Narrative theme: Love & relationships Books

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...

In the title poem of Into the New World Robert Schultz takes the reader on a walk around the World Trade Center site shortly after its destruction: in response to this event, the book ranges through the extremes of war and peace, as well as backwards and...

When her IUD expires, a muzzled storyteller, haunted by a traumatic event, must choose between having another baby and birthing the novel she's always wanted to write.

The raw and tender truths that map out the shard sharp pain and deep dull ache beside the unrelenting resilience in this exquisite poetic plea, wail, and declaration personify the writer and the woman behind the words. They are a gift that Amber...

In Evensong for Shadows, deferred hope becomes fulfilled hope. Like the Psalmist, the poet's expressions of praise alternate with those of suffering. This book sways with a musicality of theme, form, and language, while refrains about miscarriage and...

Love is patient and kind-until it isn't. Most poets would have us peer through rose-tinted glass and find romance in the everyday. Poems would have us believing love heals all wounds and never stops, never gives up. Yet, for anyone who has experienced...

Pamela Or Virtue Rewarded V2 is a novel written by Samuel Richardson in 1902. It is the second volume of the two-part novel that tells the story of Pamela Andrews, a young and virtuous maid who resists the advances of her wealthy employer, Mr. B, and...

Love Laughs Last is a novel written by Stephen G. Tallentyre and published in 1919. The story follows the life of a young woman named Rosamund, who is born into a wealthy family and raised in a sheltered environment. She falls in love with a man named...

Elizabeth had everything going for her, except she cannot let go of her past. She had never gotten Eric and their daughter off her mind. She carried this heavy weight around for years. By allowing her past to control her future, her life has been...

In ENDscape, I found myself writing about the experience of being lost, yet always yearning to be found. It reflects the desire to escape the darkness, even when a part of us is drawn to linger in it. Every corner of our minds holds a mirror to life's...

Life is a journey that takes many turns along the way. Control of where, how, and when is not within your grasp. The only thing you can control is how you react to what is happening. My choice has always been to embrace each moment as it comes. Whenever...

Afternoon Abundance is a debut poetry collection from independent filmmaker turned author, Foster Wilson. This collection is an invitation to shed expectations and societal pressures. Through Foster Wilson's vibrant poetry, we delve into the raw and...

Poems and Essays is a collection of poems written about a family during their first ten years in the United States of America. The book reflects their experiences in their new country, their hopes and their dreams. Most of the poems record what they...

Upon reading this text, you will be shaken and stirred. You will be forced to explore new waves and potions to deepen your comprehension to the meaning, the feeling and the truth of morality. Becoming emotionally involved will lift your understanding to...

Somewhere in time a love was long lost....Until a silence lasting decades suddenly ended.

IntroductionThis book of poems and psalms is designed for people from all walks of life. They are divinely created to touch the hearts and souls of everyone who reads them. The wide variety of these writings will educate, fascinate, and even captivate...

While this book has quite a few poems, it is the culmination of three years and two completed journals with over 350 poems. This is the author's journey through the complex emotions and thoughts that came from finding themselves--through the lens of...

In a world where hearts have grown wary and love seems a distant tale, can the unexpected stir the depths of the untouched soul? Through the tender cadence of poetry and the rich weave of prose, we delve into the inner dialogues of two solitary hearts,...

A first book of poetry reflecting on the author's childhood living in her daddy's Art Deco hotel in 1940s South Miami Beach, where New York City mobsters, Batista's second favorite mistress, salsa music, and transvestites held sway. Includes musings...

In The Thaw of Day chronicles the aftermath-what it's like to leave a marriage torn apart by rage and substance abuse. In the midst of divorce, the poet was also by her mother's side as she lay dying. After burying her mother, she relocated as...

Esther Sadoff's first poetry collection, Some Wild Woman, is a series of portraits that capture the messy and delicious chaos of family life. The poems focus on the poet's mother who is a veritable force of nature: a source of joy, of mystery, and of...

Ilze's Daughter invites you into the intimate world of an immigrant girl growing up in rural Pennsylvania. A memoir in verse, this collection of poems captures experiences of displacement, loss, struggle, first love, family, resilience. Bolster traces...

The narrator of Washed and Dried speaks from a foggy road, a lighthouse, the flowerbed in front of her ghostly home, a midstream rock, the desert, a childhood steeped in the south. The result is a series of recollections on family, change, and...

"There's always good in the bad. I will always be testing you, pushing you past your self-imposed limits but, above all, I will always be here to support you...Forever yours, The Universe."Whether you realize it or not, the universe lays out your perfect...

The poet found himself retreating to his own lodge as an observer after long tedious travel, writing down everything across his mind, to reveal a splendor of romantic emotions as well as a profound sense of beauty throughout the words between the lines...

What is a musing? A musing is a period of reflection or thought. Jeanine Rogers' poetry collection, Love's Musings, gives voice to the metacognition of love. If love were to speak, what would it say when it is in a state of joy and fulfillment? What...

In this new collection from well-established authors Cendrine Marrouat and David Ellis, enjoy a series of love poems delicately crafted to stimulate emotional and endearing aspects of our deep connections with each other. Both Cendrine and David...

The poetry is uniquely stirring, the conversations are outrightly relatable, and the insights deeply introvoking. Too often, the message being brought forward in A Twosome Legacy is diluted in order to be "easy on itching ears". In here, the...

This book "Mehribonim onam bor... [I have a dear mother...]" is a collection of beautiful poetry written by Davronbek Urunov of Uzbekistan. It has a number of moving, inspirational, and passionate poems in all shades of humanity, love, parents, mother,...

Spanning over a century, The Lady on the Horse tells the story of five generations ofa family in Calcutta. Starting life as a khansama in an Englishman's house in 1900,Dipendra Nath Lahiri dreams of acquiring the wealth and status of a zamindar.His wife...

A luminous account of jail from the pen of a sensitive young woman who draws deeply moving sketches of women who sometimes do not even know why they are in prison. Anuradha's stories move from children who are born in prison, with no idea of the world...

Liane est une orpheline modeste et croyante. Elle est recueillie par son oncle, en Angleterre. De l’autre côté, Marian son altière cousine, est intelligente et vertueuse. Laquelle des deux jeunes filles se...

«... Lentement, comme une lourde brume se dissipant peu à peu, l’engourdissement qui avait jusque-là envahi le cerveau de Mirka disparaissait. Ses yeux, grands ouverts et vagues encore, se posaient avec stupeur sur les objets...

Ce roman raconte l’histoire d’une jeune fille qui vit sous l’autorité de sa grand’mère despotique. Elle se heurte encore plus violemment à l’aïeule qui veut lui faire épouser un homme, contre...

Reinette est orpheline. Elle a été recueillie par M. Douvre, qui laisse à son épouse le soin de son éducation. Mme Douvre, craignant que cette jeune fille sans fortune ne plaise à l’un de ses fils, propose...

Anything can happen and regularly does in the wide-angled lens of these spinning lines. The world passes through in its carnival masks. Despair and joy gyrate through ribbons of asphalt memories of glass divisions of mind. These poems give off brightly...

Daniel Shapiro's Among the Crags of the Eyrie brings together several strands in the poet's oeuvre to date, namely, confessional poetry, poems relating to family and relationships, and ekphrastic verse. The poems in this new collection are...