Life is difficult and filled with tragedy and struggle. Beautiful Pain explores the difficulties presented through our adoption and life in general. The book poetically delves into the purpose of pain and the beauty we can find on the other side. It tells the story of adopting our son and the many tears that were encountered along the way. It also explores stories of the pain that life inevitably brings while showing a glimpse of the light on the other side of our trudge through the mud. A poetic call for hope, Beautiful Pain presses forth into the muck and mire of life, identifying with all readers through the common struggle of humankind.

Warning: This book is not for the faint of heart. If you deal with triggers, please read this book with caution. Material consists of adult content and BDSM. I was sent away for protection. Pulled from a world and forced into another, I lost myself on the way. No emotion. Only walls to hide feelings that were now masked behind a barrier. Matteo Santos opened my eyes. He helped me see through the darkness that consumed my soul. He breathed life into my lungs, gripping my heart until it beat again. With a darkness of his own, it haunted him, turning him into a beautiful Master of seduction and pain. Through trust and love, we would battle our pasts together. Before they took control...completely. "Not everything is as it seems." ~ Beautiful Pain

Gas·light: Verb Tense manipulate (someone) by psychological means into questioning their own sanity. This is a poetry book about narcissistic emotional abuse and trauma.

The Daily Lesson is not your average self-help book. It's a collection of thoughts and reflections that challenge you to look at life differently. With a touch of philosophy, each essay explores topics we often think about but rarely talk about. From dealing with the loss of our parents to understanding love's complex nature, this book gets to the heart of what it means to be human. These essays are straightforward and speak to modern-day experiences, bringing a fresh perspective to familiar feelings. Whether you've seen some of these ideas before or they're completely new to you, each will leave you thinking. You might find that an idea from this book becomes a turning point in how you see the world. The Daily Lesson is a call to introspection and a challenge to the status quo. For the thinker, the dreamer, and the seeker, this book is an invitation to unearth life's profound truths and transformative insights—one by one at your own pace.

With simple language and powerful messages, Indemaio uses poetry to touch on very human feelings, and for better or worse, to affirm existence in all aspects. "A book of poetry can falsely imply a preoccupation with words, but this particular book only promises feelings. Any labels, explanations, or definitions, are purely coincidental. Sui celebrates only a higher meaning, disregarding definition or conventional understanding - we never really understand anything we don't entirely feel. Here we celebrate the oneness of all things, joined by feeling. As small as a teardrop or as large as a soul; As quiet as thunder or as loud as laughter, here we celebrate an astounding and magic truth known as the human individual. If you've never been anything but your self, if you've never been anything but alive, then this is your book."

When infertility painfully interrupted Elizabeth Hagan's plan to start a family, the path of grace offered her another way. Instead of giving birth to a child, she birthed herself instead. Along the way, she learned you can't control how fast your dreams come true, if they come true at all, but you can find grace for embracing your life in the present tense, grief and all. Through her new book Birthed, Elizabeth Hagan offers her story as a companion and guide for living through your own pain and loss. For the one in eight couples who face infertility, you will know you are not alone and a long season of grief does not have to destroy your marriage or your friendships with childbearing friends. For those friends and family members of infertile couples, there are no "one size fits all" answers to a fertility journey-medically, emotionally, or spiritually-and the worst thing you can say is nothing at all. Adoption is never the complete solution to infertility, and through it all, pain can never be fixed, only lived through. So allow grace to help you begin to live today in the present moment.

A treatise on the exploration of the nature of the Sublime in Nature and Art from the Enlightenment to the late RomanticPeriod; as a formative mode of expression, signifying changes in the aesthetic tastes and perceptions of Nature as seen in the works of Vincent Van Gogh.

Explores the history of pain in Western literature and culture to restore the bridge between pain and meaning.

What American dream? Each short story in I Have a Nightmare takes place in a different part of the United States: New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, a suburb, a university town, and a commercial fishing boat in Alaska's Bering Sea. Instead of experiencing the American dream the whites, blacks, immigrants, and men & women in these short stories experience the reality of the American nightmare. I Have a Nightmare is written in a mostly conventional narrative style, and was Wolf Larsen's first book.

As a Vietnam combat veteran, John tries his best to forget the war. Though fifty years have passed and he is much older now, forgetting his hard to do, even with his family never knowing the full extent of his wartime experiences. Only his combat friends: Mark, Matt, and Lucas know what happened over there, especially with the small Vietcong village and the young Vietnamese girl. John tries his best to forget the girl, but the girl, who worshipped John as a god, would not let herself be forgotten. The both of them would become each other's last god.