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These are more than arresting poems-they overpower the reader with a directness and insight rarely seen in contemporary work, and their straightforward beauty is as irresistible as the flavor of a ripe peach or the luminous gravity of the stars. Linda Principe, it is utterly clear, has lived and felt each line she puts down, she takes the business of writing poems seriously.

Dismayed by a basement-apartment existence supported by two low-paying radio jobs, twenty-something workaholic Nicki Rodriguez experiences a dramatic change in outlook when fate transports her to an even lousier place-a distorted world inhabited mostly by canine-humanoids trapped in a dimension somewhere between new Jersey and outer space. Nicki searches desperately for her pilfered portfolio containing ten thousand hard-earned dollars, prayin...

Mikel Carvin has employed his vast knowledge of art and design to create comforting and humane living spaces for generations of clients-from international celebrities like Louis Nizer, Henry Fonda, and Isaac Stern to artists, businesspeople, and professionals. He has a perfect sense of judgement about what will both please people and extend their lives. This book delves into the founding moments in Carvin's life that matured his formidable cha...

Little did they know what an adventure lay before them when Beth Luetkemeyer approached Manny Kremer in 2008 about an experiment she wanted to undertake. Her spirituality and strong desire to acquire a deeper knowledge of metaphysics merged nicely with his belief that it didn't matter how or why a phenomenon works if we can apply the knowledge we gain from it to our lives. Kremer, who had spent his career on Wall Street, was familiar with chan...

Suzie Holtz, the heroine of this worldly and vivid novel, is the daughter of neurotic East European Holocaust survivors who unsuccessfully attempt to make a life in Israel before immigrating to the United States just as she is riding on the cusp of sexual, emotional, and physical maturity. A collision between the parents' old-world views and those of a daughter with a hunger for autonomy and identification with American peers inevitably follow...

World-renowned concert violinist Zoltan Zany has been sitting in his living room armchair for an entire year, contemplating-with the help of his unconventional friends and Austrian housekeeper-the future direction of his life. Meanwhile, his etymologist son, Attila, along with an israeli linguist and archaeologist named isaac Mashugi, is traveling-in search of the first word uttered by Man-to eastern turkey's Mt.Ararat, where they believe this...

I am glad to have been permitted to learn to live with, rather than simply die from, cancer, " remarks Rose Rappaport in one passage of this lucid, unsentimental, and transcendent collection of essays on her sojourn with the illness that eventually took her life. "Mostly I am glad to measure my life, not in terms of what it once was or what I might have wished it to be, but of how wonderful it is now." It was a transformative experience for he...

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As parents and caretakers of our children, there are times when we feel our patience and faith is being tested-and we question, at times, how we should respond. "I hope, " says author Marie Parks Pinto, "that, through this series, we can help parents better master parenting skills from the kids' own perspective." In today's difficult times, such appropriate responses can very easily elude us. This series shows situations through the eyes of a ...

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The galaxy is enjoying a moment of peace that will soon be shattered. a race known as the Wraiths is about to unleash a war of revenge against its ancient enemy, the Twilights, and their allies, with humanity caught on both sides of the conflict. When the Wraiths and their own ally-a powerful empire known as the Imperial guard- hurl the galaxy into disarray, it is up to a fallen admiral, Jonathan Mikel, and his friends to unite it against the ...

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We grow so accustomed to hearing-and, let's admit it, to uttering-cliches that to encounter a person who seems unconstitutionally incapable of either produces an immediate shock. Arlene Pollack is like that, and so is her poetry, which is a good thing, because when poems get predictable you may as well use them to wrap fish. Ms. Pollack's art stuns. Even more importantly, her ideas stun, through a freshness of awareness, an untarnishable integ...

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