What if you quit your job . . . Sold everything . . . and bought a small hotel on the beach . . . South of Cancun, Mexico and down a long narrow road ending in turquoise blue water, you will find Soliman Bay. Here is where most peoples dreams are found, a small bay, white sand and palm trees, and a reef just offshore full of colorful fish. If you are visiting, the dream looks real, but if you intend on staying the locals have one bit of advice - guard your sanity. Though it may not seem possible, this comedy you are about to read is 99% true. Names have been changed to protect the innocent. May you laugh at our expense.
You can't let love ruin a good time . . . When unassuming Green Rock kindergarten teacher Simmie Ward lets loose in Vancouver with her friends over spring break, trouble ensues. Trouble by the name of Blaine Peters. Blaine’s got that look that all the girls love—a head of gorgeous curls and blue eyes that melt the iciest of hearts. But none of them ever mattered to him, until he met Simmie. After a relaxing vacation in the big city, Simmie returns to Green Rock to discover the bad boy she thought she left in the city is staying next door. Will Simmie tame Blaine’s bad boy ways, or is Blaine up to no good at Simmie’s expense?
The Telegraph has long enjoyed the closest association with gardeners. Indeed, as the newspaper of choice for the counties and the shires, it revels in the glory and variety of Britain’s horticultural heritage, whether celebrating the most renowned gardens, like Great Dixter, or extolling the tart virtues of rhubarb. For gardening spans a vast spectrum. Variously hobby, art form, industry and, on occasion, cause of social unrest, it encompasses the annual spectacle of the Chelsea Flower Show, Vita Sackville-West’s legendary White Garden at Sissinghurst, and the pursuit of prize-winning pumpkins. And while the Telegraph’s weekend supplements might publish advice on growing asparagus or figs, the letters pages bristle with feuds and controversies at the RHS. Whatever form it takes, few things could be more central to the world of the Telegraph reader than the garden. Which is why the paper has always attracted the best writers on the subject: from the experts of today, such as Stephen Lacey, Mary Keen, Sarah Raven and Bunny Guinness, through great sages of yesteryear, like Fred Whitsey, Denis Wood and Rosemary Verey, to the more esoteric musings of Germaine Greer, Roy Strong and W. F. Deedes. All are collected here in this compendious and endlessly fascinating anthology, compiled by eminent green-fingered scribe Tim Richardson. As varied and colourful as a traditional herbaceous border at the height of summer, Of Rhubarb and Roses is the perfect book for an afternoon’s reading in a deckchair, as the shadows lengthen across that newly mown lawn.
Maggie Hale has fallen in love with a man she cannot have. Jake Browder has disappeared and there are no clues, no leads to follow. The police are stumped and it's up to Maggie to find him. From coastal Maine to the islands of the Caribbean, this story will capture your imagination and intrigue you throughout.
In addition to delicious recipes, "Eating Crow and Loving It: Recipes for the Judgmentally Challenged" offers numerous anthropological, astrophysical, social, ontological and metaphysical observations, some of which may be valid. Without a doubt, this book deserves the topmost placement on your toilet's tank. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Michael McEachern was raised a Catholic, is prone to diatribe, and eats crow regularly.
A widow ventures to the tropical paradise of Cuba for a vacation with her niece. Reunited with a former friend of her husband's, her heart gets involved. Will she get a second chance at love? Diane and her niece, Janie, have been traveling together, saving political figures, solving crimes and capturing spies for the last couple of years. Now they are going on a tropical vacation in Cuba. Diane will be confronting her past and Janie is coming along for the ride.
