If the earthly stories become equivalent in the flow****ing of the time of existence, they diverge in the reading of small differenc****es, in the pursuit of different tones of desires and hopes. The story of this ordinary woman clashes with the extremes of white and black of those...

The Yellow Wallpaper is a story by the American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century toward women's physical and mental health. Presented in the first person, the story is a collection of journal entries written by a woman (Jane) whose physician husband (John) has confined her to the upstairs bedroom of a house he has rented for the summer. She is forbidden from working and has...

What do you say while performing a magic trick? Add a touch of humour to your act with "100 Magician One-Liner Jokes"! This collection offers 100 short, witty jokes and comments that cover a variety of topics and tricks, guaranteed to bring laughter and charm to your performance. Whether you're a seasoned pro or just starting out, if you have a talking act, these one-liners are your secret weapon to captivating your audience and making your magic truly unforgettable!

Tasseography is a grand name for the enjoyable art of tea leaf reading. Although most people use teabags nowadays to make tea, this change of preference need not deter you from practicing what is perhaps the most homely of all the methods of divination. Scroll up... and click on "Buy Now" to deliver almost instantly to your Kobo or other reading device.

"A poetry collection that marries wit and wisdom more brilliantly than any I know" by the Pulitzer Prize–winning former US Poet Laureate (Jane Hirshfield, author of Come, Thief).Filled with wry logic and a magical, unpredictable musicality, Kay Ryan's poems continue to generate excitement with their frequent appearances in The New Yorker and other leading periodicals. Say Uncle, Ryan's fifth collection, is filled with the same hidden conn...

Here is Barbara Crafton at her best—funny, warm, direct, honest, and vulnerable—on aging.“I think growing older is both funny and sad, but mostly it just makes me grateful to be alive and able to reflect. I have been an Episcopal priest for 33 years and have had extensive experience in ministering with the elderly. Now, I am growing old myself. I hate it when people are ashamed of being old. We should be proud!” she proclaims. Join her in this celebration of life!

An emotionally riveting collection that tells a powerful story of passion, loss, and transformation.Left-handed unfolds in the manner of an intense, searching novella. At its center is a one-way dialogue with an elusive character who beguiles and torments but also inspires the unnamed narrator, who at midlife is telling the tale.These poems—decisive, wrenching, exquisite—show an overpowering force, at once disruptive and creative, invading a settled existence. They...

A mesmerizing collection from the US Poet Laureate whose work is "as intense and elliptical as [Emily] Dickinson, as buoyant and rueful as [Robert] Frost" (J. D. McClatchy, American Poet).In granting the prestigious Ruth Lilly Prize to Kay Ryan, Poetry magazine editor Christian Wiman wrote that "[she] can take any subject and make it her own. Her poems—which combine extreme concision and formal expertise with broad subjects and deep feeling—could ...

The extraordinary experiences and perspective of an unorthodox seeker. Using psychedelic drugs and varied states of consciousness to examine the nature of reality, the author follows a thread of intuitive promptings to spiritually explosive awakenings. This is not a story we'll hear from the media, government, or religious institutions; quite the opposite. This is the stuff of revolution. A revolution of mind and soul. Readers may gain the sense of a multidimensional, conscious and loving ...

Orphan Dreams is a collection of poems written in plain-talk, direct language for real people, giving words to universal emotions and experiences. Many of these poems have received acclaim individually. A wide range of emotions and experiences are addressed, grouped by topic. Reaching deep into the heart, these poems leave no reader untouched. Whether given as a gift or kept for oneself, life is enriched by reading this book!

A story of love, discontentment, and wanderlust through 25 poems written by the author as he experienced life as a college student and grew not only as a writer, but as a person as well.

“Never before has the delight and wonder experienced in young love, in which is implicit physical discovery, been conveyed with such touching honesty or with rhapsody so involving unconscious pathos. Those who seek to drag any honest writing through the gutters of their own minds will do the same with this. Those who are not afraid of the strange miracle of life will understand this brave verse.”—William Rose Benét