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Whether manic "sailing with planets" or using "the rust of mars" to describe anger, emerging poet Luther Kissam V draws on the celestial, the terrestrial, and sometimes the mundane to explore mental health. These elements push and pull Kissam's deeply personal poems through chaos and calm, meditations and medications, and ultimately, to balance. For Kissam, bipolar is a gift from the moon, a gravitational force, that fuels exploration of space: mental, physical and spiritual. His poems reveal the tumult and tranquility teetering in us all, especially in those whose experience of beauty, joy, and, pain is physical, sometimes tragic, and often supernatural. Kissam's confessions of failure, triumph, and resiliency will resonate with those affected by, diagnosed with, or curious about bipolar

In a voice both timeless and distinctly greatest generational, Parke F. Smith writes about being the last US pilot accepted into the ranks of the RAF via their training exchange program at War Eagle Field, Los Angeles. After completing their course, he sailed to England on board the HMS Queen Elizabeth, swore allegiance to the King, and was offered a coveted spot training as a fighter pilot. From 1942 to 1946, Smith flew 129 missions in North Africa, Italy, and over the North Sea, before returning home. Amazingly, blessedly, he made it home, unlike so many of his friends and comrades. It is to them he dedicated his writing. Smith's war stories are only the half of it. Smith is skilled at conveying the human connection and camaraderie that forms in war's trenches and skies. He has a way of revealing enduring universal truths through anecdotes made even more humorous from his perspective as a total outsider. Ultimately, Smith's is a story about finding home-no matter how foreign-and fighting for it with all you've got. Not only did Smith love the Spitfire aircraft, his true gift was how he lived his life: fiercely determined and passionate, a real spitfire.

A lifelong writer with a Ph.D. in dramatic literature, Aileen Robbins served as managing editor of the Drama Review and contributed articles to the New York Post, Elle, Lear's, and other publications. But when her childhood friend, Brooke, suggested a trip to Italy for a class in the personal essay, Aileen found her true voice.No Time for Small Talk is a collection of humorous and heartfelt essays that celebrate family, food, shopping, song, and connection. A one-time opera singer, beloved mother, grandmother, sister, and friend, Aileen co-founded the Dunn-Robbins Group, a wine and spirits marketing and public relations firm and is a member of Les Dames D'Escoffier. She co-authored Chinese Cooking for the American Kitchen with Karen Lee, which was nominated for a James Beard award."Why did I choose a pear for the book's cover?" she writes. "I love pears. I have pear artwork all over my house. But one pear, in particular, holds meaning for me. It is a brass sculpture by the artist Philip Grausman, a wedding gift from my parents. The brass pear is as heavy a bowling ball and almost as big. As we divided up our belongings after our divorce, my ex-husband insisted on keeping it, along with my father's cufflinks. I went along with this until I couldn't. To make a long story short, I got the pear back. And now it sits in my dining room, where it belongs. For me, the pear has always represented a quiet strength and a small triumph. And of course, pears are delicious."

Life's most beautiful moments are often found in the routine of the day - sweeping a floor, growing a flower in a window, laughing in a kitchen. But what if we're too busy to appreciate the joy they bring? Sometimes, young eyes are better at finding life's hidden, simple treasures and showing us all what is truly most important. In "I Want to Laugh in a Kitchen," young Patrick sees opportunities for fun in every chore, adventure at each turn. But his parents are too rushed to savor those moments with him. When Patrick notices a cardinal looking right at him and his mom and dad, his parents are finally awakened to the beauty and joy of the moment. Readers are then guided to go back through the book and find the cardinal in each illustration. In "I Want to Laugh in a Kitchen," the young teach the old to "stop, look, and listen," and embrace the bits of joy tucked in to the everyday.