21st century

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Beauty is a verb

the new poetry of disability
2011
Anthology of poetry by American poets with physical disabilities, including Vassar Miller, Larry Eigner, Josephine Miles, Petra Kuppers, Kenny Fries, Jim Ferris, Bernadette Mayer, Rusty Morrison, Cynthia Hogue, and C.S. Giscombe, and discusses a number of disabilities including cerebral palsy, deafness, blindness, multiple sclerosis, and aphasia due to stroke, among others.

Stephenie Meyer

author of the Twilight saga
2009
Biography of American novelist Stephenie Meyer, author of the best-selling Twilight saga.

April 4, 1968

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s death and how it changed America
2008
The author uses the anniversary of the death of famed civil rights leader Martin Luther King to examine how King fought and died for equal rights among all people of color, and how America has changed in the four decades since his death.

And the pursuit of happiness

2010
Photographs, illustrations, and hand-written text by the author chronicle a year of her travels across the United States and her reflections on democracy, beginning with a celebration of Barack Obama's inauguration in Washington, D.C., and including the study of several presidents and political sites.

The great modern poets

2006
Discusses some of the greatest works and poets of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

GirlSpoken

from pen, brush & tongue
2008
A collection of personal stories, poems, and sketches created by young women across America to depict the challenges they face on a daily basis.

Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)

2008
Chronicles seven presidential administrations from Richard M. Nixon to George W. Bush that profiles their early years, political careers, presidency, and legacy.

Weapons of mass destruction and North Korea

2005
Describes the background and context of North Korea's possibility of owning weapons of mass destruction.

In fact

the best of Creative nonfiction
2005
Presents an anthology of twenty-five essays covering creative nonfiction of both the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

The song of the earth

a novel
2001
John Firth Baker, the world's first genetically engineered visual artist, is remembered after his murder in 2057 through reproductions of his work, journals, E-mails, newspaper clippings, and interviews.

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