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Houndsley and Catina Through the Seasons by James Howe; Marie Louise Gay (Illustrator)
Category: Children's | Series: Houndsley and Catina Ser.
Follow two adorable friends all year long in this four-in-one collection of adventures featuring the sweet, endearing Houndsley and Catina. Funny, friendly, and just right for emerging readers, the world of Houndsley and Catina is the perfect place to escape to at any time of year. Whether they're w ...Show more
Houndsley and Catina at the Library by James Howe; Marie Louise Gay (Illustrator)
Category: Middle Readers | Series: Houndsley and Catina Ser.
The charming duo returns with a love letter to the library, good friends, the joy of learning, and self-reinvention. It's Saturday, and Houndsley, Catina, and their friend Bert are looking forward to their weekly visit to the library. But when the trio arrives, they find that Trixie, the librarian, ...Show more
Magdalene - Poems by Marie Howe
Category: Poetry
Magdalene imagines the biblical figure of Mary Magdalene as a woman who embodies the spiritual and sensual, alive in a contemporary landscape--hailing a cab, raising a child, listening to news on the radio. Between facing the traumas of her past and navigating daily life, the narrator of Magdalene yearn ...Show more
New and Selected Poems by Marie Howe
Category: Poetry
Characterized by "a radical simplicity and seriousness of purpose, along with a fearless interest in autobiography and its tragedies and redemptions" (Matthew Zapruder, New York Times Magazine), Marie Howe's poetry transforms penetrating observations of everyday life into sacred, humane miracles. This e ...Show more
The Good Thief by Marie Howe
Category: Fiction | Series: The National Poetry Series
The heralded debut collection of poems by the author of What the Living Do (Norton, 1997). Selected by Margaret Atwood as a winner in the 1987 Open Competition of the National Poetry Series, this unique collection was the first sounding of a deeply authentic voice. Howe's early writings concern relation ...Show more
The Kingdom of Ordinary Time: Poems by Marie Howe
Category: Poetry
Hurrying through errands, attending a dying mother, helping her own child down the playground slide, the speaker in these poems wonders: what is the difference between the self and the soul? The secular and the sacred? Where is the kingdom of heaven? And how does one live in Ordinary Time-during those a ...Show more
What the Living Do by Marie Howe
Category: Poetry
Informed by the death of her beloved brother, here are the stories of childhood and its thicket of sex and sorrow and joy.
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