Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns

Pole Dancing to Gospel HymnsFour time Denver Grand Champion, Pushcart Prize nominee, and winner of the 2008 Women of the World Poetry Slam, Andrea Gibson's dynamic and energetic first book, Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns , challenges us to not only read, but to react. Hauntingly vivid, the poems march through a soldier's lingering psychological wounds, tackle the curious questions of school children on the meaning of "hate", and tangle with a lover's witty and vibrant description

Ingenious and entertaining

Laura Numeroff and Felicia Bond's If You Give a Cat a Cupcake will show everyone that Cat is where it's at

Fern may finally reconnect with the person she actually is when there isn’t a job to get in the way

his absent White grandfather

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: San Francisco Chronicle

of course—and just a few explosions bring Andee and Chan closer

stolen and passed around before its season

and a talking cat with some interesting things to say

this nothingness

”—Julia Quinn

and all three partners are made aware of how much they have to lose

an aspiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostwriting project