New and Inspiring Poetry from Award – Winning Poet, Rayfer E. Mainor (March 25, 1948-April 26, 2008)

Calliope doesn’t have an easy time waking up in the morning-which means she’s often late to school, a fact that doesn’t escape Mrs. Rutherford or any of the sixth graders in Calliope’s first period class. Mrs. R, as all her students call her, is teaching the class poetry writing and invites them to participate in the First Annual Shining Voices Poetry Festival. Who will win the top prize?

I know someone who’s lost a child. I know someone who’s died of cancer. For People I Know: Poems of Inspiration is a collection of poems dedicated to those people, and the people in the world that are just like them; to help ease the pain, work through the challenges and celebrate the victories.

A lot can change in a few months. Jake Palmer is living proof of that. In a short time, the once–shy loner has discovered his incredible supernatural abilities and forged a tight bond with his fellow Mystyx. What’s more—he’s fallen for his best friend, Krystal. And fallen hard.

Talee, a girl who lives on the gas planet Gala has her curiosity piqued when she sees an object fall from the backpack of a mail flyer and journeys out to see what it is.

Fantasy Delight Whitman (her birth name bestowed on her by her madam mama), has been through a lot getting where she is in life. Now the successful journalist and single mother to college-aged Kameron is about to get more than she bargained for when she looks up a long-lost love on the Internet.

Cassandra Price cut her family ties so long ago it’s hard to recall life before she left the place she once called home. Living with the man of her dreams was all that really mattered, and it was worth emptying herself of the past. There was just one problem: it was all short-lived. Her best laid plans unraveled before the engine could cool on the 747 that landed her in sunny California.

Head research and development chemist Jamal Ford has narrowed his love-life down to a science through the creation of his 30-Day Dating Plan, a guide intended to weed out the drama queens, gold-diggers, and baby mamas from his ideal: a part goddess, part sex kitten, and part Stepford Wife mate. The shallow, fun-loving 33-year-old knows he’s one of Charlotte, North Carolina’s most eligible bachelors, and he won’t settle for anything less than the trophy wife of his dreams.

Rebecca’s poems have a rare beauty. She is completely honest about her experiences and emotions. In this book you will enter the worlds of dreams, reflection, longing, love, loneliness, death, nature and animals, wishes, comfort, friendship, thoughts and conversations, desire and spirituality as experienced by a poet.

Newlywed author Shontae Nichols Burke is trying to adjust to her life in Hollywood as the wife of actor Devon Burke, one of the film industry’s brightest upcoming stars. She’s left her home and her friends and moved to Los Angeles.