Catalog Search Results
Check out FPL's Narrative Nonfiction Book Club picks for the Fall '23 and Winter '24 session! We meet the 1st Thursday of every month from 4pm-5pm.
Come pick up a copy and join us to share your thoughts as we read across the genres of nonfiction, from history to adventure, memior/biography, and beyond with books that read like a novel. Click here for more information.
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
"Spread the Christmas cheer with this whimsical retelling of Clement C. Moore's cherished poem, "A Visit from St. Nicholas." This new edition of the classic features the text of Moore's original poem, illustrated with beautifully detailed LEGO brick scenes and characters. See the colorful stockings hung by the chimney in the fanciful brick house, and look on at the visions of dancing brick sugarplums. Turn the pages to reveal Saint Nicholas with...
Author
Series
Christopher award volume 1991
Language
English
Description
The famous narrative poem recreating Paul Revere's midnight ride in 1775 to warn the people of the Boston countryside that the British were coming.
7) Hiawatha
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Verses from Longfellow's epic poem depict the boyhood of Hiawatha.
9) Vile verses
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
191 : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
An illustrated collection of children's songs, fairy tales, and poems.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"We speak of doctors most often as heroes, martyrs, or victims. Drawing from forty years of experience working in an emergency psychiatric ward, Paolo Milone offers a more complex--and more compelling--picture. With prose at once direct and lyrical, he transports us inside Ward 77, where mental illness coexists with the ordinary lives of those who, at the end of their shifts, take their white coats off and have to remember to buy milk. In this unsettling,...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"An inspirational nonfiction novel-in-verse about Zhanna Arshanskaya, a young Ukrainian Jewish girl using the alias Anna, whose phenomenal piano-playing skills saved her life and the life of her sister, Frina, during the Holocaust-from award-winning author Susan Hood, with Zhanna's son, Greg Dawson"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Walker, a young Canadian recently demobilised after war and his active service in the Normandy landings and subsequent European operations. Suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, and unable to face a return to his family home in rural Nova Scotia, he goes in search of freedom, change, anonymity and repair. We follow Walker through a sequence of poems as he moves through post-war American cities of New York, Los Angles and San Francisco.
16) Metamorphoses
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xxxvii, 567 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The first female translator of the epic into English in over sixty years, Stephanie McCarter addresses accuracy in translation and its representation of women, gendered dynamics of power, and sexual violence in Ovid's classic. Ovid's Metamorphoses is an epic poem, but one that upturns almost every convention. There is no main hero, no central conflict, and no sustained objective. What it is about (power, defiance, art, love, abuse, grief, rape, war,...
Publisher
Story Line Press
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
xviii, 361 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This anthology presents array of poems published from the late 1950s to the present, reflecting the many voices of the American experience. Beginning with Robert Penn Warren and Elizabeth Bishop, Story Hour features a variety of poetic style. It chronicles the increased interest in the form during the seventies, the New Narrative movement that began in the eighties, and the growing audience for stories in verse in such venues as cowboy poetry gatherings,...
In Commonwealth Catalog
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Cape Libraries Automated Materials Sharing Network can be requested from other Commonwealth Catalog libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Purchase Suggestion Service. Submit Request