Download or read book A Small Earnest Question written by J.F. Riordan and published by Beaufort Books. This book was released on 2020-08-03 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2020 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards! It's spring on Washington Island. Despite her concerns about Roger's desire to bartend, Elisabeth is eager to plan a grand opening for their newly remodeled hotel, but she quickly realizes that she may also need to make accommodations for Roger's proposed goat yoga classes. Bored and lonely, Oliver Robert joins bartender Eddie in forming a great books club at Nelsen's, and Emily Martin, determined to make her mark on the community, forms a new Committee of the Concerned. When Emily decides that the Island needs a literary festival, complete with a famous author, she imprudently seeks out a notorious celebrity, hoping, as always, to enhance her own prestige. Real estate agent Marcie Landmeier confides that an unknown someone is buying up the Island's shoreline, newly-appointed Fire Chief Jim Freeberg contends with a string of suspicious fires, and Pali and Ben have a spiritual encounter that will change them both. Meanwhile, drawn once more into local controversy, and awash in suspicion herself, Fiona Campbell must determine the answers to questions that will affect her future, and the future of the entire Island. A Small Earnest Question is Book Four in the award-winning North of the Tension Line series, set on a remote island in the Great Lakes. Called a modern-day Jane Austen, author J.F. Riordan creates wry, engaging tales and vivid characters that celebrate the beauty and mysteries of everyday life.
Download or read book Reflections on a Life in Exile written by J.F. Riordan and published by Beaufort Books. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recipient of the 2020 Shelf Unbound Notable Indie Award A collection of essays by novelist J.F. Riordan, Reflections on a Life in Exile is easy to pick up, and hard to put down. By turns deeply spiritual and gently comic, these brief meditations range from the inconveniences of modern life to the shifting nature of grief. Whether it's an unexpected revelation from a trip to the hardware store, a casual encounter with a tow-truck driver, the changing seasons, or a conversation with a store clerk grieving for a dog, J. F. Riordan captures and magnifies the passing beauty of the ordinary and the extraordinary that lingers near the surface of daily life.
Download or read book The Audacity of Goats written by J.F. Riordan and published by Beaufort Books. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All is not well north of the tension line. A series of unsettling nighttime incidents have left the islanders uncertain whether to be nervous or annoyed. Are they victims of an elaborate teenage prank, or is there a malevolent stranger lurking on the island? Meanwhile, out-of-state owners of a new goat farm seem to consider themselves the self-proclaimed leaders of the island; Pali, the ferry captain, is troubled by his own unique version of writer’s block; and Ben, the captain’s ten year-old son, appears to be hiding something. But it is only when the imperturbable Lars Olafsen announces his retirement, and Stella declares her candidacy for office, that the islanders realize trouble is brewing. Fiona must decide whether it is time to leave the island for good, or to make another reckless gamble. Book two in the award-winning North of the Tension Line series, The Audacity of Goats is the continuing tale of Fiona Campbell, and her reluctant adventures among the pleasures, mysteries, and exasperations of small town life
Download or read book North of the Tension Line written by J.F. Riordan and published by Beaufort Books. This book was released on 2014-09-05 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiona Campbell is a newcomer to tiny Ephraim, Wisconsin. Populated with artists and summer tourists, Ephraim has just enough going on to satisfy her city tastes. But she is fascinated and repelled by the furthest tip of Door County peninsula, Washington Island, utterly removed from the hubbub of modern life. Fiona's visits there leave her refreshed in spirit, but convinced that only lunatics and hermits could survive a winter in its frigid isolation. In a moment of weakness, Fiona is goaded into accepting a dare that she cannot survive the winter on the island in a decrepit, old house. Armed with some very fine single malt scotch and a copy of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Fiona sets out to win the dare, and discovers that small town life is not nearly as dull as she had foreseen. Abandoning the things she has always thought important, she encounters the vicious politics of small town life, a ruthless neighbor, persistent animals, a haunted ferry captain, and the peculiar spiritual renewal of life north of the tension line.
Download or read book Robert s Rules written by J.F. Riordan and published by Beaufort Books. This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the new Chairman of the Town Board, Fiona Campbell finds that life has become a series of petty squabbles, dull meetings, and papers everywhere, all complicated by her guardianship of the as yet unidentified screaming goat. In desperation, she hires an unknown newcomer, the compulsively orderly Oliver Robert, to run her office and keep her organized. Roger’s fame as an idiosyncratic yoga practitioner continues to spread, and he and Elisabeth are looking for a new location to accommodate the growing crowds at their tiny coffee shop. Ferry Captain and poet Pali has an offer to leave the Island, and wonders whether it is time to introduce his son, Ben, to the larger world. Meanwhile, the Fire Chief is threatening to quit, and Fiona finds herself faced with an Island controversy and an unwanted set of new responsibilities. As Pete Landry prepares to leave for one of his regular journeys, Fiona begins to suspect that his life may be more than it seems. His secrecy raises doubts in her mind about whether he can be trusted, and their breakup plunges her into grief. The reliable Jim, always nearby, is all too ready to offer comfort. Robert’s Rules is Book Three in the award-winning North of the Tension Line series, set on a remote island in the Great Lakes. Called a modern-day Jane Austen, author J.F. Riordan creates wry, engaging tales and vivid characters that celebrate the well-lived life of the ordinary man and woman.
Download or read book Three Simple Questions written by Rueben P. Job and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rueben P. Job, author of Three Simple Rules, brings us a new insight on how to live a Christ-like life and explores the three most basic and profound questions at the center of our faith; questions that all major religions try to answer and around which there seems to be much confusion: Who is God? Who am I? Who are we together?
Download or read book But Still They Sing written by J.F. Riordan and published by Beaufort Books. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new book of essays from award-winning author J.F. Riordan records a natural world minutely observed. From a bathtub spider to a tree-borne cluster of cold raccoons, the collection captures the peculiar isolation and intensity of pandemic lockdown. Deeply insightful and personal, by turns soulful and humorous, these meditations on life and grief belong at the bedside of anyone in search of the comfort and companionship of a humane voice.
Download or read book Problems of American Small Business written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Study Problems of American Small Business and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 1062 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Importance of Being Earnest written by Oscar Wilde and published by First Avenue Editions ™. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Worthing gets antsy living at his country estate. As an excuse, he spins tales of his rowdy brother Earnest living in London. When Jack rushes to the city to confront his "brother," he's free to become Earnest and live a different lifestyle. In London, his best friend, Algernon, begins to suspect Earnest is leading a double life. Earnest confesses that his real name is Jack and admits the ruse has become tricky as two women have become enchanted with the idea of marrying Earnest. On a whim, Algernon also pretends to be Earnest and encounters the two women as they meet at the estate. With two Earnests who aren't really earnest and two women in love with little more than a name, this play is a classic comedy of errors. This is an unabridged version of Oscar Wilde's English play, first published in 1899.
Download or read book A Question of Command written by Mark Moyar and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-20 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moyar presents a wide-ranging history of counterinsurgency which draws on the historical record and interviews with hundreds of counterinsurgency veterans. He identifies the ten critical attributes of counterinsurgency leadership and reveals why these attributes have been more prevalent in some organizations than others.
Download or read book A Lesson Before Dying written by Ernest J. Gaines and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2004-01-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • A deep and compassionate novel about a young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to visit a Black youth on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting. "An instant classic." —Chicago Tribune A “majestic, moving novel...an instant classic, a book that will be read, discussed and taught beyond the rest of our lives" (Chicago Tribune), from the critically acclaimed author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. "A Lesson Before Dying reconfirms Ernest J. Gaines's position as an important American writer." —Boston Globe "Enormously moving.... Gaines unerringly evokes the place and time about which he writes." —Los Angeles Times “A quietly moving novel [that] takes us back to a place we've been before to impart a lesson for living.” —San Francisco Chronicle
Download or read book The Body in Question written by Jill Ciment and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *** NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR *** A 52 year-old photographer and a 41 year-old anatomy professor are jurors sequestered during a sensational three-week trial: a toddler murdered by one of his twin sisters. At the court appointed cut-rate motel off the interstate, they fall into an intense, furtive affair, but it is only during deliberations that the lovers learn they are on opposing sides of the case. Suddenly they look at one another through an altogether different lens. After the trial, the photographer returns to her much older husband amidst an ongoing media frenzy over the case. But the judge has received an anonymous letter about the affair, and she is preparing to release the jurors names. From that point on, the photographer’s “one last dalliance before she is too old” takes on profoundly personal and moral consequences, as The Body in Question moves to its affecting, powerful, and surprising conclusion.
Download or read book Don t Provoke CEO Daddy written by Bo Qiu and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-11-20 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five years ago, his stepsister drugged him and took an ugly picture of him. The stepsister got mixed up with her boyfriend. Her stepmother used her mother's belongings to force her to go abroad. One by one, these things pushed her to the end of her life. But just when I was about to have a baby, I found out that I had a baby. Five years later, she brought Mengbao back in a domineering manner. She clearly only wanted revenge to succeed and retreat, but she accidentally fell into his gentle embrace. Just as she was about to sink in, the gentle embrace became a bottomless trap. Was he in love with her or was he in debt? She originally wanted to ruthlessly push him away, "Young Master Fu, please have some self-respect." However, he hugged her tightly, "You already have a child, why are you still being so self-conscious?"
Download or read book Hey Vern It s the Ernest P Worrell Book of Knowledge written by Ernest P. Worrell and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1985 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Law Dictionary written by John Bouvier and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1897 with total page 1168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A law dictionary: adapted to the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, and of the several states of the American union, with references to the civil and other systems of foreign law Volume 1
Download or read book Selections from Williston s Treatise on the Law of Contracts written by Samuel Williston and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 2676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Law of Contracts written by Samuel Williston and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
