Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The police call him Merkury. He's a killer who chooses his victims seemingly at random. He leaves no evidence behind, and no witnesses. Except for one. When Kate Summerlin was eleven years old, she climbed out her bedroom window on a spring night, looking for a taste of freedom in the small college town where she was living with her parents. But what she found as she wandered in the woods near her house was something else: the body of a beautiful...
Author
Language
English
Description
Classic Plays by Women: an anthology of the best plays by female dramatists from 1600-2000
Staged in theatres by successive generations and proving relevant to contemporary audiences, the plays demonstrate the wit, theatrical skill and innovation of their creators in exploring timeless topics from marriage, morality and money to class conflict, rage and sexual desire. An essential resource for students, playwrights, colleges, universities and libraries,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Six Muslim women. One poetry collection exploring family, identity, and homeland.Our Ancestors Did Not Breathe This Air brings fresh voices of poignancy and a much-needed representation in modern poetry. From the scents of a bustling street market in India to the warmth of stories rooted in Venezuela to snippets of college days shared at MIT, the poetry in this book features an ache for grounds no longer walked upon. With a range of distinct styles...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Julia White is struggling: her bartending job isn't cutting it and her first book has sold hardly any copies. She's broke, barely able to make ends meet while drowning in her late mother's medical bills and reeling after a one-night stand with her ex-boyfriend, who's now completely ghosted her. Enter Johnathan Aster, world-renowned photographer, with a proposal: he has a never-before-seen photograph of a woman falling from a train bridge, clutching...
Author
Language
English
Description
These 81 poems have been written over the course of several years, and therefore reflect a myriad of sensibilities. Some of the poems reflect emotions as they pertain to being a woman, feeling judged, abused, inadequate, but also powerful after confronting inner demons. This collection is also reflective of an appreciation of nature, and goddess imagery as a form of strength and female empowerment.
Author
Language
English
Description
The poetry of Samantha Underhill is haunting, darkly beautiful, and melancholic. Follow her to the deep on an epic journey of honesty and vulnerability, where feelings and self-perceptions are artistically expressed in classic verse. Naked truths of inward aching, reflect the muddled mixing of fear and anger within the role she has placed upon herself. Hidden beneath the veneer of Greek mythology, lie the shapes and forms of loneliness, regret,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Blaque Diamond explores the world through poetic verses. She touches on different aspects of life including, love, nature, intimacy, death, heartbreak, and inspiration. She even delves into her own personal testimonies for which she tells her stories straight from the heart. There is a little of everything you can imagine included in this collection of carefully, hand-picked poetry. There is sure to be something to speak to the poet in you. These...
Author
Language
English
Description
Do you feel the universe?Quantum Lyrics explores the cosmos within us all. Each poem illuminates universal expansion as well as inner wisdom. Both sections invite you to explore love and creation in terms of quantum physics. Reminiscent of Rumi, Quantum Lyrics combines Tesla, Einstein, and Buddha to create a meditative, energetic world of cosmic proportion.Energy, vibration, and frequency are the architects behind the words. Each poem moves from expansive...
10) Siempre De Azul
Author
Language
Español
Description
Cabrera ha escrito unos cuentos que nos ponen frente al dilema de saber si habla de la realidad social o de los fantasmas propios. Son cuentos que tratan de temas como la familia, las relaciones entre seres humanos, la soledad, los recuerdos, la locura, la maternidad, la ansiedad, los deseos, el caos emocional. La autora sabe cómo dosificar con virtuosismo las tensiones y los quiebres que muchas veces viven las personas. Pero no se trata de relatos...
11) Like a Slam
Author
Language
English
Description
This book is a collection of poetry and thoughts that dictate a state of mind, an emotion, a situation personally lived or witnessed.Mostly sounding "like slam", it highlights a perspective written to vent, to be at peace and overall to bring closure.The inspiration came from the author's life mainly, but it also was derived from her surroundings and complete strangers with whom she had the chance to exchange stories and talk about life in its beauty...
Author
Language
English
Description
What is your idea of the trip of a lifetime? Is it flying off to parts unknown? Traveling through parts of Europe? Lounging on a sandy Caribbean beach? Or do you prefer to stay closer to home and travel through your imagination? Sometimes the trip of a lifetime can be the one you never expected to take. And sometimes a trip becomes quite memorable for the wrong reasons.In this collection of short stories, poetry, and non-fiction, you will find our...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Stories of the Unseen: A Collection of Terrifying Tales"
Step into the shadows with "Stories of the Unseen," a gripping anthology of
spine-tingling narratives that explore the eerie realms beyond our senses. In
this collection, darkness is not just the absence of light; it is a canvas for the
unseen to manifest, revealing horrors that defy explanation and terrify even
the most skeptical minds.
"Stories of the Unseen" invites...
Author
Language
English
Description
This is a second edition. It includes an additional ten poems (mermaid based poems have been added). This is a collection of 88 free verse poems. The format for this book is comprised in the following 5 parts: mermaid poems, love and love lost, nature and myth, poems about life, poems about death and darkness. Some of these poems reflect how the author felt at the time it was written, while others are merely fictional creations of an imaginative mind...
15) Mz N: the serial
Author
Language
English
Description
The acclaimed poet, memoirist, and essayist Maureen N. McLane here charts a new path into vital genre-bending territories. Not a novel, not a memoir, not a lyric, Mz N: the serial: A Poem-in-Episodes offers something else-"life . . . a continual allegory" (to invoke Keats): a life intense, episodic, female, sexual, philosophical, romantic, analytic. Tracking the growth of one poet's mind, switchbacking its way through American English, Mz N toggles...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Whether it's through her virtuoso, musical performances, her layered and lyrical song compositions, her stirring vocals that reflect her love and respect for ancient, global traditions, or the evocative storytelling in her fiction, Pan Morigan conjures our world with the skillful hand and mastery of an artist at the height of her powers. These poems represent the five spirits in her mouth, the creative forms she has studied and expanded her whole...
Author
Language
English
Description
A wonderful opportunity presented itself in early May of 2012. Patti Larsen, a Prince Edward Island author, was going to be presenting at the Montague Regional High School. With Patti already travelling East of Charlottetown, she was more than willing to visit our school to work with some of our budding writers. A group of thirty-nine students from grades seven, eight, and nine were selected by their English teachers based on ability and interest...
Author
Language
English
Description
Catch Her in the Rye contains the tragic love story by that name plus thirty other short stories in a wide variety of themes, from the surrealistic "I Wish" to the heartwarming "Homeless Thanksgiving". These short tales offer a cross-genre experience, with literary tidbits that include science fiction, horror, contemporary fiction, and those hard-to-classify yarns that fit neatly into no category. In addition to the eerie "Ain't No Lights", the collection...
19) The Many Faces
Author
Language
English
Description
Felicity Sidnell Reid brings a precise, tender, and playful attention to the natural world, familyand strangers, the living and the dead. These vivid, beautifully crafted poems honour moments ofconnection, unearth long buried secrets and explore time. As the past brushes up against thepresent, losses accumulate, but so do opportunities for curiosity and delight. ─ Kim Aubrey, author of What We Hold in Our Hands Felicity's poetry invites...
20) Elixir of Love
Author
Language
English
Description
In "Elixir of Love: Versus To Mend the Soul," the poet invites readers to explore the depths of their hearts, to embrace their humanity with all its flaws and beauty, and to find solace and strength in love's transformative power.This collection is a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit, a celebration of the capacity to love and be loved, and an ode to the healing journey each of us undertakes in the quest for wholeness and fulfillment.