Suspicious Titles
The foundation of 'Suspicious Titles' is built with poems from my early period, ranging between 1975 and 1988 that are often directly written as welcome affirmations of the painful struggle that we may all find ourselves facing should we slip through the boundaries of their difficult truths. They are welcome via their attempts at understanding the various dilemmas at their core - the situations and emotional conditions that have us lost and wandering in an existential maze. As an initial proposition, I can say that much of 'Suspicious Titles', though somewhat semi- autobiographical, not only deals with the important details that form the various entanglements of lives, it tends to deal with them in terms of their place in the wider picture and sometimes in abstract and creative ways and from different viewpoints. This is especially true now we are viewing these poems at a distance in time, and although there are two books written earlier than this, 'Suspicious Titles' could certainly be considerd as the first to carry the style of my later work into its own future.
Warriors & Wild Daisies
A keepsake of beauty, courage, and nature's quiet wisdom. Honouring the sisterhood, mothers, healers, wild women, for every time you've fallen, then flowered anyway. Warriors & Wild Daisies is about finding beauty, empowerment, and silver linings through the ups and downs of life. A book to hold close, for feminine encouragement and love. This vibrant collection of 125 quotes, poems, and yarns, celebrates the grace and grit of the feminine spirit - with a sprinkle of silliness and life's forgotten little treasures. Lovingly hand-drawn illustrations of medicinal wildflowers, bloom among ancient healing remedies and mother nature's peaceful allure.Explorations of topics are both fierce and tender, they including; feminine strength, resilience, friendship, children, love, relationships, heartbreak, grief, healing, justice, starting over, rediscovering joy, health and women uniting. A call to embrace yourself fully with love and caring. These pages whisper encouragement. A beautiful gift book of inspiration and empowerment, give it to a woman you cherish, friends or a gift of self-love for you. Containing over 60 illustrations and 125 written inspirations. When life feels heavy, keep it on your bedside table.
Color
Color by Countee Cullen is a landmark collection of poetry that established its author as one of the leading voices of the Harlem Renaissance. First published in 1925, this powerful debut volume explores themes of race, identity, love, and faith with classical elegance and emotional depth.Cullen's work reflects his mastery of traditional poetic forms-sonnets, lyrics, and ballads-while infusing them with a distinctly African American consciousness. His verses grapple with the pain of racial injustice and the search for beauty and meaning in a divided world. Poems such as "Incident," "Heritage," and "Yet Do I Marvel" are among the most celebrated in American literature, blending lyric grace with moral and spiritual intensity.Color remains a cornerstone of 20th-century poetry, a moving testament to the Black artistic spirit, and a vital contribution to the enduring dialogue on race and humanity in America.
Harlem Shadows The Poems of Claude McKay
Harlem Shadows is the groundbreaking poetry collection by Claude McKay, one of the central figures of the Harlem Renaissance. First published in 1922, this work captures the rhythms, sorrows, and spirit of early 20th-century Black life in America. Through vivid imagery and masterful verse, McKay explores themes of racial identity, injustice, love, and resilience. His poems - from the iconic "The Lynching" to "If We Must Die" - speak with unflinching honesty and lyrical beauty, marking a defining moment in African American literary history. Harlem Shadows remains a cornerstone of Black literature, a voice of courage and artistry that continues to inspire generations of readers and poets around the world.
Letters To Dead Authors
Letters to dead authors begins as a creative exchange between a living observer of literature and the memories of writers whose words continue to shape imagination. Rather than presenting a typical critique, the work takes the form of reflective letters that explore ideas about creativity, admiration, and the lasting influence of written expression. Each letter becomes an intimate conversation with the past, examining how stories and language can outlast their creators. The narrator reflects on the power of books to impact readers across time, considering how authors might respond to admiration, criticism, or the shifting values of society. Humor and sincerity blend as the letters consider fame, legacy, and the mysterious connection between writer and audience. Instead of focusing on specific events or personal anecdotes, the text highlights the emotional weight of literature and the fascination with understanding minds that can no longer speak. The collection invites readers to think about why certain works endure and how the act of writing can create a dialogue between generations. Through this reflective approach, the book becomes a tribute to imagination and a meditation on the enduring life of ideas.
Story Time With YaYa
The art of storytelling reveals subtle or blatant truths that can be used as teaching tools for minds young and old.This is a unique collection of stories and poems intended for reading aloud, engaging both the reader and listener in creative imagination. Each story embeds a lesson that will hopefully plant a seed for future cultivation. These are simple enough stories for children often with a surprise ending yet poetic and dramatic enough for a storytelling voice.
Whispers
Whispers is a soothing collection of short stories, poems, and gentle reflections written for adults who seek comfort and calm at the end of the day. Each piece offers a soft moment of escape-little nighttime thoughts, emotions, and observations meant to quiet the mind and warm the heart. Perfect for reading before sleep, Whispers invites readers into a peaceful world of imagination, tenderness, and quiet beauty.
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Title: Caste. [A novel.] By the author of "Mr. Arle" [i.e. Emily Jolly].Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century's most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of works the collection also includes song-books, comedy, and works of satire. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Anonymous; 1857. 3 vol.; 8簞. 12634.e.3.
Well Said Well Read
Since its launch in 2014, Writers Read has invited hundreds of writers onto the stage to present their work to live audiences in and around New York City. A maximum of 650 words, those stories on a broad variety of topics took just five minutes to perform, though their impact has lasted far longer. This collection assembles some of the most powerful personal true stories presented to appreciative audiences during our first decade. From moments of joy to experiences of hardship, each two-page story offers a unique and heartfelt glimpse into our shared human experience.
Blue Requiem
In the award-winning title poem, Blue Requiem, the author explores the roots of the blues as a living testament to the perseverance of the human spirit as a means of survival.A beautiful collection of poems that depict love, loss, birth and death. These poems reflect the vulnerable aspects of a woman coming to terms with a life in transition and celebrates the ability to heal. Baker explores the power of connection with the natural world as teacher and guide on a journey of self-awareness.
The Book of Women's Friendship
As Marilynne Robinson writes in her 1980 novel, Housekeeping, "Having a sister or friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house." Bringing together work by more than 100 writers, The Book of Women's Friendship explores the rich subject of friendship between women from every angle: its particular intensity and miraculous ease, its tendency to wax and wane, its role not only as a comfort and a privilege, but as vital to our health.Friendship has never been more highly debated, and loneliness more prevalent. Yet women's friendships have repeatedly been neglected or minimized in storytelling, fallen by the wayside of male relationships. In the first major anthology dedicated to women's friendship--and the first serious anthology about friendship published in more than three decades--editor Rachel Cooke looks to art to find the words to capture women's platonic love. Compiling selections from novels, poems, diaries, letters, comics, and graphic novels about women's friendship, she places work from a diverse array of artists in conversation across time and place.With excerpts from Jane Austen to Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf, from Dolly Alderton to Sarah Waters, and from Zadie Smith to Meg Wolitzer, The Book of Women's Friendship celebrates and investigates friendship between women, from first encounters to final farewells, from falling out to making up again. This book takes the shape of a human life, beginning with early efforts at friend-making and -breaking in childhood to chance collisions in adulthood. It contemplates (though not for too long) the flip side of friendship, which is not enmity, but loneliness; celebrates solidarity in all its guises; and ends with loss, the moment of goodbye.Warm, clever, and full of some of the most beautiful writing on friendship ever published, The Book of Women's Friendship is also an act of friendship itself, dedicated to Cooke's best friend, in the end becoming a book full of all the lovely, impossible, unsayable things that one friend might be moved to give to another.
Reluctant Medium
Have you ever wondered what happens to your consciousness after your body dies? Probably most people wonder about that at some time. Most religions try to answer that question with various heavenly scenarios or hellish punishments and wars have been fought and people painfully put to death because of disagreements about religious beliefs and dogmas. Pearl Curran believed that she had made contact with the consciousness of a young woman, "Patience Worth" who had lived and died in the 17th century. Together, Pearl Curran and Patience Worth produced hundreds of poems and several novels and plays that were regarded to be high-quality writing, acknowledged by Stanley Braithwaite in his Anthology of Magazine Poetry as some of the best poetry of 1917-1918. While this book may seem to be about communication with spirits, which it is in the overview, it really is about exceptional literature produced by a young woman with barely a grade school education, no interest in writing and whose formative years were spent in Missouri, Texas and Illinois. But she wrote about Medieval England, Victorian England and the time of Jesus Christ, topics she knew little or nothing about and sprinkled some of the writing with archaic words from rural England of more than 300 years ago. As a young girl, Pearl Curran trained to be a singer and pianist and as a grown woman she enjoyed singing, playing piano, seeing silent movies, reading magazines and cooking for her family. She had no interest in language, history, or religion yet the writings of Pearl Curran and Patience Worth are a language and history cornucopia of information about times fast fading from memory. This book is an effort to bring the writing of Pearl Curran and Patience Worth before the public once again so that it will not be forgotten.
Reluctant Medium
Have you ever wondered what happens to your consciousness after your body dies? Probably most people wonder about that at some time. Most religions try to answer that question with various heavenly scenarios or hellish punishments and wars have been fought and people painfully put to death because of disagreements about religious beliefs and dogmas. Pearl Curran believed that she had made contact with the consciousness of a young woman, "Patience Worth" who had lived and died in the 17th century. Together, Pearl Curran and Patience Worth produced hundreds of poems and several novels and plays that were regarded to be high-quality writing, acknowledged by Stanley Braithwaite in his Anthology of Magazine Poetry as some of the best poetry of 1917-1918. While this book may seem to be about communication with spirits, which it is in the overview, it really is about exceptional literature produced by a young woman with barely a grade school education, no interest in writing and whose formative years were spent in Missouri, Texas and Illinois. But she wrote about Medieval England, Victorian England and the time of Jesus Christ, topics she knew little or nothing about and sprinkled some of the writing with archaic words from rural England of more than 300 years ago. As a young girl, Pearl Curran trained to be a singer and pianist and as a grown woman she enjoyed singing, playing piano, seeing silent movies, reading magazines and cooking for her family. She had no interest in language, history, or religion yet the writings of Pearl Curran and Patience Worth are a language and history cornucopia of information about times fast fading from memory. This book is an effort to bring the writing of Pearl Curran and Patience Worth before the public once again so that it will not be forgotten.
Clear My Name-Taiwan, Hong Kong, Ukraine
Clear My Name-Taiwan, Hong Kong, Ukraine is a poetry collection of 57 pieces, some written in prose form, others more experimental in style.In Clear My Name-Taiwan, Hong Kong, Ukraine, C. J. Anderson-Wu offers a stirring poetic testament to the resilience of identity amid the tremors of history. With a voice both lyrical and unflinching, she traverses the landscapes of three regions-each marked by conflict, memory, and the pursuit of self-definition. Her verses do not merely recount events; they illuminate the shadows cast by silence, giving form to stories often left untold.This collection moves deftly between the intimate and the communal, revealing how the act of naming-of claiming one's truth-is itself a form of resistance. Anderson-Wu's poetry becomes a vessel for remembrance, a shield against erasure, and a call to recognize the dignity embedded in every struggle for voice and place.To read these poems is to enter a space where borders blur and belonging deepens, where the personal becomes political, and where the reclamation of one's name becomes a reclamation of one's humanity.
Sceptical Always
A collection of yarns, politically incorrect opinions and experiences by a larrikin anti-establishment professor of geology. He has lived life and seen too much of totalitarianism and fundamentalism, be it in politics, religion or science, and seeks evidence and not propaganda. As a scientist, his training has made him sceptical and critical of everything and he is intolerant of intolerance. His university life has been intertwined with a corporate and bush life. Any child who becomes apoplectic about the internet dropping out for an hour needs a reality check and should read about their contemporaries in other countries.PROFESSOR IAN PLIMER is Australia's best-known geologist and Emeritus Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne, where he was Professor and Head of Earth Sciences (1991-2005). He is currently a director of various Hancock Prospecting companies. He previously served as Professor and Head of Geology at the University of Newcastle (1985-1991), Professor of Mining Geology at the University of Adelaide (2006-2012), and Research Professor of Ore Deposits at Ludwig Maximilians Universit瓣t, Munich (1991). He also held positions at the University of New England, the University of New South Wales, and Macquarie University. Plimer has published over 140 scientific papers and co-edited the five-volume Encyclopedia of Geology.
Us, Now
Listen for the hum beneath the everyday. In nearly fifty stories-from realist corners to speculative edges-Us, Now collects tales that begin with a quiet, persistent feeling: an overlooked truth, a thread between strangers, a small wonder that becomes everything. These pieces reflect the moments that define us now-epiphanies, curiosities, and the extraordinary tucked into the commonplace. Follow the hum, because what you ignore today might change you tomorrow.
Up South in the Ozarks
The Ozarks is a place that defies easy categorization. Sprawling across much of Missouri and Arkansas and smaller parts of Oklahoma and Kansas, it is caught on the margins of America's larger cultural regions: part southern, part midwestern, and maybe even a little bit western. For generations Ozarkers have been more likely than most other Americans to live near or below the poverty line-a situation that has often subjected them to unflattering stereotypes. In short, the Ozarks has been a marginal place populated by marginalized people. Historian Brooks Blevins has spent his life studying and writing about the people of his native regions-the South and the Ozarks. He has been in the vanguard of a new and vibrant Ozarks Studies movement that has worked to refract the stories of Ozarkers through a more realistic and less exotic lens. In Up South in the Ozarks: Dispatches from the Margins, Blevins introduces us with humor and fairness to mostly unseen lives of the past and present: southern gospel singing schools and ballad collectors, migratory cotton pickers and backroad country storekeepers, fireworks peddlers and impoverished diarists. Part historical and part journalistic, Blevins's essays combine the scholarly sensibilities of a respected historian with the insights of someone raised in rural hill country. His stories of marginalized characters often defy stereotype. They entertain as much as they educate. And most of them originate in the same place Blevins does: up south in the Ozarks.
Chronicles of A Wild Drum
A kingdom haunted by curses. A king tormented by lost love. A dark legacy that refuses to die.In the myth-soaked kingdom of Ev籀vuotu, tyranny reigns under King Okpararebisi, a man once known as Uz簷-a dreamer, a lover, and now a ruler broken by his own ambition. Consumed by power and obsessed with the one woman he lost, Chinasa, his rule festers in cruelty, and the land groans under the weight of ancient sins.But this story didn't begin with him.Generations before, his ancestor Egbe made a fateful bargain with Ohia Igodo, an ancient and vengeful entity imprisoned between worlds. In his desperate bid to win the heart of the enigmatic ?ffi繫簽g, Egbe unleashed chaos-not just for himself, but for every soul born after. Twisting love into a game of pain, Ohia Igodo wove a curse so deep it would poison the bloodline for centuries.Now, in the shadow of a forgotten war between gods and mortals, fate tightens its grip.As conspiracies rise against Okpararebisi, and whispers of rebellion gather force, divine justice awakens. A curse cast by the god Akanchi stalks the land, echoing through the bones of the dead: "Blood is life, and life is blood. A curse on him who made you a victim of his tyranny."As the past and present spiral toward collision, ancient powers stir, love and vengeance blur, and a final reckoning looms.Will Okpararebisi redeem the man he once was-or will the curse of his bloodline consume the kingdom forever?
Celebrating Women
A captivating collection of women's writing--including everything from poetry, letters, novels, memoir, and journals--that celebrates the joy of being a woman. While centuries of men, and the first generations of feminists have (from very different perspectives) lamented the experience of womanhood, this new collection takes a refreshing look at all there is to enjoy. Chapters include "Firsts" with voices such as Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, and Marie Curie, the first female Nobel prizewinner; "Festivities," which emphasizes frivolity and pleasure; "Friends" exploring the depth of connection experienced through female friendship; "Family," on mothers, daughters, sisters, aunts, and grandmothers; and "Flowering," which celebrates women's creativity, passion, and love of life. From Amy Tan representing the uplifting comfort of parties with friends in The Joy Luck Club, to Sylvia Plath considering the fierce and confusing love she feels for her mother, and Elizabeth I embracing her role as Britain's first successful woman ruler, Celebrating Women includes a diverse range of voices from across the ages that explores the breadth and gratification experience in different women's lives. This volume contains a huge selection of writers dating back to the fifteenth century, from Christine de Pizan to Emily Dickinson, Germaine Greer to Alice Walker.
White
When Sylvain Tesson left the colourful yellow houses of the French Riviera for a ski trek across the Alps with his friend, a high-altitude mountain guide, he didn't know what exactly awaited him. The trek would turn into an extraordinary adventure. Over the course of four years they ascended high into the Alps in winter, following the curve of the mountains from the Mediterranean to the Adriatic, immersing themselves in a strange white world made entirely of snow. In the bitter cold and overlooked by an empty sky, only the effort of moving forward, one difficult stride at a time, separated the days from one another. And as they trudged onwards, the never-ending white of the high Alps cancelled out all feelings - hope, fear, memory and regret. What did he stand to gain by inflicting this ordeal on himself? This was no ordinary mountain trek: it was a search for communion with the magic substance of the White.Over the course of four years they ascended high into the Alps in winter, following the curve of the mountains from the Mediterranean to the Adriatic, immersing themselves in a strange white world made entirely of snow. In the bitter cold and overlooked by an empty sky, only the effort of moving forward, one difficult stride at a time, separated the days from one another. And as they trudged onwards, the never-ending white of the high Alps cancelled out all feelings - hope, fear, memory and regret. What did he stand to gain by inflicting this ordeal on himself? This was no ordinary mountain trek: it was a search for communion with the magic substance of the White.
A Domain of Her Own
A Domain of Her Own, An Anthology of Art, Poetry, and Prose by Members of the NLAPW Central New York Branch in Our 100th Year, is an eclectic collection of the finest work of professional women writers and visual artists who are members of the Central New York (CNY) Branch of the National League of American Pen Women (NLAPW). Written and compiled as a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the CNY Branch, this anthology is designed to provoke thought on a variety of topics and evoke emotional responses to the poetry, prose, and various visual art forms created by a diverse group of American women to express their unique voices. Woman empowering in design and content, the works in the anthology also reflect how women cope with loss, aging, and change. Much of the art, as well as the poetry, is centered around the natural world and how we react to and observe ourselves in nature. The collection and the creative women whose work is in this anthology never shy away from controversy if it causes readers to question, think, and want to make our world a better place.
Women of a Certain Courage
Women of a Certain Courage is an uplifting read that follows the long tradition of women supporting and guiding other women. These 18 stories of courage will have you weeping, laughing and celebrating moments of bravery. With tales of activism, of finding a voice, escaping domestic violence, battling and much more, Women of a Certain Courage will inspire awe with the myriad ways women prevail and demonstrate courage.
The Weight of Tender Things
​"You have changed at least one life- mine- with your thoughts conceptualized into this phenomenally articulated book. This is a once-in-a-lifetime read... Poetry exposing the brutal core of humanity that the world desperately needs."- Elyse Haslam on Goodreads--------For readers of Sylvia Plath and lovers of raw and defiant inner truths, Sadia Hakim offers a visual poetry book that feels like a soul remembering itself - wounded, watchful, and unapologetically human.This debut collection blends confessional and journal-style reflections with psychological depth, exploring themes of rage, trauma, tender things that make life worth living, and the sacred discomfort of self-confrontation. The Weight of Tender Things is for those who feel everything, who read between the lines, who sense the unspoken, and who have learned to stand firm in a world that often demands their softness without offering safety. It is not just visual poetry. It is a confession. A mirror to the parts of you that have been silenced, mishandled, or seen as too much.​​​​​​​This is a fully colored special edition paperback thoughtfully designed as both a visual and emotional experience.
Chewing the Page
This is the first collection of creative writing-related interviews originally posted on Mourning Goats, a website founded by the mysterious Mr Goat. Over a year of mostly anonymous work, the Goat managed to interview some of the most exciting English-language authors around. Edited by Phil Jourdan and the Goat himself, and featuring expanded interviews not available online, Chewing the Page offers a series of weird and hilarious glimpses at the world of writing. Includes interviews with Stephen Graham Jones, Craig Clevenger, Paul Tremblay, Donald Ray Pollock, Stephen Elliott, Chad Kultgen, Chelsea Cain, Rick Moody, Christopher Moore and Nick Hornby, and others.,
Introduction to the Mabinogi
A little book to introduce the Mabinogi, which revolutionised the telling of stories a thousand years ago. All our prose fiction, novels, films, gaming, is descended from this work of genius.Here are the tales themselves in a closely accurate retelling, plus all the main ideas scholars have developed about them.Often known as 'mythology', or 'Celtic mythology', the Mabinogi has been recognised since the 1970s as a sophisticated literature. It deserves to stand with Shakespeare and Homer yet is not nearly as well known as it should be.With all that the tales are wonderful stories of love, adventure, war, tragedy and enchantments. Mature scholars and young children alike can thoroughly enjoy them.The book has a wealth of illustrations, list of characters, and help with translations and further reading. It is written in clear, freindly style and will be well within the reach of teenagers upwards. Yet it also covers many sophusticated theories.
Every Day is a GOOD Day
Anarchist, Zen Buddhist, Playboy editor and novelist Robert Shea is best known for the Illuminatus! Trilogy, a cult classic co-authored with Robert Anton Wilson that has never gone out of print. He also had a successful career writing action-filled but philosophical historical novels such as Shike and All Things Are Lights. Shea was still developing his career as a novelist and was just sixty-one when illness cut his writing career short, ruling out a planned sequel to Illuminatus! and also preventing the publication of other novels that were in the works. An outwardly conventional middle class man who was kind to his fans, Shea was also a radical who published anarchist fanzines, kept an authentic Samurai sword in his home, and interacted with Wobblies and counterculture oddballs. Now, three decades after his death, Every Day is a GOOD Day: Robert Shea on Illuminatus!, Writing and Anarchism collects many of his short pieces, giving readers a glimpse of the man behind Illuminatus! and Shike.- - - Entertaining, thought provoking and richly varied, Every Day is a GOOD Day is a perfect introduction to the anarchistic principles and humane thinking of Robert Shea - a man more interested in finding flaws in his own beliefs than he is in forcing those beliefs on others. - John Higgs, author of Love and Let Die and other booksEvery Day Is a GOOD Day is here to preserve the memory of this good-hearted, open-minded man - and to let more people enjoy his humane and freedom-loving writings. - Jesse Walker, author of The United States of Paranoia and Reason magazine books editorShea's intelligence and sense of humor, shine throughout this terrific book. Robert Shea truly seems "the very model of modern armchair anarchist." - Eric Wagner, author of An Insider's Guide to Robert Anton Wilson and Straight Outta DublinTom Jackson's delightful collection has rescued the wit, warmth, and anarchist mischief of Robert Shea - the other half of the Illuminatus! equation. This is a resurrection spell for a writer, and an enthusiast's treasure trove! - Daisy Eris Campbell, writer/director of Cosmic Trigger the Play
La Lucha
From Mexico to Patagonia, the struggle for women's rights in Latin America comes alive in the voices of the artists and activists making the change.La Lucha gathers the voices of 30 artists, scholars, and activists, from 17 countries, actively engaged in the fight for women's rights in Latin America. From the patriarchy to femicide, to the inflections of identity embedded in colour, class, and indigenous cultures, their struggle embodies the contested definitions and priorities of feminism. Their solidarity, and tirelessness, has yielded striking, game-changing results in areas as disparate, and as fundamental to women's lives, as reproductive health, environmentalism, anti-colonialism, and human rights. With contributors that include Isabel Allende, Selva Almada, Gabriela Cabez籀n C獺mara, Valeria Luiselli, Lina Meruane, Claudia Pi簽eiro, and Cristina Rivera Garza, this unprecedented collection is sure to challenge, provoke, and inspire.
Anthologia
An expansive collection from a stellar line-up of twenty-two women, written with verve and clear insight. Powerful, tender, and intimate, Anthologia is engaging and emotionally resonant.DANIELLA LIBRI ELIAS, ROSE MASCARO, BENITA BENSCH, COURTNEY ZERAFA, KELLIE HANNAH, S. JO-ANNE, JOANNE WILLMOTT, JACQUELINE GAUL, ZOE PERRY, ELIZABETH HAMMANG, KRISTINA GARLA, S. A. SISIKA, JACQUI DOYLE, DONNA WALSH, STACEY HOWES, CLAUDIA CALLISTO, NATARSHA WILSON, CHRISTIE-LEE DIDOVICH, EMMA RIGNEY, NATALIE SIMES, ASHLEE CANDY SAM, SARAH ROSS.
The Mysteries
To say that The Mysteries is merely a tour de force of writerly craft would be to underestimate Bill Considine's powers as a poet. I say this because Considine works impressively, even expertly, on the level of ideas. In his stunning verse play, the nuances of technique-metaphor, juxtaposition, enjambment, caesura, silence-are placed in the service of urgent philosophical and sociohistorical questions. Here is a dialogue between history and modernity that is as timeless as it is timely, as haunting as it is faultlessly crafted.
Narrative Songs of Dong Ethnic Group
Narrative Songs of Dong Ethnic Group: 'The Butterfly Lovers' of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai was published by The Ethnic Publishing House in 2020, under the editorship of Long Yaohong et al., who tried to preserve the style and characteristics of the original songs, besides making IPA transcriptions to the work. The Dong ethnic group in Guizhou has a rich tradition of narrative songs, including a popular rendition of the story of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai. The repertoire includes a range of genres such as grand songs, pipa songs, antiphonal songs, vernacular songs, folk songs, operas, wedding songs that express feelings of romantic love. What follows is a preliminary work on it, a try to conveying the meaning and the image, and a story of communication, exchanges, and integration of different ethnic groups in China.
Profiles in Hope
Fifteen Australians tell their stories of surviving suicide and finding the way back to a better life. Every day, nine Australians take their own lives. Nineteen years ago, John Brogden came very close to adding his name to these statistics. But John survived and, since his recovery, he has become a passionate voice for mental health and suicide prevention. Now he is the Honorary President of LifeLine International. Personally and professionally, John knows how urgent it is to talk openly about suicide, and to provide people in despair with a way back when they are at their lowest point. Giving hope to those who think there is no other answer is critical. John is living proof that it's possible to survive and thrive. Now, in Profiles in Hope, John has gathered together some incredible Australians to tell their stories. With contributions from people such as James Packer, Jacqui Lambie, Tom Boyd, Layne Beachley, Preston Campbell and Ian Thorpe, alongside powerful stories of ordinary Aussies, these deeply personal accounts of survival, recovery and lives of purpose are a balm for the vulnerable and a beacon of light to those struggling. This book is for those at risk and for the people who love them and don't know how to help. Searingly honest and ultimately life-affirming, these are stories of solace and hope, and a lifeline for dark times. All royalties earned from the sale of this book will go to Lifeline. 'Surprisingly hopeful' WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN
AFTER ... Joan's Story
After the devastating loss of her daughter in a car accident, grief consumes Joan Bradshaw. Her home becomes a hollow shell of what it once was as family and friends drift away, leaving her alone in the darkness. Just as she begins to claw her way toward recovery, tragedy strikes again-her middle son, Caleb, commits two murders before taking his own life. Joan's world shatters.Her husband, Joe, refused to acknowledge Caleb's existence, banning any mention of a funeral. For him, Caleb is a son who never was. But Joan cannot let go. Haunted by guilt for not seeing her son's pain, she defies Joe's wishes to honor Caleb's memory, igniting a fierce conflict that turns their home into a battleground. Between staying for her remaining family and leaving everything she knows, Joan faces an impossible choice-one Joe's simmering rage makes for her.Alone and untethered, Joan embarks on a journey of self-discovery. As she grapples with loss and regret, unexpected connections breathe new life into her. Old wounds begin to heal, including a strained relationship with her mother. Yet, even as she finds a glimmer of hope, Joan remains haunted by the question: could she have done anything to change the course of her family's tragedy?
Moments Swirling In Time
There are moments in life that will never make the front page, or be the most watched YouTube event, yet they will be in many young girls' diaries, and they will be discussed at the dinner table, or at Starbucks, maybe even in an outdoor caf矇 In Paris. Moments Swirling In Time brings to light the short tales about kids, parents, friendships, homes, travel, and work. Enjoy. It's a quick read into life as I know it. Joanne Sherry Mitchell
Essential Short Stories by Women of the Harlem Renaissance
The acknowledgment and admiration of fiction by women of the Harlem Renaissance is growing rapidly. Their stories encompass unique premises and perceptions and, taken as a whole, they balance the historically male-dominated perspectives in Harlem Renaissance literature. Their captivating narratives reveal insights and perspectives unique to the women who experienced the Harlem Renaissance. Through their presence, perseverance, and talent, these women played a crucial role in the historical progress of Black women's literature.This volume-a combination of two 'Short-Take' anthologies, plus 8 bonus stories-presents the best short stories by distinguished women writers, from those who have earned more widespread attention to those who haven't yet but are just as deserving. This informed and comprehensive collection is a combination of the stories by women most admired during the Harlem Renaissance and those most studied since then.- 25 short stories by 25 distinguished writers.- Includes a list of all the short stories by women recognized in national Harlem Renaissance literary contests.
The Life of Violet
Virginia Woolf's first fully realized work of fiction--published in its final, revised form for the first time A beguiling trio of fantastical and farcical anti-fairy tales about a giantess who builds a magical "cottage of one's own," battles a silver-scaled sea monster, and defies governesses and gravity alike In 1907, eight years before she published her first novel, a twenty-five-year-old Virginia Woolf drafted three interconnected comic stories chronicling the adventures of a giantess named Violet--a teasing tribute to Woolf's friend Mary Violet Dickinson. But it was only in 2022 that Woolf scholar Urmila Seshagiri discovered a final, revised typescript of the stories. The typescript revealed that Woolf had finished this mock-biography, making it her first fully realized literary experiment and a work that anticipates her later masterpieces. Published here for the first time in its final form, The Life of Violet blends fantasy, fairy tale, and satire as it transports readers into a magical world where the heroine triumphs over sea-monsters as well as stifling social traditions. In these irresistible and riotously plotted stories, Violet, who has powers "as marvelous as her height," gleefully flouts aristocratic proprieties, finds joy in building "a cottage of one's own," and travels to Japan to help create a radical new social order. Amid flights of fancy such as a snowfall of sugared almonds and bathtubs made of painted ostrich eggs, The Life of Violet upends the marriage plot, rejects the Victorian belief that women must choose between virtue and ambition, and celebrates women's friendships and laughter. A major literary discovery that heralds Woolf's ambitions to revolutionize fiction and sheds new light on her great themes, The Life of Violet is first and foremost a delight to read. This volume features a preface, afterword, notes, and photographs that provide rich historical, literary, and biographical context.
The Legend of Meng Jiangn羹's Bitter Weeping
Meng Jiangn羹 is the heartbroken heroine of The Legend of Meng Jiangn羹's Bitter Weeping, one of China's Four Great Folktales (alongside The Butterfly Lovers, Lady White Snake, and The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl). Set during the brutal reign of the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC), her story has endured for centuries as a powerful symbol of love, grief, and defiance against oppression.A young woman from a rural village, Meng Jiangn羹 marries Fan Xiliang (or Wan Xiliang, Wan Liang), only to have him forcibly conscripted by Qin officials to labor on the Great Wall of China. Shortly after, he dies from exhaustion, and his body is buried within the Wall itself. Devastated, Meng Jiangn羹 embarks on a thousand-mile journey to bring him winter clothes-only to discover his fate. Her anguished weeping moves heaven and earth, causing a section of the Wall to collapse, revealing his bones.As a shared cultural treasure of the Chinese nation, this legend originating from the Han people has spread across various ethnic groups, including the Man, Zhuang, Dong, Maonan, and Mulao, over the course of history. While each version possesses unique artistic expressions, spiritual beliefs, and social meanings, they all preserve the core narrative of "a husband conscripted into forced labor and a wife's desperate journey to find him." This reflects the Chinese nation's cultural inclusiveness and deep emotional bonds as a whole. The diverse ethnic adaptations of this story serve as a vivid testament to the pluralistic unity of Chinese culture, embodying the collective memory jointly created and cherished by all ethnic groups.Part of the story runs as follows: The wind howled through the abandoned battlefield, carrying whispers of two names: L羹 Bu and L羹 Buwei.Once, they had stood at the pinnacle of power-gilded names, men who could command armies with a flick of their wrist. But now? Their graves lay in silence, bearing no inscriptions, as if even the earth itself refused to remember them.Greed had coiled around them first as a whisper, then as chains.L羹 Bu, the warrior without equal, had traded his honor for illusory wealth, betraying lord after lord until his name became synonymous with treachery. His tomb stood unmarked, not out of reverence, but because no one dared etch his crimes into stone.L羹 Buwei, the merchant-king, had clawed his way to the heart of the Qin Dynasty, weaving webs of deception so vast they ensnared even the unborn. His legacy? A dynasty built on rot, his own wife coveting power like a thief covets gold.History laughed at them.The Spring and Autumn Annals had inked their deeds in black, a permanent stain no fire could cleanse. Their sins had erupted like wildfire, scorching every generation that followed-thieves raising thieves, each more ruthless than the last.And in the end?No peace. No redemption.A Wall of Sorrow, A Woman of JadeMencius once warned: "Mountains won't shield a rotting heart. A nation cannot be secured by the steepness of its rivers."Yet Qin Shi Huang, deaf to wisdom, raised his Great Wall-stone by stone, corpse by corpse.The earth trembled beneath the weight of his pride. Millions perished, their bodies pressed into the ramparts, their souls clinging to the stones. Even now, if one listens closely, the wind carries their whispers-breath reeking of turned soil and old blood.
Publish Her Anthology
A Collection of Essays About the Special Bond Between Women and Their DogsOne hundred percent of the proceeds from the sale of this anthology benefit publishing services and program grants for underrepresented women authors."Dogs and humans have co-existed for thousands of years. We have been hard-wired over countless generations to bond with each other. Oxytocin, the 'love hormone' that's released when we fall in love or give birth or nurse a newborn baby, is also released in the brains of both humans and dogs when we gaze into each other's eyes and snuggle."In 'Dog Years, ' the authors explore how dogs provide comfort and bring solace during our most challenging times. The wise dogs featured are a balm for loneliness. They help their humans navigate grief and loss. They teach their humans caretaking and confidence, and what it means to show up every day and be present. These essays illustrate the deep wisdom of our canine companions, and how, if we listen and watch carefully, they can teach us empathy, which allows us to see other dogs, people and ourselves with more compassion."-Kate Hopper, editor, teacher and author of "Use Your Words" and "Ready for Air"
Exacting Clam No. 18
The Discerning Mollusk's Guide to Arts and Ideas. Contributions by Emily Adams, Stephen Bett, Laurie Blauner, P.J. Blumenthal, Christopher Boucher, Marvin Cohen, Kevin Davey, W.J. Davies, R.J. Dent, Noah Drauschak, Gregory Feeley, Tom Formaro, Ron Ginzler, Jake Goldsmith, Paul Griffiths, Michael Hampton, Ernest Hilbert, Charles Holdefer, DJ Huppatz, Roy Lisker, Jean Lorrain, Carl Landauer, Kurt Luchs, Melissa McCarthy, Kat Meads, Brooke Mitchell, Sonya Moor, Fiona O'Connor, Ben Pester, Jennifer M. Phillips, Geoffrey Pitcher, Eric T. Racher, Nat Raum, David Rose, Shifra Sharlin, Mike Silverton, Hugo S. Sim繭es, Aug Stone, Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece, Benjamin Wal, Eric Weiskott, Jon Willer, Lawrence Winkler, and Addison Zeller.
The Presence
The supernatural does not lurk in the shadows; it lives alongside us-nudging, provoking, unraveling lives, and offering glimpses of realms unseen. Step into a world where the supernatural slips through the cracks of the everyday, brushing its chill fingers against the warmth of the living. The Presence is an evocative anthology that transcends borders and traditions, blending the spectral and the mundane with tales rooted in the haunts and mysteries of cultures around the globe.Featuring award-winning stories like "Shadows on the Frontier" by Pakistani author Mir Aziz, a tale that illuminates the philosophy and horrors of war; the West Indian story "Sugar Cake Lady" by Franka Zeph, which re-imagines the wicked mother-in-law with an otherworldly twist; and Mei Davis's "In the Grip," a vivid portrayal of the chaos of the mentally unhinged. Other authors in alphabetical order include Alishia Dauterive, Anthony Martinez, Arvee Fantilagan, Ihsan Sim, Jeff Thompson, John Sieber, Jonathan Br簷nico, Justin Alcala, and V.M. Sawh. Their tales are a glimpse of the terrifying stories that pay tribute to the eerie and unexplainable, woven from the whispers of folklore and shadows of the past.
