Spanning five decades, Bungalow Terrace is the backstage saga of four best friends from a working class neighborhood who are inadvertently turned into a singing group, catapulted to fame, and, under the unlikely name of Bungalow Terrace, become one of the most iconic rock-and-roll bands of the twentieth century. Grappling with such issues as addiction, death, rape, and sexual identity, it is the story of four diverse lives and the life of a superstar rock group.
The game's afoot in 1894 Montpellier, France! An infestation is decimating the vineyards, cholera is threatening the population, and intrigue flourishes throughout the village and at its University. Jean-Philippe Devereaux, a world-renowned life scientist—dead. Details of his work, a political and scientific collaboration of global import—lost. His wife, a gifted musician—hounded by men who will kill to recover it. At first, desperate to escape misogynistic France and her philandering husband, Elizabeth Devereaux suddenly finds herself entangled in an impenetrable plot she can’t bring herself to abandon. But can she find her answers before the killers find her?
I Was Just Leaving: Reflections on Growing Old
Mary Cushman
Bennetts Cove Press
This collection of twelve essays reflects on the trials (and pleasures) many of us encounter as we grow into older age. The author draws deeply on her own experience, with writing that is both highly personal and universally applicable. Responding to the essays, Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist, Ellen Goodman, says, "In these honest and brave stories, Mary Cushman truly faces into the winds of mortality." While issues of aging sometimes seem mostly grim, in this book they get treated with a broad sense of humor—providing companionship for the journey that lies ahead when we are fortunate enough to grow old.
"Reading Genanne Walsh’s Eggs in Purgatory is like listening to the wisest friend you have talk to you about death and dying from inside a confessional booth of her own making. In this long-form essay, Walsh narrates the final weeks of the life of her father, an ex-priest and unrepentant bon vivant, as he facilitates his own death. The storytelling is beautiful and fraught, intimate and gut-wrenching. Eggs in Purgatory is a must-read for anyone who has struggled with a parent’s death or to make sense of a parent’s life. Simply put, it is for all of us"—Lori Ostlund, author of After the Parade and The Bigness of the World.
Meister Eckhart's Book of Darkness & Light: Meditations on the Path of the Wayless Way
Meister Eckhart has been a compelling voice that has drawn a diverse chorus of readers since he lived at the turn of the 14th century. Prophetic in his startling reconstruction of "God" as "the still wilderness," his writings have inspired wisdom teachers like Eckhart Tolle and Richard Rohr who have found in him a wellspring for the spiritual life. This book of short, meditative poems "re-voices" Eckhart's wisdom for those journeying on what he called "the wayless way.” These vivid poetic renderings drawing directly from his writings bring life to one of the great teachers of the ages. For Eckhart knew that "within each of us is a divine treasure, and if we hope to discover it we need to go deep into the heart of who we are." The poems collected in this book gesture toward how we might find that treasure as we journey on the "wayless way" of our lives.
A Portrait to Paint
Andréa Suarez Hill
Austin Macualey Publishers
The poems in A Portrait to Paint celebrate two journeys—the career in NYC that Andréa Suarez Hill had in print broadcast and photo journalism until 1987, as well as the life she and her husband created when they moved to Down East, Maine. The poetry reflects these two different rural and urban lives. The section "We" captures daily news from across the globe—climate change, social injustice, COVID, politics, and more. In "You," the author writes about her relationships with horses, wild animals, people, and places both in New York and Maine. "Me" expresses her inner world, feelings about aging, as well as reflections on her childhood family and friends. A reader feels the wonder Andréa experiences across the decades wherever she lives and looks.
While fishing on Stony Brook, Hector Fox and his friend find an old map hidden in a floating bottle. Hoping to find a secret treasure, the friends set off into the woods on their latest adventure. When a gang of coyotes capture them, steal the map, and lock them in a tunnel, it will take brains, bravery, and teamwork to escape and discover the true meaning of treasure.
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