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|  | American Poetry:The Nineteenth Century by John Hollander
In nineteenth-century America, poetry was, part of everyday life, as familiar as a hymn, a love song, a patriotic exhortation. American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century reveals the vigor and diversity of a tradition embracing solitary visionaries and congenial storytellers, humorists and dissidents, songwriters and philosophers. These two volumes reassess America's poetic legacy with a comprehensive sweep that no previous anthology has attempted. This second volume follows the evolution of American poetry from the monumental mid-century achievements of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson to the modernist stirrings of Stephen Crane and Edwin Arlington Robinson. The cataclysm of the Civil War - reflected in fervent antislavery protests, in marching songs and poetic calls to arms, and in muted postbellum expressions of grief and reconciliation - ushered in a period of accelerating change and widening regional perspectives. Among the unfamiliar pleasures to be savored in this volume are the penetrating meditations of the reclusive Frederick Goddard Tuckerman, the eloquent lyricism of Emma Lazarus, the mournful, superbly crafted fin de siecle verse of Trumbull Stickney. Here too are the pioneering African-American poets (Frances Harper, Albery Allson Whitman, Paul Laurence Dunbar); popular humorists (James Whitcomb Riley, Eugene Field); writers embodying America's newfound cosmopolitanism (Edith Wharton, George Santayana); and extravagant self-mythologizing figures who could have existed nowhere else, like the actress Adah Isaacs Menken and the frontier poet Joaquin Miller. Parodies, dialect poems, song lyrics, and children's verse evoke the liveliness of an era when poetry was accessible toall. Here are poems that played a crucial role in American public life, whether to arouse the national conscience (Edwin Markham's The Man with the Hoe ) or to memorialize the golden age of the national pastime (Ernest Lawrence Thayer's Casey at the Bat ). An entire section of this vo AUTHOR: John Hollander
PUBLISHER: Library of America, The
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General 
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 | Shunning by Barbara Caruso, Beverly Lewis
When Katie Lapp finds the satin infant gown in the trunk in her parents' attic, she knows it holds a secret she must discover. Why else would her Amish mother, a plain and simple woman who embraces the Old Order laws, hide the beautiful baby dress in the attic? But nothing could have prepared Katie for the startling news that stumbles out of her anguished parents on the eve of her wedding to Bishop John. AUTHOR: Barbara Caruso, Beverly Lewis
PUBLISHER: Bethany House Publishers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Double Deal by Michael Corbitt, Sam Giancana
Description not available.The author of Double Cross--along with the godson of a former Chicago mob boss--tells the gritty, often gruesome, personal account of how he slipped between the deadly, conflicting worlds of cop and mobster with terrifying, almost schizophrenic ease. AUTHOR: Michael Corbitt, Sam Giancana
PUBLISHER: HarperTrade
FORMAT: Audio
CATEGORY: General
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 | The Shadow of Ararat by Thomas Harlan
Description not available.In an alternative past, Rome still stands and the leaders of both halves of the empire unite to march on Persia, with conventional and magical forces at their disposal. Reprint. AUTHOR: Thomas Harlan
PUBLISHER: Doherty, Tom Associates, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Lemurs, Lorises, & Other Lower Primates by Patricia A. Martin
Description not available.Describes several species of lower primates, including the lemur, aye-aye, galago, loris, and tarsier, and their endangered status. AUTHOR: Patricia A. Martin
PUBLISHER: Scholastic Library Publishing
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | Mystery of the Fire in the Sky
One night Caitlin sees a giant fireball in the sky. The fireball crashes soundlessly to earth -- and disappears! At first Caitlin thinks that a plane has crashed, but there are no reports of missing planes. When a classmate tells Caitlin she also saw the fireball, Caitlin suggests that perhaps they saw an alien spaceship land, and the two set out in search of answers.
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