On Top of Spoon Mountain
On Top of Spoon Mountain

Author: John Nichols

Publisher: UNM Press

Published: 2012-08-15

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0826352723

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Jonathan Kepler wants to climb Spoon Mountain with his grown son and daughter on his sixty-fifth birthday in three weeks. The kids, Ben and Miranda, think he’s crazy. For starters, Spoon Mountain is almost the tallest alpine peak in New Mexico. Jonathan’s health is terrible. Still reeling from his third, nearly fatal, divorce, he has a rotten heart, serious asthma, and a fed-up girlfriend who is about to drop him like a bad habit. Once a celebrated novelist, Hollywood screenwriter, and environmental activist, Jonathan is now tottering at the ragged end of his career and yearning to make amends to his children for his past sins before it’s too late. Years ago, Spoon Mountain was very special to the Kepler family. They once shared halcyon days in the wilderness. Can they go home again? Does Spoon Mountain offer redemption . . . or annihilation? And why is getting there so laden with pratfalls? John Nichols is at his hilarious and poignant best in this rollicking tale of love, anarchy, and the awesome Rocky Mountains. It is drop-dead comedy with an inspiring and beautiful message.

LIZZY
LIZZY

Author: Jim Wetton

Publisher: Gatekeeper Press

Published: 2019-07-09

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 1642375012

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Millie Elizabeth Monroe McKeever was fondly known to family and friends as Lizzy. She grew up during the trials and tribulations of a divided America during the 1860s. She was thrown into adulthood with the tragic loss of her mother and was transformed into a woman destined to carry a torch, from the Underground Railroad to women’s suffrage. Always one to take on any quest, Lizzy found the words written by her great-grandmother nearly sixty years earlier, deep in a cedar chest. Those words ignited a drive in her that transcended into the lives of generations to come. Presidents would come and go. Heroes would have their day. Speeches and declarations would be made across the nation. But Lizzy’s journey would be more personal, with a passion for country and family. The costs mounted to the point of breaking, but she did not bend. Lizzy gave all she could, and some would argue she gave too much. But to Lizzy, nothing was too much compared to fulfilling the promise made to her great-grandmother. Her word meant everything to Lizzy, and in the end, it was her word that would change history.

Cover Story
Cover Story

Author: Erika Chase

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2013-08-06

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0425252116

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Murder is nothing novel for the Ashton Corners Mystery Readers and Cheese Straws Society—but this time the police want to throw the book at one of their own… It’s time to celebrate when club member Molly Mathews’s childhood friend, Teensy Coldicutt, moves back to town—complete with a published book. But as the club plans Teensy’s book launch, Molly is attacked and Teensy’s books are stolen. Who would be so desperate for 150 copies of a sexy novel written by an elderly widow? Then Ashton Corners is hit with another shock when Teensy’s publisher turns up dead—and fellow club member and former police chief Bob Miller is taken into custody. Convinced that Teensy’s missing books hold the key to the murder, Lizzie Turner and her band of readers are determined to hunt them down. But the plot thickens when their search leads them straight into a counterfeiting ring. Now they must unravel this surprise twist before the killer gets the chance to write someone else off…

Our Man in Camelot
Our Man in Camelot

Author: Anthony Price

Publisher: Murder Room

Published: 2012-09-06

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1471900304

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By the CWA Gold Dagger award-winning author of Other Paths to Glory Anthony Price ingeniously combines the machinations of British Intelligence with the legend of King Arthur in an extraordinary thriller that crackles with suspense from start to finish. A US Air Force plane mysteriously vanishes on a flight from its base in Britain, and its ace pilot with it. The CIA investigates the missing pilot, and makes some odd findings - finding that will take British Intelligence officer David Audley back to the sixth century in an absorbing battle of wits with the Soviet secret police.

Lighthouse Lizzie
Lighthouse Lizzie

Author: DEITZ

Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.

Published: 2023-11-15

Total Pages: 103

ISBN-13:

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Imagine being twelve years old and just beginning a social life in the city in 1898 when your family suddenly announces that they are moving to a lighthouse on the remote and uncivilized shore of Lake Michigan where your father would take a job as lightkeeper. "I won't go!" cried Elizabeth, and she stamped her foot angrily. "I just won't go!" She burst into tears and ran up the stairs into the room she shared with her cousin Emily. And so begins the adventures of Lighthouse Lizzie, an emotional roller coaster ride as a preteen-age girl tries to adjust to "life on the lakeshore" including being attacked by seagulls, becoming friends with those Indian "savages," discovering the dangers of Lake Michigan, surviving a deadly storm, saving a ship, and all the time keeping the light burning. She had to replace fear and loneliness with bravery, courage, and a strength she never knew she had. This is a story of how having to rely on yourself helps discover who you really are.

A Social History of Rural Ireland in the 1950s
A Social History of Rural Ireland in the 1950s

Author: John Galvin

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2017-05-11

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1443891630

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This book offers a brief history of Crotta Great House, County Kerry, Ireland, now in ruins, where Horatio Herbert Kitchener spent his boyhood years. These ruined walls, which rose out of the ashes of the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, loom large throughout the author’s own childhood years; their crumbling remains both a monument to and an echo of the past. Part memoir and part social history, it interweaves historical research with the author’s own personal memories to create an unsentimental snapshot of a moment in Ireland’s recent past embedded within a broader historical backdrop. The writing shifts seamlessly between the past and present tense to graphically portray experiences of growing up in the prevailing culture and conditions of the time – bringing to life the atmosphere of the 1950s and ’60s in rural Ireland as seen through the eyes of a child.