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The relationship between Father and Son is one of, if not, the most influential in any family hierarchy. For a young boy, it can be the difference between love and fear, between success and failure, and between respect and resentment. the dark side of white bread: surviving our fathers is one man's chronological journey of his paternal relationship and the lifelong impact of experiencing emotional and physical trauma. It is a must read for anyone who spent their childhood seeking safe refuge simply to survive and to heal from the past without anger or regret.Can "the earth swallow up men and their anger"? asks Elmo Shade in his new book the dark side of white bread: surviving our fathers. If yes, what is left? Because the father rarely asks, "Are you alright son?", Elmo reimagines his future: "Maybe we could...sit down together and have the conversation we never had." His poems find the tender possibility of repair under the wounds, reminding us of the sweetness of forgiveness.- Claudia F. Saleeby Savage, poet & author of Bruising ContinentsElmo Shade shares intimate stories of unreciprocated love and brutality during a time when fathers used children to validate their manhood. Raw, funny, dark, terrifying, and helpful to any adult striving to understand and accept a challenging childhood.-Jim Bellar, writer & co-author of Am I Too Late?How do we make peace with the memory of those who have hurt us? In the dark side of white bread, Elmo Shade doesn't pretend there are easy answers to impossible questions. Instead, he faces head-on the shame, confusion, and fear of his childhood, now as a father and grandfather, and transforms the years of pain into compassion. Compassion for his father, yes, but even more so, compassion for himself. -Armin Tolentino, poet laureate & author of We Meant To Bring It Home Alive

How do you overcome a broken heart?For generations, the magic trees have supported the kingdom of Linden. The wood is prized in kingdoms everywhere for its special properties. It's one of the few good things King Christopher inherited from his late father, the evil King Vincent.Vincent also gifted Christopher a lack of confidence. The only person who believes in Christopher is Queen Lily. When he loses her and their only child, Christopher's grief threatens to undo him. The love of his life has returned to the fates, and now all he wants to do is spend his days mourning her.Then word comes that the trees are dying, and no one knows why.Despite the urge to hide in the castle forever, Christopher meets the mysterious Keeper of the Wood to find out what's killing the trees. The answer demands he go on a quest with old friends and new allies. Along the way, they'll try to save hostages and mend another broken heart by putting it back together piece by piece.Through it all, Christopher will fight to conquer his doubt and prove to his people, the memory of Lily, and himself that he deserves the crown.

Nothing happens, and everything happens, in this seemingly quiet novel where Amy Smiley takes us deep into the emotional bond between three people-a mother, her son, and his babysitter-and follows each of them through a period of growth, from one spring to the next, until they are able to step out into the world more freely, with nature as their guide.With its subtle focus on the inner life, Amy Smiley's prose conveys the beneficial power of reverie, teaching us that we need more of it, to help us each find meaning in our lives. Written under the star of motherhood, Hiking Underground is an exquisite meditation on the interplay of nurture, connection, and creativity.

Walk into this communing poetisphere as if you are heading out to Mother Nature.Behold a daisy whose eye is ardent as a miniature sun, a purple columbine whose dark beauty makes a witching hour of noon, a scarlet tulip that bursts open like the Big Bang...Everything connects tentacularly to everything: the Canadian goldenrod defies its stereotype as a bio-invasive by weaving homophonic entanglements between "guilt" and "gilt", the gold thread stringing all life together. Then, wade through once-pristine cyclical time into deeper waters of nature's grief and joy - "weather-sorrow" of seasonal harmony jangled by climate crisis; rapport with a cat shivering in winter predawn. Philosophical meditations on being ensue, proceeding to where thought translates into action.The book ends on memory, mourning, and protest: a "saga" to commemorate a sweet gean tree that grew up symbiotically with the speaker and was callously mangled by horticulture. The overlapping, looping structure of the sonnet crown insists that each single being is uniquely significant and each loss extraordinary.Synthesizing air of a Romantic imagination, moisture of a Victorian naturalist's empathic curiosity, and essential minerals of an innovative ecopoetics, Convivial Communiverse respires like a plant that "worlds its own world", exemplifying lessons of love and ethical existence.

Meet a florist called Daisy: she's sassy, sarcastic and guarded, and definitely does not need or want a man.Enter Stewart Burns, the charming sexy frontman of indie band Cardinal. Their lives are as different as snowdrops to sunflowers, yet there's something about Stewart that Daisy can't ignore.For their relationship to work fully, Daisy must peel away the tough outer petals she hides behind to let Stewart and her friends see her for who she is---scars and all.Can Daisy allow herself to bloom in the full sun of an unexpected but exciting life as Stewart-from-Cardinal's girlfriend, with their lives like entwined roots, or will she be left in the shade with a broken heart and shattered dreams?In A Florist Called Daisy, Elsie G. Beya explores love, happiness, friendship, secrets, self-harm and the illusive girl-code through the rural weather and landscape of the North, Star Wars, songs, the sea and an abundance of flowers.

When newly licensed piano tuner RAYMOND DOVER visits the burg of Bucksnort, his intent is to provide services for a veteran's retirement home. Shortly after arrival, he's stricken with a mysterious amnesia and subsequently obliged to spend time at a county bughouse (Dixxmont) for observation and treatment. Therapeutic success leads to discharge, and Ray subsequently decides to stay on awhile in the area.Bucksnort is archetypical, small-town America; a dream town of wearisome proportions; a sometimes metropolis with all the attendant vexations of other city centers but still with the blinkered, tar black menace. It is impossible to know anyone in Bucksnort, and after frequenting, it's also impossible to care.Whether found or invented history, varied characters present, some historical while scores of others are conceived on the run. Recognizable eras are also referenced; timelines are breached and boarded and, together with the myriad personalities, are riffled and sailed across the page like casino playing cards.Madame Curie's Piano Tuner is a loose, less than linear assemblage of scenes, scenarios, staged bits, gags, etc., recounted by Ray. Soon enough, the moderately-adjusted reader may adjudge him an unreliable narrator. Still, for these times, he's reliable enough, and though a vocal faction may seek to blow the confines, Ray makes clear long before final words are laid to page that exiting Bucksnort is easier said than done.

Dr. Miriam Stewart works tirelessly to help Appalachian women gain control over their bodies-to make a deliberate decision whether to be a mother. Bone-weary, but with a nagging fear of the obsolescence of retirement, Miriam is sandwiched between two frustratingly independent women; neither will listen to her advice. Her aging mother, Lillian, a locally beloved, retired mountain midwife, refuses to leave her farmhouse nestled deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Olivia, her thirty-year-old daughter, searches for the perfect sperm donor for the baby she's determined to have.When a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity promises her work legacy will continue, Miriam's passion is renewed. But her carefully ordered world explodes when the fulfillment of her dream collides with her mother's long-kept secrets. Secrets that undermine the very foundation of Miriam's beliefs about who she is, her career, and especially, what it means to mother. Miriam is faced with an impossible choice.In The Mother Gene, Lynne Bryant casts a contemporary story of mothers and daughters against the backdrop of a not-so-distant dark time in American history, when powerful forces sought to control who should have children. Three generations of women struggle with the intertwined choices of sex, love, pregnancy, and motherhood.

What if you hadn't chosen your future path, but then it was decided for you, and you didn't feel ready?Spring, 1835. After being sent down from Cambridge, 18-year-old Frederick Darcy struggles to develop confidence in himself; but an unexpected tragedy forces a new role upon him - he is to become the next Master of Pemberley! Frederick must learn how to manage a huge estate, cope with the unfortunate choices of wayward siblings, and even survive life-threatening challenges.In Distress and Determination, Frederick struggles to prove himself and earn the trust and respect of his father, Fitzwilliam Darcy, as well as his mother, Elizabeth, and everyone else around him. Can he become a capable, respected Master, and ultimately a strong, confident man like his father?

Outbreaks and Pandemics: The Life of a Disease Detective is the life story of Dr. Nicholas Daniels and how he overcame seemingly insurmountable odds to attain professional success. Through his journey from poverty to the Ivy League to becoming an infectious disease epidemiologist, he chronicles an American dream come true as he followed his passion for finding ways to improve health on an individual and community level and to advocate for global public health.This book profiles infectious diseases during outbreaks and pandemics. It highlights lessons learned and ways we can prepare now for the next pandemic. His journey as a medical doctor, disease detective, and an international public health expert took him across the globe to tackle public health challenges and mysteries related to a variety of potentially deadly infectious diseases. Based upon epidemic intelligence, Dr. Daniels tells stories of medical disease detectives and infectious pathogens and our constant struggle to survive them.In Outbreaks and Pandemics: The Life of a Disease Detective, we learn about the life of a disease detective and explore the important role disease detectives play in controlling outbreaks and pandemics.

Enter the Land of the Eagle!Discover the fascinating legends and heroes of Albania in this comprehensive collection of timeless tales.In these pages are stories that were shrouded in mystery for generations, only told in person and never written down. Now you too can follow the adventures of the mighty Mujo and his brave band of agas; join the never-ending battle between the holy dragon-men and the monstrous nine-headed kulshedra; and journey to the Moving Mountains to face hungry giants, and shape-shifting shtrigas.In The Land of the Eagle: Albanian Mythology, you will dive into a previously unexplored pantheon of gods and creatures, but find familiar themes of honour, courage, love, and the eternal dichotomy of good versus evil.

Her mother is Lakota, her father white, and fourteen-year-old Red Dove's dream is to bring her worlds together. With her grandfather's medicine pouch, she has survived the cruelties of the Indian boarding school and the tragedy of Wounded Knee. She's ventured across the ocean to Europe to perform with Annie Oakley in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. Now, in Red Dove, Run Through the Fire, she's returning to America, where she hopes to make her dream a reality-and find the place where she truly belongs. Follow Red Dove's adventures through Book One, Listen to the Wind, Book Two, Tell Truth to Darkness, and Book Three, Run Through the Fire. Each can be read as a standalone, and each tells this remarkable girl's story as well as the saga of her people."e;I thoroughly enjoyed reading Red Dove, Run through the Fire, the third book of the trilogy about the adventures of a young Lakota girl during the late 1800d. It is a touching fictional tale, but it illustrates accurately the history of the Lakota people and their culture. The truth about Wounded Knee and the boarding schools is presented in a respectful manner to which young people can relate. Students who read this book will not forget what happened to the Lakota people in 1890. As an "e;Iyeshka"e; person myself, raised in white culture, I can appreciate the fact that it is a struggle to be successful in both societies. This beautifully written book is a fascinating ending to the trilogy. I recommend all three Red Dove books for young and old."e;--Mary Puthoff, Lakota educator and former Program Specialist, Title VI American Indian Education Program

What happens when a daughter's dream and a mother's sordid past collide?New York, 1910. Seventeen-year-old Sylvie and her French-immigrant mother Justine eke out a living doing piecework in a tenement on the Lower East Side, while Sylvie attends school so that she can escape their life of poverty by becoming a teacher.At least, that's what her mother believes should happen. Sylvie, though, has a different dream. She wants to be a star in the new moving pictures, just like the beautiful Vitagraph Girl. When she meets a dangerously handsome Italian boy at church one Sunday and he encourages her ambitions, she begins secretly taking steps toward the career she knows her mother won't approve of.But Sylvie isn't the only one with secrets. Justine has kept her sordid past from Sylvie ever since they came to New York fifteen years before, stitching together a fabric of lies along with the shirtwaists she finishes every day, doing everything in her power to keep the truth from her daughter-that she fled Paris as a courtesan after committing a crime that could still get her arrested, or worse.When Justine's past catches up with her in a single act of brutality, Sylvie witnesses what she thinks is her mother's betrayal and runs away during a freak blizzard, putting them both in grave danger.Ambition, survival, and unexpected alliances combine in this mother-daughter story that proves love can conquer all-at a price.

Four women, unknowingly bound together by one man's violent past.Johnny Wharton is a history professor and descendant of a Texas "planter family" - a legacy that's followed him all the way to 1985. Tough-girl Jenny (Johnny's daughter), runs away to Madison, blotting out her past with distance, drugs, and sex. Her loner lifestyle is upended by her new roommate's scary insistence on friendship. Emotionally damaged Jane (Johnny's new graduate student) gives Johnny's offer of an affair a try, thinking she might manage if it's furtive and part-time. Maddie (his lesbian colleague) is grief-stricken; her longtime Black lady love Roz left her - inexplicably. Conservatively raised Liz (Johnny's wife) is desperate to reconnect with her estranged daughter. She's beginning to realize that Johnny's past has left unspeakable scars on her family's present.As the lives of these four women intertwine in unexpected ways, each learns the past can't be conquered until it's confronted, and its secrets revealed - and shared.

This is the story of a girl who, at six weeks old, was bundled out of a nursing home in Blackpool, England, and adopted into a middle-class family in 1944, after her birth mother seemingly left her to an unknown fate.When Gill learns the harsh truth, at the age of eight, she is badly affected by a sense of 'not belonging' and goes on to face a lifetime of struggles and anxieties, despite the privileges she is afforded growing up - her schooling experiences in private Seminaries, two years at The London College of Fashion, her rich lovers and their flashy cars, and her work as a top PA in the heart of London.In the mid 70s new adoption laws allow Gill the opportunity to search for her birth family. Naturally, her "Journey to Identity" is paved with divided loyalties, fear of rejection, and long-term regret. But ultimately, she unravels the truth, at least part of it, and finally, after a forty-year search from the day she was told, Gill finds some kind of peace but not all the answers. The stigma and the pain are somewhat diluted by her discoveries, but the word 'adopted' refuses to move from its position across her forehead.