This collection of poems confronts the brutal realities we often shy away from, holding a mirror to the souls darkest corners while simultaneously laying bare its most tender vulnerabilities. Each poem is a confrontation with the consequences of our actions, thoughts, and emotions and invites you to explore the delicate balance between justice and mercy, between forgetting and forgiving. Enjoy.

A portrait of five Concord, Massachusetts, writers whose works were at the center of mid-nineteenth-century American thought and literature evaluates their interconnected relationships, influence on each other's works, and complex beliefs.

Nathaniel Hawthorne's powerful tale of forbidden love, shame and revenge comes to life in this manga presentation of the classic story. When Hester Prynne bears an illegitimate child, she is introduced to the ugliness, complexity, and ultimately the strength of the human spirit. Though set in a Puritan community during the Colonial American period, the moral dilemmas of personal responsibility and consuming emotions of guilt, anger, loyalty and revenge are timeless. This beautiful manga retelling of Hawthorne's classic American novel is faithfully adapted by Crystal S. Chan and features stunning artwork by SunNeko Lee which will give old and new readers alike a fresh insight into this tragic saga of Puritan America.

Science says that our brain lets us dream to process reality and our day-to-day life. Apart from normal dreams, daydreams, and nightmares, we define multiple types of dreams. Some more memorable than others. Then, there are also those types of dreams that wakes you up with a start, heart racing, chest heaving, bathed in sweat and the sheets stuck to your skin. The dream's images seared into the surface of your brain, etched into your very soul. Have you ever thought that your brain could never be responsible for such a dream? Alice learns firsthand that those dreams can have a grave impact on the body of the dreamer. In an attempt to stop a group of people from hurting others, she learns not only how to lucid dream, but how to go a step further. Have you ever thought that one of your dreams does not feel like your own?

This one-of-a-kind resource introduces pastors and seminarians to wisdom found in literary classics that can shape their ministries today.

Award-winning Canadian writer Carol Shields has garnered praise from scholars and an international audience of readers. Inspired by the quality and scope of Shields's work, Carol Shields, Narrative Hunger, and the Possibilities of Fiction addresses her creative exploration of postmodernism. As the first thorough examination of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, this collection of essays establishes the groundwork for future studies of her oeuvre. The collection begins with a significant new essay from Shields herself, 'Narrative Hunger and the Overflowing Cupboard,' perhaps her most substantial commentary upon her own aims as a writer. In addition, scholars from Canada, England, the United States, and Australia explore the complexity of Shields's work and her contributions to the genre of the novel. These lively essays reflect Shields's verve and her playful approach to today's sophisticated critical thinking. Among the topics are Shields's use of biography and autobiography, metafiction, popular romance, and symbolism. While the essays foreground the unreliability of language, and hence our inability to know one another or even ourselves, the contributors argue that Shields has taken a step beyond postmodernism by suggesting that we can transcend the limitations of its epistemology. Containing several essays on Swann and The Stone Diaries, Shields's most popular works, and the most extensive annotated bibliography available of works by and about Shields, this collection will appeal widely to scholars, students, and readers of Carol Shields and Canadian fiction.

Spinning out of Spider-Island, The secrets of the Brand New Scarlet Spider revealed! Who is the new webbed wonder - and why has he come to face corruption in Houston, Texas? COLLECTING: SCARLET SPIDER 1-6, material from MARVEL POINT ONE