I Just Hope It's Lethal: Poems of Sadness, Madness, and Joy
10 best books like I Just Hope It's Lethal: Poems of Sadness, Madness, and Joy (Liz Rosenberg): Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem, Warmly Inscribed: The New England Forger and Other Book Tales, The Victory Garden Cookbook, You Remind Me of You: A Poetry Memoir, Poetry Speaks Who I Am with CD: Poems of Discovery, Inspiration, Independence, and Everything Else (A Poetry Speaks Experience), Spineless Wonders: Strange Tales from the Invertebrate World, Poetrees, Borrowed Names: Poems About Laura Ingalls Wilder, Madam C.J. Walker, Marie Curie, and Their Daughters, Women of War, The Ascent of Everest
| Author | Marilyn Nelson |
| ISBN | 1932425128 |
There is a skeleton in the Mattatuck Museum in Connecticut. It has been in the town for over 200 years. In 1996, community members decided to find out what they could about it. Historians discovered that the bones were those of a slave name Fortune, who was owned by a local doctor. After Fortune's death,...
Warmly Inscribed: The New England Forger and Other Book Tales
| Author | Lawrence Goldstone |
| ISBN | 0312304285 |
The authors of two previous well-received volumes on book collecting now regale their many fans with fascinating facts and fables about famous libraries and infamous forgers. "The Goldstones, a husband-and-wife book book collecting/writing team, follow two previous memoirs about their occupational...
The Victory Garden Cookbook
There’s never been a cookbook like it. An incomparable variety of enticing recipes (more than eight hundred) . . . Basic gardening information . . . Shopping tips for nongardeners . . . Cooking inspirations for whatever you’ve plucked from the garden today or found fresh in the market . . . Vegetables...
| Author | Eireann Corrigan |
| ISBN | 0439297710 |
A startling autobiographical account of a young woman's battle with eating disorders that put her in and out of hospitals over a span of four years and led to her own parents fighting for the right to commit her. When her last source of support, her boyfriend, attempts suicide and ends up in a coma, she is...
| Author | Elise Paschen |
| ISBN | 1402210744 |
Poetry Speaks Who I Am is filled with more than 100 remarkable poems about you, who you are, and who you are becoming. Dive in-find the poem you love, the one that makes you angry, the one that makes you laugh, the one that knocks the wind out of you, and become a part of Poetry Speaks Who I Am by adding your own...
| Author | Richard Conniff |
| ISBN | 0805055312 |
Natural history writer Richard Conniff's journalistic assignments have brought him in contact with invertebrates for more than 20 years--tarantulas of the upper Amazon, dragonflies in Arizona, squid in Florida, and flies on the rim of his beer glass. Here Conniff details his often hilarious encounters...
| Author | Douglas Florian |
| ISBN | 1416986723 |
Seeds are sprouting, roots are spreading, and branches are swaying in this tree-mendous poetry collection. From coconut palms and bristlecone pines to baobabs and banyans, Douglas Florian explores the arboreal world with his signature wit and whimsy. Featuring a dynamic vertical format that illustrates...
| Author | Jeannine Atkins |
| ISBN | 0805089349 |
As a child, Laura Ingalls Wilder traveled across the prairie in a covered wagon. Her daughter, Rose, thought those stories might make a good book, and the two created the beloved Little House series.
Sara Breedlove, the daughter of former slaves, wanted everything to be different for her own...
| Author | Tanya Huff |
| ISBN | 0756402867 |
In the real world, many women are still struggling for equality, but science fiction and fantasy provide a stage for the portrayal of women who have come fully into their own. Here, a talented group of writers has taken up the challenge of creating strong, well-rounded female protagonists, more than...
| Author | John Hunt |
| ISBN | 0898863619 |
The Ascent of Everest by John Hunt
The story of a team of resolute men who conquered a mountain…
“What is the problem of Everest? What were the weapons with which the mountain had so long succeeded in holding at bay so many resolute men?” –John Hunt
Expedition leader John Hunt asked...
| Author | Robert Sullivan |
| ISBN | 0385495080 |
Imagine a grunge nort Jersey version of John McPhee's classic The Pine Barrens and you'll get some idea of the idiosyncratic, fact-filled, and highly original work that is Robert Sullivan's The Meadowlands. Just five miles west of New York City, this vilified, half-developed, half-untamed,...
| Author | Paul B. Janeczko |
| ISBN | 0763647276 |
Paul B. Janeczko's stirring collection of poems goes inside the walls of the notorious camp to portray the indomitable spirit of those incarcerated there.
Hitler hailed Terez�n (Theresienstadt) as a haven for artistic Jews, when in reality the Czech concentration camp was little more...
| Author | David Elliott |
| ISBN | 0763644978 |
The stellar team who brought us On the Farm present a companion book evoking creatures of the wild in simple, clever poems and vibrant woodcuts.
From the lion standing alone on the African savannah to the panda in a bamboo forest, from the rhinoceros with its boot-like face to the Arctic polar...
| Author | Beth Fehlbaum |
| ISBN | 1934813419 |
Fifteen-year-old Ashley Asher has spent half of her life living in fear. Her stepfather sexually abused her for years, but her mother didn't believe her. After Child Protective Services finally removes Ashley from their home, she goes to live with the father she barely remembers. Her new life in Patience,...
Time You Let Me In: 25 Poets under 25
| Author | Naomi Shihab Nye |
| ISBN | 0061896373 |
Yes poetry. I don't like poetry but yes to this:
...even when
the words grace me with their presence,
they don't always choose to step
delicately into the world, pink shoes
treading softly over the white horizon.
usually poetry slops lazily over the couch
of a page...
| Author | Brian Meehl |
| ISBN | 0385739095 |
Sixteen-year-old Billy Allbright is about to bust out of his sheltered cocoon and go on a gonzo road trip. He just doesn't know it yet. His ticket to freedom? A mysterious Bible containing two resurrection stories. The second is about a man Billy's never met, and who is supposedly dead: his father.
But...
A Museum of Early American Tools
| Author | Eric Sloane |
| ISBN | 0486425606 |
This absorbing and profusely illustrated book describes in detail scores of early American tools and the wooden and metal artifacts made with them. Informally and expressively written, the text covers bulding tools and methods; farm and kitchen implements; and the tools of curriers, wheelwrights,...
Colorful Stitchery: 65 Embroidery Projects to Personalize Your Home
| Author | Kristin Nicholas |
| ISBN | 1611801672 |
Embroidery has never looked this good or been so colorful--65 projects to stitch your way to a more colorful home.
With inspiration and encouragement from designer and colorist Kristin Nicholas, would-be and experienced stitchers alike will find dozens of embroidery projects...
The Complete Photo Guide to Home Repair: With 350 Projects and 2300 Photos (Black & Decker)
| Author | Black & Decker |
| ISBN | 1589231813 |
Yep, first day of my vacation and I broke the bloody soap-dish in the shower. Because I have nothing better to spend my money on than calling the repairman.
Like hell I don't. This little gem (ha-ha little? it weighs a ton) gave some straight forward advice on what to do and how to do it.
Of...
| Author | Herbert Read |
| ISBN | 9644451074 |
Herbert Read's introduction to the understanding of art provides a basis for the appreciation of pictures and sculpture by examining the elements that go into their making. The book provides a concise survey of the evolution of art, from cave drawings to Jackson Pollock, and summarizes the essence...
| Author | Bill Moyers |
| ISBN | 0385263465 |
Finally done and this was a good intellectual stretch of the brain. This book is huge, like a coffee table book but worth the long reading experience. I was in eight grade when this book was published so reading this took me back to a lot of history of the current events back then which of course didn't have...
Has he called? No.
I half expected to see him at Truth or Dairy today. He's sort of addicted to Coconut Fantasy Dreams. We both are. It was like . . . our drink.
I was all ready to give him the cold shoulder, easy to do when working around ice cream all day. I could give him a bad ice-cream headache,...
Always Hit On The Wingman...and 9 Other Secret Rules for Getting the Love Life You Want
Generally I judge dating advice texts not by their putative results but by how they leave you feeling about yourself, and grading on that scale Always Hit on the Wingman is a winner. The psuedonymous Jake, one of many in a long line of men to pen advice to women reading Glamour, is all about the girl power....
I adored this book as a kid, and continually read and viewed it. I did collect rocks, as well as shells. I remember even buying some particularly pretty rocks with my allowance, the kinds I never would have found in my searches. I do own this book, but given the state of my real world shelves, I’ll have to...
The Baby-Sitters Club in the USA was the first book I ever read that had a romantic subplot... I remember discovering the full-page black-and-white illustration of Stacey kissing the hot hip random stranger she met on vacation, and being completely awed. My third-grade self was floored... a KISS?
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