This beautiful pocket-sized hardback gift book contains carefully curated poetic poisons compiled by Deborah Alma, the founder of the Poetry Pharmacy. The Poetry Poisons are for when sweetness fails, offering a controlled dose of the less virtuous emotions, to be taken slowly and without apology.For the Detection of Nonsense; For a Healthy Disregard of Fashionable Thinking; For the Pricking of Pomposity; to Counteract Sentimentality; for the Exercise of Wit and Sce...

From Goodreads Choice and Stoker Award®-winning author Alma Katsu comes a terrifying modern reimagining of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray for the internet age.An illuminating, haunting tale of algorithmic worship and beauty that can kill, for fans of Paul Tremblay, Clay McLeod Chapman, and Stephen King.Beauty doesn't fade. It feeds.Dorothy Wagner has spent her whole life wanting nothing more than to be seen. But after fail...

"…you are one of the most complicated people I know…"Sent as a hostage to an alien land to defuse the threat from that land's ruler, Prince Steffan of Ras longs to return home where his soul truly dwells. He develops an unexpected friendship with the son of his father's enemy, gains the heart and loyalty of a war-prize stallion belonging to his enemy's queen, and receives a new name. They call him Shadow.Forced into a marriage he does not want, Steffan returns to Ras with a...

A thrilling and cataclysmic collection of city-smashing titans and the desperate coalitions of humanity clinging to survival in the wreckage, from the New York Times-bestselling and multiple award-winning editors.Featuring bestselling and award-winning authors such as Tananarive Due, Christopher Golden, Seanan McGuire, Scott Sigler and Steve Alten, author of The Meg.An explosive collection of monster terror, featuring 25 original tales of c...

A man left in the spring and never came back.But the flowers keep arriving. There is a message on the phone she hasn't played. Some mornings his coffee waits on the counter, still warm. He is finding his way back to her, slowly, the way he always said he would — and she has learned to be patient.Things I Tell Myself is a quiet, unsparing novella about a woman alone in the house she once shared, and the small daily work of surviving what she cannot afford to know. T...

London, 1847.Ever since scarlet fever nearly claimed her life, Edith Eleanor Ashford has been trapped in a frail body and kept far from the life she longs for. There is only one person who can make her feel truly alive: Eirik Varg, the young Scandinavian who was taken in by her family when he was little more than an injured boy with no past.Eirik has loved her for years, but he refuses to acknowledge it. Edith belongs to a wo...

This beautiful pocket-sized hardback gift book contains carefully curated poetic poisons compiled by Deborah Alma, the founder of the Poetry Pharmacy. The Poetry Poisons are for when sweetness fails, offering a controlled dose of the less virtuous emotions, to be taken slowly and without apology.For the Satisfaction of Deep Hurt; For Wrongs, Real or Imagined; For the Nursing of Grievances; For Fantasies of Redress and Reckoning; to Stoke the Fires of Righteous Fury...

This beautiful pocket-sized hardback gift book contains carefully curated poetic poisons compiled by Deborah Alma, the founder of the Poetry Pharmacy. The Poetry Poisons are for when sweetness fails, offering a controlled dose of the less virtuous emotions, to be taken slowly and without apology.A Distillation of the Finest Sins & Vices; For the Indulgence of Appetites; For Moments of Temptation and Relish; For the Celebration of Excess; to Encourage Delight in the...

This beautiful pocket-sized hardback gift book contains carefully curated poetic poisons compiled by Deborah Alma, the founder of the Poetry Pharmacy. The Poetry Poisons are for when sweetness fails, offering a controlled dose of the less virtuous emotions, to be taken slowly and without apology.Extract of Night; For Howling to the Moon; For the Contemplation of Shadows & the Love of the Unlit; For the lifting of the veil between the real and the imagined.

The letter came on a Tuesday and she read it in the depot yard with twelve minutes before the 7:40.Marguerite Dowd has driven the rural service between Cardwell and the county seat since 2003. Nineteen miles, fourteen stops, fifty-one minutes, twice a day, four days a week. Nine passengers in winter and four in summer. The county pays ninety-one thousand dollars a year for it and has been doing the arithmetic for six years.Wilkin Sorrell has ridden ...

This book expands knowledge of the rhetorical levers at play in the use of narratives in political discourse, whether through “traditional” speeches or digital communication.By providing a clear methodology that applies to both communication styles, through a systematic, critical, and multimodal perspective, the book explains why decoding narratives in political discourse is relevant, particularly in a democratic context where non-coercive persuasion is a prerequisite of political ...

There are seasons in life where we spend more time becoming than arriving. come find me lives in one of those seasons.These poems were written in the space between grief and gentlness, certainty and longing, departure and home. They don't ask to be understood all at once. They simply ask to be sat with.