Maggie Smith
1) Good Bones
Author
Publisher
Tupelo Press
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
Featuring "Good Bones"—called "Official Poem of 2016" by the BBC/Public Radio International.
Author
Publisher
Ten16 Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Megan Barnes' life is in free fall. After losing both her job as a reporter and her boyfriend in the same day, she retreats to Chicago and moves in with Helen, her over-protective mother. Before long, the two are clashing over everything from pro-choice to #MeToo, not to mention Helen's run for US Congress which puts Megan's career on hold until after the election. Desperate to reboot her life, Megan gets her chance when an altercation at a campus...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Life, like a poem, is a series of choices." In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of her marriage and her renewed commitment to herself in lyrical vignettes that shine, hard and clear as jewels. The book begins with one woman's personal, particular heartbreak, but its circles widen into a reckoning with contemporary womanhood, traditional gender roles, and the power dynamics that persist...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"By Pushcart award-winning poet Maggie Smith, a collection of quotes and essays on facing life's challenges with creativity, courage, and resilience"--
When poet Smith started writing daily Twitter posts in the wake of her divorce, they unexpectedly caught fire. Here she writes about new beginnings as opportunities for transformation. Like kintsugi, the Japanese art of mending broken ceramics with gold, she celebrates the beauty and strength on the...
Author
Publisher
One Signal Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First One Signal Publishers/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 113 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"With her breakout bestseller Keep Moving, Maggie Smith captured the nation with her "meditations on kindness and hope" (NPR). Now, with Goldenrod, the award-winning poet returns with a powerful collection of poems that look at parenthood, solitude, love, and memory. Pulling objects from everyday life--a hallway mirror, a rock found in her son's pocket, a field of goldenrods at the side of the road--she reveals the magic of the present moment. Only...
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
At bedtime, when lights go outsometimes thoughts stay on. Scary things and worries flutter and flap around. It's so hard to sleep! But a little imagination (and a lot of love) can create a cozy nest for happy thoughts-and sweet dreams for little ones.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dame Maggie Smith, Dame Judi Dench, Dame Eileen Atkins, and Dame Joan Plowright are among the most celebrated actresses of the time, with scores of iconic performances, decades of wisdom, and innumerable awards between them. They are also longtime friends who invite viewers to join them for a weekend in the country as they catch up with one another, reminisce, and share their candid, delightfully irreverent thoughts on everything from art to aging...
14) Our library
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
A raccoon and his friends go to great lengths to make sure they will always have a library from which to borrow books.
16) One mitten
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Language
English
Description
One mitten can do many things, but when the second mitten is found, it is time to go outside and have fun.
17) Beach day
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 21 x 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rhyming text describes a perfect day at the beach, complete with sandy knees, deviled eggs, and a castle with a moat.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Red poppies, yellow primroses, purple violets, and other colorful flowers bloom and grow in this delightful picture book by Newbery Medalist Linda Sue Park -- the perfect tool for learning colors and flowers!
19) Ferryboat ride!
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
A little girl notices all the sights, smells, and sounds along the way when her family takes a ferryboat to their summer island.
20) My big boy bed
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
[32 p.] : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A little boy celebrates all the things he can do now that he has a big boy bed.
