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Commandment (Paperback)

By Mary Adams
$10.00
ISBN-13: 9780971204621
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Spring Street Editions/Ash Creek Press, 10/01/2009

Spring Street Editions, in collaboration with Ash Creek Press in Portland, Oregon, has launched its chapbook series with WCU professor Mary Adams’s Commandment. Her work has earned her a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, among other honors. These new poems show her to be one of the finest formalists writing today. Says Ron Rash, “She is a poet of the first rank.”
— Kathryn Stripling Byer


By Tracy Chevalier
$26.95
ISBN-13: 9780525951452
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Dutton Adult, 01/01/2010

I really think this is Chevalier’s best book yet. (Her previous novels include The Girl with the Pearl Earring.)   It is a novel but is based largely on the lives of two women who were fossil hunters in Lyme Regis, England, in the early 19th century. Although I think the title is meant to refer to the fossils they found, these two women were remarkable creatures themselves. Read the first paragraph or two and see if you can put it down!
— Margot Wilcox


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