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My dad's last name is Querer.What kind of last name is that? In Spanish, "querer" means to want or to love.My dad says it's a Scottish name, Kerr, but that one of his ancestors believed that there were too many Kerrs in the area, and he felt he was truly special -- not at all like the bland, stolid Kerrs in his district.His first choice was to change the spelling to Cur. But it had unfortunate additional meanings -- one of which (a badly behaved dog of indifferent parentage) was already thought to reflect his character.So, he went from Kerr to Querer, landing only briefly on Cur -- but it was enough to soak up some of the attributes, namely that of being a compulsive barker.Consequently, over the years, I've tried to muzzle myself.I've largely failed. ************* Tinguely Querer, geologist, properties assessor, and corporate merger specialist, travels in her own quirky space, resulting in unexpected encounters.Tinguely records her thoughts in a journal, and the reader travels through her journeys, both mental and physical. She works with her father as she builds her own life, and surfs life's boom-bust cycles always on the edge of profound revelation or extreme denial.******** "The Adventures of Tinguely Querer is a fast-paced, funny, poetic, metaphysical, metafictional romp. It is right up this reader's alley and I think it will be a treat for any lover of smart, playful, meaningful fiction. It is about myth, destiny and cows. And the author's illustrations for her beguiling text are charming and add a certain dazzle to the narrative. They may remind the reader of Kurt Vonnegut's playful illustrations for Breakfast of Champions, or the whimsical drawings of Thurber. Nash may at times seem like a female Vonnegut (one chapter here is called "Vonnegut Radio,") or perhaps Tom Robbins, but she is also unique and full of her own personal bravura and mojo. This modern, hip trip of a novel will delight you and stay with you long after you finish reading it. Tinguely herself may seem a real friend by book's end and she may have you waiting impatiently for what Susan Smith Nash does next." --Corey Mesler, author of Following Richard Brautigan

The uncountable layers of our 21st-century identity - in You As Poetry, Rose Hunter makes them visible in a provoking and compassionate collage of the human condition. -Dorothee Lang, author of Worlds Apart (Folded Word Press) Some poems were previously published in A-Minor, decomP, DIAGRAM. PANK, qarrtsiluni, Sea Stories, Used Furniture Review, Willows Wept Review, and other journals. You As Poetry is a significantly revised version of You As Poems, published in 2012.

Shiva Dancing takes the reader on a journey across a physical and emotional landscape of loss, grieving, and renewal. The poems are lyrical and elegiac. They probe the multiple layers through which we experience the loss that comes with living and the redemption made possible by exploring that loss with honesty, concreteness, and compassion. Each poem is set in motion by a concrete observation or recollected moment that releases its own organic stream of poignant associations. The result is an embodiment, in each poem and in the collection as a whole, of the complex energies and perceptions that define our most human experiences.

The Story of James John Johnson, a recent graduate of an Ivy League law school, discovers that an incurable disease threatens his life. He travels to Houston hoping for a miracle cure. While in treatment, he meets Karen, a divorced mother whose young son is undergoing proton therapy for a brain tumor. Their unlikely relationship begins an adventure that takes them on a journey to the moon. The Tribe of Noah Three people meet in a truck stop on a rainy South Carolina night: Noah, a professor who has just been fired for having an affair with the wife of his department head; Anna, a wealthy debutante, fleeing from a drug rehab program; and Steven, an AIDS-stricken sitar player. They travel along the East Coast of the United States in Rocinante, Noah's 1969 VW bus, each one carrying their past with them. They soon grow to depend on one another in their Quixotic quest to become street performers in Provincetown, Massachusetts located at the very end of Cape Cod, the mythical edge of the earth. Poetic Moments A collection of poetry that explores and celebrate genuinely personal moments in life.

A doomed love set against the turmoil of the landless poor, the Anglo-Irish aristocracy and the British Crown.A Yeats scholar earlier fails to acknowledge the question of a romantic relationship between Lady Gregory, a co-founder of the Irish Literary Revival, and W. B. Yeats, the Poet Laureate and Noble Prize Winner of Ireland. A love only suggested in the past is hurled into the present through the discovery of a series of paintings.

In 1969 a young Slovenian painter Vili Vaupotic arrives in London with the great hope that within two years his masterpieces will be exhibited in the Tate gallery, while he himself will be invited to the annual Queen's tea party for successful immigrants. (Sir William Wowpotitch?) Tea with the Queen is a bitter-sweet tale of lost illusions, rich with unexpected reversals and (self)reflections. The external narrative is merely a means whereby the author creates in front of the reader's eyes 'a stream of those aspects of reality that most people, because of their trivia-laden minds, no longer register'. The novel's admirable flow is interspersed with 'a cacophony of aggressive sounds' forcing their way into the minds of the characters from outside, revealing that 'the outside reality is kinder than the reality of our souls'. Tea with the Queen is thus a luxurious, vibrant story about eternal human fallibility, about our blindspots and hopes, mistakes and sorrows; in other words, as universal as a story can be. Thanks to the author's exceptional feeling for nuances, dialog and dramatic fabulation even such a long novel is a pleasure to read. In terms of narrative mastery, Tea with the Queen surpasses even the authorl's legendary Sorcerer's Apprentice, in the past 30 years the most widely read novel by any Slovenian writer.

Slovenes, (the people who form ) a nation of two million in the heart of Europe, achieved independence for the first time in their long history with the break-up of Yugoslavia in 1991. Having settled in the Alps in the sixth century AD, they succeeded in preserving their language, identity and culture largely through poetry and fiction: their greatest national hero is not a general but a romantic poet. With the arrival of independent statehood and membership of the European Union and NATO, Slovenian literature has been freed of its function as the guardian of national identity and is now allowed to explore the realm of literary imagination without the former burdens of attendant duties. While not ignoring their great literary tradition of the past centuries, contemporary Slovenian authors no longer concern themselves predominantly with national issues; their writing is personal, inventive and open outward, even cosmopolitan, yet without losing its specific Central European flavor.The thirteen stories by thirteen leading Slovenian authors selected for this anthology have all it takes to make the reader turn the pages: style, suspense, irony, dark secrets, intellectual game playing, emotional charge, human warmth, and more.

The Dark Side of Man follows the Shell family - from the time of their bondage to an English master to their ruthless acquisition of wealth and influence. Doomed to slavery on the island of Barbados, a young Irishman makes a bold decision to flee the island accompanied by an African woman named Manuela. Through the years, a recurring dream is handed down from generation to generation: a dream whose origin lies in the hurricanes of the Caribbean.

Rose Hunter's [four paths] concerns itself as much with the sights of its poems as it does with the sounds of these fractured articulations. The reader may recognize an ending in the trail of intimate intonations, but exotic possibility is brought sublimely to the fore - to the Mexican fringe where the unexpected and the unprecedented await. Hunter's path weaves precariously, yet dazzles in its emotional and physical presence and allures in even the lushest of sensory environments.-Erin McKnight, Publisher, Queen's Ferry Press Rose Hunter creates energizing convergences of form and language and then she pulls them apart again, the white space admitting space for changing directions, perception, and hearts. Her words take shape as breath, imagination, and life.-Susan Smith Nash, author of The Adventures of Tinguely Querer A TEXTURE PRESS publication

"That someone could write so many sonnets is not a surprise. That someone could write so many good, witty, poignant, thoughtful, alert sonnets, page after page of them, as Don Riggs does, is amazing. Paintings, boy scouts, temporary cats, different kinds of nakedness, house flies, tarot readings and memories of the poet's father are a few of the dozens of subjects that motivate theseemotionally-complex poems which are much more than mere formal display. The drawings are sly charmers. This book is a delight, and an event." - Daisy Fried

A Southern Gothic novel of terror based upon events that occurred within a historic country home."While I am a believer in good and evil, my religious convictions prevent me from interpreting the events that transpired in the house that was moved from Dahlonega Street to Mt. Ebal. It is important for these facts to remain isolated from my own beliefs. What happened or why it did is left to the reader's interpretation. I have found from my own experience that a person should not look too deeply into dark rooms or stare at antique mirrors. My hand writes this story as one whose fingers are placed upon a Ouija board. I know not what direction or answers it will provide."

"The river flows by like a giant's dream, /and if I dipped my hand in, what would come?" writes Anne Higgins. Countless moments of wonder like this illuminate Reconnaissance, a collection that is both lovely and fierce. Elegant and precise descriptions of birdlife and gardens mingle with angry confrontations with illness and a tour de force poem about a catastrophic fire in a Catholic elementary school. A poet in full command of her lyric powers, Higgins also offers us jets of language play and splashes of Magritte-inspired surrealism. An eclectic collection of many pleasures and surprises.-Lynn Levin, author of Miss Plastiqu

"These are great noir stories, with a very intelligent self-awareness that makes them existentially perplexing and entertaining at the same time. Kind of a guilty pleasure. Love the wry darkness."-Susan Smith Nash, author of "The Adventures of Tinguely Querer"

Poems: geological, geographical, lithological

E-Learning Success: From Courses to Careers is a wide-ranging, robust, and always useful collection of articles that help you succeed in your online courses, complete your online program, and to find a satisfying career in an ever-changing world. Many of the most common worries and concerns are addressed as Dr. Susan Smith Nash, who has designed, developed, and administered e-learning and m-learning programs in a wide range of fields, guides you on your path. You'll enjoy the humor, the quirky perspective, and the always upbeat and positive tone of the articles, even as you mine them for information that you can put to work today.Nash has received numerous awards and recognitions for her articles, blogs, and programs she has designed, and she is known as a turnaround specialist, who can take flagging programs and put them on their feet so that they start carrying their weight in their organization and contributing to the overall prestige, mission, and bottom line.

Today's e-learning organization - college, university, school, training unit, or business -- faces unique challenges, and this book of essays and articles is an invaluable resource. In this book by Susan Smith Nash, who has been involved in the development and administration of distance and online courses since the early 1990s, you will find articles on leadership, teaching, curriculum, e-learning "in extremus," technology (including the theory and effective use of podcasts, blogs, and new popular technology-forward devices), student needs and instructional activities that bring about highly effective learning situations. The articles in this book answer your questions. The solid scholarship and resources for further study help you succeed in the ever-evolving world of e-learning.