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Oh no! An angel dropped God's pen while cleaning His office. This is no ordinary pen. If it falls into the wrong hands, it could cause a lot of trouble. It fell to Earth and into the hands of a little girl. She soon discovers the pen has amazing powers.

As a child growing up in Philadelphia, I always wondered what I wanted to be when I became an adult. I had watched so much television depicting African Americans having menial job positions. Then I began to realize that the answer was right in front of me. It could’ve bitten me if it was a snake. I also watched many programs on television showcasing African American men and women in the sports industry and also as actors and actresses. As I became more of age, I began to see members of my community practicing medicine, becoming writers, and becoming scientists, including many of them involved in the political arena of government. Later, I came to the realization that my community was involved in all aspects of the job force in the United States. I always wanted, at some point in my young life, to become a firefighter. That dream became a reality at age eighteen. I also became a poet, musician, and history interpreter. I also came to realize that if a young person set his or her mind to it, he or she could become anything he or she wanted to be. That is the point of this book—to show young African American children, both male and female, that with imagination and creativity, they can become whatever they want to be if they have the desire to do so, with the support of family, friends, and others.

"Prominent Pen" is a poetry and prose collection book of materials from the May through the August 2011 issues of cc&d magazine (http://scars.tv/ccd), published through Scars Publications. Writers included in this collection are from around the United States (and even around the world), with Melvin F. Ballew, Christopher Barnes, Maxwell Baumbach, S. Paul Bowen, Michael H. Brownstein, Ronald Brunsky, Chris Butler, Nely Cab, Rochelle Cartier, CEE, Michael Ceraolo, Shaun Corley, Roger Cowin, Kenneth DiMaggio, John Duncklee, Irene Ferraro, Stephanie Fleming, Meghan Frank, Peter LaBerge, A. A. Garrison, Cheryl Townsend, Lawrence Gladeview, Fritz Hamilton, Jermaine Harmon, Roy Haymond, Kevin Heaton, Kyle Hemmings, Aaron Wilder, Wes Heine, John T. Hitchner, Stan Hollingworth, Je'free, Brian Forrest, Bob Johnston, Billie Louise Jones, Stephanie Kaylor, Melissa Kosciuszko, Sonja Kosler, Julie Kovacs, Seger Lansdale, Bing Liu, Kriste A. Matrisch, Jim Meirose, Toni Menden, Kristine Ong Muslim, Tendai R. Mwanaka, Edward Mycue, Cherese Eudlyn Nelson, Alicia Parks, I.B. Rad, Ted Rashkow, Nathan Riggs, Andy Roberts, Matthew Roberts, Jonathan Seipp, Don Stockard, Bob Strother, R. N. Taber, Anne Turner Taub, Mel Waldman, Laura Whelton, Kelley Jean White MD, Caleb Yarborough, Sid Yiddish, and Janet Kuypers.

MUSIC. This work presents a comprehensive review of the material covered in "Introduction to Music" courses in colleges and universities. Such music appreciation courses are intended primarily for non-majors. In keeping with the courses' content, this review book covers the "elements" of music and provides a historical survey of music. The book is formatted in such a way as to provide college students with the essentials of the subject, and to supplement the regular assigned reading.

Winner of the 1993 LoPresti Award for excellence in art publishing Cracker homes take the best advantage of the climate and terrain of Florida. This book provides a history of Florida wood-frame architecture, from the simplest "single-pen" homesteads to the latest homes at Seaside, and includes several floor plans for new adaptations of classic Cracker architecture. Learn about the double-pen house, the classic dogtrot, the four-square Georgian, the Cracker townhouse, and much more with this exploration of Florida's orginal architecture. Includes several floor plans for new adaptations of classic Cracker architecture.

Amidst the wealth of books commemorating van Gogh's centenary, none is more stunning than this beautifull set. The first deals with his paintings and the second with the drawings; together they are the official publication of the remarkable exhibitions held in the Netherlands earlier this year - shows which gave an unprecedented opportunity to view many rarely seen works. Few painters appeal to the imagination as much as Vincent van Gogh, and these two books demonstrate magnificently the powerfully individualistic qualities of his work as well as the coherent pattern of ideas and obsessions.

The Uses of Adversity - titled after the line from As You Like It, "Sweet are the uses of adversity" - is a collection of one hundred sonnets cobining the craftiness of traditional form with the effortlessness of free verse. The language is often richly textured and musical, often plain spoken and conversational, but always witty and accessible. The subject matter ranges widely from Rootie Kazootie and Froggy the Gremlin, Howdy Doody and Elvis Presley, to Christopher Columbus, Khrushchev, Kennedy, and Kevorkian; from Donald Duck, Mandrake the Magician, Li'l Abner and the Creature from the Black Lagoon, to Shakespeare, H.P. Lovecraft, Transtromer, Rilke, Wittgenstein, and Nietzsche; from the tradtional themes of lyrics - love (both sacred and profane), death, the changing of the seasons, marriage, birth, divorce, childhood, sex, religion,art, the natural world, illness - to the most unexpected and quirky contemporary narratives.The title sequence, which explores a father's illness and death, is both elegiac and celebratory, evoking the conflictual bonds in any father-son relationship. In these sonnets, by turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Wallace once again proves himself to be one of our most versatile and affirmative poets.