![]() ![]() The night they share changes her, and now she's terrified of what happens when the sun rises and it's time for him to leave. In Awake in Cheshire Bay, you'll swoon with Amber, the local bartender, over the newly stranded guest in town. In Adrift in Cheshire Bay, you'll root for Cedar as she struggles to come to terms with the recent upheavals in her life - including a surprise pregnancy - as her long-term relationship is tested when she finds out Mitch is already a father, but neither of them knew. When she settles into her family's beach side summer home, a chance encounter with a sexy pilot next door changes her plans. In Return to Cheshire Bay, you'll fall in love with the former bad girl as Lily temporarily leaves her city life to find peace and contentment. ![]() The Cheshire Bay series contains four amazing stories featuring strong heroines and the sexy heroes who unwittingly steal their hearts. You'll come for the views of the Pacific Ocean, but you'll stay for the hospitality. ![]() Welcome to Cheshire Bay, a small-town community on the western edge of Vancouver Island. ![]()
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6/12/2023 0 Comments Of Ghostes and Spirites Walking by Nyght and of Strange Noyse... by Lewes Lavater![]() ![]() 20], 220 p.Imprinted at London: By Thomas Creede, 1596.STC (2nd ed.) / 15321EnglishReproduction of the original in the Henry E. 1585?A translation of: De spectris, lemuribus et magnis atque insolitis fragoribus.R.H. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++"Of ghostes and spirites, vvalking by night and of straunge noyses, crackes, and sundrie forewarnings, which commonly happen before the death of men"De spectris, lemuribus et magnis atque insolitis fragoribus.Lavater, Ludwig, 1527-1586.Harrison, Robert, d. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. ![]() This is one of the world's largest collections of religious works of this type, revealing much about our interpretation of the modern church and spirituality. We also get insights into a clergy that was growing ever more powerful as a political force. In these early religious documents, sermons, and pamphlets, we see the spiritual impact on the lives of both royalty and the commoner. From the beginning of recorded history we have looked to the heavens for inspiration and guidance. Thousands of books written between 14 can be delivered to your doorstep in individual volumes of high quality historical reproductions. Digitally preserved and previously accessible only through libraries as Early English Books Online, this rare material is now available in single print editions. ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments Isaac asimov book![]() Asimov wrote the Lucky Starr series of juvenile science-fiction novels using the pen name Paul French. He also wrote mysteries and fantasy, as well as a great amount of nonfiction. He penned numerous short stories, among them "Nightfall", which in 1964 was voted by the Science Fiction Writers of America the best short science fiction story of all time, a title many still honor. ![]() Heinlein and previously produced by Cordwainer Smith and Poul Anderson. Asimov's most famous work is the Foundation Series his other major series are the Galactic Empire series and the Robot series, both of which he later tied into the same fictional universe as the Foundation Series to create a unified "future history" for his stories much like those pioneered by Robert A. Clarke, was considered one of the "Big Three" science-fiction writers during his lifetime. He has works published in nine of the ten major categories of the Dewey Decimal System (lacking only an entry in the 100s category of Philosophy).Īsimov is widely considered a master of the science-fiction genre and, along with Robert A. Professor Asimov is generally considered one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. ![]() Isaac Asimov was a Russian-born, American author, a professor of biochemistry, and a highly successful writer, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Cathedral novel raymond carver![]() This demonstrates the storyteller thinks excessively about common things and titles. I say this because the narrator calls the blind man pathetic because after his wife died, he was left with a small insurance policy and half of a twenty-peso. My first impression of the husband or narrator is that he is very ignorant, and sadistic. I am not sure if the husband has a prejudice but through context I am able to tell that at first he is uncomfortable with the presence of a minority, the husband stated that he felt uneasy when alone with the blind man and didn’t know what to say to him. ![]() ![]() Through context it appears to me that they are all white because the husband questioned if the blind man’s wife was black based on her name. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments The letters of tolkien![]() ![]() Le Guin & Her Cohort Wendell Berry Zadie Smith Parker Ross Macdonald & Margaret Millar Shel Silverstein Stanislaw Lem Stephen King Toni Morrison Ursula K. ![]() Wodehouse Philip Roth Rachel Carson Ralph Ellison Randy Watts Ray Bradbury Robert A. Tolkien Kurt Vonnegut Lee Child Loren Eiseley Louise Erdrich Louise Penny Lovecraft and Howard Malcolm X Margaret Atwood Marianne Moore and Her World Mo Willems Neil Gaiman Norman Mailer Octavia Butler Pat LaMarche and the Charles Bruce Foundation P.G. Thompson & New Journalism James Baldwin Joan Didion John D. White, James Thurber, and Their World Eric Sloane Georges Simenon Hunter S. Authors Agatha Christie Albert Camus & His World Alistair MacLean Amy June Bates, Artist and Book Illustrator Anthony Burgess Arthur Conan Doyle Ayn Rand The Bronte Sisters Carl Hiaasen Charles Bukowski E.B. ![]() Tolkien - WHISTLESTOP BOOKSHOP WHISTLESTOP BOOKSHOP ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments The game neil strauss audio book![]() ![]() ![]() But at one point, while re-reading his own words, he reflected on the voice coming from the page and thought he sounded like a man scared of intimacy and commitment. ![]() To our great surprise and interest, Neil says that he started out writing The Truth as a means to redefine relationships and speak out against monogamy, coming at the book with all sorts of research that exposed the inefficiencies of that lifestyle. How did the writing process change for him? Did he continue to learn more about himself as he put it into words? Having already exposed his pick-up methods and encounters in a very detailed manner throughout The Game, and later Emergency, we were interested in learning about how his approach to the new book differed from his approach to the earlier ones. From an elite player in a secret society celebrating the artistry of picking up women to a father and committed monogamist, Neil tells us about the amazing journey of writing The Truth that lead him away from being a monogamy nay-sayer. Site: | Email: you handle the truth? The Real Brian and the One and Only Addy serve it up on a silver platter in this week’s installment of the Podcast! We had the great privilege of speaking with Neil Strauss, author of 2005 New York Times bestseller The Game and the newly released The Truth. ![]() ![]() The infusion of “Lean In” into the zeitgeist is clear: Hillary Clinton spoke of “leaning in” last week, in conversation with Christine Lagarde and Thomas Friedman at Tina Brown’s “Women of the World” conference and it seems to have influenced Arianna Huffington’s newly released “Thrive.” And yet the book has had its detractors. Auletta writes that Sandberg doesn’t quite see the point of rehashing horror stories about sexist acts-that only “diverts women from self-improvement”-and that she “opposes all forms of affirmative action for women.” He describes a meeting in which Sandberg told twelve female Facebook executives, “What I believe, and that doesn’t mean everyone believes it, is that there are still institutional problems and we need more flexibility in all of this stuff, but much too much of the conversation is on blaming others, and not enough is on taking responsibility ourselves.” It is in this spirit that Sandberg imagined her book as the basis for a social movement. In each of these boys’ clubs, she thrived. Before she was a billionaire, Sandberg earned undergraduate and business degrees at Harvard, where she became a protegée of Lawrence Summers when he was named Secretary of the Treasury, she worked as his chief of staff. In his interviews with her, the thoughts that inform “Lean In” were beginning to take shape. ![]() Ken Auletta wrote a Profile of Sandberg in the magazine in 2011, three years after she left her position as a vice-president of Google to take Facebook’s second-most-prominent executive seat. ![]() ![]() ![]() At one time, she registered to vote and had to take a test she didn't pass. Stopping in the middle of the hill, Lillian remembers. She sees the same angry faces that surrounded her when she was a child, and women finally were allowed to vote. She hears her Uncle Levi telling stories about impossible questions that had to be answered before anyone with brown skin could step up to cast a vote. Lillian sees her grandpa, Isaac, but he's not voting because of a poll tax that he has no hope of paying. Then the hill seems to become higher, and the climb gets harder. That, as Lillian knows, is many years away. He approaches the polls, looking dignified in his finest clothes Great-Grandma Ida is there, too, but she can't vote yet. Lillian can see Great-Grandpa Edmund, post-War, on his way to vote for the very first time. ![]() He didn't have any more rights than his own parents did - at least not until after the Civil War. ![]() It's a long way up that hill and, as she climbs, Lillian sees more history: once a baby at that auction, her great-grandfather, Edmund grew up to pick cotton. Lillian sees that they're standing near a courthouse where only white men could vote. ![]() There are her great-great-grandparents: Elijah is wearing chains and Sarah is holding a baby. Lillian stands at the bottom of a "very steep hill." It's Voting Day and she's going to take advantage of her rights.Īs she looks up the hill, she sees things - not just a hill, but a slave auction. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments The missing harlan coben![]() ![]() ![]() And as each confronts the dark side of the American Dream-the boredom of a nice suburban life, the excitement of temptation, the desperation and hunger that can lurk behind even the prettiest facades-they will discover the hard truth that the line between one kind of life and another can be as whisper-thin as a heartbeat. Even as the terrible consequences of long-ago events crash together in the present and threaten to ruin lives, they will come to the startling realization that they may not want to forget the past at all. Three people living lives they never wanted, hiding secrets that even those closest to them would never suspect, will find that the past doesn’t recede. Jack is a detective who can’t let go of a cold case-a local husband and father disappeared seventeen years ago, and Jack spends the anniversary every year visiting a house frozen in time, the missing man’s family still waiting, his slippers left by the recliner as if he might show up any moment to step into them. Ray used to be a talented documentary photographer, but at age forty he finds himself in a dead-end job posing as a paparazzo pandering to celebrity-obsessed rich kids. ![]() Now she’s got two kids, a perfect husband, a picket fence, and a growing sense of dissatisfaction. Megan is a suburban soccer mom who once upon a time walked on the wild side. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Miss rumphius by barbara cooney![]() ![]() ![]() The books are often autographed by their author and/or illustrator and always inscribed with the date and a personal note from GG. She frequently drops a book in the mail for the girls. Not surprisingly, she keeps our children’s bookshelves well-stocked. GG is a self-proclaimed bibliophile and book club devotee. Yet, even when we’re far from GG and back Down South, we have her books and her love for a good story within our reach. We treasure our summer visits to Maine where we can eat Fiddleheads (handpicked by GG) dipped in melted butter and sink our teeth into her famous Snickerdoodles while watching a loon dip under the glassy surface of a pristine lake surrounded by Hemlocks. We’re very fortunate that she’s eager to share all the loves of her life with our family. Our beloved GG (great-grandmother Jean) loves many things – cooking, books, dogs, playing in the dirt, and Maine. I actually wrote the below review several years ago for a magazine. You never stop learning from Miss Rumphius. ![]() ![]() First up is: Miss Rumphius, an all-time favorite of mine and one the kids love as well. I’ve decided to start sharing some reflections on favorite books around here – the ones that we read over and over again. Regular readers know one of my favorite activities to do alone or with my kids is reading. ![]() |