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1) You could make this place beautiful: a memoir

Author

Smith, Maggie

Pub. Date

2023.

Language

English

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Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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"Life, like a poem, is a series of choices." In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of her marriage and her renewed commitment to herself in lyrical vignettes that shine, hard and clear as jewels. The book begins with one woman's personal, particular heartbreak, but its circles widen into a reckoning with contemporary womanhood, traditional gender roles, and the power dynamics that persist...

2) This is your garden

Author

Smith, Maggie

Pub. Date

1998.

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

Description

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A little girl, given good tools and seeds, begins to grow a garden that needs water, sun, weeding, and her encouragement.

3) There's a witch under the stairs

Author

Smith, Maggie

Pub. Date

1991.

Language

English

Description

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Frances tries everything to get rid of the witch lurking under the basement stairs.

4) Counting our way to Maine

Author

Smith, Maggie

Pub. Date

[1995], 2008, 2021.

Language

English

Description

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On a trip to Maine, the family counts from one baby to twenty fireflies.

5) One mitten

Author

George, Kristine O'Connell

Pub. Date

2004.

Language

English

Description

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One mitten can do many things, but when the second mitten is found, it is time to go outside and have fun.

6) Goldenrod: poems

Author

Smith, Maggie

Pub. Date

2021.

Edition

First One Signal Publishers/Atria Books hardcover edition.

Language

English

Description

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"With her breakout bestseller Keep Moving, Maggie Smith captured the nation with her "meditations on kindness and hope" (NPR). Now, with Goldenrod, the award-winning poet returns with a powerful collection of poems that look at parenthood, solitude, love, and memory. Pulling objects from everyday life--a hallway mirror, a rock found in her son's pocket, a field of goldenrods at the side of the road--she reveals the magic of the present moment. Only...

7) Good thing you're not an octopus!

Author

Markes, Julie

Pub. Date

2001.

Language

English

Description

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A little boy finds that his life is pretty easy compared to how it might be.

8) One naked baby: counting to ten and back again

Author

Smith, Maggie

Language

English

Description

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Illustrations and simple rhymes go from one to ten and back again over the course of a baby's day.

9) Ferryboat ride!

Author

Rockwell, Anne F

Pub. Date

1999.

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

Description

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A little girl notices all the sights, smells, and sounds along the way when her family takes a ferryboat to their summer island.

10) Everything to spend the night--from A to Z

Author

Paul, Ann Whitford

Pub. Date

[1999]

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

Description

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While showing her grandfather all the things, from A to Z, that she has brought with her to spend the night, a little girl suddenly realizes that she forgot one important item.

11) My thoughts have wings

Author

Smith, Maggie

Pub. Date

[2024]

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

Description

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At bedtime, when lights go out sometimes thoughts stay on. Scary things and worries flutter and flap around. It's so hard to sleep! But a little imagination (and a lot of love) can create a cozy nest for happy thoughts-and sweet dreams for little ones.

12) Keep moving: notes on loss, creativity, and change

Author

Smith, Maggie

Pub. Date

2020.

Language

English

Description

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"By Pushcart award-winning poet Maggie Smith, a collection of quotes and essays on facing life's challenges with creativity, courage, and resilience."--

13) Desser, the best ever cat

Author

Smith, Maggie

Pub. Date

2001.

Language

English

Description

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A child describes how Dexter the cat had always been part of the family and how much he was loved even after he died.

14) Downton Abbey: Season 2

Series

Downton Abbey

Pub. Date

[2012]

Edition

Original U.K. edition.

Language

English

Formats

Blu-ray, DVD

Description

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Season two returns as the Great War rages across Europe, and not even the serene Yorkshire countryside is free from its effects. The men and women of Downton are doing their part both on the front lines and the home front, but the intensity of war only serves to inflame the more familiar passions of love, loss, blackmail, and betrayal.

15) Christmas with the Mousekins

Author

Smith, Maggie

Pub. Date

[2010]

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

Description

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A mouse family tells stories, bakes cookies, makes crafts, and more as they prepare for Christmas. Includes directions for each of the crafts and recipes for cookies.

16) What does Bunny see?: a book of colors and flowers

Author

Park, Linda Sue

Pub. Date

2005.

Language

English

Description

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A rabbit wanders through the various flowers and colors of a cottage garden.

17) Downton Abbey: a new era

Pub. Date

[2022]

Language

English

Description

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The follow-up to the 2019 feature film in which the Crawley family and Downton staff received a royal visit from the King and Queen of Great Britain.

18) The best exotic Marigold Hotel

Language

English

Description

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When seven cash-strapped seniors decide to 'outsource' their retirement to a resort in far-off India, friendship and romance blossom in the most unexpected ways.