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|  | Letters to a Young Poet by Franz Xaver Kappus, Joan M. Burnham, M. D. Norton, Marianne Williamson, Rainer Maria Rilke
Arguably the most famous and beloved letters of our century. Relatively early in Rilke's literary career, these letters began as advice addressed to a young student who had solicited it by sending Rilke some poems. The two authors never met, but over the course of several years a correspondence developed in which Rilke composed astoundingly elegant and eloquent characterizations of the craft and discipline of poetry. Subsequently, these letters have come to embody a seminal 20th-century statement on the artistic temperament and on creative work. AUTHOR: Franz Xaver Kappus, Joan M. Burnham, M. D. Norton, Marianne Williamson, Rainer Maria Rilke
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction 
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 | Burpee Complete Gardener by Allan Armitage, Barbara W. Ellis, Maureen Heffernan
Description not available.A team of horticultural experts presents a comprehensive, lavishly illustrated gardening reference that encompasses information and tips on soil preparation, drainage, climate, plant propagation and cultivation, landscape design, and much more. AUTHOR: Allan Armitage, Barbara W. Ellis, Maureen Heffernan
PUBLISHER: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Gardening
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 | Jazz by Christina Moore, Lynne Thigpen, Toni Morrison
The unnamed omniscient narrator--like a Greek chorus, or a tribal storyteller--relates the story of Joe and Violet Trace, a pair of orphans who meet and marry in rural Virginia, then come north to Harlem in 1906. Trapped in their unfulfilling marriage for 20 years, Joe begins an affair with a young woman, Dorcas. When she leaves him, he kills her--an act which, oddly, restores his relationship with Violet. Throughout the novel, the rhythms of jazz in early-20th-century New York propel the narrative. AUTHOR: Christina Moore, Lynne Thigpen, Toni Morrison
PUBLISHER: McKay, David Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | In the Presence of the Sun by N. Scott Momaday
The Pulitzer Prize-winner presents a luminous collection that reflects the traditions of the Native American past. This work includes 56 poems, 16 legends about great tribal shields, a section on Billy the Kid, and 60 haunting line drawings and paintings by Momaday himself. AUTHOR: N. Scott Momaday
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Selected Poems & Fragments by Friedrich Holderlin, Jeremy Adler, Michael Hamburger
Friedrich Holderlin (1770-1843), regarded as one of the giants of German literature, produced a large body of lyric poetry and a novel, HYPERION, before becoming insane in 1802. His ode to the wife of a banker to whose children he was tutor and his hymns exploring cosmology and history are as extraordinary as the visionary lyrics of Blake and Yeats. AUTHOR: Friedrich Holderlin, Jeremy Adler, Michael Hamburger
PUBLISHER: Viking Penguin
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Wildflower Gardens by C. Colston Burrell
Description not available.The accessible and colorful gardener's manual published by the Brooklyn Botanic Garden provides readers with tips on garden design, information on garden styles, an encyclopedia of sixty wildflowers, and mail-order sources for plants and seeds. Original. AUTHOR: C. Colston Burrell
PUBLISHER: Brooklyn Botanic Garden
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Gardening
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