Narrative theme: Love & relationships Books

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...

The Sacred Poets of England and America: For Three Centuries is a book written by Rufus Wilmot Griswold and published in 1853. The book is a collection of poems written by some of the most prominent poets from England and America, spanning over three...

The Irish Dove Or Faults On Both Sides: A Tale is a novel written by Margaret Percival in 1849. The story revolves around the life of a young Irish girl named Kathleen, who is forced to leave her home and move to England to work as a governess. The novel...

The Divine Image: A Book of Lyrics is a collection of poems written by Caroline Giltinan and first published in 1917. The book contains 56 poems that explore themes such as love, spirituality, nature, and the human experience. Giltinan's poetry is...

Selecta Poemata Anglorum Latina V2 is a book written by Eduardo Popham and published in 1774. The book is a collection of Latin poems written by English poets. It is the second volume of the series and features works from various poets such as John...

Laura V3: Or An Anthology Of Sonnets, On The Petrarcan Model, And Elegiac Quatuorzains, is a book of poetry written by Capel Lofft and published in 1813. The book is a collection of sonnets and quatuorzains, which are four-line stanzas, written in the...

Ilaria: And Other Poems is a collection of poetry written by Ernle Sacheverell W. Johnson and published in 1884. The book contains a total of 44 poems, including the titular piece ""Ilaria"" which is a narrative poem about a woman named Ilaria who is...

For the dreamers, the hopeless romantics and those who never stop believing in love, this collection is for you. We Will Always Be My Favorite Love Story explores romantic love in a series of prose pieces and poems designed to inspire you, move you and,...

 "Mois Benarroch es el mejor escritor mediterraneo Sefardí de Israel." Prof. Habiba Pdaya. Haaretz, sept. 2020. En este poemario, Mois Benarroch hace un retrato muy personal de la migración y del arte de vivir entre dos...

A collection of poetry full of lust and regrets. Detailing the intimacy and realities of dating in the 21st century   

In 1943, a powerful hurricane ripped across Martha's Vineyard and destroyed the Historic Cliffside Hotel. Now, a broken, long-time realtor who has lived on the island her entire life sells the old acreage and building to a passionate developer -- and...

Esquina em Tetuão de Mois BenarrochLivro de poemas publicado pela editora Esquío, dirigida por Julia Uceda Outros livros do autor disponíveis em português:- 10 poemas (português) (Prêmio Yehuda Amijai...

This book "Beauty in Love and Sorrows" reflects the narrative of a woman named Beauty as she goes through self-navigation, tapping into her emotional energy, in falling in love, getting hurt, and her healing journey, expressed through poetry.select...

50 études for piano is a presentation of multiple themes relating to childhood, growing up with a piano, familial relationships, and becoming more authentic as a woman in the world.

<i><b>Enjoy this clean, small town romance by award winning and bestselling author, Lucinda Ra</b></i><b>ce.</b>A widowed school teacher and the airline pilot whose little girl is determined to bring her daddy and the...

This is a book of poetry that will touch your heart and move you to tears. You will feel the deepest sentiments of love, anxiety, and liberation- a written catharsis.

DRAGONFLY. TOAD. MOON. poems by Mary Jane White-welcomed by lyrical novelist Sandra Cisneros and a chorus of contemporary poets: Linda Gregerson, Judith Moffett, Lola Haskins, Denise Duhamel and Richard Katrovas-weaves her Southern...

The Italian Professor's Wife by Ann Pedone, won the 2022 Press 53 Award for Poetry, "plays out in the flat, liminal spaces of hotel rooms, trains stations, and restaurants. These are objectivist psychosexual vignettes-imagine Carl Rakosi doing...

Jack Powers is attuned to twists of life and language—insults refitted as endearments, families defined by their troubles, great care taken with modes of recklessness . . . . Near the start of his debut collection, he’s praising the massive...

Lee Harlin Bahan delves into the crowded field of Petrarch translations and delivers a classical offering with a postmodern-cool facelift. A Year of Mourning is daring, quirky, and playful, but with traditional trimmings. The expected classical and...

This is a love story told through poetry. There’s pleasure, pain, beauty, jazz, so much more. The poems start out classically, and gradually morph into quirky new forms. Fun is definitely allowed. “On a dreary day too poor for a name,He...

Twisted Velvet Chains is a collection of poems which follows the experiences of a young woman growing up with a bipolar, drug addicted, Gothic musician mother. Each poem represents specific moments of their life that embrace vivid rich imagery, and...

How To Wake a Butterfly is a collection about transformation and growth. It follows the author's different stages in life, from childhood memories, trauma, heartbreak, and new-found love. The author wrote How To Wake a Butterfly during the...

Power, ambition, and love collide in this story of a high-profile couple tested by scandal: “Addictive . . . a smart, razor-sharp novel.” —Daily Record   Richard Williams has risen in the ranks of British politics...

"A delightfully plot-twisty tale with abig heart-smart, witty, and refreshingly surprising at every turn."Dawn Raffel, author of The Strange Case of Dr. Couney: How a Mysterious European Showman Saved Thousands of American Babies.In a case of badly...

The Prism of Her Thoughts is a diverse collection of poetry born whilst exploring the use of poetry as a therapeutic outlet in a women's group. This collection of poems focuses on themes such as black womanhood, single motherhood, relationships, mental...

In this raw and moving debut chapbook, Maeve McKenna dives into the multitudes of womanhood: a mother, unmothered; a lover, alone; a child, now aged. She flings the cover off pain that would otherwise remain hidden and unspoken, exposing the...

Rachel Bower's accomplished debut collection seeks to recover the lived experiences of women who have often appeared only fleetingly in official histories. The poems push towards a more expansive concept of motherhood, including our collective...

This is a book of poems put into verse from memories and events starting in the 1930's through the war years and beyond.  There are many stories that will take you back to the slums of Liverpool from walking the streets in bare feet or clogs,...

WHO IS MY DAD? Des is 9 years old - wild, when he's not charming. He lives with his mum and Almost, (who is almost - but not entirely his dad) in Fourways, a rundown flat in a London Tower block, needing crucial repairs, unlikely to be carried out...

As the twentieth century draws to a close, a group of people in southern England are also bringing their old ways to an end and establishing new lives. They just don't know it yet...Hal Dillon is back at home with his wife Jo and the family, resolved to...

"Think of love like the universe:no matter its current state,there will always be the beauty of starsto remind us of its beginning.The question is: will you still be watching?"Self-help writer and performer Liam Xavier returns with his 3rd collection of...

"Aliza Ross has more talent, passion and balls than most writers. Her novel hopefully is the first of many in what I predict will be a magnificent career." -Robert Kalich, author of the national bestseller The Handicapper"A no-holds-barred capturing of a...

Do you feel like you're on a road spinning out of control? Are you caught in a web of doubt surrounded by a dark cloud? Have you gotten lost and needed a map to find your way out? Through her poetry, Teresa Joiner talks about gaining it back.  A...

In his new book, Of Heart and Mind: A Psychiatrist's Poems, retired physician, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst Dr. Peter Alan Olsson shares the poetry that made his difficult career meaningful.He notes, "My personal use of poetry, or prose writing,...

I Was Not Meant to Break is a collection of poetry about family, heartbreak and disappointment.

Francesca Bodin's near perfect life is upended when a snowmobiling accident lands her, her husband Ben, and their four-year-old daughter in frozen lake. When he gets out, leaving them to die, she realizes her life isn't as perfect as she thought it was.

Family Matters is a unique blend of stories and poems with themes reflecting family, childhood growth, humanity, peace, love, pain, character, communication, and a basic reality of concerns and circumstances in our everyday lives. Many have been...

What happens when the life you are living is no longer the life you imagined? When you are well and truly stuck? A darkly comic tale of longing and legacy, Balloon Dog, the fourth novel from best-selling ghostwriter Daniel Paisner, prompts readers to...

Cannibalism and the Copenhagen Interpretation: A Love Story is a unique book of short poems about a love relationship as it goes through many years of growth, from its beginning, through the ups and downs of life, until the very end. The narrator asks us...

This beautiful collection illuminates the poet's journey from girlhood to widowhood. "Still, Papa, somehow you conveyed to me/quiet is where you go to get soul things out" she writes in "Tough Guy," a childhood memory poem. In "Catbird," the title poem...