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Dee was born in 1930 to a family in the grips of the Great Depression. This endowed her with a thriftiness and economy of living that carried her to better times. A creative soul, Dee longed to go to art school and was offered a full scholarship at Duke, but it wasn't meant to be. Her father forbade her from attending Duke, and she soon found herself married with a young baby girl.
Her creative spirit somehow survived all the demands of being a...
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You in Me chronicles my journey of healing, learning, and growth from the small Caribbean Island of Dominica to Canada and recognizes the many misunderstandings encountered along the way. Such misunderstandings could keep us perpetually stuck in limiting beliefs and prohibit our progression to a more productive and enjoyable life.When a change of course in life is desired in order to accommodate a more successful integration in a fast-developing...
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I have an unconditional love which I know was imparted to me from my mother and the demonstrated love she had for me and my siblings. My mother's journey caused her to observe many indifferences; she never changed, her love was unconditional. This book of poems is my way of sharing, through poetry, the love my mother gave to me. I may have been the different child out of the eleven children; not ever did she once make me feel I didn't matter. In this...
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A series of poems or Let Go's if you will storytelling AWKN Kamara's journey through letting go of hurt, shame, pain, and guilt. These are things that everyone can relate to. Stories of how to let go of family, romantic, and platonic pain. Stories of letting go of trauma and finding joy and happiness through love for self and God. AWKN Kamara's Let Go's take us on a journey from bitter to better!
5) Edge Music
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Edge Music explores what it means to talk about, and to write on, the edges of Australian landscapes - be they geographical or historical.
Responding to a complex, globally engaged nation, this innovative book openly displays the author's eagerness to write in an extremely eclectic range of styles and forms.
It reveres the voices of the past, and grants them new life in the blinding sun of the present.
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A JOURNEY OF HOPE is a selection of poems, written, and given to me, during the wee hours of the morning, as I am all alone and in the presence of the Lord. My alone time spent with him is inspirational as well as knowledgeable. I know that these poems are intended to bring comfort, peace, and deliverance to anyone bound by depression, obsession, confusion, and a need for true confession. My hope is that souls may be delivered from sin, and a true...
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"Dandelions on a Hillside" is a collection of poems about the simple, meaningful things in life that will take you back in time to childhood. It will leave you with the good feelings that love, nature, and the different seasons bring. It also touches on the depth of loss; written with tender thoughts and feelings. "Dandelions on a Hillside" has an overall sense of love of life, happiness and a hopeful outlook. At the end of the poems, there is a section...
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"you cannot know who you'll bewhen you will be so many differentversions of yourself in this lifetime.you cannot find the roadyou are craving, not yet.it's waiting for you to pave it."In her Letters to the Universe Series Goodreads Choice Nominated poet J.R. Rogue shares intimate poems written lovingly for her readers. Take a journey through the eyes of author and reader as Rogue shares a glimpse into the private task of writing poetry dedicated to...
9) As I Burn
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I'm a girlFull of fireFull of desireThis hungerIt's never fulfilledAs I Burn, explores that desire to mean more. To discover that piece of you. That you never knew was hiding. Ready to break out into the world and own those words that you've always held.Ella Rye brings that vulnerability, that many have grown to love. Giving you another chapter, another heartache. She's ready to rise above the ashes.
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¿Cuánto recordamos? ¿Cuánto queda sepultado en algún microsegundo de la vida? ¿Cuánto nos animamos a desenterrar?
Mujer con corazón de niña es reflejo, la infancia que marca, los dolores que gritan, la consciencia de no tenerles miedo, secarles las lágrimas y acompañarlos.
Alexandra no escatima en abrirse, mostrar su camino, el de la niña que un día fue y que, sabiendo encontrarla, sigue ahí. A versos, traza la ruta hacia la mujer que...
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How do you stitch yourself back together after trauma, loss, grief, heartbreak? By inviting what is broken to become what is breathtaking. THE BODY is a collection of poems and short stories written in lyrical prose during the hardest moments of the author's life. This collection explores themes of love, loss, grief, seduction, creativity, consciousness, female empowerment, post-traumatic expansion, and the collective human experience. Because when...
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I have a filthy heart. It's been bruised,and broken,and houses secrets best left in the dark.These are its collections.
Courtney Jones lives in downtown Toronto, working in content creation and digital strategy. An avid lover of the written word, she prefers to pass her free time reading a good book while enjoying a glass of even better red wine.
14) Revelations
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Uncertainty and surprises were like a hand in glove for Bianca, as she carefully braved the future between two worlds. Her relationships were tried and tested, with confessions, adulations and revelations. Drama was always near... but has it pushed her too far this time? Far away from the one she holds dear to her heart.
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Explore an urban underworld where many people get lost, lose it or just disappear! Twenty-something Oli shapes a torrent of chemicals into a searing account of survival in the urban Melbourne scene.
Amidst ravenous addictions, spiralling dead ends and violence on both sides of the law, Oli keeps her wits, and her life, to record this story.
On slippery ground all the way, it soon becomes clear why in this world - you have to stay cool.
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One relationship starts. One relationship ends.
The same relationship starts again.
Another boy likes me, I go after him, leaving the relationship suspended.
The boy who likes me ruined my life and took all my friends away.
I go back to the relationship on a whim.
Without a thought, I'm back again, fighting with him.
One relationship starts. One relationship ends.
The same relationship left me dead.
Together another...
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From Hannah Herrera, The Lovely Wild In Me is separated into three parts: anguish, yearn and heal. The story is poetic prose of abuse, heartbreak, finding love, finding the wild in oneself and healing. This book may have certain themes that could be triggering to some. Take caution and care when reading.Published by Crooked Crow Publishing
19) My Heart Dances
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The granddaughter of Scandinavian pioneers, Lauraine Wagner was born in 1926 in Holyoke, CO. You can feel the lonely high plains sky and the weight of the mountains in her writing.
Most of her poetry was written later in her life, and with that perspective, she gives equal value and love to the people, events, and natural world that influenced her creativity.
A remarkable, tender, tough collection of poetry from a wonderful poet and pioneer in her...
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Yellow Butterfly showcases not only the budding poetic and visual talents of a promising young artist, but it also chronicles her struggles with increasingly debilitating episodes of psychosis as she attempted to negotiate high school, college, and young adulthood. The potential of her creative voice, easily seen in her earliest work, becomes even more apparent in her later poems. Like a shore bird' s tracks in the sand, her sparse but...
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