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Powell's Staff: Best of Kids' and YA 2020 (0 comment)

With such diverse subjects as Arthurian myths and Ojibwa prophecies, unicorns and orcas, basketball and (ahem) butts, ghosts, magical powers, climbing kittens, the ways to make sunshine and the ways to hear snow, here are our picks for the Best Kids' and YA Books of 2020...

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Powell's Books: What I'm Giving: 2020 Edition (0 comment)

Place to Stand the Making of a Poet

by Jimmy Santiago Baca

ISBN13: 9780802116024
ISBN10: 0802116027
Condition: Standard
DustJacket: Standard

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Hardcover

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Synopsis

From one of America's most acclaimed poets comes a powerful memoir of childhood on the small farms of New Mexico, his adolescence spent in orphanages and detention centers, his years as a drug dealer, and his stunning personal redemption inside the walls of a maximum security prison.