Narrative theme: Love & relationships Books

Life is Just a Dream is a poetic memoir that transforms personal struggle into spiritual resonance. In this debut collection, Lucky Goldie invites readers into a lyrical landscape where every line echoes the rhythm of survival, the beauty of growth, and...

This collection of poems are expressions of romantic love. Told through the eyes and heart of a lover who believes that a love expressed is one of the most powerful things in this life. There is nothing more perfect than the outpouring of love towards...

This is a collection of poems expressed through the eyes of self-love. Reminders of what it means to care for your own heart through reflections on living fully, and tearing away the noise of life to get to what's really important. To love oneself fully...

When California divorce attorney Marta Bufford says to friend and seminar leader Gilbert that she needs "to go backward in order to go forward," she's talking about both her personal history and uncertain future, a dichotomy that comes into clear focus...

Marie thought she had it all.A beautiful home. Two wonderful children. A husband she had loved since high school. She was the "It Girl," the woman everyone admired.Until the day it all shattered.Betrayed by the one she trusted most, Marie spirals into...

The Poet Inside Me serves as the debut poetry collection of Simran Kalita. Following the complicated stages of love, inevitable heartbreak, the finding of oneself, and the trivial thoughts that one simply can't compare. All written in the span of growing...

What do you do with the things that made you-when they also tried to unmake you? In Every Fig Has a Wasp Inside, Tian Sanchez-Ballado excavates the body-queer, CubaRican, Southern, chronically ill-and asks what it means to carry what cuts and feeds you...

Crying in LA: Sapphic Longing in Tongues and Tears is an emboldened, Afrocentric collection of poetry that explores Black sapphic love, uncertainty, and loss through metaphors of shifting. From warm affections (Sunny Skies), to the weight of...

Following a nasty divorce from her rich banker husband, Maria Gowins is left with a rather unconventional inheritance-an old beach trailer on Banker's Point Island-and a whole lot ofcynicism when it comes to love and family life. Beside her rustic abode...

A sweet, sports romance where love is a four-legged wordTrauma survivor, Abby Barclay, finds purpose in her life with her therapy dog, Gen, helping terminally ill children and their families deal with pain and loss. When a playground accident brings...

Liminal is derived from the Latin "limen," meaning threshold. It is a place of transition, a time of waiting, and not knowing the future. It is the space between where you have been and where you will go, when what comes next is still uncertain...

BIRDS AND THE TRICK OF TIME sings of the fortitude passed through generations and through living on the fringes, through loving and endings, and the pauses that fall between people. They sing, too, of the natural world and its wisdom. A few poems dare...

Giles L. Turnbull's Plastic Life is a tightly woven narrative-in-verse that examines disposability in all its forms-of relationships, rituals, memory, and meaning. Structured as a quiet unraveling, the sequence follows an unnamed protagonist...

Daniel F.X. Peterson was formerly a Classics Major at Columbia University in the City of New York. He is a long-time student of Ancient Greek, Latin and English, as well as a lover of poetry and pornography. Today he works as a litigation attorney in...

In a world where emotions create literal powers, a family fights to stay together, while secrets pull their world apart.Join Benjamin and Jemma Hodgerton as they navigate parenthood in this closed-door adult dystopian urban fantasy by debut author Holly...

With a mask that conceals and a personality that defies, a heart that breaks and a soul that nosedives, when trauma's hostility hooked and life broke prosperity,when love lost and her body became property, when bullies lived rent free in the mindshe...

Sie öffnete die Tür ... und ein Mann stand da. Nicht ihr Ehemann. Niemand, den sie kannte. Nur ein Fremder mit warmen Augen, einem Anzug und einer stillen Zuversicht, die verriet, dass er genau wusste, was er mit ihr anfangen sollte.Sie hätte es dabei...

Abrió la puerta... y allí estaba un hombre. No era su marido. No era alguien a quien conociera. Solo un desconocido de mirada cálida, trajeado y una seguridad discreta que decía saber exactamente qué hacer con ella.Debería haberlo dejado ahí. Cerrar la...

Elle ouvrit la porte... et un homme se tenait là. Pas son mari. Pas quelqu'un qu'elle connaissait. Juste un inconnu au regard chaleureux, en costume et à l'assurance tranquille qui disait qu'il savait exactement quoi faire d'elle.Elle aurait dû s'arrêter...

Ze deed de deur open... en daar stond een man. Niet haar man. Niet iemand die ze kende. Gewoon een vreemde met warme ogen, een pak en een stille zelfverzekerdheid die aangaf precies te weten wat hij met haar aan moest.Ze had het daar moeten laten. De...

Audrey Tillman and Jim Harrison have been in love with each other for most of their lives. When they finally think they're getting their happily ever after, Jim falls down the stairs and is rushed to the emergency room on their wedding day, leaving...

Purple Summer, Gray Fall is the debut poetry collection for Selena Mallory. Considered cathartic art, Purple Summer, Gray Fall captures the colors, joy, pain, complexity, and revelations found in seasonal romance and subsequent heartache...

A tale of life, death, and a highly chlorinated YMCA pool. Award-winning comedian and storyteller Mike Birbiglia's "coming-of-middle-age story" is a hilarious reminder for all of us recovering from failing bodies and a flailing world that laughter is...

Kathleen SwannA poet and writer with lakes and mountains in her blood. An adventurer who has travelled to many places across the world and taken part in some of life's outdoor activities. She is now settled in North Yorkshire, belongs to several writing...

Drive Here and Devastate Me is a powerful and honest exploration of love, queerness, and the triumph over shame.Falley's words shock you with their raw honesty, whether delivered with sharp wit or detailed imagery. It is evident that the...

The dark, sexy, and dangerous landscape of Redhead and the Slaughter King is illuminated by its truth-slinging author, Megan Falley.More than a collection of poems, this book serves as a survival guide for anyone who has ever been a daughter...

In No Matter the Wreckage, Sarah Kay takes you on a profound journey through her self-discovery in New York.Following her breakout poem "B," this debut poetry collection showcases her accessible brilliance.With each verse, Kay transports readers to...

In Time I See is an introspective journey through the chambers of the heart-a series of raw, unfiltered reflections on love, emotions, and intimacy.

Linda Enders has given us a collection of poems for the trying times we live in. While these poems address issues such as climate change, migrants seeking new homes and lives, the losses and grief of death, they also allow us to share in joyful memories,...

Abby Kent felt invisible in her life. But it was never truly hers to begin with. She just didn't realize it until she walked out the door.Abby had spent her life being the woman everyone needed-the devoted wife, the selfless mother, the dedicated...

"Dante Émile has no dull edges. Turn Misplaced Organs & Various Saints on any side, you will find something to whet your blade with. This is a collection of asking: an asking of God, an asking of The Self, an asking of The Lover, all of which I...

A poetry collection, her first, from writer, editor and graphic artist Elizabeth Leverton, Peace, Rhododendron's concerns are family, love, nostalgia and hope. This volume contains Leverton's work from over thirty years.

This collection of poetry acts as an addition to my first book, 'Blooming Us', to show the development in Gothic writing as I delve deeper into the supernatural. Indeed, travelling to Greece was pivotal for the process of comparing a palm tree to a...

'Sahasra Janhara Rati', author's twelfth poetry collection, is interwoven with forty-six Odia poems of varied tastes and thoughts. They depict intricately human dreams and despair, aspiration and agony, passion and emotion, rejoice and sorrow, love and...

"the daughterland is a Plathian interrogation of Mexican motherhood during the regressive Covid-era by a mother who was a daughter during the arms race, Ronald Reagan, and socially-accepted toxic masculinity. Garcia's poems are the secrets parents wish...

"The journey back to your heart; is longer than imagined. And my legs are getting weaker and weaker"

"Wander too far down the 'Path of Temptation' and you may be a witness to 'The Fall of Paradise.' When heretics question Gods, paradise will fall. If you emerge unscathed you will savor each bite of a new journey. Come with me and see what happens when...

Janet Reid's second book of romance poetry touching on the various stages of love.

This book of poems is a reflection of my great love for so many things in life, starting with my very dear and cherished biker husband, Frank Charbonneau, with whom I enjoyed thousands of miles of travel on our Harley. We also enjoyed our life in a log...

Introducing "Trifecta of the Heart: Love, Heartache, and Solitude" by Sherine A. Kenny - a captivating exploration of the many facets of the human heart, brought to life through the art of poetry. Experience the intensity of love, the pain of heartbreak,...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...