Poetry At Its Best - April 2024

Leave This Song Behind: Teen Poetry at Its Best (Teen Ink)

It's been 10 years since the last book in the Teen Ink series Written in the Dirt was published. Now, a whole new batch of teen writers has emerged with their own unique voices. Leave This Song Behind features the best poetry submitted by those writers to Teen Ink over the last five years. The pieces in this book were chosen because they were so powerful that they stood out from the rest. Teen Ink editors took a deep look into each poem's strengths then divided Leave This Song Behind into seven sections based on the poetic techniques or qualities that moved them most. Vivid sensory details ma... [Read More]

• ASIN: B0158NDHX0
• ASIN: B0158NDHX0
• Manufacturer: Health Communications Inc EB

Where Do Diggers Sleep at Night?

"What happens when it's time for busy diggers to wind down and go to sleep? Many of the same bedtime rituals as little girls and boys. The sweet reminder that toys will be waiting for young readers in the morning is a nice added touch at the end." - Seira Wilson, Amazon EditorGetting to dreamland has never been more fun with this board book version of the beloved construction bedtime tale.The bedtime rituals of these little diggers and dump trucks will be quite familar to kids saying goodnight. Young readers will surely identify with little fire engines, tractors, and monster trucks as they a... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0385374151
• ASIN: 0385374151
• ISBN: 0385374151
• Brand: Sayres, Brianna Caplan/ Slade, Christian (ILT)
• Manufacturer: Random House Books for Young Readers

House of Leaves

• ASIN: 0375703764
• ASIN: 0375703764
• ISBN: 0375703764
• Brand: Pantheon Books
• Manufacturer: Pantheon

If Animals Kissed Good Night

The bestselling book in Ann Whitford Paul and David Walker's adorable animal series―and don't miss the follow-up, If Animals Said I Love You!If animals kissedlike we kiss good night,Giraffe and his calfwould stretch their necks highand kiss just beneaththe top of the sky.In a cozy bedtime chat with her mom, a young girl wonders how animal families might say good night. Would Wolf and his pup "kiss and then HOWL"? Would Bear and her cub "kiss and then GROWL"? But what about Sloth and her baby? They move soooo slooowwwww . . . they're sure to be kissing from early evening until long after ever... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0374300216
• ASIN: 0374300216
• ISBN: 0374300216
• Brand: Paul, Ann Whitford/ Walker, David (ILT)
• Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

A Light in the Attic Special Edition with 12 Extra Poems

• ASIN: 0061905852
• UPC: 201561905852
• ASIN: 0061905852
• ISBN: 9780061905858
• Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
• Manufacturer: HarperCollins

The Complete Tales of Winnie-The-Pooh

• ASIN: 0525457232
• ASIN: 0525457232
• ISBN: 0525457232
• Brand: Dutton Books for Young Readers
• Manufacturer: Dutton Books for Young Readers

Where Do Steam Trains Sleep at Night?

Take the train to dreamland with this board book version of the chugging bedtime tale, the perfect companion to Where Do Diggers Sleep at Night? and Where Do Jet Planes Sleep at Night? Have you ever wondered what little trains do when it’s time for bed? Same things you do! Steam trains, freight trains, subways—and more!—wash up, have a snack, load their teddies for storytime, and get rocked to sleep by mommy and daddy trains beneath a blanket of stars. Little one-track-mind train lovers will be tickled to see how bedtime is just the same for their favorite vehicles as it is for them.   ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0553521004
• ASIN: 0553521004
• ISBN: 0553521004
• Manufacturer: Random House Books for Young Readers

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

Just like you, Ann Voskamp hungers to live her one life well. Forget the bucket lists that have us escaping our everyday lives for exotic experiences. 'How,' Ann wondered, 'do we find joy in the midst of deadlines, debt, drama, and daily duties? What does the Christ-life really look like when your days are gritty, long--and sometimes even dark? How is God even here?' In One Thousand Gifts, Ann invites you to embrace everyday blessings and embark on the transformative spiritual discipline of chronicling God's gifts. It's only in this expressing of gratitude for the life we already have, we disc... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0310321913
• UPC: 884793804652
• ASIN: 0310321913
• ISBN: 0310321913
• Brand: HarperCollins Christian Pub.
• Manufacturer: Zondervan

On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity, and Getting Old

From beloved and bestselling author Parker J. Palmer (Let Your Life Speak, The Courage to Teach, Healing the Heart of Democracy), comes a beautiful book of reflections on what we can learn as we move closer to "the brink of everything."Drawing on eight decades of life -- and his career as a writer, teacher, and activist -- Palmer explores the questions age raises and the promises it holds. "Old," he writes, "is just another word for nothing left to lose, a time to dive deep into life, not withdraw to the shallows."But this book is not for elders only. It was written to encourage adults of all ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1523095431
• ASIN: 1523095431
• ISBN: 1523095431
• Brand: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Manufacturer: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Where the Sidewalk Ends Special Edition with 12 Extra Poems: Poems and Drawings

Shel Silverstein, the New York Times bestselling author of The Giving Tree, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, and Every Thing On It, has created a poetry collection that is outrageously funny and deeply profound. Come in...for where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein's world begins. This special edition contains 12 extra poems. You'll meet a boy who turns into a TV set, and a girl who eats a whale. The Unicorn and the Bloath live there, and so does Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout who will not take the garbage out. It is a place where you wash your shadow and plant diamond gardens, a place where sh... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0060572345
• UPC: 884365429405
• ASIN: 0060572345
• ISBN: 0060572345
• Brand: Harper Collins
• Manufacturer: HarperCollins

Grief Day By Day: Simple Practices and Daily Guidance for Living with Loss

Grief Day by Day offers supportive readings and exercises to help you move through life after loss, one day at a time.Grief is complex. It is ever changing and may come to us differently on any given day. Grief Day by Day offers reflections and practices that address the day-to-day feelings that accompany the ever changing process of grief.In Grief Day by Day, Jan Warner draws on her own extensive experience and the experiences of the 2 million followers on her Grief Speaks Out Facebook page to offer hope in its most practical form. This book does not look to offer a solution to grief. Rather,... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1641521317
• ASIN: 1641521317
• ISBN: 9781641521314
• Manufacturer: Althea Press

Whose Boat Is This Boat?: Comments That Don't Help in the Aftermath of a Hurricane

100% of The Late Show’s proceeds from this book go to hurricane relief.Whose Boat Is This Boat? Comments That Don’t Help in the Aftermath of a Hurricane is a picture book made entirely of quotations from President Donald Trump in the wake of Hurricane Florence. It is the first children’s book that demonstrates what not to say after a natural disaster. On September 19, 2018, Donald Trump paid a visit to New Bern, North Carolina, one of the towns ravaged by Hurricane Florence. It was there he showed deep concern for a boat that washed ashore. “At least you got a nice boat out of the deal... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1982121084
• ASIN: 1982121084
• ISBN: 1982121084
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

"For Michael Sandel, justice is not a spectator sport," The Nation's reviewer of Justice remarked. In his acclaimed book―based on his legendary Harvard course―Sandel offers a rare education in thinking through the complicated issues and controversies we face in public life today. It has emerged as a most lucid and engaging guide for those who yearn for a more robust and thoughtful public discourse. "In terms we can all understand," wrote Jonathan Rauch in The New York Times, Justice "confronts us with the concepts that lurk . . . beneath our conflicts." Affirmative action, same-sex marriag... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0374532508
• ASIN: 0374532508
• ISBN: 9780374532505
• Brand: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

The Lutheran Study Bible - Hardback

Grow deeper in your understanding of God's Word with comprehensive notes, prayers, and a reading plan to guide you in your daily devotions. The Lutheran Study Bible is the first Bible in English to be developed with notes that are distinctively Lutheran. Notes were prepared by theologians and pastors from more than 20 Lutheran church bodies. Current scholarship, insights from Church Fathers, and rich devotional commentary help both new and mature Christians learn about God's Word. Features: English Standard Version translation Study notes and prayers for every part of the Bible Two-year Bible... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0758617607
• ASIN: 0758617607
• ISBN: 0758617607
• Brand: Concordia Publishing
• Manufacturer: Concordia Publishing House

Digger, Dozer, Dumper

Each truck and big machine in these enticing rhyming poems is different — and little readers are invited to find a vehicle that’s like them.Sixteen boisterous, rhyming poems — each one highlighting the job and personality of a different vehicle, from a backhoe to an ambulance to a snowplow — invite young children to meet their favorite trucks face-to-face. Cheerful illustrations show each one in action, digging (or dozing, or dumping) away. Engaging visual details like an anxious turtle crossing the street just ahead of a steamroller are sure to keep preschoolers poring over the pages ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0763688932
• ASIN: 0763688932
• ISBN: 0763688932
• Brand: Candlewick Press
• Manufacturer: Candlewick

Leave This Song Behind : Teen Poetry at Its Best

It's been 10 years since the last book in the Teen Ink series Written in the Dirt was published. Now, a whole new batch of teen writers has emerged with their own unique voices. Leave

• UPC: 47324455
• Rating: 5.0

Poetry at Its Best - eBook

Poetry at Its Best is a compilation of poems the author has written over the years to express herself. Now she wants to share this to

• UPC: 457667264

Lessons of Life - Poetry at Its Best! - eBook

Lessons of Life – Poetry at Its Best!By: Betty W. LawsonLessons of Life - Poetry at Its Best!  Poems, Prayers, Praise and Worship is a collection of Betty W. Lawson’s reflections on life, personal experiences,

• UPC: 561817887

Walking on Earth and Touching the Sky : Poetry and Prose by Lakota Youth at Red Cloud Indian School

Collects poetry written by Lakota students at Red Cloud Indian School in South Dakota on such topics as the history of oral tradition, the struggles of everyday life, and their personal connections to the natural

• UPC: 17613666
• Rating: 4.5

Christians in the Age of Outrage : How to Bring Our Best When the World Is at Its Worst

Are you tired of reading another news story about Christians supposedly acting at their worst?Today there are too many examples of those claiming to follow Christ being caustic, divisive, and irrational, contributing to dismissals of

• UPC: 980266581

Best American Poetry 2016

Collects poems chosen by editor Edward Hirsch as the best of 2016, featuring poets such as Rick Barot, Emily Fragos, Philip Levine, and Adrienne

• UPC: 50552383
• Rating: 4.0

Run with the Horses : The Quest for Life at Its Best

In a series of profound reflections on the life of Jeremiah the prophet, Eugene Peterson explores the heart of what it means to be fully and genuinely human. His writing is filled with humor and

• UPC: 11981935
• Rating: 4.0

Knock at a Star : A Child's Introduction to Poetry

A collection of poems arranged in such categories as poems that make you smile, send messages, or share feelings; poems that contain "beats that repeat" or "word play"; and special kinds of poems such as

• UPC: 665192
• Rating: 4.5

The Best American Poetry 2012 - eBook

Mark Doty brings the vitality and imagination that illuminate his own work to his selections for the twenty-fifth volume in the Best American Poetry series. He has chosen poems of high moral earnestness and poems

• UPC: 732382578
• Rating: 3.0

The Best American Poetry 2003 - eBook

"Poetry encourages us to have dialogue through the observed, the felt, and the imaginary," writes editor Yusef Komunyakaa in his thought-provoking introduction to The Best American Poetry 2003. As a black child of the American

• UPC: 376475662
• Rating: 3.0

IRONICS: Poetry at Its Best by MATTHEW J. HAUPT (English) Paperback Book Free Sh

• UPC: 362031898726
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 19 USD

Leave This Song Behind: Teen Poetry at Its Best by John Meyer (English) Paperbac

• UPC: 391440726059
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 13 USD

Poetry at It's Best: Faith Is Not Believing That God Can. Is Knowing That God Wi

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• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 29 USD

Leave This Song Behind: Teen Poetry at Its Best by Meyer, John|Meyer, Stephan…

• UPC: 382860123562
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 9 USD

Poetry at Its Best by Donnie A. Frederick (English) Hardcover Book Free Shipping

• UPC: 392067637718
• Category: Other Books
• Price: 21 USD

Poetry at Its Best by Donnie A Frederick: New

• UPC: 283201444071
• Category: Other Books
• Price: 14 USD

Leave This Song Behind : Teen Poetry at Its Best, Paperback by Meyer, Stephen...

• UPC: 273654181382
• Category: Children & YA Non-Fiction
• Price: 11 USD

Life at Its Best

• UPC: 333035887906
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 9 USD

POETRY AT ITS BEST By Berniece Piercy **BRAND NEW**

• UPC: 183856929319
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 14 USD

NEW - Leave This Song Behind: Teen Poetry at Its Best

• UPC: 254171628443
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 12 USD