Download or read book At Least She Never Drank Much written by Geraldine Murfin-Shaw and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How I Got This Way written by Patrick F. McManus and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of rural Idaho by the New York Times–bestselling author: “There’s a smile or guffaw to be had on almost every page . . . entertainment aplenty.” —Publishers Weekly From fibbing fishermen to wilderness misadventures to eulogies for a mean dog, this is a charming collection of comic essays and tall tales from the Field & Stream and Outdoor Life writer and “funniest guy in a flannel shirt” (Kirkus Reviews). Among the many selections is the two-part title essay, in which Patrick McManus delves into the chaotic country boyhood that shaped him into one of the best-loved and bestselling authors of our age. “Gentle, ironic, self-deprecatory wit from the popular western humorist. There’s some of Bill Nye here and more still of Mark Twain.” —Booklist “The brief selections are of the type one might hear from a droll uncle/grandfather prefaced by the phrase, ‘When I was a boy.’ They are mainly outdoor adventures, some of which masquerade as hunting trips, and celebrate life. All are laugh-out-loud funny.” —School Library Journal “Patrick McManus is a treasure.” —The Atlantic
Download or read book A Bit on the Blind Side written by Geraldine Murfin-Shaw and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Downing tools in the allotment where they have toiled for the last six years, Valerie and her husband Wolfram decide to cycle to Germany to visit his mother. Before they leave, Val's guide the Aztec Priest appears among the bean rows and tells her this will be a Vision Quest - and so it turns out to be, not least due to their involvement in Channel 4's 'Real Holiday Show'. In spite of the dangers they encounter on this trip they develop an appetite for foreign parts and embark on many subsequent cycling adventures, all of which turn out more or less disastrously. Travel with them as they ride through France, Italy and their beloved Black Forest - the stoic Val shouting instructions from behind as the hapless blind Wolf does his best to avoid hitting anything. Share their horrors and delights at the larger-than-life characters they meet abroad and the comradeship of their Asian neighbours on the allotments. A heartwarming and spiritual tale of two lives inextricably intertwined - until Fate intervened.
Download or read book Val Kirkham the Collected Poems written by Val Kirkham and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-09-11 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Val Kirkham is a Yorkshire poet now living in Lancashire. This is a collected edition of her life work so far. It is wide-ranging and varied. She knows a great deal about the pain and pleasure of love, and writes about it with searing honesty. She trained as a chef and has worked in a zoo, a banqueting outfit, a mediaeval castle, and an American college. In 1982 she decided to hang up her apron and devote herself to writing, saying she would go back to work when she got bored. She has not got bored yet. She was a performance poet in the 80s, in the North West. Adrian Henri once gasped at one of her poems, and the editor of Lancashire Life called her "the predatory sexual voice cruising in the fast lane of poetry". She sprang to national fame after reading poetry in a jacuzzi. She has been on radio and tv. You will be thrilled, chilled, brought to laughter and tears by this woman's perception and insight. If you are a prude or object to strong language, better pass this one by.
Download or read book The Great Night written by Chris Adrian and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed as a "gifted, courageous writer"(The New York Times), Chris Adrian brings all his extraordinary talents to bear in The Great Night—a brilliant and mesmerizing retelling of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." On Midsummer Eve 2008, three people, each on the run from a failed relationship, become trapped in San Francisco's Buena Vista Park, the secret home of Titania, Oberon, and their court. On this night, something awful is happening in the faerie kingdom: in a fit of sadness over the end of her marriage, which broke up in the wake of the death of her adopted son, Titania has set loose an ancient menace, and the chaos that ensues will threaten the lives of immortals and mortals alike. Selected by The New Yorker as one the best young writers in America, Adrian has created a singularly playful, heartbreaking, and humorous novel—a story that charts the borders between reality and dreams, love and magic, and mortality and immortality.
Download or read book Jayne Sullivan Army Brat written by Cathy Sharpe and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-11-12 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being a part of a Military family, Jayne Sullivan is quiet, shy and always follows the rules. Well, almost always. One day, Jayne decides to take matters into her own hands. On an unfamiliar Army base in the Alabama summer heat, she finds herself lost, confused and ill. A heart-warming story of a child and how military life aff ects her and those she loves.
Download or read book Forgetful Waters written by Marie Sibbons and published by Geraldine Burgess. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE SHE LOSES HER LIFE; OR HAS SHE JUST LOST HER MIND? Emma wakes up in a nightmare. Nothing around her makes sense. Not the stranger claiming to be her husband or the police questions about a mysterious missing woman. Most disturbing of all is her reflection in the mirror. It is her mother’s face, her future face. But this is the present and she is only twenty-three. People keep telling her she fell in the water, banged her head, lost her memory, but she doesn’t believe them. Because she is still young in her dreams, the dreams that tell her something terrible happened to Rosa. It happened at the party, and that’s the last night she can remember. She must return to that night to find out how the party ended, even if it is only in her dreams.
Download or read book Promises Kept written by Scarlett Dunn and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her would-be husband turns up dead the day she arrives to marry him, Victoria Eastman finds an ally in her new neighbor, rancher Colt McBride, who just may be her salvation if only he can accept a dark secret from her past.
Download or read book Anne Perry s Merry Mysteries written by Anne Perry and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Christmas hope: "Claudine Burroughs dreads the holiday season. She feels she has nothing in common with her circle of wealthy, status-minded friends, and the only time she's remotely happy is when she is volunteering at a women's clinic, a job her husband strongly disapproves of. When Claudine meets a charming poet at a Yuletide gala, her spirits are finally lifted -- until he is accused of killing a fellow guest. Believing in his innocence, Claudine vows to do her utmost to help. But it seems that hypocritical London society would rather send an innocent man to the gallows than expose the shocking truth about one of their own." --
Download or read book Between Mothers and Daughters written by Susan Koppelman and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 1987 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this poignant multicultural collection of short stories by American women writers, mothers and daughters describe their conflicts and consolations, their trusts and mistrusts, their loves and hates. Including stories written between the 1840s and the 1990s, Between Mothers and Daughters explores the maternal and filial bonds between women and investigates the practice of family, exposing the complicated, bittersweet truths of women's intergenerational relationships. Newly revised and updated, this edition of the classic anthology includes several new stories and an expanded introduction that revisits this ancient relationship with fresh vision and insight. Book jacket.
Download or read book By the Trent written by Eliza S. Oldham and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Watch written by Michele Knecht and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would you do if you discovered that one choice could change your destiny? Would you take a chance, or would you walk away? When eighteen-year-old Katie O’Reilly unexpectedly receives a watch that once belonged to her late grandfather, she has no idea she has also gained the power to change the destiny of others. Katie is serving an internship in the behavioral science unit at the hospital, and there she meets Edith Sampson, who is being treated for alcoholism despite her youth, thanks to her dysfunctional family. As the two girls meet, Edith tells Katie she wishes she could have a redo for the events that led her to that point—and the watch grants her wish. Soon Katie learns that she can use the watch to help some people but not others. What’s more, the mystery surrounding the watch seems to grow deeper the more she uses it, and only time will tell what the consequences might be. In this young adult novel, a young woman finds herself in possession of a magic watch that can give some people second chances to correct their mistakes and make new choices.
Download or read book D monomania written by John Crowley and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the winter solstice approaches, so does the final battle of an age-old war in this third novel of the landmark literary fantasy series. The would-be historian and author Pierce Moffett has moved from New York to the Faraway Hills, where he seems to discover—or rediscover—a path into magic, past and present. Meanwhile, single mother Rosie Rasmussen grapples with her mysterious uncle's legacy and her young daughter Samantha’s inexplicable seizures. And for Pierce's lover Rose Ryder, another path unfolds: she’s drawn into a cult that promises to exorcise her demons. It is the dark of the year, between Halloween and the winter solstice, and the gateway is open between the worlds of the living and the dead. A great cycle of time is ending, and Pierce and Rosie, Samantha and Rose Ryder must take sides in an epic conflict that is approaching its ultimate confrontation . . . Or is it? Dæmonomania is a journey into the very mystery of existence: what is, what went before, and what could break through at any moment in our lives. It follows The Solitudes and Love & Sleep, both of which were included in Harold Bloom’s Western Canon.
Download or read book And Say It Was All in Vain written by Maria Chappel and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: na
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Download or read book Hodgepodge written by Valentina Romanova and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-04-06 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hodgepodge is a collection of thoughts and stories; seemingly unconnected at first sight, they all come back to one thing that is at the very foundation of our day-to-day lives: love. Sometimes unnoticed, oftentimes ignored, occasionally overrated. Love comes in different forms and shapes: parents, children, friends, lovers. Thrown apart in space and time, stories in this book don’t follow a straight timeline, creating a kaleidoscope of events that resembles the flow of life itself: colorful, dynamic, oftentimes misunderstood and confusing, but nonetheless beautiful at the end. “Hodgepodge” is inspired by people and challenges that occur within relationships; it follows the journey of a girl who struggles with her sexuality, alcohol and drug addiction, and desperate need for approval from men.
Download or read book Two Weeks written by Karen Kingsbury and published by Howard Books. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes a heart-wrenching and redemptive new story in the Baxter Family series about a couple desperately waiting to bring their adopted child home and a young mother about to make the biggest decision of her life. Cole Blake, son of Landon and Ashley Baxter Blake, is months away from going off to college and taking the first steps towards his dream—a career in medicine. But as he starts his final semester of high school he meets Elise, a mysterious new girl who captures his attention—and heart—from day one. Elise has her heart set on mending her wild ways and rediscovering the good girl she used to be. But not long after the semester starts, she discovers she’s pregnant. Eighteen and alone, she shares her secret with Cole. Undaunted by the news, and in love for the first time in his life, Cole is determined to support Elise—even if it means skipping college, marrying her, and raising another man’s baby. When Elise decides to place her baby up for adoption, she is matched with Aaron and Lucy Williams, who moved to Bloomington, Indiana to escape seven painful years of infertility. But as Elise’s due date draws near, she becomes focused on one truth: she has two weeks to change her mind about the adoption. With Cole keeping vigil and Lucy and Aaron waiting to welcome their new baby, Elise makes an unexpected decision—one that changes everyone’s plans. Tender and deeply moving, Two Weeks is a story about love, faith, and what it really means to be a family.
