Half-lit Houses
Title | Half-lit Houses PDF eBook |
Author | Tina Chang |
Publisher | |
Pages | 100 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Poetry |
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Tina Chang’s poems address the problems of family and heritage, initially inhabiting formally patterned stanzas that mimic the boundaries and bonds that are her subject, and then opening into free(-er) verse as the collection progresses and tries to break out of what has been imposed--both narratively and technically. These are passionate and accessible poems, simple in diction and declaration, elegant in image and syntax.
Young House Love
Title | Young House Love PDF eBook |
Author | Sherry Petersik |
Publisher | Artisan |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2015-07-14 |
Genre | House & Home |
ISBN | 1579656765 |
This New York Times bestselling book is filled with hundreds of fun, deceptively simple, budget-friendly ideas for sprucing up your home. With two home renovations under their (tool) belts and millions of hits per month on their blog YoungHouseLove.com, Sherry and John Petersik are home-improvement enthusiasts primed to pass on a slew of projects, tricks, and techniques to do-it-yourselfers of all levels. Packed with 243 tips and ideas—both classic and unexpected—and more than 400 photographs and illustrations, this is a book that readers will return to again and again for the creative projects and easy-to-follow instructions in the relatable voice the Petersiks are known for. Learn to trick out a thrift-store mirror, spice up plain old roller shades, "hack" your Ikea table to create three distinct looks, and so much more.
Hybrida: Poems
Title | Hybrida: Poems PDF eBook |
Author | Tina Chang |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 2019-05-14 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1324002492 |
“One of the most important books of poetry to come along in years.” —Craig Morgan Teicher, NPR Named a Best Book of 2019 by NPR and Publishers Weekly, Hybrida is a stirring and confident examination of mixed-race identity, violence, and history skillfully rendered through the lens of motherhood. In an agile blend of zuihitsu, ghazal, mosaic poems, and lyric essays, Tina Chang “evokes the bottomless love and terror of motherhood as she describes raising her mixed-race son” (New York Times). Ambitious and revelatory, Hybrida establishes Chang as one of the most vital voices of her generation.
Tables, Selected and Arranged: Being Adapted for Use in the Counting House, the Office, and to the General Reader
Title | Tables, Selected and Arranged: Being Adapted for Use in the Counting House, the Office, and to the General Reader PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Child (of Southwold.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 186 |
Release | 1842 |
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List of Light-Houses, Lighted Beacons and Floating Lights of the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific Coasts of the United States, Corrected to January 1., 1871
Title | List of Light-Houses, Lighted Beacons and Floating Lights of the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific Coasts of the United States, Corrected to January 1., 1871 PDF eBook |
Author | United States of America : Light House Board |
Publisher | |
Pages | 54 |
Release | 1871 |
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The Family That Carried Their House on Their Backs
Title | The Family That Carried Their House on Their Backs PDF eBook |
Author | Sammie Downing |
Publisher | |
Pages | 102 |
Release | 2019-12-18 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781948552080 |
Young Miriam is born into a world where women carry houses stitched to their backs, while men carry keys with the power to unlock them. As precious family heirlooms disappear and Father roams through the woods later and later into the night, Mother slowly loses her memory and Miriam understands that her family might not be as human as it appears.
The House on Mango Street
Title | The House on Mango Street PDF eBook |
Author | Sandra Cisneros |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 130 |
Release | 2013-04-30 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0345807197 |
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A coming-of-age classic about a young girl growing up in Chicago • Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world—from the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. “Cisneros draws on her rich [Latino] heritage...and seduces with precise, spare prose, creat[ing] unforgettable characters we want to lift off the page. She is not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one.” —The New York Times Book Review The House on Mango Street is one of the most cherished novels of the last fifty years. Readers from all walks of life have fallen for the voice of Esperanza Cordero, growing up in Chicago and inventing for herself who and what she will become. “In English my name means hope,” she says. “In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting." Told in a series of vignettes—sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes joyous—Cisneros’s masterpiece is a classic story of childhood and self-discovery and one of the greatest neighborhood novels of all time. Like Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street or Toni Morrison’s Sula, it makes a world through people and their voices, and it does so in language that is poetic and direct. This gorgeous coming-of-age novel is a celebration of the power of telling one’s story and of being proud of where you're from.