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The internationally acclaimed author presents her first collection of poetry in over a decade that addresses themes such as love, loss, the passage of time, nature, and zombies.

Poetry about hope, loneliness, and despair captures the author's thoughts on life.

"With consummate craftsmanship, [the author] has fashioned fifteen luminous prose pieces: on nature, writing, and herself and those around her. She praises Whitman, denounces cuteness, notes where to find the extraordinary, and extols solitude." -- Back cover

A woman novelist, obsessed by her book's hero to the point of being ill, is diagnosed with problems from a past life. She is hypnotized back to the 16th Century as Lady de Grey, whose husband, a man just like her hero, is divorcing her for adultery which she did not commit. By the author of Sweet Liar.

"A book of great ambition, Sarah M. Broom's The Yellow House tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America's most mythologized cities. This is the story of a mother's struggle against a house's entropy, and that of a prodigal daughter who left home only to reckon with the pull that home exerts, even after the Yellow House was wiped off the map after Hurricane Katrina. The Yellow House expands...

"Simple text and full-color photographs introduce readers to Laura Ingalls Wilder. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade"--

A continuation of Maya Angelou's autobiography "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," picking up in her teen years just after the birth of her son.

Introduces the lives and literary accomplishments of such women writers as Maya Angelou, Judy Blume, Astrid Lindgren, Jean Little, Lucy Maud Montgomery, and Beatrix Potter.

A continuation of the autobiographical series by the author of "I know why the caged bird sings" and "Gather together in my name." Tells of her failed marriage to a white man, her theatrical career, and of her relationship with her son.