![]() Dorianne Laux, Finalist, 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Only As the Day is Long-New and Selected ![]() Michelle deftly navigates the “unglamorous” noir territories of personal and political trauma while embracing the erotic mess of domestic life as “unstoppable fire” where she ultimately concludes “every stroke(‘s) a masterpiece…” She threads myth, loss, and love into intricate braids of bold prose and lyrical turns, holding her readers spellbound. Charged with remarkable imagination and formal dexterity, these poems ring with clarity and precision. ![]() In Nightmares & Miracles, Michelle Bitting again proves herself as a poet, her inquiries vital and deep, her concerns darkly personal and conscientiously worldly. Praise for Nightmares & Miracles (Winner of the 2020 Two Sylvias Press Wilder Series Poetry Book Prize): ![]()
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![]() ![]() This one brings tears to my eyes and a lump to my throat.īeautifully written, Fiona! That last line. the anguish and torment here wrings our emotions. it rips at my heart! We read stories like this and the lucky ones who haven't had to make the hard choices can only be thankful that they haven't had to. there is a dark, tragic sadness in this telling of the human condition. when a mother's love and desperation takes her down to the very bottom of that long, dark path to something she hoped and prayed would never come to pass. ![]() This is really first rate writing, Fiona! As with all of your stories, I absolutely LOVE A STRAIGHT GAME. she doesn't come on the DS, does she? Haha!Ī STRAIGHT GAME is an absorbing, all-too realistic story of a couple of delinquents. Veronica, Queen Slave of the Mutant Monkeys sounds very interesting indeed. ![]() Beeny's a little shite, isn't he? Lying to his mate like that! ![]() ![]() In addition to the magazine, there’s Ouur, a lifestyle and clothing studio, the Kinfolk Table, a cookbook, and regular Kinfolk Gatherings. ![]() The photos are always calm and poetic the feel of the magazine itself is substantial in size yet surprisingly light to carry, with minimalist yet dynamic cover images. Based out of Portland, Oregon in the United States, Kinfolk is constantly expanding their reach with topics that span the globe. It’s a way of life that readers look to for inspiration. With a focus on slow-living, Kinfolk has become more than just a magazine. ![]() Here are the magazines we can’t wait to find in the post box: Happily, there are still those out there who are creating beautiful, interesting content for those of us for who find no greater joy than in cracking the binding on a new-off-the-press magazine and taking a whiff of that paper-meets-ink smell. ![]() Publishing a print magazine is no easy task and, as we rely more on digital media, the number of people who are willing to take on the financial risk of producing an independent magazine are getting fewer and fewer. ![]() ![]() ![]() They had lost six in a row to the Cowboys by an average score of 30-11. One reason the Big Red were underdogs was that they hadn’t beaten Dallas since their 38-0 win on Monday Night Football in 1970. I don’t think that the Cowboys, with their history of success, really take us seriously, even if it’s possible that a 1-3 team would be complacent.” “I like going into a game as the underdog. “I love it,” quarterback Jim Hart told Jeff Meyers of the St. To add insult to injury, Dallas was coming to town and, despite a 1-3 record, the Cowboys were favored by three points over the Cards. ![]() And who could blame them? The Big Red were coming off three straight 4-9-1 seasons and three of their early victories were against less than top-tier opponents. They had won their first four games of the season, but many “experts” still had their doubts. Louis Football Cardinals were off to their best start in eight years. Posted by Bob Underwood The Cardinals and QB Jim Hart had not beaten the Cowboys since 1970. ![]() ![]() Take all these 5/5 stars ratings from me, Pierce Brown. Though the road ahead is fraught with danger and deceit, Darrow must choose to follow Eo’s principles of love and justice to free his people. To wage and win the war that will change humankind’s destiny, Darrow must confront the treachery arrayed against him, overcome his all-too-human desire for retribution-and strive not for violent revolt but a hopeful rebirth. He becomes a Gold, infiltrating their privileged realm so that he can destroy it from within.Ī lamb among wolves in a cruel world, Darrow finds friendship, respect, and even love-but also the wrath of powerful rivals. ![]() And so Darrow sacrifices himself in the name of the greater good for which Eo, his true love and inspiration, laid down her own life. Darrow’s kind have been betrayed and denied by their elitist masters, the Golds-and their only path to liberation is revolution. ![]() But the Society he faithfully served was built on lies. As a Red, Darrow grew up working the mines deep beneath the surface of Mars, enduring backbreaking labor while dreaming of the better future he was building for his descendants. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |a Harlem (New York, N.Y.) |v Juvenile fiction. |a Dominican Americans |v Juvenile fiction. |a African Americans |v Juvenile fiction. Darius & Twig, a novel about friendship and needing to live ones own dream is a 2014 Coretta Scott King Honor Book. |a Accelerated Reader AR |b UG |c 4.6 |d 5.0 |z 158092. Request PDF Darius & Twig by Walter Dean Myers (review) Darius is an aspiring writer, Twig a rising track star, and together they are seeking a way to. |a "Two best friends, a writer and a runner, deal with bullies, family issues, social pressures, and their quest for success coming out of Harlem"- |c Provided by publisher. Darius and Twig are an unlikely pair: Darius is a writer whose only escape is his alter ego, a peregrine falcon named Fury, and Twig is a middle-distance runner striving for athletic success. |a New York : |b Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, |c ©2013. ![]() ![]() His mother told him to wait because of the storm but he was to eager to invite Amy. He decides to write Amy a letter to come to his birthday party on Saturday at 2. What he wants to change up about his birthday party is that he wants to invite a girl but does not know how the other boys will feel about it. I really love this collage style for artwork.Ī Letter to Amy is about a little boy Peter who is having a birthday party on Saturday. There is a wonderful picture of Peter with his dog and their reflections on the wet pavement. Beautiful art again, a much brighter and more sharply delineated than Pet Show. But enough about that and more on A Letter to Amy. ![]() ) Seeing these books now actually makes me think about joining a book club as an adult because I suspect that it could have the same result. (Other factors included, frequent trips to the library and their willingness to read to me for hours. ![]() Anyway, I have always been a voracious reader and I think the fact that my parents signed me up for a book club was a huge factor. ![]() I had a bit of a penchant for really girly stuff like Angelina Ballerina. But it also means that I was exposed to a number of authors that I probably wouldn't have picked out on my own. Now this means that they have ugly, if durable binding. ![]() A number of my kid's books are from the Children's Choice Book Club by Scholastic. ![]() ![]() Knows he must save her, even if it means risking his own life.ĭanger lurks in the dark corners of the galaxy, and Abel and Noemi willĭiscover a secret that could save Genesis and Earth… or destroy them all. If only she wasn’t flying right into aĪbel, now fully aware of his soul and captaining his own Vagabond ship, neverĭreamed he’d see Noemi again, not when the entire universe stands between them.īut when his creator Burton Mansfield delivers news of Noemi’s entrapment, Abel The only soldier to have ever left her planet, ![]() Of travelling through the stars again, and when a deadly plague arrives on War by sacrificing Abel, the most advanced mechanical man ever made. Planet, Genesis, as an outsider – ostracised for refusing to end the Liberty ![]() Publishing Info: March 2018 by Hot Key Books ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Smith’s sketches depicted a range of black American laborers, washerwomen, gravediggers, and other diverse and sundry folk. Thompson-Spires, who holds a PhD in English from Vanderbilt University and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois, states in the collection’s afterword that the inspiration for the title and, to some degree, the subject matter, was a series of literary sketches written in the 1850s by James McCune Smith and published in Frederick Douglass’ Paper. Heads of the Colored People captures black lives in this current, divided, Facebook-Live-Black-Lives-Matter-#MeToo moment, and catalogues trauma’s impacts on black bodies, minds and souls, female and male, adult and child alike, as perpetrated against us, by us and between us in stunningly myriad forms: systemic racism and unconscious bias, police brutality, double consciousness, body consciousness, self-hatred, and more. In Nafissa Thompson-Spires’s debut short story collection, Heads of the Colored People, a doctor suggests that an adolescent girl’s sudden and overwhelming bout of hyperhidrosis is caused by anxiety, and then asks, “Is there a history of trauma?” The heart of this collection of twelve stories, the thing that Thompson-Spires communicates with great verve, humor, and empathy, is the answer to that question-a booming “Yes!”-especially as experienced by black Americans. ![]() Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires ![]() ![]() Einar must take back control of his destiny in this thrilling Viking adventure. The e-book of The Bear's Blade will be available from all the usual outlets form that day, with the paperback edition to follow in July. 'A brilliantly written historical adventure which will appeal to fans of Bernard Cornwell, George R.R. The Bear's Blade - Out on April 7 Einar, son of Thorfinn the skull cleaver, sets sail on his 5th adventure on April 7. ![]() But is a man who cannot wield a sword capable of being a true Viking warrior? With his whole future at stake, can Einar prove his worth – and make it back alive? To succeed, Einar must infiltrate the Bear's stronghold. But Brittany is besieged by Viking hordes, and the scholar is the prisoner of a legendary Viking warrior known as the Bear. In exchange for his help, the crew must undertake a perilous mission: sail to Brittany and bring a renowned scholar back to England. ![]() ![]() They seek the protection of the King of the English. Einar and the Wolf Coats raid the pagan ceremony that will confirm Eirik's power, but due to his injured sword hand, Einar fails to kill Eirik and he and his men must flee. Einar must take back control of his destiny in this thrilling Viking adventure.Īlthough the rightful Jarl of Orkney, Einar is not yet strong enough to overcome his rival, King Eirik. ![]() |