Reflections: Seasons 2015This anthology celebrates the seasons of our lives, featuring a collection of poems and short stories from some of our new authors.

It's time for female leaders to stand out.Women often aren't seen for their leadership potential. We face a double bind, forced to choose whether to be liked or respected, while neither one alone is enough to secure a seat at the table. It's up to organizations to change, but until then, what's an aspiring female leader to do?You, the Leader tackles the obstacles you face as you chart your path to the top, from not getting credit f...

Dante Alighieri was born in Florence, Italy in the middle of the 13th century and what is principally known of him comes from his own writings. One of the world’s great literary masterpieces, the “Divine Comedy” is at its heart an allegorical tale regarding man’s search for divinity. The work is divided into three sections, “Inferno,” “Purgatorio,” and “Paradiso,” each containing thirty-three cantos. It is the narrative of a journey down through Hell, up the mountain of Purgatory, and thro...

2011 Reprint of 1963 edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Selected and with an introduction and notes by A.W. Tozer. The purpose of this book is to bring together in one convenient volume some of the best devotional verse the English language affords, and thus to make available to present day Christians a rich spiritual heritage which the greater number of them for various reasons do not now enjoy. Includes works by Isaac Watts,...

Kagero Nikki, translated here as The Gossamer Years, belongs to the same period as the celebrated Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikuibu.This remarkably frank autobiographical diary and personal confession attempts to describe a difficult relationship as it reveals two tempestuous decades of the author's unhappy marriage and her growing indignation at rival wives and mistresses.Too impetuous to be satisfied as a subsidiary wife, this beautiful (and un...

A prose poem is a poem written in prose rather than verse. But what does that really mean? Is it an indefinable hybrid? An anomaly in the history of poetry? Are the very words "prose poem" an oxymoron? This groundbreaking anthology edited by celebrated poet David Lehman, editor of The Best American Poetry series, traces the form in all its dazzling variety from Poe and Emerson to Auden and Ashbery and on, right up to the present.In his brilliant and lucid introduction, Leh...

The First World War was one of seemingly endless and unremitting waste and sacrifice. 'Who will remember, passing through this Gate, The unheroic Dead who fed the guns?' was Siegfried Sassoon's anguished cry for those whose sacrifice seemed futile. Yet eighty years later it is because of Sassoon and his fellow poets - Owen, Rosenberg, Sorley and many others - that we do remember.This new anthology will serve as an introduction to the poetry of that great conflict, and the inclusion...

How do I love thee? Let me count the waysElizabeth Barrett BrowningLife’s most tender feelings are best expressed in poetry. From love’s excitements to its anguish and heartbreak, the great poets over the centuries have offered us solace through verse.This new anthology ranges from Shakespeare in the early 17th century through the golden age of Romantic poets up to the late 19th and early 20th century. Poets who feature include Donne, Whitman, Rossetti and Bro...

This ebook compiles Charlotte Perkins Gilman's greatest writings, including novels, short stories, essays and poems such as "The Yellow Wallpaper", "In This Our World", "Women and Economics", "The Home: Its Work and Influence" and "Herland". This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will...

What Comes Down To Us features twenty-five of Kentucky's most accomplished contemporary poets. Together they serve to illustrate the diversity and richness of poetry being written today in the Commonwealth. The poems were collected by Jeff Worley, a poet who has lived in Kentucky for more than two decades. Although the subject matter of the poems transcends the state's borders, the collection communicates a strong sense of Kentucky as a place. Worley's introduction places contemporary Kent...

Stormcloud Poets Anthology #2Edited by E.S. WynnCover photo by Cheryl EmpeyFrom The Back Cover:If I could write with fireI would burn poems into pagesFling sounds like sparksPaint skies with brushes litBy primal lifeBy primal rites.If I could write with fire,I would rise as such a force of flameThat my words would snapLike the lashOf a stormThat my words would burn

The H Book is a conglomeration of two pesonalities: light and furious emotions, contrasting in stories and poems, meaningful, serious, and buoyant. Haiti, the Holocaust, HIV, Heaven, Hell, Cancer, deep and emotional, yet simple, joyful, and frivolous...our daily WORLD in one book...THE H BOOK. Heaven and Earth intertwining, childhood pleasures and joys, the strife of life and death, altogether within these covers. And yet, there is great HOPE for the future... BEL...