This stylish debut from exciting new talent, Will Rose is the fantastically funny tale of how one accident-prone duck gets by with a little help from his friends…It’s a big day for Duck: he’s having a party and the ONE THING he can’t forget is to buy more sardines… When, sure enough, Duck forgets to buy sardines and must head out for a restock, Duck’s friends mobilise to ensure their clumsy friend makes it to the shop and back in one piece, with only a few very nea...

"Love is the provenance of Gods."Elliot is a painter seeking love and purpose in Los Angeles, a city offering little of either. Discontent, heartbroken and lost, he walks up a mountain outside of town, and at the summit when the day breaks his life changes forever.When he meets a woman in a forgotten valley outside of the city, Elliot is set on a year-long journey into both her heart and his, while capturing all he feels on...

“Come with me, Lyssena, and I shall become your god.”In a village ruled by rituals and gods who never answered, Lyssena had always obeyed. She was prepared for the marriage her family arranged, until the man she was promised to revealed himself as cruel and eager to break her. Cornered and alone, Lyssena lit the fifth flame. The one that should never burn, the one for the god with no name.And something answered.Erevos was not a god of mercy.He was t...

HOLT Award Winner, 2025Roxie Greene is happy being the grumpy recluse everyone avoids. She likes being alone. But the production on her lavender farm is ramping up and business is booming. Even she realizes she needs help. She doesn't expect the help that shows up to be River Montgomery. He's arrogant. He's not used to manual labor. He's disconcerting. And a flirt.But the ad has been up for six months and he's the only one who's responded.She does everything she can to...

The book is an anthology of short stories, some funny, some cruel, some with an happy ending and some with a very mysterious ending. Poems written by my late husband David are also included. Enjoy this reading whose ending moral is to do good and be open hearted. Enjoy your life while you can.

This book in an anthology of short stories and poems. They all have a moral. Some involve witchery, and some supernatural. The poems were written by her late husband, his father and his uncle (also deceased).

She's loved since she was a girl and this is her last chance to convince him they belong together.He's a hardened knight who resents being asked to escort his liege's widowed sister-in-law to the nunnery.Brant of Tournay and Rosalind of Bamburgh finally admit what they mean to each other in this only one horse, roadtrip romance.He's determined to resist her. Until he isn't.

This book contains fifty-six quatorzains (fourteen line poems) celebrating moments in a romance that played out in Eastern Colorado and Northern California.

Ms. Durrance was born Sunday McKinley Bailey in Ona, Florida. She grew up in Fort Meade, Florida, attended the University of Tampa and resided in Tampa for thirty years. She is the mother of one son, Coyt J. She has two granddaughters, Amanda and Melissa. Ms. Durrance lives in Bowling Green, Florida.

Never afraid to shed the pretense of academic poetry, never shy of letting the power of an image lie in unadorned language, Mary Oliver offers us poems of arresting beauty that reflect on the power of love and the great gifts of the natural world. Inspired by the familiar lines from William Wordsworth, "To me the meanest flower that blows can give / Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears," she uncovers the evidence presented to us daily by nature, in rivers and stones, willows and f...

First collection from writer who is taking off.First novel won many prizes, second novel nominated for same. Stories finalists for many awards.Writer who crosses borders and catches interest of many differenent constituencies.Stories reprinted in Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy StoriesIncludes a huge new story, “Fallow,” published here for the first time.Author has been a repeat guest on To the Best of Our Knowledge.Author has writ...

Over The Anvil We Stretch contains swampy, powerful poems that are as exciting as the pocket knife you got for your birthday, the three legged frog on the lawn and the jar of marbles your mother kept in the kitchen. Mojgani's poems are the sound of the river and the stars burning above. He manages to capture the axe in the stump with blood still on the handle. Anis Mojgani has drawn a map of the country in the shape of his wild surreal poems. These are memories of a life, captured through ...