Anthology 2024 is continuing the collection of poetry, prose & short stories from contributions of members of Bayside Writers' Group.It is a showcase for the members to be proud of, as previous editions have won several community awards.

In a fast moving world of social media, we tend to substitute much in lieu of real self-worth. This book is intended as a self-help guide that identifies many areas of self-worth as well as tips on how to improve your self-worth. There are no easy fixes, but examples and discussions within this book will most certainly direct you onto a better lifestyle that will ultimately lead you to a healthier self-worth.

Three scintillating and intense dramas, real page turners, in the one book. A bright teenage girl ravaged at home and on the streets. An atrocious act plagues a heroic war hero. A meritorious secret agent reflects upon a flawed life.

This volume contains a selection of early works by Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko who blazed a trail for a generation of Soviet poets with a confident poetic voice that moves effortlessly between social and personal themes. ‘Zima Junction’ vividly describes his idyllic childhood in Siberia and his impressions of home after a long absence in Moscow. Private moments are captured in ‘Waking’, on the joys of discovering the unexpected in a lover, and ‘Birthday’, on a mother’s concern for he...

Anthology 2025 is a selection of written works, fiction and non-fiction, poetry, prose, short-stories, as presented to Bayside Writers' Group over the course of 2025. This work is meant as a footprint for the various writers who participated and is a fair representation of all the members of this group.

Anthology 2026 is a selection of written works, fiction and non-fiction, poetry, prose, short-stories, as presented to Bayside Writers' Group over the course of 2026. This work is meant as a footprint for the various writers who participated and is a fair representation of all the members of this group.

How Black activism has helped achieve and maintain democracy for all AmericansIn 2020, Black Americans continued a centuries-long pursuit of racial equality and justice in the streets and at the polls. Arguing that this year was not a deviation from the historic Civil Rights Movement, the contributors to this collection examine the important work of Black men and women during the previous decades to shape, expand, and preserve a multiracial American democracy....

This year's regular anthology of poetry from The Bayside Writers' Group. As, in the past, each edition is widely read by the general public as well as having extensive coverage on national radio programmes.

It is a powerful story: the relationship between the 1960s New Left and organized labor was summed up by hardhats confronting students and others over US involvement in Vietnam. But the real story goes beyond the "Love It or Leave It" signs and melees involving blue-collar types attacking protesters.Peter B. Levy challenges these images by exploring the complex relationship between the two groups. Early in the 1960s, the New Left and labor had cooperated to fight for civil rights a...

"A way to live" is a black comedy about revenge when there's nothing more to lose**. "Where there's a Will"** is a film about a struggling country jazz band that receives a helping hand from long dead musicians. "The third player" tells the tale of an Australian country football team which discovers a novel way to improve their performance.

Between 1963 and 1972 America experienced over 750 urban revolts. Considered collectively, they comprise what Peter Levy terms a 'Great Uprising'. Levy examines these uprisings over the arc of the entire decade, in various cities across America. He challenges both conservative and liberal interpretations, emphasizing that these riots must be placed within historical context to be properly understood. By focusing on three specific cities as case studies - Cambridge and Baltimore, Maryland, ...

Reuben is your archetypal nerd - life is nothing more than work and online computer chess games. He has no friends, least of all girlfriends. The daily grind for him involves analyzing body parts in the DA's office at the Chicago Cook County Morgue. When he unexpectedly discovers he has a most unusual psychic gift, his life takes a new, exciting and dangerous direction. The machinations of the DA's office and the criminal underworld they are dealing with will involve you in a tense journey...