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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Whispers Behind Holy Days: The Stories Faith Keeps Quietly is a collection of clinical-realism verse about belief, doubt, ritual, inheritance, grief, community, and the quiet acts of care that survive even when people no longer agree about what anything means.The calendar calls them holidays. Holy days. Days off. Days of obligation. Days of memory. A square with a name. A service on the schedule. A school closed. A meal expected. A candle lit. A prayer repeated. But before anyone names the theology, someone is already standing in the kitchen with flour to her elbows, making the dish her mother made in another country, another house, another version of home. Someone is finding the good tablecloth. Someone is hiding in the car before walking into the building. Someone is explaining a fast to a coworker who meant well and still said it wrong. Someone is sitting in a pew and wondering whether staying is faith, habit, grief, fear, love, or all of them at once.Across thirty pieces organized into four acts - What We Were Raised In, What They See, What It Costs, and What We Keep - Brian Edward McDermott writes from inside the intimate, ordinary places where faith is lived more often than announced: the grandmother's prayer beads worn smooth by years of thumb and worry, the airport screening line where a name or garment suddenly becomes suspicious, the school hallway where a child learns which parts of home to explain and which parts to protect, the break room after a bad joke, the funeral kitchen buried in casseroles, the holiday table where old wounds sit down beside old recipes, and the eleven private minutes a coworker guards behind a truck seat without ever asking anyone to understand what happens there.This is not a collection that tries to prove belief true or disbelief false. It does not defend one faith by diminishing another. It does not ask the reader to admire every practice, excuse every institution, or condemn the people who leave what they inherited. Instead, Whispers Behind Holy Days holds the believer and the nonbeliever with equal dignity. It makes room for the person who doubts but still shows up, the person who left because the room was no longer safe, the person who converted and still feels one step behind everyone born into the language, the person who keeps the recipes but not the prayers, and the person who no longer knows what they believe but still knows how to bring food when someone dies.At the center of the volume, a funeral kitchen becomes a temporary truce. One woman believes everything happens for a reason. Another believes that sentence should never be said to a grieving person. They reach for the same dish. Their hands touch. They move the casserole together. Nobody wins. Nobody has to.Written with restraint, compassion, and emotional precision, this collection explores the hidden costs and quiet mercies of faith as it is actually lived: in families, workplaces, schools, hospitals, kitchens, sanctuaries, airports, cemeteries, and the private rooms people carry inside themselves. These poems are not sermons. They are witnesses. They listen for what faith keeps quietly - the customs that outlive certainty, the kindnesses that cross belief, the silences people protect, and the sacred labor of showing up for one another anyway.Whispers Behind Holy Days is for readers who have stayed, readers who have left, readers who are still deciding, and readers who know that sometimes the holiest thing in the room is not the argument anyone wins, but the dish someone carries to the grieving table. Through intimate verse, this collection explores the messy, human reality of devotion and doubt, finding sanctity not in dogma, but in the quiet ritua Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Whispers Behind Weathered Acres: The Stories Farm and Ranch Families Never Tell is a collection of clinical-realism verse about the private weight carried by the families who feed others while trying to hold their own ground.Agriculture has a roadside portrait: green fields, red barns, calves in spring grass, rows planted straight, combines moving beneath orange sunsets, porch lights glowing at the edge of gravel roads. From the outside, it can look simple, nostalgic, even peaceful. From inside the operation, the view is different.Inside are milk checks that do not cover the feed bill. A calf alive at midnight and gone by morning. Hay down in the field while rain gathers on the radar. A child learning the skid steer before learning parallel parking. A farm wife working a job in town so the farm can remain home. A son who left because staying would have broken him. A daughter who came back and found the place both smaller and heavier than memory. An auction that feels like a funeral because every wagon, gate, tractor, and feed bunk knows where it stood.Through thirty-three pieces organized across four acts - Raised by Chores, Weather Has the Last Word, The Cost of Keeping, and What the Land Remembers - Brian Edward McDermott writes from inside the working world of farms, ranches, barns, kitchens, sheds, fence lines, sale barns, milk houses, machine shops, lambing pens, calving lots, orchards, gardens, and fields where weather is never small talk. Weather is payroll. Feed. Milk. Debt. Birth. Death. Whether the field comes in. Whether the road drifts shut. Whether the vet arrives in time. Whether the family makes it one more season.This collection does not romanticize agricultural life. It does not turn farm and ranch families into scenery, nostalgia, moral symbols, or hardship tourism. The equipment is named. The animals are real. The financial pressure is exact. The people are composite, but the strain is not. These poems bear witness to the daily labor and emotional cost behind dairy farms, crop farms, beef operations, hog barns, sheep farms, goat herds, ranches, beekeeping yards, homesteads, market gardens, orchards, poultry flocks, and the unexpected animals tucked behind Midwestern fences by families who learned to make room for what needed care.Whispers Behind Weathered Acres listens for the stories that rarely get told plainly: the pride that will not admit exhaustion, the grief that has to wait until chores are done, the argument held in silence because everyone still has to work together in the morning, the inherited land that feels like both blessing and debt, the marriage stretched across seasons, the child who knows where the weak gate is, the father who measures love in repaired machinery, the mother who notices everything and has no hour in which to collapse, the old farmer standing at the edge of a field that remembers him better than the world ever will.Written with restraint, grit, and emotional precision, this volume honors the families who learned that care is not sentimental when it must be done in mud, ice, heat, debt, sickness, and dark. It is for the children raised in rubber boots, bib overalls, chore coats, feed-store caps, borrowed gloves, and pickup trucks that smelled like hay, diesel, dog hair, and yesterday's coffee. It is for the ones who stayed, the ones who left, the ones who came back, and the ones who still cannot drive past the old place without slowing down. At its heart, this collection is about keeping - keeping animals alive, keeping fields working, keeping families fed, keeping promises made before anyone understood the cost, and keeping memory in land that weather keeps trying to rewrite.For the families who know that a farm is n Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Whispers Behind Holy Days: The Stories Faith Keeps Quietly is a collection of clinical-realism verse about belief, doubt, ritual, inheritance, grief, community, and the quiet acts of care that survive even when people no longer agree about what anything means.The calendar calls them holidays. Holy days. Days off. Days of obligation. Days of memory. A square with a name. A service on the schedule. A school closed. A meal expected. A candle lit. A prayer repeated. But before anyone names the theology, someone is already standing in the kitchen with flour to her elbows, making the dish her mother made in another country, another house, another version of home. Someone is finding the good tablecloth. Someone is hiding in the car before walking into the building. Someone is explaining a fast to a coworker who meant well and still said it wrong. Someone is sitting in a pew and wondering whether staying is faith, habit, grief, fear, love, or all of them at once.Across thirty pieces organized into four acts - What We Were Raised In, What They See, What It Costs, and What We Keep - Brian Edward McDermott writes from inside the intimate, ordinary places where faith is lived more often than announced: the grandmother's prayer beads worn smooth by years of thumb and worry, the airport screening line where a name or garment suddenly becomes suspicious, the school hallway where a child learns which parts of home to explain and which parts to protect, the break room after a bad joke, the funeral kitchen buried in casseroles, the holiday table where old wounds sit down beside old recipes, and the eleven private minutes a coworker guards behind a truck seat without ever asking anyone to understand what happens there.This is not a collection that tries to prove belief true or disbelief false. It does not defend one faith by diminishing another. It does not ask the reader to admire every practice, excuse every institution, or condemn the people who leave what they inherited. Instead, Whispers Behind Holy Days holds the believer and the nonbeliever with equal dignity. It makes room for the person who doubts but still shows up, the person who left because the room was no longer safe, the person who converted and still feels one step behind everyone born into the language, the person who keeps the recipes but not the prayers, and the person who no longer knows what they believe but still knows how to bring food when someone dies.At the center of the volume, a funeral kitchen becomes a temporary truce. One woman believes everything happens for a reason. Another believes that sentence should never be said to a grieving person. They reach for the same dish. Their hands touch. They move the casserole together. Nobody wins. Nobody has to.Written with restraint, compassion, and emotional precision, this collection explores the hidden costs and quiet mercies of faith as it is actually lived: in families, workplaces, schools, hospitals, kitchens, sanctuaries, airports, cemeteries, and the private rooms people carry inside themselves. These poems are not sermons. They are witnesses. They listen for what faith keeps quietly - the customs that outlive certainty, the kindnesses that cross belief, the silences people protect, and the sacred labor of showing up for one another anyway.Whispers Behind Holy Days is for readers who have stayed, readers who have left, readers who are still deciding, and readers who know that sometimes the holiest thing in the room is not the argument anyone wins, but the dish someone carries to the grieving table. Through intimate verse, this collection explores the messy, human reality of devotion and doubt, finding sanctity not in dogma, but in th Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Whispers Behind Weathered Acres: The Stories Farm and Ranch Families Never Tell is a collection of clinical-realism verse about the private weight carried by the families who feed others while trying to hold their own ground.Agriculture has a roadside portrait: green fields, red barns, calves in spring grass, rows planted straight, combines moving beneath orange sunsets, porch lights glowing at the edge of gravel roads. From the outside, it can look simple, nostalgic, even peaceful. From inside the operation, the view is different.Inside are milk checks that do not cover the feed bill. A calf alive at midnight and gone by morning. Hay down in the field while rain gathers on the radar. A child learning the skid steer before learning parallel parking. A farm wife working a job in town so the farm can remain home. A son who left because staying would have broken him. A daughter who came back and found the place both smaller and heavier than memory. An auction that feels like a funeral because every wagon, gate, tractor, and feed bunk knows where it stood.Through thirty-three pieces organized across four acts - Raised by Chores, Weather Has the Last Word, The Cost of Keeping, and What the Land Remembers - Brian Edward McDermott writes from inside the working world of farms, ranches, barns, kitchens, sheds, fence lines, sale barns, milk houses, machine shops, lambing pens, calving lots, orchards, gardens, and fields where weather is never small talk. Weather is payroll. Feed. Milk. Debt. Birth. Death. Whether the field comes in. Whether the road drifts shut. Whether the vet arrives in time. Whether the family makes it one more season.This collection does not romanticize agricultural life. It does not turn farm and ranch families into scenery, nostalgia, moral symbols, or hardship tourism. The equipment is named. The animals are real. The financial pressure is exact. The people are composite, but the strain is not. These poems bear witness to the daily labor and emotional cost behind dairy farms, crop farms, beef operations, hog barns, sheep farms, goat herds, ranches, beekeeping yards, homesteads, market gardens, orchards, poultry flocks, and the unexpected animals tucked behind Midwestern fences by families who learned to make room for what needed care.Whispers Behind Weathered Acres listens for the stories that rarely get told plainly: the pride that will not admit exhaustion, the grief that has to wait until chores are done, the argument held in silence because everyone still has to work together in the morning, the inherited land that feels like both blessing and debt, the marriage stretched across seasons, the child who knows where the weak gate is, the father who measures love in repaired machinery, the mother who notices everything and has no hour in which to collapse, the old farmer standing at the edge of a field that remembers him better than the world ever will.Written with restraint, grit, and emotional precision, this volume honors the families who learned that care is not sentimental when it must be done in mud, ice, heat, debt, sickness, and dark. It is for the children raised in rubber boots, bib overalls, chore coats, feed-store caps, borrowed gloves, and pickup trucks that smelled like hay, diesel, dog hair, and yesterday's coffee. It is for the ones who stayed, the ones who left, the ones who came back, and the ones who still cannot drive past the old place without slowing down. At its heart, this collection is about keeping - keeping animals alive, keeping fields working, keeping families fed, keeping promises made before anyone understood the cost, and keeping memory in land that weather keeps trying to rewrite.For the families who know tha Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. …

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Some gangs have a captain. Some have a map-keeper. Some have a kid with a five-dollar bill and a very generous heart.The Gang of Dandelion Street has them all.Meet Tommy, who never backed down from anything. Stevie, who could disappear into a tree like a squirrel. Jenny, who drew the routes in crayon and led them like a general. Billy, who built a catapult out of scrap wood and pure determination. Lester, whose allowance funded every candy run and picture show. Louie, who could talk a grumpy grown-up right back out of their frown. And the one who remembers all of it - because that turns out to be the most important job of all.This is a story about the kids you grew up with, the streets you ruled, and the summers that lasted forever and ended too fast.For every child who ever had a gang - and every adult who still misses theirs. …

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Whispers Behind Weathered Acres: The Stories Farm and Ranch Families Never Tell is a collection of clinical-realism verse about the private weight carried by the families who feed others while trying to hold their own ground.Agriculture has a roadside portrait: green fields, red barns, calves in spring grass, rows planted straight, combines moving beneath orange sunsets, porch lights glowing at the edge of gravel roads. From the outside, it can look simple, nostalgic, even peaceful. From inside the operation, the view is different.Inside are milk checks that do not cover the feed bill. A calf alive at midnight and gone by morning. Hay down in the field while rain gathers on the radar. A child learning the skid steer before learning parallel parking. A farm wife working a job in town so the farm can remain home. A son who left because staying would have broken him. A daughter who came back and found the place both smaller and heavier than memory. An auction that feels like a funeral because every wagon, gate, tractor, and feed bunk knows where it stood.Through thirty-three pieces organized across four acts - Raised by Chores, Weather Has the Last Word, The Cost of Keeping, and What the Land Remembers - Brian Edward McDermott writes from inside the working world of farms, ranches, barns, kitchens, sheds, fence lines, sale barns, milk houses, machine shops, lambing pens, calving lots, orchards, gardens, and fields where weather is never small talk. Weather is payroll. Feed. Milk. Debt. Birth. Death. Whether the field comes in. Whether the road drifts shut. Whether the vet arrives in time. Whether the family makes it one more season.This collection does not romanticize agricultural life. It does not turn farm and ranch families into scenery, nostalgia, moral symbols, or hardship tourism. The equipment is named. The animals are real. The financial pressure is exact. The people are composite, but the strain is not. These poems bear witness to the daily labor and emotional cost behind dairy farms, crop farms, beef operations, hog barns, sheep farms, goat herds, ranches, beekeeping yards, homesteads, market gardens, orchards, poultry flocks, and the unexpected animals tucked behind Midwestern fences by families who learned to make room for what needed care.Whispers Behind Weathered Acres listens for the stories that rarely get told plainly: the pride that will not admit exhaustion, the grief that has to wait until chores are done, the argument held in silence because everyone still has to work together in the morning, the inherited land that feels like both blessing and debt, the marriage stretched across seasons, the child who knows where the weak gate is, the father who measures love in repaired machinery, the mother who notices everything and has no hour in which to collapse, the old farmer standing at the edge of a field that remembers him better than the world ever will.Written with restraint, grit, and emotional precision, this volume honors the families who learned that care is not sentimental when it must be done in mud, ice, heat, debt, sickness, and dark. It is for the children raised in rubber boots, bib overalls, chore coats, feed-store caps, borrowed gloves, and pickup trucks that smelled like hay, diesel, dog hair, and yesterday's coffee. It is for the ones who stayed, the ones who left, the ones who came back, and the ones who still cannot drive past the old place without slowing down. At its heart, this collection is about keeping - keeping animals alive, keeping fields working, keeping families fed, keeping promises made before anyone understood the cost, and keeping memory in land that weather keeps trying to rewrite.For the families who know tha Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Whispers Behind Holy Days: The Stories Faith Keeps Quietly is a collection of clinical-realism verse about belief, doubt, ritual, inheritance, grief, community, and the quiet acts of care that survive even when people no longer agree about what anything means.The calendar calls them holidays. Holy days. Days off. Days of obligation. Days of memory. A square with a name. A service on the schedule. A school closed. A meal expected. A candle lit. A prayer repeated. But before anyone names the theology, someone is already standing in the kitchen with flour to her elbows, making the dish her mother made in another country, another house, another version of home. Someone is finding the good tablecloth. Someone is hiding in the car before walking into the building. Someone is explaining a fast to a coworker who meant well and still said it wrong. Someone is sitting in a pew and wondering whether staying is faith, habit, grief, fear, love, or all of them at once.Across thirty pieces organized into four acts - What We Were Raised In, What They See, What It Costs, and What We Keep - Brian Edward McDermott writes from inside the intimate, ordinary places where faith is lived more often than announced: the grandmother's prayer beads worn smooth by years of thumb and worry, the airport screening line where a name or garment suddenly becomes suspicious, the school hallway where a child learns which parts of home to explain and which parts to protect, the break room after a bad joke, the funeral kitchen buried in casseroles, the holiday table where old wounds sit down beside old recipes, and the eleven private minutes a coworker guards behind a truck seat without ever asking anyone to understand what happens there.This is not a collection that tries to prove belief true or disbelief false. It does not defend one faith by diminishing another. It does not ask the reader to admire every practice, excuse every institution, or condemn the people who leave what they inherited. Instead, Whispers Behind Holy Days holds the believer and the nonbeliever with equal dignity. It makes room for the person who doubts but still shows up, the person who left because the room was no longer safe, the person who converted and still feels one step behind everyone born into the language, the person who keeps the recipes but not the prayers, and the person who no longer knows what they believe but still knows how to bring food when someone dies.At the center of the volume, a funeral kitchen becomes a temporary truce. One woman believes everything happens for a reason. Another believes that sentence should never be said to a grieving person. They reach for the same dish. Their hands touch. They move the casserole together. Nobody wins. Nobody has to.Written with restraint, compassion, and emotional precision, this collection explores the hidden costs and quiet mercies of faith as it is actually lived: in families, workplaces, schools, hospitals, kitchens, sanctuaries, airports, cemeteries, and the private rooms people carry inside themselves. These poems are not sermons. They are witnesses. They listen for what faith keeps quietly - the customs that outlive certainty, the kindnesses that cross belief, the silences people protect, and the sacred labor of showing up for one another anyway.Whispers Behind Holy Days is for readers who have stayed, readers who have left, readers who are still deciding, and readers who know that sometimes the holiest thing in the room is not the argument anyone wins, but the dish someone carries to the grieving table. Through intimate verse, this collection explores the messy, human reality of devotion and doubt, finding sanctity not in dogma, but in th Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Whispers Behind Scorched Shields: The Stories Firefighters Never Tell is a collection of clinical-realism verse about the lives, losses, humor, silence, and sacrifice carried behind the firehouse shield.The tones split the room before the coffee cools. A chair scrapes back. A fork is left beside a half-finished plate. Boots hit the floor. The bay doors rise. In seconds, ordinary people are moving toward someone else's worst day.Through thirty-three poems, Brian Edward McDermott writes from inside the gear - the hallway found by touch, the closed door that saved a child, the mayday that never quite stops echoing, the kitchen table where the meal waits under foil, the smell that follows long after the shower, the glove marks on a tired face, and the chair in the bay nobody moves because absence has its own weight.This is not a collection about fearless heroes. It is not polished myth, recruitment poster, or tribute written from a safe distance. These poems do not turn firefighters into statues or reduce the people they serve to tragedy. Instead, Whispers Behind Scorched Shields bears witness to neighbors meeting neighbors on the loudest days of their lives - house fires, highway wrecks, medical calls, false alarms, storms, smoke, water, silence, and the long ride back after everyone else believes the emergency is over.The shield is the object at the center of this volume: worn, scraped, blackened, heat-marked, and still carrying the promise. It belongs to the firefighter crawling a hallway by feel, the officer counting helmets in smoke, the rookie learning that courage is not the absence of fear, the veteran who knows which jokes are actually grief in uniform, and the family at home keeping a listening kind of sleep.Written with restraint, grit, and emotional precision, this collection honors the full world around the call: the station kitchen, the apparatus bay, the turnout rack, the child waving from a sidewalk, the spouse who hears sirens differently, the parent who checks the news before texting, the crew member who clears the scene but not the memory, and the empty space left by someone who should have come back.Whispers Behind Scorched Shields does not sensationalize fireground trauma or sentimentalize service. It looks carefully at what the work asks of the body, the mind, the family, and the soul. It holds both the gallows humor and the quiet damage, both the pride and the cost, both the call answered and the life interrupted.For firefighters, fire families, first responders, and the communities who only see the truck passing, this volume listens for what remains after the siren fades.The shield is scorched.The promise is not.…

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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Some truths grow best in the dark.Beneath the Blackened Earth is a literary Gothic collection of fifty dark poems framed by two book-ends, descending through grief, mortality, memory, war, faith, fear, power, and the truths people often bury because naming them would make them real.This is not horror built from monsters hiding in the shadows. The shadows here belong to people.Across the collection, beauty and dread occupy the same ground. The dead remain in memory. Institutions leave scars. Faith wrestles with silence. War follows people home. Grief changes shape without disappearing. And beneath ordinary life lies the uncomfortable knowledge that what has been buried is rarely truly gone.Written in a tradition that draws from Gothic literature, confessional poetry, war verse, and moral horror, Beneath the Blackened Earth favors atmosphere over spectacle and psychological unease over gore. Its poems move through intimate loss and larger human cruelties with imagery that is bleak, reflective, and often hauntingly beautiful.These are poems for readers who do not need darkness softened before examining it.For readers of Gothic poetry, dark verse, literary horror, grief writing, psychological poetry, war poetry, and meditations on mortality, Beneath the Blackened Earth asks what remains after comforting explanations fail.Fifty dark poems. Two book-ends. And beneath them all, what the ground remembers. This haunting collection of verse explores the psychological shadows of grief, war, and mortality, finding a bleak beauty in the uncomfortable truths that humanity attempts to bury. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Whispers Behind Torn Masks: The Stories Nurses Never Tell is a collection of clinical-realism verse about the emotional labor, quiet grief, hard humor, resilience, and humanity carried by nurses across every specialty.Every shift changes someone. A call light sounds. A monitor alarms. A family waits for an answer no one wants to give. A nurse washes their hands, adjusts their face, steps through the curtain, and becomes what the room needs for the next ten minutes - calm, firm, gentle, fast, kind, steady, unbreakable.Then the next room needs the same thing.Through original poetry and expressive artwork, Brian Edward McDermott writes from inside the work nurses carry but rarely chart: the patient who reminds them of someone they love, the joke told at the nurses' station because grief has to breathe somehow, the body mechanics of holding up more than a body, the missed lunch, the full bladder, the family anger absorbed without reply, the child who should not have been there, the elder who squeezed a hand once before letting go, and the drive home when the mask finally tears.This collection honors nurses in hospitals, clinics, long-term care, emergency departments, intensive care units, operating rooms, pediatrics, hospice, home health, psychiatric care, school nursing, labor and delivery, rehabilitation, public health, and every place where skilled hands meet human need. It recognizes the triumphs no one sees, the losses no one knows how to ask about, the impossible tenderness of routine care, and the strange comedy that keeps people moving when the shift is too heavy to carry straight-faced.Whispers Behind Torn Masks does not romanticize nursing. It does not reduce nurses to angels, heroes, martyrs, or machines. It bears witness to the cost of compassion when compassion is asked to clock in again and again. These poems explore burnout, compassion fatigue, moral injury, grief, humor, exhaustion, teamwork, skill, memory, and the extraordinary humanity found beneath every pair of scrubs.The mask is the object at the center of this volume: protective, necessary, professional, and sometimes torn by everything it has been asked to hide. Behind it is the nurse who knows the med pass, the wound change, the code cart, the family dynamics, the discharge instructions, the patient's preferred blanket, and the exact expression that means someone is more afraid than they are saying.Written with restraint, precision, and deep respect, this volume gives language to the stories charted nowhere but remembered forever.For the nurses who stayed past report.For the ones who cried in supply rooms.For the ones who laughed when laughing was the only way to keep going.For the hands that held, cleaned, lifted, pushed, caught, comforted, and let go.Every shift changes someone.These are the whispers behind the torn mask. Through raw verse and evocative art, this collection uncovers the hidden emotional toll of healthcare, capturing the profound grief, dark humor, and quiet resilience found behind the professional facade of those who care for the dying and the living. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Whispers Behind Paper Hearts is a collection of clinical-realism verse about marriage as it is actually lived: not as a perfect vow preserved under glass, but as a weathered shelter built day by day through work, worry, poverty, laughter, illness, forgiveness, and ordinary devotion.This is not a book about fairy-tale love. It is about the coffee cups left beside the sink, the deadbolt checked twice, the couch where hard conversations happen after the children are asleep, the pink notice on the table, the gravel drive, the kitchen light, the mudroom floor, the thermostat nobody touches without negotiation, the dashboard glow after another long shift, and the quiet decision to stay when staying is no longer sentimental.Organized as a chronological survival manual of a marriage, the collection moves through Front Porch Warning and four acts - The Foundation, Heavy Years, Silver Season, and Final Watch. Across its arc, Brian Edward McDermott writes from inside the small rooms where love proves itself without applause: the first promises, the thin years, the bills that arrive before the money does, the jobs that take too much, the children who change everything, the arguments that do not end the marriage, the aging bodies, the bedside watches, and the final shift no one is ready to work.These poems honor a kind of love rarely given enough language: the love that fixes what it can, carries what it must, and keeps showing up in worn shoes, tired hands, and a voice that still says, "I'm here." It is love with a lunchbox. Love with a heating bill. Love with calloused palms. Love that learns the shape of another person's pain and stays close enough to help without needing to be thanked.Whispers Behind Paper Hearts does not romanticize hardship, and it does not pretend endurance is always noble or easy. Instead, it bears witness to the long labor of two people trying to make a life while the world keeps testing the walls. The collection holds tenderness and frustration together, loyalty and exhaustion together, grief and gratitude together, because real marriage often contains all of them before breakfast.Written with restraint, warmth, grit, and emotional precision, this volume is for those who know that a marriage is not measured only by anniversaries, photographs, or the beautiful things people say in public. It is measured in repaired doors, shared blankets, unpaid bills faced together, hospital chairs, second chances, porch lights left on, and the paper hearts people keep long after the hands that made them are gone.At its center, this is a book about staying - not blindly, not cheaply, not without cost, but with the hard-earned tenderness of people who learned that love is less about being untouched by weather than becoming shelter through it.For the ones who built a life from coffee, worry, work, mercy, and the quiet promise to keep coming home. This gritty collection of verse strips away the fairy tale to reveal the raw, unglamorous labor of lifelong devotion. It honors the quiet strength found in shared struggles, weathered bodies, and the stubborn choice to remain through every storm. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…