Frank Carlson Library

Un drama familiar donde podemos conocer a Iolanda, una mujer buena y feliz que tiene una vida maravillosa hasta que encuentra una caja con los secretos de su madre. Nada de lo que Iolanda había conocido sobre su vida era cierto ¿cómo va a superar estas verdades?

Katie McCullough doesn't know it, but Max Sawyer, the over confident, irritatingly handsome hotel developer who outbid her for the lighthouse property, is none other, than her mystery lighthouse sailor. The one man who captured her heart five years earlier, the one man who has since been the plumb line for every other unsuspecting male who has crossed her path. Unfortunately, for Max, he doesn't measure up either. Still reeling from losing the property...

The words of a fourteen-year old immigrant, expressing the thoughts and emotions, morality and knowledge gained through her journey across horizons. With her mother's poems guiding her through the troubles and accomplishments of life, she has taken her experiences and put them into words, hoping to make a change. She has grown into the person she is, but she will grow into the person she will be.

In her debut collection of poems, Live This Feeling, Michelle Bonfils takes us on a lyrical journey that is deeply personal and will resonate with anyone who has ever experienced a broken heart. Through poems of holding onto the first signs of love, and the tiniest slivers of hope, she exposes the vulnerability we all try to hide. In verses that explore the longing of desperate, covetous desire, the loss of love, and tearful last kisses, she shows...

How Blood Works is a collection of poems that considers the way memory, identity, and our very blood take shape in the places we inhabit: rooms, cities, landscapes, and the spaces within the body. Moore examines the idea of bloodlines-literal familial ties and the traumas, secrets, and complex relationships passed from one generation to the next. To explore these motifs, many of the poems borrow from the world of visual art, including painting, sculpture...

Journey with the author in her evocative exploration of life, love, lust and everything in between. Only Dark Around the Edges, Fiona Summerville's debut collection of poetry, prose, quotes and short stories, leaves no aspect of life untouched. Divided into familiar slices of life, the reader will find hope, inspiration, commiserate understanding of heartbreak and frustration and just enough naughtiness to offer ideas for a sexy night in.

the secret about dying arrived scrawny. it's growing stronger & fatter though & whispers, "go mad." Beyond ancient gates, among thorny overgrowth and carnivorous blooms, a raven called Death waits tirelessly for its chance to roost within us. Using scraps of love, remorse, anger, and pain, it weaves. With erasure, memory, and discovery, it binds. And from the garden of wounds that grows within our broken hearts, it builds Strange Nests. In the follow-up...

If It Was New York, Summer 2009 tells a story that is both real and imagined, taking steps into a world that could have been, a world that is full of adventure, celebrations, setbacks, and a sense of belonging. Containing more than 100 poems, this collection works to explore the question: what if?

"Passages: Time Over Mind" is a volume of poetry that depicts life over decades, with mutual experiences in details that recall distinct memories faded over time. This "First Edition" is a record of a Yankee reinterpreting the season after two dozen years of the new Southern traditions and appreciation for the celebrating the season in the South. Whether you are from the North or the South, you will enjoy the verses in "Passages: Time Over Mind".

The poems in Novel are what happen when you teach a cat to type. They will lead you across a bridge made of bread, through a door in the forest, to a paddock containing stories. They will tell you that it's not that the dead cannot tie their shoes, they just refuse to. That architects design the elements to withstand the structure. That loose ends are beautiful if not useless. If you've picked up this book because you like poems that know where they...