People & Places

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912196838Author Chrissy BanksFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop Books

In the title poem to Sicilian Elephants, his most wide-ranging and ambitious collection to date, David Cooke imagines the short-lived paradise achieved by those miniature elephants whose bones have been found on the island. In poems gathered here he...

Volume 2 of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China continues the tradition began with Volume 1 of featuring cultural issues that confront analysts and therapists as they apply psychoanalytic thinking to their work with Chinese patients and students...

Ian House's writing begins in memory and experience, the variousness of living, and the tangles of thinking and feeling. As the poems acquire shape, detail and voice, they become celebrations of beauty and energy, examinations of cruelty and mortality. ...

Looming at the very southern tip of Patagonia, the Vacarro family's finishing school is rumored to be haunted. Legend has it there is a curse on the land to ruin all those who settled there. When young Mavi arrives for a teaching position, she's...

Real Likenesses presents a radical new approach to artistic representation. At its heart is a serious reconsideration of the relationship between medium and content in representational art, which counters currently dominant theories that make attention...

A girl walks home from school. She's tall for her age. She's wearing her winter coat. Her headphones are in. She's hurrying. She never makes it home. In the aftermath, while law enforcement tries to justify the response, one fact remains: A police...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996927451Author Beacon House Teen WritersFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Shout Mouse Press, Inc.Publisher Shout Mouse Press, Inc.Weight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682752739Author Matt DembickiFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Fulcrum PublishingPublisher Fulcrum PublishingWeight(grams) 539gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Luke knows his I'nupiaq name is full of sounds white people can't say. He knows he'll have to leave it behind when he and his brothers are sent to boarding school hundreds of miles from their Arctic village.At Sacred Heart School things are different...

Montaigne called it a ramble; Chesterton the joke of literature; and Hume an ambassador between the worlds of learning and of conversation. But what is an essay, and how did it emerge as a literary form? What are the continuities and contradictions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985736842Author L DivineFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Ebb & Flow Publications/L. Divine, IncorporatedPublisher Ebb & Flow Publications/L. Divine,...

A USA Today BestsellerAward-winning author Jen Ferguson has written a powerful story about teens grappling with balancing resentment with enduring friendship-and how to move forward with a life that's not what they'd imagined. Before that awful...

Echo Brown is a wizard from the East Side, where apartments are small and parents suffer addictions to the white rocks. Yet there is magic . . . everywhere. New portals begin to open when Echo transfers to the rich school on the West Side, and an...

Ignacio Garcia - or Iggy as he urges you to call him - is an Ohio-born Colombian American teen who's got a pretty easygoing life . . . for now. After bumping into Marisol (and her coffee) at school, Iggy's world is spun around. But Marisol has too much...