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A Belletrist Book Club Pick When Nick Beron and Hannah Rampe decide to move from New York City to the tiny upstate town of Hibernia, they’re in desperate need of a change: their careers have flatlined, the city is exhausting, and they’ve reached a relationship stalemate. So Hannah accepts a job as live-in director of the Wright Historic House, a museum dedicated to an obscure nineteenth-century philosopher whose life was marred by tragedy. At first, life in this old, creaky house feels cozy. Nick and Hannah explore the deserted museum at night, wandering the twisting halls and sneakily trying out the former owners’ original master bed. But as summer turns to fall, Hannah begins to have trouble sleeping; reluctantly, she tells Nick she’s hearing whispers in the night. Then one morning, Nick wakes up to find Hannah gone. In his frantic search for her, Nick will discover the hidden legacy of Wright House: a man driven wild with grief, and a spirit aching for home.

By turns hilarious and heartfelt, dark and illuminative, Ben Marcus’s Leaving the Sea is a ground breaking collection of stories from one of the single most vital, extraordinary, and unique writers of his generation. In the heartfelt “I Can Say Many Nice Things,” a washed-up writer toying with infidelity leads a creative writing workshop on board a cruise ship. In the dystopian “Rollingwood,” a divorced father struggles to take care of his ill infant, as his ex-wife and colleagues try to render him irrelevant. In “Watching Mysteries with My Mother,” a son meditates on his mother’s mortality, hoping to stave off her death for as long as he sits by her side. And in the title story, told in a single breathtaking sentence, we watch as the narrator’s marriage and his sanity unravel, drawing him to the brink of suicide. Surreal and tender, terrifying and life-affirming, Leaving the Sea is the work of an utterly unique writer at the height of his powers.

Updated Kindle version with fully active page and web links. 2010 Edition. Divided by area, this sleek little city guide to Manhattan covers landmarks, museums, and other highlights, plus places to eat, drink, shop, and stay, with extra coverage of ''Top Picks'' attractions. Numbered entries in the text are keyed to area maps in each chapter. ''Top Picks'' direct you to not-to-be-missed attractions. Spot illustrations throughout liven the text. 9 easy-to-use maps.

Discover the best things to see and do in New York, with extra details on "Top Picks" attractions, places to eat, drink, shop, and sleep, where to take the kids - the whole shebang! Divided by area, this easy-to-use guide to Manhattan offers color-coded, numbered entries keyed to helpful fold-out maps. 234 pages, 9 fold-out maps.

Slow Food is dedicated to: - stewardship of the land and ecologically sound food production- revival of the kitchen and the table as centers of pleasure, culture, and community- invigoration and proliferation of regional, seasonal culinary traditions- living a slower and more harmonious rhythm of life

Night Poems takes on the seasons at every hour of the dark. There's a subtle energy, bordering malaise and mystery that comes to life. Don't miss the peculiar observations or the striking truths as the clock winds down.

Explore free-verse haiku like never before as Haiku in the Night takes you on an unforgettable emotional journey.

This combined poetic anthology embraces free thinking of the untapped mind and spirit. A vast array of talented emerging poets from around the globe share their voices together in harmony. Only by glaring into the depths of ones own reflection can we find our true selves. It is here where the mirrored voices of our souls speak and can be heard.

Do you trust what you see? Right becomes left. Up becomes down. Distorted, unreal. Your world looks new when you see its... REFLECTIONS

Life brings Splinters.Some go deep. Some scratch the surface finding reasons to belong inside us.Splinters explores the teenage experience through poetry.

Book's by Ben Ditmars

Inhale the Night

Inhale the Night

The Ghost Notebooks

The Ghost Notebooks

Leaving the Sea

Leaving the Sea

Little Black Book of New York 2010 Edition

Little Black Book of New York 2010 Edition

Little Black Book of New York

Little Black Book of New York

The Slow Food Guide to New York City

The Slow Food Guide to New York City

Night Poems

Night Poems

Haiku in the Night

Haiku in the Night

Mirrored Voices

Mirrored Voices

Reflections

Reflections

Splinters

Splinters

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