Bøger af Holly Snow Sillau

Invincible Summer is Holly Snow Sillau's forty-second book and her fourth collection of original short stories. The author covers a wide variety of genres and demonstrates her skill with each. There is something to please everyone, so read, relax, and enjoy. You deserve it!

Wanderer and Three Other Novelettes is Holly Snow Sillau's forty-first book. These four stories demonstrate the author's ability to write compelling narratives across an assortment of genres. Whether you like science fiction, thrillers, humor, or psychological drama, they are all in this most enjoyable collection of novelettes, so read and enjoy! You deserve it.

To Name a Few is Holly Snow Sillau's fortieth book. It's her third collection of original limericks. Each one here, as in the first two, is about someone's name. These 103 verses contain monikers that are ordinary English words like the author's name--Holly--in poem number 52! Her intent is to entertain and to amuse since everyone needs some of that from time to time, so read, relax, and enjoy! You deserve it.

Your Loony Lexicon: A Whimsical Dictionary in Verse is Holly Snow Sillau's thirty-eighth book. It's a collection of 142 original eight-line poems. Each contains the definition of an ordinary English word, but that definition is far from what you'd expect. Everyone needs a bit of diversion from the day-to-day aggravations and difficulties we all experience, so read, relax, and enjoy! You deserve a good laugh.

Fully Groan Puns is a collection of original eight-line poems each of which ends with a pun. As the title suggests, you are sure to groan and laugh while you read through this funny volume. It's the author's eighth book. Her first four concern her experiences being a bereaved parent. Her next three and this one remind us that it's all right to laugh even as we grieve.

Finding Me is Holly Snow Sillau's thirty-seventh book and her third collection of original short stories. Just as she did with Prism and with In the Eye of the Beholder, Holly demonstrates her ability to write in a wide variety of genres. Whether you prefer mystery, science fiction, humor, or tales with concluding morals, you're sure to enjoy her wit, her compassion, her imagination, and her skill.

Geshrai is Holly Sillau's seventeenth book. It's a collection of one hundred original six-line poems. Each contains a Yiddish word or expression whose meaning you can figure out in context. Yiddish is a most articulate language, and some of its words have a sound that English speakers would find comical, so read, enjoy, and laugh the laughs to which you are entitled!

Doze and Deez: A Poetic Tease of Brooklynese is Holly Snow Sillau's twenty-sixth book. In these pages, you'll find a collection of 102 original ten-line poems. Each verse contains a bit of the pronunciation or the slang that belongs uniquely to New York City's county of Kings. Some selections are humorous, some political, some poignant and heartfelt, but all exemplify the creative wit of the author.

Holly Snow Sillau's first four books tell of her journey through the grief of being a bereaved parent. Apples from the Teacher: Slices of Life from Both Sides of the Desk, her seventh book, is a collection of short stories describing the humorous side of being in school either as a student or as a teacher. Just as in her fifth and sixth books, Holly shows us that laughter can still be a part of our lives even as we grieve.

This is Holly Snow Sillau's sixteenth book and her first historical novel. In a most clever fashion, she takes us through a young girl's emigration from Eastern Europe in the early years of the twentieth century. The story flashes quite smoothly from the recent past of the midfifties to the earlier time and back again. The chapters are laden with vivid descriptions, beautiful feelings, humor, and wonder. Readers will even pick up some Yiddish as they follow along with Oodl on her journey from being an Orthodox Jewish girl in a tiny Hungarian town to becoming a newly arrived immigrant at Ellis Island and beyond.

Two Heads Are Better than One: A Poetic Plethora of Proverbs and Sayings is Holly Sillau's thirty-fifth book. It's a collection of 216 original eight-line poems. Each verse culminates in a proverb that's familiar to everyone. There's a Chinese proverb that says "Good sayings are like pearls strung together," so please enjoy these pearls!

This is Holly Sillau's tenth book. Her early work concerns her journey through grief, and her later volumes offer readers humor and wordplay. The Bobbie Chronicles is Holly's venture into creating what she calls an alleged novel. It's heartrending, humorous, and inspiring all at the same time. You'll be left wondering if the story is fictional, based in reality, or perhaps entirely true. That's left for you to decide.

In Robin's Voice is the third book by author Holly Snow Sillau. Her first book, Robin's Wings, is a collection of vignettes coauthored by her daughter. Her second, Missing Robin, is a series of poems. This project is very different from the other two. It tells the same story, but the events are presented in quite a clever fashion. To reveal more of the book's creativity would spoil the read for those curious about how a mother experiences the most horrific event imaginable.

People mourning the loss of a loved one--especially the loss of a child--often feel abandoned and alone on their paths of bereavement. Holly Snow Sillau's book Through the Mourning Mist offers those in grief some comfort each day for a year. This is Holly's fourth book on the topic of parental grief--a grief that's just not supposed to happen in our lives. If you are in this horrible situation, let Holly accompany you for a year on your painful journey. Two in distress make each one's sorrow less.

What is a prism? Besides the geometric definitions, Webster's dictionary says that a prism is a medium that distorts, slants, or colors whatever is viewed through it. It's just the right title for this collection of short stories. Interpret the tales as you wish through the prism of your mind's lens. Enjoy!

Dammit, I'm Mad! is Holly Snow Sillau's twenty-seventh book. In its pages, you'll find a collection of 140 original twelve-line poems. Each verse contains a hidden palindrome, and you are challenged to find it. Some of the poems are humorous, some political, and some heartfelt. You'll laugh, you'll think, and maybe you'll even be moved. You'll certainly enjoy searching through the lines of poetry to locate those pesky palindromes, so I refer you to the compositions and wow, will you have fun! By the way, did you notice that the previous sentence contains two palindromes?

The Nose Grows: A Poetic Surprise of Everyday Lies is a collection of ninety-nine original twelve-line poems. Each contains a commonplace untruth that's sure to be familiar. This is Holly Snow Sillau's thirty-fourth book, and as with the others, you'll be thoroughly entertained as you read through its pages--honest!

In the Eye of the Beholder is Holly Snow Sillau's 33rd book and her second collection of original short stories. The great variety of genres in which she writes is extraordinary, and readers will experience all sorts of feelings from a good chuckle to poignancy to the thrill of science fiction to being reminded of life's truths. Different people will find different themes in these tales--it's all in the eye of the beholder.

Hidden Lane is Holly Snow Sillau's eighteenth book. This one's about the folks who live on a street in a retirement community. You'll learn about their fears and their problems and how they seek to come to terms with the obstacles life has put in their path. It's quite a revelation about the variety of burdens present in the human condition.

Bartholomew Bradbridge: A Budding Bard is Holly Snow Sillau's thirty-sixth book. It's the fictional account of how William Shakespeare crafted some of the lines and expressions for which he is most well known. Take a gander at the goings-on in the Bard's rented parlor, in a theater so aptly called The Theatre, and at other locations in London in the 1590s and early 1600s. Discover who the real bard was after all.

This is Holly Sillau's eleventh book. In A Rose by Any Other Name, she has created a collection of 225 humorous limericks. Each contains a funny moniker that some unfortunate soul might be saddled with. You'll find yourself chuckling out loud as you sail through each page.

Crocodile Tears, Holly Snow Sillau's nineteenth book, is a collection of 220 original ten-line poems. Each verse contains a common idiom used in its figurative way and, most cleverly, in its literal way as well. You'll be amused at the author's ability to make you forget your troubles--even if only for a little while.

Foliage, Holly Snow Sillau's fourteenth book, is a collection of 100 original twelve-line poems. Each contains a commonly mispronounced English word. Readers are challenged to choose the correct pronunciations. The verses cover a variety of topics and provide amusement, information, and a clever way to show that after loss, you can still find enjoyment in your life.

Taken in Context, Holly Sillau's sixth book, is a collection of over 100 short poems covering a wide variety of topics. Some are heartfelt, and some are quite funny. Some are sharply pointed, but all are cleverly written. Holly shows us again that it's possible to live life even with a painful dose of grief as your companion.

Tales from a Broad is Holly Snow Sillau's twenty-first book. It's a collection of short stories based on the author's travels in the Caribbean, South America, Israel, and Europe. There's some sightseeing, adventure, humor, and heartwarming insights into the travel experience. Take a vacation from your daily routine, and join Holly as she describes her international encounters with a wide variety of people.

Missing Robin: Poems from a Mother's Grief Journey is a compilation of poignant, creative insights into the depths of grief experienced by the author, Holly Snow Sillau, as she describes her innermost feelings while dealing with the untimely death of her only child. From the poems in the beginning of the collection, where you get an idea of just how it feels to be a bereaved parent, all the way to the last poems, where you can see the emergence of the courage, strength, and hope Holly finally finds, you'll be taken along with this brave woman through a wide variety of situations and emotions. Grieving parents will be able to identify with the journey described in Missing Robin, and others will gain an understanding of the scope of such a horrifying occurrence. Holly and her daughter, Robin, coauthored the inspiring book Robin's Wings: Lessons from My Daughter on How to Grieve for My Only Child (published in 2011). All proceeds from the sale of both books go to the charitable research fund Holly established in Robin's memory at New York City's Hospital for Special Surgery. The fund is called the Robin Joy Sillau Memorial Research Fund for Connective Tissue Disease.

Say What? is a collection of 250 poems. Each contextually defines an unusual word in the English language. The whole concept of a poetic dictionary is clever and quite amusing. You'll find this, Holly Sillau's twelfth book, illustrative of her epeolatry (worship of words--it's one of the book's entries).

The Strange Case of Stella Auslander is Holly Snow Sillau's twenty-fifth book. It's her first attempt at a novel that can be classified as having a touch of science fiction strewn among its pages. Those pages examine the words of the title character while leaving readers with lots of questions about the veracity of the events described. Take an interesting ride through the mind of Stella Auslander as she tells her psychiatrist about her life. Are her stories real? Imagined? Part of Stella's dreams? Merely invented for attention? Feel free to come to your own conclusions.

Pigments of the Imagination and Other Poetic Malapropisms is Holly Snow Sillau's fifteenth book. Each of the 150 original quatrains in the collection contains a twisted version of a common word or expression. The poems are quite cleverly written, and every verse is accompanied by an appropriate illustration. If you enjoy wordplay, humor, poetry, or even a pleasant distraction from your troubles, Pigments is the book for you.

Holly Sillau has composed a collection of humorous poetry. In this, her fifth book, she decided to stop writing about grief-the main topic of her first four books. These poems give readers the opportunity to reinsert laughter into their lives.