What really is life about? Well this book sure will not answer you that question but yes it's a valid one. But who am I to know. There is so much, so many different lives, lifestyles or fates. This is exactly everything that is in this book. Suicide to butterflies. We all see the world different, have individual battles to fight. Maya, Chris or Amanda all have different lives and just one thing in common: All of their stories deserve to be told.

Dear Reader, I, the book you are looking at right now, might be your nemesis. This is the case if your shell is the hiding place of a hollow soul. A soul incapable of enjoying the little things in life, incapable of understanding the variety of thoughts and emotions the poems written on my pages might evoke. But even then we can change our relationship for the better. If you are willing to let me guide you, so you can explore something new and think about a thing or two you've never thought about before. "Nemesis of hollow souls", ein Poetry-Buch gefüllt mit leichten, tiefgründigen, positiven und negativen Gedanken. Gefüllt mit einem Blick auf die Welt und ins eigene Innere, sowie eigenen Illustrationen. Gefüllt mit bilingualer Poesie, da sich Poesie und die Kunst im Allgemeinen nicht von Sprache aufhalten lässt.

"I want to be weightless. To finally be rid of the hidden heaviness," ResA notes in her diary. Her heart's desire is to offer her two daughters the protection and security in her home that she was denied in her own childhood. However, her plans to spend her life with her two children and her beloved husband falter several times. The challenges that arise often seem insurmountable. ResA fights through her entire life with iron discipline and as an invisible butterfly. But she first has to find the answer to the question of whether the hardships are worth it.

The long-awaited biography of John Kennedy Toole ("A Confederacy of Dunces"), whose fascinating life and tragic death is one of the most amazing publishingstories in American literature.

“An artful exercise in melancholy…Every reader will love openhearted Will.” —Booklist (starred review) “Haunting, introspective.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Emotionally raw…[A] piercing narrative.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “McGhee artfully illustrates the tangled web wherein grief intertwines with the mundane.” —BCCB After his dad dies of suicide, Will tries to overcome his own misery by secretly helping the people around him in this exquisitely crafted story made up of one hundred chapters of one hundred words each, by award-winning and bestselling author Alison McGhee. Sixteen-year-old Will spends most of his days the same way: Working at the Dollar Only store, trying to replicate his late father’s famous cornbread recipe, and walking the streets of Los Angeles. Will started walking after his father committed suicide, and three years later he hasn’t stopped. But there are some places Will can’t walk by: The blessings store with the chest of 100 Chinese blessings in the back, the bridge on Fourth Street where his father died, and his childhood friend Playa’s house. When Will learns Playa was raped at a party—a party he was at, where he saw Playa, and where he believes he could have stopped the worst from happening if he hadn’t left early—it spurs Will to stop being complacent in his own sadness and do some good in the world. He begins to leave small gifts for everyone in his life, from Superman the homeless guy he passes on his way to work, to the Little Butterfly Dude he walks by on the way home, to Playa herself. And it is through those acts of kindness that Will is finally able to push past his own trauma and truly begin to live his life again. Oh, and discover the truth about that cornbread.

The 15th in a series drawn from scholarship presented at the annual Comparative Drama Conference at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, this collection provides insights into texts and practices currently at the forefront of theatrical discussion. The volume includes various essays on the intersections of script and performance, and features an exclusive interview with keynote speaker, playwright Simon Stephens.

Tor Ulven is one of the most renowned Norwegian authors of the twentieth century, beginning his career writing poetry and ending it with unclassifiable explorations of the possibilities of prose, reminiscent of writers such as Ingeborg Bachmann and Peter Handke. Replacement, his only novel, published two years before Ulven's suicide, is a miniature symphony, wherein the perspectives of unrelated characters are united into what seems a single narrative voice: each personality, directing the book in turn; each replacing its predecessor and forming another link in a chain leading nowhere. These people reminisce, reflect, observe, and talk to themselves; each stuck in their respective traps, each dreaming of escape. A masterpiece of compression and confession, Replacement dramatizes the tension between the concrete realities we think we cannot alter, and our interior lives, where we feel anything might still be possible.