"Beautiful and sometimes tear-jerking, this book is full of loving wisdom." Reader's review. “A timeless treasure: as unputdownable as it is unforgettable." Reader's review. This anthology is the poetry of three women from three generations of the same family Composed over ninety-two years and never intended for publication, their words reflect the loves, losses, pain, fears, thoughts and emotions — experiences that have been the destiny of women...

In this stunning third part to Kate Hennig's powerful Queenmaker series, England's first queen regnant finds herself fighting xenophobia, religious nationalism, and strained familial bonds in the power struggle that dubs her Bloody Mary. Upon the death of King Edward VI, the thirty-eight-year-old princess Mary-daughter of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon-wrests the throne from Edward's deemed heir. But Mary's mother appears from the vaults of memory,...

Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan (1882) is a collection of poems by Toru Dutt. Compiled after her death and published in London, Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan is an invaluable work of art from a pioneering figure in Indian history and Bengali literature. Born in Calcutta to a family of Bengali Christians, Toru Dutt was raised at the crossroads of English and Indian cultures. In addition to her native Bengali, she became fluent in...

Set in a West Indian hair salon in Toronto, da Kink in my hair gives voice to a group of women who tell us their unforgettable, moving, and often hilarious stories. Mixing laughter and tears-and told in words, music, and dance-the stories explore the hardship, struggles, and joys of black women's lives.

Lila, a young Black ex-cop, has been on leave from the police force ever since she shot an unarmed Black youth. She's moved back in with her mother, Karen, and is drinking beer for breakfast. So when Tim, a white playwright, shows up at her door to casually inform her that his play inspired by her experience is being adapted into a movie, Lila's trauma is dragged out for speculation once again. The star of the film, their ex-cop bodyguard and Karen...

"Abandoned by her mother at age seven, Alexandra Winslow took solace in the mystery stories she read with her devoted father--and soon she was writing them herself, slowly graduating to dark, violent, complex crime stories that reflected skill and imagination far beyond her years. After her father's early death, at fourteen Alex is taken in by the nuns of a local convent, where she finds twenty-six mothers to take the place of the one she lost, and...

In these peculiar times, we are thrust back into ourselves in a kind of suspension: one in which only private life exists yet threatens to become trivial through a sense of mutual, overarching dread. Lent from award-winning writer Kate Cayley is built from this tension, exploring domestic and artistic life amidst the environmental crisis, and the surprising ways that every philosophical quandary-large and small-converges in the home, in small objects,...

A collection of poetry from the 2019 winner of the National Poetry Series, selected by Rosanna Warren In her remarkable and assured debut, Alexandria Hall explores the boundaries and limits of language, place, and the self, as well as the complicated space between safety and danger, intimacy and isolation, playfulness and seriousness, home and away. With a keen eye for the importance of place, Hall shows us daily life in rural Vermont, illuminating...

By the author of the wildly successful 2am Thoughts and Nineteen, comes Rooms of the Mind, a journey into the parts of our psyche that can either hide and protect us, or expose us to all that exists. Here you'll find an exploration of pain, heartbreak and wonder at what the world might, bring us next.