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One magical spring afternoon, when the leaves on the trees were budding and the birds in the air were singing, Walter Kaaden, a mechanical engineer looking for work, found an abandoned motorcycle deep in the forest outside of Zschopau, East Germany. Walter used the principles of V-2 rocketry he learned from Werner von Braun at Peenemünde to coax the genie - trapped inside Dita's piddly 50 cc motor - to life. Under his care and attention, Dita ...

Poetry is a form of memory. We involve ourselves in it because we are lost. We look for a place where we can encounter the most essential mysteries of who we are and where we might be going. The Commune of Our Waking suggests an idea of what poetry can do: how its base elements of language, imagery, and rhythm make us better human beings. Come visit, stay awhile...

These words...If I wrote them, and if you read them, there would be no middle ground for denial, anymore." A collection of intimate poetry written by a youthful girl, a young woman, and a middle-aged person. The Makings of this Woman shows the progression of a life as it was felt and written by a soul that has always felt too much, thought too deeply, and wrote it all out as a means to escape-as a means to be found. This is who I was, this is ...

At first, I wrote from an internal ache that I believe every poet needs in order to create. A longing we cannot name or satiate and what brings us humans together as one: Love. Then I wrote to bring myself to the ground of reality. To the truth of what I know is certain about me. There are many words and actions we cannot control in this world. But our own truth that unfolds in our own lives. That we will always know. So to you, Dear Reader, t...

It's been fifteen years since Brisdon vanished into thin air..." So begins a story that will take you from post-war Scotland to the art-world of London and New York, across the Peruvian countryside during the rise of Shining Path, and to a secluded Ontario summer resort during its darkest hours. The Peruvian Book of the Dead weaves four separate narratives into a single tale of mystery, love, and horror as it examines the effects of guilt and ...

When Shelly's family decides to move to a secluded island off the coast of British Columbia, they have hopes for a fresh start. Unfortunately, the dreams have begun and it's only a matter of time before they break into the realm of the living. Shelly soon learns that a curse of generations can no longer be outrun.

As if it weren't enough that Poppy has to deal with teenage problems like shyness, keeping up with her studies, and the temptations of boys and illicit substances, she also can't seem to shake the cruel and terrifying monsters intent on haunting her in both her waking and dream lives. Set in 1980's Montreal, The Curtain Lady is a heartfelt coming of age story with a haunting twist.

The year is 1993. Christina Perretti, working as an investigator with Interpol's new art crimes unit out of Rome, discovers, through the recovery of a lost Egon Schiele painting in Moscow, a cache of notes from a notorious Berlin art dealer for the Nazis, Harry Maes. The notes are addressed to his son Nikolaus, but they concern the provenance of a number of paintings believed to have been in Maes's possession at the time of his death. As Per...

For Théodore Ostrom, a physicist researching dark matter at the China Jinping Underground Laboratory, becoming posthuman both evokes terror and excites pleasure. The terror is easy to understand. The days of the human may be numbered. Following the return to his Beijing apartment during a global speciation event, Théodore Ostrom receives a call from an automated legal service, informing him that his family has died in a motor vehicle accid...

Falling in love with Landry Hayles was easy. Being left by Landry Hayles was soul crushing. Forgetting Landry Hayles, that's impossible. In each other we found a passion that couldn't be contained. Two broken souls became whole, together. But even in love, the darkness of family secrets, illicit escapes, and impossible choices were more than we could bear. It turns out love doesn't conquer all. Five years later, why do I still see his face whe...

On a bright November day in 1913, a young deckman named Harry Darling joins The James Carruthers, a large cargo carrier leaving Port William and bound for Midland on her last cargo run of the season. Harry's estranged father, Connor Darling, is onshore, unaware of Harry's whereabouts and consumed with staving off the end of his failing mink farm. When a cyclonic weather event descends over the entire region, Harry and Connor reconsider percept...

These are poems unlike any that you have read before. Simon Constam considers moments, thoughts, insights that other poets, to their and our detriment, commonly ignore. Moments that look deeply at how we grow old together with our lovers. "But these things are not what now I treasure. Now it is the way your step makes uncertain contact with the earth, the way your dress catches at the hip before it falls to the floor, it is how your energ...

Mountains, Lakes and Meadows Nature abounds in the High Sierra, Tahoe, Yosemite, Hiking, Kayaking, Biking Lure of the outdoors ring irresistibly through. Hollywood, Silicon Valley, La Jolla shores Lingering California Vibes, the Beats Calling the Adventurer, Dreamer and Poets Explore, Set sail, Ignite your soul on fire Resiliency, Persistency and BoldnessEncapsulated in this book -'Yosemite of My Heart : Poems of Adventure in California

...moving descriptions of Éire's [Ireland's] wayward sons and daughters yearning for a sense of belonging in the world." - Alexander Hackett, Montreal Review of Books "If they ask, you can say we're wily micks who still refuse to be formed into anything other than what the spirits demand. Like the reshaped shoreline after the storm." - Devin O'Sullivan has returned to his family's home on Grand Island, across from Kingston, Ontario, Canada...

Upon hearing that her favourite pianist - Andre Gauthier-Lee - is retiring, Gaby decides to travel around the world to Singapore, Auckland, Geneva, and New York to watch his last four concerts. Little does she know that this trip is going to change her life forever. Andre Gauthier-Lee's life as a world-renowned pianist seems to be perfect. However, his recent retirement announcement has shocked his fans, as he is in the prime years of what see...

Two Senators, a Governor, a Mayor, three police officers, a first responder, an unarmed man, six armed men, a family of four, a baby, a grandfather, a doctor, two nurses and four high school students were all tragically killed in Washington, D.C. on the same day." Our humanity died once news reporters transitioned to listing the day's deaths without names or details due to the growing volume. By 2040, the earth had evolved into an inferno of e...

This intimate collection of poetry, spanning over two decades, is meant to evoke strong emotions in the reader and encourage an inner dialogue. It elicits an opportunity to contemplate on multiple themes, more specifically on how personal hardships can impact and shape who we become. Above all, it is meant to reveal the incredible healing power of words on helping reconcile with past wounds and traumas. Discovering the authenticity that comes ...

Cate is by all accounts normal--on the precipice of graduating college, she lives with her boyfriend, goes out with friends, works an unfulfilling grocery store job, and dreams of a better life. A better life that she thinks she will deserve once she has an enviably slim waistline. Setting herself on a dangerous path, and propelled forward by careless comments from those closest to her, Cate doesn't realise she needs help until it's almost too...

Wouldn't it be funny if the worst thing that happened to us was also a gift, wrapped in a strange puzzle that was painful to complete?" In 1978, a small, peaceful Canadian town is struck by a tragic accident and the resulting death of an innocent child. Henceforth united by their trauma, the lives of all those involved are forever changed. Nothin' But A Stranger In This World chronicles the separate, and yet somehow intertwined lives of th...

A part of Ned Baldwin has always known this day would come. That he would, at last, tell the truth to the people who mattered most to him. It is only when he moves to London, to figure out what, precisely, he wants to do with his life, that he manages to blurt it out in the immediate aftermath of a minor car crash. There is relief in the fact that it is done, even if badly done. Born and bred on the inside, Ned finds himself, for the first t...