From the New York Times bestselling author of the Halo trilogy comes a beautiful and powerful new novel.  Alex is more real than anyone I've ever known. And him being dead...;really doesn't change a thing.  After the loss of her mother, Chloe Kennedy again starts seeing the ghosts that haunted her as a child. Spending time at her grandmother's country estate in England is Chloe's chance to get away from her grief and the spirits that trouble her....

I started writing poetry as a form of therapy without realizing just that until I wrote my first few poems, it was an emotional and liberating experience. I only shared this with my partner and my sisters and I starting to breath so much more freely. Sounds so silly now, breath freely, in this time of uncertainty. Uncertainty over and over again played so hard on my mind, all my anxiety, depression, fear returned with a ferocious roar, and it absolutely...

Because We All Have a Relationship We Need to Put to Rest From your basic lying, cheating, no-good scum to those relationships that were doomed from the start (they were married to different people), to a man who faked his death, Relationship Obits is a voyeuristic romp through the unexplored underbelly of love and life. Kathleen Horan founded relationshipobit.com when a big breakup was followed two weeks later by the death of her father. Writing...

This story is true. Ana and Sean's kinky paths cross at midlife. The union is fiery. Cavorting lustily through two decades of wedded love, each samples outside. When Ana's health snatches her away, Sean mourns deeply – but two days later Ana, having learned of Sean's vile act, bespeaks her rage with a foul deposit in their foyer. Refusing to pass through the white light she makes a long sequence of tweaks showing her loving intent to stay with Sean...

"Fragile est le vol de l'oiseau – Suivi de La cabriole des papillons" évoque le ressenti de l'auteure face au souvenir d'images trop fortes pour être oubliées. À travers ses poèmes, elle aborde des thèmes tels que la mort, l'amour, la fragilité, ainsi que nos interrogations face aux défis de l'existence humaine. À PROPOS DE L'AUTRICE Marie-Hélène Nocent a aimé l'écriture et particulièrement la poésie en découvrant des auteurs...

"The Day I Die is a major work of nonfiction that tackles the one issue we'll all eventually come to face-our final days, hours, and minutes. With clarity and empathy, award-winning anthropologist Anita Hannig uncovers the stigma against the practice of assisted dying, untangles the legalities and logistics of pursuing an assisted death in America today, and profiles the dedicated advocates and medical personnel involved. In intimate, lyrical detail,...

While her grandmother was alive, Emma's world was filled with enchantment. But now Gram is gone, and suddenly strange spots are appearing on Emma's skin. Soon, she's diagnosed with vitiligo--a condition that makes patches of her skin lose their color--and the magic in her world is suddenly replaced with school bullies and doctor appointments. But when Emma writes one last story in the journal she shared with Gram, something strange happens. Someone...

"Told in two voices, childhood best friends Jesse and Scarlett reconnect at his grandmother's funeral and start to share their secrets and feelings for each other." -- Jesse Lachlin has had his fair share of tragedy, and town folklore says he is cursed. Now his grandmother's will states that, in order to inherit his family farm, he must win the approval of his childhood best friend-- the girl he froze out his freshman year, Scarlett Copeland. Glory...

"Winner of the 2015 James Laughlin Award, Kathryn Nuernberger's The End of Pink is populated by strange characters-Bat Boy, automatons, taxidermied mermaids, snake oil salesmen, and Benjamin Franklin-all from the annals of science and pseudoscience. Equal parts fact and folklore, these poems look to the marvelous and the weird for a way to understand childbirth, parenthood, sickness, death, and-of course-joy. Finding myself in a mesmeric orientation,...

"Tash doesn't want to go to camp, doesn't want to spend the summer with a bunch of strangers, doesn't want to be separated from the only two people she has ever been able to count on: her uncle Kevin, who saved her from foster care, and Cap'n Jackie, who lives next door. Camp turns out to be pretty fun, actually, but when Tash returns home, Cap'n Jackie is gone. And Tash needs her -- the made-up stories of dolphin-dragons, the warm cookies that make...