Susan Meyers
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Keep and Give Away was selected by Terrance Hayes as the inaugural winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize sponsored by the South Carolina Poetry Initiative. In her first full-length collection, Susan Meyers guides us through her examination of life's ordinary moments and the seemingly ordinary images that abide in them to reveal the extraordinary. From minutia to marriage, crumbs to crows, nothing is too commonplace to escape her attention...
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Rock-a-bye, little one, bedtime is soon.
Rocking horse waits in your rock-a-bye room.
A mother soothes her daughter before bed as they say good night to all the things in her room-a rocking horse, dolls, blocks, and even the pictures on the wall-until it's time to share a story and a kiss good night. With lulling rhymes and lush watercolors, Rock-a-Bye Room is a homespun love song from a mother to child with a dreamy, rockabilly twist. This tender...
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The Decorating Club shares the story of what happens when a group of women come together to help each other redesign their homes. In the process, they support each other through some of the challenges encountered by women today. While the primary focus is on identifying the best purpose and theme for each room, they soon find themselves faced with the need to help one another determine life's next chapter. The Decorating Club was, inspired by true-life...
5) Stone Girl
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At almost fourteen, Myra shops in the fat girl department. No one, least of all her mother, will let her forget it. But, Myra finally finds a friend, who wants to spend time with her and doesn't mind being seen with her.
But, is it for real? Or, will her new friend be like all the other kids, and make fun of her for being fat? Why does she have to choose between friendship and doing what's right?
And, who is really answering the notes Myra leaves...
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"When your late husband worked downtown, thongs were something people wore on their feet," Lillybelle Maudine Granger told her sister, Annabelle Verline Kingston. Whether trying to imagine heaven ("Wouldn't a purple halo be nice?"), playing matchmaker for the youth minister, or helping a stressed-out young mother, this pair of seventy-something senior citizens tackle it with flair and humor. Because, for these two old ladies, it's all in the attitude!
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