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The original and immortal poem also known as "A Visit from St. Nicholas". Classic Tales narrator B. J. Harrison gives a stellar reading of this Christmas classic.

When My Brother Was an Aztec is a work of courage and invention - one that foregrounds the particularities of family dynamics and individual passion against the backdrop of Western mythologies and a deeply rooted cultural history. Natalie Diaz's arresting debut explores a brother's addiction and its devastating effects on a household, while offering a political critique of our nations and their pasts. It acknowledges absences and uncomfortable silences, as well as conjuring vivid voices and presences, from Antigone and Houdini to Huitzilopochtli and Jesus.

This three-audiobook set of the A Poet's Journey poetry collection, covers the good, bad, and beautiful of being a human. You will laugh, cry, and find something in these audiobooks that will strike deep cords within you.

A collection of poetry that takes one on a trip through the emotional growth of the human spirit, When I Was Not Myself covers the sorrow, joy, grief, and confusion that comes from being human.

Textured with the sights and sounds of growing up in East New York in the nineties, to school on the South Side of Chicago, all the way to the olive groves of Palestine, My Mother Is a Freedom Fighter is Aja Monet's ode to mothers, daughters, and sisters—the tiny gods who fight to change the world. These stunning poems tackle racism, sexism, genocide, displacement, heartbreak, and grief, but also love, motherhood, spirituality, and Black joy.

Hannah Sullivan's first collection, Three Poems , won the T. S. Eliot Prize and the inaugural John Pollard International Poetry Prize. Was It for This continues that book's project, offering a trenchant exploration of the ways in which we attempt to map our lives in space and time. But there is also the wider, collective experience to contend with, the upheaval of historic event and present disaster. 'Tenants', the first poem, is an elegy for Grenfell, written from the uneasy perspective of a new mother living a few streets away.

An astonishingly insightful and deeply felt collection of poems that meditate on time and the many stages of a woman's life—from girlhood to adolescence, from being a young wife and mother, to seeing your children grow up and depart—by the celebrated poet and bestselling author of A Working...

The Laughing Mirror is a spell book disguised as a poetry collection, a wild and tender chronicle of a woman becoming her own soft bodied goddess as she moves through fascist shadows, sugar glitter resurrections, psychotic pilgrimages, and moon drenched confessions. The poems swing between divinity and delusion, rage and softness, prophecy and pop music, letting every cracked reflection shimmer with its own strange holiness.

Narrated by the poet himself, The Never Was is a deeply personal return from bestselling poet Tyler Knott Gregson. Known for his engaging spoken word across social media, Gregson turns inward with raw honesty, reflecting on identity, diagnosis, and the quiet beauty in the incomplete.

Amelia Alderson, an only child, was born on the 12th November 1769 in Norwich, England. After the death of her mother on New Year's Eve 1784 she became her father's housekeeper and hostess. The young Amelia was energetic, attractive, and an admirer of fashion. She spent much of her youth writing poetry and plays and putting on local amateur theatricals. At 18 she had published anonymously 'The Dangers of Coquetry'.

When your life changes where do you find yourself? How do you find yourself? This is a collection of short stories and poems describing the journeys of these women as they cope with life, accept the changes, and discover their new selves.

Auf den Weltbestseller "The Hill We Climb" folgt der erste Gedichtband der gefeierten Lyrikerin. Amanda Gorman hat am 20. Januar 2021 Geschichte geschrieben: mit ihrer Lyrik, ihrer Vision, ihrem Sinn für Gerechtigkeit und Hoffnung. "The Hill We Climb" wurde am Tag der Inauguration von Joe Biden zum berühmtesten Gedicht der Welt, und Amanda Gormans Worte inspirierten Millionen Menschen rund um den Globus.

Eine wunderbare Parabel, die befreiende Antworten gibt auf quälende Warum-Fragen des Lebens. Lerne von Konrad, wie das katastrophale Ende der Beginn von neuen guten Möglichkeiten werden kann.

He said it was love… But love should not leave bruises on your soul. Sophie Eve’s debut poetry book takes you through the heart-wrenching cycle of toxic love—emotional manipulation disguised as passion, pain mistaken for devotion, and the slow unraveling of a young woman losing track of her own worth. In each poem, you said this was love speaks to women who have previously lost themselves in someone else’s shadow—only to rise again, stronger. If you’ve ever loved the wrong person, if you’ve ever had to rebuild yourself from the ground up, this book is for you.

Amidst an otherwise routine blink, you have just caught glimpse of a curious and unfamiliar binding - one that promises only to lead you gradually off the wayside. Its destination: past the charming whims of poetic joviality into the snarky silhouette of an umbral fowl.

A short chap book of poetry of full of lust and regrets.

Four cardinal directions point the way through this inner wilderness, through trials and initiations, suffering and discovery, on a restless quest for deeper connection and wholeness. What emerges is a richly textured map of love and loss, a tapestry of hard-won truths both personal and universal. At turns mysterious, dreamlike, intimate, and illuminating, these poems explore what is wild and timeless in the human soul.

Why I Was Late fuses text with performance, bringing a transmasculine wisdom, humor, and experience to bear upon tailgates, spaceships, and wrestling rings. Fierce, tender, convention re-inventing—Petch works hard. And whether it’s as a film union lighting technician, a hospital bed allocator, a Toronto hot dog vendor, or a performer/player of the musical saw, the work is survival. Heroes are found in unexpected places, elevated by both large and small gestures of kindness, accountability and acceptance.

That's right—we've packed 50 hilarious, head-scratching, and downright weird limericks into one tidy volume. This isn't your grandfather's poetry; it's a fresh, modern take on the classic form, crafted to bring a smile to your face and a rhythm to your day.

Neue Texte der Bestsellerautorin Julia Engelmann - authentisch selbst gesprochen. "Ich liege auf dem Dach und zähle meine Sterne, manchmal strecke ich kurz die Arme aus. Dann pflück ich mir ein paar, greif einfach raus in sphärisch weite Ferne, endlich hört das Warten wieder auf." Gefühlvoll und berührend klingen die neuen Gedichte von Bestsellerautorin Julia Engelmann. Sie spricht über die Suche nach Glück, Liebe und Zuhause und die kleinen und großen Fragen, die unser Leben bestimmen: was uns glücklich macht, wo wir hingehören, welchen Weg wir gehen wollen, was wir loslassen, was bleibt.