Fleming Community Library

Chicago Poems is an early collection of poems by American poet Carl Sandburg. This little volume includes the following poems: Chicago, Sketch, Masses, Lost, The Harbor, They Will Say, Mill-Doors, Halsted Street Car, Clark Street Bridge, Passers-by, The Walking Man of Rodin, Subway, The Shovel Man, A Teamster's Farewell, Fish Crier, Picnic Boat, Happiness, Muckers, Blacklisted, Graceland, Child of the Romans, The Right to Grief, Mag, Onion Days, Population...

A series of character sketches which reveal the life of a village community in the Middle West. They are in the form of epitaphs in a kind of 'free verse'.

McManus offers humorous stories about problems with outdoor adventures, primarily focused on fishing and its exotic equipment

The philosopher and the artist are revealed in Gibran's prose and poetry collected from many works.

Joyce Carol Oates here offers four chilling novellas of love so powerful that people might die-- or kill-- for it. Drenched with suspense and dread, this collection shows love as sporadically magical, mysterious, and murderous.

Short stories, anecdotes, cartoons, and columns are compiled in this amusing collection by male authors, such as Stephen King and Gordon Korman, who share their comical, sad, and strange memories of what life was like for them when they were boys and the impact those moments had in their later lives.

Well-known works including fables, folklore, fiction, drama, and more, by such authors as Aesop, Dickens, Tolstoy, Shakespeare, and Baldwin, are presented to teach virtues, including compassion, courage, honesty, friendship, and faith.

Walker brings a woman's wisdom to bear on love, life's unavoidable tragedies, blacks' struggle for equality and justice, and a world committing eco-suicide.