Written on the Coast: Thirteen Tales of Magic and Mayhem Written in Lincoln City, OR

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So she kissed him, of course. Will their final song be a ballad of heartbreak or a chart-topping rocker about the power of true love? Trade Paperback Edition Publication Date: Electronic Edition Publication Date: Angela—and the ghost—are both hot for new handyman Tyler Woodruff, but is he a knight in a shining pickup or the thief? In truth, he is there under false pretenses: But admitting their true feelings is the only way the ghost can reveal the nature of the treasure—and the real threat.

Finally, garnish with a passel of crazy relatives, one lovestruck Welsh corgi, and two peacocks who just want to be left alone. Out of the Frying Pan blends hot sex with the spirit of classic romantic comedy—the result is mouthwatering! The MacPherson family crest above the door gives Rachael de Young, genealogist and psychic, an unexpected chill.

Because the MacPhersons are a family cursed by jealousy, betrayal, and fire…. Rachael grows closer to the truth even as she grows closer to the ghost of Jordan MacPherson, who died in the tragic fire…and could very well be the person sabotaging her research. The violent encounter Rowan Everly survived in college jolted awake her psychic power to see past images while holding a related object. Her deeply ingrained mistrust of men makes her question where her loyalties lie. The deeper she investigates, the less anything makes sense. But his calm support of her, and his unwavering desire to see justice done, gives her the strength to not only face her fears, but to reexamine the core beliefs that shape who she is.

Sex with something other than her vibrator. Gender and number of participants optional. Someone sabotaging the make-or-break benefit that could mean the future of the sanctuary. This is a delightful, amusing and sexy whodunit. The twists and turns in the plot kept me guessing and I really liked the end, without a doubt…. Fiction Fantasy Science Fiction Collection. Once upon a time, a writer journeyed to the enchanting Oregon Coast and took a workshop. Ranging from traditional fantasy to science fiction to contemporary fantasy to the undefinably absurd, the stories in this collection will appeal to readers of all types of speculative fiction.

Includes the following stories: Prepare to be both aroused and charmed by these fifteen luscious tales of dark desire and power exchange, which appeared is such notable anthologies as Playing With Fire, Bound by Lust, and Do Not Disturb a Independent Publisher Book Awards winner. Contains the following kinky stories: Once a normal day is lost, will it ever return?

A reckless driver runs a stop sign and plows into a motorcycle. But when he does, the doctors are at a loss. No treatment plans for traumatic brain injury exist in But Alice Clark refuses to take no for an answer — knowing her son is a fighter, she brings Rick home. As his greatest champion, she uses her head and heart to guide him from sitting in a wheelchair to downhill skiing, from being unable to speak to writing and editing a monthly newsletter.

Active in several TBI organizations in Florida and New York, she and Rick traveled across New York and gave speeches on behalf of Think First, a program aimed at educating teenagers about brain injuries. She enjoyed golf, horseback riding, scuba diving, and downhill skiing, and took classes in painting, photography, bartending, and flying. Janie blossoms, life is joyful, but tragedy follows her with the passing of Tea Cake.

Janie returns to Eatonville and tells her story to her best friend. But she has come home to herself in peace. Our members loved this book. Ten members gathered to discuss this book. Larry, our farmer father, decides he needs to divide his acre farm between his three daughters before he dies. What follows his decision is despair, wickedness, and betrayal. The author writes with a compelling pen and keeps us interested until the inevitable end.

It is difficult to imagine a family of such complex characters, but the author masterfully develops the plot and intertwines the consistent and predictable family members so brilliantly that we must continue reading. The layers of family resentment, jealously, and humility are peeled away revealing long-buried secrets. She displays great insights into the moral complexities of human behavior. The majority of members thoroughly enjoyed it though they unanimously agreed that it was a difficult one to describe and had many layers to discuss.

Ozeki provided perspectives, letters, emails, and commentary from a plethora of characters though seamlessly wove them together.

Readers who had done research noted that both Ruth and her husband Oliver, were depicted as their real selves and many projects and experiences discussed in the book can be evidenced on the Internet. A Tale for the Time Being journeys between the shores of British Columbia and Japan, floatsom from the tsunami bringing both objects and information with the tide.

At one point, characters even vacationed in Driftless, Wisconsin. Ozeki is first and foremost a document film maker and notes that this background informs her writing. Argylian readers noted how the integration of Zen Buddhism to the story resulted in lots of contemplation and surprising meditative moments within the storyline.

Environmental themes warning of global warming also threaded throughout the tale but without being preachy. Ozeki created a unique and rich novel that we enjoyed reading and kept the discussion rapidly moving. Marie and Pierre Curie by Lauren Redniss. Twelve members met to discuss this book. One of the fascinating aspects of this book is that the cover actually glows in the dark, making it extremely easy to locate during late-night reading. But, this midth century Paris biography offers us, on the broader scope, the history of two scientists who fell in love and expanded the periodic table when they discovered two new elements, e.

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This book mixes text and art so brilliantly. It is full of mystery and magic. Even the pages without text vividly portray the emotion, the scandal, the passion, the adventure, and the tragedy of their lives. Through their research a new science was in the course of development. But would this new science benefit mankind? Pierre died in Marie continued her work, fell in love with a married scientist, and won a second Nobel prize in this time in Chemistry. She interviews Hiroshima survivors and radiation treatment oncologists, Nevada test site weapons specialists and Nuclear Energy research centers for space exploration.

And with this book she encourages her readers to open their minds to the unknown and to the invisible materials which do exist in our world, the same world which excited Marie and Pierre in Paris at the turn of the century. Eight of our members met to discuss this book. Fahrenheit is the temperature at which paper burns.

Our reviews were mixed. Many of us believed the story to be too frightening to imagine. A world without books could only be a world of emptiness and melancholy. Montag is also shaken by an incident where a woman opts to burn along with her books as the firemen helplessly watch. And, so he begins hiding books, his wife reports him, and to avoid arrest he runs.

The members of this group have kept the contents of the long-gone books in their heads, waiting for the time when society will once again need the wisdom of literature. There is so much symbolism in this book and it contains many wonderful statements which encourage its readers to open their minds and help save the beauty of spontaneity and creativity.

Everyone must leave something behind when he dies; something his hand has touched. Although it is a difficult story to read, you will love this book for the insight it gives to an unwanted future and how it clarifies our role in the attempts to stop it. Sixteen members discussed this book, which is part of the Armand Gamache series by this author. This story takes place in a Quebec monastery of Gilbertine monks. A murder has shattered the solitude and harmony of the 24 residents on this remote island. Many of us felt the whodunit plot to be captivating and clever, even though we felt the clues were evident early on.

And, for those of us who are currently not familiar with the Gamache series, the story delivered irrelevant characters and narratives which diverted our attention. Howe3ver, the author writes with intelligence and compassion about complex emotions, while at the same time interjects humor to illuminate the darkness.

Several of our members expressed interest in reading other books in this series. We know you will enjoy this one. This author has previously been declared a favorite among many of our members. And this book does not disappoint. It was a summer that was vibrant and wild and only two years from the Great Depression and despair. Who knew that summer was sprinkled so liberally with the antics of maniacs and mobsters? And, if you thought you knew everything about Babe Ruth, Herbert Hoover, and Henry Ford, you might want to rethink that.

Bryson shows us the full view of our heroes, not always modest, virtuous, and good. This was a fateful season for America, on the cusp of potential greatness and glory. Bryson captures it in this narrative before the world changed. We encourage you to read this one. Thirteen of us gathered to discuss this book. But this is contemporary America, and neither the pioneers nor the outcome is what you might expect.

This small town of under people saw its economy revived and the business became a worldwide success. However, within 10 years, the initial welcome reached a boiling point with a division so great that a referendum was scheduled to annex the property in order to force these brash, assertive Jews to either leave or adapt to the community taxation, rules, and traditions.

Our author, a secular Jew himself, makes many visits to the town and interviews those on both sides of the annexation vote. Bloom said Postville was a social laboratory. He immerses himself and us into the middle of the tension and in-fighting which escalates toward the day of the vote. Trying to convert Bloom to their Orthodox ways, the Hasidic Jews welcome him into their home to share the Sabbath, but eventually expose him to their worst traits.

It is a sample of what is occurring in other communities across our country where small stronger groups are changing the landscape of cities and towns, leaving a stain in their wake. This story will give you a chance to examine your own prejudices and make you question how responsible we should be to our own community in the midst of diversity.

It is a fantastic read. Ten members gathered on July 3rd to discuss this book. I am confident to report that all in attendance loved it. Not only did we like the story, but we liked the writing. His narrator is Death himself who overshadows every page in war-torn Nazi Germany and tauntingly hints of fates yet unknown. Liesel is a nine-year-old orphan who lives with her foster parents. She is our book thief. Her foster father, Hans, teaches her to read during every stolen moment and at night when her nightmares shock her from sleep.

The author writes with amazing artistry and paints pictures of emotions very difficult to describe. We readers all knew what was coming at the end, but we still read it anyway. It grabs you at the start and releases you on the last page wishing for more. And, believe it or not, this books is cataloged as a Young Adult title and a quick read. However, we suggest you slow down to savor it because it is a book about the power of words and language.

Some of us have read this book more than once. Seven of our members met to discuss this book. In many of the cases, the responses are equally hilarious. Most of our members feel this book borders on silly and that the author is truly Jerry Seinfeld, but in recent interviews he reveals that the real man behind the letters is Barry Marder, a comedy writer. This is very light reading, but could be a true delight for those of you looking for some laugh-out-loud material when you want to put serious matters aside.

Eight members met on May 1st to discuss this book.

In this memoir, the author tells us what she discovers in her own family history and the evolving attitudes about race as she entered adulthood. This book encourages us to ask the same questions of racial bias in our own history. How were we raised? What was never spoken? Her father was a Navy veteran, raised in Birmingham before civil rights arrived. He was so determined not to be judged differently that he woke early on snowy days to shovel the driveway and sidewalk before his white neighbors looked outside. Her mother was a fourth-generation Minnesotan who came from the only black family in a small northern town.

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Norris learns that her father was wounded in a scuffle with police in , but he never spoke of it. We know you will like this story and we encourage you to read it. Eleven members discussed this book on April 3rd. The author brings us a true story of something remarkable that happened in North Platte, Nebraska: It was welcomed with smiles, hugs, food, beverages, magazines, music and the warmth of a grateful nation.

Each day of the war, every day of the year, all uniformed military personnel were allowed off the train for ten or twenty brief minutes to experience a display of generosity which affected them and their families for the remainder of their lives. Bob Greene visited the area of North Platte almost 60 years later to interview some of the few residents and soldiers who remain.

What he found was a depth of emotion and compassion for the people from communities surrounding North Platte who gave so much of themselves for nearly five years, every day and every night, from 5 a. These were people who went beyond good intentions or good ideas.

They actually made it happen. Fourteen members met on March 6 to discuss this book. A majority of those in attendance expressed how much they enjoyed reading this memoir and shared stories with us of their own relationships with the land and life in rural America. Ben Logan shares his deep attachments to all of his boyhood experiences on the farm, including the late night discussions with his brothers, mother and father under the maple tree which stood for decades in their yard. How far away are the stars? How do you determine when the earth was ready to plant?

How do you fool a hen in order to locate her hidden nest of eggs? How do you tell when summer finally arrives? It is the sound of the whippoorwill, of course! On the farm, nothing ever ended and nothing was ever completed. Each day of hay season was filled with agonizing decisions. And when growing oats each summer, farmers prayed for miracles to see the harvest through.

To hate and not love again was to be locked up forever in the lonely silence of oneself. A day could not be saved for later, such as a perfect flower pressed between pages.

So we pursued a day, chasing it, reaching for it, and running as it sped ahead of us in the swiftly moving shadows of the sun. Partly I reach back to find myself at some age of innocence when the land was my whole world. Partly, I try to recapture those taken-for-granted persons I called Mother and Father. The land cradles all life. It outlives us all. We are all bound together with it into an immense circle of life. It forever remembers us and writes an epitaph for the good and evil we do to it. This book is a nonfiction retelling of the discovery of a lost painting by the Italian artist Caravaggio.

These clues are the catalyst for other Caravaggio scholars to search for a painting which has been lost for almost two centuries. Caravaggio was a genius and a master, but his personal failings, drunkenness, and unbridled rage led him to commit murder and to leave Rome a hunted man. Some estimates indicate that between 60 and 80 of his works are still in existence today, but countless others have been lost. So many have been copied, which adds to the tremendous work involving so many people to find the originals. The author offered us fascinating descriptions through the process of identifying and restoring these great works of art.

If you are a student of art history, you will most certainly love this book. However, if you are not, you will still find this to be a suspenseful tale of an intriguing and tedious scavenger hunt for a lost 17th century treasure. We will certainly look more closely at art now that we have read this book. A masterpiece could be gathering dust and forgotten somewhere or perhaps hanging in a small church, mistaken for a copy. This book was a hilarious look at the madness and mayhem that has become a part of our holiday tradition. Luther Krank is fed up. Hesitantly, Nora warms to the idea.

But sticking to their plan becomes increasingly more difficult as the community responds to them with a mixture of disgust and envy. Luther is not a Scrooge nor a Grinch. In some ways you may even sympathize with him and believe his neighbors have no business getting so overly emotional regarding his decision. When their daughter decides to come home for Christmas at the last minute with her soon-to-be husband, Luther and Nora know she expects the traditional holiday parties, tree, and gift-giving which she has so long enjoyed.

You will soon learn how the community and the neighbors respond to assist them in making that happen. As Luther and Nora standing there glowing with their tanning booth bronzed bodies in preparation for their now-cancelled trip greet their daughter and her beau, she is led to believe it all fell into place naturally and normally. Reviews were mixed but most of us enjoyed this best seller.

On their fifth wedding anniversary, Amy disappears, leaving behind a pool of blood and overturned furniture. The author gives up very few clues, but just enough to keep us hanging on. Then she slams us with a revelation that changes everything we thought to be true. What is real and what is not? How well do we really know our spouse? Most of us found very little sympathy for Amy and Nick or for any of the characters actually. They all seem a bit off-center, but the story is gripping and horrifying and crazy. Perhaps the author has to be a little bit off-center too in order to so cleverly fool and astound her readers.

The ending was a surprise for almost all of us and yet was it really an ending? Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver. The author wrote this book after returning to southern Appalachia in , embracing her roots, drawing from this area for the backdrop of this fictional story. Feeling alone and empty and believing that she had sacrificed so many of her dreams, Dellarobia Turnbow saw what she believed to be a sign to rethink her attempts to leave her current life.

As we suspected, the underlying issues of global warming and human disruption of the environment permeate this story, but have we ever compared this type of flight behavior to our own? What happens when we are not where we should be? But the people of Feathertown show us that there are several ways to define and respond to the arrival of the Monarchs. Our reviews of this book were mixed.

Several discussions surfaced regarding where we stand on environmental issues locally or globally. But, there are many pages with humor and many more with compassion and substance. This vivid and compelling memoir kept some of us on the edge of our seats, riveted to every page, holding our breath at every threatening noise or crackle of twigs on every inch of the trail. Her bad-girl decisions kept us from being totally sympathetic. The author wrote this story of her solo mile adventure 20 years after she completed it. She had no experience or training to attempt such a journey, but at the age of 22, she thought she had nothing more to lose.

After the death of her mother, the end of her marriage and the scattering of her remaining family members, she embarked on an attempt at self-discovery, redemption and healing. We could feel her need for water and food, her pain from blisters and the weight of her load, her moments of terror from rattlesnakes and snowstorms, and all those things which a young woman would face alone over the course of several months from the Mojave Desert to the state of Washington. Her mental challenges became as difficult to bear as the physical ones.

But, no matter how perplexed, terrified, or lonely she became, she had no escape or room for denial. The trail gave her two options: Fear is born of a story we tell ourselves, so I chose to tell myself a different story…. Eight of our members met to discuss this book at our September meeting. In the early chapters of the book, we meet John Singer and Spiros Antonapoulos, two good friends who live together in the Deep South and are deaf mutes.

After ten years together, Spiros becomes ill and his behavior changes so drastically that he is committed to an asylum and John Springer moves into a boarding house. It is then that he meets Biff, Jake, Mick and Dr. These four people consider John Singer their confidant and visit with him regularly. Each seems to be longing for comfort, peace of mind, stability, and answers to help them cope in their separate worlds.

Although we felt the character developments were outstanding, we did not feel that the characters interacted in a manner which allowed the story to flow easily. Ten of our members discussed this book at our August meeting. Shabanu is a strong-willed Muslim girl whose home is the windswept Cholistan Desert of Pakistan. She and her older sister, Phulan, have been chosen to marry two of their cousins upon reaching marital age.

Her family raises camels and sells them at market to pay for the wedding dowries. Parts of it are more appropriate for older readers. In the early chapters of the book, Shabanu is a care-free girl who would rather be outdoors in the sand dunes with her beloved camels. Through tragic circumstances, Shabanu is promised to marry a different and much older man in a deal which would benefit her family.

She learns to focus on the beautiful things in her world and take them out, one by one, and then fold them away deep inside. Eight members gathered this evening on a warm summer evening along the banks of the Pecatonica River. We found her porch to be the perfect place to discuss this book. But rumors abound about war, a deadly virus, and continued upheaval in Congress resulting in the subsequent collapse of society. For the two sisters, the forest is discovered to be a living breathing being, full of serenity and menace, comfort and tension.

It is an unchanging sanctuary no matter what. The sisters, after losing both parents, arrive into adulthood and are forced to re-examine their place in the world and their relationship to the land and with each other. To say they became survivalists without leaving their home would be understating the multitude of hardships and unforeseen events which these young girls are forced to face.

Many of our members would disagree with the choices and decisions they made, and several of us were slightly disappointed in the ending, however, we found the book to be a fascinating quick read and indeed a page-turner. Twelve members gathered to discuss this best-selling novel. We found this to be a remarkable book and we all enjoyed it. Along with his younger sister Swede a brilliant and unforgettable girl and his father a man of integrity, strength and wisdom , he finds himself on a cross-country search for his fugitive older brother during the harshest of winters in North Dakota.

Their journey will inspire you, and through this tale of brotherhood, faith and family, you may find yourself redefining what miracles truly are. The author has an amazing gift of story-telling full of richness and clarity. You may even want to read this one out loud because there are so many memorable quotes which many of us revisited.

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I have the anticipation of things unseen. It does not disappoint. The Call of the Wild by Jack London. Twelve members met in May to discuss this classic novel by American author Jack London. We agreed that it was a remarkable story of a dog named Buck and a tale of power, submission, strength, violence, courage and loyalty. London left college in when the Klondike gold rush first began, hoping to return home a rich man.

However, all he brought back with him was the experience of adventure and frontier which he put into words, providing his readers with something far more interesting than Victorian-era fiction. This book was his most famous work. Buck, a large powerful dog, half St. Bernard and half sheep dog, was stolen, traded, and shipped to the Klondike region to fulfill the need for strong sled dogs, as the fervor for gold escalated. His new masters worked for the government and moved the mail shipments across the Yukon territory.

Fierce rivalries take place between the dogs as they struggle for lead sled spots. Even as the brutal natural elements take their toll on the weakest of the dogs along the route, Buck recovers his primitive instincts and learns how to not only survive but to master his skills above all others, developing a most profound depth of loyalty ever witnessed between master and dog.

It is the understanding of these rules one must follow in order to survive because slight misunderstandings and wanton behaviors of ignoring the warnings result in tragic outcomes. Eight members met in April to discuss this book. The author researched and oftentimes retraced the footsteps of this young Honduran boy. She interviewed witnesses, other migrants, INS agents, family members and care-givers to illuminate the complexity of the immigration issue by giving a face and a voice to migrant children.

Enrique sacrifices all he has and all he knows to reach the U. His dream is to get to know her, because all that he knows has been shown to him through photographs. Despite the gifts, the money, and the promises she offers her children during her absence, to Enrique the material things are not fulfilling and the promises are never realized. Migrant children are stalked, robbed, tortured, maimed, raped and they often die at the hands of gangsters, robbers and judicial police. And, even though many end up being deported back to the Central American homelands, the determination to attempt the journey again remains strong.

Travel by foot, by train-top, by river and by truckers is hazardous and many times futile for tens of thousands of immigrant children each year. And, once they reach their mothers here in the U. This is a very compelling story of loss, sacrifice, treachery, tragedy, compassion and family love, which readers will not soon forget.

We chose this book for March because we believed it would mirror our own desires for the end of winter and the coming of spring. This is a Viking tale from long ago and the struggle for power and survival during the months of an extremely harsh winter. The leader of the clan and most of the male members leave by ship in search of food. However, in their absence the clan storyteller, driven by evil ambition, and the daughter of the clan leader, driven to protect the seat and wishes of her father, find themselves in their own personal battle in the midst of starving and sickly women and children who are counting on them to provide for their needs.

The daughter, Asa Coppermane, meets an old woman who speaks to her two pet ravens. It is apparent that this woman has power over Asa and convinces her that she must make a great sacrifice in order to save her remaining clan members. But, it is Asa who must decide how great that sacrifice must be. All of the eight members in attendance enjoyed reading this book in the hope that spring would eventually come at the end of it. We recommend it to all readers young adult and older. Eight members discussed this book. Some of us were not easily drawn into the story, beautifully written by this author.

It is a tale of the intertwined fates of the Kashpaws and the Lamartines on a North Dakota reservation from to It is filled with complex characters covering several generations. The members who loved the story were able to work their way into it and were drawn in by the believability of the dialogue; the in-depth descriptions of the characters; and the many forms of life, love, and betrayals which were interwoven with passion and drama.

Our discussion was cancelled due to weather conditions. We will discuss this book at our March 7 meeting. Six members met in January to discuss this book. Nine members met in December to discuss this book about a storyteller who traveled the globe collecting and telling stories that had been passed down to him through many generations. The storyteller, however, failed to grasp the true meaning and wisdom of these tales until the day he lost his ability to tell them. How can a storyteller continue on when he has lost his voice?

Everything he knows begins to fall apart, until he encounters his old teacher.

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This is the true story of that man who finds happiness just when he thinks he has lost everything. Each chapter begins with a tale that bears wisdom and each reflects the questions we face individually, from the search for truth to the ways we cope with loss. We question whether everything that happens in life does so for a reason.

We ask ourselves whether a curse can be considered a blessing and a blessing considered a curse. Have you ever asked yourself what it means to be rich? Do you answer by saying it is an appreciation of what you already have? One reviewer wrote that this book should be a gift you give yourself so that you can refer to it whenever something in life goes wrong and whenever something in life goes right.

Eight members met in November to discuss this book. These years were bustling with inventions, prosperity, community, and family. These were the times when we seemed indestructible and we had not yet heard about seat belts, smoke detectors, bottled water or labels warning us that drinking bleach was bad for us. Through this memoir and with the help of his alter ego, The Thunderbolt Kid, Bryson attempts to prove to himself that he cannot possibly be the biological son of his parents.

In this book, he looks back at things as he saw them then. If you are a baby boomer, you will laugh out loud at some of these jogs to our memories. No scrambled Air Force jets were summoned, no SWAT teams dropped from the ceiling and no awards were given to the heroes for finding her. She was merely taken to the kitchen, given a cup of tea and sent home to her family. Of course, the author, who grew up in Des Moines, stretched his story with sprinkles of exaggeration, especially when his Thunderbolt Kid powers were called upon, but the message was clear that we live in different times today.

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