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An intimate exploration of the life, craft, and legacy of one of the most revered and influential writers, an artist who continues to inspire fans and creatives to cultivate practices of deep attention, rigorous interrogation and beautiful style. Joan Didion was a writer's writer; not only a groundbreaking journalist, essayist, novelist and screenwriter, but a keen observer who honed her sights on life's telling details. Her insights continue to influence...
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Gallery Books
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2024.
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"The #1 New York Times bestselling author and "king of Christmas fiction" (The New York Times) delivers a charming and inspirational collection of personal essays. Before he was the #1 New York Times bestselling author of holiday classics such as The Christmas Box, Richard Paul Evans was a young boy being raised by a suicidal mother and dealing with relentless bullying. He could not fathom what the future held for him. Now, in this intimate and heartfelt...
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Bergman brothers volume 7
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"Viggo Bergman, hopeless romantic, is thoroughly weary of waiting for his happily ever after. But between opening a romance bookstore, running a romance book club, coaching kids' soccer, and adopting a household of pets-just maybe, he's overcommitted himself?-Viggo's chaotic life has made finding his forever love seem downright improbable. Enter Tallulah Clarke, chilly cynic with a massive case of writer's block. Tallulah needs help with her thriller's...
4) Psythur
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psithurism [sith-yuh-riz-uhm] noun:a rustling or whispering sound, such as leaves in the wind; susurration Psythur is a collections of works selected by the editors throughout the year. Poems that were misfits for our other collections, but nonetheless stirred our mind, heart, or soul.
5) 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.
6) 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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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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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
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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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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...
11) 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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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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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...
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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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I have a filthy heart. It's been bruised,and broken,and houses secrets best left in the dark.These are its collections.
Courtney Jones lives in downtown Toronto, working in content creation and digital strategy. An avid lover of the written word, she prefers to pass her free time reading a good book while enjoying a glass of even better red wine.
17) 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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How do you stitch yourself back together after trauma, loss, grief, heartbreak? By inviting what is broken to become what is breathtaking. THE BODY is a collection of poems and short stories written in lyrical prose during the hardest moments of the author's life. This collection explores themes of love, loss, grief, seduction, creativity, consciousness, female empowerment, post-traumatic expansion, and the collective human experience. Because when...
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Book synopsis: All people are individuals with their own thoughts, ideas, and dreams. What we share are feelings-How we process them and deal with their effect. Even though our situations may differ and circumstances may have different outcomes, we all share the same emotion, love, and passion. The way we miss someone, the heartbreak of loss. They are universal that everyone can understand. Each poem I write is real, raw human emotion. The reader...
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