Download or read book Red Wool Socks and Dark Chocolate written by Marti Keller and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-22 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Red Wool Socks and Dark Chocolate: A Life in Three Lines, in its attention to the objects and experiences in one's everyday life, affirms the sentiment that haiku and haiku-like short verses can find their inspiration beyond the realms of nature and seasonal themes. Informed by marvelous examples given at the North America haiku conference, this chapbook features culturally appropriate observations and reflections. This expansive approach to these brief, immediate verses offers a satisfying interlude between the ordinary and the sacred.ABOUT THE AUTHOR:Marti Keller began writing haiku, like many of us, as assignments in a middle school creative writing class. The teaching of that time insisted on a 5-7-5 syllable structure and narrow focus on the natural world. She has been unlearning this ever since, and is especially grateful to con- temporaries who have gone before her in crafting other approaches.She has previously been published in collections focused on women's and nature writing, in monthly magazines and in a Unitarian Universalist meditation book. She has published several chapbooks, including Thinking in Haiku, Prickly Pear, and South/West.www.MatrikaPress.com/marti-kellerABOUT THE PUBLISHER:Matrika Press publishes anthologies, memoirs, poetry, prayer and ritual manuscripts, and other books to bring meaning and transformation to the world. A primary goal of Matrika Press is to publish stories and works that would otherwise remain untold. We also resurrect out-of-print manuscripts to ensure our historical works remain accessible.www.MatrikaPress.com
Download or read book Half Gods written by Akil Kumarasamy and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A startlingly beautiful debut, Half Gods brings together the exiled, the disappeared, the seekers. Following the fractured origins and destines of two brothers named after demigods from the ancient epic the Mahabharata, we meet a family struggling with the reverberations of the past in their lives. These ten interlinked stories redraw the map of our world in surprising ways: following an act of violence, a baby girl is renamed after a Hindu goddess but raised as a Muslim; a lonely butcher from Angola finds solace in a family of refugees in New Jersey; a gentle entomologist, in Sri Lanka, discovers unexpected reserves of courage while searching for his missing son. By turns heartbreaking and fiercely inventive, Half Gods reveals with sharp clarity the ways that parents, children, and friends act as unknowing mirrors to each other, revealing in their all-too human weaknesses, hopes, and sorrows a connection to the divine.
Download or read book His Badge My Story written by Vicki Gustafson and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BOLO: Be on the lookout to recognize and appreciate the unique challenges law enforcement officers’ spouses and loved ones often face because of the badge. Based on author Vicki Gustafson’s over three decades of personal experience as a law enforcement officer’s wife, His Badge, My Story is filled with her suggestions and guidance. Her wisdom accumulated over 36 years offers comfort, hope, and insights for the journey ahead. Vicki touches on common issues, which include communication, the struggles of scheduling, balancing the career with family life and society, sacrifices, and raising children. His Badge, My Story articulates what is necessary to be independent, strong, and brave enough to face the villain of worry and fear and recognize when gremlins aka pitfalls of the law enforcement career surface. The author’s creative approach in each chapter includes an opening BOLO, personal stories and interviews, and a debriefing section. Bullet points at the end of every chapter reveal the ammunition needed to keep the faith, strength, and understanding that are necessary to maintain healthy relationships. His Badge, My Story provides readers with a valuable resource of insights and understanding to deal with their challenges.
Download or read book Big Island Small written by Maureen St. Clair and published by Fernwood Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-26T00:00:00Z with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sola is confused the first time she sees Judith, a fair skinned woman with dreadlocks dancing to reggae music. Meeting her gaze, Judith thinks Sola is judging her for appropriating Black culture. A few days later, up against an interlocking fence, Judith kisses Sola. Onlookers hurl stones and racial and gay slurs. Thus begins the complicated friendship between Judith and Sola who live in between the land they were born, the Caribbean, and the land where they presently live, North America. Winner of the 2016 Beacon Award for Social Justice Literature and the 2015 Atlantic Writer’s Competition, Big Island, Small is a story of intimacy and friendship between two Caribbean/Canadian women with similar, yet vastly different, backgrounds who must dismantle their assumptions and biases around race, class, gender and sexuality in order to make amends with violent pasts, release shame, find joy and reconnect with themselves and each other.
Download or read book The Book of Cheese written by Liz Thorpe and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From America’s most engaging authority on cheese, comes a groundbreaking book destined to become a classic.
Download or read book What You Never Knew written by Jessica Hamilton and published by Crooked Lane Books. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told in alternating points of view between the living and the dead, Jessica Hamilton's debut novel will be perfect for fans of The Lovely Bones. Idyllic Avril lsland, owned by the Bennett family, where their hundred-year-old cottage sat nestled in acres of forest. Forty-year-old June Bennett believed that the island had been sold after the summer of her father's disappearance when she was only twelve years old. It's months after the shocking death of her older sister May in a fatal car accident, that June finds out that the cottage was never sold. Avril Island is still owned by the Bennett family and now it's hers. Still reeling from the grief of losing her sister, June travels back to Avril lsland in search of answers. As she digs, she learns that the townspeople believe her father may in fact have been murdered rather than having abandoned his family in the dead of night, as she was led to believe by her mother. And that's when she begins to notice strange things happening on the island--missing family possessions showing up, doors locking on their own, unexplained noises in the night, shadowy figures disappearing into the woods. It takes June no time at all to realize that her childhood summers at Avril Island were not at all what they had seemed to be.
Download or read book The Chocolate Clown Corpse written by JoAnna Carl and published by Berkley. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lee Woodyard is the manager and chief chocolatier of the popular chocolate shop TenHuis Chocolade, located in the idyllic Lake Michigan resort of Warner Pier. But don't be fooled into thinking she is a mere chocolate shop master with only cocoa on her mind. Oh no. Lee is also an enthusiastic amateur sleuth. When she's not making chocolate, she is solving crime.It's a good job, then, that plenty of crime finds its way to Warner Pier. In The Chocolate Clown Corpse, the town's most hated clown meets a bitter end. And it's up to Lee to unmask a killer in disguise.
Download or read book Short Stories By Thunderbolt written by Thunderbolt and published by Writers Republic LLC. This book was released on 2021-06-18 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome stranger, to the first volume of SHORT STORIES by Thunderbolt. Be prepared for what you are about to read because you’re about to end up sad, confused, frustrated, loss of words, lost of answers, and in joy. Don’t worry I end up that way when I read it to. These stories cover from strange love, mall cops, an introvert, a storm chaser and many more. For someone like me to put their soulless souls into their work, you better enjoy it and come back for more, understand? Now sit back by a fireplace or something like that, make a cup of tea, kick your feet up, and enjoy these stories.
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Download or read book Hot and Bothered written by Annie Downey and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Struggling to come to terms with her new life and her new identity now that her husband has left her, a late-thirties mother of two living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, deals with continual visitors to her home--including her ex, currently attending Sex Addicts Anonymous, as well as her hippie mother, alcoholic best friend, God-fearing grandmother, and the Perfect Guy, who also has a gorgeous doctor girlfriend. Original. First serial, Hip Mama.
Download or read book Flour Power written by Tara Jensen and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Tara’s a natural teacher, and this book reads as if she’s at the bench next to you, patiently articulating the core concepts and techniques of bread-making, as well as the joys and rhythms of the craft.”—Claire Saffitz, bestselling author of Dessert Person, from the foreword 80 easy-to-follow recipes and loads of know-how, troubleshooting guidance, and bread science intel for baking your best naturally leavened loaves—from sourdough whisperer Tara Jensen ONE OF THE TEN BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post Yes, you can make crusty, tender, bakery-quality sourdough bread—even if you’ve never baked before! Especially when you have a teacher like Tara Jensen (who taught both dessert guru Claire Saffitz and Southern-cooking evangelist Sean Brock) by your side. Tara’s friendly approach to technique and inspired flavors in more than eighty recipes for sourdough, rye, and whole grain bread will enrich both beginners and advanced bakers as they learn about the craft. With Tara’s guidance and supportive voice, she shares important lessons that cover all the technical bases—from learning about flour to exploring wild yeast fermentation and developing your (doughy) intuition. From there, Tara dives deep into the worlds of sourdough, rye, and desem, showing the true diversity of bread through recipes like Miche, Chocolate Beer Bread, and Mountain Rye. There’s even an extra credit chapter on making extra-flavorful Overnight Waffles, Cheesy Cheddar Crackers, and Sourdough Chocolate-Chip Cookies. With Tara by your side, artisanal bread at home is totally achievable . . . and fun!
Download or read book Little Miss Strange written by Joanna Rose and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows the life of Sarajean, the child of two love children, who finds herself having to overcome great obstacles at a young age after she is left motherless, but through her journeys to womanhood, she learns about herself and finally gathers the missing pieces of her life. A first novel.
Download or read book Ask Hagan written by Scott William Carter and published by Flying Raven Press. This book was released on with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ask Hagan anything. Anything at all. Even how to outwit a madman … Once a promising young novelist with big literary dreams, John Winsley wakes up on the other side of forty as a third-rate hack with a perpetual hangover. Fueled by bitterness, he creates an obnoxious online persona as something of a lark—a funhouse version of Ann Landers named Hagan T. Stone with mad eyes, a black beard shaped like a spade, and an irreverent wit. The Ask Hagan advice column becomes a surprising worldwide hit. And it makes Winsley a very rich man. Wracked with guilt about the wife and daughter he abandoned, Winsley feels conflicted about his anonymous success … until an imposter claiming to be Hagan T. Stone shows up to reap all the rewards. Now Winsley only has to answer one question: How far will he go to get what he deserves? This taut, suspenseful tale kicks off Carter's latest collection. From a mysterious elevator in an Iowa cornfield to a crowded superstore where android spouses are bought like toasters, these six provocative forays into Carter's wide-ranging imagination never fail to surprise.
Download or read book A Small Death in Lisbon written by Robert Wilson and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2010-06-24 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stunning, atmospheric thriller set in war-torn Europe won the CWA Gold Dagger and has now been reissued with the Javier Falcon series.
Download or read book Morning Red written by Frederick Feikema Manfred and published by Denver : A. Swallow. This book was released on 1956 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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