Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in terms of how the Civil War has come to be studied, documented, and analyzed.The Atlanta campaign and Sherman’s March to the Sea changed the course of the war in 1864, in terms both of the up...

Four women of three generations wrote, and stored for years, the heartspeak of their lives. In advance review it has been praised as, "..a small miracle...a remarkable book." This poetry tells of their joys, loves, families, nature, and choices each made. The voices are distinctly personal and reflect their sense of place, age and personality. From Washington D. C. to New York, from Kentucky to south Texas, their thoughts are turned to verses. The writing timespan is broad, stretching from...

"The book is full of strong, memorable poems that stick with readers like a friend during a long, hard night. " - The Christian Science MonitorHere, readers will find solace in works that are bracing and courageous, organized into such resonant headings as "Such As It Is More or Less" and "Let It Spill." From William Shakespeare and Walt Whitman to R. S. Gwynn and Mary Oliver, the voices gathered in this collection will be more than welcome to those who've been str...

Bartlett's Poems for Occasions, an entertaining, thought-provoking companion to the bestselling Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, is the book to turn to for any circumstance -- from birth to death and everything in between.Under the direction of esteemed poet and writer Geoffrey O'Brien, Bartlett's Poems for Occasions will inspire you to turn to poetry to celebrate a new baby or marriage, toast a colleague, cheer a graduate, honor a birthday...

Your KOBO is craving Verbal Candy. Get your bag of aphorisms today! Aphorisms? Never heard about them!? Never be at a loss again and get your copy of verbal candy today... It is always good to have some candy in the pocket!  

Discover the awesome power that hope and faith play in our physical, emotional, and spiritual healing with this collection of more than 80 uplifting and life-affirming poems and short stories. These pieces, written by some of today's most prolific writers, will warm your heart and restore your spirit.

This superb anthology offers a lively and indispensable collection of poems and songs from the eighteenth century. Here are the poets who created the literary tradition of vernacular directness which Burns drew upon and shared.Before Burns includes a substantial selection from the work of Allan Ramsay and Robert Ferguson (Burns's 'elder brother in the muse'), as well as a wider selection from the men and women writers whose good-humoured accessibility so characterised the ...

This book is broken down into 7 chapters that are named after the parts of the eyes which represent the author's middle name in the Hindi language.It expresses and describes various events in life from passionate never-ending love, continuous pain, growing up in solitude, making it as an introvert, friendships battling anorexia, becoming someone, and many misconstrue occurrences from a relationship with an alcoholic.This book is for those, who need inspiration, awareness or ...

Letters of May – Anthology 2017 is the first in the series "Letters of May". It is an anthology created to raise awareness for mental health issues through the written and visual arts.

101 Lentos is an offering to the glorious world of literature. Written in the poetic form of the millennium, it is a collection of poems from talented writers across the world…Each Lento is carefully chosen to make your reading experience, one that only you can fathom and discover the writers themselves who are celebrating their achievement through a form that was totally fresh to them, yet adapted entirely and enjoyed their writing experience! Interestingly, most poets have written more t...

üdvözlet!--------------------------- a "kikicsi versek" sorozat- 30. könyv, cime: húsz...(huzat)- rövid versek gyüjteménye--------------------------------------------- szives üdvözlettel köszöntjük a kedves érdeklödö olvasók közönségét, a 'kikicsi' versek uj kötetének megjelenése alkalmából, ahol az olvasó rövid, magyar nyelvü versekkel találkozik, melyekböl saját részére, egyénileg is, további gondolatokat szöhet, amihez kiván a szerzö, egy "xellemes...

The title should have warned me. On reading the title poem, I realise any of the poems is a gateway into this passion with compassion, into a garden whose fragrances colour every sound lovers make when words have to cope. Make the lovers poets, see how each facet is etched, each jewel worked and polished. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. ó Hugh Hodge