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Everything about Lilah Stohler is dark: her clothes, her mood, and her outlook on life and death. That last part is important because Lilah’s father has just retired and left her in charge of Stohler’s Funeral Home. But Abel Stohler knows his daughter’s comfort level rests “downstairs”, so he hires one Sparkle Lee Sink to help Lilah manage the living part of the business of death. Sparkle is everything that Lilah isn’t—an empathetic marketing whiz who is a true people person.

Wenn zwei Serienkiller die Liebe finden... Als Sloane – besser bekannt als "Blackbird" – auf den "Butcher" Rowan trifft, finden die beiden rivalisierenden Serienkiller etwas Unerwartetes: das Verständnis einer gleichgesinnten dunklen Seele. Kurzentschlossen beginnen sie ein Spiel, das sie quer durch die USA führt. Von den dunklen Gassen Bostons bis zum ländlichen Texas treffen sie in einem jährlichen Wettkampf aufeinander, bei dem sie gegen die gefährlichsten Mörder des Landes antreten.

After a childhood filled with heartbreak, Irene, a talented artist, finds herself in a small Central American village where she checks into a beautiful but decaying lakefront hotel called La Llorona at the base of a volcano.

Five husbands. One book club. And enough secrets to fill a lifetime. Edna Stone, eighty-something and the reigning queen of Searcy, Arkansas, invites eight women, ages twenty to eighty-something, to talk about books. They think they're just coming for wine and paperbacks. They're wrong. The best...

The songs and calls of 50 of the more common birds of England and North America are paired with such classic poems as "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe, "The Oriole's Secret" by Emily Dickinson, "An Essay on Man" by Alexander Pope, "Roadless Area" by Paul Brooks, "To a Skylark" by Percy Bysshe Shelley, and more.

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampiresmeets Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in this twisty, fresh take on a Southern gothic that follows a mysterious, charming bachelor as he makes his way into a small town, bringing a plague and the devil with him, from GMA Buzz Pick author...

In this instant New York Times bestselling novel by “Southern sensation Kristy Woodson Harvey” (Good Morning America), four women come together to save the summer camp that changed their lives and rediscover themselves in the process. Nearly thirty years ago, June Moore bought Camp Holly...

Birds, Boughs, and Belonging invites listeners into a quieter America—where meaning is discovered not in noise or ambition, but through attentive companionship with nature. Across gardens, forests, seashores, and mountain vistas, classic American writers—including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa...

From an award-winning poet, a new collection that endeavors to pass along what the things of the earth are telling us Over the course of his career Robert Wrigley has won acclaim for the emotional toughness, sonic richness, and lucid style of his poems, and for his ability to fuse narrative and...

The thirteen stories in Birds of Paradise Lost shimmer with humor and pathos as they chronicle the anguish and joy and bravery of America's newest Americans, the troubled lives of those who fled Vietnam and remade themselves in the San Francisco Bay Area.  The past memories of war and its aftermath; of murder, arrest, re-education camps, and new economic zones; of escape and shipwreck and atrocity are ever present in these wise and compassionate stories. 

Robert Rich has made a lasting influence in the world of ambient and electronic music for four decades. Bird Servant represents his first published book of poetry. With detectable influences of David Budbill, Robinson Jeffers, Mary Oliver or Taoist poets like Tu Fu, Rich’s words carry themselves lightly with humor, and he delights in the musical possibilities inherent in language.

According to legend, the language of the birds was a mystical language God used to talk with Adam and Eve when he walked with them in the garden of Eden. Amy Nemecek listens for this divine dialect as she communes with God on her walks along country roads and creek banks, through forests and hayfields.

A daughter searching for answers. A mother chasing redemption. A past too powerful to forget. Thirty years ago, Savannah’s newborn daughter was stolen—and so was her future. Grief-stricken and alone, she fled to the Pacific Northwest, leaving behind the South Carolina Lowcountry and the pain that haunted every corner of it. Now, with her life unraveling once more, Savannah returns home in search of the one thing she’s never been able to find. Peace.

Lone Bird is 19 poems by Maggie Hess. This stark chapbook exposes brutal honesty in nature symbolism. Listen deeply to its poems. Bite right into the meat of it. Don't be ashamed.

Two hours of poetic listening pleasure that you will enjoy many times over. This book contains over 50 selected poems and song lyrics from a lifetime collection of writings by the author Kent E. Gunnison. A wide range of topics is covered within these minutes. Many contain serious, thought-provoking insights to life in general. Many are based upon the spiritual relationship we can have with God through prayer. There are some that simply examine the true meaning of a relationship between two or more people.

En este volumen se recopilan los mejores relatos de Sue Zurita, extraídos delas ediciones independientes de Los pájaros que habitan mi corazón y Buenas noches, desolación, junto con algunos cuentos que nunca habían visto la luz y que la autora pone por fin a disposición de sus lectores.

Birds & Other Dreamers is a collection of poetry about love, loss, uncertainty, hope, and fear. To a broken heart, a happy ending often seems unimaginable. But what if it isn't?