Narrative theme: Sense of place Books

"A crown is but the open flower in sunshine's bright."Inside our thought holds most of the riddle of existence; we interact primarily with the objectively real, but always in companionship with the part of ourselves that is like an unclear halo. We know...

<p><center>October 1980<br>The story continues....</center></p><p>Hugh R. Fischer soon becomes uneasy with the prospects of becoming a husband for the love of his life. All his baggage has him convinced that he's poor...

The Carter family has lived for countless generations in the same rural Mississippi town, hours out from Jackson. Their situation is marred by death: Mr. Carter's sister, Emma, had killed herself in heartbreak many years ago, and later his wife had...

Jake O'Connell causes quite a stir by showing up in Port Townsend for his brother David's wedding. The twin of country heartthrob Joe Bob Blade has upended his enviable life by resigning as CEO of the family business. In North Bend, he dressed to the...

Rule number three: Don't date jocks.Turner, the big man on campus, has goals not dreams. His family needs him to succeed. He cannot let anyone, or anything, interrupt his plans. Still, he can't keep his eyes off of Samantha Johnson.She's his favorite...

Farmer Bill Fogel isn't ready to retire. But his children have grown, his wife has passed, and his body is protesting. When a warehouse developer approaches him about buying the farm that has been in his family for generations, the offer seems...

A posthumously published collection of new essays and poems from the much loved author, playwright, educator, humorist, E. Reid Gilbert. The author is well known for his touching and compassionate forays into the fundamental questions we all confront...

Nicole seems to have met her match. Ned would not allow her to behave the way she had gotten away with. He reluctantly agreed to take her home with him for a trial period of one month. The test would be if she could make him love her again without...

In the gritty streets of the city, where loyalty is tested and danger lurks around every corner, Can't Turn a Hoe into a Housewife dives deep into the underbelly of urban life. Erica, a seasoned escort with a sharp mind and a guarded heart, dreams of...

Set in the suburbs of Nairobi, Njambi and Kagwe's world is the story of a marriage in the fray. Njambi Kagwe is a smart and sensible senior executive at a digital marketing agency. Her husband, Henry Kagwe, is a charming commercial airline pilot for a...

These are short stories that follow different people going in different directions. Some of the stories have found earlier homes in traditional literary reviews and some were homeless. Until now. You are their home. Once you start one of these stories,...

All of a sudden, Anne is caught between the fear that this venture may ruin all her plans for the future-and the knowledge that trying to save Peter Wren may be the role of a lifetime.Anne studied to be a speech therapist, and she lives in a little...

Inspired by her own true story, author Erin Spencer explores what happens when you get everything you never knew you always wanted.    I wasn't looking for love. Putting down roots in this small, southern town was the last thing on my...

A romance about modern lives as lived in India’s tech capital and city of youth, Bangalore.He opened his mouth to say something, then seemed to think the better of it. Their eyes met in the rear-view mirror and Aditi raised her well-shaped eyebrows...

A notable poet of the modernist era in Urdu is Aslam Emadi. He has made arrangements for his poems to use the specifics sparingly. His poetry reflects a truly modern sense in its whole. His use of whimsical and scientific thought has been successful in...

Permanent Smoke, Darrell Epp's fifth collection, uses poetry as a scalpel to dissect our present moment in all its terrors and delights.Gravity and grace duel to the death in a tinkertoy universe. Downsized superheroes moonlight as Uber drivers. There's...

It's hard to imagine a poet who could take more joy in nature, both earthly and human. In Blue Marble Gazetteer, David Leff looks closely, always, and revels in the names of things; the catalogs of species that recur throughout are delicious to...

Caroline was once a young, happily in-love woman. The world was full of hope and prospects. She had the love of her life, rose-colored glasses, and bright possibilities in a new city.Until a war steals her joy and her future. Rather than wallow, much,...

Tim--a man on the brink. His wife, Grace, recently passed, and he, all alone to confront the world--a task too great for him, too oppressing, too--much. He told her on her deathbed that he'd wait for her signal, a signal that she'd put out from the...

Stories that make your heart smile. Genuine country. Pure Texas.Along the Navasota artfully captures country life and is filled with nostalgia that enchants and resonates with readers of all ages. This collection of original poems written by...

At the end of each day, as we fall asleep, we can reflect on the places to which we have been. I find it exciting to go to new countries. Normally, I hire a car and set off by myself to meet the people in the villages and towns. I do not know these...

Tribute Night at the Social in its original version was awarded 3rd prize in the 2017 Yeovil 'Writing Without Restrictions' competition. The setting is the fictional Bannockpace Sports & Social Club, and the open mic event for poets is 'hosted' by a...

Alice, the youngest of three Monroe sisters, still holds out hope that the uneasy relationship with her two sisters can be mended, an improbable wish since they live in different parts of the world. After her grandmother's funeral, Alice returns home to...

A year on from when they first met, Dylan and Merry are madly in love.Merry has moved to Starling Bay, and taken on a less pressured job that allows her more time with Chloe.Dylan's business is flourishing, and with Merry and Chloe, his life feels...

A fake marriage requires a fake husband.This small problem prevents Shay Donovan from becoming the sole beneficiary of her great-aunt's fortune.Shay desperately needs the money to help pay for her father's illness, but she has no husband, she isn't...

He's from one of the wealthiest families in the bay.She's a maid.It was never meant to be.Reed Knight is a businessman. And he's engaged.But now he's having second thoughts about his ex-beauty queen fiancée whose personality changed as soon as he slipped...

There's something for nobody—the poet himself insists!—in Rosenstock's latest volume of poems from The Onslaught Press, a publisher of poetry and haiku that has championed his recent body of work. Poetry International says he is...

Nothing goes as planned when a cold-hearted international thief descends upon the tiny Texas town of Red Dirt. Forced to masquerade as the girlfriend of a local good ol' boy, the thief soon finds herself pulled into the quirky and colorful lives of a...

Places, relationships, nature, domestic experiences : these are the main sources of Manorama Biswal Mohapatra's poems. The print plight of Shanti Niketan Tagore's Dream-University saddens and infuriates the poet who admires its founding genious. Its...

In 1972, change is sweeping the world, but it isn't coming fast enough to South Carolina. Not for Triss, anyway. She has always wanted to become an attorney, but her influential grandfather who raised her won't hear of it. She attempts to go it on her...

Sex. Drugs? And rock 'n' roll...With the tour underway and new ventures on the horizon, Finn Fairlane is optimistic about the future. Even as he continues to heal from the accident he senses possibility in the air, with his career, and in romance.But...

What People Are SayingSit and stay a while in the strangely familiar rooms and landscapes that Monica Berlin’s Elsewhere, That Small constructs for us. Let Berlin stop the clock, just for a few seconds, so we can take stock of “the ordinary...

ADELICIA Grace, Grit and Gumption is not a biography, but an historical fiction based on Adelicia's life and historical events of the time. Twenty-one, self willed and ambitious, Adelicia steps into the Nashville of 1838, as it is making its...

The Ghettobirds presents thirty works of speculative poetry that celebrate the ability of humanity to adapt to, surpass, and possibly transcend its environment and its origins. Sprinkled throughout this Afrofuturist collection are a series of...

blue and blue and blue conveys the overwhelming importance of having (every so often) a complete washing off of your desire for success. Heading to the sea or the ocean on a trip is a classic setting for such narratives because of the immense power and...

Reuben Jackson's rhythmic and musical poems merge love, beauty, justice, and the lived Black experience in America. My Specific Awe and Wonder is a collection of new and selected poems Jackson described as "a love letter to Vermont" with "all the...

A new business. The wedding of the year. But when a health scare jeopardizes their plans, can Steven and Rose learn to dance or will this be their swan song?Fresh off the closing of his late mother's estate, Steven is ready to start the next chapter of...

"A talented storyteller, and a master at creating memorable characters," -BookLife Review, Editor's PickIn 1951 Tidewater, VA ten-year-old Gracie sits, tears streaming, clutching her dog. Her daddy is sending her and Brown Hound to Grandma Emily for the...

Shoes For Baby, the first full length book of poetry by poet and short fiction author Steve Sibra, showcases the versatility of this author, who captures different moods and scenarios by making use of ever-changing voices. The book contains over eighty...

When a mystery is discovered in the trunk of a 1951 Plymouth convertible, four unlikely people are drawn together, some with questions, some with answers. Of all the forks in life's road, the car was the least expected. 

In the early 1980s, a stranger by the name of Kenny Collins moves to Down East Maine—a place rooted in the traditions of those who were born and bred there, and meets Mary Bagley, a woman who knows all too well the insidious nature of certain...

Bitch Chronicles is a Special Collector's Edition of the entire Bitch Series. If you've read Bitch The Beginning, Bitch Reloaded, The Bitch Is Back, Queen Bitch and Last Bitch Standing, here is an opportunity to have this captivating saga in one book. If...

It's the early 1800s and August King, a farmer in the mountains of Western North Carolina, encounters a runaway slave girl and finds himself facing a moral decision that could cost him his own freedom, property, and even his life.