?One of our most mystical of poets, Carol Hebald?s work burns with intensity fired by myth and Biblical mysteries, reminding us that we cannot suppress or escape the power of song crying out from dreams and the poet?s iconic avatars.??David Rayauthor of One Thousand Years: Poems About the Holocaust?Carol Hebald?s poems, both beautiful and strong, display her mastery of a new form which I call ?strict wildness.? Never have I encountered a more fantastic imagination combined with a more rigorous sense of formal control.? ?Peter Viereckauthor of Tide and Continuities?Hebald?s poems are like jewels on fire?cool and precisely cut at first glance, then blazing with mystery and sparkle of awe when touched on closer reading. Her work insists on the sharing of personal revelation, which in turn leads the reader into her world of passionate and profound inquiry.??Martin Tuckereditor of Confrontation
Bald is Beautiful! Young adult and adults who love fiction will want to follow along on the tailser, tales of Baldwin the bald eagle. Hes a shy fellow, with few friends, until something unusual happens that changes his entire life. Just when he gets used to the new normal, more surprises are waiting in the wings!
Bridge Tender is the second book in the Murder by the Sea series by Carol Ann Ross. The little swing bridge that takes you to Topsail Island has been there for over half a century. It’s seen just about everything, who comes across, who goes across-with whom, at what times, and how often. It’s all normal for small-town life and small-town gossip. But as the population of the island soars, sights it’s never seen before have become commonplace. There’s been another murder and it seems that it is not only the good that die young. The nefarious events are rocking the very core of the small coastal town and thought Topsail Island may be used to sudden thunderstorms cropping up from time to time, now, when lightening of a more sinister nature strikes twice in succession, the local police detectives realize there’s more to it and the unexpected twists and turns are baffling. Meanwhile, the bridge tender keeps a watchful eye on everything.
The Secret City is a proud enclave carved in stone. Hidden high in a mountain range, it is a worn citadel protecting a lost culture. It harbors a handful of aliens stranded on Earth, waiting for rescue and running out of time. Over years of increasing poverty, an exodus to the human world has become their only chance for survival. The aliens are gradually assimilating not as a discrete culture but as a source of cheap labor. But the sudden arrival of ill-prepared rescuers will touch off divided loyalties, violent displacement, and star-crossed love. As unlikely human allies are pitted against xenophobic aliens, the stage is set for a final standoff at the Secret City.
In Georgie, Angel of Cell-Block Six, the author recounts the astonishing story of her mothers little brother, a nine-year-old child in a wheelchair, possessed of an amazing voice. Georgie sang all over St. Louis, at church and at concerts, private gatherings, in salons, and at the Cardinals games, where his counter-tenor voice filled the ball park. His success led him to an explosive situation as witness to a shooting in a lid club and his eventual role as the sole child whose testimony sent adult criminals to prison. The novel is based not only on the family story but on the St. Louis Post-Dispatchs numerous stories and front page photos of Georgie and his unusual fate.
For once, Mel is spending her vacation on her home turf—Manhattan! But she’s not alone. Miguel, the cute boy she met in Spain, is visiting New York, and this time Mel gets to be his tour guide. From the Empire State Building to the Statue of Liberty, from the Central Park Zoo to the Brooklyn Bridge, Mel and Miguel are off on their own adventures. But—uh-oh!— Mel also meets a boy in math class. And while she is learning lots about the Big Apple, she is also learning it’s harder than you think to like two guys at one time.
Ten years ago Stormy Wade survived a mothers worse nightmare, the loss of her only child. Stormy, former policewoman and wife of prominent judge Lyle Wade, discovers fourteen-year-old Melody Streeter, the only eye witness to horrific crimes, is targeted by an underworld assassin. The girl sits defenseless in a jail cell. When there appears to be no other course of action, Stormy, determined to save Melody, springs the girl and the pair become the object of a nation-wide manhunt. Stormy knew her actions would destroy the life she loves, as well as her husbands reputation. But she didnt foresee the complexity of eluding the law with a volatile contentious teen or that a diabolical serial killer would be closing in fast.
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