This new collection by award-winning author Reginald Gibbons explores human experience and memory in ordinary settings—city apartments, rural roads, soap operas, and juvenile court—as way to understand the depths of thought and feeling in our everyday encounters. These narrative meditations explode with imagery, looking and listening deeply into our everyday experience—the extraordinary within the ordinary, the impossible within the possible.Reginald Gibbons is the author of numerous collections of poetry and fiction. His book Creatures of a Day was a poetry finalist for the National Book Award. He lives in Evanston, IL, where he teaches at Northwestern University.

Indulge yourself in this naughty, steamy standalone Taboo Forbidden Romance between a BBW and her sexy Stepbrother.Brenna is home for a long weekend, and after Gabriel saves her from her violent ex-boyfriend, she finally admits her feelings for him. Even though their parents are married, she had always fantasized about having him as more than just a stepbrother.Gabe’s been in love with Brenna since he met her. She’s the perfect woman for him—if only she’d realize how beautiful he finds her. Finally, he is able to get her in the same room as him for more than five minutes. That’s long enough to tell her just how much she means to him… and show her just how much he’s been craving her all these years. Warning: contains mature themes and language. Intended for 18+ readers only.Standalone. No Cliffhangers.

It's been a few years since Scarlett's sister, Lisa, died, and in many ways she still has an influence on Scarlett's life. While she's celebrating a new promotion at work, she's also having to endure the attention of an ex-boyfriend who just won't take the hint. Losing Lisa taught her to live life as fully as possible, and Scarlett chose to pour herself into her career. But when she starts her new job, she doesn't quite fit in. She ends up having a heart-to-heart with mysterious stranger at the office party, and things heat up for a minute before he excuses himself and leaves. Will her work life crash with her romantic life? And will she ever be able to live a life that she thinks her sister would be proud of? Warning: contains mature themes and language. Intended for 18+ readers only.

The island paradise would be perfect, if only she could remember her name...A mysterious woman...Washing ashore on a tropical beach, she awakes to find herself with no memory of how she came to be there. Helpless and hurting, she is grateful that she is not alone.A curious man...Daniel, a scientist studying local bird migrations, discovers the mystery woman, and suspects that she may have been a passenger on a recently missing yacht. Now if he can only figure out who she is...An island paradise...Among the sand, sun, and verdant Takamaka trees, they both work to unravel the mystery of her arrival on the island...all while falling in love.This Retro Romance reprint was originally published by Hamlyn Books in 1981.

Based on historically accurate roots, this novel explores one New Yorker's involvement in his family's rice plantation and the wild tensions involved as he tries to right the wrong he sees at work in his family.Tracing the thread of slavery from 1500s Timbuktu up to the Civil War, Songs of Slaves in the Desert explores one man's struggle with the legacy of slavery and the loyalty of family, brought into sharp focus as he finds himself attracted to one young slave woman. A masterful writer, Cheuse grapples with the nether parts of our history and the wild nature of love, especially by those held closest in chains.

This second volume of plays by Alan Bennett includes his two Kafka plays, one an hilarious comedy, the other a profound and searching drama. Also included is An Englishman Abroad and A Question of Attribution. The fascination of these two plays lies in the way they question our accepted notions of treachery and, in different ways, make a sympathetic case for Guy Burgess and Anthony Blunt.

This one-of-a-kind collection reminds weary adults not to lose sight of the values and virtues they learned as kids. Here are over three hundred quotations from over two hundred well-loved children's books, such as Charlotte's Web, Peter Pan, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Eloise, Sounder, Number the Stars, and Goodnight Moon, organized by topic, among them Acceptance, Goodness, Family Woes, and Growing Old. On Silence: "I assure you that you can pick up more information when you are listening than when you are talking."—E. B.White, The Trumpet of the Swan. On Reverence: "Dying's part of the wheel, right there next to being born. . . . Being part of the whole thing, that's the blessing."—Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting.With clever illustrations from Pierre Le-Tan, here is a book to share with a friend or keep by your own bedside. It's the perfect gift for your sister, your mother, your...