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Publisher: H&S Media
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 4

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Author: Rudolf Kurz
Publisher: The Porcupine's Quill
ISBN: 9780889842564
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Edward Gorey and Max Ernst meet Dinotopia in Wonderland. This is a collection of fantastic etchings by artist Rudolf Kurz, a man of surreal imagination wonderful talent. Allison Sivak of the Canadian Book Review Annual writes, `As the evocative title suggests, Looking for Snails on a Sunday Afternoon is about spending time focusing on the disturbing and pleasurable images inside.'

Author: Joe Mackall
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 9780807010648
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Joe Mackall has lived surrounded by the Swartzentruber Amish community of Ashland County, Ohio, for over sixteen years. The Swartzentrubers live without gas, electricity, or indoor plumbing; without lights on their buggies or cushioned chairs in their homes; and without rumspringa, the recently popularized "running-around time" that some Amish sects allow their sixteen-year-olds. Over the years, Mackall has developed a steady relationship with the Shetler family (Samuel and Mary, their nine children, and their extended family). Plain Secrets tells the Shetlers'story over these years, using their lives to paint a portrait of Swartzentruber Amish life and mores. During this time, Samuel's nephew rejects the Amish way of life; his bright young daughter reaches the end of school for Amish children; and Samuel faces difficulties in his new role as a church leader. These and other stories from the life of the family reveal the larger questions posed by the Amish way of life. If the continued existence of the Amish in the midst of modern society asks us to consider the appeal of traditional, highly restrictive, and gendered religious communities, it also asks how we romanticize or condemn these communities-and why. "In simple but elegant prose that matches the values of his subject, Joe Mackall takes us deep into the Amish community. He neither romanticizes nor condemns an alternate way of living, but provides stunning insight through the generosity and compassion of his own heart." -Chris Offutt, author of The Same River Twice and Kentucky Straight Joe Mackall is author of The Last Street Before Cleveland. A professor of English and journalism at Ashland University, he is coeditor of the journal River Teeth and has written for NPR's Morning Edition, the Washington Post, and the Cleveland Plain Dealer, among other publications. He lives near Cleveland, Ohio.

Author: James Dabney McCabe
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387321643
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 598

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Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Author: David Alexander
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1479459801
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 357

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The Third Golden Age of Mystery and Crime MEGAPACK® focuses on acclaimed mystery novelist David Alexander, who also produced a significant body of short fiction. Included in this volume are 20 stories and an essay: COFFEE AND— AND ON THE THIRD DAY THE OTHER ONES DIE LIKE A DOG FIRST CASE MAMA’S BOY SCARECROW UNCLE TOM SURPRISE! SURPRISE! MAMA’S BOY THE GENTLEST OF THE BROTHERS RUN FROM THE SNAKES THE MAN WHO WENT TO TALTAVUL’S FACE OF EVIL BAD WORD A STRANGER IN THE NIGHT SOMETHING IN THE AIR WHEN THE RAIN STOPS ONE DRINK CAN KILL YOU LOVE WILL FIND A WAY THE ITALIANS AND THE COFFEE LICE If you enjoy this volume, check out the 400+ other volumes in the MEGAPACK® series, featuring modern and classic tales of mystery, suspense, science fiction, fantasy, western action—and many other subjects. All are available in your favorite ebook store.

Author: Roisin McAuley
Publisher: Sphere
ISBN: 0748119655
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 219

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Love and fine wine go together, but in both cases it's important to recognise the real thing. Will HONOR BRADY find true love with wine merchant HUGO LANCASTER, who sweeps her off to his chateau in France? Her friend DIARMUID KEENAN doesn't think so. But then, he can't find the real thing himself. Is winemaker DIDIER ROUSSEAU really interested in Honor - or in Hugo's chateau? And will young American MELANIE MILLAR find roots in the same chateau through a wartime secret in her family past?

Author: Susie Perkins
Publisher: New Leaf Publishing Group
ISBN: 161458298X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 173

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According to the plan, the marriage was supposed to be elegant. The Children, accomplished. The woman behind it all...complete and delighted, with a fragrant life. But then a pregnancy went horribly wrong. A business failed. "Things happened," here and there, a little at a time. Ten years in, life was adequate, but not the way the original vision promised. Familiar with this scenario? The ladies brought together for Secrets of a Fulfilled Woman know how the script can be written. They don't rely on talk-show queens, magazine secrets, or marriage-encounter fads. Instead, women like Barbara Peretti and Rexella Van Impe long ago began to rely on Jesus Christ as the author and finisher of their faith. It is for that reason the fulfilled life of a woman is attainable. These high-profile women will make you feel hopeful, like you were sitting down over a cup of coffee to discuss how your life can stay on track. Their stories are true and inspiring and able to show how careers, personal lives, spirituality...all of it...are attainable goals.

Author: Jean Buonanno
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595221270
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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This is the story of life in a small southern Baptist town in the 70's. The one general practitioner in town who migrated there in the 50's has become privy to the darkest secrets revealed to him by some of the town's most prominent citizens. When his office is broken into, and the medical records are stolen, the blackmail scenario unfolds. Secrets of incest, adultery and venereal disease are just some of the dirty laundry that the perpetrator threatens to reveal. By the time the story ends, there has been a murder, a suicide, and death by coronary to shake up the tranquility of this small town. Things like this only happen in Miami and not in small towns like Palm Cove.

Author: Sarah Shankman
Publisher: Untreed Reads
ISBN: 1611876583
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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What’s a nice Southern Jewish girl like Emma Fine doing married to an angry but beautiful and incredibly sexy black artist like Jesse Tree? Emma Tree’s marriage is falling apart. Jesse’s obsession with Skytop, the old inn he’s renovating, pulls him further away from her, and the distance forces Emma into some uneasy questions about their relationship and about herself. She packs her bags and travels home to Louisiana, to a family she loves but barely knows. And the answers she finds along the way help solve the puzzles that have haunted her all her life. Before Emma’s mother Helen died, she made her husband Jake Fine promise to look after the baby should anything happen to Helen. After her death, Jake left his Baltimore home to travel to West Cypress, Louisiana, where a new wife was waiting. For Rosalie Norris, Emma was a dream come true. Emma is a right and precocious child, but by the time she’s a teenager, she has outgrown the old-fashioned provincialism of West Cypress and Rosalie’s stiflingly overprotective and obsessive love. While teaching in California, Emma meets and eventually marries Jesse Tree. Theirs is a passionate and loving relationship despite the vast differences between them. It’s a secret Emma must keep from her family, but it’s nothing compared to the secrets they’ve kept hidden from Emma all these years. Sarah Shankman has written a hauntingly touching and darkly funny novel about the long-time coming of age of a 30-year-old woman in search of the truth about who she is, where she comes from, and where she’s going. It’s a story about the secrets of the past and how they determine the future, and a love story about two people from completely different worlds who meet, fall in love, collide, and crash—sending off sparks that neither of them, nor the readers who come to love them, will ever forget. QUOTES “In Keeping Secrets Sarah Shankman has created a character as wise and wonderfully funny as Fear of Flying’s Isadora Wing. This is a brilliant book, beautifully written, which reinforces with a spellbinding story what I’ve always known about Southern women: Keep your eye on them. They’ll blindside you with their bravery and slamdunk your heart.” Pat Conroy The Prince of Tides “Holly Golightly, turn in your jersey. Here comes Emma Tree. Keeping Secrets is a wonderment, a subtle earthy, joyous, darkling journey through a bright country, in which a fragmented and most appealing Southern girl sets out to discover herself and finds a woman of enormous richness, complexity, and wholeness. In Impersonal Attractions, Sarah Shankman showed us she has a near-perfect ear and eye for the contemporary dilemma. In Keeping Secrets, she proves—magnificently—that she also has the heart for it.” Anne Rivers Siddons Heartbreak Hotel

Author: Rick Claeys
Publisher: Booktango
ISBN: 1468905783
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 660

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