This is a book about love, loneliness, and solitude. The overall theme of this collection of poetry is a search for something elusive. It's a search for that person or place we've all dreamt of at some time in our life. Accompanied with haunting images, it will no doubt reach out and touch a feeling in every reader.

: Poetry is so important because it helps us understand and appreciate the world around us. Poetry's strength lies in its ability to shed a “sideways” light on the world, so the truth sneaks up on us. Many of us feel angry, frustrated, sad, or fearful from time to time. However, because these feelings are unpleasant, we often keep them locked up inside of us. Writing and reading poetry help us let these feelings out and also better understand them. It is a form of writing that uses words to create a picture, sound, or feeling. Poetry has its own sound, form, image, and rhythm; therefore, qualifying it as a form of art. Poetry is great at asking questions, at destabilising and making us look at things in a different way, incorporating a diversity of voices of ways of thinking. That's what poetry is for. So it's a very powerful medium for diverse voices to speak and for other people to then listen to those voices. Poetry also called verse is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language. A poet is the conveyer of peace and happiness bringing the mirror of the society along with the replica of the reality and continues to wash the cloudy minds. The people are given the opportunities to be unblemished sharpeners. Like a coin, everyone passes through both sides and the game of day and night moves in a circle and teaches the ultimate reality of life. Sometimes a stumbled man blames the hardness of the road without caring for himself. When he understands his own absent mindedness; thinks the futurity of a mighty tree from the root to the leaf and collects the limitless soothsaying. This deep thoughtfulness pulls him to an artistic world for drawing the lines of literature. The wonderful assimilation “AURORA” is an art of poetic composition of 135 poems. This is a collection of emotional expressions glistened in an inked bouquet. The recitation floats on the reality of life, the psalm of revelation and the eulogy of love for the whole universe.

A brutal murder in Savannah, two more in Charleston, another three in Charlotte, all have two things in common, body organs missing and a mystic symbol over the young girls neatly sutured wounds. Charlotte, NC police department drags forensic psychologist, Nick Riley from his lecture circuit to assist in finding the killer. Haunted by his failure to find the killer years earlier when the first victim surfaced in Savanna, now has five more failures to torment him. It becomes even more personal when one of the victims is the wife of his best friend. Smelling a major story, newspaper reporter Lane McBride, bull noses her way into the investigation. The stronger the scent, the more reckless she becomes in her search for a scoop. What she finds is more than she bargained for.

The opportunity here offered [Footnote: By the appearance in England several years ago of an edition of the author's writings as then collected.] to give some account of the genesis of these Californian sketches, and the conditions under which they were conceived, is peculiarly tempting to an author who has been obliged to retain a decent professional reticence under a cloud of ingenious surmise, theory, and misinterpretation. He very gladly seizes this opportunity to establish the chronology of the sketches, and incidentally to show that what are considered the "happy accidents" of literature are very apt to be the results of quite logical and often prosaic processes. The author's first volume was published in 1865 in a thin book of verse, containing, besides the titular poem, "The Lost Galleon," various patriotic contributions to the lyrics of the Civil War, then raging, and certain better known humorous pieces, which have been hitherto interspersed with his later poems in separate volumes, but are now restored to their former companionship. This was followed in 1867 by "The Condensed Novels," originally contributed to the "San Francisco Californian," a journal then edited by the author, and a number of local sketches entitled "Bohemian Papers," making a single not very plethoric volume, the author's first book of prose. But he deems it worthy of consideration that during this period, i.e. from 1862 to 1866, he produced "The Society upon the Stanislaus" and "The Story of M'liss,"—the first a dialectical poem, the second a Californian romance,—his first efforts toward indicating a peculiarly characteristic Western American literature. He would like to offer these facts as evidence of his very early, half-boyish but very enthusiastic belief in such a possibility,—a belief which never deserted him, and which, a few years later, from the better-known pages of "The Overland Monthly," he was able to demonstrate to a larger and more cosmopolitan audience in the story of "The Luck of Roaring Camp" and the poem of the "Heathen Chinee." But it was one of the anomalies of the very condition of life that he worked amidst, and endeavored to portray, that these first efforts were rewarded by very little success; and, as he will presently show, even "The Luck of Roaring Camp" depended for its recognition in California upon its success elsewhere. Hence the critical reader will observe that the bulk of these earlier efforts, as shown in the first two volumes, were marked by very little flavor of the soil, but were addressed to an audience half foreign in their sympathies, and still imbued with Eastern or New England habits and literary traditions. "Home" was still potent with these voluntary exiles in their moments of relaxation. Eastern magazines and current Eastern literature formed their literary recreation, and the sale of the better class of periodicals was singularly great. Nor was the taste confined to American literature. The illustrated and satirical English journals were as frequently seen in California as in Massachusetts; and the author records that he has experienced more difficulty in procuring a copy of "Punch" in an English provincial town than was his fortune at "Red Dog" or "One-Horse Gulch." An audience thus liberally equipped and familiar with the best modern writers was naturally critical and exacting, and no one appreciates more than he does the salutary effects of this severe discipline upon his earlier efforts.

Stay quiet Don’t leave tracks Don’t ask the wrong questions… When Sarah goes missing Cage and Joule know they have to do everything to find her. But in the tiny town of El Indio, no one wants to answer their questions, and everyone is hiding something. Sarah went missing in the desert at midnight… but what was she even doing there? And why are there tracks that lead to and from the last place she was seen. The twins will have to find her without falling prey themselves. And nothing in the desert after dark is as it seems. The world won't let them rest. Cage and Joule are back in the fray. Is Sarah even still alive? Humans may be the worst disaster yet. The Taken is the fifth book in the fast-paced Black Carbon apocalyptic thriller series by USA Today bestselling author A.J. Scudiere. While this book can be read as a standalone, the Black Carbon series is a must-read for fans of resourceful heroes and impossible odds.

The apocalypse is now! Lights out. Keep still. Pray for morning. With the world changing right in front of them, the Mazur family will have to fight just to stay alive. Everything will be put to the test as the animals mutate, the waters rise, and the weather gets unspeakably worse… THE HUNTED - Joule and Cage Mazur know something is stalking the streets at night and their family’s only protection is bolting the door and embracing the darkness. But their locks won’t hold forever… THE SURFACE - When the rains came the first time and campus flooded, Cage thought it was a freak weather incident. Joule saw it for what it was—a warning. THE TEMPEST - The first tornado was an anomaly. But as everyone rushes to set up the new solar farm, they find that the winds have shifted and no one is safe. THE SWARM – When their tour guide slaps at a bug then drops dead, Cage and Joule will have to figure out why… before they are next. THE TAKEN – Cage and Joule are back in the fray when their best friend is reported missing. Is Sarah even still alive? Humans may be the worst disaster yet. THE NIGHT - When Joule saw the shadows, she knew: the Night Hunters were back. But you can’t escape the enemy you can’t identify. This box set contains 6 full novels from USA Today Bestselling Author A.J. Scudiere. Stay quiet. Follow the tracks. Fight back. Dive into the battle now with the Mazurs and the new family they’ve built. Will you survive?

A loss--whether it be of a loved one, a career, or anything else of importance--shapes the rest of a person's life. It leaves a void that can never really be filled. But there are healthy ways to deal with that loss--ways that permit life to go on and even be strengthened. Yeagley teaches us to say goodbye to those things we have lost. Dealing with such issues as divorce, loss of home, and the emotional pain of problems that simply will not go away, he shows how we can successfully cope with primary losses and secondary losses, or the loss of all those things in our life entwined with the primary loss. When a loved one dies or leaves, for example, we also lose all those things that we did with the individual, and we may spend the rest of our lives discovering and coping with the secondary losses. We may feel unending guilt or regret over things we wish we had or hadn't done. Yeagley also discusses the constant grief endured by caretakers such as nurses, physicians, and the families of sick and dying persons, and offers practical ways to deal with it.