Grit Beneath My Nails

Author : R. Eugene Bales
Publisher : Abbott Press
ISBN 13 : 1458218430
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grit Beneath My Nails written by R. Eugene Bales and published by Abbott Press. This book was released on 2015-03-11 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: P. A. Perk Parker, recently widowed and retired from the law faculty of a small college in northern California, returns to the Dust Bowl country of his youth to try to find out what happened to his father. Lyle Parker disappeared mysteriously fifty years before in search of legendary Spanish treasure. Perk had heard rumors that a dead body had been discovered in an old mine and that his dad was wanted for questioning in a murder investigation. But now Perk wants real answers. Assisting him in his search are a pair of county librarians, local peace officers, a childhood friend, and a colorful cast of old timers with their memories. Complications develop when Perk discovers rekindled romance with his childhood sweetheart, confronts the ominous threats of a classmate who bullied him in the schoolyard, tries to follow a disappearing trail of evidence from the past, and barely survives the machinations of a stranger who does not want him to discover the truth. Set in southeastern Colorado, southwestern Kansas, and northern New Mexico, Grit beneath My Nails narrates the story of one mans discovery--of the past, of nearly forgotten love, and of himself.

Author : John Casey
Publisher : PHiR Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Raw Thoughts written by John Casey and published by PHiR Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-18 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RAW THΦUGHTS is a compelling and mindful fusion of starkly emotive poetry and black and white film photography. Each successive poem-photo pairing (each 'raw thought') builds on an underlying philosophy that compels us to assess and adjust what and how we think with the aim of improving our lives and by extension, the lives of those around us. National Book Award and Griffin Poetry Prize Nominee. Select poetry from RAW THΦUGHTS was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. “A splendid journey of pain and passion, light, discovery and flight, beautifully told in poetic and photographic imagery.” DAVID WOOD, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of WHAT HAVE WE DONE and BEYOND THE BATTLEFIELD “Casey offers us a new transformative experience in RAW THΦUGHTS. Each amazing photo-poetic construct is not just a set of images and words, but a therapeutic medium that touches the depths and heights of the human experience.” JASON Z. W. POWERS, MD, MAPP, Author of WHEN THE SERVANT BECOMES THE MASTER and POSITIVE DAILY RECOVERY GUIDE “RAW THΦUGHTS takes the reader on an introspective and mindful journey of growth and redemption. Through poignant images and beautiful poetry, John Casey offers his readers a new approach to mindfulness, self-reflection, and spirituality.” JANNELL MACAULAY, PHD, Lt Col USAF (RETIRED), Mindfulness Advocate and Leadership & Performance Specialist “In RAW THΦUGHTS, John Casey gives us a glimpse into the heart and mind, melding both in a search for hope. His poems furnish the words, and the photography of Scott Hussey shows us the magic of the combination. Together, the poem-photo fusion delivers an ethereal duet of meaning worth exploring.” SHERYL NELMS, author of 21 published collections of poetry and four-time Pushcart Prize nominee

Author : Carolyn Abbs
Publisher : Apollo Books
ISBN 13 : 9781742589541
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tiny Museums written by Carolyn Abbs and published by Apollo Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highly Commended in the 2016 Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript. "Carolyn Abbs's poems in her poised collection The Tiny Museums live in the gap between deep time and now. They are insistently alive to the rich tensions between those two registers. This pairing of past/present plays out in other unifying doublings and mirrorings, particularly those between the UK and Western Australia, between photography and poetry, and a fertile creative relationship shared by sisters. Abbs deftly creates the world of her book through a phenomenological approach. Elegant layers of textures, colours, sounds and movement invite the reader into an experiential sense of this trench between the past and the present. In this way, her sensibility is painterly but its a Northern light in her poems reminiscent of the crisp mysteries of Vermeer. Abbs's poems dealing with family grief are the centrepieces of the book and are admirable in their ability to move the reader without any cloying sentimentality. Along with a skilled attentiveness to the ways in which sound moves through a line, this beautifully modulated emotional intelligence is a very great strength of her poetry."--The 2016 Dorothy Hewett Award judges' report. (Series: UWAP Poetry) [Subject: Poetry]

Author : Marilee Foster
Publisher : Bridgeworks
ISBN 13 : 1461623162
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dirt Under My Nails written by Marilee Foster and published by Bridgeworks. This book was released on 2003-07-21 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman farmer observes with a poetic and appreciative eye the transformation of the plant and animal life on her land through the changing seasons, and now through the encroachment of residential development.

Author : Stephen McCauley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439122091
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Object of My Affection written by Stephen McCauley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-08-14 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George and Nina seem like the perfect couple. They share a cozy, cluttered Brooklyn apartment, a taste for impromptu tuna casserole dinners, and a devotion to ballroom dancing lessons at Arthur Murray. They love each other. There's only one hitch: George is gay. And when Nina announces she's pregnant, things get especially complicated. Howard -- Nina's overbearing boyfriend and the baby's father -- wants marriage. Nina wants independence. George will do anything for a little unqualified affection, but is he ready to become an unwed surrogate dad? A touching and hilarious novel about love, friendship, and the many ways of making a family.

Author : Stephen Kelly
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 168177190X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wages of Desire: A World War II Mystery written by Stephen Kelly and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late summer of 1941, as the war deepens, Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Lamb must risk his life to sort out the links between a series of killings—past and present—in a Hampshire village brimming with buried secrets. In the late summer of 1941, as the war in Europe drags on, long-buried secrets begin to surface in the Hampshire village of Winstead, when the body of a young woman – a former conscientious objector - is found shot to death in the church cemetery. The woman’s only connection to Winstead seems to be that she lately had joined a group of conscripted workers who are building a prisoner of war camp on an abandoned farm near the village. But Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Lamb, who is called in to solve the case, has his doubts. The mystery deepens when workers at the farm find the remains of a child in the foundation of the old farmhouse, and a tramp who had been squatting in the wood near the church turns up dead. Lamb soon begins to suspect that the crimes might be related to a tragic event that occurred in Winstead more than twenty years earlier – the suicide of a village woman who took her life in despair after her husband abandoned her and took their young twin sons with him. As Lamb pieces together the connections between the crimes, he draws closer to the source of evil in Winstead’s past and present and, in the end, must risk his own life to uncover the truth.

Author : Jillian Kuhlmann
Publisher : Diversion Books
ISBN 13 : 1682303462
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dread Goddess written by Jillian Kuhlmann and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful young woman must restore peace to the land—and herself—in this Arabian Nights-style fantasy for fans of Bradley Beaulieu and N. K. Jemisin. In the rival kingdoms of Ambar and Aleyn, gods walk among mortals in the form of human icons, carrying out their whims and waging untold chaos… Having decimated the city of Jhosch, Aleynian icon Eiren flees to the wilderness of the Ambarian north. She finds solace in a distant sanctuary, trying to make peace with the knowledge that she embodies Theba, the goddess of destruction. Soon, though, there is more devastation on the horizon: an imposter has declared herself the Dread Goddess in Eiren’s place and rallied the Ambarian army to destroy Aleyn. Traveling to cut them off and save her family’s kingdom, Eiren works to uncover the secrets of her past and keep Theba in check―all while consumed by memories of Gannet, the Ambarian icon she left behind. Eiren’s journey takes her back to the haunted ruins of Re’Kether, an ancient city at the heart of a kingdom their warring peoples once shared. Now she must reconcile who she knows she is―a gentle-souled storyteller―with the monstrous Dread Goddess who dwells within. “Lyrical and luminous―a great read.”―Laura Bickle, author of The Hallowed Ones and The Outside on The Hidden Icon Eiren’s journey takes her back to the haunted ruins of Re’Kether, an ancient city at the heart of a kingdom their warring peoples once shared. Now she must reconcile who she knows she is—a gentle-souled storyteller—with the monstrous Dread Goddess who dwells within.

Author : Andrew G. Schneider
Publisher : Andrew G. Schneider
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nothing Left to Wish For written by Andrew G. Schneider and published by Andrew G. Schneider. This book was released on 2014-12-10 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step onto the deck of the skyship, the Pirate Queen and join first mate Esme, Prince Sasha, and the genie Sting on a spectacular voyage across the Endless Desert. A botched raid on the treasure galleon, the Desert Jewel, earns Esme the enmity of the high wizard al-Hasan and a bounty on her head that leaves her with few friends and fewer options. Forced to choose between her life, her sanity, or secrets best left buried beneath the sands, Esme’s choices will, one way or another, leave her with nothing left to wish for.

Author : Ajahn Sucitto
Publisher : Manhandle Press Limited
ISBN 13 : 0992668522
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travels in the Middle Land written by Ajahn Sucitto and published by Manhandle Press Limited. This book was released on 2014-08-31 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theravada monks of the forest tradition, such as those in the monasteries of Cittaviveka and Amaravati in the South East of England, (where the author has been based since 1979), remove themselves from all attachments: to place, to belongings and, most importantly, to states of mind. They spend much of their time isolated in forests, but they also wander from place to place to both support their own practice and let their example be known. In this book, the places the author travels through are both physical and spiritual; the poems present them as blending. In the author's view, living in the present moment means that where a body and mind meet this very earth there is a place of awakening, mystery and beauty. This book is offered free by the author, and the publishers warrant that they will make no profit from the sale of this work. Travels in the Middle Land has been placed here as a gift from Manhandle Press Limited and as such the contents are unabridged and unedited. Any cover charge is solely as a result of the printing and/or distribution companies' mode of operation, (where such apply).

Author : Judy K. Walker
Publisher : Judy K. Walker
ISBN 13 : 1946720143
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grave Truth written by Judy K. Walker and published by Judy K. Walker. This book was released on 2019-12-27 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A runaway teen. A dying wish. A shallow schoolyard grave... When PI Sydney Brennan is hired to find a man’s missing niece, memories of her own troubled teenaged years make the hunt a personal priority. But she can’t refuse a man’s deathbed request, either: to uncover a boy’s long-forgotten, final resting place at a shuttered juvenile center. Once Sydney commits to tackling both high stakes assignments, life gets complicated. Locating the missing teen is only the first hurdle on the runaway front, and someone demonstrates an alarming interest in the cold case. With the young victim decades in the ground, who are they protecting? And why? Can Sydney expose the shady correctional facility’s grim secrets before more skeletons are buried? Maybe even her own... Grave Truth continues the gritty Sydney Brennan Mysteries (see reading order below). If you like dark conspiracies, sarcastic humor, and shocking surprises, then you’ll love Judy K. Walker’s chilling story. Buy Grave Truth to dig up a disturbing whodunit today! The Sydney Brennan Mysteries alternate between novels and novellas. The books stand alone, but each of Sydney’s adventures builds upon previous ones. The reading order is: 1) Back to Lazarus: A Sydney Brennan Novel 2) Secrets in Stockbridge: A Sydney Brennan Novella 3) The Perils of Panacea: A Sydney Brennan Novel 4) No Safe Winterport: A Sydney Brennan Novella 5) Braving the Boneyard: A Sydney Brennan Novel 6) River Bound: A Sydney Brennan Novella 7) Grave Truth: A Sydney Brennan Novel; and 8) Memory Lane: A Sydney Brennan Novella