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Cate Marvin uses language the way a gymnast uses her body; she is a formalist who has thoroughly learned the pleasures and gains of abandon But it is her excursions into wild image and passionate song that win the reader's heart. The heart is central in World's Tallest Disaster, which is essentially a book of love poems-love lost and found, love requited, love abandoned and betrayed. What Cate Marvin has done in her remarkably assured and powerful first collection is to remind us in fresh terms of the news that stays news: that our desire is "Not a sea of longing,// but the brack of wanting what's physical/ to help us forget we are physical."

"Violently passionate and firmly symmetrical, like tango or the blues, these poems-at first-are about sexual passion. . . . But in the great tradition of love poetry, these poems don't stop with love. They move from eros to imagination. Or they thrash between the two. . . . This is an encouraging book in the context of American poetry's fashions or factions, because it evades categories. [Marvin's] is an urgent as well as an artful voice."-from the Foreword by Robert Pinsky

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Cate Marvin was born in Washington, D.C. She received her B.A. from Marlboro College in Vermont, and holds two M.F.A.s: one from the University of Houston in poetry, the other from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in fiction. She has been awarded scholarships to attend both Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers' Conferences. Her poems have appeared in such magazines as New England Review, The Antioch Review, The Paris Review, The Georgia Review, and Ploughshares, among others. She is lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in English at the university there.

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Compiled by tall buildings expert Georges Binder, in conjuction with the Council on Tall Building and Urban Habitat, this book is an up-to-date reference to 101 of the worlds tallest skyscrapers. It includes photos, plans, details on architects, engineers and stakeholders, and comprehensive technical data on each building. Featuring icons such as C. Y. Lee & Partners' Taipei 101, currently the worlds tallest building, this is an invaluable factbook for all tall building aficionados..
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Challenging each other to build the biggest snowman, Jeff and Maria launch a furious contest that appears to end in a tie, and when they show up with measuring tools the next day, they get a slushy surprise .
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(Ages: 7-9) Shannon is a stepdancer with a broken shoe. How can she ever win the Saint Patrick's Day stepdancing contest?

Enter Liam, the world's tallest leprechaun. A leprechaun grants wishes, right? But Liam not only doesn't look like a leprechaun, he grants wishes in his own unusual way.

Sean Callahan's tale taps to a lively finish; Kathleen Kemly's perfect pastels add to the happiness. The author, who also wrote The Bear Hug, lives in Illinois. The illustrator lives in Washington State..
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Newly updated history of the Eiffel Tower by a veteran international journalist, with photographs, bibliography, index. Chronicles the tower's design, construction and the historical context that made it a worldwide icon. "Interesting story, interestingly told," wrote The New York Times..
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Little Catfish knows that something is missing from his street. For one thing, there are hardly any stores—his grandma has to take two city buses to the market—and there is only one lonely tree left standing on the block. Even the Regal Theater is run-down. Little Catfish's friend Mr. Odell says that the biggest stars used to appear at the Regal, including the legendary Paul Robeson. Now it's only a shabby community center.

But what if Little Catfish can fix whatever's missing? What if he and Mr. Odell can find a hero to help, one who can do just about anything, like Paul Robeson? "Yeah, right," say the older boys who claim the street as their own. Yeah, right.

But one early summer day, directly outside the Regal Theater, something new gets planted on Little Catfish's street. Something that has the power to grow and grow. As long as Little Catfish and Mr. Odell and the older boys and anyone else who comes to appreciate the majesty of its cool, dark shade tend to it.

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Help Johnny Tractor, Danny Dozer, and the rest of the machine characters as they work together in Deerfield Valley and on Merriweather Farm.

Ever see how giant buildings are constructed? Now you can as Barney and Danny work together to build the biggest one in Deerfield Valley. With every turn of the page, more and more of the building is revealed and on the final spread we see the finished building in place towering over the rest of the city!.
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Sandy Allen was the Guinness Book of World Records holder as World's Tallest Woman seven feet seven and 1/4 inches. Sandy died in August of 2008, after having helped with her friend's book about her high school years--and how she redeemed them through a life of service to young people. This book is an inspiration and insight into the life of different; people this one a lively, bright and interesting lady who scorned the title of freak and lived out her life in dignity..
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