Chasing Stanley (Berkley Sensation)

Book Description

What do a New York City dog trainer and a pro hockey player have in common? They both love Stanley, an adorable but naughty Newfoundland...

When dog trainer Delilah Gould spots a rambunctious Newfoundland disobeying orders, she can't help but stepping in and teaching the gentle giant to heel. But it's his hunky owner she's really like to teach a few tricks. Too bad he's clearly the untrainable kind.

Professional hockey player Jason Mitchell is thrilled when he's traded to the New York Blades--the team of his dreams. There's just one problem: his pooch isn't adjusting to city life too well. Good thing he crosses paths with dog trainer Delilah Gould. At least that's what he thinks--until he realized he's fallen for her.

Now, with the season heating up, Jason realizes he'll have to score big-time to win the Stanley Cup and the woman who had tamed his dog and unleashed his heart.

Customer Reviews:

Cute and Love-able.......2007-09-26

This book was very cute and full of what we've all come to expect from Martin.

The main characters Deliah Gould and Jason Mitchell are an adorable couple that have to overcome the usual problems. Yet Deliah's nagging was wearing thin by page 100. I just don't get how anyone could possibly be that annoying and miss. know-it-all.

Other than that the book was a great story that would have anyone begging for more.

The best one yet.......2007-08-04

Of all the her books, this one is my favorite. I picked it up and couldnt put it back down. And when I was finished, I read it again. The chemistry between Delilah and Jason is so good you find yourself right there with them. I know she does this theme a lot (boy meets girl, boy woes girl, boy decides last minute that it wont work with girl, boy regrets screwing up... blah blah blah) but I think this one was the most believable of them all. In the book that was similar to this (Total Rush) I never understood what Sean's big deal was (and im sorry, but all the witch stuff was kind of hard to get through) but in Chasing Stanley you can see the realism in it. I really enjoyed, and if you read any of the stories in her Blades series, read this one.

How disappointing!!.......2007-05-12

I have so enjoyed Ms. Martin's other books, which is why I purchased 'Chasing Stanley'. I was very disappointed! Ms. Martin's style of writing, made this book easy to read, however, I struggled, regardless, as I didn't like the main characters or the secondary characters!! The hero of the story seemed like such a young, selfish boy, so not attractive to me at all and the heroine.........well, I guess the best way to put it, is that she needed to get a grip! Other than Marcus, the friend and co-worker, who was the only human character I liked and Stanley, yes the Newfoundland, I basically just wanted to take a baseball bat to all the other secondary characters. I was, also, very suprised at the lack of description of Delilah's own dogs. They, to me, were just props. I really like Ms. Martin's books and plan to continue to read them...........but, not if they turn out to be like this one. I wish I had skipped it.

A satisfying conclusion to the series. .......2007-05-12

Another hot, sexy, action-packed story by Deirdre Martin. Unfortunately, I'm not really a dog person, so an intregral portion of the book did not appeal to me and I wasn't unable to embrace or relate to it. However, I revelled in the play-by-play hockey game scenes! And as a Long Islander, I enjoyed the NY and LI settings! The characters were well-drawn, and lovable despite their flaws. I thought the sibling rivalry dialogue was a bit over-the-top, but I commend the author for sesitively taking on an important social issue like anti-semetism.

Delightful, fun book.......2007-04-15

Chasing Stanley by Deirdre Martin is another funny, sweet and emotional book set in the world of hockey.

For dog trainer Delilah Gould her first meeting of Newfoundland Stanley is love at first sight. Now Stanley's owner Pro hockey player Jason Mitchell is another story. After seeing what a poor job Jason has done with training Stanley Delilah agrees to train him.

Jason is trying his best to impress his new coaches on the New York Blades. He has a lot on his plate, adjusting to a new team, city and getting his dog used to city life. Add to that mix his attraction to Stanley's trainer.

Delilah and Jason are so different. Delilah is painfully shy and Jason tries to be the life of the party. Can these two opposites make a love connection?

Chasing Stanley will touch your heart in so many ways. You can really feel Delilah struggling to overcome her shyness. Delilah and Jason's witty conversations and hot, steamy encounters will keep you wanting more.

Deirdre Martin really packs deep emotions into every page in her books. They are gems.

Traveling Light: Chasing an Illuminated Life

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Illuminated Poetry!
Weep with Tears of Joy: The Wonders of Life Enlightened
Poetic Photography

Traveling Light: Chasing an Illuminated Life
Deborah Dewit Marchant
Manufacturer: William, James & Co.
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1590281497
Release Date: 2006-10-16

Product Description

Traveling Light is the personal story of Deborah DeWit Marchant's fascination with the power and mystery of light and her passionate search to capture that mystery with her camera. As she travels across the United States and through such countries as Scotland, France, and Western Australia, she photographs the atmosphere of a place--landscapes and interiors. DeWit Marchant's rich prose and forty-seven color photographs illustrate the depths of the creative process.

Customer Reviews:

Illuminated Poetry!.......2006-12-02

Every once in a while, a small gem of a book appears on the landscape; that is at once both humble and profound. Deborah Dewit Marchant's Traveling Light: Chasing an Illuminated Life is just such a gem.

A small book - but only physically - it contains some of the most beautifully tranquil, ethereal imagery I have seen in a long while; only to be enhanced by a generous sampling of poetic musings on the artist's life of yearning and searching for sources of illumination, from both outward sources and those inwardly directed.

One of the purest forms of "fine-art" photography - with an emphasis very much on art - is when "mere images" are used by the artist to convey both personal realities and universal truths. This can only happen when the artist has so mastered the symbolic language of his/her own creation, that the distinction between inner and outer either blurs, or disappears altogether. Images become both figure and ground, are both context for deeper meaning and meaning giving rise to deeper contexts, and simultaneously represent objective "reality" and the most mysterious, deeply subjective, inner experiences. The highest form of "fine-art photography not only pleases us aesthetically (and, maybe, intellectually), but also teaches us something timeless about ourselves. It is a mystery how an image captured by one person can teach some other person something about him/her self; but when it happens it is often magical, and points to hidden realms of shared experiences and realities.

By this measure of "fine-art" photography, at least, Marchant's art, as witnessed by the work appearing in her beautiful first book, is masterful indeed! I suspect that many will want to keep this volume by their bedside, if only to be gently reminded at the end of a stressful day that there is great joy and grace in the world, and that more of us would be able to see it, if only we could train our eyes, our hearts and souls to recognize it. Marchant has gone out and captured it for us, and I, for one, wish to thank her for sharing her experience.

Anyone who is not spiritually moved by this stunning book of "illuminated poetry" cannot possibly be alive. If Alfred Steiglitz were alive today, I am sure he'd proclaim, "Yes, yes, THIS is why photography is art!"

Weep with Tears of Joy: The Wonders of Life Enlightened.......2006-11-26

Deborah DeWit Marchant holds a lantern of light beckoning her readers to follow a path toward a oneness with nature. Her first book, 'Traveling Light: Chasing an Illuminated Life', will most assuredly not be her last: those who are fortunate to engage this artist/poet will demand more.

There are three books contained within the cover of one. This is a portfolio of some of the most atmospheric, luminous photographs of nature all be herself, images bathed in light from the sun, from the reflected whispers of fog and dew, from the incomplete sanctity of windows or doors that to others may ominously speak of privacy but to Marchant speak of invitation.

Then there are the liquid words of sharing discovery, the nascent eyes of the child seeing through the portal of the lens of a camera the first time and using that key to follow beauty around the globe devotedly - an autobiography of sorts if labels need be placed - the journey of the growth of a fine artist.

Then there is a line of poetry that celebrates retinal curiosity with the magic of light, settling in on word paintings of horizons and vistas, things old and forgotten, and things alive and growing and weaving into the cycle of life. Marchant sees them all, stills them for that moment with the shutter of her camera, and then ruminates.

One longs for a large format of the breathtaking images Marchant captures. Though this book is beautifully designed by Phil Kovacevich it is small in format and for this reader the size of the book pleads for expansion. But this is her first book. Her art is widely shared in the Pacific Northwest: it needs to be drawn into the galleries and museums and homes that finger away from her Oregon home.

Few books will affect the reader and the viewer with the simple quiet power as TRAVELING LIGHT. Lest anyone wonder, light here refers to illumination source, but the title could also describe the journey of an artist who spent years of her creative life traveling alone, light, and at the consideration of encountered friends - and nature's respite. We will hear and see more from Deborah DeWit Marchant. This is a book of love. It deserves sharing. Grady Harp, November 06

Poetic Photography.......2006-11-17

"One day I wandered to the beach at the end of a chilly, wet winter's afternoon. I stood alone, on a shimmering expanse of low-tide sand. In a spitting, twirling wind I watched the sea and sky shift in harmony from grey to silver to blue to cream to yellow to bronze to pink to mauve to orange and then join together and plunge into darkness." ~ Deborah DeWit Marchant

Traveling Light will inspire you to write more imaginatively, take pictures with an added sense of introspection and live life with heightened awareness. Very few books have the ability to capture the heart almost instantly and yet in Traveling Light you know you will love this book from the moment you read the first page.

Lush poetic prose illuminates the pages and introduces us to the thoughts filtering through a photographer's mind while we observe the moments captured and lovingly collected in this captivating book.

The photographs include moments in time from Scotland, France, England and Western Australia. Stunning images from Oregon, Indiana, Washington, South Carolina, North Carolina and Missouri explore her travel experiences closer to home.

Forty-seven gifts of light grace the pages in this poetic work revealing the inner life of the artist and the external observations inspiring the artistic life. Each image seems to reveal a purity within the complexity of scenes ranging from soft pastel blue ocean waves to mysterious winding staircases and light filtering through arched doorways tempting you to run outside into the warmth.

Deborah De Wit Marchant's writing style can leave even the most astute reader a little breathless. Her creative flow rocks with the rhythms of an eloquent unveiling of the soul as she pounces on the perfect description page after page. Even in novels I have never seen such beauty in the portrayal of landscapes, moments and images only a language artist could reveal.

~The Rebecca Review

Chasing Secrets: The Landry Brothers (Harlequin Intrigue)

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Another wonderful brother

Chasing Secrets: The Landry Brothers (Harlequin Intrigue)
Kelsey Roberts
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ASIN: 0373886136

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Another wonderful brother.......2006-03-27

I love these books - they all stand alone but I can't wait to see what happened with the parents.

Chasing Rainbow (Avon Light Contemporary Romances)

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Entertaining Beach Reading
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Chasing Rainbow (Avon Light Contemporary Romances)
Sue Civil-Brown
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ASIN: 0380800608

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Jake Carpenter has traveled all over the wold, living a neat, orderly life. Now he's come to Paradise Beach, Florida, intending to stop his globetrotting ways and settle down with a tidy woman. But barging into his life comes untidy, disorderly Rainbow Moonglow. The sexy psychic turns Jake's world upside down, gets him all shook up in more ways than one. And suddenly - surprisingly - he's having the time of his life.But Jake knows that he and Rainbow are worlds apart. His soul-searing desire for this eminently kissable woman defies all rational behavior, but rational is the last thing he feels when he takes Rainbow in his arms. She's as tempting as a summer breeze yet as unpredictable as the weather. And soon he realizes he can never let her go...even if it means chasing Rainbow from here to eternity.

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Entertaining Beach Reading.......2002-10-06

I enjoyed this book.
Rainbow is a believable characther who has a special talent for sensing the unknowing. And when she is called into look at a haunted building where many senior citizens live, she doesn't know what she is getting herself into.

Jake Carpenter is too logical and scientific for words. When he is voted president of the association and 'stuck' with Rainbow and a haunted building, little does he know the fun is just beginning.

With a little help from above and a lot of help from Mary Todd, this couple has a hard time finding time alone to get to know each other and yet they really don't stand a chance in the romance. They make such a great couple and are just the kind of people I'd like to know in real life.

The book just moves along at a fast pace and with a touch of humor and a touch of the out of the ordinary, this is a great beach reading type of book.

Enjoy.

Moved a little faster.......2000-05-29

This was the better of the three romantic/comedy novels I read by this author. I won't read another though. Her secondary characters were a little easier to laugh at in this book, but the ending was anti-climatic. Her heroine was unsure of herself and this seems to be the case in all Civil-Brown's heroines. The hero was pushed into his role as an alpha male as well. These characters are hard for me to enjoy. The plot was busy and the characters were shallow. I'd invest in another author's book for entertainment.

Can this book- It's a waste of money!.......2000-05-28

I saw this author recommended and since the Tucson, AZ library system has none of her books, I actually spent good money on this drivel! I have been bored through the first 130 pages and can hardly stay awake to finish the rest... I do like the graphics on the front cover, a nice change of pace from the tacky, half naked couples that are pasted on so many romances, but that's all that I approve of in this one! What does it take to make people become real in a story? I just don't have any interest in these characters... I'd like to see some more authors of the caliber of Susan Elizabeth Phillips but this is not one of them...

A Big Let-Down.......2000-04-28

I was really disappointed in this one. I had heard such great things about it, but it was too wacky. Too many characters, and you didn't care a fig about any of them. It just went on and on. Rambled....and, didn't focus on anything. Not worth the time.

The Perfect Ghost Story for Valentine's Day.......2000-01-30

Chasing Rainbow is billed as a romance novel, but it is much more! It is warm, witty, funny and a wonderful read. There's even a wee little murder mystery stirred in for good measure. It reminds me of the light romantic comedies that Doris Day and Rock Hudson used to star in...I'm surprised Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks haven't made this into a movie. It'd be a blockbuster.

I read this book out on the deck, and I was laughing with every delightful new plot twist. A gifted humor writer, Sue Civil-Brown comes up with the zaniest, most lovable characters I've ever seen: a no-nonsense geologist who doesn't believe in superstitions falling in love with an adorable young psychic named Rainbow Moonglow.

Rainbow, you see, was born in a commune in the 1970s; her mother was into free love and doesn't know who the father was, but is still strict with her grown daughters'morals. And its a tossup who has the craziest uncle, Rainbow or her beau.

The minor characters are a scream: the red-haired psychic/mother who wears purple because her spirit guide told her to; the retired Colonel who believes his military training can handle anything, including ectoplasm; the flirty ex-CIA agent with his goofy T-shirts; minor league mobsters; grandmothers who are hell on wheels on their motorbikes; playful spooks who play tricks on the living; and an assortment of colorful, crazy retirees in the Florida condo community.

Buy this book, it's a laugh a minute. You'll fall in love with Rainbow and her pals.

Chasing the Mountain of Light: Across India on the Trail of the Koh-I-Noor Diamond
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Interesting and enjoyable travelogue of India

Drawing Pictures with Words & telling the tale as a journey

much more than the history of diamonds is told....

Rambles in A Faceted Land

WELL WORTH THE CHASE

Chasing the Mountain of Light: Across India on the Trail of the Koh-I-Noor Diamond
Kevin Rushby
Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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A shiny piece of carbon is what ensnares writer Kevin Rushby, luring him into a strange world of hidden towns with no names, a land of charms, chakras, cardamom, and missing gem mines. But it's not just any chunk of glittering jewel with which Rushby is obsessed: he's pursuing the history of the Koh-I-Noor diamond, a 106-karat piece of crystalline perfection now part of England's Crown Jewels. Research pulls him across India and into a diverse culture that is so exotic--and simultaneously so mystical, esoteric, and often criminal--that he may as well have fallen into Middle-earth.

The diamond now sits in the Tower of London, but the magnificent gem's past proves elusive, its light flickering in a maze of mirrors, cloaked in myth, lies, and mystery. The truth about whence it came and which palms it crossed may ultimately never be uncovered. Nevertheless, Rushby artfully uses the pretext to uncover rich stories: of the excesses of wealthy jewelers, of impoverished farmers who discover gleaming wealth in the fields, and of clandestine diamond markets, where cloth-wrapped baubles are sold on the streets like peddled crack.

Names of Indian places and people do get confusing--and there are more characters spinning around in this book than a Russian novel--but that doesn't matter. Rushby weaves Chasing the Mountain of Light with lush detail, creating a tale as compelling, multifaceted, and breathtaking as the diamond itself. --Melissa Rossi

Book Description

The Koh-i-Noor diamond known as the Mountain of Light, the world's largest diamond, was found in India, traveled from Golconda to the Mughal palaces in the north. Fought over, cursed at and occasionally lost, it finally reached the Sikhs in the Punjab, only to be seized by British agents eager to please young Queen Victoria. It now lies in the Tower of London where some say its curse controls the fate of the Windsor family. In Chasing the Mountain of Light, Kevin Rushby pursues the dramatic career of the Koh-i-Noor on a journey to the heart of Indian culture meeting dealers, smugglers, and petty crooks along the way. It's another adventure from Rushby whom the Washington Post recently compared to William S. Burroughs and Arthur Rimbaud.

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Interesting and enjoyable travelogue of India .......2006-07-04

_Chasing the Mountain of Light_ by Kevin Rushby is an interesting and sometimes humorous travelogue about India, ostensibly about the author's efforts to track the origins and history of the Koh-i-Noor or Mountain of Light, one of the most famous diamonds in the world, from its origins in the mines of Golconda in southern India to centuries later and its presumably final resting place in the Tower of London. Though the diamond's history and lore was indeed chronicled, the book was really the story of one traveler's adventures and encounters throughout India. Journeying from Madras on the Coromandel Coast in southern India all the way north to Amritsar in the Punjab, near the Pakistani border, Rushby undertook an epic quest to find the origins of this stone and to relate its bloody history. He had to contend with reluctant, unfriendly, tight-lipped officials, shady sellers of black market diamonds in dangerous back alleys, eccentric but knowledgeable experts on diamond lore and Indian history, and thieves, alerted to Rushby's inquires about diamonds, thinking him not a writer but a man who actually possessed large quantities of these gems on his person.

The diamond known as Koh-i-Noor was believed by many devout Hindus to actually be mythic in origin, to be a stone that was once called the Syamantaka, a gem which the Hindu sun god Surya gave as reward to a worshipper. Later the god Krishna was accused by the people of stealing the gem and fought terrible battles to return the diamond back to humanity. The stone was owned by the Mughals for generations, beginning with the first Mughal emperor Babur in the 1520s, though many scholars dispute the notion that the Syamantaka and a magnificent stone known simply as "Babur's diamond" are the one and the same. The Persian invader Nadir Shah sacked Delhi in 1739, leaving the Mughals as vassals but along with many other treasures took the great diamond with him, giving it the name Koh-i-Noor (which means Mountain of Light). After Nadir Shah was assassinated in 1747 the Koh-i-Noor was taken by Ahmad Khan Abdali to Afghanistan. The last member of the Durrani dynasty (which was founded by Ahmad Khan Abdali), a ruler by the name of Shah Shuja, went into exile, the gem then taken by Ranjit Singh in 1813 (a man who founded a Sikh kingdom in the Punjab in 1799). During one of the Anglo-Sikh wars the Koh-i-Noor was captured by the British, who took the diamond to Queen Victoria, who in turn had the 186 carat diamond re-cut to improve its brilliance, bringing the stone down to a 108 carats (though strangely enough improving the diamond's allure, as the number 108 is a very auspicious number in India).

Many in India believe the stone is cursed and that the stone can only be given freely to another person by its owner or be won rightfully in battle; horrible things will result when the stone is bought, sold, or stolen. Further, they also believe that the stone will produce good fortune for good people but very bad things for the wicked.

Like many other great Indian diamonds, the Koh-i-Noor was always searching for a new master, "leaving behind the failed and the dead." Claimed by India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran, the Sikhs in particular are keen to retrieve it as a symbol of Sikh nationalism (though they insist that like their famed Golden Temple, it would be the property of all Indians). Given its history and the immense prestige that would be gained by any in the subcontinent or the region who came into possession of the stone, Rushby wondered if the diamond was not best left in the Tower of London.

As fascinating as the Koh-i-Noor was, its history fills a fairly modest part of the book. More interesting perhaps was the numerous encounters Rushby had. He toured Fort St. George in Madras, the largest building left in the world constructed by the East India Company; never a favored post by Englishman, many sent there never returned, often committing suicide or drinking themselves to death. Also in Madras the author visited an Armenian church and met a Mr. Gregory, the last remaining Armenian, sole representative of a once thriving Armenian trading community. Rushby met with astrogemologists, men who believed that they could control fate by the proper manipulation of gemstones. Religious encounters as one might imagine definitely occurred, as Rushby met with Zoroastrians who had fled from Aden, Yemen after the British left, observed a Sikh worship ceremony in the Golden Temple, and met a number of Jainists, going on a Jain pilgrimage and encountering members of both sects of the religion, both the Digambaras or "sky-clads," who believe that it is most holy to be without clothing, and the Svetambaras or "white-clads," who believe that nudity is not possible in an imperfect world. Rushby visited Alaung, the world's largest ship breaking yard, where tens of thousands of unskilled laborers work on an oil-soaked beach to destroy 50,000 tonne tankers with practically their bare hands. One of my favorite parts was his visit to Bilkha, once a tiny state that was only 7 miles wide and 10 miles long. Rushby met with the last descendents of its raja, a man with memories of a garage of Rolls-Royces, a stable of fine race horses and elephants, and lion-hunting expeditions, now a friendly and affable man sought by the locals for kindly advice, with only a single servant that he treats like a son, a man who took pleasure in personally fixing his own jeep and in participating in studies of the lions of the Gir Forest, no longer seeking them as trophies but working hard to conserve them for the future.

A good book, at the back of the book there was a helpful chronology of the diamond and a bibliography. Though there were two maps some of the places he visited were not noted on them.

Drawing Pictures with Words & telling the tale as a journey.......2003-12-23

Read this book in 2 days...beautifully written. Rushby keeps the reader engaged and provides the most intresting descriptions of places, sounds and smells as he journey's across India. Inspires you to follow the route!

For those studing Duleep Singh or the Panjab, this a must have for your collection.

much more than the history of diamonds is told...........2001-04-09

Kevin Rushby's trek across India in search of the legendary diamond, the "Koh-I-Noor" (mountain of light)is much more than a history of this fabled and "cursed" stone from the Golconda mine. Rushby's journey takes the reader through many small villages, many of them long abandoned after British rule.

Rushby's days in Gujarat state are the most interesting. There, he meets an old gentleman who lives in a large but very lonely estate home. They speak of the old days when the gentleman's estate was full of people, servants and animals. Now, his days are spent on the rooftop terrace taking tea in the afternoon and reminiscing about his past. A sense of melancholy and lost time is felt throughout all the varied characters' lives Rushby comes to know so well.

The story of the diamond trade and the wars fought over their inherent riches is only a small part of the book. The stories of the Indian people Rushby meets make this a great read for those of us who have not yet seen India. Time for me to book passage!

Rambles in A Faceted Land.......2000-10-17

Rushby follows the legend(s) of the Koh-i-Noor diamond (the title's "Mountain of Light") as well as the history of Indian and Middle Eastern gem trading in this entertaining book. Like all good travel books, a unifying theme, once found, is seldom respected slavishly, so someone expecting a diligent history of the diamond itself and its travels would be better served by the Encyclopedia Brittanica. For others who wish to see an unusual side of the Indian subcontinent and its history, Rushby's an affable and able guide.

WELL WORTH THE CHASE.......2000-10-16

Simply, beautifully written, takes you THERE...I've been to India, many of those places he's written about, and he recreates them on the page like a stereographic synaesthetic pop-up from the page. Made me laugh really hard, too, unexpectedly. Full of sights, sounds, history-in-living color, intrigue and mystery. An ideal read for armchair backpackers and yogis, and for anyone without an armchair, for that matter.

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A gentle story of self-discovery and possible wrong paths evolves.

Chasing Tail Lights
Patrick Jones
Manufacturer: Walker Books for Young Readers
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0802796281
Release Date: 2007-07-24

Book Description

Break free.

Before he died, Christy’s daddy used to say that when you feel lost, follow the tail lights of the truck in front of you, and they’ll get you somewhere safe. Christy keeps chasing those tail lights, but somehow, she’s always still lost in Flint, Michigan. Like most teens in Flint, she’s dying to leave this dying city. But she’s got a secret that she’s never told anyone, and it’s keeping her chained like a dog to her dead-end life. And she’ll never be able to make a fresh start until she’s able to reveal that horrible truth and bring herself back into the light.

Patrick Jones revisits his hometown of Flint, Michigan, and the darkness that has overtaken this impoverished city in a novel that reveals the chilling reality of growing up on the wrong side of the tracks in America today.

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A gentle story of self-discovery and possible wrong paths evolves........2007-09-07

Christy loves to stand on the highway overpass watching cars, and trying to understand her new life since her father died. For alcoholism and violence has long plagued the only place she can call home, and Christy is searching for anyone to lead her away from home and Flint Michigan. A gentle story of self-discovery and possible wrong paths evolves.

Chasing the Horizon: Our Adventures Through the British Isles and France (Journeys of Light)

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Romp around Europe with 2 talented sons and their dad.
A sweet and funny journey!
Travel vignettes of the British Isles and Europe
A wonderful charming journey!

Chasing the Horizon: Our Adventures Through the British Isles and France (Journeys of Light)
Patrick Kinkade
Manufacturer: Harvest House Pub
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1565076583

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Romp around Europe with 2 talented sons and their dad........1999-07-11

Ignoring the typo's and the reminders of dad's knee replacements, this is a fun way to explore some of Europe and learn about WWII from an aging veteran as he passes his legacy on to his talented, albeit delightfully juvenile, sons. One can relate to many of the author's memories of his youthful pranks and escapades, appreciate the beautiful sketches and oil paintings included by his famous brother, Thomas Kinkade, and appreciate and admire his father's service to his country. The misadventures of these 3 on their trek through Europe had me laughing out loud while also encouraging me to "go off the beaten path" that tourists normally take, appreciate the stories of the locals, and experience what's down the alley and over the wall.

A sweet and funny journey!.......1999-06-06

I read MANY books in a year and so many of those miss the mark of giving me exactly what I want from a story. This book simply and sweetly went straight to my heart! It was a pure joy to read and was made so much better in that it was REAL! I not only envy the Kinkades for the depth of talent that runs in that family (Patrick is an exceptional writer!) but their closeness and love as a family is very inspiring. Everyone should read this book!

Travel vignettes of the British Isles and Europe.......1999-02-08

A mini, armchair vacation by Thomas Kinkade, the painter and sketch artist,and his brother Patrick, the writer and professor, recounting the travels with their father through the England, Ireland, France, Belgium, and Germany. This literary trip traces many of the sites their father saw during his World War II tour of duty. Each chapter is short and perfect for a brief, relaxing, and often humerous escape to another part of the world. This is one of those rare books that one will want to keep in his library for future re-readings.

A wonderful charming journey!.......1998-10-12

This book is nicely written and makes you feel as though you are along as a silent partner on the journey. The pencil sketches and the oil paintings within are such an added bonus! The comradeship between the brothers and the father is simply to be envied....and the new abbreviations for the foibles of the father are hilarious--we all know them! It makes you want to grab your bags and book an adventure of your own (or at least go on their next one!)

Chasing the Sun: Solar Adventures Around the World

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A great advertisement for the author - and not much else.
What a fantastic book!
Great book on Solar business by someone who has figured out how to actually get things done!
Unique and deeply valuable
Walt Ratterman - Renewable Energy in the Developing World

Chasing the Sun: Solar Adventures Around the World
Neville Williams
Manufacturer: New Society Publishers
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0865715378

Book Description

If millions of people in the developing world can use solar power, why can't we in North America? The question immediately arises from this fascinating account of the author's twelve year quest to bring solar power and light to people in the developing world who have no electricity.

Chasing the Sun is a story of dreamers and doers who succeeded in their mission to make the world better by delivering nature's energy to poor people and by building organizations to put the sun at their service in practical, affordable and effective ways. A green-energy development narrative that is fun and eye-opening, the book is also part autobiography. Author Neville Williams' inspiring tale of trail-blazing innovation describes:

his founding the non-profit Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF) in 1990 which promoted solar power for a decade by setting up pilot solar rural electrification programs in eleven developing countries, including Zimbabwe, India, Nepal, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and China
his launching of the commercial Solar Electric Light Company in 1997 which became the "SELCO" group of companies that has overcome daunting challenges to bring solar electricity to 50,000 families in India, Sri Lanka and Vietnam.

Filled with colorful characters, the book also features the enthusiasm of maverick devotees to the renewable energy boom of the '80s and '90s and their interplay with staid DC-based development institutions, as well as their unique perspective on global solutions to "energy poverty." It will be illuminating to all interested in the environment, development, renewable energy, socially responsible business, and our future at the end of the age of oil.

Customer Reviews:

A great advertisement for the author - and not much else........2007-07-23

In purchasing this book I was hoping to glean some useful information about the specifics of getting solar energy to those who have no other options. Instead I got 300 pages of the author name-dropping and telling me how great and successful he is. He makes it sound like he is solely responsible for all solar power in all developing nations. There are limited specifics regarding solar power (the author himself admits he knows little about the actual technology involved), and I finished reading still not knowing how to get involved in this industry (apparently the only way to do so is to be good friends with all the rich and powerful businessmen and politicians like he is). That said there is some useful historical information on the industry, it is a recent book with up to date statistics, and thus it may prove to be a decent reference book in a limited way. The final chapter is good, as it discusses the current state of energy policy in the U.S.

What a fantastic book!.......2006-03-15

This book is fun to read - it outlines the history of photovoltaics, the history of international development of photovoltaics, and the exciting history of the Solar Electric Light Fund. If you're interested in photovoltaics, and/or international development, this is THE resource of all resources - what works, what doesn't...

Great book on Solar business by someone who has figured out how to actually get things done!.......2006-03-09

First off, I am a solar industry wannabe. This book only heightens my interest in getting involved. It's pretty amazing to see what Mr. Williams has accomplished through his tireless drive to help thousands of people and villages get electricity. This is a great book by someone that seems to know how to cut through red tape and just get things done. He takes some jabs at big government run programs, MBA's, and some various large institutions that seem to get too caught up in theory and do not actually get anything done. It sounds like this criticism is well founded. Mr. Williams has been successful in creating numerous solar businesses around the globe. There are some great stories on him being the first white man to ever visit some villages. Hearing the stories from different villagers tell how their lives have changed since purchasing a solar system is truly inspiring. Not a technical book by anymeans (a nice change from most solar books), Chasing the Sun focuses more on how to make solar panels more commonplace and helping people while creating a successful "for profit" business. He is now trying to figure out how to replicate this in the US. That should make a great book too.

Unique and deeply valuable.......2005-11-30

Chasing the Sun is not only highly readable and entertaining; it is unique and deeply valuable. It is not about the machinery of solar energy, nor its hows and whys and whens. There are other books, easier to research, mostly harder to read, about these aspects. It is about the human dimension of solar energy, how people and their institutions collaborate or get in the way.

It is unique because it is the memoir of a skilled journalist who put aside journalism to immerse himself purposefully in his subject; deeply valuable because the immersion lasted more than a decade. Importantly, it exposed the daunting political and institutional landscape that must be navigated to bring modern lighting and communications to the poorest regions of the world.

It reminds of the Journal of Lewis and Clark. Theirs was a voyage of discovery. So was Williams'. Like Lewis and Clark, Williams had a mission, including a starting point and a goal, but no roadmaps or off-ramps. It was either move forward, or turn back; no riches or glory at journey's end, just a treasure beyond price, knowledge of the territory, its risks and its rewards, what works there and what doesn't; hopes and expectations betrayed and beautiful truths revealed.

Our generation, Willams' and mine, expected its ideals to be shared and operative in the big world outside the small American heartland towns we grew up in. It turned out to be more complicated than that; the ideals came with a price. Williams leaves no doubt they were worth it. He learned that the poor that we tend to pity for not sharing our material wealth are mostly not dependent and miserable as we assume but rather resourceful and in some ways more credit-worthy than corporate America. They do need solar energy and they can and will in fact pay what it is worth to them.

Who should read Chasing the Sun? Those in the ever-expanding global solar industry who have fought the good fight alongside Williams will find validation and encouragement. Those whose contributions are measured in meetings attended may be discomforted. But this is mainly a book for the rising generation. It is a reality book that belongs at the top of college course reading lists, because it speaks to the problems we are leaving to the next generation to solve for themselves and their children. It is a book of practical experience and an antidote to the notion that ideas and results are somehow magically connected. It speaks to the need to make things happen ourselves rather than assume our institutions are working on the problem. In his last chapter Williams addresses making things happen in the US. For many this will be the inspiration to make a difference.

Walt Ratterman - Renewable Energy in the Developing World.......2005-11-28

I have spent the past 5 years or so working with remote communities in some of the most far flung places of the world helping them help themselves with their own desire for lighting and electricity that only Renewable Energy, like solar power, can provide them. Mr. Williams' book is an excellent study of the challenges that must be overcome, in order to help people help themselves. While we often dont know whether our obstacles result from intentional disruptions or just complete incompetence, Neville does a tremendous job of laying out what these obstacles are, with ideas of how to get past them. Anyone anticipating working in this field should consider this a "must read" text book.

Chasing Lily (Zebra Contemporary Romance)

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Boring and trite...
Chasing Lily
Fun fun fun
Fun Read

Chasing Lily (Zebra Contemporary Romance)
Dixie Kane
Manufacturer: Zebra
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0821772465

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Boring and trite..........2003-08-05

I HAVE to finish a book once I start it, and this one was a real struggle. The book takes place over the course of one week, most of which is spent driving in a car during which very little conversation took place.

Lily falls in love with Sam within 3 days, though there's little more to recommend him than a great body and his timely interruption (rescue?) of a roughing up in a public bathroom, so I have no idea where the love came in. It took Sam 2 days longer than that, and she was such a begging little brat that I still have no idea why. She seemed to be the epitome of the women that Sam spent most of the past 7 years avoiding.

The characters were wholly undeveloped, there was little excitement or electricity between them, and they spent most of the book driving in a car doing very little talking to one another. When they did talk, the conversations between them were unbelievably unrealistic. I couldn't picture myself uttering half the garbage that came out of Lily's mouth. She spent half the book trying to reason, barter and beg Sam into bed with her. It was boring, and, for Lily, embarrassing.

The most enjoyment I got out of the book was a minute's thrill at the developing romance between Lily's grandmother and Sam's father. Their romance quickly became just as "blah" as Lily and Sam's.

One final note: Lily had red-hair. Sam had black hair. I have no idea who the blondes are on the cover.

Chasing Lily.......2003-07-04

Chasing Lily is Dixie Kane's latest, and it's wonderful. Her characters possess moxy, wit and charm, and you will love seeing the world through their eyes. Anything by Dixie Kane is great, but with this one you're in a for a rare treat!!

Fun fun fun.......2003-07-04

This book is a treat, let me tell you. It's the perfect read for a lazy summer day, or any day of the year, actually. This author is sure to become a favorite!

Fun Read.......2003-07-02

Forty-five years ago, Lillian Redmond's Hollywood acting career came to an abrupt end when the studio boss was murdered. Lillian provided the alibi for the prime suspect a gangster. Everyone thought Lillian lied about spending the night with the gangster. Now, Lillian wants to find the real murderer, clear her reputation and write her memoirs so she sets off from Alabama to track down her old friends and gather clues. Chicago private detective Archie Hunter, who worked at the studio when the murder took place, learns what Lillian is planning so he comes to Alabama to protect her.

Lillian's granddaughter Lilli is supposed to take her grandmother to Disney World and talk Lillian out of writing the book. When Lilli arrives at her grandmother's house, she finds sexy private investigator Sam Hunter, Archie's son, handcuffed to granny's bed. Sam came after Archie to try to persuade his father to go home. Soon, Lilli and Sam set out on their own road trip to find Lillian and Archie. A couple of pairs of sinister gangsters are thrown in to spice things up.

This book provided two romances to follow, between Lilli and Sam and between Lillian and Archie. It was nice that the elder characters romance was hotter than the younger couples for a change. The murderer was easy to figure out early in the story but that's ok because this is a romance not a mystery. The mystery was used as an excuse to get the two main couples alone together in tight spaces for long periods of time and to put Lilli into perilous situations. Overall, well worth the read.

4 PBs by Michael Connelly: 1. Darkness More Than Night. 2. Chasing the Dime. 3. Lost Light. 4. The Last Coyote.
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4 PBs by Michael Connelly: 1. Darkness More Than Night. 2. Chasing the Dime. 3. Lost Light. 4. The Last Coyote.
Michael Connelly
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000QJGN56

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4 PBs: 1. Darkness More Than Night. 2. Chasing the Dime. 3. Lost Light. 4. The Last Coyote.

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