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Remarkably Bright Creatures
'A beautiful examination of how loneliness can be transformed, cracked open, with the slightest touch from another living thing.' - Kevin Wilson, author of Nothing to See Here For fans of A Man Called Ove, a charming and compulsively readable exploration of friendship and hope, tracing a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus. After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she's been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago. Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but wouldn't dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors - until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova. Ever the detective, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tova's son disappeared. And now Marcellus must use every trick his old invertebrate body can muster to unearth the truth for her before it's too late. Shelby Van Pelt's debut novel is a gentle reminder that sometimes taking a hard look at the past can help uncover a future that once felt impossible. 'The rarest of feats: a book that manages to be wry and wise, charming and surprising, and features one of the most intriguing and satisfying characters I've encountered in fiction in a very long time . . . I defy you to put it down once you've started.' - Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, author of The Nest 'A perfect story with imperfect characters, that is so heartwarming, so mysterious, and so completely absorbing, you won't be able to put it down because when you're not reading this book you'll be hugging it."- Jamie Ford, author of The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet 'Truly original and touching, Remarkably Bright Creatures is a story of family, community, and optimism in spite of darkness.' - Helen Hoang, author of The Kiss Quotient- Shop: buecher
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A Chambered Nautilus (eBook, ePUB)
Nita walked away from her family when she was seventeen years old, determined to never look back. But forty years later, when her mother died and her father descended into Alzheimer's, Nita returned to New Orleans to care for him in his final months. Now her father has passed on, leaving to Nita her childhood home as an inheritance. But she soon finds she isn't the only resident. The house is occupied by ghosts of her past, playing out scenes of the life she fled. What are they trying to tell her? Will they ever leave her in peace? And are they really spirits, or only visions, emerging from sealed-off depths of memory as from the shell of a chambered nautilus? ///////////////////////////////////////////////// Anne L. Watson, a retired historic preservation architecture consultant, is the author of several novels, plus books on such diverse subjects as soapmaking and baking with cookie molds. A former resident of New Orleans -- the setting of "A Chambered Nautilus" -- she currently lives in Bellingham, Washington. ///////////////////////////////////////////////// SAMPLE At the restaurant, we found a corner table a little away from other patrons. When we'd ordered, Enid sipped her ice water. "Tell me more," she said. "I've been seeing ghosts in the house," I said. "Or maybe they're not ghosts. A friend of mine calls them visions." A bad start. I tried again. "I think I told you I'd been a caregiver for my father? Well, he was living in the house I grew up in, and now it's mine. But I keep seeing him -- and my mom, and my sister and brother, and me -- all over the house." "Really? What are these visions about?" "Scenes from the past. I suppose it sounds crazy." "Not at all. You said your dad passed away recently? What about your mom?" "She died a few years ago. Suddenly. That's when we found out Dad had Alzheimer's." "So you were his caregiver after that. Are your brother and sister still living?" "Yes. I'm closer to my sis than to my brother." "My guess is the 'ghosts' are leftover emotional energy from intense experiences in the house. I gather they're not doing everyday tasks like peeling apples and mopping floors." "Mostly not. But even the everyday, normal things they do feel intense." She nodded. "I can see why. What else did your friend say? The one who called them visions." "That it was a form of teaching. That they'd go away once I learned what I needed to."- Shop: buecher
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Top 50 Most Delicious Homemade Sauce Recipes: (Sauce Cookbook Modern Sauces Barbecue Sauces Recipes for Every Cook Marinades Rubs Mopping Sauces)
Top 50 Most Delicious Homemade Sauce Recipes: (Sauce Cookbook Modern Sauces Barbecue Sauces Recipes for Every Cook Marinades Rubs Mopping Sauces): ab 2.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Homemade Barbecue Sauces Cookbook
Homemade Barbecue Sauces Cookbook - 60 Delicious & Healthy Homemade Sauces Recipes for Everyday including Marinades Rubs Mopping Sauces for poultry & meant: ab 2.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Homemade Barbecue Sauces Cookbook
Homemade Barbecue Sauces Cookbook - 60 Delicious And Healthy Homemade Sauces Recipes for Everyday including Marinades Rubs Mopping Sauces for Poultry And Meat.: ab 2.47 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Englische Suiten 1-6
With the English Suites (the 'English' is not Bach's and there is nothing particularly English about them) Angela Hewitt all but completes her survey of Bach's keyboard works (there will be one further CD mopping up various odds and ends). These six suites, along with the French Suites and the six Partitas, present Bach's mature thoughts on the standard baroque suite of dances and as such are the greatest examples of the form.- Shop: odax
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Too Few
Nikki Shannon is exactly the kind of artist every music-hungry, Myspace browser looks for. You can't help but immediately be lured in by Nikki, as she has the complete package--stunning voice, well-seasoned pianist, incredible songwriting and an electrifying personality. 'It all started on Thanksgiving Eve when I was 4. My mom went to buy a horse but instead came back with a piano.' Growing up in Kingston, New York, Nikki would watch her two older sisters play the piano and begged her mother for piano lessons. Even at a young age, she spent hours incessantly at the keyboard, which eventually led to Nikki training at The American Musical and Dramatic Academy. In her teen years, she was constantly performing and songwriting-at first, singing in lounges, then writing and performing wedding songs for couples, and eventually writing songs for her debut album 'Too Few'. Even with all this early success and incessant drive, Nikki couldn't escape the financial challenges of being a New York City artist and eventually became homeless. She would sleep in the backseat of cabs, on friends' couches, and even in the basements of piano bars where she performed. But the music always kept her going, and Nikki never let any setbacks cloud her visions of success. In May 2008, the dynamite singer-songwriter Nikki Shannon released her debut album, Too Few. Songs from the album have recently been featured in 3 episodes of MTV's "The Hills", on an episode of 'Six Degrees' on ABC, as well on XM Satellite radio and the NYC classic rock station Q104.3 ('Out of the Box' hosted by Jonathan Clarke.) The album is packed with soulful vocals and brutally honest lyrics. Her album resounds with emotional anthems like 'Inner Circle' proclaiming, 'I'm cleaning the house, I'm locking the doors, I'm mopping the floors with people not worth fighting for.' The more upbeat and funky 'Chocolate and Wine' perfectly depicts every girl's dreaded monthly experience with chocolate, wine, and the blues, as she sings, 'Just in time for another excuse, happy hour is my favorite abuse, juke box plays my favorite song so why is everything so wrong.' Nikki is quick to admit her favorite track is 'Suffocate,' which showcases her classical piano background through it's irresistible piano melodies. ''Suffocate' took twenty minutes to write. I had a melody in my head that wouldn't go away, so I went straight to the piano and my hands knew exactly where to go.' 'Most of the time we set up a rehearsal and end up falling in love with the feeling of the song and find ourselves recording it on accident,' she says of her recording process. She explains why she chooses to record in analog versus using digital equipment, 'You tend to form the habit of staring at the screen, tempted to go back and play with things because you 'can' and my favorite parts are still the 'by accidents', the first takes, and 'the moments.'' Nikki will be kicking off a US tour in early 2009 and plans to make her UK debut in the Summer 2009.- Shop: odax
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