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Vendor: Ray Rasmussen
Landmarks: A Haibun Collection
Landmarks is a collection of 64 of Ray Rasmussen's haibun that have appeared in a number of journals including Modern Haiku, Frogpond, Haibun Today, Contemporary Haibun Online, A Hundred Gourds, Bottle Rockets and Blithe Spirit. Themes include later-in-life romance, memories of childhood, wilderness adventures,...- $8.50
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Vendor: Shelagh Brennand
A Stroke of Poetry: Poems of healing and hope after stroke
A Stroke of Poetry is a collection of 30 poems, written by a stroke survivor during her recovery. This collection chronicles the frustrations, the sadness and the amusing times that are part of the climb back from stroke. They may make you smile, they...- $14.00
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Vendor: Zuzy Rocka
Shelly the Star-Gazer
A lovely bedtime story, before you go to sleepTo hold in your heart, and forever keepOf a little girl, who looks to the skyDreaming of stars and firefliesAuthor: Zuzy RockaISBN-10: 0993600700ISBN-13: 9780993600708Publisher: Zuzy RockaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/16/2013Pages: 26Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 8.50h x 8.50w x 0.07d- $10.95
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Vendor: Sharon Gordon
Ever Herself: a tribute to the female form
The naked female body has inspired artists from the beginning of time. The poet, the sculptor, the painter and, more recently, the photographer, each in their own medium, expresses the beauty, fragility and power of her form. Sometimes the image is made for profit,...- $33.00
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Vendor: Betty Willis
Poems and Story Yarns
Poetry and writings compiled over a lifetime, growing up in the Australian bush and then working in administration. But finally finding her true vocation working with the women of the South Pacific through mission work of the Uniting Church and related organizations. After retirement...- $12.37
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Vendor: Barry Spacks
Shaping Water
Barry Spacks (1931 - 2014), the author of eleven previous collections of poetry, taught for 21 years at MIT and 32 years at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Shaping Water is the final book of poems collected and organized by the poet during...- $15.00
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Vendor: Joey Yearous-Algozin
Holly Melgard's Friends & Family
For three years, Joey Yearous-Algozin transcribed Holly Melgard's voicemails.Author: Joey Yearous-AlgozinISBN-10: 0991582004ISBN-13: 9780991582006Publisher: Bon Aire ProjectsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/17/2014Pages: 98Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.20d- $12.00
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Vendor: Carlos Contreras
Time Served
This provocative debut from National Poetry Slam Champion Carlos Contreras is a conversation in two parts: one, a monologue-style musing on working in a correction facility told from an insider/outsider perspective; and two, an homage to veterans of other kinds of war who must...- $12.95
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Vendor: John Knoepfle
The Aloe of Evening
John Knoepfle's latest book The Aloe of Evening is the best collection of poems you will read this year. Knoepfle pronounced know-full] has command of our spoken language few writers will ever achieve. And he knows exactly where the golden thread of each poem...- $20.00
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Vendor: Seth
A Black Odyssey: collected poems
This diverse, vibrant book is modeled, like Joyce's Ulysses, on Homer's ancient epic, using it as an allegorical scaffolding for the poet's own experience as a Black man in contemporary America. The author's language runs the gamut from the vernacular to the Elizabethan; everything...- $15.00
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Vendor: James Brush
Birds Nobody Loves: A Book of Vultures & Grackles
Birds Nobody Loves is an illustrated collection of poems about two of the less popular denizens of the sky. After spending a lot of time watching vultures and grackles around his home in central Texas, author James Brush "never ceases to be amazed--and just...- $9.99
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Vendor: Gail J. Vanwart
Life Raked In: Penned in a Wild Blueberry Field in Maine
A compilation of poetry and thoughts of how our life relates to the lifecycle observed in a wild blueberry field from bloom to harvest. The author, Gail J. Vanwart, is a fourth generation steward of her family's organic wild blueberry farm on Peaked Mountain...- $14.99
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Vendor: Chandra Bozelko
Up the River: An Anthology
Chandra Bozelko's Up the River Anthology projects many voices. But it is Bozelko's voice that harmonizes the discordant and disconcerting fragments of our criminal justice system. She examines her life as a prison inmate in this riveting poetry collection. Up the River presents a...- $9.95
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Vendor: Wayne A. Gilbert
from the ashes
Master jazz Sufi poet, Wayne A. Gilbert, chronicles the loss of his mother with powerful, bitter-sweet honesty to create this beautiful collection of poems that is universal in its scope, transcendent in the depth of its understanding and exquisitely crafted in the musicality of...- $12.00
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Vendor: Diane Kistner
Simple Weight
With consummate skill, subtle and exacting artistry, and fierce passion, Tania Runyan's first collection, Simple Weight, brilliantly unveils the mysterious ties tethering heaven to earth and] explores the painful and troubling journeys of a soul in search of the divine.... Hers is a voice...- $14.95
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Vendor: Hakim Bellamy
Swear
In his debut collection of hard-hitting poems, Albuquerque Poet Laureate Hakim Bellamy addresses the issues important to our day--politics, work, and art. Bellamy moves from a freethinking attitude of deliverance to a provocative new space where the reader can reflect on the poet's inquisition...- $14.95
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Vendor: Chris Tonelli
The Trees Around
Poetry. Full of the will and the weather, that great skeptic Wallace Stevens walked to work and wrote his poems, poems you may well already love and believe. (Good, as they say, for you.) And as for Chris Tonelli, he walks in that integrity:...- $12.00
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Vendor: Louis Chelton
Sense of the Isle
Author: Louis CheltonISBN-10: 0978927184ISBN-13: 9780978927189Publisher: Elden Publishing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/28/2016Pages: 32Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 10.00h x 8.00w x 0.25d- $14.99
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Vendor: Anita N. Feng
Sadie and Mendel
Sadie and Mendel leapt off the pages every time I read it. This is an American story in the best sense of that word, and Ms. Feng is its perfect midwife.--Lola Haskins, author of Hunger, Iowa Poetry Prize winnerAuthor: Anita N. FengISBN-10: 0978578201ISBN-13: 9780978578206Publisher:...- $16.00
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Vendor: Jason Clay Oneal
Shadows with no Light: Poetry
Jason Clay Oneal's first volume of published poetry in the deeper meaning of the abstract vein as William Burroughs and the realness of Anne Sexton. Shocking political and emotional real life poetry based on forbidden subject matter, hidden complexities of the human condition and...- $19.99
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Vendor: Laura Solorzano
Lip Wolf
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Jen Hofer. A beast of lips--wolf, lion, you name it--voracious, gluttonous of the fleshiness of words...These poems provide us with stunning soundings of that which resists remaining still in the form of images--Monica de la Torre....- $14.00
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Vendor: Ryan Vine
Distant Engines
Distant Engines is one of the three winners of The Weldon Kees Award for 2005 from The Backwaters Press.Author: Ryan VineISBN-10: 0976523167ISBN-13: 9780976523161Publisher: Backwaters PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/09/2006Pages: 48Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.16lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.12dAward: Northeastern Minnesota Book Award - Nominee- $14.00
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Vendor: Mark Allen Gray
The Hounds of Love
The Hounds of Love is a collection of poems that tell a familiar story in an unrestrained free verse form. This is a story of love discovered, love lived, love lost, and love rediscovered. In this story, love has no form, no rules, and...- $5.95
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Vendor: Graham Woodall
Across my World
This is a series of verbal snapshots of the Author's life, interspersed with his poetry and that of some friends.Author: Graham WoodallISBN-10: 0955677106ISBN-13: 9780955677106Publisher: G.D. WoodallLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/09/2007Pages: 138Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.47lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.32d- $9.95
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Vendor: Lindsey Martin-Bowen
Standing on the Edge of the World
Author: Lindsey Martin-BowenISBN-10: 0939391449ISBN-13: 9780939391448Publisher: Woodley PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/15/2008Pages: 104Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.36lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.25d- $10.00
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Vendor: Irene McKinney
Backcountry: Contemporary Writing in West Virginia
This is as closely-knit an anthology as you are ever likely to see. It is as though a large, extended family were drawing on the same store of family stories, jokes, symbols, landscapes, animals, trees, language, and vernacular. How many snakes are in this...- $24.95
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Vendor: Brett Rutherford
Tales of Terror: The Supernatural Poem Since 1800, Volume 2
This annotated edition of 176 supernatural-themed poems is the second part of a modern sequel to Matthew Gregory Lewis's famous 1801 poetry anthology, Tales of Wonder. As might be expected, several of the best-known horror writers who were also poets are here, including H.P....- $19.95
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Vendor: Brett Rutherford
Tales of Terror: The Supernatural Poem Since 1800
This annotated edition of 76 memorable supernatural-themed poems is a modern sequel to Matthew Gregory Lewis's famous 1801 poetry anthology, Tales of Wonder. Treasures in this volume include two translations of scenes from Goethe's Faust by Coleridge and Shelley; supernatural verses and ballads gleaned...- $19.95
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Vendor: Tom Fitzpatrick
The Raven and the Sun: Poems and Stories
Boria Sax, steeped in animal studies in myth and literature, is not only a teacher and scholar, but also one of our finest lyric poets. This collection of poems and tales, centered around the mysterious world of crows and ravens that exists around us...- $13.95
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Vendor: Henrik Nordbrandt
Selected Poems
A collection of poems from Danish poet Henrik Nordbrandt, translated into English by the author and Alexander Taylor.Author: Henrik NordbrandtISBN-10: 0915306336ISBN-13: 9780915306336Publisher: Curbstone PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/1995Pages: 88Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 9.10h x 5.90w x 0.30d- $16.95
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Vendor: Red Pine
Cathay Revisited
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. This is a book of translation about translating. Red Pine has revisited the poems first translated by Ezra Pound in his Cathay, renewed them through his own experience of language and culture, and attached an important essay about the art of...- $9.00
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Vendor: Matthew Blair
The Paisley Shawl
"The Epoch of the Shawl Trade in Paisley," writes the author of this interesting volume, "is now rounded off. Like a flower it came up, blossomed, and decayed." Even thus, in Paisley, does the poetic imagination weave garlands of blooming thoughts round textile fabrics....- $19.95
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Vendor: Kim Hyesoon
Poor Love Machine
For decades, Kim Hyesoon--a leading figure in contemporary Korean poetry and trans-national feminist literature--has represented the capabilities of a poet who works across, around, and through the borders of nations and of language itself. Many of her works have been translated, with the overwhelming...- $16.00
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Vendor: Nikolai Erdman
The Suicide
"More than a half a century ago, Russian playwright Nikolai Erdman came up with a comic cure for political headaches: THE SUICIDE. It gave Joseph Stalin a pain and Erdman got twenty years in a Siberian work camp. But a strikingly American adaptation of...- $12.95
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Vendor: Christopher Buckley
What Will Suffice: Contemporary American Poets on the Art of Poetry
Author: Christopher BuckleyISBN-10: 0879056924ISBN-13: 9780879056926Publisher: Gibbs Smith PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/19/1995Pages: 200Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 9.08h x 6.20w x 0.56d- $17.95
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Vendor: Chiyuma Elliott
California Winter League
CALIFORNIA WINTER LEAGUE, selected as the Editor's Choice in the Unicorn Press First Book Competition, is a collection of stunning breadth and depth. These poems interleave the story of the poet's childhood hero, the pitcher Leroy "Satchel" Paige, with the tale of her own...- $18.00
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Vendor: Derek Brewer
A Companion to the Gawain-Poet
Provides an excellent one-volume guide to the works of the anonymous Gawain-poet.' CHOICE The essays collected here on the Gawain-Poet offer stimulating introductions to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Cleanness and Patience, providing both information and original analysis. Topics includetheories of authorship;...- $39.95
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Vendor: Charles Baudelaire
Invitation to the Voyage: Selected Poems and Prose
"Baudelaire is indeed the greatest exemplar in modern poetry in any language," said T. S. Eliot. We experience Baudelaire in myriad ways through his multifaceted writing. His sensuous poems--dreams of escape to an impossible, preferably tropical, elsewhere--draw us in with their descriptive and perceptual...- $24.50
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Vendor: Saint Elizabeth Of the Trinity
Barb of Fire: Twenty Poems of Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity with Selected Passages from Blessed Columba Marmion, Osb
New and vivid translations of the twenty poems by Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity that were published in the Souvenirs shortly after her death in 1906. Accompanying each poem is a selected passage from Abbot Marmion, also newly translated. The editor and translator, Alan...- $19.95
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Vendor: Richard Gwyn
The Psalms in Haiku Form: A Simplified Psalter
Presented in the ancient Japanese form of Haiku poetry, this vivid and deeply moving new translation of the Psalms is vivid and deeply moving. The rhythm of the 17-syllable verse, with its carefully structured pattern, introduces a meditative element to the ageless Psalms, reflecting...- $14.95
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Vendor: Bruce Berman
Cutting the Wire: Photographs and Poetry from the Us-Mexico Border
Winner of the 2019 Southwest Book Award from the Border Regional Library Association2018 Southwest Books of the YearCutting the Wire, a masterful collaboration between photographer Bruce Berman and poets Ray Gonzalez and Lawrence Welsh, offers us a way to look again, to really look,...- $29.95
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Vendor: Tomas Transtromer
Windows and Stones: Selected Poems
Translated by May Swenson, Leif Sjoberg An International Poetry Forum Selection, translated from the Swedish by May Swenson with Leif Sjerg. Tomas Transtrer 2011 Nobel Laureate in Literature "Tomas Transtrer, who is today one of Sweden's most distinguished poets . . . can compare...- $24.00
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Vendor: Piotr Sommer
Continued: Stories from a Road Less Traveled
Continued is a selection of poems by Piotr Sommer, spanning his career to date. A kind of poetic utterance, these "talk poems" are devoid of any singsong quality yet faithfully preserve all the melodies and rhythms of colloquial speech. Events and objects of ordinary,...- $16.95
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Vendor: James Wright
The Branch Will Not Break: Poems
A new book of poetry from a Pulitzer Prize-winning master poetThese new poems by the author of Saint Judas and The Green Wall embody a sharp break with his earlier work. Their impact is well described by the British critic Michael Hamburger: "He has...- $14.95
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Vendor: Ernest B. Gilman
Yiddish Poetry and the Tuberculosis Sanatorium: 1900-1970
Part literary history and part medical sociology, Gilman's book chronicles the careers of three major immigrant Yiddish poets of the twentieth century - Solomon Bloomgarten (Yehoash), Sholem Shtern, and H. Leivick - all of whom lived through, and wrote movingly of, their experience as...- $24.95
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Vendor: Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass, a Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems: Volume I: Poems: 1855-1856
Throughout his life, Walt Whitman continually revised and re-released Leaves of Grass. He added and deleted words, emended lines, divided poems, dropped and created titles, and shifted the order of poems. Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems includes all the...- $35.00
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Vendor: Joanne V. Gabbin
Sterling A. Brown: Building the Black Aesthetic Tradition
Sterling A. Brown's achievement and influence in the field of American literature and culture are unquestionably significant. His poetry has been translated into Spanish, French, German, and Russian and has been read in literary circles throughout the world. He is also one of the...- $35.00
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Vendor: Sandra Forman
Only Mystery: Federico Garcia Lorca's Poetry in Word and Image
Weaving together twenty-one drawings and new translations of prose pieces and poems, Only Mystery presents a textured life of Spain's greatest modern poet and playwright. The guiding principles for selecting poems, prose, and paintings were dramatic effect and narrative cohesion. Originally designed for performance...- $24.95
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Vendor: Dunya Mikhail
The Iraqi Nights
The Iraqi Nights is the third collection by the acclaimed Iraqi poet Dunya Mikhail. Taking The One Thousand and One Nights as her central theme, Mikhail personifies the role of Scheherazade the storyteller, saving herself through her tales. The nights are endless, seemingly as...- $15.95
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Vendor: Lars Gustafsson
The Stillness of the World Before Bach: Poetry
Lars Gustafsson, one of Sweden's leading men of letters, is known in the English-speaking world primarily for his novels and short stories, but he is also a distinguished poet with ten discrete volumes published to date in addition to the collective edition of his...- $16.95
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Poetry Books
Poetry books are a collection of literary works that focus on the art and expression of the written word through verse. They have been an integral part of human history, with evidence of poetic writings dating back to ancient civilizations.
Poetry books encompass a wide range of themes, styles, and forms, reflecting the diverse perspectives, emotions, and experiences of poets throughout different eras. From love to nature, politics to spirituality, poetry explores various subjects and serves as a medium to convey thoughts and feelings in a unique and creative way. The structure and format of poetry books can vary greatly. Some collections consist of individual poems written by a single author, while others may contain the works of multiple poets compiled together. They can be organized by themes, chronology, or even by different poetic styles and movements.
Poetry books are not only a source of artistic enjoyment, but they also offer insights into different cultures, periods, and social issues. They provide a medium for self-reflection, introspection, and contemplation. Many readers find solace, inspiration, and a deep connection with the emotions and experiences expressed in poetic verses. The popularity of poetry books has endured throughout history, transcending cultural and linguistic boundaries. From ancient epics like "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" by Homer, to classic works like Shakespeare's sonnets, to contemporary collections like Rupi Kaur's "Milk and Honey," poetry has always remained relevant and influential.
Whether you are a poetry enthusiast, a lover of literature, or someone interested in exploring emotions, ideas, and the beauty of language, poetry books offer an immersive experience that can touch hearts, provoke thoughts, and inspire change.
Popular Poetry Books
Poetry books have always captivated readers with their rhythmic verses, vivid imagery, and poignant emotion. They have the power to transport us to different worlds, evoke deep feelings, and make us see ordinary things in extraordinary ways. Within the vast world of poetry, there are several notable and popular books that have left an indelible mark on literature and continue to enchant readers to this day. Let us explore some of these beloved poetry collections.
1. "Milk and Honey"
2. "The Sun and Her Flowers"
3. "Milk and Vine"
4. "Magnetic Poetry: Original Kit"
5. "The Classic Hundred Poems"
These popular poetry books represent just a fraction of the vast and diverse offerings within the genre. Whether you seek to be moved, inspired, entertained, or enlightened, there is a poetry collection out there waiting to captivate your imagination, stir your emotions, and leave a lasting impression on your literary journey.
Popular Poetry Books Authors
The world of poetry has produced numerous celebrated authors whose words continue to captivate and resonate with readers across generations. From timeless classics to contemporary masterpieces, these poets have left an indelible mark on the literary landscape.
1. William Shakespeare
2. Emily Dickinson
3. Robert Frost
4. Maya Angelou
5. Langston Hughes.
6. Rumi
These authors represent just a fraction of the exceptionally talented poets whose works have left a lasting impact on the world of literature. Through their poetry books, they invite readers to explore the depth of human emotion, question societal norms, and find solace in the beauty of language.
Whether you are an admirer of classic poetry or a novice looking to explore this enchanting genre, White Rain Book House welcomes you with open arms. Step into this haven of literary delights, and allow the words of renowned poets, beautifully encapsulated in their poetry books, to transport you to a world of emotions and imagination.