Kay Ryan—"a classic American poet" (John Freeman)—is acclaimed for her highly intelligible, deeply insightful poems. Erratic Facts is her first new collection since the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Best of It, and it is animated with her signature swift, lucid, lyrical style.At once witty and melancholy, playful and heartfelt, Ryan examines enormous subjects—existence, consciousness, love, loss—in compact poems that have immensely powerful resonance. Sly rhymes and strong cadences lend remarkable musicality to her incisive wisdom. While these pieces are composed of the same brevity and vitality that has characterized her singular voice over the course of more than 20 years, her mind is sharper than ever, her imagination more eccentric and daring. Erratic Facts solidifies Ryan's place at the pinnacle of American poetry, and proves that she will remain among the leading innovators in literary history. Views: 283
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them. Views: 283
A giant human brain has appeared above the atmosphere of the Earth and has begun broadcasting its unsettling thoughts to all the citizens of the Earth, bringing them to the brink of insanity and apocalypse. Marion, an unsettled sociopath, decides this is the best thing to ever happen to him, and he must meet the owner of the mysterious, hideous brain.Marion is in love with a giant human brain that has appeared floating just above the atmosphere of the Earth. Said brain is broadcasting its unsettling and violent thoughts to all the citizens of the Earth, driving them to the brink of insanity and apocalypse. But not Marion. For Marion, this is an exciting time to be alive. The brain has freed him from the doldrums of everyday life, and he must meet its lovely owner. Views: 283
Reilly was a slug. He is no more, though. You see, he got his comeuppance. A short story by The Crazymad Writer.Reilly was a slug, and I emphasise WAS, because he is no more. You see, he got his comeuppance. My story begins long, long ago, a full three months previous. “Morning, mum,” Reilly sang out, one wonderfully damp, drizzly cold morning.“Good morning, Reilly,” his mother replied. “What has you so chirpy, apart from the fine day that is?”“I don’t know,” her son replied. Mulling it over, he added, “Perhaps it’s because...”“Because – what?” she asked, her head nudging a half-rotten cabbage leaf in his direction. “You will think me silly...” he mumbled, eying the dainty morsel with some considerable delight.“I will if you don’t eat your breakfast,” she chided, nudging the leaf closer to him.Taking a bite out of the decaying leaf, Reilly said, “When I awoke this morning...”“Yes?”“I thought, I somehow knew – and I have absolutely no idea why – this is the day I leave home. Taking another mouthful of cabbage, he chomped away quite happily on it, then said, “Does this make any sense to you, mum?”Smiling, tears of slime running freely down her slippery brown face, his mother said, “My child is all grown up!” Views: 283
Leopold is delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. This means that we have checked every single page in every title, making it highly unlikely that any material imperfections – such as poor picture quality, blurred or missing text - remain. When our staff observed such imperfections in the original work, these have either been repaired, or the title has been excluded from the Leopold Classic Library catalogue. As part of our on-going commitment to delivering value to the reader, within the book we have also provided you with a link to a website, where you may download a digital version of this work for free. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience. If you would like to learn more about the Leopold Classic Library collection please visit our website at www.leopoldclassiclibrary.com Views: 283
The people in these eight interlaced stories are "bound together by the worst sort of grief," the kind that can devour you after someone close takes his or her own life. Wednesday evenings in Hope Springs, Oklahoma, offer the usual middle-American options: TV, rec league sports, eating out, and church. For Slater, Holly, and SueAnn, it is the night their suicide survivors group meets. They once felt little else in common, aside from a curiosity about Jane, the group facilitator, but now they understand how deeply they need each other.SueAnn mourns for her son, who hanged himself. Slater is left impotent by the loss of his father, who deliberately overdosed on pills and alcohol. Holly can't let go of her boyfriend, who shot himself. But if suicide has stolen their capacity to laugh, it has honed their sense of absurdity. Even in the darkest undertones of what her characters think and say, Toni Graham reveals a piercingly funny cast, short on patience with themselves and... Views: 283
Seventeen-year-old Julia was once the prey of the Timeless, a group of immortals charged with keeping the flow of history in order. Now she's one of them along with her boyfriend, Simon. But her new powers mean nothing without the survival of her family, whom she left behind to certain death on the Titanic.
Unfortunately, rescuing them will prove far more difficult than she ever imagined. Time itself stands in her way, and it's willing to stop at no horror to prevent her from ever seeing her family again. In order to save them, Julia and Simon may have to give everything--perhaps, even, their very existence. Views: 283
divpThe near future… /p
pA young genius is gunned down brutally by the police. Remi Swan – our hero from the hard-hitting Action-Adventure novella, A SINGLE LINK – fights to defend the little boy and herself. She is arrested, imprisoned, forced to fight and infected with an experimental virus that turns women into raging monsters…or worse. /p
pPossessed with incredible – and scary – new abilities, Remi sets off a war against a system that has long brutalized Black people. A war that, alone, she might not be able to fight, but now she is backed by an army…a powerful and deadly force of her own making. Now, that brutal system will suffer the… /p
pWRATH OF THE SIAFU!/p/div Views: 283
The worst date in Vero’s life ends with the arrival of an injured man from another dimension who hands her a magic axe and tries to recruit her and her friends into a war. Which sounds like the exact opposite of how she wants to spend her senior year. Unfortunately, two soldiers from the other world know what she looks like. She might have to fight, whether she wants to or not.The worst date in Vero’s life ends with the arrival of an injured man from another dimension who hands her a magic axe and tries to recruit her and her friends into a war she barely understands. Which sounds like the exact opposite of how she wants to spend her senior year. Her cash-strapped family just moved to a rich town in California, and acclimating to her new surroundings was already tough enough. Unfortunately, two soldiers from the other world know what she looks like and want her dead. In the small town of San Luis Obispo, it’s only a matter of time before they find her. She might have to fight, whether she wants to or not. Views: 283
Nothing could get Lisa Addario to come back to Moon Lake like a deathbed invitation from her estranged mother. But Lisa’s walk down memory lane turns into a fight to keep the house she grew up in and a deeper struggle to live down her own mistakes.Army Lieutenant Greg Mora can’t forgive himself for killing his best friend in combat. Two months after finishing his tour in Afghanistan, he left town in a traumatic stress-induced haze, ending his relationship with Lisa’s sister Melanie.Lisa and Greg are both desperately searching for a way through the darkness. Can two broken people break heal the wounds from their past, or will the demons they carry destroy their chance at happiness forever? Views: 283
