Spanish Peaks Library District

"In her first collection, award-winning novelist Jo Walton delivers both subtle legends and reinvented realities. An ancient coin cyber-spies on lovers and thieves. The magic mirror sees all but can do nothing. A cloned savior solves a fanatically-inspired murder. Three Irish siblings thieve treasures with bad poetry and the aid of the Queen of Cats"--Back cover.

The poems you most fondly remember available in large print.

"Begins in 1250 and represents the full range of English non-dramatic verse over the next seven centuries"--from publisher's description.

In the poems in this collection, Rudyard Kipling evokes stirring images and creates archetyples of British character at the height of the British Empire. Filled with character study, dramatic incidents and rousing language, the poems delineate the time, place, and ethos of British ascendancy as surely as a novel or history, yet they possess a timelessness and universality that lifts them above the purely temporal.

She Must be Mad explores coming-of-age: the pain and beauty of love, the relief and the agony of turning from girl to woman, the isolation of an untethered mind and the power and subjugation of the body.Charly captures the formative experiences of today's young women from the poignant to the prosaic in writing that is at once witty, wry and heartfelt. Wayward nights out that don't go as planned; the righteous anger at those men with no talent or skill...

A child creates a world of his own which has mountains and sea, a city and ships, all from toy blocks.

A illustrated collection of poems, including Browning's "Pied Piper of Hamelin" and Lear's "The Owl and the Pussycat."

Go on a journey to unknown, but strangely familiar, lands and then travel home again.

"Explores poetry in the British Isles from the early nineteenth century until the late twentieth century ..."--P. [4] of cover.