Tuu Here

Tuu Here

Author: Mary Barbee

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2010-05-03

Total Pages: 676

ISBN-13: 9781450215930

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Moving to Africa in 1979, from rural, small town Mississippi was a leap of faith and a catalyst for great adventure. With graduation from college looming and looking for direction, a Peace Corps flier crosses Mary Duncans path. Mary volunteers to teach Cameroonians how to grow fish for food by building fish ponds in Cameroon. After four months of training, she is assigned to a very isolated post in Yoko. She must adapt to a French speaking, half Muslim world without electricity and plumbing. For the first year, the only other volunteers in the area are a 12 hour bush taxi ride away. Mary gains a unique view of what life is really like in Yoko, where the local tribe, the Bavut, speaks their own patois (language) and are happy to share their opinions on a wide range of topics including homosexuality, polygamy, nuclear bomb programs and whether or not pygmies are indeed human. The first year Mary is occupied with work and survival: learning how to live without modern conveniences, communicate with the locals, and with very little to eat. During the second year, as the locals begin to know and trust her, she gets to look under the surface and discovers not everything is as innocent as it seems. On this journey to the third world, Mary learns as much about herself as she does of the people around her. Marys cross-cultural experience attests the commonalities of human beings on higher levels than the boundaries we build between us, and that many challenges that we face are universal: the need for shelter, friendship, and fish. For those thinking to joining the Peace Corps or those looking to travel abroad on a road less traveled, this book can give you honest insight into what you can expect on your own journey.


The Floatplane Notebooks

The Floatplane Notebooks

Author: Clyde Edgerton

Publisher: Algonquin Books

Published: 2012-09-15

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1616202149

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This novel set in North Carolina is “warmly humorous, gossipy, and rich―a book with the soul of a family reunion” (The New York Times Book Review). The Copeland family goes back a long way in North Carolina. Albert Copeland keeps a written record, of sorts, in some notebooks he bought back in 1956 to log the flights of his home-built floatplane. He embarked on that project when the kids were still little, but now they’re all grown: Thatcher has a son of his own; Meredith and Mark are back from Vietnam; and Noralee is off dating hippies. The notebooks are thick with the floatplane’s failures to lift off, and bulging with color Polaroids of the wisteria blossoms near the family plot, favorite family dogs, and Thatcher and Bliss’s wedding; records of Noralee’s height and weight; a diagram of the graveyard; a newspaper story about wild-child Meredith’s many backfired schemes. This novel travels back in time more than one hundred years, to the Copeland bride who first planted the wisteria by the back porch that would take over the surrounding woods, and then back to the present again to show how even though times change, people are pretty much the same. “Among the wisest, most heartfelt writing to emerge from the South in our generation . . . Meredith Copeland’s first-person account of his Vietnam experience, homecoming, and physical paralysis in North Carolina is breathtakingly stark, full, and real.” ―Los Angeles Times “The Floatplane Notebooks has all the marks of a master storyteller going straight for the mystery itself. All the marks, that is, of a new American classic.” ―The Atlanta Journal-Constitution “A wonderful celebration of family and tradition, with warts, humor, tragedy, and triumph . . . An exceedingly rich book, a celebration of the human spirit that is brilliantly conceived, structured, and executed.” ―The Cincinnati Post


The Dragons of Spratt, Ohio

The Dragons of Spratt, Ohio

Author: Linda Zinnen

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2004-10-26

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 006000021X

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Seventh-grader John Salt, a budding animal behaviorist, and his best friend's sister become unlikely allies in an attempt to protect a pack of dragons from an unscrupulous cosmetics researcher.


Rough Country

Rough Country

Author: John Sandford

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons

Published: 2010-09-28

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 0425237346

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Investigating the shooting murder of a kayaker at a women-only Minnesota resort, investigator Virgil Flowers finds more suspects than anticipated including the victim's fellow patrons and a talented local country singer.


Donovan's Tunnel

Donovan's Tunnel

Author: Sheila Nyquest

Publisher: WestBow Press

Published: 2011-10

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 1449726852

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The Alaskan wilderness. The end of the world. A secret tunnel. A dark past. Angels and demons. Sin and redemption. The war of wars. God's final battle for His chosen ones is the backdrop for Robert's spiritual journey. As he struggles for survival against principalities, the elements, and his own dark past, Robert is also faced with the painful reality that he may have to release the one thing in his life that he wants to hold on to the most. Under Donovan's guidance, Robert confronts the questions that all men must answer. The closer he comes to the truth, the harder the enemy hits. Then tragedy strikes, leaving Robert to fight not only for his own soul but for the souls of others.


Up There

Up There

Author: Susan Combs

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2010-01-18

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1450020577

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A horseback ride on a summer day becomes the adventure of a lifetime for two friends in a post apocalyptic world. Spared from nuclear devastation, but stranded high in the Sawtooth Mountains of central Idaho, the two must deal with their grief as they struggle to survive alone in the wilderness. Wil, an egotistical, middle-aged doctor loves a challenge and has the skills to keep them alive. Kayla, a young wife and mother is devastated by the loss of her family and has never spent more than a few nights in the great outdoors. Can they learn to understand and depend on each other as they ride through the mountains to what they hope will be a new beginning? This is a story about loss and courage, hurt and healing. It follows Wil and Kayla as they discover the strength to piece together their shattered lives and open their hearts to each other. Most of all, it is proof that a loving God will not abandon His children in their time of need, and that faith conquers all.


Dark Roads

Dark Roads

Author: Chevy Stevens

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Published: 2021-08-03

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1250133580

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“Chevy Stevens is a brilliant and unique talent and Dark Roads is an instant classic. My hat’s off to her.” — C. J. Box, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Long Range "My favorite Chevy Stevens book since Still Missing...The suspense builds with every page, and the ending is a complete shocker."—Sarah Pekkanen, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of The Wife Between Us "Aptly named, Dark Roads is deep, dark, and unsettling. From the opening page, it’s clear you’re in the hands of a master storyteller...With brilliant characterizations, tight plotting, and a setting bound to give you chills, this is Stevens's finest book to date. A tour de force mystery you do not want to miss."—J.T. Ellison, New York Times bestselling author of Her Dark Lies "Chevy Stevens is back and better than ever...Dark Roads is a chilling, pulse-pounding thriller that also tugs at the heartstrings. It's everything you've come to love from a master of the psych thriller genre!"— Mary Kubica, New York Times bestselling author of The Other Mrs. The Cold Creek Highway stretches close to five hundred miles through British Columbia’s rugged wilderness to the west coast. Isolated and vast, it has become a prime hunting ground for predators. For decades, young women traveling the road have gone missing. Motorists and hitchhikers, those passing through or living in one of the small towns scattered along the region, have fallen prey time and again. And no killer or abductor who has stalked the highway has ever been brought to justice. Hailey McBride calls Cold Creek home. Her father taught her to respect nature, how to live and survive off the land, and to never travel the highway alone. Now he’s gone, leaving her a teenage orphan in the care of her aunt whose police officer husband uses his badge as a means to bully and control Hailey. Overwhelmed by grief and forbidden to work, socialize, or date, Hailey vanishes into the mountainous terrain, hoping everyone will believe she’s left town. Rumors spread that she was taken by the highway killer—who’s claimed another victim over the summer. One year later, Beth Chevalier arrives in Cold Creek, where her sister Amber lived—and where she was murdered. Estranged from her parents and seeking closure, Beth takes a waitressing job at the local diner, just as Amber did, desperate to understand what happened to her and why. But Beth’s search for answers puts a target on her back—and threatens to reveal the truth behind Hailey’s disappearance...


The Third Watch

The Third Watch

Author: John Smith

Publisher: Xulon Press

Published:

Total Pages: 498

ISBN-13: 1612150748

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The discovery of an ancient Spanish Caravel buried beneath a coquina-strewn beach near the nation's oldest city, St. Augustine, Florida is hailed by clergy as a sign from on high; scattered about the wreck are earthenware ceramics containing Hebrew documents, some dating back millennia, and the discovery causes an international media frenzy. The Jesuits claim the wreck is the property of the Church while the Israelis claim the Hebrew scribed on the parchment proves the Caravel and contents belong to the Jewish people as part of their heritage. A summer archaeological field school is organized by a local university where budding archaeologists can work alongside older, experienced archys in hopes of establishing why the vessel sailed the waters in 1527CE, not long after Spanish explorers discovered what is now considered the State of Florida. Caught between the Catholics and Jews, the press and local law enforcement, Ben David and Lindsey Hall, both graduate students in comparative religion, find themselves working the dig in the midst of several mysterious deaths connected to the discovery. The Israeli Rabbinate on one side and the Roman Catholic Vatican on the other search for ancient scrolls both sensitive and conspiratorial, and each seems willing go to whatever length necessary to find and conceal the parchment or destroy it before certain truths become public knowledge. Lindsey's research uncovers dramatic evidence proving that Yeshua could not have been killed by the Romans on Good Friday, or the Jewish Shabbat. Yeshua's sentence of death could not have been carried out on Passover, earlier in the week, during the Feast of Unleavened Bread, nor the preparation for Shabbat. Jewish law would have allowed for Yeshua's crucifixion on Wednesday. As promised, after spending 72 hours in the ground following his death, Yeshua rose on Saturday night, and Mary saw Yeshua during the Third Watch on Sunday.


Perfect Son

Perfect Son

Author: Victoria Walters

Publisher: WestBow Press

Published: 2011-11

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 1449729495

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Finding herself caught in the economic crisis in her own mediation practice, Lynzee Rose joins forces with Thurston County Detective, Carl Watson, as an empathic mediator turned civilian consultant. Their specialty: The unnatural and the bizarre. No stranger to family dysfunction, personal loss, or struggles with spirituality, Lynzee finds herself a reluctant expert on suspicious deaths thus proving even screwed up people can do good. In a story set against the backdrop of Washington's beautiful and mysterious Pacific Northwest, Lynzee sets out to solve a crime scene mystery at the equally mysterious Mima Mounds, calling on her own personal shortcomings for support. Discover the natural, and not so natural, local wonder of Mima Mounds, prairie lands full of thousands of closely-packed "Mounds of Mystery" with as many ongoing theories as to their origin as there are mounds. And, experience her quirky lifestyle at Johnson Point Community, an outdoor focused living community, modern day Walden Pond style.