Kategoria BISAC: Literary Collections >> American - General

Has life interfered with living your dreams, whatever they may be? If so, come along and use your imagination to feel what it's like to stumble along behind a raging waterfall in a country without OSHA, to soar over the desolate wasteland of Siberia, the Alps and the Himalayas. Gaze in wonder at a seven-pound flawless emerald, feel a different kind of awe when a four-foot sting ray slides silkily across your back and laugh as you play with a baby manatee. Sail the seas on the Tall Ships from the comfort of your chair. One day, life will get out of the way and you can follow your dreams, too....

Was murder planned for a vacation on the island of Capri? Will a hunter's longing for his love be realized? What does the dark world of death look like? What is an easy non-medical remedy for nightmares?

The author resolves these and other intriguing questions in this collection of poetry and prose. Readers will go to Tahiti on a sailboat with an intrepid young woman who dares to travel alone with a strange man. And they will cross the Yellow Sea with a lonely man who reads Chinese philosophy.

They will find sexuality in "Gone to Hell," sad moments in "Pit of Pain" and happy hours in...

Unearthed from the bizarre and often visited but rarely (if ever) understood landscape between love and loss, life and death, "Relic of a Heart" reveals itself to readers as a small collection of poems, short stories, random thoughts with images of etchings, drawings, and salt prints.

Upon closer inspection of this relic, one will find emotionally charged characters living through scenarios far from mundane and describing experiences surreal and dreamlike. A young woman steals milk from her neighbor's porch daily and notices, on each following morning, that the house has grown bigger for...

Have you ever been to a race involving plastic pink flamingos? Here is your chance to be there, pulling for your favorite: the pink one.

Or maybe you would like to go on a train ride with a lonely college professor, listening in as he meets the woman of his dreams.

How about going along with a young man as he tries to outrun a nightmare that's following close behind him, showing up at every stop he makes?

Steven B. Pavelsky has included these adventures "Racing Plastic Pink Flamingos," an anthology full of short stories, poetry and the complete stage play "Writer's Cafe" one of the...

"The Communignostica" is a devastatingly beautiful work of literature composed of various poems, short stories, and penetrating dialogue. This book expresses a vast array of human emotions, from the profoundly traumatic to the highly enlightened. These unique writings weave a bizarre episodic tale of unconditional love and its overwhelming ability to shine through even the most tragic of souls.

Dream your dreams are a collection of poems, quotations, and inspirations. It contains my writings for the past ten years. These writings are from my own life experiences, feelings, and emotions. A few of the experiences depicted in my writings were written about my friends' experiences. I hope this book will give you insight and inspiration to your life. Writing this book and getting it published has been a life long dream of mine.

I gave birth to my son three months premature. My husband and I have experienced many of the expected difficulties common with premature births. I am currently...

"Four Years to Life" features the collected works of nearly forty Creative Writing students, and several student artists--all of whom make their home at West Scranton High School, in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

"Four Years to Life" marks the second published collection of writing by West Scranton High School's Creative Writing class, and reflects over two years of student effort. In an age where young adults often receive criticism for their lack of interest in school, "Four Years to Life" responds with a vibrant punch, dispelling the myth that students have nothing to say.

These students...

"The Land That Gives and Takes Away offers a portrait of Central Pennsylvania's Little Pine Valley through poetry and prose. Drawing on her own memories and observations as well as the reflections of others, Erin McCarty seeks to honor her rich heritage and share with others the beauty of the valley where her grandmother grew up which now serves as the location for her yearly family reunions.

Over the course of the collection, McCarty introduces eclectic family members, lush landscapes, and unusual incidents with a mix of solemn reflection and light-hearted whimsy. Read about secretly...

Through prose and monologues Bradley Panic provides a youthful reflection on middle and lower class society as seen through his eyes of 19 years. "25 K Later" is a journey through dream reflections, criminals, anger, depression, the broken hearted, the youth, the homeless, and is concluded with "25 K Later," the journals of a fictitious college student named Ben Wilkner.

""I left a town full of friends. A town of innocence, a town of easy living and lively shops. A town free of pollution and drugs, where you drank lemonade every summer afternoon. Doors were left unlocked and neighbors helped neighbors. That was my hometown, Willows, California 1956.""

Shari returns to her hometown to find herself a stranger, an outcast. Walk with her as her moccasins lead her down the back streets of her childhood.

Shari found her Native American Heritage through a grandmother she never knew. She searched for a reason why her grandfather had left his two small sons in...

In "Learning to Live," Douglas Palermo takes us on his personal journey for meaning, purpose, and enlightenment in an otherwise meaningless, fragmented, post-modern world. Through his personal writings (short stories, essays, articles, poems, etc.) we follow Doug from being an 8th grade student all the way to being a teacher of 8th grade students--covering over twelve years in the process. We see Doug the high school student developing his writing skills and using them for fun and humor in the classroom and on the internet. We see Doug the college student using his writing to tackle issues of...

"Gratuitous Serendipity" is an intriguing compilation of actual accounts of events in one man's life that both changed his life and changed the world (just a little). "Gratuitous Serendipity" will leave you wondering, just how much each of us play in the role of creating and influencing history. Some stories just take a different look at the world around us, and how information can be put together in a slightly way. Often, just by looking at something different, the same data can produce significantly results. "Gratuitous Serendipity" is about being in the right place at the right time, and...

In the summer of 2003, teachers from the greater Detroit area came together to share their knowledge, experience, and creative expression in Language Arts and instruction, with an emphasis on writing, as fellows of the Meadow Brook Writing Project. "In the Company of Writers 2003" is the anthology resulting from that collaboration. All participants, from elementary through college, returned to their classrooms in the fall, inspired and ready to pass that inspiration on to their students.

In the fall of 1960, during a three-month visit to Hungary, Arthur Kahn unsuccessfully asked his hosts to arrange a meeting with Gyorgy Lukacs, a persona non grata to the Communist regime. Kahn arranged to meet Lukacs on his own and proposed translating some Lukacs essays never before appearing in English. During the three years Kahn worked on the translations, he and Lukacs engaged in a voluminous correspondence, investigating Marxism as it applied to contemporary events like the Vietnam war. Extracts from this correspondence will be included in a forthcoming volume of Kahns' autobiography,...

As Dennis Patrick Slattery's writing shows, the very stuff of the great traditions is life itself, and the hurly-burly of current culture is the ground in which tradition thrives. Slattery's analyses are keen and thoughtful, often scholarly, and always deeply spiritual. But they are better for being a bit pugnacious and intimate and virile. They give evidence of a life lived in earnest, one in which nothing is walled off into a category but all enters into the whole that is the mysterious grounding of the person. Foreword by Louise Cowan, Author of "The Fugitive Group" Series Editor: "The...

Several biographies of Douglas Fairbanks have been published through the years, but who can tell the story better than the man himself? The Douglas Fairbanks Museum has assembled an engaging collection of the writings of Douglas Fairbanks with "In His Own Words." These selected stories make for a fascinating read; especially considering that most of them have not been seen since their initial publication nearly a century ago. Starting with his first short story in 1912, this new book features autobiographical accounts, interviews, and rare personal correspondence, as well as the original...

A collection of stories and poems by twelve creative writers, "Freefalling-Writing Without Limits" is also a permission-giving book about the writing process. Since many readers may also be potential writers, they can find inspiration here. Authors share powerful pieces of creative nonfiction, memoir, fiction and poetry, and themes encompass personal experiences that become universal.

Using their own works as examples, each of the writers and editor, Margo LaGattuta, MFA, suggest writing prompts and offer craft suggestions for beginning or more advanced writers. LaGattuta, winner of the...

This book is a collection of stories based on the author's childhood in South Florida and on his adult family life and career as a forester in Georgia. The author uses his stories to entertain his readers and to teach some of life's important lessons.