It's Snowing! It's Snowing!: Winter Poems (Prelutsky Jack)(Paperback)

It's Snowing! It's Snowing!: Winter Poems (Prelutsky Jack)(Paperback)

From master of rhyme Jack Prelutsky comes a flurry of winter poetry just right to usher in the season of ice and snow It's winter The trees are bare, the days are short, and the first sparkling snowflakes are falling from the sky. Lively, warmth-filled illustrations by Yossi Abolafia enhance these

Ice Cat (Newbery Linda)(Paperback / softback)

It's snowing outside, and Tom's neighbour Gary is building a snowman with his dad. Tom's own dad is ill, upstairs in bed again. He isn't strong and boisterous, like dads ought to be. So Tom builds his own snow creation: a cold, snarling ice cat. It's strange... he didn't mean to build an ice

Finna: Poems (Marshall Nate)(Paperback)

Sharp, lyrical poems celebrating the Black vernacular--its influence on pop culture, its necessity for familial survival, its rite in storytelling and in creating the safety found only within its intimacy Definition of finna, created by the author: fin-na /ˈfinə/ contraction: (1) going to;

Snowing in Bali - The Incredible Inside Account of Bali's Hidden Drug World (Bonella Kathryn)(Paperback / softback)

Kathryn Bonella lifts the lid on Bali's narcotics

It's a Dodger's Life (Wild Jack)(Paperback / softback)

Resistance - The Bravehearts Chronicles (Whyte Jack)(Paperback / softback)

As modern Scotland chooses its future, Jack Whyte presents his epic adventure about its founding hero, Robert the Bruce, and the battle for the heart of his

Collected Poems (Larkin Philip)(Paperback / softback)

Since its publication in 1988, Philip Larkin's Collected Poems has become essential reading on any poetry

Now It's Dark (Gizzi Peter)(Paperback)

A new collection of poems from one of America's most vital and imaginative poetsThe poems in this brilliant follow-up to the National Book Award finalist Archeophonics, are concerned with grieving, with poetry and death, with beauty and sadness, with light. As Ben Lerner has written, 'Gizzi's

Edinburgh in 50 Buildings (Gillon Jack)(Paperback)

From its founding as a Royal Burgh in the twelfth century and through its growth and development as an internationally renowned hotbed of science, education, literature and culture, to its current status as home of the Scottish Parliament and the largest financial centre in the UK outside London,

Ten Poems for Winter (Authors Various)(Paperback / softback)

Memorial (Oswald Alice)(Paperback / softback)

To retrieve the poem's energy, Alice Oswald has stripped away its story, and her account focuses by turns on Homer's extended similes and on the brief 'biographies' of the minor war-dead, most of whom are little more than names, but each of whom lives and dies unforgettably - and unforgotten -

Honeybee (Mateer Trista)(Paperback)

You will meet people in your lifetime who demand to have poems written about them. It's not something they say. It's something about their hands, the shape of their mouths, the way they look walking away from you. 'A collection that will beg you to be dogeared, coffee-stained, & shared.'--Amanda

Cramlington its Past and its People (Stewart Barry)(Paperback / softback)

Snowballs (Ehlert Lois)(Paperback)

It's time to build a snowman in this fresh and imaginative winter classic by Caldecott Honor-winning author-illustrator Lois Ehlert. Ehlert creates a wintry world with her signature style by collaging vibrant cut paper and textured found objects, like buttons, fabric, and seeds, to illuminate the

Statius: Achilleid (Dilke O. a. W.)(Paperback)

Statius' Achilleid is perhaps the most remarkable of all Latin epic poems. Its project - to tell the whole life of Achilles - was cut short by the poet's untimely death. Yet the completed first book and the earliest part of the second have a charm and freshness matched only in some of Ovid's most

Secret History: Poems (Barber David)(Paperback)

In David Barber's third collection of poetry, the past makes its presence felt from first to last. Drawing on a wealth of eclectic sources and crafted in an array of nonce forms, these poems range across vast stretches of cultural and natural history in pursuit of the forsaken, long-gone, and

Boone: A Biography (Morgan Robert)(Paperback)

The story of Daniel Boone is the story of America--its ideals, its promise, its romance, and its destiny. Bestselling, critically acclaimed author Robert Morgan reveals the complex character of a frontiersman whose heroic life was far stranger and more fascinating than the myths that surround him

Mitchum (Blutch)(Paperback)

A star of French comics imagines America--its movie stars, its history, its fashion--in these tantalizing graphic short stories about everything from love to, yes, the actor Robert Mitchum. Blutch is one of the most inventive storytellers in comics, and nothing reveals it like Mitchum. Serialized

Irish Poems(Pevná vazba)

With its roots in the devotional verse of the early Christian church and the long lyric poems of the Irish bards, Irish poetry has a rich and robust tradition both of engagement and

The Iron-Blue Vault: Selected Poems (Jzsef Attila)(Paperback)

Attila Jozsef's extraordinary poetry is exhilarating in its power and transcends the scars of a difficult life. He is a genuinely revolutionary poet, neither simple-minded nor difficult, though his thought and imagery are complex. A deeply divided man, his poetry has a robust physicality as well as

Penguin's Poems for Life (Barber Laura)(Paperback / softback)

Taking its inspiration from Shakespeare's idea of the 'seven ages' of a human life, this anthology brings together the poems in English. Beginning with babies, it is divided into sections on childhood, growing up, making a living and making love, family life, getting older, and approaching death,

English Society in the 18th Century: Second Edition (Porter Roy)(Paperback)

A portrait of 18th century England, from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. The topics covered include - diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals, bordellos, plays, paintings, and work and

English Romantic Verse (Various)(Paperback)

English Romantic poetry from its beginnings and its flowering to the first signs of its decadence Nearly all the famous pi ces de r sistance will be found here--'Intimations of Immortality,' 'The Ancient Mariner,' 'The Tyger,' excerpts from Don Juan--s well as some less familiar poems. As muchas

As Moon and Mother Collide (Geoghegan Mary Melvin)(Paperback)

The thing that drew me to Mary Melvin Geoghegan's collection was its accessibility. Too often poems push the reader away but these draw the reader in. Their simplicity; their directness; their wonderful imagery; their rawness are gifts from writer to reader. The settings move from cattle mart to