Q: How do you breed contempt? A: Have a baby. Hey. It’s me. Your baby. Let me say, first off, that I love you. I do. You’re a great parent. You do a lot of things right. I know how devoted you are to me and how invested you are in hitting this whole parenting thing out of the playground. Okay. Now that I’ve given you the validation I know you need, let’s get a few things clear . . . I’m not as innocent as you think I am. You don’t realize it because you’re blinded by my sweet good looks, but I am aware of way more than I can convey. I feel more than I can express. I have more going on in my soft, little baby brain than you could possibly imagine. Until now. The book you’re holding finally reveals the complexities and nuances of my life so far. From my point of view. Unapologetic. Unplugged. Unswaddled. Be warned . . . it’s not always adorable.

That's the day the trouble started. The trouble that nearly ruined my life. The trouble that turned me Dark. The trouble that begs me for revenge. Celia Door enters her freshman year of high school with giant boots, dark eyeliner, and a thirst for revenge against Sandy Firestone, the girl who did something unspeakable to Celia last year. But then Celia meets Drake, the cool new kid from New York City who entrusts her with his deepest, darkest secret. When Celia's quest for justice threatens her relationship with Drake, she's forced to decide which is sweeter: revenge or friendship. This debut novel from Karen Finneyfrock establishes her as a bright, bold, razor-sharp new voice for teens, perfect for fans of The Perks of Being a Wallflower and Will Grayson, Will Grayson.

2023 Stonewall Book Award – Barbara Gittings Literature Award for Poetry Winner 2023 Feathered Quill Book Awards Finalist Revenge Body is Rachel Wiley’s third collection of poetry, full of the sharp wit and bold honesty we know and love from Rachel. Wiley invites her readers to join her on a journey filled with righteous anger, Black identity, magic, mental health, navigating maternal relationships, and the love and loss that comes from a breakup.

A book of poems that expresses the complexities of life and love

I am who I am because of what I've done, where I've been, and who I've loved and lost along the way. I am a thinker. I get lost in my mind and find it a great release to write it down, let it go, walk away, and never look back. I do not live within the conventional. I do not care for rules and guidelines. I rarely follow the traditional poetic outline. Some find it appalling, others love the freedom my writing style gives them when reading. One of my favorite books, Writing Down the Bones has helped shaped me from the writer the teachers all wanted me to be, to the writer I always longed to be, and have finally become. Sweet, Wild, Woman, Child Within this book of poetry you will find it all, sex, love, hate, pain, revenge, trust, fear, lies, truths, any number of feelings spelled out as provocatively as words allow.

Sweet Pain is a unique collection of poems dramatically designed on love and its side effects. It also deals with intoxication of love, mad winds of the love season, silent cry, waiting for someone, breath to breath relationships and related issues. The poems are simple, silver-tongued, tender expressions of the joy, melancholy, dilemma and pains of the heart. Anybody can understand the thoughts and emotions attached with situations in which reading is like singing your own story and own pain. There's no age related materials, it's for everyone in this world who want to discover real definition of love or guide for the peoples who already in highway of love. Somewhere natural things attached with love are described in such a wonderful way like rain is conspiring about someone's love, wind is blowing sweet smell of love from far ends, and tide want to see the final destiny of someone's long waiting, to make every thematically designed situation alive.

This is a book of poems called (Even Love Hurts)It consist of feelings we all have at one time or another. The picture in the book of me and my brothers and sisters goes with the poem (God's will). Also the picture of my husband standing goes with the poem (Fearless man). The picture of me and my husband together goes with the poem (Sandcastle). At the end the poem (Fiftieth Birthday) goes with the two pictures after it. This one was made especially for my sister Doris fiftieth birthday party. I would also like to thank my brother Tony and his wife Emily for their support.

Cheerleading co-captains Jessica Wakefield and Heather Mallone thought they'd found the perfect faculty advisor for their squad in Nancy Swanson. They were sure the mousy assistant librarian wouldn't cramp their style at all. But neither of them knows about the dark secret in Nancy's past, or how dangerous she really is.

"Love with Vengeance" is an original collection of romantic poetry by award winning singer/songwriter, poet, and author, Luke Austin Daugherty. This work, originally published in 2005, contains twenty poems. Luke's relationship with his wife, Angela, was the inspiration for this book. The small town love story "The Chronicles of Simon the Lover" is also included in this collection. It is twelve chapters long in verse form and tells the moving tale of "Simon" and "Muriel" set in 1950's America. An excerpt from the title poem "Love with Vengeance" - Lovers Love with vengeance Love as to war against Your own frailty Love as to seek revenge Upon former occasions When your love was not love But a whim And your passion An impotent gesture