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From horses and foals to mothers and daughters, everyone seems to fit in. Except for some, who feel as though they stick out like a sore thumb. Tennessean author Ava Graves takes the reader through a journey of insecurity, heartbreak, and self-realization in her debut poetry collection, "A Good Southern Girl."
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Heartbeats in Ink, is a delightful anthology of poetry covering love, loss, and hope.This collection of heartfelt verses is a rollercoaster ride through the highs and lows of love and life, capturing the experience in each poem. From giddy infatuation to bittersweet goodbyes, these poems are sure to tug at your heartstrings. With each page, you'll be transported into a world where love reigns supreme and poetry is the language of the heart.
3) The Heartbeat of the Universe: Poems From Asimov's Science Fiction and Analog Science Fiction and F
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The Heartbeat of the Universe collects poems from the top writers in the science fiction and literary genres, including voices such as Jane Yolen, Bruce Boston, Robert Frazier, Jessy Randall, and many others. These poems, selected by editor Emily Hockaday from the pages of Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine and Analog Science Fiction and Fact over the past decade, examine the Universe's smallest particles and largest astral phenomena. These poems travel...
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My canvas is empty
until it is streaked with lines
of the world
of my heart.
In Finding Poetry, Finding Me, author Rebecca P. Bruckenstein explores the world around her and the relationships we have with ourselves and each other. She allows the musicality of poetry to infuse the way she walks in the world, stepping in and out of the past, present, and future. Through her work, she hopes readers will turn inward to discover a roadmap to finding...
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Run Away to the Yard is a unique collection of poems that addresses personal identity within the contemporary culture. In parable-like vignettes and metaphor-dense portraits, Krueger's poems challenge old notions of self, asking readers to reconsider what brings meaning to daily life. Through the lens of close observation―much like a photographer―Krueger examines the complexity of our responses to a convoluted world. Poems ask us to consider who...
6) Indecent
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When Sholem Asch wrote God of Vengeance in 1907, he didn't imagine the height of controversy the play would eventually reach. Performing at first in Yiddish and German, the play's subject matter wasn't deemed contentious until it was produced in English, when the American audiences were scandalized by the onstage depiction of an amorous affair between two women. Paula Vogel's newest work traces the trajectory of the show's success through its tour...
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Humanity exists in a hyper connected world, where our closest friends, loves and enemies lie but a keyboard stroke away. Few know this better than the poets who have risen to the top of their trade by sharing their emotion, opinion and art with millions of fans. Combining the poetic forces of some of today's most popular and confessional poets, this book presents poems and short stories about connection wrapped up in a most unique exercise in creative...
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Containing 42 stories from authors who met on TikTok, Mood Reader is an anthology like no other. A collaborative group project, paving the way for readers who truly celebrate all genres. Within these pages you'll find, horror, sci-fi, childrens'/parenting, fantasy, romance, suspense, humor, history and a bit of spice. No matter your mood, we have a story for you.
Organized by genre and individually labeled with sub genres, the stories in Mood Reader...
9) Bracing
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Bracing' is a full collection of poems, mostly about contemporary life, experienced richly, intensely, unsentimentally and with humour. The writing is humane and accessible, wearing its intelligence lightly. There is something for everyone in 'Bracing', even for those who were put off poetry at school. This is a mature, well-rounded piece of work. The subject matter ranges across modern life and beyond - childhood, parenthood, love, lust, loss, shopping,...
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Named Top 10 "Best Lit Mags of 2023" by Chill Subs Carefully curated stories from After Dinner Conversation magazine to create a themed short story book about the philosophy and ethics exploring the nature of reality and perceptions. Perfect for classrooms and book clubs, each story is 1,500-7,000 words and comes with five suggested discussion questions. Story Summary ListHome For The Holidays: A son comes home for the holidays to find his parents...
11) Deadly Seduction
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***Please note: This ebook edition does not contain the photos found in the print edition.***
Young, Glamorous and Sexy, She Was Every Man's Fantasy...
And A Nightmare of Death For Her Husband.
She Hid Her Criminal Past...
Prominent Indiana attorney Jimmy Grund thought he'd found the woman of his dreams when he wed his second wife Susan. But beneath the silky blond society lady lurked a calculating, evil-tempered seductress whose murderous future...
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In her stunning ninth collection of poetry, In June the Labyrinth, Cynthia Hogue tells a deeply personal lyric of love and loss through a mythic story. This book-length serial poem follows Elle, a dying woman, as she travels a trans-historical, trans-geographical terrain on a quest to investigate the labyrinth not only as myth and symbol, but something akin to the "labyrinth of the broken heart." At the heart of Elle's individual story is the earnest...
13) Dragon Bites
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This 263 page book is a collection of three similarly themed novellas previously published as individual ebooks by Nancy Lee Badger. DRAGON'S CURSE, set on the Scottish island of Staffa in the late 16th century, features a young man cursed to transform into a dragon at inopportune times. SOUTHERN FRIED DRAGON pairs a Scottish dragon-turned-woman and a federal soldier at Ft. Sumter on the eve of Civil War. The award-winning DRAGON IN THE MIST is a...
14) Queens Noir
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Nineteen authors share mystery stories set in New York City's largest borough in this anthology.
Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book is comprised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. Queens becomes the fourth New York City borough to enter the arena in this riveting collection edited by defense...
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Readers Beware of those appliances! You are traveling into a dark and humorous place. We start you off with light, soft stories, but be warned. With each passing page, you will find yourself falling into the ever darker, gorier, and more demonic. We're not responsible for any out of warranty or straight-from-hell defective items. By the end of this collection, you will never look at your couch, your washer, and even television the same way. It will...
16) New Jersey Noir
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Discover the darker side of the Garden State with this anthology of gritty mystery stories.
Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each volume is compromised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct location within the geographical area of the book. In New Jersey Noir, a star-studded cast of authors sifts through the hidden dirt of the Garden State.
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17) Toaster Haiku
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A short collectionWith pictures and everything!All Toaster Haiku.The third book written and illustrated by Haley McAndrews, Toaster Haiku offers readers a taste of her whimsical world of small kitchen appliances. This ebook consists of 37 haiku poems, all written about toasters or toaster-related subjects (like burnt toast and bagels.) Each poem is accompanied by hand-drawn black ink illustrations. While Toaster Haiku is short enough to be an excellent...
18) Nairobi Noir
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In this anthology, fourteen authors explore dark mysteries in the concrete jungle capital of Kenya, dealing with topics of race, religion, and corruption.
Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city.
Brand-new stories by: Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Stanley Gazemba,...
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This stunning collection from the award-winning poet Linda Gregerson examines the intersections of history, science, and art.
Touching on subjects as diverse as a breakthrough discovery in cell biology and the films of Ingmar Bergman, the anatomy of a possum and the Nazi occupation of Poland, Gregerson seeks to distill "the shape of the question," the tenuous connection between knowing and suffering, between the brightness of the body and the shadows...