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Secondary Inspections, Carla Rachel Sameth's first full-length poetry collection, explores the life of the mother with loss and nuance as the book's central figure simultaneously deals with a son's addiction and a mother's dementia and death. These twin trials are approached in the context of a flawed and celebrated humanity that is authentic, rewarding, and difficult. The seasons of grief also look backward on the experience of recurrent miscarriages, shining a light on the vulnerability and potential for loss inherent from the moment motherhood is first contemplated. The exposure of coming undone is very real here, as the poems say, unmoored, unspooled, unpacked, but alongside it, Sameth never turns away from the continued sense of becoming. Located in Los Angeles and beyond, the culture of place and finding home along with themes of Jewish ancestry, identity, race, and queerness are also touchstones. Secondary Inspections invites us to take a second look at what we thought we knew and shows us how things are not always what they seem-identity can be questioned, provoke danger, and leave us impacted by how others see us; the bedrock of a family can be forever shifting and we too shift along with it. Through powerful narrative and vivid imagery, Sameth's poetry travels, searches, stumbles, and ultimately, returns. Even amidst heart-staggering moments, she reveals a rich cultural life that is both within, and that is further made possible by deeply being in the places you love with the people you love.

What happens when the magic runs out and the stars don't shine the way we want them to?We look for meaning in the way the stars connect and gleam, the way they shimmer and fade, the way they navigate us through life's toughest moments. But what if you were your own guiding light along the way?In this celestial-inspired collection, the reader is taken on a journey through Rachael's version of the stars. Through the constellations that connect us, the shooting stars that shine for us, the blank, starless skies that darken us, and the cosmos that burn for us, only one truth remains:The meaning of stars is you.

In a land where daemons stalk the shadows, shades haunt the living, and magic comes from absent Gods, Kyrith Nefion knows what it takes to survive. Since the Fracture War split Akadon thirteen years ago, he's been raised by the enemy as punishment for his father's crimes. In turn, Ezran Breckhym has taken his place in the splendor of the Northern court. When Kyrith returns home without a single demand from the Southern King, the Northern crown is shaken. Both traded Princes struggle to find their place. Kyrith's scars run too deep, in every sense. The answers Ezran receives from Arra Enryn, the distant daughter of an infamous Southern General, serve as more troublesome reflections.Secrets abound. Arra must decide whether to betray her King for the only friend she has ever known. Kyrith's magic must stay hidden, even from the disciplined guard who oddly bends the rules for him. Ezran's feelings threaten not only his illusion of home, but also the bonds he's made with the Northern royals. A broken family has to learn to piece itself back together, while a Southern shadow threatens to do the same to the fractured Empire-by force.

In 2013 I survived the Boston Marathon Bombing. First Light serves as a guide from the time of the bombing, to my life with PTSD, my experience with healing, relationships and motherhood. In the courtroom, I told the bomber that "I know one day I'll be a better mother and my husband a better father because we will show our children all that is good in this world; all there is to be thankful for." This collection is a tribute to that commitment and a testament to the idea that we can keep going.Like a prism in a window trying to catch first light,Or last light. I'll wiggle and wrangle and wonder:Why are my clues jumbled? Why does first light and last night, morning dew and evening mist- Why do they all feel the same?Imprisoned in a body that begs for its compass to right. I keep searching. For first, I mean last, I mean first light.

Pitbull mix, Colby, has been passed over so many times for adoption he's completely given up hope. People don't like the look of him, never giving him a chance to shine. That is until one day a girl named Kennedy shows up to play! Together they learn how to belong and that everyone deserves a home!