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Since 1994 I have been writing poetry. This is a collection of over twenty-five years of poems. The good, the bad, the happy and sad, take an adventure with me. The first poem in the book is the first poem that I ever wrote. The last poem is the most recent one, but there will be more to come in the near future. This is the second book I have written, and the second of a three part series. My first book is "The Alchemist Web..a path to Enlightenment...:Spiritual Alchemy" and that is a spiritual book, covering the biggest topics imaginable (i.e. what is consciousness, the soul, immortality, ...

East Berlin, 1961. Kirstin Beck is determined to escape to the West. She watches from her townhouse window as the border with West Berlin is closed and a barbed wire fence strung through the cemetery behind her house. With a grandmother in West Berlin who needs her, Kirstin knows she has to go. Tony Marino is an American writer living in West Berlin.

The rain remembers everything. On a Thursday, a weeping drizzle begins to fall over the town—but it doesn’t just wet the ground. Each drop carries a memory. Not the dark, invasive whispers of the past, but something more seductive: a perfect, preserved fragment of joy, love, or longing. The town is soon swept into a gentle, haunting nostalgia for lives they never lived. For Mirabelle and Everleigh—the Keepers of the Cradle, who once mended the world’s broken stories—this is not an attack. It’s an invitation. To drown in yesterday. And someone is sending the invitation: B. Ligeia...

Cape May, N.J. 1976 When NYC editor Audrey Taylor finalizes her divorce, it seems as if her entire world has collapsed around her. And when she inherits a run-down Victorian mansion in a decaying N.J. beach town, it only seems to get worse. At least, until she finds the treasure map. The Widow’s Walk is a tale of growth, self-discovery, and learning to appreciate all the good that life has to offer. A romance wrapped in a historical subplot, a mystery hidden in a centuries-old crime, it ties two unsuspecting people together to find a love that neither expected—which is far more precious...

In this series we explore the many facets of love through literary talents that span both time and country. When two people meet, when eyes glance and lock. And we often say something ‘clicks’; ‘it feels like I’ve known you forever’. Romance begins to brew and to blossom. In this volume our masterful writers take on the task of describing and revealing the beginnings of a romance, and some may even lead to love.

In a town where every measurement holds a secret, Cassian Vole worships the gaps in reality—the silent spaces between what is recorded and what is true. As a surveyor of forgotten discrepancies, he documents the subtle shifts in stone and memory, believing in a god that thrives on contradiction. But when he unearths an artifact that should not exist, he summons a divine reckoning. The God of Small Perspectives demands balance, and its enforcers—the Litigants—will not rest until every inconsistency is erased. To save his town from being smoothed into a lifeless average, Cassian must ...

Some houses are never empty. When journalist Ben Mears buys the old Fallon place in Samford, Maine, he is looking for a quiet escape from his own shattered past. Instead, he finds a silent Victorian with a history that breathes. The first night, he hears it a wet, tuneless whistle drifting up from the locked basement. A sound of someone, or something, working in the dark. The house holds its secrets in a sugar bowl key, in the frantic scratches around a locked door, and in the strange mound of lost things in the dirt below. The town elders know more than they say, speaking of a sour patch ...

In a world where every click leaves a ghost behind, what happens when the internet forgets… but we don’t? We live surrounded by digital ruins—abandoned profiles, silent forums, frozen game worlds, and forgotten homepages. These are not glitches. They are graves. In The Anthropology of Digital Ghosts, writer and digital folklorist John Anthony Davis embarks on a poignant, deeply human exploration of the connected age’s forgotten corners. From the last login timestamp that acts as a tombstone to the eerie silence of a once-vibrant MMORPG, Davis uncovers the layers of loss embedded in ...

A romance thread through a world of war, fantasy fused with fiction, Normandy, 1216: Lady Gabrielle is captured at a French convent and taken to an English castle—a prize for warlord Michael Marston. Her lover, Montague of Rouen, plots a daring rescue, joining forces with English barons about to overthrow King John. Marston steals Gabrielle’s heart with a powerful spell cast by a witch named Minerva. But when England drifts into civil war and Montague attacks, Gabrielle is forced to choose. With whom will she spend eternity: Michael Marston or Montague? A romance thread through a world ...

In the quiet valley of Knotville, every building is bound together by magical, humming shoelaces. These are no ordinary laces—they are the living promises that weave the community into perfect harmony. Elara, a ten-year-old apprentice Knotkeeper, tends to these connections with her grandmother. But when a tiny, accidental nick from an overzealous porcupine named Prickleton weakens the town's most vital knot, the unthinkable begins. The promises unravel. Bread loses its song, stories lose their spark, and the town’s perfect rhythm falls into discord. Now Elara, Prickleton, and the entire...

Mandy Pandy’s lazy afternoon walk becomes an unexpected adventure when she discovers a shy, lonely shadow with no owner. Determined to help, Mandy sets out with the shadow she names Whisper to find where he belongs. Guided by the wise Oliver Owl and the gentle gardener Elara, they learn that Whisper’s other half is a firefly whose light has gone out. Their journey leads them to the damp, twilight world of the Glimmerpond, where lost lights and lonely shadows gather. To heal the firefly, they must seek the magic of the Twilight Daisies at the fleeting moment between day and night. Along ...

A historian discovers a painting that speaks through memory and sensation in this haunting Gothic mystery. Dr. Aris Thorne studies the secrets objects hold. When a portrait arrives at her Cambridge archive, she expects a routine authentication. Instead, a single touch unleashes a sensory ghost—the taste of cheap gin, the smell of turpentine, the raw terror of a forgotten crime. The painting is a cry for help from Julius Metcalfe, a brilliant young artist who died in obscurity two centuries ago. Thorne becomes obsessed, following echoes embedded in the paint—from a London cellar holding ...

Mandy Pandy and the Whisper in the Weeping Willow – Summary Mandy Pandy and the Whisper in the Weeping Willow is a hauntingly beautiful middle-grade fantasy about courage, perception, and the transformative power of stories. After restoring harmony to the Bamboo Grove by awakening the Stone-Song, Mandy Pandy and her friends—Flick the firefly and Whisper the living shadow—believe peace has finally returned. But during the tranquil Festival of Soft Glows, a subtle discord hints at a deeper disturbance. The source of the unrest is the Lurk, an ancient, parasitic entity dwelling in the ...

The adventure isn't over—it's just changing its address. Mirabelle, Everleigh, Conner, and Uta thought their work as Keepers was just beginning. They’ve already faced a sorrowful Phantom in a Scottish castle and healed the mournful bell of a sunken cathedral. But their greatest challenge awaits at the heart of all magic—the Cradle of the World. Guided by their ladybug Familiar and armed with tokens from healed realms, the four friends must journey beyond the map to a place that exists only in memory. But the Shadow, a timeless hunger born of emptiness, is waiting for them. It knows ...

Mandy Pandy's first solo errand seems simple: fetch a jug of moonberry milk from the village store and come straight home. But when she reaches a fork in the path, a whirlwind of colorful chaos named Zumble Zibbit offers a faster route-the Zibbit Zigzag. Before she knows it, Mandy is deep in an unfamiliar forest, facing magical obstacles at every turn. From a living moss wall that demands a story to a sly fox who trades secrets for safe passage, and a meadow of towering flowers that shush intruders into a deep sleep, Mandy's quick trip becomes an unforgettable adventure. With nothing but ...

A locket that holds more than a picture-it holds a lost world. Ten-year-old twins Mirabelle and Everleigh Walker are no strangers to the strange. Their father solves peculiar problems-like clocks that tick backwards and shadows that sing. But when a simple case in a dusty curiosity shop leads Everleigh to a cold, featureless locket, their world cracks open. The locket is a key. It doesn't unlock a door, but a place-the Grand Bazaar of What-If, a silent market where regrets are traded and unlived lives are bought and sold. Drawn by its lonely call, Everleigh becomes the Navigator, the only ...

Some towns have secrets. Elderwood has a hunger. After solving the mystery of the vanishing school principal, Milo, Tess, and Leo thought their adventures were over. But when a quiet classmate disappears near the town's abandoned fairgrounds, the Elderwood Kids know something is terribly wrong. The "Harvest's End Fair" has been a ruin for decades, a ghost of a memory. Yet, at night, discordant fiddle music drifts on the wind, and a sickly orange glow pulses from the rusted Ferris wheel. Drawn into the investigation, the trio discovers the fair is not as empty as it seems. It is a prison for...

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When strange things start happening at their new school, Mirabelle, Everleigh, and their friends form a detective agency to investigate the eerie left wing. They soon discover the lingering ghost of a stern teacher, trapped in a never-ending lesson of duty and fear. To free themselves and the phantom students, they must confront the heart of the haunting—and uncover the buried secrets that lie beneath the school itself. This chilling mystery explores the weight of perfection, the cost of buried truths, and the courage it takes to listen to what whispers in the walls.

Nur aus großen Konflikten können wahre Helden hervorgehen. Die Galaxis steht in Flammen und ein Krieg unvorstellbaren Ausmaßes zerreißt das Imperium. Die Champions des Licht und der Dunkelheit betreten das Schlachtfeld, um für ihre Herren zu kämpfen. Sie bitten nicht um Gedenken oder Ehren – sie wollen sich einfach nur in ihr Schicksal stürzen, denn nur so können sie erfahren, was die unbekannte Zukunft für sie bereithält.