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Book Synopsis Snakewoman of Little Egypt by : Robert Hellenga
Download or read book Snakewoman of Little Egypt written by Robert Hellenga and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-09-20 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jackson Jones is trying to decide whether to remain an anthropology professor in his small Midwestern town, or to return to doing fieldwork among the Mbuti people, in their African Garden of Eden. His ruminations are interrupted by the arrival of a late friend's niece, who has just been sprung from jail. Sunny admits that she shot her husband, an evangelical pastor from the Little Egypt region of Illinois, but he had it coming after forcing her to take on a rattle snake. As an anthropologist, Jackson is curious about Sunny's experiences with The Church of the Burning Bush; as a man, he is not immune to her backwoods sassiness. Although Sunny is pleased to be with a kind partner at last, she is also serious about her belated education--funded by her late uncle--at Jackson's university. French and herpetology compete for her attention, and Jackson's plan to take her to Paris to propose marriage are waylaid when she decides to travel to an academic conference with her biology professor instead. Jackson is crushed and heads for Little Egypt in Sunny's absence, to get to know her ex-husband and to study the snake-handling ceremonies at his evangelical church. Complications ensue, including Jackson's near-death experience and Sunny's murder of her ex, but fate is a positive force for all in the end. Packed with both information and emotion, Snakewoman of Little Egypt delivers Robert Hellenga at the top of his form.
Book Synopsis Born Together: The Story of Conjoined Twins by : Michael L Cox
Download or read book Born Together: The Story of Conjoined Twins written by Michael L Cox and published by Book Guild Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-06 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born Together explores the fascinating and rare phenomenon of conjoined twins in both humans and animals.
Book Synopsis The Truth About Death by : Robert Hellenga
Download or read book The Truth About Death written by Robert Hellenga and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Truth About Death," the title novella of this virtuosic collection, is a masterpiece of sardonic humor that confronts Death head on and emerges bloody but unbowed. Simon, an undertaker, embalms his own father and faces his own death. Louisa, Simon's mother, makes peace with her husband over his dead body in a cooler in the basement of the funeral home. Simon contemplates the mystery of death over a plate of spaghetti cacio e pepe in Rome with an Italian undertaker. The dog, Maya--who works as a greeter at the funeral home where she comforts those who are grieving hardest--eventually makes the truth about death known to Elizabeth, Simon's wife. New Yorker cartoons keep the family laughing during the most difficult months, Elizabeth decides to show her own cartoons (included here), to the New Yorker cartoon editor, Bob Mankoff, at his office in New York. The serious issues cleverly addressed in The Truth About Death are touched with warmth, humor, and deep feeling in the eight "Other Stories," not by invoking comforting fairy tales but by accepting the fact that death and grief are part of the natural order of things. As Maya explains to Elizabeth, "It's just the way things are.
Book Synopsis The Confessions of Frances Godwin by : Robert Hellenga
Download or read book The Confessions of Frances Godwin written by Robert Hellenga and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A retired high school Latin teacher begins receiving direct messages from God after she intervenes between her daughter and her abusive husband in the new novel from the author of The Sixteen Pleasures. 25,000 first printing.
Book Synopsis Love, Death & Rare Books by : Robert Hellenga
Download or read book Love, Death & Rare Books written by Robert Hellenga and published by Delphinium Books. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chas. Johnson & Sons, a venerated rare bookstore in urban Chicago, has been a family operation for three generations―grandfather, father and son. But when it comes time for Gabe Johnson to take the reins of the business, the world of books has changed, and the combination of the Internet and inner city rents forces the store to close. But instead of folding his hand, Gabe decides to risk everything he has and reopen the shop―and, in a sense restart his life―in a small town on the shores of Lake Michigan. Haunted his entire life by an obsession with a former lover, he finds her again only to be faced with yet another even more difficult challenge that threatens the well-being of the revival of the bookstore as well as the fate of his rekindled relationship. It is rare, indeed, to find fiction that is both passionate and erudite; and in his previous books, Robert Hellenga brought us tales of love, learning and of loss. But now, with Love, Death & Rare Books, he celebrates an industry that has brought us the written word and his novel is a paean to the independent bookseller.
Book Synopsis Philosophy Made Simple by : Robert Hellenga
Download or read book Philosophy Made Simple written by Robert Hellenga and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2009-11-11 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unforgettable novel about a man's search for meaning.
Book Synopsis The Fall of a Sparrow by : Robert Hellenga
Download or read book The Fall of a Sparrow written by Robert Hellenga and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999-07-06 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his rich and dazzling new novel, the author of the bestselling "The Sixteen Pleasures" chronicles the journey of a man awakening from profound sorrow and rediscovering love in a most unexpected time and place.
Book Synopsis Love, Death & Rare Books by : Robert Hellenga
Download or read book Love, Death & Rare Books written by Robert Hellenga and published by Thorndike Press Large Print. This book was released on 2021-01-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chas. Johnson & Sons has been a family operation for three generations--grandfather, father and son. But when it comes time for Gabe Johnson to take the reins of the business, the world of books has changed, and the combination of the internet and inner city rents forces the store to close. But instead of folding his hand, Gabe decides to risk everything he has and reopen the shop--and, in a sense restart his life--in a small town on the shores of Lake Michigan. Haunted his entire life by an obsession with a former lover, he finds her again only to be faced with yet another even more difficult challenge that threatens the well-being of the revival of the bookstore as well as the fate of his rekindled relationship.
Download or read book Talking Book Topics written by and published by . This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Blues Lessons written by Robert Hellenga and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-02-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up on his family's orchards in Appleton, Michigan, in the 1950s, Martin Dijksterhuis finds everything he needs in his extended family and in the land itself -- in the reassuring routines of growing and harvesting, spraying and pruning. Although his mother wants him to get out of Appleton, which she finds impossibly provincial, and attend a great university -- the University of Chicago, her alma mater -- he has no desire to leave. In the autumn of his junior year of high school, however, in the camp of the migrant workers who come north every year to pick the Dijksterhuis peaches and apples, Martin discovers his vocation, the country blues -- unsettling melodies that cry out from a place in the soul he never knew existed. He also falls in love with Corinna Williams, the strong-willed daughter of the black foreman who runs the Dijksterhuis orchards. His blues vocation and his love for Corinna are the two stories of his life. His struggle to combine them into a single story takes him a long way from home and from the life he had always envisioned for himself, and then it brings him back again in a way he could never have imagined. In this beautifully rendered novel, Robert Hellenga, author of The Sixteen Pleasures and The Fall of a Sparrow, explores the fragility of happiness, the difficulties of following one's calling in life, and the sorrows and satisfactions of being a parent.
Download or read book Digital Talking Books Plus written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Miracles, Inc. written by T.J. Forrester and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vernon L. Oliver, still a young man, lives in a six-by-ten cell in a Florida prison. He has chosen the needle over the chair, has no desire to smell burned flesh on the day the state snuffs out his life. When his attorney suggests he write an autobiography to generate funds to cover legal fees incurred during the appeals process, Vernon sits down to pencil and paper and begins his narrative. Miracles, Inc., Forrester's debut novel, tells the story of a charismatic slacker in love with Harley Davidson motorcycles and Rickie Terrell, a beautiful woman who quotes poetry and will not discuss her past. They live in an RV, smoke weed and drink beer, play Scrabble late into the night. His boss, a brilliant businesswoman with a far-reaching vision, offers him the chance to make more money than he ever thought was possible. He buys into the faith-healing scheme without reservation, and so begins the journey that leads to the stunning event that changes his life forever.
Book Synopsis The Italian Lover by : Robert Hellenga
Download or read book The Italian Lover written by Robert Hellenga and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2007-09-24 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exhilarating novel of romance, art, and food in Florence, featuring the beloved Margot Harrington, who graced Robert Hellenga's The Sixteen Pleasures. Margot Harrington's memoir about her discovery in Florence of a priceless masterwork of Renaissance erotica -- and the misguided love affair it inspired - is now, 25 years later, being made into a movie. Margot, with the help of her lover, Woody, writes a script that she thinks will validate her life. Of course their script is not used, but never mind -- happy endings are the best endings for movies, as Margot eventually comes to see. At the former convent in Florence where The Sixteen Pleasures -- now called The Italian Lover - - is being filmed, Margot enters into a drama she never imagined, where her ideas of home, love, art, and aging collide with the imperatives of commerce and the unknowability of other cultures and other people.
Download or read book A Single Rose written by Barbara Delinsky and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2023-06-20 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set sail with the New York Times–bestselling author as a Caribbean treasure hunt brings one woman within reach of her heart’s desire. Victoria Lesser is due for some payback. The unrepentant matchmaker gets a taste of her own medicine when she’s tricked into a fortune hunting trip that just happens to be led by an age-appropriate, adventurous—and single—professor. Luckily for Victoria, she brought her niece, Shaye, as a buffer. Unluckily for Shaye, the professor brought his nephew . . . Like oil and water, Shaye and Noah don’t mix—and now they’re stuck together on a vintage sailboat heading toward Costa Rica and supposed pirate booty. As the sun and sea conspire to relax Shaye’s hard-won self-control, the brash and impulsive Noah does the rest. And he won’t stop until he tears down the walls of the sane and structured world that Shaye has built up around her . . . Praise for Barbara Delinsky “One of today’s quintessential authors of contemporary fiction . . . Delinsky is a joy to read . . . Women’s fiction at its very finest.” —Romantic Times “[An author] of sensitivity and style.” —Publishers Weekly “Delinsky has a special knack for zeroing in on the pulse of her characters immediately—we know them and understand what makes them tick within the first few pages . . . Well done!” —Rendezvous “One of the few writers . . . who still writes a great love story, Ms. Delinsky is truly an author for all seasons.” —Rave Reviews
Book Synopsis The Cobra Goddess & the Chaos Serpent by : Lesley Jackson
Download or read book The Cobra Goddess & the Chaos Serpent written by Lesley Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-20 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cobra Goddess and the Chaos Serpent is an in-depth investigation of snakes in ancient Egyptian religion, encompassing their roles in the divine, earthly and afterlife realms. The book is based on extensive research, drawing on a wide range of sources including the latest reports and research of Egyptologists.
Download or read book Shattered written by Kathryn Casey and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-06-29 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Kathryn Casey is one of the best true crime writers today.” —Ann Rule With true crime classics like Descent into Hell and Die My Love, author Kathryn Casey has peered into the darkest corners of the Lone Star State, shedding a fascinating, chilling light on a series of notorious Texas murders. In Shattered, she explores in riveting detail an infamous Houston area crime: the brutal slaying of a young mother and her unborn child by the person closest to them. Bestselling author Carlton Stowers numbers Kathryn Casey “among the elite of true crime writers,” and Shattered—a shocking true story of blood, rage, and betrayal—will only enhance her reputation as one of the best of the best.
Book Synopsis One Thousand and One Nights by : Hanan Al-Shaykh
Download or read book One Thousand and One Nights written by Hanan Al-Shaykh and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arab world's greatest folk stories re-imagined by the acclaimed Lebanese novelist Hanan al-Shaykh, published to coincide with the world tour of a magnificent musical and theatrical production directed by Tim Supple
