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  • Reading Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea

    Glossary and Commentary

    by Sylvester, Larry Grimes, Peter Hays ...
    Series series Reading Hemingway
    The Old Man and the Sea is a deceptively simple work. An old man goes fishing. He catches a giant marlin after much struggle. Sharks attack and destroy the fish. The old man is left with the bare bones of the fish—a Monday morning “fish story.” But much lies beneath the surface. The action is condensed and presented in carefully crafted images, in words and details selected because of their ... Read more

    $28.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Upon a Slender Stalk

    by Larry Grimes ...
    This collection of poems was assembled from five decades of writing. Uniting the poems is an attempt to find words that record the material world while also cracking it open to the mystery that animates all things. In this sense, the poems, even the secular and humorous among them, manifest the sacred, the holy present in every human, plant or rock. Should a label be put on the collection, and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • The Pearl

    by John Steinbeck ...
    Illustrated by Jose Clemente Orozco ...
    The classic novella from Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck explores the secrets of man's nature, the darkest depths of evil, and the luminous possibilities of love.Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf beds that once brought great wealth to the Kings of Spain and now provide Kino, Juana, and their infant son with meager subsistence. Then, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • Breaking Free

    by Russell Saiki ...
    Communication is key. This is the number one rule of all relationships. For Abbie and Ryder, this key unlocks many doors that should have stayed locked. Breaking Free is a tale of love and pain, woven together through the use of short interludes and free verse poetry. ... Read more

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  • Hemingway's Havana

    A Reflection of the Writer's Life in Cuba

    by Robert Wheeler ...
    Ernest Hemingway lived in Cuba for more than two decades, longer than anywhere else. He bought a home—naming it the Finca Vigia—with his third wife, Martha Gellhorn and wrote his masterpiece The Old Man and the Sea there. In Cuba, Papa Hemingway found a sense of serenity and enrichment that he couldn’t find anywhere else. Now, through more than a hundred color photographs and accompanying text, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • What We Carry

    by Dorianne Laux ...
    Finalist, 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Dorianne Laux's poetry is a poetry of risk; it goes to the very edge of extinction to find the hard facts that need to be sung. What We Carry includes poems of survival, poems of healing, poems of affirmation and poems of celebration. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Book Analysis)

    Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

    by Bright Summaries ...
    Series series BrightSummaries.com
    Unlock the more straightforward side of The Old Man and the Sea with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, one of the author’s most famous and widely acclaimed novels. After 84 days without a big catch, the elderly fisherman Santiago takes to the open sea, where he wages a three-day struggle ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Germ of Hope: Poems, 2001-2015

    by Edward McLaughlin ...
    This collection of poems is about today, yesterday and tomorrow. They're about an unrelenting sun, and a moon that shows up just in time each and every night to ease our stresses. They're about shadows you never think too much about and past loves that still know how to make you remember a moment of happiness, even when you don't want to. ... Read more

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  • You Are Not Alone

    by Anastasia Preston ...
    Strength is a thing we are made of We women carry it on our shoulders And in our minds. The struggle comes in never wanting to quit Never giving up envelops the strength Holding us together. I am STRENGTH I am HEART We are STRONG We play our part. --from I Am, I Have ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Popol Vuh: The Sacred Book of the Maya

    The Sacred Book of the Maya

    The Popol Vuh is the most important example of Maya literature to have survived the Spanish conquest. It is also one of the world’s great creation accounts, comparable to the beauty and power of Genesis.Most previous translations have relied on Spanish versions rather than the original K’iche’-Maya text. Based on ten years of research by a leading scholar of Maya literature, this translation with ... Read more

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  • Music of the Heart

    Poems of Love, Pain, and Hope

    by L.R. Phoenix ...
    This book is about the emotional journey of life experienced through the worlds of pain, hope and love. It allows the reader to feel or sense the highs and lows during a specific period time in the authors life in a poetic format. The author's heart is displayed throughout each page with the hopes of not only giving the reader a mental picture but also for them to find a sense of healing if in ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • A Garden of Black Joy: Global Poetry from the Edges of Liberation and Living

    by Keno Evol ...
    A Garden of Black Joy's anthology of poems, interviews, and essays spotlight black joy not only as a resource of abundance, but as a mode of self-defense. Poets from Berlin to Kiambu, Antwerp, London, and beyond provide a sketch of what black joy means in this moment and how to make use of it in the name of the future.Featuring poets such as Julian Randall, Quintin Collins, Tara Betts, and Donte ... Read more

    $9.99 USD