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Staying Alive

Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times

By
Neil Astley
Neil Astley(Editor)
2002

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589 books

Adventure

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Shadow of a bull
Call It Courage
Blue highways
Holes
The greatest skating race
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
The Door in the Wall

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311 books

Nature

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High Tide in Tucson
Country Matters: The Pleasures and Tribulations of Moving from a Big City to an Old Country Farmhouse
In the Trees, Honey Bees: A Rhyming Nature Book for Kids
Living Sunlight: How Plants Bring the Earth to Life
Moonshot : the flight of Apollo 11
Down, Down, Down

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202 books

Spirituality

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Faith
Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God
Angry Conversations with God: A Snarky but Authentic Spiritual Memoir
My Name is Asher Lev
Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Gilead

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126 books

Health

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Mermaid Queen: The Spectacular True Story Of Annette Kellerman, Who Swam Her Way To Fame, Fortune & Swimsuit History!
My Own Country
Living Oprah
The Spare Room
Unfinished Business: One Man's Extraordinary Year of Trying to Do the Right Things

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370 books

Animals

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Creature ABC
Pony island
Life-Size Zoo: From Tiny Rodents to Gigantic Elephants, An Actual-Size Animal Encyclopedia
Butterflies And Moths
Bubble Homes & Fish Farts
About Penguins: A Guide for Children
Where Else in the Wild?

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273 books

Creativity

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Seven Days in the Art World
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
High Tide in Tucson
Journal of a Solitude
The cross-country quilters
The Glass Bead Game

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157 books

Poetry

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The Best American Poetry 2006
Journal of a Solitude
Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude
Possession

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374 books

Happiness

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How to Change Your Entire Life by Doing Absolutely Nothing
Sarah, plain and tall
Hometown Tales
Can't wait to get to heaven
This I believe : the personal philosophies of remarkable men and women
Five Good Minutes

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273 books

Inspiration

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The World According To Mister Rogers
Dios Hara Algo Grande: God Is Up to Something Great
Too Busy To Count The Years
The Art of Noticing
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

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707 books

Relationships

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The Lonely American: Drifting Apart in the Twenty-first Century
Like Jake and Me
The Help
Still Alice
The Housekeeper and the Professor
Shortcomings
Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name

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149 books

Moving And Starting Over

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Country Matters: The Pleasures and Tribulations of Moving from a Big City to an Old Country Farmhouse
Honeymoon in Purdah: An Iranian Journey
Between Panic and Desire
Await Your Reply
Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work
The East-West House: Noguchi's Childhood in Japan

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111 books

Coming Of Age

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Between Panic and Desire
Unite or Die
Stitches
So Many Ways to Begin
Where the Red Fern Grows

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173 books

Mystery

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G is for Gumshoe
Free Fall
Await Your Reply
The Secret History
Bad Things Happen
U is for undertow

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78 books

Learning

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Disrupting Class
From Where You Dream
Life-Size Zoo: From Tiny Rodents to Gigantic Elephants, An Actual-Size Animal Encyclopedia
Play
Work Hard. Be Nice.

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30 books

Poetry

Worzel
Phil James
Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda
High Windows, Philip Larkin.
Stag's Leap: Poems
Sailing Alone Around the Room
Death of a Naturalist
The Haw Lantern