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Eight-year-old Hailey has heard her entire life that humans can't come from the stars. This hasn't stopped her from believing otherwise. She knows she's different, but embracing that is almost impossible on a planet where everyone expects you to be somebody you are not.Scared of her inner light burning out, Hailey runs away from home in search of a new life. Everything changes when she meets her starry godmama, Nebesa. With her help, Hailey ta...

Darkness grips the small village of Maidenton. A foul presence has slipped unnoticed into Kinsmen society, a deception so clever and cunning, it is unknowingly embraced by the citizens and elders alike. The Keeon, spurred on by their Shallum overlords, have spun a web of lies which have bewitched the people. Corruption openly masquerades as righteousness while the truth of the Ancients is manipulated and concealed. This is the world Beem retur...

The author searches for the soul of the marketplace in the selves, sites and stuff that animate our acquisitive quest. He offers a fieldworker's view - at times critical, at times celebratory - of consumer experiences that pervade our lives. From the local to the global, his evocative images reflect the poetics of desire in which we are all immersed. This is a loving and lyrical look at our radiant buyosphere.

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APORIAC is a series of vignettes on the changing nature of relationships and perspective from 'whispering in the back seat' of childhood to later in life 'when words are just another noise'. Set against Western Australian suburban and coastal landscapes, you will pass through 'the rusty chicken-wire gate' to find 'a shadow of things unsaid' and your 'clothes scattered over the wooden steps' on a beach 'lavish with treachery and strays'. This c...

In 2013 a New York Times headline proclaimed that turtles are "Coldblooded, but Surprisingly Smart." These poems cry out the echo of that proclamation, especially for Rosemary Lombard's long-time turtle colleagues at the Chelonian Connection cognition laboratory. In these poems we meet a sea turtle lazing above the anemones, a box turtle entranced by the harvest moon or demonstrating her understandings and skills, a pancake tortoise enraged by...

A lifelong painter who uses the sensuality of language to express the emotions and process of creating. Not like most writers who riff only about the subject matter on a canvas because they don't know what it's like to pick up a brush, to convey emotion through color.

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Bearing the Juice of It All, by Nancy Lynée Woo, is a poetry chapbook that invites the reader on a daring exploration of developing womanhood. These poems engage a loose narrative voice grounded in emotion, pulled forward by relentlessly imagistic language that blurs the lines between dream logic and waking states, mythology and modernity, expectations and reality. The collection questions where the locus of sight is-in her body or his? Reachi...

Chrissie Kahan and Aaron Kahan flee to the beach after their latest fertility setback. The trials and tribulations they have undergone to become parents have worn them down. At the shore, they reflect on their harrowing journey and the harsh realities they faced. Their story begins much earlier, when the couple fall in love. Both work in the educational system and both want to share their hearts and home with children. It doesn't take long to ...

Discover a gentle, mysteriously feminine world of nature, spirits, and women in this new colouring book by the illustrator of Sea Changes.

They enjoy the power high school gives to their fourteen-year-old lives. Blonde hair, blue eyes, and deep matching dimples on the lower parts of both of his cheeks, Josh is the picture of the perfect ninth grade boy. Paul is tall and skinny and has a slight acne-tainted complexion. They push themselves higher as cool, tough, popular guys as they push me down. I sit in front of them in homeroom. There are only three minutes before the bell. The...

Icy roads, a dark forest, and an escaped convict on the loose. It's not the vacation Sarah Wagner had envisioned. Then she takes a wrong turn in the blinding snow, and her car slides off an abandoned road. She's stranded, and the friend she's on her way to visit, at a remote winter cabin, isn't answering her phone. She sets out on foot to find the cabin, only to find that her friend is missing, leaving two small daughters behind.

This book offers a collection of sketches by Kentucky Heritage Artist Robert A. Powell of Kentucky symbols and landmarks that are ideal for coloring in virtually any media. It includes a variety of subjects that should spark the artistic interest of nearly everyone of any age, and attempts to cover the diverse natural and man-made landmarks that depict the great Commonwealth. The author-artist has written a brief description to explain the sig...

How far would you be willing to go if you were chasing freedom? When Allie Santiago, international scholar at Oregon State University, and her family are captured and labor trafficked by the same drug cartel that drove her father from Mexico, she learns the cartel thugs plan to sell her to human traffickers. Allie escapes, running a marathon through the mountains of Northern California, and collapses in the arms of Jeff Jacobs, a disgraced Oly...

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Ruby Mountain takes readers on a powerful, evocative spiritual and personal journey of the Mojave Desert by longtime poet/resident Ruth Nolan. These poems, written in an exciting mix of high and low poetic forms - from sonnet to ragged free verse - employ the very best of imagery, poetic subtleties, and evoke the inner poetry of the desert's exotic geographies and more recognizable iconic features, and embrace a wide sweep of subjects, includi...

Composition Studies, by Annie Hinkle, is a metaphorical exploration of the relationships between reader, writer, and text. This lyrical and episodic collection includes poems published in Ascent and Southern Poetry Review.

This intriguing book is a must-read not only for those wanting gripping stories but also for therapists, theologists, and anyone interested in a wider view of human existence. Kayla Mackenzie-Kopp gives us remarkable insights into the world of past lives. While teaching at university and bringing up three children, she explored many of her own past lives and worked as a reincarnation therapist for hundreds of people. Here we see how this work ...