Rebecca: 4598 books

HOW WELL CAN A MOTHER EVER REALLY KNOW HER CHILD? Julian and Annie have only just announced their forthcoming marriage when Annie’s twelve-year-old son, Dan, fails to come home from school. Despite an extensive police investigation, the days turn into weeks and it is as if Dan has vanished...

Shortlisted for The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry First Collection Prize 2017. Rebecca Watts's debut collection is a witty, warm-hearted guide to the English landscape, and a fresh take on nature poetry. In assured style, Watts positions herself where Wordsworth, Frost and Hughes have stood; with...

There's a body in Lauren James's back garden. And everyone is telling lies... A twisty tale of deceit and deadly consequences from prize-winning northern crime writer Rebecca Muddiman. What would you do to protect your family? The body in Lauren James's back garden belongs to her ex-boyfriend,...

Set on a college campus in Vermont, Spinning into Butter is a new play by a major young American playwright that explores the dangers of both racism and political correctness in America today in a manner that is at once profound, disturbing, darkly comic, and deeply cathartic. Rebecca Gilman challenges...

Henri is short for Henrietta and when a long-legged man appears to walk her to her car, then dies after he sends her flowers (two carnations), she knows it can't be suicide. She enlists the help of friends, and the orphaned doxie to solve the mystery. Her cat too, can't help get in on the action,...

This compilation of short stories and art pieces was created by the Literary Journal Club from John C. Kimball High School. Besides including works from members of the club, it also features winning pieces from monthly writing contests held at the school.

GABRIEL is based on an unmarried teenage couple who sailed to America from Mexico to give their unborn baby a richer life. Tony Valdez and Maria Angelina Delgado would have been street children of the early 1900s. They were the star entertainers of Magdalina's Cantina,owned by Magdalina Chavez,an...

Nestled in the backwoods of Appalachia, Maw would always tell her children stories, ones about the mountains, ones about fearful creatures and ones about how important family was. Otis always kept these stories close to his heart. Even after the incident, he retold these stories over and over again,...

Celebrate with Harmony Ink Press as we recognize the talented winners of our first annual Young Author Challenge. This anthology showcases the LGBTQ genre’s best up-and-coming-authors between the ages of fourteen and twenty-one. The transition from childhood to adulthood is never easy, and...

A sensation upon its publication in 1970, Sexual Politics documents the subjugation of women in great literature and art. Kate Millett's analysis targets four revered authors—D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Norman Mailer, and Jean Genet—and builds a damning profile of literature's patriarchal myths...

What happens when poetry, “rises off the cracked surface of grief?” Rebecca Watkins explores both the grief and what rises in her newest collection, SOMETIMES, IN THESE PLACES. Through her thematic exploration of drug addiction, poverty, reticent religion, loneliness, and family, there is, throughout...

This book is a collection of my best poems that I could find. I had so many poems scattered everywhere; backs of bills, napkins, anything I could find when the words would come to me. So I made this book so they would all be in one place. Most of the poems are written in the last ten years but some...

In Mass Hysteria, Rebecca Kukla examines the present-day medical and cultural practices surrounding pregnancy, new motherhood, and infant feeding. In the late-eighteenth century, the configuration of the maternal body underwent a radical transformation and the two maternal bodies that emerged out...

An ex-teacher and an ex-junkie meet on a night bus during long, dark nights of homelessness. A year on, Irena has rebuilt her life. But just as she thinks she is safe, Amy crashes head-first back into it with bigger dreams for life’s second chances. Rebecca Walker’s Wretch toured...