After almost sixty years, author Max Roytenberg was fortunate enough to reclaim his rst love. He has been living ever since in a state of lover's delirium. His new poetry collection, Love for Life, mirrors some of his experiences. He believes he is living the ultimate escapist dream, having survived long enough, with all his faculties, to appreciate the opportunity he has been given to escape from his former life, with the love of his life, to live on a storied isle. His is a love story extended over a lifetime. The poems in this collection offer a selection of those that have been written by Roytenberg over a period of fifty years, but the majority has been written during his sojourn in Ireland. Roytenberg has focused on the adventures of life, its triumphs and tragedies. Love has many faces, mirrored in the multiple meanings of the title-love of partners, of self, of children, parents, teachers, nature, love of life itself. Roytenberg communicates hoping that the readers will find their own meanings in his words.

Goodreads Most Anticipated Horror of 2024 | Goodreads Most Anticipated books in May | She Reads Most Anticipated Horror | Polygon Must-Read books of 2024 | Novel Suspects Most anticipated novels 2024 "Dark and decadent, with the haunting allure of a true gothic tale, My Darling Dreadful Thing is a sensation that horrifies as acutely as it delights. Johanna Van Veen is a force to be reckoned with and will stain your thoughts a brilliant shade of crimson." — Rachel Gillig, New York Times bestselling author of One Dark Window Spirits are drawn to salt, be it blood or tears. Roos Beckman has a spirit companion only she can see. Ruth—strange, corpse-like, and dead for centuries—is the light of Roos' life. That is, until the wealthy young widow Agnes Knoop visits one of Roos' backroom seances, and the two strike up a connection. Soon, Roos is whisked away to the crumbling estate Agnes inherited upon the death of her husband, where an ill woman haunts the halls, strange smells drift through the air at night, and mysterious stone statues reside in the family chapel. Something dreadful festers in the manor, but still, the attraction between Roos and Agnes is undeniable. Then, someone is murdered. Poor, alone, and with a history of 'hysterics', Roos is the obvious culprit. With her sanity and innocence in question, she'll have to prove who—or what—is at fault or lose everything she holds dear. "A Sapphic séance of preternatural proportions, My Darling Dreadful Thing summons a stunning new literary voice to be reckoned with. Johanna van Veen reaches beyond the veil to conjure up a gothic shocker like no other." — Clay McLeod Chapman, author of What Kind of Mother and Ghost Eaters

DigiCat presents to you this meticulously edited collection. Content: Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare (Play) Romeo & Juliet (Prose Version) Evelina (Fanny Burney) Camilla (Fanny Burney) Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen) Mansfield Park (Jane Austen) Emma (Jane Austen) Persuasion (Jane Austen) The Sorrows of Young Werther (Goethe) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) Villette (Charlotte Brontë) Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Anne Brontë) The Red and the Black (Stendhal) Lorna Doone (R.D. Blackmore) Dangerous Liaisons (Pierre Choderlos de Laclos) The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James) The Wings of the Dove (Henry James) Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne) Adam Bede (George Eliot) Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) Far from the Madding Crowd (Thomas Hardy) Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy) North and South (Elizabeth Gaskell) Wives and Daughters (Elizabeth Gaskell) The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton) Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) An Old-Fashioned Girl (Louisa May Alcott) The Lady of the Camellias (Alexandre Dumas) The House of a Thousand Candles (Meredith Nicholson) Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) The Phantom of the Opera (Gaston Leroux) A Room with a View (E. M. Forster) The Beautiful and Damned (F. Scott Fitzgerald) Jennie Gerhardt (Theodore Dreiser) Ann Veronica (H. G. Wells) The Enchanted Barn (Grace Livingston Hill) The Girl from Montana (Grace Livingston Hill) The Miranda Trilogy (Grace Livingston Hill) Marcia Schuyler Phoebe Deane Miranda The Agony Column (Earl DerrBiggers) The Bride of Lammermoor (Walter Scott) Night and Day (Virginia Woolf) Affairs of State (Burton Egbert Stevenson) Jill the Reckless (P.G. Wodehouse) The Black Moth (Georgette Heyer) The Transformation of Philip Jettan (Georgette Heyer) And Both Were Young (Madeleine L'Engle) Penny Plain (O. Douglas) The Awakening (Kate Chopin)

This book is about Faith, a woman who had children when she was young and unmarried. Because of where and when she was born, young unmarried women with children were often ostracized and their chances of achieving a high school education, not to mention, college education were very slim. While a woman in her situation only hope was marrying a man, who would take care of her and her children, she took a different approach. Steadily and with a determined mind, she cultivated her independence, inch by inch towards her passion for learning. She believed a good education would give her the leverage to shield herself from marriage as her only option to living. Against all odds and hardships that she experienced from early teenage years to young adulthood, she ultimately migrated from Liberia to the United States, went to school, and eventually earned advanced degrees. Her education dramatically improved her quality of life and boosted her self-confidence and self-worth. Faith is a model for young single mothers and fathers, who are often overlooked and denigrated by society, simply because they had children out of wedlock. With determination and strong faith in God, while pursuing aims and aspirations, their dreams can also become realities.