Narrative theme: Love & relationships Books

This book of poems was written by Gerald G. Moothart. A man in his fifty to seventy years of age. Born in Illinois on a four-hundred-acre farm. Went into the service in the early fifties and stayed in Massachusetts upon discharge. In the later twenty...

First in the mind then all over the body! The arena of our mind is where the struggle begins and will end as long as we are aware of our inhibitions and commit to eliminating them. In order to win the battle between enjoying sex and just doing it, we...

In "Make Love Make Sense," author Raymond A. Raglin III takes readers on a profound and poetic exploration of love through the lens of our five senses. This insightful book delves into the powerful ways that touch, taste, sound, sight, and smell shape...

Heartbreak is a difficult experience to navigate. You always hear of ways to manage grief or loss through different step programs, but never heartbreak. But that doesn't mean a five-step program for heartbreak doesn't exist.A personal take on "the 5...

Follow the pain, trauma, and tumultuous family saga of December Rose, from her mother's birth to watching her own children grow up and attend school.When December Rose's momma was born, she entered the world as the first daughter and fifth child of Edd...

Heartfelt Words: Inspirational Love Quotes to Guide Your Relationship by Leroy Vincent is more than just a collection of quotes. This beautifully curated book offers thoughtful and inspiring words for every stage of love and relationships. Whether you're...

Welcome to a world of sensual exploration, where desire knows no bounds. This collection of 28 erotic tales, adapted from the first two seasons of the popular podcast, invites you to delve into the depths of female sexuality.Each story, penned by the...

This free-form poetry book captures a lifetime of rich experiences from the perspective of a doctor, nature lover, and teacher, reflecting on life, growth, healing, and the deep connections with nature and learning.

This collection follows my emotional journey of learning to program from the insecurity I felt entering a field I had no prior knowledge in to the anger and frustration I felt at not being able to grasp specific content and finally to the joy I felt in...

"Seduction is Always More Singular and Sublime than Sex and it Commands the Higher Price."For those who yearn to intentionally add spark to your sensual life, we dedicate the words on these pages to help you recognize the true beauty and benefit of...

A hidden sea cottage on the beach. Two secret affairs. And motherly love that transcends time and space -- no matter what.Aria Baldwin did the unthinkable: she ran away from her family's money, dropped out of college, and moved to Martha's Vineyard...

WORDS CAN EXPRESS HOW YOU FEEL IN A MOMENT IN TIME A SYMPHONY OF LIFE by Carol A. Wirth is a collection of 136 poems and verses taking readers along life's journey.  Chapter titles are based on song titles.  They include A Symphony of...

After my first poetry book sold just 8 copies, I didn't think I would be writing another one. But here we are and here is another attempt. This book contains the complexities of life, love and my twisted brain. I've cried, laughed, screamed and danced...

My bareness is shaped by your hands;I move to the rhythm shared by lone strangers.Amidst the frenzy,I forget the bitch wind of night.This is but the first touch.A compelling compilation of free verse poetry, This Heart of Mine delves into the many...

Daughter Days spans Julia Wendell's entire career as a poet writing poems to and about her daughter. Poems selected from her previous six books are combined with newer poems, as well as excerpts from her memoirs, Finding My Distance and Come to the X...

The raw outpouring of emotion in easy to read prose has made Alana's work resonate with countless people who felt she was putting words to the feelings they struggle to articulate. Alana Kirby's first book, "the words i'll never say", sold 10,000 copies...

In A Deadly Rose, Kamryn Hanover is ready to walk away from her tumultuous relationship with her fiancé, Jeff, after discovering yet another devastating betrayal. What begins as a story of love and loyalty quickly spirals into a gripping tale of deceit,...

Thirteen-year-old Brian has been unexpectedly uprooted from his home and planted in northern Wisconsin for the summer. Surrounded by beavers, thunderstorms, walleye, forests, a rippling lake, and his tenacious little Granny Jane, nothing can prepare...

Frank, unsparing, often violent and disturbing, these poems speak in the voice of a young man trying to navigate the city he loves as he lives in the long shadow of its decline with a sense of grace and hope. With the city of Baltimore as his backdrop,...

Between February and November is a story that delves into the messy uncertainty of a long-term marriage. It takes place in a modern-day lakeside town in Vermont. That February morning started out like any other; Layla Ranker got her kids ready for school...

"James Alan Riley's Uncertain Mythologies reverberates with a profound sense of time, rooted in the tangible experiences that form and inform our everyday lives. The collection embraces the interplay of light and shadow, life and death, where...

Through the wide-eyed study of beauty and the eerie stations of the erotic, Love the Stranger maps the body in its struggle with desire and absence. Deshpande's poems treat love, kinship, and loss as instruments of our own awakening-tools that...

Zuniga, nationally acclaimed for her powerful poem "To the Oklahoma Lawmakers," hailed as a riveting message about the war on women, presents her latest collection of poetry, The Smell of Good Mud.In this evocative work, she ventures into the...

In The Borrowed World, Emily Leithauser transforms keenly felt experience and bittersweet memories into poems of impressive craftsmanship. She deftly muses on the dichotomies of, among other things, childhood and growing up, the headiness of love gained...

Funny and heartbreaking, Australian Paul Whitby's poetry book How to Measure the Distance of Things resides somewhere between the head and the heart. Follow the narrator as he drifts through rural Victoria and New South Wales, house-sitting. See him hug...

In All My Salt propels the reader through the examinations of the after-effects of abuse, the hardness of trauma, and the difficulties of ill-fated relationships. This poetry collection is sharp and biting, angry and raw, and unrelenting in its...

Written while at home full-time with two small children under five, the book of smaller is a collection of short, sharp, incredibly dense prose poems. Created in moments snatched from chaos, these poems challenge the possibilities of language in very...

"Do you love your mother?"This provocative question provides the catalyst for this stunning poetic memoir from Barbara Harris Leonhard. Through her artfully-crafted poetry, the author considers where her love and loyalties lie following her aging...

Françoise Hélène walks readers through a reflective journey. Her poetry is a collection of raw sentiments, reminding readers to explore new life perspectives and think differently. In this book, the author explores the connection that inspiration can...

Poetry for the dead, the dying, and the ghosts. 45 illustrated poems collecting the best of Golds' noir poetry from 2020 - 2022. Paper lanterns and petty crime. Whiskey bars and beach confessions. One-night stands and the childhoods that led to cheating,...

Life can sometimes strike a blow that will knock the wind out of you. Before you know it your are curled up in a corner unable to speak or breathe . As you lay there with your thumb in your mouth, crying uncontrollably, hundreds of questions violently...

Thirty Illustrated poems including: Life and love, Conflict and consequence, Historical and famous, Environmental, Supernatural, Dream.

Relación epistolar con mi buena amiga A. Miralles.

A compilation of emotions and experiences, in the format of poetry. The book is about a Latinx boy and his experiences in high school. When reading from start to end you see the emotions change and fluctuate. Mainly they are love, joy, sadness, lust,...

"A truly lovely book, gentle and humorous, about a couple having to deal with the hard stuff life can throw at you and finding a way through." -Reedsy DiscoveryIn Broken Pieces of God David B. Seaburn returns to the domestic arena to explore the complex...

Twenty-four poems and a song by John Perrault former Portsmouth Poet Laureate, Pushcart nominee, poet and balladeer.

The speaker's language is lyrical, private, devotional almost, at other times a code-switching irreverent and raucous melding of street slang and religious tropes, a distinct minority voice of urban immigrant resilience and creative potential. In turns...

In this charming collection of poems, Sarah Voss captures the persistence of memory and joy and heartache growing old in this brave new world of technology.-Ruth Glick, prolific, award-winning and best-selling author of romance, mystery, suspense,...

Falling Bodies, a chapbook of poems from Finishing Line Press, explores loss, identity, and family through the lens of the natural world. The book, part of Finishing Line's acclaimed Chapbook Series, is by Finger Lakes area author, Jillian Barnet, whose...

Imitation Crab examines the ever-blurring boundary between the genuine and the fake in the 21st century, where reality TV shows are scripted and memoirs sometimes turn out to be completely made up. This confusion bleeds beyond pop culture into our...

The kaleidoscopic earth and sky saturated with colours, sounds and perfume, are packed into his capsule-like poems ever glittering, humming, exuding sweet fragrance. However, one can't help noticing an elegiac tune thrumming at the heart of the poems, of...

Moving from childhood to retirement, "The Stoop" covers a wide range of subject matter. Several poems explore growing up in Brooklyn, New York in the 1950s and 1960s, which include painful and humorous memories. Many poems reflect on cinematic,...

The Changes That Redefine Us AllAn Impossible Task Filled with LoveTransitions Revealing More Than We ExpectWhen Family Secrets Turn PoisonousOn Certain Days, the Hurt Feels Brand NewA Truth Too Hard to FaceSometimes Everybody Needs RecoveryAll the years...

Have you ever taken the time to reflect upon all the situations, events, and mysteries that people face throughout their lives? Could it be possible that the person standing in front of you at the checkout line in the grocery store is having the same...

The poems in John Pleimann's Come Shivering to Collect live and move and have their being in a world that is both twilit and sacred. Speakers wrestle with memory's power to obsess and distort, to haunt, and to evoke. They discover that life mocks...