Finalist for the Two Sylvias Press Wilder Poetry Book Prize.The poems of Kelly Cressio-Moeller's Shade of Blue Trees offer up an intimate surrealism, earth-born, deeply shaded, and tinted the deep blue of solitude, memory, and myth, turning "yearning's blue fire/into a dreamscape fugue." Nowhere is Cressio-Moeller's virtuosity more apparent than in the sequence of "panels." These pieces function as lyric poems, language-paintings, fairy tales, and compressed novels, somehow removed from time, with a lushness that reminds me of Flaubert-without the meanness. For instance: "A wall-eyed jay cracks a cherry's/skull against the cheekbone of dusk," and "Cornflower satin, heels on parquetry-she orders/nests for her hair to keep skylarking near, wears the/clouds on her finger to be swallowed in vapor." There are poems that walk the territory of the actual, from mother-loss, which winters the tips of the speaker's hair, to embodiment: "without my cervix I am no less queen/open me, see there's nothing left to give." Indeed this collection is evidence of a queendom that has been cultivated via solitude, loss, and time. "For years," she writes, "her poemwork involved dipping arrows/into tinctures of monkshood. Beneath her shawl of/suffering, she yearned only for two gifts: to be seen, to be understood." With the unveiling of Shade of Blue Trees, those gifts have been delivered. Diane Seuss

For millennia, our cities have prospered and grown in the cradles of civilization-fertile lands blessed with rivers, lakes, seas and oceans. From the origins of life on earth, right down to its downfall, biblical or otherwise, water has been integral to the human story. In this passionate and extensively researched tribute to the elixir that sustains us all, authors Harini Nagendra and Seema Mundoli take us on a panoramic view of the water bodies of India and the urgent need to address their emergent ecological threats. From the Yamuna in Delhi to the Cauvery in Karnataka and the Pichola Lake in Udaipur to the Brahmaputra in Assam, this book is epic in its sweep and yet deeply moving in its intimate concerns. Interspersed with anthropological, legal and scientific vignettes of the water are fascinating anecdotes, ditties, myths and monsters blue and green. This book also brings into dialogue a vast range of colourful characters-from medieval poets to colonial masters and modern scientists-to paint for us a tapestry of connected histories and ring a timely knell for saving the very ecological systems that have sustained us for ages.

Shades of Blue are everywhere in our lives. From the open sky to the rolling ocean, the different shades amount to unique characteristics and depths of vision. New authors Charles and Anne Glogowski invite you to join them as they sail into God's glory seeking 'Plots of Gold, ' and finding God's hand in their everyday lives. Shades of Blue brings the reader from the darkest shades of blue-grays of life into the transforming shades of bright blue leading them to the shores of God's glory, while threads of gold weave in and out through the hidden mysteries. By sharing in the revelations of God to His people through their own personal testimonies, Charles and Anne show the truth of God's live in prose and poetry, helping readers find their own Shades of Blue in this encouraging, inspiring witness of the extraordinary in the ordinary

Brad Cutler is a rising star at his New York ad agency and about to marry the girl of his dreams. He seems to have it all, until memories of a high-school girlfriend begin to torment him. Haunted by the past, he turns to God seeking forgiveness and redemption.

To be cursed is one thing, to be loved is another, but they are exactly the same. Melinda is only 15, but shes forced to face the fact that she is no longer her own. She is Tylers, at first because she has no option, but by the end she would never want to be anyone elses. The sexy, fun, and mysterious Tyler steals Melinda away and the only thing she wants is to hate him, but she has no choice in the matter. Her love for her beautiful blue eyed boy is inevitable. Hate, love, pain, lust, arent they all the same.

First his brother, now his mother—Jack Girard searches for the truth behind his family's tragedies When hungover ex-lawyer and Key West bar owner Jack Girard groggily wakes up one morning, he's greeted by a beautiful woman lying next to him and a shrill, ringing telephone. Seeing the call is from his father, Claude "The Duke" Girard, Jack answers. Within seconds, he learns that his mother is dead in an apparent suicide, and Jack hits the road, heading back to his childhood home in Miami to face his tyrannical father. The death of his mother brings up haunting memories from Jack's past—memories of his brother Bobby's suicide when they were in college together. Being back in Miami only continues to dredge up his family traumas, but things grow more complicated when The Duke suggests that his estranged wife's alleged suicide may have been a murder. As Jack begins to uncover the truth about his mother's death, including the secret she had revealed to only two people—the same secret Bobby had taken with him to his grave—he finds himself in imminent danger. Can Jack reveal the true story before it's too late? He has to act quickly, or he fears he may be the victim of the next Girard family tragedy. Perfect for fans of Karin Slaughter and Harlan Coben