Literature Books

Shortlisted for the 2023 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize On his fifteenth birthday, in the summer of 1880, future science-fiction writer M.P. Shiel sailed with his father and the local bishop from their home in the Caribbean out to the nearby...

Why do we read? What do we cherish in a book? What is the nature of a masterpiece? What do Alice Munro, Albert Camus, and the great Polish experimentalist Witold Gombrowicz have in common? In the tradition of Nabokov, Calvino, and Kundera, Douglas...

Set in the 90s, alternating between the storied quads of Oxford University and the dank recesses of London pubs given over to public displays of queer BDSM, Learned chronicles poet and Rhodes Scholar Carellin Brooks' extreme explorations of mind and body...

Visceral and playful, tend reflects the intimate awkwardness of modern life. Hargreaves' latest collection explores feelings of being distanced from loved ones, physically and emotionally; striving to be better (at chores, at intimacy); and tending to...

Lorna Crozier is one of Canada's most celebrated living poets. She is an Officer of the Order of Canada, and her books have received numerous awards, including the Governor General's Literary Award for PoetryThe book celebrates the landscape of the...

The appearance of Margaret Atwood's first major collection of poetry marked the beginning of a truly outstanding career in Canadian and international letters. The voice in these poems is as witty, vulnerable, direct, and incisive as we've come to know in...

Wild, passionate and ultimately tragic: thelove story of Australia's famous literary couple, Charmian Clift and George Johnston,plays out on the idyllic Greek island of Hydra in the 1950s in this reimaginingfrom award-winning playwright Sue Smith.Weaving...

Shortlisted for the 2020 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting'Van Badham may have one of the biggest and quickest minds in Australia, but it's her her huge heart that takes the stage. Not unlike Van, Banging...

No props. No music. No costumes. Just you, your words and a mic-you've got two minutes to make the crowd scream your name.Miles Merrill, spoken word artistand founder of Australian Poetry Slam, and award-winning teacher Narcisa Nozica will take...

The little-known story of Reg Saunders, the firstIndigenous Australian to become an officer in theArmy, retold in action-packed graphic format.Reg Saunders MBE (192090) not only survived theWorld War II battlefields in the Middle East, NorthAfrica,...

bull-jean & dem/dey backcollects two performance/novels centering Sharon Bridgforth's southern-Black-butch-sheroe, bull-jean.First published by RedBone Press in 1998, the Lambda Literary Award-winningthe bull-jean storieschronicles the course of...

What does contemporary China's diverse and exciting fiction tell us about its culture, and the relationship between art and politics?The Subplot takes us on a lively journey through a literary landscape like you've never seen before: a vast...

From the acclaimed author of Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life, a book about the art of reading. In Tolstoy Together: 85 Days of War and Peace, Yiyun Li invites you to travel with her through Tolstoy's novel - and with fellow readers...

An illustrated survey of artist hoaxes, including impersonations, fabula, cryptoscience, and forgeries, researched and written by an expert "fictive-art" practitioner.In her groundbreaking book, internationally recognized multimedia artist and writer...

Car Ma is artist and musician Alison Mosshart's first printed collection of paintings, photographs, short stories, and poetry. It is a book about cars, rock n' roll, and love. It's a book about America, performance, and life on the road. It's a book...

Chris Holmes: Hidden in Chaos pairs Chris's cinematic images with the words of 18 poets of various backgrounds, adding more layers of texture and meaning to the complex but devoted relationship that London's residents and visitors have with the city's...

Trained in classical piano and Marxism and raised on jazz, gospel, pop, hip hop, and Black revolutionary politics, Pulitzer Prize finalist Eisa Davis's plays are marked by her stunning intimacy with the praxis of music alongside radical change. In...

World famous at twenty-four, brilliant and reckless, hard-living and scandalous, Stephen Crane wrote The Red Badge of Courage before he ever experienced war first-hand. So true was his portrait of a young man who runs from his first confrontation with...

Pulitzer Prize Nominated Winner of the 1993 PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award for Claudia Johnson's extraordinary efforts to restore banned literary classics from Florida classrooms. Part memoir, part courtroom drama, and part primer for advocates...

Now collected into one stunning paperback! This story, structured like a traditional twelve bar blues song, with three sections each made of four chapters, follows blues musician Lem Taylor's harrowing journey starting from juke joints he appears in to...

Federico Garca Lorca is one of Spain's foremost cultural and literary figures. In 1927, he published his masterpiece Canciones, a volume of lyrical poetry. Tobias Tak transformed twenty of these poems into a series of richly detailed and inventive comics...

Perhaps it could be said, so spirited and inspired that there comes a time and space for all the yet unwritten, fickle fragments of primrose prose. Here and now, they collide into a chaotic kaleidoscope of fanciful fantasies. Reflecting upon a personal...

This book is a personal love novel to myself. It depicts the highs and lows of discovering myself again as I get reacquainted with pieces of me forgotten or discarded as I navigated life. Learning how my inner world directly affected my outer world and...

Long-Distance Romance is the culmination of my career a a poet. There are poems from my childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. My collected works, if you will. The title group of poems tells the story of a love affair that lasted for many years between a...

We're still emerging from the darkness of quarantine and isolation. Hopefully, we can move into the light without forgetting the parts of the experience of darkness that make it now so much brighter. We also seek the light and are sometimes blinded by it...

"Ripples on an Infinite Sea" is an eclectic collection of poems written on a wide variety of subjects. From "Evolution Revolution" to "Intention Processor" to "Mathemagical" to "The Pit and the Pendulum" to "Subconscious Superconscious" to "Soul Colors"...

Joetry is a collection of hilarious poems inspired by President Joe Biden's many blunders, missteps, gaffes, and questionable decisions. His weekly escapes to Delaware, his unbelievable childhood memories, and his inability to stay upright on a bicycle...

This book is a series of sixteen poems and in between them, I have added four lines of phrases where I talk to my reader to motivate them and let them know that our journeys all begin within one self. Just the way I motivated myself and led myself to...

For the people, I've compiled a collection of poetry inspired by the muse in the moment across my life. Lyrics of love, light and life across My Family Cries and ties, spanning from childhood to adulthood. To college years when I was untamed and...

This is a city that's on the move with over 40'000'000 a year that comes to this town to party like a rock star and have a great time. But there is a dark side also to every smile

Focusing on Freedom is described the manner of living people desire in pursuit of their "American Dream", i.e., the willingness to do hard work for oneself and one's family while young and able, and to put some earnings aside to build a nest egg for...

"Footprint Memories" was written by Jennifer Keener as an inspiration to overcome life's obstacles through poetry. This book is filled with Jennifer's relatable life events and unforgettable adventures. This book is filled with unforgettable family and...

The Masquerade of a Thousand Words is a poetry and prose compilation. It journeys through real life situations: love, politics, relationships, and loss. This book is personal, it is relatable, and it reveals the truths we often don't want to face.

His imagery ranges from the striking yet familiar to the nuanced and unexpected. The boldness of his poetry belies his public reticence. Paul was clearly steeped in the literature and folklore of England and Western Europe. Paul's poetry is clearly...

Patricia Janecek and Liliya Lifanova are located in greater Syracuse, NY area. This is their first collaboration, a book of haiku and watercolors. Inspired by local American lore, the haiku narrates a year s worth of delicate, spiritual observations on...

Hesitations is a book of poetry and reflections that captures the journey of the author, Sheena Graham, as she breaks the cycle of hesitating. Her father spent his life wondering if his hesitation had cost his mom her life. The words he spoke as he lay...

"Worthless: Poems of Sadness and Reflection" covers the toughest emotions humans deal with - grief, anger, sadness, and anxiety. This volume of poetry is meant to remind the reader that they are not alone during difficult times. This book is geared...

Share My Journey has four focal points in my eyes, but it was not intended for me to dictate the readers' experience, only a narrative. It was created for the reader to explore and discover whatever situation or relationship that those particular...

While the poetry is Christian-based and this book is primarily intended for a Christian readership, people of other spiritual faiths, or no religious faith at all, will find new ways to look at what is meant by God, Jesus Christ, faith and the sacred in...

Old Beginnings New Goodbyes is a timeline of poetry spanning over a decade, filled with heartbreak, self-discovery, and life lessons. It uncovers the trials and tribulations while navigating from teenage life to adulthood, ultimately finding comfort in...

It All started with a song, and a dance, and my pants in my sock.Welcome to a world of silliness where we learn that animals wear clothes, goldfish wish to walk, Dwarves love applesauce, and that being perfectly imperfect is the only way to be.Gather...

Chris Corner as IAMX is a multi-dimensional singer songwriter, electronic producer and visual artist, with an existential drive and fascination with all things psychological.In 2013, in the midst of a world tour, Corner fell into a deep depression that...

Pretty Black's Hole, a moral fable about the impact of family history on character development, begins in the Year of the Tadpoles, when Deakie Boy, descended from a long history of deformed family character-loose character folks in his words-has just...

THE EMPTY CHAIR-SYNOPSIS Claudia YelinIn the midst of a ruthless dictatorship in Argentina, during which thousands of people are brutally killed or disappeared, the Khun family emigrates to the United States. Uncle Hugo Khun, still so very young, is...

"Don't the people who can't be saved need heroes, too?"Since Sam Carter was a child, she dreamt of becoming a real-life superhero. After experiencing the loss of her brother at a young age, Sam realized that maybe not all heroes fit the same mold. On...

Estos son Poemas Romanticos inspirados en ese TI que todas y todos tenemos y por eso son POR TI Y PARA TI.

Taut and contemplative, these poems ruminate on family, exile, love, and the vagaries of human perception.Love Training encapsulates Andrs Neuman's work as a poet, spanning two decades in a single unified collection. The book is divided into three...

Freedom House is a poetry collection that explores internal, interpersonal, and systemic freedom. In this debut full-length collection, KB Brookins' formally diverse, music-influenced poetry explores transness, politics of the body, gentrification,...