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"The poems that stick closest to the blue theme, using it to evoke an emotional state, are the book's best and most nuanced. They employ the color as a means of introspection and appreciation, particularly for things natural and whimsical." Kirkus Reviews "Meditative poems gliding on a gentle breeze ... A poetry collection as soft as a pastel sky, a murmuration of wings passing by ... a place where playful language drops, dangles, and drifts on the wind." Independent Book Review"The Blue Whale Sings from Afar is an enchanting set of poems by Josefina Bérard which expertly intertwines delicate prose and vivid imagery, beckoning the reader into a serene and tranquil realm adorned with a soothing blue hue." Literary Titan "Josefina Bérard unearths poetic reflection from cups of tea or coffee, Victorian afternoons, and attempts to grasp the elusive daily act of living a full life when purpose and pleasure pull away." Midwest Book Review, D.Donovan, Senior Reviewer"The Blue Whale Sings From Afar lyrically captures the magic and mystery found in life's most meditative moments. Rendered with poignant language and with a poet's sense of loss and longing, this collection of heartfelt poems listen to the silence of leaves falling from tree branches, watch with awe as white Montgolfiers sail in the sky, and wait with a sense of expectation and hope for the return of a fresh Spring. "Life is parting / With a paused breath," Bérard writes. These poems tell that tale." Colleen Alles, author of After the 8-Ball --- Poetry as light as a feather and as deep as the sea. Verses that flow through the freshness of spring, the passion of summer, the ripeness of autumn and the magic of winter, showing the tiniest details of life and the truest delicacies of love. In The Blue Whale Sings From Afar by Josefina Bérard we hear a song of words never told with moods and shades of blue and with the enchanting whisper of life and death.

What is love? In a painstaking effort to answer this question, Samuel Faulk takes the reader on a tumultuous journey of true love gone direly sour. Through poignant poetic storytelling in a unique dictionary format, Faulk reveals the onslaught of emotion in the wake of a marriage's covert deconstruction.Beyond a mere collection of emotive poems, The Devil's Thesaurus serves as an outlet to grieve not only the loss of a lover, but also the loss of self.Ambiguous, reckless, strenuous, and vacant...These are only a few of the adjectives that sum up the culmination of events that transpire throughout this book's pages. Follow the nameless narrator as he works through the alphabet to process the end of everything he holds dear.

The first time Dimitri Castallanos experienced obsession, he committed a felony. He was five. Dimitri is a psychopath. And he's still obsessed with just one person.Arlo Miller was born a victim, raised as his father's punching bag and his mother's scapegoat. Dimitri was his only protection, and they took him away.As children, they clung to each other. As adults, they pretend neither remembers, while both harbor secret crushes on the other. Dimitri hides his feelings behind a mask of indifference. Arlo hides his by falling for very bad men.When one of those men confronts Dimitri, this time it's Arlo who commits a felony. Murder. But Dimitri won't allow Arlo to take the fall. With the help of Dimitri's mother and seven psychopaths, they now have twenty-four hours to fake an alibi, hide a body, and confess their true feelings for each other, once and for all.Which is harder? Falling in love or getting away with murder?

"Maya: I couldn't leave well enough alone. My obsession with finding out what happened to my brother led me into the hands of Brizio DeLuca. His offer to help me came with a set of rules and instructions that set me on a path lined with torture, death, and destruction. Brizio: I was minding my business and working on becoming a better man. And here she comes. Maya waltzed into my club and brought with her a mountain of trouble, the kind of trouble that whispered sweet nothings to my dark side.

"Which way should I go?" That question, or some variation of it, is one all of us ask, almost every day. We live in uncertain times, and it seems like a new turn is always right around the corner. But which road to take? Which turn to make? Those are questions that have bedeviled poets and philosophers from time immemorial. Life is a twisting, turning road, and whether you're trying to decide which way to go for yourself, your family, your business, or your community, there is always some element of ambiguity regarding the best direction in which to head. When Robert Frost saw that two roads diverged in a yellow wood, he was sorry he couldn't travel both. None of us can.TURNS: Where Business Is Won and Lost takes a deep dive into the physical, historical, and metaphorical nature of turns through the lenses of science, history, politics, sports, and more. While no book can point the way regarding specific crossroads to which you may come, this one can help you make better decisions based on eight insightful principles that all turns have in common. Nothing can move in a straight line forever, so turns, by nature, are about limits. But they're also about overcoming limits. Finding new roads. Discovering new directions. One way to think about life itself is that it's fundamentally about knowing when, where and how to turn-turning questions into answers, problems into solutions, and people, circumstances, and situations around-without careening into a ditch. TURNS will help you better know which way to go when you come to those forks in the road.