Three Raven Gate is the first book of poetry by Brian R. Martens. It encapsulates his years of study about the mystery of life. While offering no magic solutions to life, many of the well-tuned haiku and poems challenge us to pause and think.

Three Raven Gate: Haiku and Other Poems

Martens, Brian R.

Arts & Photography

McCaa Publications

Like Homer's The Iliad, Ida Egli's new novel, Krisanthi's War, is an antiwar epic that brings together the personal and the political and wanders back and forth from the 1930s to the 1980s. The war is World War II. Krisanthi is a modern-day Greek woman who chronicles the lives and the deaths of her family members who strive to survive during the invasion and the occupation of their homeland by German soldiers. Since the characters are mostly Greeks, they have names like Achilles, Penelope and Kalliope, and, since they're Greeks, the Trojan War isn't ancient history, but part of the living, breathing present. Krisanthi's War is full of the sights and thesmells of olives and goats, blood and wine, even as it explores the nature of orthodoxy and mystery. When liberation comes and the characters emerge from cellars and go into the Mediterranean sunlight the reader feels a sense of exhilaration and joy. It isn't revenge or punishment that the author is after, but rather empathy and compassion. Egli offers no easy-to-follow recipe for how to endure in our own difficult times, but she does provide at the end of her narrative a recipe for Loukoumáthes, those delicious fritters often drizzled with honey that melt in your mouth. The novelist, Lawrence Durrell, makes a brief but welcome appearance in these pages, and many of the minor characters, including Andreas Papaloizos and Kyriokos Petaluthas, are as endearing as Krisanthi, her mama and her papa. If you want to meet real Greeks, explore Greek history and fathom the nature of love itself, this book is for you.

Krisanthi's War: In Hitler's Greece

Literature & Fiction

Egli, Ida Rae

Genre Fiction

Stunning! These words trace humor alongside depth and inquiry, grounded in truth telling and spiritual perspective. We can see clearly into the poet's soul, relationships with her family, coupled with reflections on nature, social conditions, old age and the wonder of new life. It is possible to sit with these poems, taking time to feel the connection to one's own experience. The work is a meditation, textured and strong, rendered with a light touch and sensitivity.

How Much You Matter: A Presentation of Poems

Archer, Cameo

Poetry

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, and incidents are the products of the author's imagination. At the same time, the sea in which the fictional characters swim and sometimes drown is as real as twenty-first century domestic violence, crimes perpetrated by men against women, and sexual assaults, all of which have reached epic proportions around the world. They have been exasperated during the COVID-19 global pandemic, the time in which this book was written and edited. While Dark Past, Dark Future doesn't purport to provide answers and solutions to an age-old problem and a growing global crisis, it seems fair and just to remind readers that tangible help is available from a variety of groups and organizations. The National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC), https://www.nsvrc.org/organizations, provides a directory of organizations in every state in the U.S. It's a good place to begin an effort to stop the war against women.

Dark Past, Dark Future: A Tioga Vignetta Murder Mystery

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Raskin, Jonah

Thrillers & Suspense

FROM HITLER TO TRUMP: An Immigrant's Story

Biographies & Memoirs

Harper, Astrid

Community & Culture

Captain Jack, the stoic chief of the Modoc tribe of Northern California in the 1870s, finds himself facing difficult decisions as his Braves try to prod him into action on the eve of a war with the U.S. Army. How he handles the situation is told to us by a U.S. Army Private.

Captain Jack: Hamlet of the Lava Beds

Metcalf, Neal

United States

Review\n"Robin Gabbert's poetry profoundly captures her ardent desire for living and continues to address truths in the fewest words through figurative language, phrases, and rhythm. It's therapeutic not only for Gabbert but for her readers as well. It's as if her painful experience made it difficult for her to enunciate her emotions through ordinary language, and thus she found refuge in poetry as a form of healing discourse. Gabbert is a poet of extraordinary feelings with an occasional blend of witty and paranoiac observation. I can understand how she feels and thinks in The Subtle Knife, because I have become slightly aichmophobic in dealing with cutlery as I have often, by accident, cut myself a number of times. Diary of a Mad Poet is poetic expression at its finest. Gabbert has renewed her life through the power of artistic imagination, and reading her anthology gives you that same effect." Readers' Favorite\nRobin Gabbert’s new book of poems, Diary of a Mad Poet—her first published book—comes out of pain and loss, fire and cancer, but they are also poems of healing and joy, family ties and friendships. Some take place in the far away past, others in the near present. Some experiment with form and the arrangement of words on the page. All together, Gabbert's individual poems add up to a portrait of a life lived fully. They offer hope to readers like the author herself who have come through troubles and who delight in the powers of memory and the rigors of the English language.

Diary of a Mad Poet: Poems

Gabbert, Robin

Vital Signs: A Memoir

Brorstrom, Gay Bishop

Historical

A Russian Mercenary in The Middle Kingdom: A Memoir

History

Vishniakoff, Michael Dmitry

Military

He scrambles over icy London rooftops in the dead of night, a still-warm illegal transmitter under his arm, with police in hot pursuit. What else would you expect from someone who loves Dr. Who, Monty Python, and the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, although he's more Arthur Dent than Ford Prefect. Delve into the world of El Supremo, a shy kid who found his voice and passion in the world of Pirate Radio.

Banned By The BBC!: How I Became a Radio Pirate

Levine, Arnold M. D.

Arts & Literature

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