Nikkie, a twenty-two-year-old dancer performing at the Hollywood Bowl, is about to become a star. Instead, at the height of her performance, she's sent reeling by the vision of a girl and her parents being shot in a forest in 1940s Latvia. Knowing she will not be able to dance again until she solves the mystery of the vision, she and her fraternal twin Tom go on a quest to Latvia, the land of their ancestors, to uncover the secrets hidden in the trees of her vision and to find the father they've never met.
The novel is set in 2003, thirteen years after a nonviolent Singing Revolution freed Latvia from fifty years of Soviet rule. The world-famous Latvian Song and Dance Festival, the country's cultural masterpiece, is about to take place. During her search, Nikkie discovers the Latvians' mystical soul connection to nature and trees and the unifying power of their mass choir singing and dancing. She confronts how her ancestors' resilience in the face of challenge has unconsciously shaped her own life and how helping the dead of her vision would not only heal them but also heal and free her to trust life and fulfill her own dreams.

Secrets of the Trees

Literature & Fiction

Lukara, Alissa

Women's Fiction

Homestead Lighthouse Press

New book of poetry by Hawaii poet Carol Aronoff, with Foreword by Robert McDowell

The Gift of Not Finding

Aronoff, Carol

Religion & Spirituality

The second Chapbook of Poetry by Karen Poppy

Every Possible Thing

Poppy, Karen

Poetry

This inspirational collection of poems offers insight into the changing seasons of the author's diverse life inn Israel and the United States.

Riding the Waves of Bliss

Har-El, Shai

Emily & Virginia

This is a coming-of-age novel in which Emily Dickinson & Virginia Woolf return to this world and join forces to protect & assist a young woman artist, Lily, as she grows into her full power in love & work. Artfully written to appeal to adults and younger readers of serious literary fiction, the story takes place almost entirely in Ashland, Oregon and features appearances by several of the legendary Bloomsbury group, including Virginia's sister, Vanessa Bell and husband, Leonard, as well as Emily's sister Lavinia. The Mother Goddess of Ireland, Brigid, appears in an early segment. She grants Virginia's petition to return to this realm to help Lily and it is she who also decides to send Emily Dickinson with her. Readers of Emily's poems and Virginia's To the Lighthouse, which this novel structurally mirrors, will discover added delight in echoes and allusions to the lives and works of these great writers.

McDOWELL, Robert

Literary

A coming of age novel in which Emily Dickinson and Virginia Woolf return to this realm to mentor and save a young woman, Lily Ramsey, as she grows into her power.

Sweet Wolf collects selected poems from six previous volumes & new poems by Robert McDowell. McDowell, a leading poet, editor and publisher of his generation, strives for the song in the story, as critic Chad Abushanab writes in the collection's Introduction.

Sweet Wolf

United States

The poems of The Girl Who Quit at Leviticus are, like all forms of story, about sex and death: the life force and whatever is its negation or absence. They don't want to deny the regret, rage and dread of a life, but they also want to openly admit delight and joy, especially through the delectations of sound and humor. Their forebears include The Old Testament, Mark Twain, and hillbilly music, with a little Fran Lebowitz thrown in.Their means vary from very short lyrics; to nonce sonnets; to the multi-part prose poem "The Views of the Widow's Daughter," with its recurring imagery of eyes, blue, white and dark, and a direct athwart voice that moves through a life. The poems are sometimes analogues, including letter, song, list, testament and anecdote. Some are near water - creek, lake, river and ocean -- the poet came up out of Florida and Georgia. And the voice often inhabits gardens, which like poems must have both control and wildness to be beautiful. The poems may show it's possible to be irrepressible, even in a swan song.

The Girl Who Quit at Leviticus

Rhodenbaugh, Suzanne

"It all started in the Garden of Eden, 
a blissful place at the edge of the universe, 
a wonderland oasis and paradise 
planted by the Creator."\nRead the rest of the story, A Tale of Two Souls, inside this book. It is a lyrical narrative about discovering purpose in life. Are we all born with a divine 'mission'? How do we investigate, and where? How do we find purpose and meaning every day through life's surprises and challenges, its advances and reversals? Shai Har-El's artful poetic story navigates these swirling waters and carries us safe home to greater understanding and acceptance.\nHar-El speaks to all people of every religious and spiritual practice. He is a trustworthy guide, and A Tale of Two Souls is a poignant tale of engaging fully with life.

A Tale of Two Souls

The shorelines of these poems are not those of the Atlantic and the Pacific, framing one mighty and dominant land mass, that of the United States, "from sea to shining sea", but rather those of the great continental divide, the two sides of the Atlantic separating "old" Europe from what was once called by some "The New World", two land masses distinct ever since the two tectonic plates began to drift apart. I know both continents intimately. I was born and raised and had my first adult experiences in the United States, on the Eastern Seaboard, and I now divide my time between Switzerland and France, and the poems in this volume shift, or travel, from place to place, residing however temporarily in the city and the country, moving from continent to continent, where exile and homecoming are somehow always one.Bruce Lawder is not a fan of binary divisions. When he first began to write poems - and at the same time to read about what was then called "the new poetry" - he discovered that he had to have two separate anthologies of "contemporary verse", at the very least, each exclusive of the poets in the other: one devoted to people writing in "open" forms and opposed, or "closed", one might say, to rhyme and meter, the other devoted to poets apparently blind and deaf to the varieties of "free verse" of any sort and whose idea of form found expression only in rhyme and meter. He loathed this opposition then, and I still do. In my own work, He vowed that he would let the impulses to create a poem have the freedom to find shape in whatever particular form seemed necessary, and enjoy the variety of language just as we celebrate, and simply by stepping outside, the diversity of the world and all its songs.

Shorelines

Lawder, Bruce

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Secrets of the Trees

The Gift of Not Finding

Every Possible Thing

Riding the Waves of Bliss

Emily & Virginia

Emily & Virginia

Sweet Wolf

The Girl Who Quit at Leviticus

A Tale of Two Souls

Shorelines