Phillis Levin's much-anticipated sixth collection, An Anthology of Rain, is a stunning series of poems immersed in time while acknowledging How it is / Is not how it is / It keeps changing. Yet the fleeting presence of so much in this lyrical collection is what the reader is gifted. In poem after poem, memories are stirred to become as palpable as the present in this poet's keen imagining. Even a remembered duel of roses between friends and across languages is itself a cause for delight, as is the vision of a father returned to life to assuage the poet's grief. Light and water are the twin elements that course through these poems, whether it be the [b]lighted light of a leaf turning inearly fall, or the orb of light (a water droplet caught in her father's hair) that entranced the poet as an infant, or the drop of rain in the brilliant title poem, An Anthology of Rain that invites the reader to follow its movement and receive the rain that receives you. Such a spirit of reciprocity between poet and reader animates this collection and is a poignant reminder of what the best poems offer: that thrilling sense of immediacy even in the face of flux.

Brutal Companion is a haunting and visceral collection of poems that explores themes of identity, sexuality, loss, and personal transformation. Drawing from his own experiences as a gay man, the poet delves unflinchingly into memories of desire, trauma, and self-discovery against the backdrop of an often unforgiving world. From intimate encounters and dreamlike visions to searing societal critiques, the poems paint a complex portrait of navigating life at the margins. With lyrical intensity and vivid imagery, the collection probes the brutality and beauty found in relationships with lovers, friends, family, and the self. In elegies to lost loved ones, the poet grapples with grief while celebrating the enduring power of human connection. Interwoven throughout are keen observations of a natural world that is at turns comforting and alien, a mirror for the poet's inner landscape. Deeply sensory and evocative, Brutal Companion is a fierce meditation on survival and a testament to poetry's ability to wrest meaning and resilience from even the darkest places.

Embark on a thrilling journey with Truman, his most daring adventure yet! In the summer of 1885, our intrepid explorer sets off to explore the unique and diverse landscape of the Olympic Wilderness.

While sailing with his parents on the foggy Pacific Ocean, a shipwreck sends Truman floating away into a new, lusciously green land. As he returns to Ma and Pa, Truman takes us through significant sites and grand vistas we know today as Olympic National Park.

This time, we follow Truman as he lands at Port Angeles and then treks to a lookout to view Mount Storm King. He explores the majestic Marymere Falls, and his daring is checked when we cross a log bridge at Sol Duc Falls. Join him as he enters the deep green vegetation of the Hoh Rainforest and wonders why the trees are so furry in the Hall of Mosses. There may even be a banana slug along the way.

Truman's journey takes an unexpected turn when a wiry army lieutenant with a bushy mustache joins him. This mysterious figure becomes crucial to Truman's adventure, helping him and his trusty horse, Jasper, find their way back to his parents.

This adventure, Truman, from oceans to forests, from high mountains to lake-filled valleys, is not to be missed.

The gruesome truth hung in the air, and none of us wanted to go near it. Not yet.

Ireland, 1848. Fourteen-year-old Rosaleen watches her mother die. Her country is reeling from the great potato famine, which will ultimately kill more than one million people. Driven by a promise and her will to survive, Rosaleen flees her small coastal town.

She eventually arrives in America at the birth of the industrial revolution and is filled with hope and a new sense of independence. Yet the more Rosaleen becomes a part of this new world, the more she longs for a community she lost and a young man she can't forget.

Through a series of both heartwarming and tragic events, Rosaleen learns that she can't outrun the problems that come along with being Irish. And maybe, she doesn't want to.

In the summer of 1882, our brave explorer Truman sets off on his most thrilling adventure yet. All aboard a train heading west, we join Truman as he journeys to a place that many say doesn't exist. Folktales and legends tell of a canyon that is a mile deep and ever so wide. Misfortune soon meets Truman as he finds himself, and his trusty horse Jasper, lost and all alone in a dry and rugged wilderness. As he makes his way back to Ma and Pa, Truman takes us through the major sites, and eye-popping vistas, of Grand Canyon National Park.

This time, we ride the swift-moving current on a raft through Hance Rapids, see the jaw-dropping Ooh Aah Point, become amazed by Bright Angel Canyon, look up at the Granite Gorge, meet a one-armed explorer at Powell Plateau, and pass through Keyhole Natural Bridge.

From trains, to wagons, to mine cars, and rafts, Truman's thirst for adventure is truly as grand as the canyon itself.

The Mouth Is Also a Compass is a dystopian expedition that holds space for hope. An environmental disaster forces one woman to set out on a solitary expedition to find the Last Ice Age. During her journey, the speaker experiences both calamity and conciliation as she begins to understand the scope of her responsibility to the natural world. How do we create our own ecology of survival in an increasingly unpredictable climate? How can we cause less harm to the environment and animals we share the air, land, and water with? These poems explore our ethical duty to protect by subverting the traditional exploration narrative in which the explorer discovers/conquers/exploits with a feminist ecopoetic perspective that emphasizes consciousness and care.

Their silent disgust failed to affect me anymore. But this was not silent. This was loud and forceful and violent. I could not ignore it.

Massachusetts, 1854. The anti-foreigner American Party, better known as the Know-Nothings, take power throughout the state. The city of Lowell elects Leonard Ward, a member of the party, as its mayor. Suddenly the Know-Nothings are everywhere. And they're going after the Irish.

Rosaleen is ready to fight back. Emboldened by strange conspiracies about the Catholic Church, violent mobs and corrupt government officials are making life nearly unbearable for her people. Lowell's newly formed police department is committed to ridding the streets of Irish filth, beating and arresting anyone who crosses them. When Rosaleen uncovers a horrific truth, it will test her in ways she could never have imagined.

Targeted by dangerous opposition, she needs help. But are her friends as loyal as she believes?

In the summer of 1882, our brave explorer Truman sets off on his most thrilling adventure yet. All aboard a train heading west, we join Truman as he journeys to a place that many say doesn't exist. Folktales and legends tell of a canyon that is a mile deep and ever so wide. Misfortune soon meets Truman as he finds himself, and his trusty horse Jasper, lost and all alone in a dry and rugged wilderness. As he makes his way back to Ma and Pa, Truman takes us through the major sites, and eye-popping vistas, of Grand Canyon National Park.

This time, we ride the swift-moving current on a raft through Hance Rapids, see the jaw-dropping Ooh Aah Point, become amazed by Bright Angel Canyon, look up at the Granite Gorge, meet a one-armed explorer at Powell Plateau, and pass through Keyhole Natural Bridge.

From trains, to wagons, to mine cars, and rafts, Truman's thirst for adventure is truly as grand as the canyon itself.

It's 1883, and a brave adventurer named Truman sets out to find a treasure beyond his wildest imaginations. Guided by a map, Truman, along with Pa, Ma, and his horse Jasper, quickly find themselves in the High Country of the Sierra Nevadas. In this thrilling tale, Truman enters to a strange place with giant trees, and deep canyons carved out by glaciers, and learns a lifelong lesson that he'll never forget. Truman's adventure takes us through what we know today as Yosemite National Park, and gives us a front row seat to all the views know and love today.

Truman's stops along the way include the towering El Capitan, the eye-popping Glacier Point, the giant trees of Mariposa Grove, the gorgeous Yosemite Valley itself, captivating Waterfalls, and much much more.

Hang on tight for High adventure in the High Country, with a boy whose truly living a wild man's dream.

Rainfall throughout history has represented both rebirth and cleansing through the cyclical processes to create the best form of a being. The idea of how rain comes and goes is the root of this work. In life, there are critical teaching points that etch out who the person truly is or becomes. I have intentionally embraced the challenges of speaking on topics facing people of color that are often hidden and not expressed by cis heterosexual Black males.

After the Rain Falls, chronicles the issues of my life and community from: depression, suicide, marriage, divorce, being a black educator, love, redemption, fatherhood, overcoming phobias and a plethora of barbershop talk issues through a combination of original poems and essays to spark dialogue for the revitalization and education of our

communities.

A highly original vision, voice, concept, style, language and image all working together to produce a world inside our world. Filled with fire and violence, mystery and magic, the loneliness of laundromats, rented houses, suicide, cornfields, hunger, and ultimately a naked raw survival, 'charred walls pulled back from the frame.'--Dorianne Laux

The genius of Jessica Cuello's LIAR is signaled by the (mis)spellings. Spelling, capitaliza-tion, and punctuation were not standardized until the eighteenth century, the era of printers and profit. These poems remind us that children, before they are indoctrinated into a world of correctness and pecuniary value, absorb the raw emotions swirling around them. Children hear truth even as they are told to spell it differently. The trauma of that disparity is conveyed in these poems. LIAR carries the reader into the world of a child for whom 'love is the sideswipe in the hall.'--Natasha Sajé

In her gutting LIAR, Jessica Cuello, a master of the persona poem, flings off the mask to bare and bear remembered and imagined pasts. Writing often from the point of view of a child, Cuello's intricate and spellbinding poems take us on a journey of hunger and house burnings, lost fathers and distant mothers, laundromats and lust--girls longing to wear something other than shame, to claim and hold themselves in welcoming arms. 'Uncross, ' she writes, 'Let your chest see.' Through poem after poem, she uncrosses, she welcomes them.--Philip Metres

Poetry.

Let's take a trip to 1881 where wild tales of New Land Discovered with Yellowstone stirs adventure inside a young boy with an even wilder heart, Truman. One snowy day, while hunting with his Pa, Truman (along with his horse Jasper) discover they are lost in the rugged Yellowstone wilderness.

His misfortune takes us on a thrilling journey through all of the famous sites of the Yellowstone National Park we all know and love today.

We know them today as the stops and pull offs of Yellowstone National Park, but Truman had no sign, no map, no Park Ranger guide. His stops include the eye-popping Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, the stunning Soda Butte Creek along the Lamar Valley, then the sparkly pools of Mammoth Hot Springs, the colorful Grand Prismatic Springs, and finally Old Faithful.

There may be bumps along the way, and maybe a mountain lion, but Truman's quest for adventure can't be tamed.

Inspired by the true life tale of Truman C. Everts, who got lost in a Discovery Expedition of the wilderness that became Yellowstone National Park. His thrilling, first hand account, Thirty-Seven Days of Peril was written for Scribner's Monthly in 1871.

No one likes a spoiled brat.

Do you stress or get discouraged when things don't go as planned? Your happiness and self-worth should not be based on circumstances. God called us for so much more and we can tap into it by just trusting Him and being true to our purpose. The Fierce and Fearless Guidebook used alongside the companion book will not only challenge you to focus on who you are in Christ, but also to recognize the importance of influence and sisterhood. This guidebook with thought provoking practical sessions will aid in private and group discussions fostering relationships, prayer, and actionable steps for personal growth. Instead of stress and discouragement, you will be empowered to be authentic and unapologetically fierce and fearless.

From Charles Ategbole comes a children's story about a boy named Chase, who tours his parents (HBCU) Historical Black College University. Was able to learn so much history about his culture and realize he is surrounded by people that look like him who are about to change the world. Even though he is still a child he can't wait for the day he can attend an HBCU.

Follow Evan and Fin on their dream adventure through Candy City - the sweetest place you've ever seen!

Evan and his best friend, Fin the raccoon, love going on adventures together as well as eating candy. Well, why not combine the two and go on the sweetest adventure imaginable?

Every time Evan and Fin take a nap, they visit the incredibly delicious dreamland of Candy City. Get your tastebuds ready as you experience a world of cotton candy skies, candy cane trees, and chocolate bar streets. This is one dream you won't want to wake up from!

Sweet Dreams is a charming and colorful kid's picture book about friendship, adventure, and fun. Children aged 1-6 will love the bright illustrations and easy-to-read story, which make this book perfect for storytime or nighttime reading.

So, what are you waiting for? Click Buy now and join Evan and Fin today on their magical and sweet adventure through Candy City!