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"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...
3) Edge Music
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Edge Music explores what it means to talk about, and to write on, the edges of Australian landscapes - be they geographical or historical.
Responding to a complex, globally engaged nation, this innovative book openly displays the author's eagerness to write in an extremely eclectic range of styles and forms.
It reveres the voices of the past, and grants them new life in the blinding sun of the present.
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Take a peek into the beautiful art of poetry, throughout these poems catalyzes realization that God is who He says He is. Everything that goes on in life does not take Him by surprise or choose favorites. Just a sharing experience of how a situation can change and encourage another to be healed and find courage. The purpose of this journal is to work as a guide in a world of abuse, depression, brokenness and remind us that love cannot be taken away....
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Drawing inspiration from Sappho, Mary Oliver, Greek myths and European fairy tales, Poem Begins With P, traces America's relationship with her Beloved through the first two years of the Covid-19 pandemic. The poems follow a roller coaster of fear, heartbreak, anger, and grief, but through it all, America's love remains strong.
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She Asked Me Where explores the various ways in which the demons, darkness, and pain, both of ourselves and of others, manifest in our lives. It captures the pull of several spectrums innate to the human experience: pain and triumph, fear and power, longing and overcoming, the perfect and the flawed. This collection approaches the liminal spaces of these binaries through recurring themes that are connected in their struggle for control and understanding...
7) As I Burn
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I'm a girlFull of fireFull of desireThis hungerIt's never fulfilledAs I Burn, explores that desire to mean more. To discover that piece of you. That you never knew was hiding. Ready to break out into the world and own those words that you've always held.Ella Rye brings that vulnerability, that many have grown to love. Giving you another chapter, another heartache. She's ready to rise above the ashes.
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On an unlikely pilgrimage, a cycling tour to find a poet's unmarked crib, Jane Simpson discovers a landscape at once less Romantic, and more lyrical than the 'unspoilt Nature' seen by tourists at scenic spots. Unexpected turns draw the reader into the worlds of goddess religions, pre-contact Māori society and western Christianity; and into the intimate world of family relationships. In the final section, where the sun and stars sing at the marriage...
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Explore an urban underworld where many people get lost, lose it or just disappear! Twenty-something Oli shapes a torrent of chemicals into a searing account of survival in the urban Melbourne scene.
Amidst ravenous addictions, spiralling dead ends and violence on both sides of the law, Oli keeps her wits, and her life, to record this story.
On slippery ground all the way, it soon becomes clear why in this world - you have to stay cool.
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From novelist Dana Gricken comes the first installment in a poetry trilogy called The Heart's Companion. With nine chapters-ranging from love to heartbreak to mental illness, body issues, and women's rights, Ten Years: A Poetry Collection tells the story of life's lessons in a touching and deeply personal way. Whatever you're going through, let this poetry collection be your heart's companion that helps you through it all. So pull up a chair, get...
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From Hannah Herrera, The Lovely Wild In Me is separated into three parts: anguish, yearn and heal. The story is poetic prose of abuse, heartbreak, finding love, finding the wild in oneself and healing. This book may have certain themes that could be triggering to some. Take caution and care when reading.Published by Crooked Crow Publishing
12) Song of Shadow
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A Reflection of the year, this is a volume of shadowy poems by the half mad poet, Patricia Harris.
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This collection of poetry contains 40 poems that all are set to the theme of light and darkness. Some poems are exclusively uplifting and resonate beauty, while others are exclusively unsettling, evoking some darkness within them. Still, other poems combine the two, light and dark, to play back and forth on beauty and the unknown.
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From horses and foals to mothers and daughters, everyone seems to fit in. Except for some, who feel as though they stick out like a sore thumb. Tennessean author Ava Graves takes the reader through a journey of insecurity, heartbreak, and self-realization in her debut poetry collection, "A Good Southern Girl."
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Yellow Butterfly showcases not only the budding poetic and visual talents of a promising young artist, but it also chronicles her struggles with increasingly debilitating episodes of psychosis as she attempted to negotiate high school, college, and young adulthood. The potential of her creative voice, easily seen in her earliest work, becomes even more apparent in her later poems. Like a shore bird' s tracks in the sand, her sparse but...
16) Human Nature
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For fans of L.E Bowman's What I Learned from the Trees and Sophie Diener's Someone Somewhere Maybe comes Kari Highman's debut poetry collection about exploring not only our hearts, but the world around us. Human Nature delves into how our emotional expressiveness can be challenged or bettered by the environment. This book looks at the literal definition of its namesake while examining the figurative language of those words through poetic diction,...
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Opening with an exit, the poems in Precedented Parroting accept no assumptions. With the determination and curiosity of a problem-solving crow, this expansive debut plumbs personal archives and traverses the natural world, endeavouring to shake the tight cage of stereotypes, Asian and avian. Praised as "lively and intelligent" and "lyrically delicious," Barbara Tran's poetry offers us both the keen eye and grace of a hawk, "red-tailed gliding / on...
19) Siempre De Azul
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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...
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POEMS FOR ALL SEASONS by MaryAnn Diorio is a compilation of poems the author has written over a period of several years. The book includes poems in various forms, including sonnets, tetractyses, tercets, haikus, limericks, and an intriguing poetic form called the "Minute". A special feature of the book is the introduction of a new poetic form that MaryAnn created called the "Diorion"--a form inspired by her husband's family name. This new form alone...
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