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YOUR FORCES AND HOW TO USE THEM The Complete Six Volume Collection (Timeless Wisdom Collection Book 180)
Prentice Mulford - 1907
It inspired authors as Orison Swett Marden, William Walker Atkinson, Christian D.Larson and others, that inspired by "Master Mulford", continued in the search for the inner forces that are part of every single human being, and which, well used, can take us to success, prosperity and happiness. This collection includes all six volumes, each volume originally a book itself. You will find in it phrases, advice and wisdom that is the base for all modern writers. Mulford is the source of sources.
A Mate for Christmas, Collection One
Zoe Chant - 2020
. . is love!Escape to a world of Christmas magic, where dragon shifters soar over snowy mountains and sleigh-bells jingle on hellhounds' harnesses. Festive fun and shifter soulmates await in these holiday romances that are sure to warm your heart no matter what the season.* This collection contains the first three books in the popular
A Mate for Christmas
series: *Book #1: A Mate for the Christmas DragonDragon shifter Jasper has five days to claim his mate. Can he convince Christmas-hating Abigail to open her heart at the most horrible time of the year?Book #2: Christmas HellhoundAll Caine wants for Christmas is to get rid of his hellhound. But when an old enemy attacks his mate Meaghan, the monster inside him might be the only thing that can save her.Book #3: Christmas PegasusLast Christmas, Jackson gave Olly his heart . . . and her inner owl chewed it up and threw it back at him. This year, these two soul-crossed lovers won't let anything stand in the way of their happiness. Not even the hints that Jackson might not be the normal human he always thought he was . . .Snuggle in with these three full-length books from the A Mate for Christmas series, collected in one convenient set.ALL romance -- NO cheating, NO cliff-hangers, and guaranteed to ALL have perfect HEA's!ENJOY!---A Mate for Christmas series:Book 1: A Mate for the Christmas DragonBook 2: Christmas HellhoundBook 3: Christmas PegasusBook 4: The Hellhound's Un-Christmas MiracleBook 5: Christmas Griffin
Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women
Jane Hirshfield - 1994
. . an astonishing array of women writers from the 22nd century BC poet Enheduanna to Nelly Sachs and Anna Akhmatova."--Library Journal
Bloom for Yourself II: Let go and grow
April Green - 2018
And in the process of building myself back up, I learned that you are allowed to leave some pieces behind-you are allowed to become the person you design yourself to be.'A collection of notes and poetic reflections, journaling how April learned to let go of everything that was holding her back in order to grow into the person she deserved to become.Bloom for Yourself II is a book you can plant in your soul and return to each time you feel ready to let go and grow.April Green's second book in the 'Bloom for Yourself' series gives readers even more help and guidance in overcoming pain and heartache. Her words are shared by thousands of people all over the world, including Jenna Dewan and Shantel Vansanten.The 'Bloom for Yourself' books are written for anyone feeling lost, alone, depressed or unworthy. They are books to be read many times over as you come to experience April's extraordinary gift for helping you understand that you are never truly alone.
The Bloodaxe Book of 20th Century Poetry: From Britain and Ireland
Edna Longley - 2001
Collected Fictions
Jorge Luis Borges - 1998
Now for the first time in English, all of Borges' dazzling fictions are gathered into a single volume, brilliantly translated by Andrew Hurley. From his 1935 debut with The Universal History of Iniquity, through his immensely influential collections Ficciones and The Aleph, these enigmatic, elaborate, imaginative inventions display Borges' talent for turning fiction on its head by playing with form and genre and toying with language. Together these incomparable works comprise the perfect one-volume compendium for all those who have long loved Borges, and a superb introduction to the master's work for those who have yet to discover this singular genius.
A Bernadette Mayer Reader
Bernadette Mayer - 1992
Truly this is the best How To book I've read in years. Bernadette Mayer makes a various world of real people in real times and places, a fact of love and loving use. She has impeccable insight and humor. She is a consummate poet no matter what’s for supper or who eats it. Would that all genius were as generous.” —Robert Creeley
The Blue Moon Day
Santhosh Sivaraj - 2018
They had no other choice but to take a plunge into their deepest fear and leave the rest to destiny. Their characters was tested out of their comfort zone and it witnessed abstruse results; a PhD scholar fights to win a pizza making contest and a tennis prodigy running for his life in a war torn, bloodied Island. Extreme circumstances and their consequences made these ordinary individuals extraordinary . Was the test imposed on them by someone? Or did they invite it on themselves. The Blue Moon Day is that Once in a Blue Moon day story which questions an individual's priorities, ridicules the worldly routines and finally redefines happiness.
Selected Poems 1957-1994
Ted Hughes - 2001
Here are poems from Hughes's first book, The Hawk in the Rain, and its successor, Lupercal, which introduced him as a major poet; from Wodwo, Crow and Gaudete, book-length poetic sequences in which the natural world is made into a thrilling and terror-filled analogue to our human one; and from six volumes of his maturity, here arranged thematically, in which the poet is at once rural chronicler and form-breaking modern artist. This volume also includes previously uncollected poems and eight poems later incorporated into Birthday Letters, Hughes's meditation in verse on his marriage to Sylvia Plath, which became an international bestseller the year after his death.
Dismantling the Hills
Michael McGriff - 2008
In a world of machinists, loggers, mill workers, and hairdressers, the poems collected here bear witness to a landscape, an industry, and a people teetering on the edge of ruin. From tightly constructed narratives to expansive and surreal meditations, the various styles in this book not only reflect the poet's range, but his willingness to delve into his obsessions from countless angles Full of despair yet never self-loathing, full of praise yet never nostalgic, Dismantling the Hills is both ode and elegy. McGriff's vision of blue-collar life is one of complication and contradiction, and the poems he makes are authentic, unwavering, and unapologetically American.
sugar, honey, ice & tea
C.R. Elliott - 2019
Divided into four chapters, the book deals with the struggles of pain and healing of wounds of all sorts, finding sweetness in all the bitterness along the way. Sugar, honey, ice & tea takes readers on a journey deep into the dark corners where struggle becomes strength and pushes through all the emptiness until it reaches the light.
A Book of Women Poets: From Antiquity to Now
Aliki Barnstone - 1980
Here in one volume are the works of three hundred poets from six different continents and four millennia. This revised edition includes a newly expanded section of American poets from the colonial era to the present."[A] splendid collection of verse by women" (TIME) throughout the ages and around the world; now revised and expanded, with 38 American poets.
The Taste of River Water
Cate Kennedy - 2011
Everything that suffuses her well-loved prose is here: compassion, insight, lyrical precision, and the clear, minimalist eye that reveals how life can turn on a single moment. Musing on the undercurrents and interconnections between legacy, memory, motherhood and the natural world, the poems in the collection begin on the surface and then take us, gracefully and effortlessly, to a far more thought-provoking place.