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Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden

Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden

by Diane Ackerman

In the mode of her bestseller A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman celebrates the sensory pleasures of her garden through the seasons. Whether she is deadheading flowers or glorying in the profusion of roses, offering sugar water to a hummingbird or studying the slug, she welcomes the unexpected drama and extravagance as well as the sanctuary her garden offers. Written in sensuous, lyrical prose, ... (more)

I Praise My Destroyer: Poems

by Diane Ackerman

In her first new book of poetry since Jaguar of Sweet Laughter , poet and naturalist Diane Ackerman combines her deep understanding of the world with her immense passion for language to craft richly sensual poems that "honor all life/wherever and in whatever form/it may deal." Imbued with ravishing imagery, these exuberant and lyrical explorations of aging, longing, and death demonstrate Ackerman's full... (more)

What Wildness Is This: Women Write about the Southwest (Southwestern Writers Collection)

What Wildness Is This: Women Write about the Southwest (Southwestern Writers Collection)

by Susan Wittig Albert

How do women experience the vast, arid, rugged land of the American Southwest? The Story Circle Network, a national organization dedicated to helping women write about their lives, posed this question, and nearly three hundred women responded with original pieces of writing that told true and meaningful stories of their personal experiences of the land. From this deep reservoir of writing—as well as from... (more)

The Music Lover's Poetry Anthology

"Here, in a precedent-setting collection, are the master singers."—Carol Muske-Dukes Poetry and music share countless virtues, affecting us in many of the same ways. We respond to their lyricism, move to their rhythms, and anticipate their refrains. In antiquity, the two forms were one and the same, performed together, not as prima donna and accompanist, but as inseparable aspects of a single piece. The Music... (more)

The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story

by Diane Ackerman

A true story—as powerful as Schindler's List —in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands. When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw—and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Zabinskis' villa, emerging after dark... (more)

A Convergence of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by Joseph Cornell - Limited Edition

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Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden

by Diane Ackerman

I Praise My Destroyer: Poems

by Diane Ackerman

What Wildness Is This: Women Write about the Southwest (Southwestern Writers Collection)

by Susan Wittig Albert

The Music Lover's Poetry Anthology

The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story

by Diane Ackerman

A Convergence of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by Joseph Cornell - Limited Edition

by Jonathan Safra Foer