifton
ISBN1556590520
Lucille Clifton was born in Depew, New York in 1936, and educated at the State University of New York at Fredonia and at Howard University. Her awards include the Juniper Prize for Poetry, two nominations for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry, an Emmy Award from the American Academy of Television Arts and...
Ellington Was Not a Street
AuthorNtozake Shange
ISBN0689828845
In a reflective tribute to the African-American community of old, noted poet Ntozake Shange recalls her childhood home and the close-knit group of innovators that often gathered there. These men of vision, brought to life in the majestic paintings of artist Kadir Nelson, lived at a time when the color...
If I Had My Life to Live Over I Would Pick More Daisies
AuthorSandra Martz
ISBN0918949246
And then, there is poetry. I think it will save me. I chose to read this somewhat dated anthology of women’s poetry this month as a break. That shows how bad things are getting, when a book about an old woman’s regrets is uplifting. It has a great variety of short stories, essays and poems from all aspects...
180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day
AuthorBilly Collins
ISBN0812972961
Come full circle with 180 new, exciting poems selected and introduced by Billy Collins.

Inspired by Billy Collins’s poem-a-day program for American high schools that he began through the Library of Congress, the original Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry was a gathering of clear, contemporary...
Teaching with Fire: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Teach
AuthorSam M. Intrator
ISBN0787969702
Reclaim Your Fire "Teaching with Fire is a glorious collection of the poetry that has restored the faith of teachers in the highest, most transcendent values of their work with children....Those who want us to believe that teaching is a technocratic and robotic skill devoid of art or joy or beauty...
The Essential Tillich
AuthorPaul Tillich
ISBN0226803430
"With this volume, Paul Tillich joins the ranks of the great Christian theologians such as Augustine of Hippo and Thomas Aquinas. . . .This volume, compiled by a noted minister and scholar, offers to the theological student, church worker, or, indeed, any serious reader struggling with the existential...
On The Pulse Of Morning
AuthorMaya Angelou
ISBN1853816949
without a doubt some of my favorite excepts out of Dr. Maya Angelou's inaugural poem to William Jefferson Clinton on January 20, 1993:

So say the Asian, the Hispanic, the Jew
The African and Native American, the Sioux,
The Catholic, the Muslim, the French, the Greek
The Irish,...
My Uncle Emily
AuthorJane Yolen
ISBN0399240055
This six-year-old has an uncle like no other! His uncle wears long white dresses and never smokes cigars. Gilbert's uncle is none other than Emily Dickinson . . . Uncle Emily he calls her. And how he loves her. He knows that she writes poems about everything, even dead bees. But it's a poem about truth that,...
The Gnostic Gospels of Jesus
AuthorMarvin W. Meyer
The Definitive Collection of Mystical Gospels and Secret Books about Jesus of Nazareth

For all those readers curious to read the actual texts of the Gnostic Gospels, here is the definitive collection of all the Gnostic Gospels and Gospel-like texts. Marvin Meyer, premier scholar of Gnostic...
Blanche Cleans Up: A Blanche White Mystery #3
AuthorBarbara Neely
Blanche White is a very black, middle-aged woman who cleans white people's houses for a living. Tart-tongued and shrewd, with a keen nose for trouble, she's also a queen-sized snoop - who sees at a glance what people are really up to - especially if it's criminal. It's been three years since she had to grab...
The Essential Writings
AuthorFlavius Josephus
ISBN0825429641
I had heard of the writings of the ancient historian Josephus but it always seemed daunting to take on reading the words of somone who lived so long ago. I guess I thought it would be hard to understand like ancient epic poetry. But this translation and edition are actually quite simple to understand. The...
Dogfight: The 2012 Presidential Campaign in Verse
AuthorCalvin Trillin
ISBN0812993683
In his latest laugh-out-loud book of political verse, Calvin Trillin provides a riotous depiction of the 2012 presidential election campaign.
 
Dogfight is a narrative poem interrupted regularly by other poems and occasionally by what the author calls a pause for prose (“Callista Gingrich,...
The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain: New Poems
AuthorCharles Bukowski
ISBN0060577029
As much as I love the fire and beerspit of Buk's early works, the honest beauty and abrupt wit of his poems are most evident in his later stuff. Bukowski wears the perspective of an older man well.

This collection was a bit more structured than others I've read, both in terms of the book's arrangement...
Living Faith
AuthorJimmy Carter
ISBN0812930347
For almost three decades, President Carter has regularly spent part of each Sunday reading from scripture and sharing his personal faith with neighbors, friends, and visitors at his Baptist church in Plains, Georgia. In "Living Faith," he draws on this experience, exploring the values closest to...
History's Worst Decisions
AuthorStephen Weir
ISBN1435111745
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”—George Santayana, philosopher and writerHistory is a catalogue of errors, and History’s Worst Decisions shines a light on fifty of the biggest. Starting with Adam and Eve’s original blunder in eating the apple, author Stephen...
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