Naked Against the Rain
Naked Against the Rain

Author: Rick Rubin

Publisher: Pharos Editions

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 9781940436340

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Rick Rubin, a writer by trade and historian at heart, combines years of research with his journalist's eye for detail and poet's ear to create one of the most compelling and readable histories of the Native American people of the lower Columbia River. Rubin conveys information about the people's daily life, spiritual beliefs, mythologies, and how the introduction of white settlers into the region forever changed their culture. Thanks in large part to the abundant salmon runs the Chinook-speakers residing along the lower Columbia River were among the wealthiest in North America. Master fisherman and expert canoeists it was not uncommon for a single canoe and crew to net two tons of succulent Chinook salmon on a single outgoing tide. A thickset people with artificially flattened heads, anarchistic politics, and a highly stratified society, they spoke a language unconnected to any known language on earth. Yet despite all their wealth and accomplishments they were all but completely wiped out in a few short decades after whites first landed on their shores.

Dancing Naked in the Rain
Dancing Naked in the Rain

Author: Theresa Cavender

Publisher:

Published: 2009-11

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9781440178931

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Spun from Scottish folklore, Dancing Naked in the Rain weaves a tale of romance, mystery, and fantasy. Megan McEller, craving a world beyond her classroom, puts down her chalk and heads for Scotland with dreams of earning her living as a travel writer. But before she can land her first contract, she becomes smitten with a man who proves to be no ordinary lover. From the beginning of their first meeting, neither her charm nor love can protect her from the curse haunting his presence. As she moves amidst the ancient grounds of the Highland, she finds herself helplessly ensnared in a supernatural world beyond her wildest nightmares. This causes her to waver between her own naivete and the madness thrust upon her. Megan's struggle to unravel the mystery surrounding her lover is at the heart of Dancing Naked in the Rain. Her face-to-face encounters with otherworldly forces shatter the world as she knows it, forcing the unfolding of a newfound trust within her. It is then, and only then, that she is able to unearth the mystery threatening to doom both her and her love.

Naked Rain
Naked Rain

Author: Lorraine Taylor Ramkeesoon

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2016-12-19

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 1524647942

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Naked Rain is about an average middle-class family who faced a crisis that is, unfortunately, getting too familiarthe murder of a child. From birth to youth, we protect our children with every fiber of our beingwith passion, with vigor, with prideonly to have their light extinguished. As parents, we struggle when we have been suddenly deprived of our futurefrom giving birth, welcoming them home to their new nursery, carefully burping, holding their little head and neck, feeding and changing diapers, to taking them to school. We figure out what sports they should partake in to their first car and everything in betweenmusic lessons, extracurricular activities, having pets, detentions, successes, and failures. But never do we ever contemplate what would happen should they be insidiously taken away from us.

A Naked Tree
A Naked Tree

Author: Joy Davidman

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2015-05-06

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1467442933

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Displays for the first time the complete work of a neglected poetic genius Although best known as C. S. Lewis's wife, Joy Davidman was a gifted writer herself who produced, among other things, two novels and an award-winning volume of poetry in her short lifetime. The first comprehensive collection of Davidman's poetry, A Naked Tree includes the poems that originally appeared in her Letter to a Comrade (1938), forty other published poems, and more than two hundred previously unpublished poems that came to light in a remarkable 2010 discovery. Of special interest is Davidman's sequence of forty-five love sonnets to C. S. Lewis, which offer stunning evidence of her spiritual struggles with regard to her feelings for Lewis, her sense of God's working in her lonely life, and her mounting frustration with Lewis for keeping her at arm's length emotionally and physically. Readers of these Davidman poems -- arranged chronologically by Don King -- will discover three recurring, overarching themes: God, death, and immortality; politics, including capitalism and communism; and (the most by far) romantic, erotic love. This volume marks Joy Davidman as a figure to be reckoned with in the landscape of twentieth-century American poetry.

The Night, and the Rain, and the River
The Night, and the Rain, and the River

Author: Liz Prato

Publisher: Forest Avenue Press

Published: 2014-05-01

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1942436068

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A current of longing runs through twenty-two short stories by Oregon writers. As the characters strive for connection, they make mistakes, reach out to the wrong people, and recalibrate their lives based on what they desire, whether or not it’s attainable—or even a good idea. Editor Liz Prato has curated a powerful collection of smart, funny, sad, and exquisite stories about the losses that shape our lives.

Blood Rain
Blood Rain

Author: Barry Smith

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2008-12-04

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 059563074X

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On a rainy San Francisco November day, a brutal murder and a missing document take David Moore away from his duties as co-owner and private investigator of Rothmore Securities. McCloud College, a long-respected city institution, is under an attack that threatens its existence. The San Francisco Police reluctantly work with Moore, a former colleague, to identify who is killing faculty members. A lovely widow, a mousey professor with a gun, a well-connected and handsome college president, a deadly chief of campus security, and a rogue priest quickly pull him into a storm as violent as the one battering the Northern California coast. When a recently fired faculty member is murdered, Moore turns to an unlikely ally for help. She is a seductive department secretary whose need for thrills drives her into the arms of some very dangerous company. Moore must also fight against the knowledge that the lovely widow has some damning marks against her, not the least of which is his growing fondness for her. He hasn't much time to solve this puzzle, because two hired killers want the same lost document and guess correctrly that he knows where it is.

Naked in Death
Naked in Death

Author: J. D. Robb

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2022-01-25

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0593545613

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THE FIRST NOVEL IN J. D. ROBB’S #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING IN DEATH SERIES In the year 2058, technology completely rules the world. But for New York City Detective Eve Dallas, one irresistible impulse still rules the heart: passion… Eve Dallas is a New York police lieutenant hunting for a ruthless killer. In over ten years on the force, she's seen it all—and knows her survival depends on her instincts. And she's going against every warning telling her not to get involved with Roarke, an Irish billionaire—and a suspect in Eve's murder investigation. But passion and seduction have rules of their own, and it's up to Eve to take a chance in the arms of a man she knows nothing about—except the addictive hunger of needing his touch.

Dancing Naked at the Edge of Dawn
Dancing Naked at the Edge of Dawn

Author: Kris Radish

Publisher: Bantam

Published: 2004-12-28

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 0553901168

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From the bestselling author of The Elegant Gathering of White Snows comes a poignant, outrageous, refreshingly liberating story about one woman whose life takes an unexpected turn.... Meg Fratano has just witnessed the unthinkable: her husband of twenty—seven years making love to another woman. In her bed. And all Meg wanted to do was watch. Quietly, secretly, watch. Then she realized her life would never be the same. Meg isn’t sure what she wants, but she knows it’s not what she had. After almost three decades of marriage and two children, she has finally awakened to how unhappy she is. Now, with the help of friends old and new, and even her teenage daughter—a former brat who has blossomed into a startlingly wise young woman—Meg just might break through the chains of everyone’s expectations for her and find the strength to take the first step on her own path. To strip away a lifetime of inhibitions. To dance naked at the edge of dawn...

Hiding Naked
Hiding Naked

Author: Terry Cunningham

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2010-12-30

Total Pages: 91

ISBN-13: 145682337X

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Barry Stackly is a high school senior with a unique secret. Uncontrollable impulses cause him to hide naked around women. The risk is intoxicating until he’s caught. Psychologists term this behavior as voyeur-exhibitionist. He craves intimacy with women, but does not understand how to go about this. He feels safe in his hiding places as an unseen observer. Frustration arises because he wants to be the object of desire, yet watch from a distance. His shyness and shame do not allow a girlfriend. Yet he does finally ask a girl to the prom, but this does not go well.