Mary Oliver

Winner of a 1991 Christopher Award Winner of the 1991 Boston Globe Lawrence L. Winship Award This collection of poems by Mary Oliver once again invites the reader to step across the threshold of ordinary life into a world of natural and spiritual luminosity. “Oliver’s poems are thoroughly convincing — as genuine, moving, and implausible as the first caressing breeze of spring.” –The New York Times Book Review

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William M, Jr. Ivins

“The most famous introduction to prints. Through a series of enlarged details of prints in various media, Ivins makes clear the stylistic qualities peculiar to each technique.” –Choice

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Chris Mercogliano

A passionate essay by a maverick educator on the need to protect the unique spark—the "inner wildness"—that animates every child.

"An encouraging success story that demonstrates an alternative to the ever-growing use of drugs for ever-younger children."

Library Journal

Chris Mercogliano has been a teacher at the Albany Free School, a unique, freedom-based, inner-city alternative school, since 1973. He became codirector in 1985.

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William F. Schulz

Schulz provides answers with an insightful work, generously laced with compelling stories of women and men from all continents, which clearly delineates the connection between Americans' prosperity and human rights violations all over the globe. Schulz builds a powerful case for defending our own interests by vigorously defending the human rights of people everywhere.

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Howard Thurman

“This is the centerpiece of Thurman’s lifelong attempt to take the harrowing beauty of the African-American experience, bring it into deep engagement with what he called ‘the religion of Jesus’ and offer the creative mix as a basis for an emancipatory way of being.” –Vincent Harding, author of There is a River

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Robert Bly ; translator

Originally published in 1976, with more than 75,000 copies in print, this collection of poems by fifteenth-century ecstatic poet Kabir is full of fun and full of thought. Columbia University professor of religion John Stratton Hawley has contributed an introduction that makes clear Kabir's immense importance to the contemporary reader and praises Bly's intuitive translations.

Robert Bly has earned many honors for his original poems, which include The Winged Energy of Delight, and for his translations of twenty-two poets, including Kabir.

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Marian Wright Edelman

Edelman shares stories from her life at the center of many of the century's most dramatic civil rights struggles and pays tribute to the personal mentors who helped light her way: Fannie Lou Hamer; Robert Kennedy, Benjamin Mays; Martin Luther King, Jr.; the wise and caring women of Bennettsville, S.C.; and life-long mentors such as Bertha Mae Carter, William Sloane Coffin, and Septima Clark.

Marian Wright Edelman is president of the Children's Defense Fund, and author of The Measure of Our Success and Guide My Feet. She lives with her family in Washington, D.C.

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Douglas Daniels

Lester Leaps In is the definitive biography of legendary tenor saxophonist Lester Young (1909-59), whose career spanned the swing and bebop eras.

 

"Lester Leaps In jumps off the page with authenticity and insight. The Prez was an amazing creator with a uniquely wicked sense of humor, and this book captures it all."
—Quincy Jones, musician and author of Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones

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Forrest Church

“A wise and wonderful book. With great courage and compassion, Forrest Church helps us face the core issues of human existence: being alive and having to die.” –Sylvia Ann Hewlett, author of When the Bough Breaks: The Cost of Neglecting Our Children

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Earl A. Grollman

This gentle, reassuring book explains the bewildering feelings that arise after a loved one's death and helps you honestly confront your loss.

Rabbi Earl A. Grollman is an internationally recognized counselor and writer whose books on coping with bereavement and other losses have helped more than 750,000 readers. He frequently speaks and leads seminars for schools, universities, seminaries, health care professionals, and grief support groups around the world.
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