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A collection of this year’s best stories With this collection of short stories and poems, Indian publisher Shail Raghuvanshi managed to immerse us in powerful words and characters that take you inside their hearts. In these snippets of life, you learn something about yourself, allowing you to bring some power into your own life. From a ‘love story within a love story,' magic on a stage, nostalgic memories, and smoky bar friendships, this collection provide profoundly empathetic portrayals of various human experiences. You’ll laugh and cry as you sink into world after world, character after character. Love lost, love found, and love redeemed. Romantic love, platonic love, and the unexpected – all these stories and poems celebrate love just like it is in real life. First, you'll forget yourself as you read. Then, upon surfacing, there is the possibility to know yourself and others anew. ‘Love is in the Air’ is a collection of 20 poignant love short stories and 9 feel-good love poems.
- This outstanding anthology of poems offers poetry lovers an impressive sampling of more than 60 plus masterpieces. Although short in length, these poems are long on beauty, power, imagination, and originality. Attractive and inexpensive, this compilation of carefully chosen poems contains many of the loved, rarely anthologized poems in the English language. Students, teachers, and any lover of great poetry will treasure this splendid collection. These are chosen not merely for their popularity, but for their literary quality as well. Especially Titles like, "A Confession", "Makeup", "The Endeavor" and many other splendid poems remain evergreen in their capacity to engage our minds and refresh our spirits.
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Looking for a good book to read? Want to feast your eyes on something new? How about some poetry? On nature, children, love, passion, philosophy? Mind you, it will be worth it! You may find yourself engrossed in it before you can say Tide! So, go on, turn it over. Open it. Atta boy!
Be inspired by the world's most magnificent geometric designs! This collection of boldly rendered illustrations — adapted directly from the interiors of Spain's ancient Alhambra — explodes with imaginative, interlocking shapes. Add color to dancing hexagons, spinning stars, and revolving triangles. Then place near a bright light source and give these historic Arabesque motifs — customized by your choice of creative media — an amazing stained glass glow.
Papal Glow is the time between centuries, that little dust mote trailing in the sun's glare between folds of the partition that separates the public from true knowledge. It is the preventative strain keeping the powers-that-be at bay while the world swirls by unnoticed. This glow imbues a young boy named Leo, who must use the papacy to divide the time between those centuries, speed up modernity at the very beginning of the 19th century, and oppose the ever-growing reign of Napoleon. But as Leo grows into his papal role, the lines between what Leo wants and can achieve grow smaller as well, until Leo sets up a miracle himself and the time between centuries becomes as small as a dust mote.
This exciting book introduces readers to the life and career of WNBA superstar Courtney Vandersloot. The book also includes a table of contents, a Paving the Way special feature, an At a Glance section, informative sidebars, quiz questions, a glossary, additional resources, and an index. This Focus Readers series is at the Navigator level, aligned to reading levels of grades 3-5 and interest levels of grades 4-7.
Frankie's school year is going downhill. His math teacher hates him, he keeps getting suspended. The new preacher keeps telling his dad how to handle his "problem" son. When the preacher's son is left with them for a few weeks Frankie sees this as a relief until they are involved in a hit-and-run accident. All these conflicting emotions and secrets bring Frankie to a breaking point. Just when he decides what he must do to make things right, his sister and best friend go missing. Frankie is tormented by nightmares where he hears his sister calling for help while being chased by something dark and unseen. Everyone has abandoned him including God. What will it take to set everything right again?
Noah had longed for adventure all his life, and he wasn't about to let a stodgy history professor do him out of the story of his life with his complaining and heel-dragging. Robert had seen more than he cared to of adventure in his years in the European theater for the CIA. Now he had a nicely boring career as a news agency historical fact researcher, a brownstone full of family antiques, and a quiet, dignified life. He wasn't about to let Noah Taylor, with his campy, fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants ways, blow it for him. Robert Tate, 36, with a background of culture and family wealth, seems to be content using his doctorate in European history to do historical perspectives and analysis for Th...