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S. A. Bodeen (or Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen) is an American children's and young adult book author.She is best known for her young adult science fiction novels The Compound and The Gardener, and books for children and adults like A Small Brown Dog with a Wet Pink Nose and for her picture books about Elizabeti, a young Tanzanian girl.
Island trilogy boxed set. Island is a novel trilogy by Canadian author Gordon Korman. The books are set in contemporary times and designed for young teenagers. The series consists of: Shipwreck (2000) Survival (2001) Escape (2001) [1] Island Trilogy Bind-Up Book (2006)
Collected Poems (1903) The Kingdom of All Souls, poems, (1912) The Flight and Other Poems (1914) He edited The complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1892); Lamb's Essays of Elia (1892); The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, with E. C. Stedman (1895); and Select Poems of Aubrey de Vere (1894).
In later life he lived at Great Neck, Long Island, where he co-founded the Great Neck Peace Forum. He was married to Ruth née Fleischer (1920–99); they had two daughters. He died of lymphoma on October 7, 1988. [3] The Poetry Society of America's George Bogin Memorial Award was created to honor him after his death. [4]
The plot involves three men tending a lighthouse on an island off the coast of French Guiana.The rock the lighthouse stands on is dubbed 'Three Skeleton Key', named after a tragedy when three convicts escaping from Cayenne became ship-wrecked on the rock and eventually died of hunger and thirst – the only thing left of them were a heap of bones cleaned off by scavenging birds.
Witte is the author of four books of poetry: An Abundance of Caution, Does She Have a Name?, Deniability, and The Apparitioners.His poems have been published in The Atlantic, The Antioch Review, Boulevard, Gettysburg Review, The Hopkins Review, The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, [2] Poetry, Prairie Schooner, New York Quarterly, [3] Southwest Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, [4] and The Yale ...
The book was first released on April 29, 2008, through Feiwel & Friends and centers upon a young man named Eli who has been living in a compound for six years. Bodeen came up with the idea of including cannibalism in the novel after watching a television show where "a dinosaur fed a favorite offspring the bodies of its less fortunate brothers ...
Falconer's poems were used by Patrick O'Brian in his Aubrey-Maturin series.One of his lesser characters is a nautical poet, but his poems are Falconer's. The lines "With living colours give my verse to glow:/The sad memorial of a tale of woe!", from The Shipwreck, Canto I, appeared as a motto for Tafereel van de overwintering der Hollanders op Nova Zembla in de jaren 1596 en 1597 (1820), by ...