Author: Carol Snow
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780425225639
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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From the author of the "delightful"( Booklist) Getting Warmer, a comedy about what happens when the best lei'd plans go awry. When Jane Shea's boyfriend, Jimmy, invites her to spend a week at a swanky resort in Maui, she's thrilled-of course-but nervous, too. She worries about missing their flight. She worries about losing her luggage. It never even occurs to her that she might misplace Jimmy. But paradise has a way of attracting trouble, and Jane hasn't even managed to learn the hula or paddle under a waterfall before Jimmy disappears. When the police suggest that Jimmy has drowned, Jane thinks things can't get any worse-but her troubles have just begun. This is one vacation the guidebooks never prepared her for.
Author: Mary Bowar
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1524587788
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 115
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Fluorescent Dreams is a story about Jenny who has daydreams for her mental illness. The story is twofold, similar to The Wizard of Oz. The fantasies unfold throughout the novel, separate from a pleasant story of a wife and mother that runs parallel to the fantasies. Jenny Sagal moves her family from Chicago to a quaint town in Kentucky, planning to raise her two boys in an old-fashioned way. Jenny discovers, through daydreaming, that an entity called Ludicrous Lucifer and his Island Voodoo Gang are set to capture Jenny. Part I is set in Krack Krackle, the magical town south of Chicago. Part II changes the setting to a green-door asylum called The Winnipeg Health Hotel. Part III takes place inside the Trans-Home, because Jenny will have to reside there for one year after her release from the asylum owned by Ludicrous Lucifer and his Island Voodoo Gang. Part IV describes a playful, fun day ahead for Jenny. She meets a savant man named Monty, falling in love with him. Jennys final fluorescent dream in Part IV is a bold, sparkling, beautiful dream, leaving the reader to decide if it did come true.
Author: Larry W. Jones
Publisher: Larry W Jones
ISBN: 1410746534
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 501
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"Larry W. Jones has written over 3,500 song lyrics with island based themes. Most are in the sytle of the "hapa haole" return-to-paradise tradition of the golden years of Territorial Hawaii"--Volume 7, title page verso
Author: Charles Edward Gerson
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1465310657
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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WHO? is a very true accounting of my life, with all of it's ups and downs. The difference in my ups and downs, and the normal persons ups and downs are that mine are extreme, rare, funny, up-setting, emotional, and gross all mixed together, on a regular basis. Not to mention that i am A. D. D. (Attention Deficit Disorder) and have written a book. Go figure! Some of the critiques on my book read, "This book made me laugh so hard that i wet my pants", and "I cried a lot, and felt so sad for you". This book starts when my mom and dad met in a Chinese restaurant, and ends when i am so old that i can't remember when my mom and dad met! WHO? spans many years, and includes my gain of moderate wealth too being a pauper, and many unique adventures that you may have lived, only in your mind. Try it! Buy it! You'll like it!
Author: Roxanne Davis
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557635276
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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A step-and-ex chronicle about growing up in Los Angeles, California, during the tumultuous transition from the placid fifties to the raucous sixties, with the omnipresence of Disneyland and Hollywood making personal memories feel like remembering a ride or a movie. Popular songs from the radio, show tunes and ballads create an inadvertent soundtrack to a sometimes troubling and often quirky coming-of-age story.
Author: Thomas Farber
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 082489183X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Elegant, exuberant, and idiosyncratic, Acting My Age is a memoir and meditation by one of America’s most playful and inventive writers. In the words of Mary Mackey (The Jaguars That Prowl Our Dreams), “in Acting My Age, Thomas Farber gives us an unflinching, luminous, cleverly conceived meditation on his own mortality as well as on the extinction of the coral reefs, snow leopards, dolphins, and, ultimately the human species. Couching his observations in a series of short, interconnected, almost-epigrammatic essays that read like prose poems, Farber creates a narrative style reminiscent of Joyce and Melville: oceanic in depth and all-encompassing in range.” Gerald Fleming (The Choreographer) calls Acting My Age “a praise song, an exultation in the beauties and brutalities of being human. Though Thomas Farber is wide-eyed at the miracle of our existence, his prose details both the collapse of species and ultimate trajectory of our aging bodies. This polymathic dive into a writer’s remaining time—into the life of the earth, the sea, and meaning itself—is no mere memoir, but an elegant, instructive page-after-page of language-love.” Robert Roper (Nabokov in America: On the Road to Lolita) adds: “Tom Farber is always good company, and his ‘late writings’ are more and more indispensable, full of comfort for the perplexed, rich in learning, humorous, masculine and tender, evoking large sensations and vast views; a reader thinks of Montaigne, Whitman, and other of the great truth-tellers, modest of tone, intimate in approach, friends bringing deep gifts.”
Author: Carol Snow
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 144066031X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305
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From the author of the "delightful"( Booklist) Getting Warmer, a comedy about what happens when the best lei'd plans go awry. When Jane Shea's boyfriend, Jimmy, invites her to spend a week at a swanky resort in Maui, she's thrilled-of course-but nervous, too. She worries about missing their flight. She worries about losing her luggage. It never even occurs to her that she might misplace Jimmy. But paradise has a way of attracting trouble, and Jane hasn't even managed to learn the hula or paddle under a waterfall before Jimmy disappears. When the police suggest that Jimmy has drowned, Jane thinks things can't get any worse-but her troubles have just begun. This is one vacation the guidebooks never prepared her for.
Author: Brian Garfield
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453237798
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 106
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DIVA taut collection of razor-sharp stories of men at society’s edge/div DIVAlthough best known as an author of westerns and espionage fiction, Brian Garfield is at heart an observer of human behavior. While traveling, he sometimes writes short fiction, usually setting the story in whatever city or country he just left./divDIV /divDIVThe eight stories in this slim volume are fine examples of Garfield’s keen eye. Mostly tales of crime and criminals, they star men like Deke Allen, a long-haired building contractor arrested after a rat-shoot for driving with his father’s shotgun on the seat. There are women like Vicky, a desperate con artist who engineers one of history’s most outlandish scams. But running throughout these suspenseful stories is the sensibility of a writer fascinated by the characters behind the crimes./div
Author: Kirsten Brydum
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 1608444708
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Brave, bighearted... An absolutely absorbing book of challenging power, a story of almost unbearable tensions. A modern life played out against the chaos of "me" and the divine order of "we." Marie Dadisman The observations made in this work regarding the social impact of our current social strategies are poignant observations that beckon the reader to evaluate whether, or not, they wish to embrace and support our current paradigms for social order.
Author: Fraser Nixon
Publisher: arsenal pulp press
ISBN: 1551526379
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 231
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In this fast and furious crime novel set in 1983, a sex worker named Irina absconds with a shipment of drugs and $300,000 in dirty money, setting into motion a wild chain reaction involving bounty hunters, corrupt cops, low-brow scammers, and her bewildered, straight-laced ex-husband. Add to this devil's brew the intoxicating settings of sushi bars, nightclubs, and New Wave art galleries circa the mid-eighties, and you get Straight to the Head: a beguiling, funny novel that blows the roof off traditional crime fiction. Fraser Nixon is the author of The Man Who Killed, shortlisted for the Amazon.ca Best First Novel Award.
