New Releases by Laura Moriarty

A series of poems that explores walking, writing, and making as divinatory practices. Documenting (and interrogating) the poet''s daily walks, Which Walks investigates the twin practices of walking and art-making while aging. Gender is also a central concern in this intensely feminist work. Moriarty''s book relates to the endlessly unfinished journeys of Nathaniel Mackey''s long poems, as well as to the dailiness of many writers from Charles Baudelaire to Robert Creeley. These poems are an extension of the author''s visual practice, which she is returning to after a fifty-year break. Here she succeeds in existing--even thriving--in today''s strange, often terrifying, world.

A mesmerizing exploration of the intensity and power of volcanoes in personal, geologic, and spiritual time.

A powerful and thought-provoking YA debut from New York Times bestselling author Laura Moriarty. Imagine a United States in which registries and detainment camps for Muslim-Americans are a reality. Fifteen-year-old Sarah-Mary Williams of Hannibal, Missouri, lives in this world, and though she has strong opinions on almost everything, she isn’t concerned with the internments because she doesn’t know any Muslims. She assumes that everything she reads and sees in the news is true, and that these plans are better for everyone’s safety. But when she happens upon Sadaf, a Muslim fugitive determined to reach freedom in Canada, Sarah-Mary at first believes she must turn her in. But Sadaf challenges Sarah-Mary’s perceptions of right and wrong, and instead Sarah-Mary decides, with growing conviction, to do all she can to help Sadaf escape. The two set off on a desperate journey, hitchhiking through the heart of an America that is at times courageous and kind, but always full of tension and danger for anyone deemed suspicious.

This book is written by someone who substituted for over five years, so you can be sure you will read things about this public job that are rarely spoken about openly.Substitute teachers often stand alone working behind a veil of obscurity and secrecy. But they should not exist in isolation or be treated as outsiders. There are some tips for substitutes in this book, especially knowing what the job can be like when there are behavioral and disciplinary issues. Therefore, facing these difficulties is the first step needed to make improvements in what should be a collaborative system . . . specifically, one that puts children first.

About the book . . ."Irish Luck" is the story of the grandparents of "The Nine Irish Sons."Before Jack Jones left for Queenstown to board the Titanic on a secret quest, he prepared legal documents leaving all he owned to his fianc�. Still, feeling strangely uneasy, he wanted to secure their bond and a definite future together, so they made love the day before he left.Maud, born nine months later, never knew of her illegitimacy---only that she adored the picture of her beloved unknown father Jones. When she met a young, handsome Irish Admiral who resembled the picture, and introduced himself as Jones O''Malley from Mayo County, she fell in love instantly.An unpredictable conundrum of Irish Luck ensues---unexpected romances unexpected wealth---unexpected illegitimacy, unexpected ties to the IRA, and unexpected children.

The O''Malley family believes that Tim, the youngest of the Nine Irish Sons, is a renowned lover, leaving broken hearts at every port. He is smart, a comedian, a dancer, and despite his job as a spy in the family agency, is chased by copious numbers of young women who find him charming and gorgeous. But the truth is that he is the shyest of men, and has had no real relationships or sexual experience. He doesn''t know why.On the other hand, Patrick, the bastard son of Gabriel O''Malley and Madeline O''Meara McStanish, and step son of Agnes O''Malley, is assumed to be a cold blooded spy, with an icy dull personality, and somewhat boring look. Compared to his princely half cousins, Patrick looks ordinary. They can''t imagine him attracting women.Then his physical skills become the object of incredulity and gossip. The Nine Irish Sons often wonder about his callous proficiencies and lack of friendliness behind his back. They finally discover to their amazement---the real truth---that Patrick has had numerous love affairs, and has fathered a profuse number of children around the globe.

Una futura estrella del cine mudo y la mujer que la acompaña a Nueva York, en los vertiginosos años veinte.

A new collection of poetry from the important experimental writer of the "A Tonalist" lyric

About the book . . . Sandy Hook, New Jersey is called a barrier spit. It looks like a little finger that sticks up out of the State into the New York Bay just south of New York City. It is located on the northeast side of New Jersey. It is approximately six miles long and its width varies between one-tenth of a mile, and one mile wide, and ends in Middletown Township in Monmouth County. The name comes from the Dutch who called the area "Sant Hoek", meaning "spit of land."The Sandy Hook Lighthouse---originally the New York Lighthouse---was commissioned by George Washington and is the oldest working lighthouse in the United States. Many of the records of the lighthouse keepers are missing between 1923 and 1962. This lighthouse seemed to conjure up many stories over the years. Its endless association with legends and obscurities includes a mysterious sea and abandoned human bones.*****A child of an Irish Baron and housemaid discovers she was abandoned to a couple on a baby farm in Scotland. She loves her foster parents deeply, but they are killed in an accident, and she is scooped away from the farm by a rich and very strict Calvinist aunt.She suffers additional tragedies despite being blessed with a good education and wealth through several deaths. Her life of heartbreak and desire is never quenched until she has a baby of her own, Nora.But it was a short-lived reprieve from unhappiness, as a catastrophe takes her and her rich husband Harry Fairmont, who had lost all he owned in the stock market crash of 1929.Nora miraculously ends up on the barrier spit of Sandy Hook where she grows up in the lighthouse with strangers during the depression.

Août 1922. Louise Brooks a 15 ans. Cette future icône du cinéma muet intègre la prestigieuse école de danse de Denishawn et touche du doigt son rêve : quitter sa ville étriquée du Kansas pour la flamboyante New York. Seule ombre au tableau, ses parents lui imposent une chaperonne, Cora Carlisle. Une femme aux antipodes de la jeune Louise, avec des valeurs, le souci des convenances, mais aussi de lourds secrets... Car si Cora se porte volontaire pour accompagner la jeune fille, c''est avant tout pour pouvoir partir sur les traces de son propre passé obscur. Elle n''imaginait pas que préserver la vertu de sa protégée s''avérerait aussi difficile. Louise, avec son air mutin, son petit carré noir soyeux à la frange bien dessinée, attire les regards, elle a soif de liberté et entend bien profiter de cette ville enchanteresse qui foisonne de théâtres, résonne d''un jazz enivrant et fourmille d''hommes. Ces cinq semaines passées ensemble vont changer le cours de leur vie à jamais.... Une sublime fresque romanesque tout en sensibilité, deux portraits de femmes d''une force, d''une audace et d''une modernité éblouissantes !

Kevin O''Malley & The Oxford Connection follows The Secrets of Nine Irish Sons trilogy, but precedes the first book in time. However, much like a sequel, this story references parts of the original trilogy which should be read first.This story is pure fiction. But the idea behind it came from a multitude of real news reports by The New York Times, The Guardian, CSPAN, The Huffington Post, PBS, and other sources that that have reported and explained the cultural beliefs, greed, and immorality behind the insane enslavement and torture of women and children.While the tale itself could be equated to a comic book action hero styled story, it is also filled with the emotional terror of real situations, and presents the reader with many provocative questions about a netherworld of evil that not only exists across all nations, but is one that is often ignored by law enforcement.

New York in den Goldenen Zwanzigern: Eine turbulente Metropole voller Leben, Musik, Abenteuer - ein aufregendes Versprechen. Als die fünfzehnjährige Louise aus dem verschlafenen Kansas dorthin reist, um Tänzerin zu werden, geht für sie ein Traum in Erfüllung. Hals über Kopf stürzt sich das neugierige, unkonventionelle Mädchen in diese berauschende Welt - sehr zum Missfallen ihrer Anstandsdame Cora, einer Frau mit traditionellen Wertvorstellungen. Doch hinter Coras korrekter Fassade verbirgt sich ein trauriges Schicksal, von dem niemand ahnt. Die Reise nach New York ist für sie eine Reise in die Vergangenheit.

Joe O''Malley is one of the youngest of The Nine Irish Sons. He chose to go to college in the U.S., first to Columbia in N.Y., and then to Georgetown Law School. His dream is to be invited into an elite D.C. law firm and then to run for congress. But his family interferes. He is literally forced into a public defender''s position in New York where Katherine Rose Gilmore set up a task force on the human trafficking of sex slaves. Joe assumes Katherine was responsible for his mother''s interference in his work and is immediately resentful. He pouts over the improbable fulfillment of his political dreams and takes it out on her. Joe''s grandmother is the true master behind the plans to have them marry, and ultimately have Joe elected to congress to uncover a myriad of international crimes by greedy politicians. But she doesn''t leave their future to pure chance. She sets plans into motion that force the two to work together on a dangerous mission until their resistance to being set up is broken and their dormant desires boil over into a rare romance.

This is the story of grandparents of*****The Nine Irish Sons*****Brigid Jones meets Patrick a.k.a. Jones O''Malley when he walks into her mother''s bakery in Dublin. He''s dressed as an Admiral and she sees an idealized image of the father she never met. The two decide they were meant for each other almost immediately when they discover that they have identical ambitions---to marry, own a cottage, and raise a bunch of children, and interestingly dismiss the need for a romantic courtship.Unknown, however, are private lives that are filled with unspoken suffering and strange ordeals. In the end, they are blessed with the many children they both desired, but not all were their own. Brigid says in the end, "Sometimes I think there are millions of Irish spirits desperate to be born whether they end up with a decent life or not---it''s as if none of us are as important as that next life that just has to be brought into the world in Ireland."

Short descriptionAlexis Dering is the son of a rich lord in Exeter, EnglandWhen he learns that his ancestors were frauds and hypo-crites, guilty of unspeakable crimes, he decides to strike out on his own, leaving his wealth and potential positionbehind.Despite his desire to help humanity and live a peaceful life, he runs into endless obstacles. His life is filled with unrequitedlove and tragedy. Only late in life does he discover true love, and hope to live the life he has always desired.

Soon to be a feature film from the creators of Downton Abbey starring Elizabeth McGovern, The Chaperone is a New York Times-bestselling novel about the woman who chaperoned an irreverent Louise Brooks to New York City in the 1920s and the summer that would change them both. Only a few years before becoming a famous silent-film star and an icon of her generation, a fifteen-year-old Louise Brooks leaves Wichita, Kansas, to study with the prestigious Denishawn School of Dancing in New York. Much to her annoyance, she is accompanied by a thirty-six-year-old chaperone, who is neither mother nor friend. Cora Carlisle, a complicated but traditional woman with her own reasons for making the trip, has no idea what she’s in for. Young Louise, already stunningly beautiful and sporting her famous black bob with blunt bangs, is known for her arrogance and her lack of respect for convention. Ultimately, the five weeks they spend together will transform their lives forever. For Cora, the city holds the promise of discovery that might answer the question at the core of her being, and even as she does her best to watch over Louise in this strange and bustling place she embarks on a mission of her own. And while what she finds isn’t what she anticipated, she is liberated in a way she could not have imagined. Over the course of Cora’s relationship with Louise, her eyes are opened to the promise of the twentieth century and a new understanding of the possibilities for being fully alive. Drawing on the rich history of the 1920s, ’30s, and beyond—from the orphan trains to Prohibition, flappers, and the onset of the Great Depression to the burgeoning movement for equal rights and new opportunities for women—Laura Moriarty’s The Chaperone illustrates how rapidly everything, from fashion and hemlines to values and attitudes, was changing at this time and what a vast difference it all made for Louise Brooks, Cora Carlisle, and others like them.

This is a story taken from the lineage of the O''Malley family in "The Secrets of Nine Irish Sons".Around 300 B.C., a handsome Roman general, nephew of the reigning Caesar, is sent off to battle pirates and bring home treasure for the glory of Rome. Along the way, he comes across an extremely unusual Irish ship crewed by both male and female pirates, a bad omen as far as his crew is concerned . . . and an unlikely source of any kind of treasure. Nonetheless, the general is instantly smitten by the ship''s beautiful captain and orders his reluctant crew to pursue the strange vessel. Despite disaster, his quest continues until the general is taken prisoner by an unfriendly King. When the King turns him over to an ugly peasant woman, our hero continues to pine for his lost love. Both prisoner and caretaker live in fantasy worlds where they yearn for what they cannot have until a shocking discovery changes everything for both of them.

From The Secrets of Nine Irish Sons TrilogyAfter Rosemary O''Connor finds her abusive husband sneaking into her young daughter''s bedroom, she spends the next few years physically fighting him off to protect her beautiful Brigid. In the end, Rosemary saves her from her father, but is unable to shield Brigid from a ravaging stranger, a man nearly twice her age, who uses the young girl''s desperate desire for love to seduce her. Once she learns her daughter is pregnant, as if tempting fate, Rosemary suffers a final altercation. She sends Brigid away while secretly condemning her husband to prison. Rosemary''s scheme was to save Brigid from a pitiless society that oppressed unwed mothers during the early days of the 1900s. But she frightens her in the process. As a result, vestiges of her fear and caution keeps her desire for a husband perpetually fettered---and then each time she is ready to fall in love, fate intervenes.

Reiley Freeze was an extremely heroic, kind, and popular character with readers in the trilogy, The Secrets of Nine Irish Sons. His instant charisma was evident with everyone he knew. He was fascinating, and yet, he never met very many people---he was always on the move.Reiley was the envy of every man who ever met him including his own brother. He didn''t understand why men disliked him because he didn''t realize that he made choices with a power that many men lacked---the internal fortitude to set aside his own desires for the sake of others. He stayed completely loyal to his goals---to provide a permanent life of security for the generations who would follow his own. He made every decision as closely aligned with the world''s most valued and yet difficult necessity---the one that says good men must conquer the evil ones while not becoming stained with sin and guilt--- the only way for a man to become a real hero.Even more unlikely, the men who disliked him out of jealousy, principally because he was so admired by women, couldn''t see the truth. They saw his charm, but yet, he held no pretense or swagger. The reason women longed for him was because of his way---his way with words---his way with a smile---his way with a helping hand, and most importantly, his way with his goodness.

“Fate provviste, staccate il telefono e chiudetevi in casa: non riuscirete a metter giù questo libro prima di aver letto la parola fine.” Kirkus Reviews Un divorzio. Un esame. Una tempesta di ghiaccio. Talvolta la vita accelera per insegnarci a starle dietro. Tutti si aspettano qualcosa da Veronica. Tim, che vuole andare a vivere con lei. Suo padre, che insiste perché faccia medicina. Perfino quello psicopatico di Jimmy, che le affida la casa mentre è via. Tutti contano su di lei, perché è una brava ragazza, assennata e diligente. Fino a che la vita perfettamente ordinata di Veronica si trasforma di colpo in un campo minato di dubbi: i suoi genitori divorziano da un giorno all’altro dopo ventisei anni di matrimonio, gli esami vanno storti e la voglia di studiare sparisce insieme a quella di rigare dritto. Cos’è? La fine del mondo? Forse sì. O forse è solo l’occasione per imparare che a volte ciò che conta è anche saper infrangere le regole, e avere il coraggio di andarsi a prendere quello che manca. Soprattutto se a mancare è un piccolo extra di felicità.

Field Notes is a collaborative group of visual artists living and working in New York State''s Mid-Hudson Valley region, in close proximity to the Catskill Mountain Range and the Shawngunk Ridge, northern regions of the Appalachian Range. Comprising this collective are Robert Capozzi, Lorrie Fredette, Dylan McManus, Laura Moriarty, and Jill Parisi. Each of the artists addresses the earth''s environment through various conceptual and technical means. This book catalogs their installation in the Ruffin Gallery of the University of Virginia, 2010.

In a combination of discourse and lyric, paragraph and couplet, Bay Area poet and novelist Laura Moriarty explicates the poetics of a group of writers that resists categorization. This book-length essay uses the work of the California Tonalist painters to articulate new understanding and new possibilities for poetic practice.