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In this play in verse, an elderly woman resists her husband's yearning for freedom, as their children fight for power and control with forces that could tear the family apart.The mother clings to her home, staving off dementia. Her children desperately hide their pasts and deny their futures.In A Lie Called the Present, betrayal lurks in the depths of the family

"On the Unit is nothing short of fantastic. It speaks truth to the need for more meditative practice in our schools and particularly our juvenile prisons. My colleague has clearly captured what it's like to be 'doing the work' where it needs done and this story is sure one that we cannot ignore. It is sure to inspire you..." - Dr. Jacqueline AliThis work lives at the crossroads of spirituality, trauma, social justice and education. It is a gritty first hand account of the struggle to bring the practice of meditation into the barren walls of the juvenile prison system in the city of brotherly love. Set amidst the ongoing crisis of teen violence in the city of Philadelphia, it offers wisdom for the ages. Stories of student triumphs and tragedies fill these pages, while offering a solution-based critique of the institutions that educate and incarcerate them. Spirituality and esoterism are intertwined throughout, yet it holds groundbreaking social and educational research. The pages are written with a mixture of discipline and compassion, and include concise explanation and implications of the realities of teen trauma, including powerful and unique lessons demonstrating the effectiveness of what Eric Biseca has discovered through his own life trials---that of Beingness.In an attempt to find a solution, while providing them with a tool, Biseca's method of the "1 minute moment" was born within this soul enhancing story of young people discovering the power of self-awareness, self-efficacy and responsibility. I leave you with the image of a seated row of incarcerated youth in state issued garments and ID bracelets. Their eyes are closed, their bodies still---they breathe, they hope, and slowly but surely, prevail.

Ody, a bullied boy in his village, searches for a better place and is experiencing a kind of Odyssey. To his surprise, he becomes the King of Existence, upon which he must solve many problems in the world of four existences, and later solves these problems by building a solve-tower, helped by the elf Toodle and troubled by his so-called daughter Espra.This complete fairy-tale trilogy, full of symbolism and humour, can be read to children one chapter each evening, thus stimulating their imagination and helping their parents to better understand their world of fantasy.The Ody Trilogy has been previously published in Dutch, Korean, Catalan, and Spanish. Dutch children immediately understand the symbolism and humour ("If it depended on me, I would call it right away the best, best children's book of the whole world," wrote a 9-year-old girl). The Korean edition was selected for a series of children's books from different countries. At present, a complete Russian and a Frisian translation are also available.

"Now here is a secret you should know; you don't have to follow the 'status quo.' You may feel pressure, and that's ok. You're going to leave your mark someday!" Embark on an exciting adventure with a zany cast of characters who explore, discover and inspire young minds to dream, imagine and think BIG! Readers will learn that believing in themselves, being kind to others, and remaining hopeful is the key to achieving their greatest goals.

A crossroads is a series of intersecting paths, each with the potential to take a traveler to a new destination. Whether the destination is known or unknown, the journey becomes one that tests the wit, will, and working knowledge of the traveler along the way. This collection, Crossroads, is Dre Hill's journey of discovery, identity, and sense of self. Dre is formed and remade. Lost and then found. A wayward soul in search of both the past and the future. Much like this collection, Dre's journey is both linear and non, simultaneously unfolding sequentially and at the same time, much like the ways in which we experience and compartmentalize things in real time. The work is reflective, speaking to the progression of his journey up until now, navigating his confusion, losses, doubts, anxieties, and more. The hope is that it similarly speaks to your inner journeyman, or woman, and that you will meet Dre where the roads cross.

A coalition of religious and corporate leaders band together to institute a new era of Reconstruction-herding the populous into dystopian communities controlled by cult leaders who regulate their religious, political, and ideological views. With privacy being a thing of the past, A.I. technology track citizens' every move, and anyone defying sect rules is mobbed, shamed, and gaslighted into submission. Three best friends, Madeline Brown, Jazmine Wilson, and Jacques Dunbar are ensnared by the leaders of New Life of Hope, a religious cult with ties to underworld figures, The Troop, shadowy enforcers of the Circle of Nine, a secret society with power and reach across the globe. Leaders of New Life of Hope will stop at nothing to indoctrinate the trio into their religious sect. The friends fight back with grit, strength, and wit, determined to expose the fascism sweeping the country.

While farce is essentially a theatrical mechanism, in this book far-fetched measures are rendered in fictional prose through the idiosyncratic perspectives of a life-long librarian, Eric Binde, in Bradstreet, Massachusetts, and a part-time high school English teacher, Jasper Keats, in Long Island, New York. Each is devoted to reading dog-eared books while attempting to pursue personal views of living in conflict with less-than-obliging antagonists.In these two novellas, author Tom Tolnay uses farcical premises carried out by whimsical characters for comic effect in order to consider two intriguing notions related to the old books they like to read: (1) How literature can impact everyday lives in meaningful ways, (2) How poetry shared by couples in love may lead to a deeper intimacy in their relationship.

The relationship between Father and Son is one of, if not, the most influential in any family hierarchy. For a young boy, it can be the difference between love and fear, between success and failure, and between respect and resentment. the dark side of white bread: surviving our fathers is one man's chronological journey of his paternal relationship and the lifelong impact of experiencing emotional and physical trauma. It is a must read for anyone who spent their childhood seeking safe refuge simply to survive and to heal from the past without anger or regret.Can "the earth swallow up men and their anger"? asks Elmo Shade in his new book the dark side of white bread: surviving our fathers. If yes, what is left? Because the father rarely asks, "Are you alright son?", Elmo reimagines his future: "Maybe we could...sit down together and have the conversation we never had." His poems find the tender possibility of repair under the wounds, reminding us of the sweetness of forgiveness.- Claudia F. Saleeby Savage, poet & author of Bruising ContinentsElmo Shade shares intimate stories of unreciprocated love and brutality during a time when fathers used children to validate their manhood. Raw, funny, dark, terrifying, and helpful to any adult striving to understand and accept a challenging childhood.-Jim Bellar, writer & co-author of Am I Too Late?How do we make peace with the memory of those who have hurt us? In the dark side of white bread, Elmo Shade doesn't pretend there are easy answers to impossible questions. Instead, he faces head-on the shame, confusion, and fear of his childhood, now as a father and grandfather, and transforms the years of pain into compassion. Compassion for his father, yes, but even more so, compassion for himself. -Armin Tolentino, poet laureate & author of We Meant To Bring It Home Alive

How do you overcome a broken heart?For generations, the magic trees have supported the kingdom of Linden. The wood is prized in kingdoms everywhere for its special properties. It's one of the few good things King Christopher inherited from his late father, the evil King Vincent.Vincent also gifted Christopher a lack of confidence. The only person who believes in Christopher is Queen Lily. When he loses her and their only child, Christopher's grief threatens to undo him. The love of his life has returned to the fates, and now all he wants to do is spend his days mourning her.Then word comes that the trees are dying, and no one knows why.Despite the urge to hide in the castle forever, Christopher meets the mysterious Keeper of the Wood to find out what's killing the trees. The answer demands he go on a quest with old friends and new allies. Along the way, they'll try to save hostages and mend another broken heart by putting it back together piece by piece.Through it all, Christopher will fight to conquer his doubt and prove to his people, the memory of Lily, and himself that he deserves the crown.

Nothing happens, and everything happens, in this seemingly quiet novel where Amy Smiley takes us deep into the emotional bond between three people-a mother, her son, and his babysitter-and follows each of them through a period of growth, from one spring to the next, until they are able to step out into the world more freely, with nature as their guide.With its subtle focus on the inner life, Amy Smiley's prose conveys the beneficial power of reverie, teaching us that we need more of it, to help us each find meaning in our lives. Written under the star of motherhood, Hiking Underground is an exquisite meditation on the interplay of nurture, connection, and creativity.

Walk into this communing poetisphere as if you are heading out to Mother Nature.Behold a daisy whose eye is ardent as a miniature sun, a purple columbine whose dark beauty makes a witching hour of noon, a scarlet tulip that bursts open like the Big Bang...Everything connects tentacularly to everything: the Canadian goldenrod defies its stereotype as a bio-invasive by weaving homophonic entanglements between "guilt" and "gilt", the gold thread stringing all life together. Then, wade through once-pristine cyclical time into deeper waters of nature's grief and joy - "weather-sorrow" of seasonal harmony jangled by climate crisis; rapport with a cat shivering in winter predawn. Philosophical meditations on being ensue, proceeding to where thought translates into action.The book ends on memory, mourning, and protest: a "saga" to commemorate a sweet gean tree that grew up symbiotically with the speaker and was callously mangled by horticulture. The overlapping, looping structure of the sonnet crown insists that each single being is uniquely significant and each loss extraordinary.Synthesizing air of a Romantic imagination, moisture of a Victorian naturalist's empathic curiosity, and essential minerals of an innovative ecopoetics, Convivial Communiverse respires like a plant that "worlds its own world", exemplifying lessons of love and ethical existence.

Meet a florist called Daisy: she's sassy, sarcastic and guarded, and definitely does not need or want a man.Enter Stewart Burns, the charming sexy frontman of indie band Cardinal. Their lives are as different as snowdrops to sunflowers, yet there's something about Stewart that Daisy can't ignore.For their relationship to work fully, Daisy must peel away the tough outer petals she hides behind to let Stewart and her friends see her for who she is---scars and all.Can Daisy allow herself to bloom in the full sun of an unexpected but exciting life as Stewart-from-Cardinal's girlfriend, with their lives like entwined roots, or will she be left in the shade with a broken heart and shattered dreams?In A Florist Called Daisy, Elsie G. Beya explores love, happiness, friendship, secrets, self-harm and the illusive girl-code through the rural weather and landscape of the North, Star Wars, songs, the sea and an abundance of flowers.

When newly licensed piano tuner RAYMOND DOVER visits the burg of Bucksnort, his intent is to provide services for a veteran's retirement home. Shortly after arrival, he's stricken with a mysterious amnesia and subsequently obliged to spend time at a county bughouse (Dixxmont) for observation and treatment. Therapeutic success leads to discharge, and Ray subsequently decides to stay on awhile in the area.Bucksnort is archetypical, small-town America; a dream town of wearisome proportions; a sometimes metropolis with all the attendant vexations of other city centers but still with the blinkered, tar black menace. It is impossible to know anyone in Bucksnort, and after frequenting, it's also impossible to care.Whether found or invented history, varied characters present, some historical while scores of others are conceived on the run. Recognizable eras are also referenced; timelines are breached and boarded and, together with the myriad personalities, are riffled and sailed across the page like casino playing cards.Madame Curie's Piano Tuner is a loose, less than linear assemblage of scenes, scenarios, staged bits, gags, etc., recounted by Ray. Soon enough, the moderately-adjusted reader may adjudge him an unreliable narrator. Still, for these times, he's reliable enough, and though a vocal faction may seek to blow the confines, Ray makes clear long before final words are laid to page that exiting Bucksnort is easier said than done.

Dr. Miriam Stewart works tirelessly to help Appalachian women gain control over their bodies-to make a deliberate decision whether to be a mother. Bone-weary, but with a nagging fear of the obsolescence of retirement, Miriam is sandwiched between two frustratingly independent women; neither will listen to her advice. Her aging mother, Lillian, a locally beloved, retired mountain midwife, refuses to leave her farmhouse nestled deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Olivia, her thirty-year-old daughter, searches for the perfect sperm donor for the baby she's determined to have.When a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity promises her work legacy will continue, Miriam's passion is renewed. But her carefully ordered world explodes when the fulfillment of her dream collides with her mother's long-kept secrets. Secrets that undermine the very foundation of Miriam's beliefs about who she is, her career, and especially, what it means to mother. Miriam is faced with an impossible choice.In The Mother Gene, Lynne Bryant casts a contemporary story of mothers and daughters against the backdrop of a not-so-distant dark time in American history, when powerful forces sought to control who should have children. Three generations of women struggle with the intertwined choices of sex, love, pregnancy, and motherhood.

What if you hadn't chosen your future path, but then it was decided for you, and you didn't feel ready?Spring, 1835. After being sent down from Cambridge, 18-year-old Frederick Darcy struggles to develop confidence in himself; but an unexpected tragedy forces a new role upon him - he is to become the next Master of Pemberley! Frederick must learn how to manage a huge estate, cope with the unfortunate choices of wayward siblings, and even survive life-threatening challenges.In Distress and Determination, Frederick struggles to prove himself and earn the trust and respect of his father, Fitzwilliam Darcy, as well as his mother, Elizabeth, and everyone else around him. Can he become a capable, respected Master, and ultimately a strong, confident man like his father?

Trouble always seems to find Amanda Pennyworth, the American consul to the resort city of Puerto Vallarta.First on a romantic outing to a secluded cove along the Mexican coast where the beautiful Danielle Maglin is found bludgeoned to death; and then at an elegant dinner party thousands of miles away only days later with the killer surely present, Amanda finds herself drawn into the search to find the culprit's identity. When Danielle's close friend Terrence Blanchard is found dead from an apparent suicide, Amanda is convinced that the killer has struck again. But there are too many possible suspects and just the usual list of motives: jealousy, greed, sex, money, and hatred. Nothing seems to make sense.Working with the police first in Mexico and then in the United States, Amanda is sure that the killer was among the group of friends on an excursion to Puerto Vallarta from the small city near Chicago. But which one? The police are stymied when their forensic investigation leads nowhere. It is up to Amanda to find out why Danielle and Terrence had to die.

Her mother is Lakota, her father white, and fourteen-year-old Red Dove's dream is to bring her worlds together. With her grandfather's medicine pouch, she has survived the cruelties of the Indian boarding school and the tragedy of Wounded Knee. She's ventured across the ocean to Europe to perform with Annie Oakley in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. Now, in Red Dove, Run Through the Fire, she's returning to America, where she hopes to make her dream a reality-and find the place where she truly belongs. Follow Red Dove's adventures through Book One, Listen to the Wind, Book Two, Tell Truth to Darkness, and Book Three, Run Through the Fire. Each can be read as a standalone, and each tells this remarkable girl's story as well as the saga of her people."e;I thoroughly enjoyed reading Red Dove, Run through the Fire, the third book of the trilogy about the adventures of a young Lakota girl during the late 1800d. It is a touching fictional tale, but it illustrates accurately the history of the Lakota people and their culture. The truth about Wounded Knee and the boarding schools is presented in a respectful manner to which young people can relate. Students who read this book will not forget what happened to the Lakota people in 1890. As an "e;Iyeshka"e; person myself, raised in white culture, I can appreciate the fact that it is a struggle to be successful in both societies. This beautifully written book is a fascinating ending to the trilogy. I recommend all three Red Dove books for young and old."e;--Mary Puthoff, Lakota educator and former Program Specialist, Title VI American Indian Education Program