Bed of Roses Sonnet Contest

"Bibliophiles"
by Donna Vincenti


Traveling far and wide between book covers,
we never need to leave our easy chairs.
From prefaces to epilogues, we lovers
escape the daily drudge of dull affairs.

Patrick O'Brien takes you out to sea,
Jane Austen dresses me for a country ball;
you study Kant's abstruse philosophy,
I watch Frost and his neighbor mending wall.

Your baseball books fill up a shelf or two,
I collect the journals of Thomas Merton.
We'll need a bigger house before we're through,
but different tastes aside, one thing is certain:

Braced by bookish hours we're jointly spending,
our love is bound to have a happy ending.

About the Author
I am a retired librarian who spent many years in California but who now lives in a lovely rural spot outside the college town of Moscow, Idaho. When I'm not writing poetry or reading, I love to stroll over the Palouse hills below our house, or hike through the pine forests above it.



Hardcover Clearance

Keillor Classics at a low price

It's Summer, and it's time to do some cleaning. We dug through the warehouse and found a bunch of brand new (old) hardcover books by GK! We haven't any room, so it's time for a true summer clearance sale! Titles available: Love Me, Lake Wobegon Summer 1956, The Book of Guys, and Wobegon Boy.

Bed of Roses Love Sonnet Contest Winner

Finalists



GK's New Holiday Story
A comic novella about a Hawaii-bound holiday traveler who ends up stranded in his North Dakota hometown.

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Audio edition also available»

Western Caribbean Cruise

The Prairie Home cruise has become legendary on two of the Seven Seas and now is setting sail on a third, a weeklong spring break cruise of the western Caribbean along the Mexican coast, and it leaves March 14 from Tampa.

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Pilgrims: A Wobegon Romance

Stories of a Wobegon romance far from home, all delivered with Garrison Keillor's trademark humor.

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Life Among the Lutherans

The latest collection of Lake Wobegon short stories gathered from live broadcasts include Confirmation Sunday, the church directory photos, Pastor Ingqvist's leather bound sermons along with song lyrics and the "95 Theses," among others. Companion audio also available.

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