With his wife suffering from Alzheimer’s, Stephen reluctantly edits her final book, a study of Beethoven’s sonatas, even as he still grieves the loss of their son.Each day he escapes into his own work: a novel about an experimental treatment that reverses ageing. But when he discovers in his wife’s papers a clue to an unwelcome secret, Stephen is forced to confront his past and reconsider the truths about his family.Bryan Walpert’s novella is an intimate portrait of marriag...

At a time when the Humanities are under threat, this book offers a defense of poetry within the context of growing interest in mindfulness in business, health care, and education. The book argues that the benefits and insights mindfulness provides are also cultivated by the study of poetry. These benefits include a focus on the present, the ability to see through scripts and habits, a rethinking of subjectivity, and the development of ecological or systems thinking. Bryan Walpert employs c...

CBS New York Book Club with Mary Calvi and Belletrist Book Club Pick“Raw, complex, and utterly unforgettable.” —Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling authorThe only child of a famous American novelist discovers a shocking family secret that upends everything she thought she knew about her parents, her gilded childhood, and her own stalled writing career in this standout debut, perfect for fans of Pineapple Street...

Whaaaaaaat?! All the dragons are dead?Rose didn't count on becoming a mother to a brand new baby dragon egg.She's always wanted to be a paleontologist, and is now in college studying to become one. But a chance meeting at the American Museum of Natural History turns her world upside down. Because, millions of years after dragons have gone extinct, there's an egg that seems to be unexpectedly . . . alive.The egg knows what he wants. He wants Rose and...

Join Ashlynn Ella, daughter of Cinderella, as her woodland friends help her get ready for her Legacy Year at school, where she will train for her destiny to marry a prince. But what if she meets the woodsman of her dreams instead? Read all about it in this exclusive Ever After High short story by Newbery Honor author Shannon Hale.

Encourages children to develop their imaginations, social skills, self-expression, and coordination with a collection of 101 dance games that emphasize creativity, no-blame activities, working with a group, and more.

"Poetry From the Heart" by Randolph Knight, includes "The Hobo's Guitar" and forty other poems available in EPUB, KINDLE, PALM DOC, etc. Other ebook publications by Randolph Knight and T. Sky Handring include: "Poetry Perfect", "Poetry Reveals", "T. Sky Handring Poetry", "Under Cover", "Wiggle Room", "Purple Carrots" and "Poetry 4U". These ebooks are available at your favorite ebook retailer.

100 imagination-stretching writing exercises inspired by the idea of creative constraints, from the author of The Making of a Story.When you are facing down a blank page (or screen), a constraint-based prompt—for example, “you must use the words ‘cloud’ and ‘green’” or “you must set the scene in a crowded grocery store”—can get your brain working in unexpected ways.In this creative writing guide, longtime teacher and novelist Alice LaPlante shares ...

A discarded mirror brings more than just everyday reflections.Who, or what, stares back at Penny as she gazes into an old mirror? Is it a hallucination...or portent of death?Part of the From Elsewhere short story collection - six tales of unearthly visitors.From Elsewhere includes:"The Long View" - One woman's reflections on the life she has left behind. But is all as it seems?"The Hearing" - A guardian angel is put on trial by the man he is duty bou...

Does he dare to follow her lead?Ballroom dancer Jenna Stevens is done with all things romance. It's so much more satisfying to focus on her career. That is, until she meets Sandro Salazar—a handsome, brooding small-town chef and sometimes rancher. Jenna is drawn to him immediately, but there's no way Sandro could fit into her fast-paced, urban life.Still, as she gets to know this reformed bad boy, she begins to wonder if maybe their two worlds can me...

Some things happen whether or not you clap your hands.Enjoy this original short story by author Pat Murphy. In "About Fairies," Jennifer and her co-workers create fairy lands for a toy company, all the while cultivating their own personal fairy worlds...A Tor.Com original.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Most people agree that the world should be just but that it simply isn't. Rogues flourish, the good die young and many feel they have not received their due. Unlike the rest of us, the anonymous hero of Even does not just complain about it, he embarks on a voyage of self-discovery, searching both for vengeance for the past and justice for the future in a personal attempt to bring balance to an unbalanced world. The result is a quest that ranges across contemporary London and is, by turn, h...