Lips Are Portals, the Eyes Tell Stories


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Lips are portals, The eyes tell stories, is the first piece of this young author's collection. He has found a way to take free verse and transform it into his own interpretation of the world and the people around him. By using emotions, and poems with romantic allusions, he has been able to take readers on his personal journey and coming of age as a writer. As well as, add new definitions to ideals like love and friendship. He challenges the notion of perception and how perception can become as vivid as a reality. The reader can relate to feelings of anxiety of an impending new beginning as in his poem Stages of our doing. The book is categorized into three different sections exploring love, personal introspection, and begins to hint at political issues such as reevaluating priorities and principles. Many have spoken on these same subjects but to see a voice in a new generation of young people is inspiring. I look forward to seeing what is next in store for this writer.




Practice Smiling & Other Silent Perversions


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Practice Smiling & Other Silent Perversions is the second poetry collection from this author. The prose reads as a rifle of scattered thoughts converted into an insightful rhetoric massage expressing themes of love and love-loss. The read is broken up into two concepts, Man-Made and The Lesser of Two Evils. The Man-Made theme suggests the unnatural manifestation of ideals that exist in the mind trying to establish dominion over things not fully understood and the conflicting coexistence of how the mind claims to understand these ideals. The Lesser of Two Evils centers around love, marked by stories of once being in love and express a deep longing to be in love. The first poem "Doing the things you love" seeks to establish the true goal, in which is prioritizing your happiness.




The Portal Prophecies: Deadly Perceptions


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With Hilary gone, Willow finds herself at the mercy of the elves. There is some strange connection between the elves and recent events. The elf realm holds so many answers she so desperately needs. It won't be easy though. Strict rules have been broken and someone needs to pay the price. In her journey to discovery, she is guaranteed to meet new friends and find new adventures. Unfortunately, there is also a new enemy lurking in the shadows. Can the prophecies help her this time? Will anyone rally to her side? This fifth book of the Portal Prophecies series, is jam packed with fast paced adventure that you won't want to miss. Finally, Willow's past is beginning to make sense. The only problem is figuring out what is real and what is not. Can Willow take things as she perceives them? A wrong choice could potentially be deadly.




The Portal of Dreams


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Reproduction of the original: The Portal of Dreams by Charles Neville Buck




The Portal


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Three hundred years ago, on an isolated island in Long Island Sound, Satan tried to open a doorway to Hell. Now he's returned to finish the task. A black speedboat arrives at the small island community of Stone Harbor. Its mysterious passenger, Joey Oates, inspires terror by his very presence. He’s Satan incarnate, back to complete a ritual left unfinished three hundred years ago. A lost talisman called the Portal can open a doorway for the demons of Hell to enter our world. Oates plans to find the Portal, and finish unlocking it. Former lovers Scott Tackett, family hardware store owner, and Allie Layton, flamed-out Hollywood actress, are about to reconnect after years apart, until they discover the evil growing in town. Only they can stop Oates’s awful plan and save the world from the living nightmares standing ready to crawl out of Hell. FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launched in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices.




The Portal of Dreams


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Synanon Kid


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"I told you mothers do not matter here. We are all your mothers. Isn't that better than just having one?" An ordinary weekend becomes surreal when Celena's mother, whom she has not seen for years, returns to claim her. Told that she is going to visit a place called Synanon, six-year-old Celena leaves her native Los Angeles on a bus for a secluded ranch setting in Northern California where the residents are strangely bald and dressed uniformly in overalls. Coming to realize this eerie institution is to be her new home, Celena is ultimately forced to develop a new strength of being to protect herself against the abusive school demonstrators, the troubled children, and the chilling thought that she and her mother might never leave. C.A. Wittman's daring memoir is a coming-of-age story about growing up in a cult, the unconditional love between a mother and daughter, and how that love helped a young girl to grow and flourish against the odds of her distorted childhood.










The Book of the Dead


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Written in response to the Hawk's Nest Tunnel disaster of 1931 in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, The Book of the Dead is an important part of West Virginia's cultural heritage and a powerful account of one of the worst industrial catastrophes in American history. The poems collected here investigate the roots of a tragedy that killed hundreds of workers, most of them African American. They are a rare engagement with the overlap between race and environment in Appalachia. Published for the first time alongside photographs by Nancy Naumburg, who accompanied Rukeyser to Gauley Bridge in 1936, this edition of The Book of the Dead includes an introduction by Catherine Venable Moore, whose writing on the topic has been anthologized in Best American Essays.