These poems speak an odd nostalgia for what turns on, in, and alongside the world. A tragedy of loss, a miracle of eroticism, or a comedy of road kill, Odd Bloom Seen from Space looks at the self amid the ashes of fleeting exultation and uncertainty. The speaker tells stories with wild candor on matters of heroic inadequacy while searching through his obsessive questions for greater meaning.But it’s in the act of discovery, through the hero’s immediate ancestry that Welch’...

Margaret Millington is a wealthy, cynical, midfifties alcoholic, suffering from depression. Peter Kearns is a thirty-one-year-old Catholic priest with a burn-scarred face he mysteriously suffered as a young child. Fate brings the two together, and they develop an unlikely friendship that allows Margaret to witness the hope that the remarkable young man offers to people in a variety of seemingly hopeless situations, ultimately giving Margaret herself a new purpose in life. When the charisma...

This is a story about a little lost dog that wanders into a Firehouse and is fascinated by the bells, sirens, ladders, wagons and hoses. The firefighters let him stay around and name him, "Dog." The puppy grows up, grows stronger, pulls hoses around and can even jump up on the firewagon. It is also the story of how a little puppy grows into an adult dog and becomes the hero of the firehouse.

Meet Popsicle—the Puppy Who Saved Christmas! When a tiny puppy arrives at Santa’s Workshop, no one expects him to become a Christmas hero but when Frostbite 3000 suddenly takes control, Christmas is threatened, and Santa is trapped. With Christmas only hours away, Popsicle must save Santa before it’s too late. Can Popsicle rescue Santa and save Christmas? Can one small puppy do what no one else can? Read Popsicle’s brave Christmas story and discover how a little puppy can make all the diff...

A murder mystery. A vanished America. A summer no one who lived it could ever forget.In the summer of 1963, twelve-year-old boys still roamed the woods unsupervised, explored limestone caves overlooking the Mississippi River, served Mass before dawn, and measured life by basketball games, bicycles, and the ringing of church bells.For the boys of Mayfly, that unforgettable summer begins like every other—with adventure, mischief, lifelong friendships, and dre...

Cet ouvrage mi-biographie, mi-discographie est une œuvre commune de Daniel Lesueur et Graham Welch.This part-biography, part-discography is a joint work between Daniel Lesueur and Graham Welch.

The first comprehensive analysis of a strategically located ceremonial center on the island of Puerto RicoThe prehistoric civic-ceremonial center of Tibes is located on the southern coast of Puerto Rico, just north of the modern coastal city of Ponce. Protected on two sides by a river, and on the other two sides by hills, this approximately 10.5-acre site remains as fertile and productive today as when first occupied over 2,000 years ago. Such a rich regio...

#1 New York Times bestselling authors Daniel Goleman, Jack and Suzy Welch, engage in a powerful discussion of what makes a great leader in this original audio program.The ideas expressed in Goleman's Emotional Intelligence decades ago have taken on a life of their own. They spurred a movement, with enthusiastic adherents in the business world, in medicine and healthcare, at home, in the field of education and the ...

It has always been understood that the central claim of Christianity—that Jesus born of Mary is the Son of God—is as much a declaration of the mystery of the human as it is the mystery of God; just as the claim that in virtue of this identity he is the Christ who restores, and more, transforms, the created order, intensifies the mystery of the human even further. When the age of revolution was followed by the age of science, and the effort to shape the environment by technology was joined ...

Paul Vermeersch’s new poems give a present-day voice to primitive song, and restore to us a dawn-time severity that cuts through modern evasions. They go beyond sophistication to reveal the passionate and suffering animal within. The Reinvention of the Human Hand is a poetry of the human body’s experience, of a primal being that struggles to assert itself, or perhaps just survive, in a world of metals, plastics, electronics. Here is the most far-reaching work yet by the ac...

'WOW WOW WOW. This is simply BRILLIANT!!!... It is a very emotional and POWERFUL story... I highly recommend it to EVERYONE' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐When a newborn baby dies after a routine hospital procedure, there is no doubt about who will be held responsible: the nurse who had been banned from looking after him by his father.What the nurse, her lawyer and the father of the child cannot know is how this death will irrevocably change all of th...

For thirty years now the Phoenix Poets series has been publishing the best poets working in English, from young poets publishing their first books to renowned masters at the peak of storied careers. This sample presents some of the best poets and poems from those three decades—it’s sure to whet your appetite and get you coming back for more!