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Come full circle with 180 new, exciting poems selected and introduced by Billy Collins.Inspired by Billy Collins’s poem-a-day program for American high schools that he began through the Library of Congress, the originalPoetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry was a gathering of clear, contemporary poems aimed at a wide audience. In180 More, Collins continues his ambitious mission of exposing readers of all ages to the best of today’s poetry. Here are another 180 hospitable, engaging, reader-friendly poems, offering surprise and delight in a wide range of literary voices–comic, melancholy, reflective, irreverent. If poetry is the original travel literature, this anthology contains 180 vehicles ready to carry you away to unexpected places.With poems byRobert BlyCarol Ann DuffyEamon GrennanMark HallidayJane KenyonDavid KirbyThomas LuxDonna MasiniW. S. MerwinPaul MuldoonCarol Muske-DukesVijay SeshadriNaomi Shihab NyeGerald SternRon PadgettLinda PastanVictoria RedelFranz WrightRobert Wrigleyand many more
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This pulse-racing work from a bestselling master of psychological suspense features a serial killer attending his 20th high school reunion. The killer, who identifies strongly with owls, has murdered several members of the class over the years, in revenge for their treatment of him when he was a student. He has a few more targets lined up for this event, including college dean Jean Sheridan. Will Jean realize the threat to her life and be able to identify in time which of her classmates is The Owl?
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This historical novel follows the fortunes of Julius Caesar, from when he was still called Gaius and before he became the caesar of Rome, to his rise to Rome's most prominent position.
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In the summer of 1899, 15-year-old Olympia Biddeford visits the New Hampshire coast with her wealthy Boston family. Spirited and bright, she soon befriends her father's colleague, Dr. John Haskell, a talented writer, respected physician, and enthusiastic philanthropist. Olympia's summer of awakenings--both intellectual and sexual--turns bleak when her love affair with the good doctor, who is a married father of four and 26 years Olympia's senior, is uncovered.
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When her 21-year-old daughter, Julia, disappears, Cindy Carver takes it upon herself to track down the spoiled and sometimes impetuous young woman. As Cindy searches for Julia, she discovers that her daughter has been leading a dark and dangerous life--and that Cindy herself might be in grave danger.
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