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<title>Scarborough   Elizabeth Ann</title>
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<description><![CDATA[<p><table><tr><td colspan="2"><h3><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Godmothers-Web-Elizabeth-Ann-Scarborough/dp/0441006000%3FSubscriptionId%3D1QP60HM44SS0R2P37F02%26tag%3Djdwright.us-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0441006000">Godmother's Web</a></h3></td></tr><tr><td nowrap><br><b>List Price: </b><strike>$6.50</strike><br><b>Price: <span>$3.99</span></b><br><b>You Save:</b> <span>$2.51(39%)</span><br></td><td valign="top" align="left"></td></tr><tr><td  colspan="2"><h3>Product Description</h3>The award-winning author of the acclaimed "Godmother" novels introduces a new Godmother--a Native American woman, known simply as "Grandma", who will weave a web of unforgettable magic and change the life of one young woman forever.<hr /></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><h3><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Spam-Vs-Vampire-Elizabeth-Scarborough/dp/0983402736%3FSubscriptionId%3D1QP60HM44SS0R2P37F02%26tag%3Djdwright.us-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0983402736">Spam Vs. the Vampire</a></h3></td></tr><tr><td nowrap><br><b>List Price: </b><strike>$13.99</strike><br><b>Price: <span>$9.09</span></b><br><b>You Save:</b> <span>$4.90(35%)</span><br></td><td valign="top" align="left"></td></tr><tr><td  colspan="2"><h3>Product Description</h3>A PURRANORMAL MYSTERY     Spam and the other cats at website designer Darcy Dupres' house are frantic with worry. Darcy walked out the door two (missed) wet meals ago and didn't return or send anyone else to look after her beloved furry friends. The other cats think she has abandoned them, but her office cat and (unbeknownst to her) protégé, Spam, suspects darker forces are at work.    Darcy's last project was helping a suspicious character who called himself Marcel deMontreal with a dating website for vampires and the women who dig them. Darcy thought Marcel was playing and besides, he paid her a lot of kitty litter to design the site.    But before she can finish, the self-proclaimed vampire announces that he is coming to visit, and Darcy disappears. That and the-duh-black billowy figure with the white face and red eyes peering through the window seem like a dead giveaway to Spam.    U<hr /></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><h3><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Catacombs-Tale-Barque-Anne-McCaffrey/dp/0345513797%3FSubscriptionId%3D1QP60HM44SS0R2P37F02%26tag%3Djdwright.us-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0345513797">Catacombs: A Tale of the Barque Cats</a></h3></td></tr><tr><td nowrap><br><b>List Price: </b><strike>$15.00</strike><br><b>Price: <span>$9.15</span></b><br><b>You Save:</b> <span>$5.85(39%)</span><br></td><td valign="top" align="left"></td></tr><tr><td  colspan="2"><h3>Product Description</h3><p>The spacefaring Barque Cats are valued members of every vessel’s crew, thanks to their special bond with humans. Then Pshaw-Ra, a mysterious cat with highly advanced knowledge, gives the felines the power of telepathy. When panic over a virulent plague drives the government to exterminate animals, Pshaw-Ra guides the cats and humans of the starship <i>Ranzo</i> to safety on his home planet, Mau. But Pshaw-Ra has a hidden agenda. His ultimate goal? Mate the Barque Cats with their godlike counterparts who rule on Mau and create a superior race to conquer the universe. His plans, however, may be doomed by his daughters’ battle royal to become queen, by a suspicious Barque Cat with an equally curious human friend—and by something stirring deep beneath the city with a hunger to devour all life . . . and an undying hatred for cats.</p><hr /></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><h3><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Catalyst-Tale-Barque-Anne-McCaffrey/dp/0345513770%3FSubscriptionId%3D1QP60HM44SS0R2P37F02%26tag%3Djdwright.us-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0345513770">Catalyst: A Tale of the Barque Cats</a></h3></td></tr><tr><td nowrap><br><b>List Price: </b><strike>$14.00</strike><br><b>Price: <span>$7.93</span></b><br><b>You Save:</b> <span>$6.07(43%)</span><br></td><td valign="top" align="left"></td></tr><tr><td  colspan="2"><h3>Product Description</h3>Pilot, engineer, doctor—ship’s cat? Since the early days of interstellar travel, the so-called Barque Cats have become essential to the well-staffed space vessel. Assisted by humans—Cat Persons—with whom they share a deep and loving bond, the Barque Cats are responsible for keeping spacecraft free of vermin, for alerting crews to environmental hazards, and for acting as morale officers.<br><br>But a widespread epidemic affecting livestock on numerous planets throws the felines’ future into doubt. Suddenly the galactic government announces a plan to impound and possibly destroy all exposed animals, including the Barque Cats. With the clock racing against them, a handful of very special kittens and their humans will join forces to save the Barque Cats, and quite possibly the universe as they know it, from total destruction.<hr /></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><h3><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Tales-Cats-Elizabeth-Ann-Scarborough/dp/1619500434%3FSubscriptionId%3D1QP60HM44SS0R2P37F02%26tag%3Djdwright.us-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D1619500434">9 Tales O' Cats</a></h3></td></tr><tr><td nowrap><br><b>List Price: </b><strike>$11.99</strike><br><b>Price: <span>$8.87</span></b><br><b>You Save:</b> <span>$3.12(26%)</span><br></td><td valign="top" align="left"></td></tr><tr><td  colspan="2"><h3>Product Description</h3>In these stories, a parade of fascinating felines tell tales of their lives. Guinevere’s cat, Gray Jane, tells what really happened at Camelot from her cat’s eye view atop the queen’s canopy bed. An Egyptologist’s cat, Shuttle, wards off a vengeful mummy by doing a favor for Bastet, the cat goddess. A Scottish cat, Tinkler Tam, stalks body snatchers through a gothic Edinburgh. Mu Mao the Magnificent, a bodhisattva cat who is the last tomcat in the world, searches for a mate in one story while in three others he assists his fellow felines during the transition to their next incarnations. A murdered cat named Mustard returns to avenge himself on his killer and protect his former household. The old soldier hero of a fairy tale discovers the secret of the 12 dancing princesses with the help of his trusty cat companion, Captain Shadow. These are the stories mother cats tell their kittens to provide them with role models, inspiring them to hold their heads and tails high.<hr /></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><h3><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Healers-War-Elizabeth-Ann-Scarborough/dp/0759287244%3FSubscriptionId%3D1QP60HM44SS0R2P37F02%26tag%3Djdwright.us-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0759287244">The Healer's War</a></h3></td></tr><tr><td nowrap><br><b>List Price: </b><strike>$20.95</strike><br><b>Price: <span>$15.18</span></b><br><b>You Save:</b> <span>$5.77(28%)</span><br></td><td valign="top" align="left"></td></tr><tr><td  colspan="2"><h3>Product Description</h3>Although perhaps best-known for her lightly humorous fantasies and for her collaborations with Anne McCaffrey on the Petaybee series and the Acorna series, Elizabeth Anne Scarborough has also written Healer's War, a classic novel of the Vietnam War, enriched with a magical, mystical twist, which won the 1989 Nebula Award for Best Novel of 1988. The Minneapolis Star Tribune called it "A brutal and beautiful book."    Scarborough herself was a nurse in Vietnam during the war and she draws on her own personal experiences to create the central character, Lt. Kitty McCulley. McCulley, a young and inexperienced nurse tossed into a stressful and chaotic situation, is having a difficult time reconciling her duty to help and heal with the indifference and overt racism of some of her colleagues and with the horrendously damaged soldiers and Vietnamese civilians whom she encounters during her service at the China Beach medical facilities.    She is unexpectedly helped by the mysterious and inexplicable properties of an amulet, given to her by one of her patients, an elderly, dying Vietnamese holy man, which allows her to see other people's "auras" and to understand more about them as a result. This eventually leads to a strange, almost surrealistic journey through the jungle, accompanied by a one-legged boy and a battle-seasoned but crazed soldier and, by the end of the journey, McCulley has found herself and a way to live and survive through the madness and destruction.<hr /></td></tr></table>]]></description>
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<title>Fleischman   Paul</title>
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<description><![CDATA[<p><table><tr><td colspan="2"><h3><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Seedfolks-Paul-Fleischman/dp/0064472078%3FSubscriptionId%3D1QP60HM44SS0R2P37F02%26tag%3Djdwright.us-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0064472078">Seedfolks</a></h3></td></tr><tr><td nowrap><br><b>List Price: </b><strike>$5.99</strike><br><b>Price: <span>$1.75</span></b><br><b>You Save:</b> <span>$4.24(71%)</span><br></td><td valign="top" align="left"><h3>Product Details</h3><ul><li>Fitness: New</li><li>Notes: Sort NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold!</li><li>ISBN13: 9780064472074</li></ul></td></tr><tr><td  colspan="2"><h3>Product Description</h3><p>A vacant lot, rat-infested and filled with garbage, looked like no place for a garden. Especially to a neighborhood of strangers where no one seems to care. Until one day, a young girl clears a small space and digs into the hard-packed soil to plant her precious bean seeds. Suddenly, the soil holds promise: To Curtis, who believes he can win back Lateesha's heart with a harvest of tomatoes; to Virgil's dad, who sees a fortune to be made from growing lettuce; and even to Maricela, sixteen and pregnant, wishing she were dead.</p> <p>Thirteen very different voices -- old, young, Haitian, Hispanic, tough, haunted, and hopeful -- tell one amazing story about a garden that transforms a neighborhood.</p> <p>Chosen as a state and citywide read in communities across the country: <br> Vermont<br> Racine, WI<br> Tampa, FL<br> Newburgh, NY<br> Boca Raton, FL </p><hr />Sometimes, even in the middle of ugliness and neglect, a  little bit of beauty will bloom. Award-winning writer Paul Fleischman  dazzles us with this truth in <I>Seedfolks</I>--a slim novel that  bursts with hope. Wasting not a single word, Fleischman unfolds a  story of a blighted neighborhood transformed when a young girl plants  a few lima beans in an abandoned lot. Slowly, one by one, neighbors  are touched and stirred to action as they see tendrils poke through  the dirt. Hispanics, Haitians, Koreans, young, and old begin to turn  the littered lot into a garden for the whole community. A gift for  hearts of all ages, this gentle, timeless story will delight anyone in  need of a sprig of inspiration.  <hr /></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><h3><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Whirligig-Paul-Fleischman/dp/0312629117%3FSubscriptionId%3D1QP60HM44SS0R2P37F02%26tag%3Djdwright.us-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0312629117">Whirligig</a></h3></td></tr><tr><td nowrap><br><b>List Price: </b><strike>$7.99</strike><br><b>Price: <span>$4.25</span></b><br><b>You Save:</b> <span>$3.74(47%)</span><br></td><td valign="top" align="left"></td></tr><tr><td  colspan="2"><h3>Product Description</h3><DIV><DIV>With a family always on the move, popularity and the ability to fit in quickly are vital to Brent Bishop’s high school survival. When he blows his chances with the girl of his dreams in front of everyone, he’s devastated. Brent tries to end it all in a fatal car crash, but instead he finds an unlikely beginning. He’s sent on a journey of repentance—a cross-country trip building whirligigs. His wind toys are found by people in need: a Maine schoolgirl yearning for her first love, a Miami street-sweeper desperate for peace and quiet, a kid in Washington who just wants to play baseball, and a San Diego teenager dealing with loss. Brent’s whirligigs bring hope to others, but will they be able to heal the wounds deep inside himself?</DIV></DIV><hr /></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><h3><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Joyful-Noise-Poems-Two-Voices/dp/0064460932%3FSubscriptionId%3D1QP60HM44SS0R2P37F02%26tag%3Djdwright.us-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0064460932">Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices</a></h3></td></tr><tr><td nowrap><br><b>List Price: </b><strike>$5.99</strike><br><b>Price: <span>$2.85</span></b><br><b>You Save:</b> <span>$3.14(52%)</span><br></td><td valign="top" align="left"></td></tr><tr><td  colspan="2"><h3>Product Description</h3><P>Written to be read aloud by two voices--sometimes alternating, sometimes simultaneous--here is a collection of irresistible poems that celebrate the insect world, from the short life of the mayfly to the love song of the book louse. Funny, sad, loud, and quiet, each of these poems resounds with a booming, boisterous, joyful noise. </P> <P> In this remarkable volume of poetry for two voices, Paul Fleischman verbally re-creates the "Booming/boisterious/joyful noise" of insects. The poems resound with the pulse of the cicada and the drone of the honeybee. Eric Beddows′s vibrant drawings send each insect soaring, spinning, or creeping off the page in its own unique way.</P> <P> A clear and fascinating guide to the insect world--from chrysalid butterflies to whirligig beetles-- and an exultant celebration of life.</P> <P> Ages 6+</P><hr />Winner of the 1989 Newbery Award, <b>Joyful Noise</b> is a children's  book of poetry about insects that was designed for two readers to enjoy  together. On each page are two columns of verse for children to alternate  reading aloud about the lives of six-legged creatures ranging from fireflies  writing in the sky to a love affair between two lice, crickets eating pie  crumbs and the single day in the life of a mayfly. Charming large scale  soft-pencil illustrations enhance the comical, easy-to-read text. <hr /></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><h3><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Weslandia-Paul-Fleischman/dp/0763610526%3FSubscriptionId%3D1QP60HM44SS0R2P37F02%26tag%3Djdwright.us-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0763610526">Weslandia</a></h3></td></tr><tr><td nowrap><br><b>List Price: </b><strike>$6.99</strike><br><b>Price: <span>$3.52</span></b><br><b>You Save:</b> <span>$3.47(50%)</span><br></td><td valign="top" align="left"><h3>Product Details</h3><ul><li>ISBN13: 9780763610524</li><li>Notes: Mark NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold!</li><li>Requirement: New</li></ul></td></tr><tr><td  colspan="2"><h3>Product Description</h3><b>WESLANDIA honors the misfits—and the creators—among us.</b><br><br>Enter the witty, intriguing world of Weslandia! Now that school is over, Wesley needs a summer project. He’s learned that each civilization needs a staple food crop, so he decides to sow a garden and start his own - civilization, that is. He turns over a plot of earth, and plants begin to grow. They soon tower above him and bear a curious-looking fruit. As Wesley experiments, he finds that the plant will provide food, clothing, shelter, and even recreation. It isn’t long before his neighbors and classmates develop more than an idle curiosity about Wesley - and exactly how he is spending his summer vacation.<hr />What do the children you know usually do when school is out for the   summer?  Go crazy with boredom? Head poolside with friends? Plan a self-sufficient  civilization with its own staple food crop? That is precisely how Wesley  decides to spend his summer vacation. Wesley is not an ordinary boy: "He  alone in his town disliked pizza and soda, alarming his mother and the  school nurse. He found professional football stupid. He'd refused to shave  half his head, the hairstyle worn by all the other boys, despite his  father's bribe of five dollars." It all starts (the civilization, that is)  when Wesley overturns a plot of ground in his yard to see what new and  unknown seeds might blow into it. Curiously, just one kind of plant  grows--an unusual, flowering, fruit-bearing plant that tastes of "peach,  strawberry, pumpkin pie, and flavors he had no name for." Soon, Wesley is  literally reaping the fruits of his labors--using the fruit rind to make a  cup for the juice he squeezes, barbecuing the root tubers, and weaving the  bark into a hat to keep off the sun. <p>    In Wesley's new world, he no longer needs a watch because he uses a flower  stalk as a sundial, dividing the day into 8 segments, one for each of the  flower's petals. A new language (based on an 80-letter alphabet) and  counting system (based on the number 8) soon follow. Ah, Weslandia. Slowly  but surely his once-tormenting classmates become curious.  And soon enough,  Wesley allows them to help him crush seeds for oil, which "had a tangy  scent and served him both as suntan lotion and mosquito repellent." He also  invents sports that are less distasteful to him than football--"games rich  with strategy and complex scoring systems," and watches patiently as his  classmates blunder. Wesley's parents say that he looks happy for the first  time in years. And when he returns to school in September? "He had no  shortage of friends." Newbery Medal winner and onetime alternate-world  creator Paul Fleischman shines in this deadpan-but-hilarious picture book,  and illustrator Kevin Hawkes's splendid paintings will delight young  readers with the explosion of colorful, comical details. Kids young and old  will love the once-outcast hero Wesley and his Robinson Crusoe-style  triumphs. (Ages 8 to 11, or for reading aloud to younger children)  <I>--Karin Snelson</I><hr /></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><h3><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Am-Phoenix-Poems-Two-Voices/dp/0064460924%3FSubscriptionId%3D1QP60HM44SS0R2P37F02%26tag%3Djdwright.us-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0064460924">I Am Phoenix: Poems for Two Voices</a></h3></td></tr><tr><td nowrap><br><b>List Price: </b><strike>$5.99</strike><br><b>Price: <span>$2.94</span></b><br><b>You Save:</b> <span>$3.05(51%)</span><br></td><td valign="top" align="left"></td></tr><tr><td  colspan="2"><h3>Product Description</h3><P>At first light the finches<BR> are flitting about the trees</P><P><CENTER>Flittering<BR> fluttering<BR>flit<BR> purple finches<BR>flit<BR>Fluttering<BR>flittering<BR>fly<BR>painted finches<BR> fly.<BR></CENTER></P><P>In this companion volume to <I>JOYFUL NOISE: POEMS FOR TWO VOICES,</I> the winner of the 1989 Newbery Medal, Paul Fleischman celebrates the sound, the sense, the essence of birds. Written to be spoken aloud by two voices, sometimes alternating, sometimes simultaneous, these poems perfectly capture the beauty of birds in their singing, soaring, and rejoicing.</P><hr /></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><h3><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Time-Train-Paul-Fleischman/dp/006443351X%3FSubscriptionId%3D1QP60HM44SS0R2P37F02%26tag%3Djdwright.us-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D006443351X">Time Train</a></h3></td></tr><tr><td nowrap><br><b>List Price: </b><strike>$7.99</strike><br><b>Price: <span>$1.38</span></b><br><b>You Save:</b> <span>$6.61(83%)</span><br></td><td valign="top" align="left"></td></tr><tr><td  colspan="2"><h3>Product Description</h3><p>Miss Pym's class is in for a comic adventure beyond their wildest dreams. They've boarded the Rocky Mountain Unlimited, a mysterious train that's winding its way into the heart of prehistoric times. Join the class-and a horrified Miss Pym-as they scramble dinosaur egg for breakfast, go stegosaurus-back riding and pterodactyl gliding, and play soccer with their giant reptilian friends.<hr /></td></tr></table>]]></description>
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<title>MacLennan   Hugh</title>
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<description><![CDATA[<p><table><tr><td colspan="2"><h3><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Two-Solitudes-Hugh-MacLennan/dp/0771034822%3FSubscriptionId%3D1QP60HM44SS0R2P37F02%26tag%3Djdwright.us-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0771034822">Two Solitudes</a></h3></td></tr><tr><td nowrap><br></td><td valign="top" align="left"></td></tr><tr><td  colspan="2"><h3>Product Description</h3></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><h3><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mosaic-Orpheus-Hugh-MacLennan-Poetry/dp/0773535063%3FSubscriptionId%3D1QP60HM44SS0R2P37F02%26tag%3Djdwright.us-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0773535063">Mosaic Orpheus (Hugh MacLennan Poetry)</a></h3></td></tr><tr><td nowrap><br><b>List Price: </b><strike>$14.95</strike><br><b>Price: <span>$7.50</span></b><br><b>You Save:</b> <span>$7.45(50%)</span><br></td><td valign="top" align="left"></td></tr><tr><td  colspan="2"><h3>Product Description</h3>'Uncertain as always whether this republic is past saving or whether some of us still tread the perilous path of the future part of me just meditates on the new and more flourishing wildlife that is improving Point Reyes ten years after the Mount Vision fire From the glories of the Tang Dynasty I recall only one date: the year the usurper An Lushan drove both Wang Wei and Du Fu far from the corrupt court into the mountains where for the first time they were free to write the only poems we remember' - excerpt from "The Tao of 9/11". Working always to connect the polemical to the personal, Peter Dale Scott's political poems - from the tear gas of Berkeley protests in the 1960s to the problems of Thai forest monks in an era of drug-trafficking and deforestation - are a process of self-questioning. Self-questioning also marks his meditation poems, including a sequence on the death of his first wife. In opposition to contemporary poems of studied meaninglessness, Scott increasingly recognizes a compulsion in himself to radically reaffirm traditional rejections of the external world and turn to the refuges of poets before him, the enduring commonplaces that are more than cliches.<hr /></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><h3><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Apples-White-Blood-MacLennan-Poetry/dp/0773532455%3FSubscriptionId%3D1QP60HM44SS0R2P37F02%26tag%3Djdwright.us-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0773532455">Wet Apples, White Blood (Hugh MacLennan Poetry)</a></h3></td></tr><tr><td nowrap><br><b>List Price: </b><strike>$14.95</strike><br><b>Price: <span>$10.43</span></b><br><b>You Save:</b> <span>$4.52(30%)</span><br></td><td valign="top" align="left"></td></tr><tr><td  colspan="2"><h3>Product Description</h3>Galactopoesis is the medical term for the continued secretion and production of milk. It derives from the Greek radicals for 'milk' (galacto) and 'making' (poesis), which is also 'poetry.' In Wet Apples, White Blood, nursing, as a constant creative act dependent on the babys demand, is a trope for the creative process and for questions of biology, psychology, and spirituality.<hr /></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><h3><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Waterglass-Maclennan-Poetry-Jeffery-Donaldson/dp/0773519009%3FSubscriptionId%3D1QP60HM44SS0R2P37F02%26tag%3Djdwright.us-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0773519009">Waterglass (Hugh Maclennan Poetry Series)</a></h3></td></tr><tr><td nowrap><br><b>List Price: </b><strike>$14.95</strike><br><b>Price: <span>$14.85</span></b><br><b>You Save:</b> <span>$0.10(1%)</span><br></td><td valign="top" align="left"></td></tr><tr><td  colspan="2"><h3>Product Description</h3>Waterglass is wishful thinking. The word won't be found in the dictionary, nor will you come across the thing itself in any shop of curios. But there it rests, nonetheless, as an imagined possibility, among and between the lines of Jeffery Donaldson's second collection of verse.<hr /></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><h3><a href="http://www.amazon.com/God-Sized-Fruit-Hugh-MacLennan-Poetry/dp/0773519025%3FSubscriptionId%3D1QP60HM44SS0R2P37F02%26tag%3Djdwright.us-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0773519025">All the God-Sized Fruit (Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series)</a></h3></td></tr><tr><td nowrap><br><b>List Price: </b><strike>$14.95</strike><br><b>Price: <span>$9.15</span></b><br><b>You Save:</b> <span>$5.80(39%)</span><br></td><td valign="top" align="left"></td></tr><tr><td  colspan="2"><h3>Product Description</h3>Shawna Lemay scrutinizes some of the best-known art masterpieces of the Western World, alerting her readers to the power and peril of seduction. 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<description><![CDATA[<p><table><tr><td colspan="2"><h3><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Robert-Motherwell-Dore-Ashton/dp/0896593886%3FSubscriptionId%3D1QP60HM44SS0R2P37F02%26tag%3Djdwright.us-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0896593886">Robert Motherwell</a></h3></td></tr><tr><td nowrap><br><b>List Price: </b><strike>$39.95</strike><br><b>Price: <span>$258.52</span></b><br><b>You Save:</b> <span>(%)</span><br></td><td valign="top" align="left"></td></tr><tr><td  colspan="2"><h3>Product Description</h3></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><h3><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Motherwell-Jack-Flam/dp/0847814351%3FSubscriptionId%3D1QP60HM44SS0R2P37F02%26tag%3Djdwright.us-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0847814351">Motherwell</a></h3></td></tr><tr><td nowrap><br><b>List Price: </b><strike>$24.95</strike><br><b>Price: <span>$364.99</span></b><br><b>You Save:</b> <span>(%)</span><br></td><td valign="top" align="left"></td></tr><tr><td  colspan="2"><h3>Product Description</h3></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><h3><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Robert-Motherwell-Open/dp/1901785122%3FSubscriptionId%3D1QP60HM44SS0R2P37F02%26tag%3Djdwright.us-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D1901785122">Robert Motherwell: Open</a></h3></td></tr><tr><td nowrap><br><b>List Price: </b><strike>$65.00</strike><br><b>Price: <span>$43.78</span></b><br><b>You Save:</b> <span>$21.22(33%)</span><br></td><td valign="top" align="left"></td></tr><tr><td  colspan="2"><h3>Product Description</h3>Robert Motherwell, who died in 1991, was the youngest member of the first wave of Abstract Expressionists known as the New York School (a phrase he coined), which also included Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning and Barnett Newman. An articulate writer, Motherwell was pegged early on as the intellectual of the group. <I>Robert Motherwell: Open</I> is the first examination of the painter's <I>Open</I> series, which preoccupied him from 1967 until the last years of his life. Pared down and minimal, these paintings differ greatly from his more dynamic and monumental <I>Elegies</I> series, for which he is perhaps best known. Containing many previously unpublished paintings as well as works in public collections, this monograph--the most comprehensive and best-illustrated book on Motherwell currently in print--introduces a series of texts by critics and art historians John Yau, Robert Hobbs, Matthew Collings, Donald Kuspit, Robert Mattison, Mel Gooding and Saul Ostrow.<hr /></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><h3><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Writings-Robert-Motherwell-Documents-Twentieth-Century/dp/0520250486%3FSubscriptionId%3D1QP60HM44SS0R2P37F02%26tag%3Djdwright.us-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0520250486">The Writings of Robert Motherwell (Documents of Twentieth-Century Art)</a></h3></td></tr><tr><td nowrap><br><b>List Price: </b><strike>$34.95</strike><br><b>Price: <span>$31.55</span></b><br><b>You Save:</b> <span>$3.40(10%)</span><br></td><td valign="top" align="left"></td></tr><tr><td  colspan="2"><h3>Product Description</h3>Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), one of the leading American Abstract Expressionist painters, was also a theorist and exponent of the movement. 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Though her extant work consists only of a collection of fragments and a handful of complete poems, her mystique endures to be discovered anew by each generation, and to inspire new efforts at bringing the spirit of her Greek words faithfully into English.<br> <br>In the past, translators have taken two basic approaches to Sappho: either very literally translating only the words in the fragments, or taking the liberty of reconstructing the missing parts. Willis Barnstone has taken a middle course, in which he remains faithful to the words of the fragments, only very judiciously filling in a word or phrase in cases where the meaning is obvious. This edition includes extensive notes and a special section of “Testimonia”: appreciations of Sappho in the words of ancient writers from Plato to Plutarch. 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