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‘We Poets Speak Of Stars But Who Has Ever Met One?’ contains 62 poems of a varying nature. This poetry book is dedicated to, and begins with a eulogy for, a dear friend who passed away at the age of 70. He was a businessman & lecturer in life and had only just retired. News of this close friend’s death reached the poet on his 35th birthday.

The Civil War created countless spinsters and widows. Anna Olson was one of them. With no prospects for marriage and family, Anna pins her future on the frontier and heads west to stake a claim on the wide-open prairies.“Most women go from their father’s house to their husband’s house,” Anna said. “Here, I have my own house. I am my own person.” But the Dakota Plains are not empty. Anna’s new life collides with a Lakota warrior. Two Hawks MacKenzie, the son of a Scots fur trapper and a Lakota woman, takes an unusual interest in his new neighbor.

"How do you measure a year?" Turning 30 is a milestone age in anybody's life, so why not chart the span of a year by writing a poem a day? Capturing the highs and lows of life and love, this poetry collection houses poems from the deeply personal to the truly random. It's a picture of one man's year through a poetic lens.

Dreaming in the Urban Areas is a poetry collection by Lisa Bellear that moves sharply between street-smart portrayals of poverty and dispossession, and the complexity of Black love, identity and experience. Written with poetic prowess and political bite, Bellear's work is a reckoning force set against a backdrop of urban community and strength.

Al día siguiente, muy temprano, a la hora de siempre, Pinín y Rosa fueron al prao Somonte. Aquella soledad no lo había sido nunca para ellos hasta aquel día. El Somonte sin la Cordera parecía el desierto. De repente silbó la máquina, apareció el humo, luego el tren. En un furgón cerrado, en unas estrechas ventanas altas o respiraderos, vislumbraron los hermanos gemelos cabezas de vacas que, pasmadas, miraban por aquellos tragaluces.

In The Shadow Over Innsmouth, Lovecraft guides listeners into a decaying coastal town shrouded in mystery, where ancient pacts and unnatural beings have shaped generations. What begins as an innocent detour for a young traveler turns into a spiraling descent into horror, madness, and the terrifying realization of what lurks beneath the surface—both of the sea and of his own ancestry.

She came to the well alone to escape the whispers. A life marked by scandal had taught her to keep her head down and her heart guarded. But one afternoon, under a searing sun, a stranger speaks to her—not with judgment, but with curiosity, insight, and unsettling compassion. When this mysterious man threatens to upend everything she thought she knew, she faces a choice: bury her truth forever, or let it set her free. Set against the vivid backdrop of first-century Samaria, Davina blends rich historical detail with timeless questions of identity, shame, and second chances.

Henry Lloyd, un hombre con un enigmático pasado, logra forjar a sangre y fuego una inmensa fortuna, a mediados del siglo XIX. Junto con su ejército de esclavos libertos y sus dos hijos mulatos, Lloyd invade tierras, saquea, asesina. Osado, sólo le teme a Jack Barley, su némesis, el único capaz de derrumbar su imperio.

When Holly Campbell's body is found on the train tracks at Glasgow Central, police quickly rule it a suicide. She'd had a troubled past. She'd tried before. But Sergeant May Mackay can't let one detail go. If Holly never wanted to come home, why did she buy a return ticket? Driven by her own haunting loss and a promise to Holly's grieving mother, May is determined to solve the mystery. But the deeper she digs, the more sinister the truth becomes. Someone is hiding a terrible secret. And they'll do whatever it takes to keep it buried. Even if it means silencing May for good.

This is the history of England told in a new way: glimpsed through twenty-five remarkable poems written down between the eighth century and today, which connect us directly with the nation’s past, and the experiences, emotions and imaginations of those who lived it. These poems open windows onto wildly different worlds – from the public to the intimate, from the witty to the savage, from the playful to the wistful. They take us onto battlefields, inside royal courts, down coal mines and below stairs in great houses.

Dans ce village, c'est du corps des femmes qu'on tire l'argent qui fait vivre les familles. Car ici, on vend une denrée précieuse : le lait maternel. Sylvaine, son propre enfant à peine sevré, accueille chez elle comme tant d'autres une « petite de la ville ». Mais une nuit, en pleine forêt, elle découvre un bébé abandonné dans une clairière et à ses côtés un carnet qui raconte son histoire.

Un soir, Amani, soixante-sept ans, femme de ménage à la retraite dans une cité HLM paisible en bordure de forêt, s'en va. Père et fils tentent de comprendre ce qui a poussé le pilier de leur famille à disparaître. Il pressent que ce départ est lié à l'histoire de ses parents, orphelins émigrés de Tunisie.

À la mort de sa mère, Youssef, un professeur marocain exilé en France depuis un quart de siècle, revient à Salé, sa ville natale, à la demande de ses sœurs, pour liquider l'héritage familial. À travers lui, les voix du passé résonnent et l'interpellent, dont celle de Najib, son ami et amant de jeunesse au destin tragique, happé par le trafic de drogue et la corruption d'un colonel de l'armée du roi Hassan II.

Annis est encore une enfant quand sa mère est vendue à un autre propriétaire. Et n'est guère plus âgée quand son maître, qui est aussi l'homme qui a violé sa mère, se débarrasse d'elle avec d'autres esclaves. Lors de leur terrible marche vers les plantations de La Nouvelle-Orléans, Annis tente de se raccrocher à la vie et aux enseignements de sa mère : se battre, toujours, avec les armes et les sagesses qu'elle lui a transmises.

What really lies in the forest’s depths? Aokigahara is a mystery. Born out of an explosion, its roots twist and turn, the dense trees seeming to swallow anything that enters it whole. In recent years it has gained renown as a “suicide forest,” but it wasn’t always this way. Aokigahara: The Truth Behind Japan’s Suicide Forest is fully researched from Japanese sources and looks at the history of the Sea of Trees, how it came to be, and why it became known worldwide as a popular suicide spot.

İstanbul’dan Ankara’ya uzanan bu küçük apartmanda, kapı aralıklarından sızan hayatın seslerini duyacaksınız. Ayaşlı İbrahim Efendi, eski alışkanlıklarını cebinde taşıyan kurnaz bir ev sahibi; kiracılarıysa Cumhuriyet’in ilk yıllarında yeni bir düzen arayan insanlar: bir memur ailesi, evlilik hayalleriyle savrulan genç bir kadın, ay sonunu getirmeye çalışan idealistler, dedikoduya meraklı komşular…

Rhyme and Reason takes you from a medieval accountant (called Chaucer) trying to entertain his lord, past a doomed love affair in the Tower of London, through adoring sonnets and notebooks filled with dirty poems, through Byromania and the Victorian hearth, understanding why people simply enjoyed poetry. From the poems of housemaids to the rhymes of kings it's the history of Britain through the poems that people read, recited and loved.

The deliciously book-length story of "The Vineyard" is set in and around the little house in Oyster Ponds where the poet spends the summer months. In freeflowing lines and pages that turn with the calendar, the poem unspools impressions that seem confided rather than written, as Galassi observes the "pretend peace'' of this quiet village house and garden, his oasis in the great swirl of dailiness.

As the daughter of Korean bodega owners, Jia Song promised herself that she would have every luxury when she grew up. Now she’s made junior partner at her prestigious law firm, and it’s all finally within reach. So when her boss asks her to sit in on the hush-hush family implosion of a client, she accepts without hesitation – only to find out that it is one of the most famous Korean families in the world. The Parks and their mega successful Korean beauty brand are worth a billion dollars.

Born in Palestine on the precipice of 1948’s Nakba, Sufien is forced to leave the only home he’s ever known, the one on the hill with a beautiful blue door. This is the precise moment when time stops making sense. He spends the rest of his life propelled forward, always on the way—although in search of what, he is never quite sure.