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When It Breaks Us, Tabitha Palmer
When It Breaks Us, Tabitha Palmer
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Twins, Evie and Mel, lost their mother before their senior year of high school. The girls’ father deploys overseas to escape his grief, leaving them with an aunt they barely know to go through this painful grieving process alone in a new town. They are in constant conflict with each other due to how they cope with this unexpected upturn of their lives. Evie choses to remain optimistic, believing she will get through this and things will turn out for the better. While Mel choses to close herself off from her family, turning instead to a pen pal to maintain …
Ritual Behavior, Jason G. Walker
Ritual Behavior, Jason G. Walker
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Ritual Behavior is a collection of twenty-five poems. Each poem in the collection adheres to a particular form. The forms include the following: blank verse, haiku, syllabics, prose poem, villanelle, triolet, pantoum, and others. Rhythm plays a vital role in every poem, and most of the strongest poems in the collection employ meter and rhyme. The major themes include human loneliness and alienation, the absurdity of modern society, concepts of reality and memory, loss/discovery of spirituality, economic despair, death, and poetry itself.
Eight Days In Oak Lake, Cyndi Eubanks
Eight Days In Oak Lake, Cyndi Eubanks
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Eight Days in Oak Lake is an incomplete fictional novel about teenage Laine Reardon, who finds her life in turmoil after her family embarks on a trip to Oak Lake, Mississippi, for a family reunion. On the trip, Laine learns a disturbing secret about her father, and she is reunited with her childhood friend, Jake Donnelly. With sisters she often does not understand and parents who have their own problems, Laine seeks solace in the now-grown boy she grew up with. As she struggles to understand her feelings for Jake and deal with the revelation about her father, Laine is …
Worlds Built On Words, Ashton Joye Hibbs
Worlds Built On Words, Ashton Joye Hibbs
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Worlds Built on Words is a collection of three fictional short stories about how the power of words and storytelling shape the worlds of children. In "MamaLu," a young girl clings to to the stories of her grandmother who is suffering from dementia. Through MamaLu's stories, Kaitlyn finds strength and identity. In "Secret Keeper," young Eli Clay is excited by his mother's stories about the family-run funeral home, but he soon realizes that some fictional stories have a deep truth in them, and other stories are laced with hurtful lies. And finally, in "Poe," Patrick Duncan is struggling to raise …
I'M Still Here--But Can You Hear Me?, Jared Everett Meals
I'M Still Here--But Can You Hear Me?, Jared Everett Meals
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ABSTRACT I'm Still Here--Can You Hear Me? contains both non-fiction and fiction pieces. The focus of these pieces is on different kinds of relationships--with writing, with family, with dating, with life itself, with Julie Andrews. Another dominant trait that runs heavily throughout the pieces is self-obsessed, almost solipsistic narrators.
Gossom Switch And The Zearn Master, Donna Gossom Thomas
Gossom Switch And The Zearn Master, Donna Gossom Thomas
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Gossom Switch is a creative nonfiction piece which traces my paternal roots. This narrative explores the family bond, racial segregation, slavery, and civil rights. Although Gossom Switch is a personal journey, my story is also universal and historical. The Zearn Master is a middle-grade fiction novel. While the main purpose of this novel is to entertain, like my creative nonfiction it focuses on family, especially the bond between siblings. This piece is also universal in that it centers around the sport of basketball.
The Traveling Bartender, Sara Christine Campbell
The Traveling Bartender, Sara Christine Campbell
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The Traveling Bartender is the first third of a longer, novel-length work exploring the challenges of relationships between real people in fantastical settings. The characters are faced with real life challenges in the relationships between spouses, partners, family, and friends.
The Cut, Robert Ben Henry Moffatt
The Cut, Robert Ben Henry Moffatt
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The Cut is a novella centered on Kyle Gordon. He works as a Cutter for a government program that has been tasked with weighing one citizen against another. The dangerous rise in global temperature has unleashed a pandemic that seems unstoppable. In an attempt to preserve civilization people like Gordon are deciding who is worth saving and who isn't. Those that pass the Cut are then taken into orbit where they will stay safely out of reach from the catastrophes on Earth. Gordon's task becomes even more difficult when he realizes that one of the citizens he failed was actually …