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The First Phone Call from Heaven tells the story of a small town on Lake Michigan that gets worldwide attention when its citizens start receiving phone calls from the afterlife. Is it the greatest miracle ever or a massive hoax? Sully Harding, a grief-stricken single father, is determined to...

Love, in all its forms, is both a revelation and a puzzle. It is the one human experience that defies simple definitions yet exists within every language. Across centuries, poets, philosophers, and lovers alike have tried to unwrap its mystery—each discovering that love cannot be defined, only seen and felt deep.

Christina Rossetti's poignant wish that she could capture the elusive memory of the first time she met her love, read by Jenny Agutter.

Sir John Betjeman’s unique relationship with the BBC left a lasting legacy of poetry, readings and performances. A First Class Collection features a selection of some of his most memorable and best-loved poetry. Betjeman was one of the best-known and loved Poet Laureates and over a hundred...

This book compiles both the first (1855) and final (1892) versions of Walt Whitman's masterpiece Song of Myself in one volume, making it unique and valuable for students of American literature.

Read, with his trademark charm and humour, by Brian Bilston. If you like a) laughing or b) words which rhyme with each other, you will love Brian Bilston - Richard Osman, author of We Solve Murders 'There is poetry to be found in anything if you look hard enough.' You Took the Last Bus Home is a...

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY From Whiting Award–winner Rickey Laurentiis, a mythic, lyric, decade-in-the-making new collection of masterful poems that probe the meanings of trans/formation and re-creation, a new...

Are you ready to embark on a journey that transforms pain into power? Courageous New Dawn Healing Verses invites you to explore the depths of your emotions and emerge stronger, braver, and more compassionate. This poetic anthology is designed to guide you through the complex feelings of loss, anxiety, and hope, offering healing with every word.

The First Flower After the Fire is a companion for the quiet journey through the aftermath of a shattering event. It is a collection of poetry that speaks to the moments that feel unspeakable—the initial shock, the haunting echoes, the slow mending of the scars, and the gentle return of the light. This book is not a guide with easy answers. It is a quiet room, a validation of your pain, and a testament to the profound strength found in resilience.

It is fitting that the debut of Jimmy Cost – the New Mexican outlaw poet, singer and songwriter – is a memoir. A book of spontaneously fine-tuned ballads that reflect the many relationships of the multi-racial, multi-cultural and multi-ethnic artist. First Thing on the Road is rooted in the connection of energies through lost love, the acceptance of unrequited love and realizing the truth in “true” love.

Rev. Manwoo A. Kim started writing poetry during his college days at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea. Reading this volume containing Rev. Kim's poems (translated from Korean by Onyoo Elizabeth Kim, Esq.), the reader will benefit from his many years of viewing the world through poetic lenses. Rev. Kim's poems reflecting on the grace of God inspire the reader to higher things, and his poems focusing on the suffering of Jesus Christ for His people will move the readers to tears.

This is the First Trilogy Volume of Poems which have been combined into a single book for the listener to enjoy. The poet and author has put them into this volume to allow you to enjoy the progression of his thoughts. That progression has been a journey which has taken him to new realms of understanding and exploration. Listen to them. Enjoy them. But most of all, write your own poems for they tell others of your soul.

Rebel Souls is the first book ever written about the colorful group of artists - regulars at Pfaff's Saloon in Manhattan - rightly considered America's original Bohemians. Besides a young Whitman, the circle included actor Edwin Booth; trailblazing stand–up comic Artemus Ward; psychedelic drug pioneer and author Fitz Hugh Ludlow; and brazen performer Adah Menken, famous for her Naked Lady routine. Central to their times, the artists managed to forge connections with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mark Twain, and even Abraham Lincoln.

What does it mean that the Psalms are the prayer book of the people? Rocking Like It's All Intermezzo: Twenty-First-Century Psalm Responsorials is one such person's prayer book. Using familiar refrains as their starting points, the poems attempt a balance between how the psalmist understood God's faithfulness and how the poet's lived experience requires revised understanding in some places, renewed commitment in others. In addition to an insightful foreword by acclaimed poet Sofia M. Starnes, these 64 poems tell of an intimate, honest reorientation to God's promises.

 Radiant and tender, My Baby First Birthday is a collection that examines innocence, asking us who gets to be loved and who has to deplete themselves just to survive. It's about existence and nonexistence, about being born - without consent. Jenny Zhang writes about accepting pain, about the way we fetishize womanhood and motherhood, and reduce women to their violations, traumas, and body parts.

Welcome to the imaginative world of Irish poet Orna Ross. If you’re a fan of Maya Angelou, John O’Donoghue, Mary Oliver, or the ancient wisdoms of Rumi or Kabir, you’ll find poems here that are likely to inspire you. Unfailingly attuned to the beauty, complexity, and interconnectedness of life, this small chapbook is a taster of the sort of contemporary inspirational poetry that is spiritual, not religious. These 12 lush and imaginative poems take many forms, from narrative to haiku, with subjects divided into questions, works, histories, moments, gifts, and blessings.

What do you give the man who has given you everything—his heart, his strength, his forever? A place for your special note to him. To You, My Always is a collection of 160 original poems written from a wife to her husband, offering words for all the feelings that often go unspoken. Romantic, rhythmic, and deeply personal, each poem traces the journey from that first “yes” to the life you’re building together.

Rosemary Sansum, author of Garden of Dreams, Pathways to Paradise, Forever Loved and most recently, When Dreams Whisper, breaks fresh ground in this new collection of verse. Here, Rosemary exhibits an ability to scare as well as touch, to reflect upon life's good times and bad, and still find time for some good old-fashioned flights of fancy.

Pamela Cranston is an engaging and interesting woman, who as a poet has grown so much in these past years - that one well-known Western United States poet told me. Her sense of the Almighty, tastes in Biblical writing as literature and her thoughts on religious ideal, and some of her views of the 21st Century Church are touched on in this interview given by her over the phone June, 2011 from San Francisco's East Bay to the writer's home north of San Francisco.

Three stories from master storyteller Edgar Allan Poe: "The Raven", "The Masque of Red Death", and "The Cask of Amontillado".