This is a poetry and prose collection whose continuous thread is the development of a loving maternal/child relationship, formed between a young girl and a woman who was in the employ of the girl's family, and brought forward into adulthood. As the story unfolds, the characters' roles reverse, and the girl--now a young woman--becomes the caretaker, revealing a bond that bridges race and class.

Both Wings Flappin', Still Not Flyin'

Literature & Fiction

Ibur, Jane Ellen

Poetry

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The Little Mrs./Misses

In Breast Cancer: One Illness, Two Women, Four Seasons, authors Mary Ellen Havard and Mary Openlander—one a patient, the other a practitioner of Trager, a form of complementary therapy—offer a first-person, combined journal account of the year during which Havard was diagnosed with, and treated for, breast cancer. The primary focus of the book is the unfolding experience of a woman who, out of catastrophic illness, creates a healing journey, aided in no small part by her relationship with a compassionate therapist.

Breast Cancer: One Illness, Two Women, Four Seasons

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Harvard, Mary Ellen

Openlander, Mary

Diseases & Physical Ailments

In Evoking Tang, writer Qiu Xiaolong breathes new life into the works of the Tang dynasty masters, introducing their universal these—of love and lament, frienship and longing, the serenity to be found in natural beauty—to a whole new audience of western readers.The Tang period is the golden age of Chinese poetry. In Evoking Tang, a bilingual collection, Xiaolong offers English translations of more than 70 classic Chinese poems. The original texts represent the work of almost 40 poets from the Tang period, whose poems are comparable in importance, for English-speaking readers, to those of Shakespeare, Wordsworth, and Longfellow. The anthology is illustrated with 30 traditional Chinese paintings, which are included to aid interpretation and to stir the imagination of readers as they enter the poetic world.

Evoking Tang: An Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry

Xiaolong, Qiu

Arguably, no other contemporary issue has stirred so passionate debate as health care reform. In this collection of 21 essays, women from around the country advance this discussion by recounting their individual efforts to access and receive quality health care within the formidable structure of the U.S. health care system. Their many voices speak with clarity, poignancy, and humor about situations familiar to all who have entered a health care setting on behalf of themselves or their loved ones. These penetrating stories cover a spectrum of health care conditions, but they unify around themes of strong self-advocacy and personal empowerment. The book is an enlightening read bot only for health acre consumers, but also for health care students, professionals, and for health policymakers.

Are We Feeling Better Yet?: Women Speak About Health Care in America

McKee, Colleen

Stiebel, Amanda

Women's Health

A Missouri writer and journalist's reflections reveal the natural beauty of the rural Ozarks as the balm for healing familial wounds.

The Voice of Water: Reflections on a Rural Life (Missouri Lives Series)

Biographies & Memoirs

T.L., Jamieson

Regional U.S.

In Meet Me:Writers in St. Louis author Catherine Rankovic invites us into the intimate space of the personal interview with thirteen well-known writers who were living and working in St. Louis or visiting the city in the service of their art. Included in this collection are interviews with Carl Phillips, Kathleen Finneran, Gerald Early, Don Finkel, and Ntozake Shange, to name a few. Rankovic conducted most of the interviews during the 1990s while working as a journalist. The interviews, thus, form a record of the development of these creative personalities—a snapshot of a moment in their lives against which to measure current and future achievements. Recently Rankovic added interviews with three more acclaimed St. Louis writers, making the book a "must-have" resource for anyone interested in the local literary landscape. A photograph of each writer, a sample of the writer's work, anda biographical introduction precede each interview.

Meet Me: Writers in St. Louis

Catherine Rankovic

Arts & Literature

Morada al sur ― A Home in the South (English and Spanish Edition)

Arturo, Aurelio

History & Criticism

One family's experiences, set in  St. Joseph, Missouri, in the late 1950s, are recounted from the perspective of a six-year-old boy. This poignant and often humorous tale weaves a complex tangle of family relationships.

God's Acres (Missouri Lives)

GERARD, DAVID

Parenting & Relationships

Up from Canaan: The African American Journey from Mound Bayou to St. Louis (Missouri Lives Series)

History

Hamilton Ph.D, Dr. Tullia Brown

Americas

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