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This work celebrations an extraordinary journey. The images, voices, loved ones, burn with a sacred investiture. It's an abundance of reverence for all things that give this body of work its magnificent view of the familiar and banal alike." -Stellasue Lee, Author of Crossing The Double Yellow Line and Firecracker RED, Editor Emeritus of Rattle "Linda Leedy Schneider's poetry is rich, finely detailed and in deep touch with the every-daynes...

Yermiyahu Ahron Taub's new collection of poems is rich with intimacy and longing, culled from the dual influences of both contemporary gay culture and timeless Jewish tradition. The speakers in Taub's poems find themselves squarely displaced between these two extremes, between the obligation to duty and the surrender to pleasure, the lightness of daily foibles and the darkness of long-held secrets and shame. The poems-bold, unfettered-are drap...

How does a daughter get to know and understand her mother? The closest bond of any two women is that of mother-daughter. Yet, this relationship often suffers over time from misunderstandings, anger and resentment. Searching for a way to reconcile past mother-daughter wounds, Nancy Roeder and her mother launched a series of taped interviews that extended over sixteen years. In her mother's voice are vivid recollections of rural life in the earl...

World War II serves as the backdrop for a love story: the love among family members and friends, with the beginning and ending in Niedzieliska, Poland.For 52 years (1933-1985), we follow the lives of sisters Sofia and Bronislawa and, more especially, the growing friendship between their daughters, Evie and Jadzia. Rebecca Thaddeus calls upon her own Polish-American family's lore to create a powerful and hypnotic portrait of these families and ...

Textbook for Communication 1010 course, which is a basic course for students who are majors in disciplines other than communication. Teaches the basics about interpersonal, business, group, and organizational communication, including such other topics as public speaking, persuasion, conflict resolution, and the basics of both verbal and nonverbal communication.

Now I know Bertie Stroup Marah is as heartfelt and talented a writer as she is a painter. I cannot convey how touched I was by her story. We are a product of our families, aren't we all? We take the good things and fold them into relationships we choose, and we, hopefully, learn from the difficult things and push ourselves to seek something different, or to at least find some peace and acceptance. I can picture her, that lovely, nurturing and ...

Nadell Fishman takes the subjects of ordinary women's lives and not only delves beneath them but sets them slightly askew so that we see them from fresh new angles. In this world, for instance, "Dorothy decided that Oz suits her, " and these poems will certainly suit its readers. -Linda Pastan Nadell Fishman is able to take on both sides of emotion-love and loss-with equal intensity. The graceful hopes that we bring to our engagements with...

The Hide of My Tongue is a familial and historical account of the loss & revitalization of the Tlingit language. The Hide of My Tongue explores the historical and contemporary effects of the loss of one of the world's most complex languages: Tlingit. There are less than three hundred fluent Tlingit speakers left in the world. In Southeast Alaska, many are involved in the Tlingit language and cultural revitalization including Vivian Faith Presc...

While the Blanket is Short, Learn to Curl Up speaks of a world that is at once both foreign and familiar, exotic and mundane, localized and trans-global, but always human. These stories from the Philippines and its global Diaspora reveal the intimate spaces of a culture in transition. They explore the triumphant and tragic aspects of a community like no other, with characters and circumstances that inspire the imagination and pull at the heart...

This is an easy-to-read page-turning exploration of God's amazing grace, demonstrated and illustrated by the teachings of Jesus. The book proclaims God's grace as irreconcilably opposed to the core values and beliefs of institutionalised religion and reveals God's grace to be an absurd and foolish sentiment that doesn't add up to the human mind.

The first volume in a three-part motivational series covers the actual dynamics of the preparation and performance of a runner and relates this athletic activity to the human condition. On one level, Glasgow assumes the role of an athletic coach to guide the reader, as a type of trainee, from a point of uncertainty to self-assurance and from pessimism to supreme optimism.

Truly, The Nun is an extraordinary novel. Remarkably original, it is structurally functional. It begins at just the right place and proceeds with a firm grip on the reader's mind and imagination. The poetry of Sia's journal in no way interferes with the flow of the narrative, rather it enriches it. Sia, whose name carries a reference to the Greek wanderer and the sea, is a remarkable creation. Also extraordinary is your representation of the p...

Jack Coulehan's latest collection of poems arises from the uncertainties, pain, and limitations of medical practice where moments of insight and joy are bursting with danger and music. ----- In pitch-perfect poems that see clearly the humanity behind a patient's illness and actions, Coulehan investigates life's essential minutiae-the observed moment, the healing gesture, the internal response. In poems such as "Forbidden Perfume" and "Referral...

Stories can change us, " Bette Lynch Husted says in this brave and compelling memoir about her own life as a poor rural girl who became a college teacher and author. As she tells us how she continually confronted unacknowledged borders of class, gender and race, we realize that true stories such as hers have the potential to change all of us. Historian Sue Armitage, coeditor of The Women's West Lessons from the Borderlands speaks truth. Truth ...

Stories and Poems to Awaken Readers Nicole Lanier Montez poems examines the social economic seed rapidly blossoming into have and have-nots, and explores behaviors and misconceptions that deprive human beings of civility and respect. The short stories weave through life, love and relationships, provoking anger, laughter, disbelief, hope and change. -The Afro-American Newspapers Baltimore, Maryland Thoughtful, intuitive, and simply complex! A w...

This Brown Girl, Dr. Yolanda Nieves, sings of Spirit in these poetic pieces. She sings of a life of dichotomies - a life froth with painful memories that lie dormant, ready to erupt at any given moment in any number of ways. These memories wrestle with harmonies of Hope and Faith that actively convey a melody of Truth - that we are all God's children "woven together like the roots of a baobab tree netted into the earth" - free to grow, free to...

Nieves has blessed us with a cacophony of magical verses, conjure and spells that give us clarity about the experiences of women, mothers, and immigrants. They give us new ways of understanding loss, love, and redemption. By reading and re-reading these poems, we not only bear witness to Nieves' growth as a woman, warrior and writer, but we, in turn, grow ourselves. Así! Randee Lipson Lawrence, Ed. D., National-Louis University Yolanda Nieves ...

In his new collection of poems and short stories, Matthew Abuelo pays homage to Dexter House, NYC, a SRO he called home for many years. The volume brings to life the strong ties among the tenants of the once affordable housing option in the city: "Will you know the Jerusalem of their hearts?/ those of the Dexter house/ who travel in time/ of fading New York/ not as travelers/ but as pictures…" The residents' pain of losing their homes seeps th...

Glasgow explores the possibility of a new beginning even after one experiences what he or she considers to be failure.

Shapiro's transcendent poems explore the turbulent space between uncertainty and acceptance, hesitation and stillness, and desperation and hope - a compelling kaleidoscopic arabesque. She shows us the depth and power of life. As these poems press against the nature of things toward a fusion of self, our timid wishes become greater truths. Lori Romero, Cezanne's Carrot Marian Kaplun Shapiro has created a body of work that asks to be read first ...