Two sisters befriend a man who is different from their other neighbors, visiting his furniture shop and enjoying chocolate bars, but when Christmas comes, they discover that they also have something worth sharing.

Down at Angel's

Chmielarz, Sharon

Children's Books

Ticknor & Fields

When winter refuses to leave a little village, the townspeople try everything to scare it away, but it's not until wise Hans' plan, using hay, straw, and an old wagon, that a taste of green spring appears.

End of Winter

Knopf Books for Young Readers

In a folktale based on medieval Germanic customs, Hans, the butcher's apprentice, invites his friends to a party to chase away the icy frost of winter, stuffing wagon wheels with straw, setting them ablaze, and rolling the flaming suns down the mountainside.

End of Winter-Glb

A vital, delightful, engaging sketch of the life of Maria Anna Mozart, a child prodigy herself before she was eclipsed by the genius of her younger brother. "...dearest Sister...please trust me absolutely and never think that I shall forget you; but remember that things do not always turn out, or at least not always exactly, as one wishes."Mozart (17) to Maria Anna (22), 1778 Charming, intelligent, witty, beautiful, irreverent, Maria Anna (Nannerl) was the older sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. A musical genius in her own right, she toured the courts of Europe as a wunderkind from 1762 to 1767. But her career was cut short when her father, Leopold Mozart, decided to focus his resources on her brother Wolfgang. Sharon Chmielarz dramatizes important moments throughout Nannerl's life, creating a vital, engaging, and ultimately tragic heroine. The poems range from childhood scenes to Nannerl's early retirement and years of virtual exclusion, her marriage of convenience to a wealthy older man, the births of her children, the loss of her parents, brother, and husband, and finally her return as a widow to Salzburg. A fascinating, richly detailed glimpse into the private life of a cultured woman of her era, The Other Mozart, is engaging both as biography and poetry.

The Other Mozart: Poems

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Persea Books

Like the harsh midwestern landscapes she depicts, the author's poems are spare but intense, describing the physical pains of a hard life on the Dakota prairie as well as the emotional pains wrought by domestic abuse.

But I Won't Go Out in a Boat (MVP)

New Rivers Press

SAME COVER AS STOCK PHOTO SHOWN. AUTHOR INSCRIPTION ON TITLE PAGE. NO OTHER MARKING OR WRITING NOTED IN BOOK. MINOR SCUFFING, EDGE WEAR AND SOME CURLING ON BOTH COVERS..

The Rhubarb King

Loonfeather Press

“These are lovely poems. I have come to think of ‘widowness’ as transpersonal almost—it will strike those who are reckless enough to become wives and can recall so intensely the feeling of being in the hospital-vigil with an ending not yet known.”—Joyce Carol Oates, author of A Widow‘s Story “I love this book! It’s very moving and complex both. A fearless journey into the mystery of grief and love and loss. Her powers of observation are so accurate and careful . . . and tough.”—Jonis Agee, author of The Bones of Paradise “So many poems today say so much but I experience so little—I understand all right, but I don’t get pushed into second gear, don’t get moved into the feeling that is meant to be offered up, no rough leap into the world off the page. This leap happens in a poem like ‘On Green.’”—Alberto Ríos, author of A Small Story about the Sky “She knows how to take risks, how to deliver sharp pathos. . . . This eloquent book is her obligation to her beloved. She remembers. ‘Listen,’ she writes, ‘I am never lonely when I can imagine you.’ Perhaps this brave book saves her life.”—Michael Dennis Browne, author of The Voices “This honest and unflinching collection does not leave the reader without hope: ‘Right at the worst time of your life someone/helps you in some way,’ she writes. ‘You must take the least shred of it in,’ and she does.”—Joyce Sutphen, Minnesota Poet Laureate, author of Modern Love and Other Myths

The Widow's House: Poems

Brighthorse Books

Duet in the Little Blue Church: poems new and selected

Nodin Press

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