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The Pub Across the Pond

Author : Mary Carter

Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.

Page : 384 pages

File Size : 37,68 MB

Release : 2011-05-26

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 075827422X

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Carlene Rivers is many things. Dutiful, reliable, kind. Lucky? Not so much. At thirty, she’s living a stifling existence in Cleveland, Ohio. Then one day, Carlene buys a raffle ticket. The prize: a pub on the west coast of Ireland. Carlene is stunned when she wins. Everyone else is stunned when she actually goes. As soon as she arrives in Ballybeog, Carlene is smitten not just by the town’s beguiling mix of ancient and modern, but by the welcome she receives. In this small town near Galway Bay, strife is no stranger, strangers are family, and no one is ever too busy for a cup of tea or a pint. And though her new job presents challenges—from a meddling neighbor to the pub’s colorful regulars—there are compensations galore. Like the freedom to sing, joke, and tell stories, and in doing so, find her own voice. And in her flirtation with Ronan McBride, the pub’s charming, reckless former owner, she just may find the freedom to follow where impulse leads and trust her heart—and her luck—for the very first time . . . “Guaranteed to become one of the books on your shelf that you’ll want to read again.” —The Free Lance-Star “A fun, quirky read.” –Publishers Weekly



Across the Pond: An Englishman's View of America

Author : Terry Eagleton

Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company

Page : 191 pages

File Size : 10,80 MB

Release : 2013-06-24

Category : History

ISBN : 0393240339

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An irreverent trip through American culture by a critic who “cracks jokes as easily as one would crack walnut shells” (Washington Post). Americans have long been fascinated with the oddness of the British, but the English, says literary critic Terry Eagleton, find their transatlantic neighbors just as strange. Only an alien race would admiringly refer to a colleague as “aggressive,” use superlatives to describe everything from one’s pet dog to one’s rock collection, or speak frequently of being “empowered.” Why, asks Eagleton, must we broadcast our children’s school grades with bumper stickers announcing “My Child Made the Honor Roll”? Why don’t we appreciate the indispensability of the teapot? And why must we remain so irritatingly optimistic, even when all signs point to failure? On his quirky journey through the language, geography, and national character of the United States, Eagleton proves to be at once an informal and utterly idiosyncratic guide to our peculiar race. He answers the questions his compatriots have always had but (being British) dare not ask, like why Americans willingly rise at the crack of dawn, even on Sundays, or why we publicly chastise cigarette smokers as if we’re all spokespeople for the surgeon general. In this pithy, warmhearted, and very funny book, Eagleton melds a good old-fashioned roast with genuine admiration for his neighbors “across the pond.”



Echoes on the Pond

Author : Bill Gauthier

Publisher : Crossroad Press

Page : 424 pages

File Size : 24,83 MB

Release : 2023-06-13

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1637898649

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When thirteen-year-old Missy Walters goes to child counselor Cheryl Turcotte under court order, their combined troubled pasts raise a deadly ghost from her watery grave. The ghost wishes to return to life by possessing Missy. Now Missy and Cheryl must face their pasts and fix their present in order to stop the ghost from making Missy disappear forever. Missy is new to the Boston neighborhood of Jamaica Plain. She got in trouble, again, and now lives with her father, Blake, after the court granted him custody. Part of Missy's continued freedom hinges on her undergoing counseling to deal with dark secrets from her past. Her new counselor, Cheryl, also has dark secrets from her past. She and her younger sister, Kristen, were terribly abused by their mother, who Cheryl killed in self-defense when she was seventeen. When the ghost of a teenage girl begins haunting them, their lives descend into a hell of self-doubt, fear, and violence. In order to defeat the evil spirit, Missy and Cheryl must find out who the girl is, why she haunts them, and how to move beyond their own tragic pasts to save themselves and their loved ones. Equal parts ghost story, coming-of-age tale, and story of relationships, Echoes on the Pond is a supernatural suspense/horror novel about love, secrets, and fear. It's a story about people from different places in their lives with similar pasts, and how those pasts weigh them down, but how they can gather strength to move forward again.



You Are God’S Best Idea!

Author : Douglas E. Holzmeier

Publisher : BalboaPress

Page : 321 pages

File Size : 32,78 MB

Release : 2011-06-24

Category : Self-Help

ISBN : 1452534705

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You Are Gods Best Idea! Have you ever heard a more ridiculous thing? Have you ever heard a more beautiful idea? Come along as contemporary mystic, Douglas E. Holzmeier (aka Doug Daniels), explains why You Are Gods Best Idea! and what the acceptance of your inherent inner divinity means in living the Undeniable Life. This book will tell you how to make the Law of Attraction work for you, through you and your divinity. Discover the ideas and the Divine Acceptations that lead to living the Undeniable Life. Experience the inspirational stories of manifestation and triumph from the authors life in the radio industry and those of his family and friends. Through the epigrammatic writing style of Douglas Edward Holzmeier, you will understand, maybe for the first time, just how amazing, important, and divine you are. You Are Gods Best Idea! In praise of You Are Gods Best Idea! Divine Acceptations and Living the Undeniable Life: In You Are Gods Best Idea! Divine Acceptations and Living the Undeniable Life, Douglas E. Holzmeier does an amazing job of helping us understand that life is essentially a spiritual experience whether we are aware of it or not. We could not be any more spiritual if we tried because life is a sacred continuum. There is no area of our lives that is any more, or less, spiritual than another...spirituality is the conscious mindful practice of the awareness of Gods presence in every holy instant. This book is a call to awakening--to help you remember to remember that on the day you were born God had a One-derful idea; a desire to know Itself and express Itself in an entirely new and unique way...and that idea is YOU. ~ Dennis Merritt Jones, Author of The Art of Being~101 Ways to Practice Purpose in Your Life



Out and Around in Lockdown

Author : Wendy Funnell

Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd

Page : 185 pages

File Size : 18,46 MB

Release : 2022-10-28

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1803134038

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How odd the world is when there’s nobody in it! Capturing the moment when the world went quiet, Wendy Funnell’s debut Out and Around in Lockdown records life beyond the front door after we walked away from shops, buses, pubs, streets, the places we ordinarily share.



The Stories of Jane Gardam

Author : Jane Gardam

Publisher : Europa Editions

Page : 383 pages

File Size : 27,60 MB

Release : 2014-06-03

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1609452100

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“Pure delight . . . One perfect story after another” from the Whitbread Award–winning author of the Old Filth trilogy (The Sunday Telegraph). From the inimitable Jane Gardam, whose Old Filth trilogy cemented her status as one of England’s greatest living novelists, comes a collection of short stories that showcase her subversive wit, gentle humor, and insight into the human condition. Gardam’s versatility is on full display, while her sublime grasp of language and powers of observation remain as provocative as ever. “A formidable collection that is at once outlandish and entirely convincing . . . It is Gardam’s gift for the ecstatic, for showing us what a place of wonders is the world and the hearts that dwell in it, that endows this collection with a dangerous and formidable energy, richer and more concentrated than any novel. She gives us miracle heaped upon miracle, and insists that they should each one be handled with care.” —The Guardian “Unexpected appearance of figures from the past drive many of these sly, bighearted tales.” —The New York Times “Readers will feel lucky to have so much good writing in one place.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Gardam’s preference for short stories shows in this extraordinary collection of great writing.” —NewPages Book Reviews “A rich haul from a well of talent.” —Kirkus Reviews



The Boston Directory

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Page : 1814 pages

File Size : 28,62 MB

Release : 1886

Category : Boston (Mass.)

ISBN :

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Arctic Justice

Author : Shelagh Grant

Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Page : 372 pages

File Size : 15,48 MB

Release : 2005

Category : History

ISBN : 9780773529298

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Although there was no Canadian law enforcement in the Eastern High Arctic when a crazed white fur trader was killed by an Inuk, authorities put Nuqallaq and two other Baffin Island Inuit on trial. The Canadian government saw Robert Janes's death as murder; the Inuit saw it as removing a threat from their society according to custom. Nuqallaq was sentenced to ten years hard labour in Stony Mountain Penitentiary where he contracted tuberculosis. He died shortly after being returned to Pond Inlet.Shelagh Grant's award-winning Arctic Justice is a masterly reconstruction of these tragic events at the intersection of Inuit and Canadian justice. Combining original Inuit oral testimony with archival history, Grant sheds light on the conflicting values and perceptions of two disparate cultures. She shows how the Canadian government's decision was determined by fear and political concerns for establishing sovereignty over the Arctic.Arctic Justice is also a social history of North Baffin Island in the twentieth century with vivid portraits of Janes, Captain J.E. Bernier of the CGS Arctic, investigating RCMP officer A. H. Joy, and the remarkable Nuqallaq, his wife Ataguttiaq, and the Inuit of North Baffin Island.



Through the Brazilian Wilderness

Author : Theodore Roosevelt

Publisher : Digital Antiquaria

Page : 224 pages

File Size : 25,10 MB

Release : 2004-07

Category : Nature

ISBN : 1580572928

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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.





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