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Gramma Lamma Ding Dong By: Patti Kosnik Gramma Lamma Ding Dong follows a grandmother and her three grandchildren as they embark on a trip to the park. They set off to enjoy the sunshine and play all day, but Gramma Lamma Ding Dong has a secret that only she and the Ding Dong kids know. It promises to make their day extra special. Gramma shares subtle lessons with her grandkids and the reader. The author hopes readers find their story to be fun and playful and sparks their imagination.

Magic is what poetry is about. Magic can and does happen on the page, but the connection slams allow between poet and audience is both larger and more personal than the printed word. And it's reassuring, in a new century and millennium, to see that most ancient of the literary arts, poetry, return to its oral roots. When it comes to slams, poetry is the winner. - from the essay "Downtown Slam" by JV Brummels Slamma Lamma Ding Dong is the combined effort of 35 of Nebraska's slam poets. Appealing to fans of both the written and spoken word, it gives voice to the rich culture, the wild imagination, and the diverse spirit of the plains.

One bicycle accident changes everything when the self-absorbed New Yorker Madeleine Fox literally runs into brash Shanghai dissident David Li, in a tale that is like following an escapee from a Woody Allen movie as she looks for love and meaning amidst the moral ambiguities of post-Tiananmen China.