Henriksen opens ORDINARY SUN by insisting that "an eye is not enough." Resisting solipsism, these poems negotiate that conflict between the mind and what exists outside the mind. Though pain intrinsically resides in that conflict Henriksen strives for an honest happiness, a kind of gorgeous suffering that blesses our days. To this end, these poems emerge from images of all those innumerable things that embody both visceral and ethereal beauty rocks, trees, broken glass, baseball, angels.... Here we find immediacy immersed in the image, and in the reading of these poems becomes ourselves immersed in the immediate."

    The language is, throughout, simple, sensuous, and direct. We can be grateful for this book and this poet." --Jay Parini"I have known the poetry of Edward Hirsch for some time, and have greatly admired it. But I even more greatly admire his Wild Gratitude as a general collection, and I am convinced that the best poems here are unsurpassed in our time." --Robert Penn Warren

    In fresh and irreverent prose, Romm captures the mo-ments before and after loss, mining the depths of grief with wit and grace.The stories in "The Mother Garden" are at once vividly realistic and infused with the bizarre -- a man uses a chicken egg to test whether he is ready for fatherhood; a daughter plants a garden of mothers to replace her own; a family's ghosts literally fall through the ceiling, disrupting daily life; a woman finds her father sleeping in the desert after twenty-six years of living without him. People stumble in relationships, start families, struggle with illness, learn to mourn -- and as in life, these acts are consuming, magical, and disorienting.Sharply funny and deeply moving, this extraordinary collection introduces a young writer of fierce originality and prodigious talent.

    M. Ocean explores the depths of love deeply felt and violently lost. For those whose wounds are fresh and hearts still raw with ample emotion, Ocean portrays pain and suffering in apt and heart wrenching candour.

    I mean, I'm thrilled that my friends are doing so well with their new jobs and their love lives. I just thought I'd be joining them, at least in the job department, now that I'm working for the DA. Unfortunately, nothing seems to be going like I planned. Twenty-six year-old Dena Monroe is happy that her friends, Carrie and Krissy, have found love, but she's starting to wonder if that'll ever happen for her. Being a strong, willful woman, she has yet to find a man who can give her what she really needs. Between work and romance, can Dena find what she's looking for? Don't miss Unlawful Attraction, Dena's story in M.S. Parker's steamy Club Privé series.

    Asian American Studies. "In YOU ARE NOT DEAD Wendy Xu breaks all the old rules that have never done us any favors anyway. She writes beautifully, noticing who we are, and letting us see ourselves with a little more humanity, a little more humor, a little more humility. I'm happy to have read this book."--James Tate"There's a wild and wondrous poet plundering-through our lives, collecting the oddest and most significant things, turning our thoughts toward things we couldn't have known before she turned us toward them. YOU ARE NOT DEAD is precisely how this book can get you to feel and that is an almost otherworldly power. The poet who imagines and builds these poems is irresistible."--Dara Wier"That fluctuating space between the temporary and the infinite is an erogenous zone made all the more enticing when articulated so eloquently. 'We have a lifespan and O how we live it out.' Wendy Xu's poems posit for us a future, a presence, a body resistant to the ravages of time. Mortality is a far planet. Here in Xu's work, we are passionately, and gratefully, alive."--D. A. Powell

    But when my ex-teammates bail at the last minute, I'm stuck in a double-booked villa with our fiercest - and most gorgeous - of competitors.Differences are eventually set aside, rivalries forgotten as the four of us settle in for sun-soaked week of overwhelming temptation. But when a molten hot game of Truth or Dare allows me to unravel the guys' darkest, most butterfly-inducing of secrets? I'm ready to let them take me places I've only dreamed of going before.Devin and Reese are ex-college athletes, hard-bodied football players with soft hearts and goosebump-inciting smiles. Hayden's the quintessential California surf god; blond-haired and blue-eyed, with a whole delicious ocean of ripped abdominals I could drown myself in, forever.But our vacation in paradise takes a chance turn when we're thrown into the heart of the Insane World Race's next - and most infamous - season. And with an incredible four-million dollar prize on the line? Our impromptu arrangement in paradise might have to be put on hold, at least while the cameras are running and we're racing around the world together as the 'Dream Team'.Can I spend an entire month racing alongside three lifelong friends and business partners, without any of us falling in love? Or will my overwhelming attraction to all three of them create a rift that can never be repaired?THE VACATION TOY is a smoldering, stand-alone reverse harem love story filled with suspense, humor, romance, and enough sizzling, pulse-pounding action to melt your kindle into a steaming pile of glass and plastic (author not responsible for molten kindles). HEA guaranteed!

    All countries send their magic users to study at the Academy in Magus, the foremost experts on magic. Jon's mother is dead and he is on the run from the Kingdom of Ket, and travels to Magus where he learns he has the ability of magic. Jon slowly starts to plan his revenge once he learns he is the most unusual mage born in centuries. Join Jon on his quest for revenge.

    Deeply personal, these poems and accompanying line illustrations are playful and profound, sometimes darkly funny, and often acutely moving.

    It is a box set of his books called I Too Had A Love Story, Can Love Happen Twice? and Love Stories That Touched My Heart. I Too Had a Love Story is inspired by the author's own experience with love. He happened to meet a girl on a matrimony website and she died before they were formally engaged. The book questions this kind of love and whether it even qualifies as love.Ravinder Singh: Box Set includes the book Can Love Happen Twice? which is the author's second novel. It is a sequel to I Too Had A Love Story and follows the author's life after becoming a flourishing writer. in the book he and his friends are invited to a radio station for a Valentine's Day show.Finally, Love Stories That Touched My Heart is a collection of short stories about love written by various Indians. The stories were selected from a competition held by Penguin India. The valentine edition of Ravinder Singh was published in 2013 and is available in paperback.

    Some poems read as conversations, some as internal monologues, others as observations, but they all work together to tell one couple's love story.

    it is the facade that many of us peruse our lives carrying, often neglecting our pain, our mental health, and most importantly, the way we are more prone to hurting others when we lack this self-awareness. (w)holehearted seeks to encompass as many stories as possible, touching on several topics, namely, spirituality, feminism, colorism, domestic violence, intersectionality, mental health and more. it aims to depict that anyone with the darkest past and pitfalls can still save themselves from drowning in the difficulties that not only plague our world, but also plague our hearts.

    

    Where we don't, we read, we ask, we learn and then, we solve! What happens when there are no answers though? When nobody in the world knows! When we see the need to invent Gods even if we can't discover Him. Through a string of poems, the author narrates such an experience with his non-verbal and autistic daughter, Enya. What started as a week of babysitting for him soon became a seeking to change her into 'normal'. But, that seeking ended up transforming the seeker!The narrative in the form of poetry touches upon the revelation that comes out of desperation of not finding an answer at all and therefore, the thoughts getting tired of themselves and the mind taking a back seat. In that silence, the author says, things become clear and all aspects of life show their inter-relation! The intellect gives way to the intelligence, the body and mind as 'me' gives way to the world as 'me'! The mind map once seen, one starts to see the true nature of the 'me' and that perspective and clarity make everything clear and possible in life...

    In this superb anthology can be found the best of the English-speaking world’s inspirational and reassuring verse, including such classics as Rudyard Kipling’s ‘If’ and W.H. Davies’ ‘Leisure’. This beautifully illustrated collection of over 120 poems is sure to offer solace, hearten the soul and motivate the human spirit.