The poems in this collection celebrate dirt, and try to bring out the beauty within the muck and the soil of society. Sex and religion weave their way through the collection in a manner that grounds them. Relationships and language are brought low to reveal a power at the core of what makes us human. Many of the poems were written during and inspired by Billy's time travelling through India. Beauty and humor are the threads that bind these poems together....

Those Tales Called Blue is a collection of short stories from South India. This collection by the well-acknowledged and young Indo-Anglian author, Anu Lal reveals the many sides of human existence through a set of enlightening storylines and the subtle philosophical threads that bind them. These deeply engaging tales combine fantasy with realism. The author cleverly utilizes the parable style to provoke effects in the reader. This book is a selection...

A debut novel about a family losing grip of its legacy: a majestic house on the cliffs of Ireland. The Campbells have lived happily at Dulough--an idyllic, rambling estate isolated on the Irish seaside--for generations. But upkeep has drained the family coffers, and so John Campbell must be bold: to keep Dulough, he will open its doors to the public as a museum. He and his wife, daughter, and son will move from the luxury of the big house to a dank,...

Your life can change in the blink of an eye. How you adapt to these changes is what defines you. Jake Fox is an aspiring actor who has found little success. He is also a typical, cliche, bad boy, who 'loves them and leaves them' without love ever coming into the equation. Emma Campbell is finding her way in life, struggling with memories from her past, an apathetic mother and the choices ahead of her. Can she keep focused on the light when life...

We may be lost but we are never alone. That is the message to be found in Brenda Hasiuk's new collection of short stories, Boy Lost in Wild. Adrift in unfamiliar surroundings, strangers to the strangers around them, the characters in each story feel lost even though they are inextricably tied to one another. A foreign student, mugged on the streets of Winnipeg, befriends his landlord. A young man bursting with rage shares a quiet moment with a sibling....

The Lake Shore Limited is a play about the terrorist bombing of that train and about a man waiting to hear the fate of his estranged wife who is traveling on it. How Billy comes to write the play out of her own painful conflicts and ambivalence, how it is then created anew by the actors and the director, how the performance itself touches and changes the other characters' lives.

If you liked Blood Orange you will love this! From the moment they are born, twins Susan and Sarah are inseparable. Through good and bad, the girls will always be together...forever. Until they meet Jonny. Older, charming and handsome, Jonny offers the girls the much-needed love and attention they crave. But he can only choose one and for the first time in their lives the girls find themselves split apart — the invisible thread that binds them severed....

The Alien films are perceived to be a fractured franchise, each one loosely related to the others. They are nonlinear, complicated, convoluted: a collection of genre movies ranging from horror to war to farce. But on closer examination, the threads that bind together these films are strong and undeniable. The series is a model of Catherine Keller's cosmology as a cycle of order out of chaos, an illustration of her concept of evil as discreation. When...

In the midst of a twelfth-century civil war between King Stephen and Empress Maud, a hostage exchange is put in jeopardy when one of the prisoners dies, and Brother Cadfael determines that he was murdered.

"Filled with amazing stories from authors all over the world describing how they got through the most challenging of times." -Marci Shimoff, #1 New York Times—bestselling author The Door to Inner Happiness shares global stories from people who have found ways to turn horrendous situations into opportunities and new possibilities. It will reassure you, inspire you, and give you hope, because if these people can do it, so can you. You'll discover...