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Mr. Utterson, a lawyer, prides himself on staying out of other people’s business. But how can he, when it concerns one of his best friends? Dr. Jekyll has been behaving oddly recently—updating his will, leaving everything to a mysterious young man named Mr. Hyde, and refusing to explain his reasoning to anyone. Can it be that he is being blackmailed? Or is there something darker going on in the life of Utterson’s upstanding and respectable friend? One thing is sure: he will not get any answers from Jekyll himself. He must turn his attention to the abominable Mr. Hyde, and hope that he’s able to free Dr. Jekyll from his clutches before it’s too late. |
Enter the lavish and achingly beautiful world of Dorian Gray, where magic is afoot and the intricacies of human conscience (or lack of it) are on parade—at the theater, at the table, in the garden, even in city environs that circle out to dark wharfs like a mythic underworld. Pomegranates, violets, tulips, roses, lilacs, and narcissus tell a silent story through flower language—a truer story than the tale that Dorian Gray tells himself along the way with the help of the hilarious but reprehensible Lord Henry, a man of both verbal and financial means who will say anything and sit back to watch what happens next. Sara Barkat, illustrator of The Yellow Wall-Paper: A Graphic Novel, lends her artistic vision to this classic tale by Oscar Wilde. Her work includes illustrations of many of the flowers that tell the truth of Dorian’s life. An annotated list of illustrations can be found at the end of the book, where she explores the deeper meanings behind each piece of art—explorations based on the literature and history Oscar Wilde likely drew upon when creating his tale. |
 Earth Song was born from a pivotal moment of personal connection with nature, while the world seemed burning with pandemic fever and climate fire. This anthology of eco-poetry gathered by editor Sara Barkat is infused with vision and care. Holding the collection is like cradling a rare crystal that focuses longing, love, tenderness, hope, and a wish for the world to keep turning… in unutterable ways. Thus: the visceral need for poetry. Words that sing more than speak. Images that invite more than opine.
Arranged to mirror the experience of an orchestral piece—with repeating refrains of Teasdale and Hopkins, Earth Song unfolds its lyric moments through a wide range of voices. Historic. Modern-day. Cross-cultural. Global—with many poems in beautiful translation. The collection includes both emerging poets and greats like Neruda, Berry, Hirshfield, Darwish, Dickinson, McKay and Merwin. Leaving off anger, which is the single emotion that many people have come to associate with environmental concern, this collection puts forth a vision more nuanced, more poignant, and not easily brushed aside. Like an irresistible piece of music, it draws readers to embrace their care for the world—starting so simply: celebrating life moment-by-small-moment. |
 When little Song receives a last-minute invitation to a midnight ball, she leaves immediately, hoping to arrive on time to the castle. But her journey is long, and she meets many friendly animals on the way. They enjoy fields and forests, sunlight and moonlight, and quiet moments of wonder. In a beautiful story of new friends and sweet generosity, little Song takes readers on a time-telling adventure from noon to midnight.
An antique timepiece on each page shows the changing hours and minutes. Children learn analog, digital, and text versions of time from noon to midnight. They also learn sequencing, through the movement from noon to afternoon to evening to night. Sequencing is a major concept necessary for building deeper math skills. Predictable text plus alliteration in key portions of the tale make this a seamless “learning” bedtime story or classroom read aloud—the story can also serve as an early reader that a child can grow with to build literacy skills. |
The Shivering Ground blends future and past, earth and otherworldliness, in a magnetic collection that shimmers with art, philosophy, dance, film, and music at its heart.
A haunting medieval song in the mouth of a guard, an 1800s greatcoat on the shoulders of a playwright experiencing a quantum physics love affair, alien worlds both elsewhere and in the ruined water at our feet: these stories startle us with the richness and emptiness of what we absolutely know and simultaneously cannot pin into place.
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 “The Yellow Wall-Paper” is a short story that was written in the late 1800s by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, after she suffered a serious downturn with depression, upon taking a doctor’s advice to engage in the “rest cure” and abandon creative pursuits forever. Now, more than a hundred years later, this image-rich work has been interpreted by artist Sara Barkat in “The Yellow Wall-Paper: A Graphic Novel”—in a manner that combines both philosophical thought and visual intrigue.
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 A witty, wise, and wonderful illustrated creative gift journal based on The Yellow Wall-Paper: A Graphic Novel. (Please note that while Amazon displays the interior as sepia, like its companion graphic novel, the journal comes in black & white, as pictured in the samples below.)
Funny, surprising, thoughtful, mischievous (and sometimes melodramatic) prompts throughout. Makes journaling more fun than perhaps it was meant to be. Buy The Yellow Wall-Paper Sanity Journal Now
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