An immigrant youth struggling to assimilate, a middle-aged housewife with a troubled marriage, a Vegas social worker and a wounded soldier connect with each other and rescue themselves in the wake of an unthinkable incident. A first novel.
“If McBride is trying to prove—that if you change one life, you change the world—she succeeds magnificently.”—Booklist From the author of the acclaimed novel We Are Called to Rise comes a “jewel of a novel” (BookPage) about four vivid and complicated women in Las Vegas whose lives become connected by secrets, courage, tragedies, and small acts of kindness. Fun-loving and rebellious, twenty-one-year-old June Stein abandons the safe world of her New Jersey childhood for edgy 1950s Las Vegas. For the next 60 years, June will dare to live boldly. She will upend conventions, risk her heart and her life, rear a child, lose a child, love more than one man, and stand up for more than one woman. June’s story will intertwine with those of three unlikely strangers: a one-time mail order bride from the Philippines, a high school music teacher, and a young mother from Mexico working as a hotel maid. Knit together around June’s explosive secret, they forge a future that none of them foresee. This jubilant, compassionate novel explores the unexpected ways that life connects us, changes us, and even perfects us. A powerful story of lust and of hope, of redemption and of compassion, In the Midnight Room is a smart, sagacious novel about womanhood, family bonds, and how we live in America now.
Amanda Starr, hungry for the now long gone lights of the theatre and restless, agrees to tell the story of her life in the theatre to the young author, Chad Seton. To say the very least her life has been uninhibited and exciting. It is summer time and members of Mandy's family join her one by one at her country mansion. The time needed for divulging the ins and outs of her hectic career produce ripples in their lives. Her adored granddaughter grows up and finds her path in life. Lovers have come and gone but among the visitors is a former actor who attempts to rescue Mandy from her life of committed selfishness to a newer path that could lead to happiness. Will she have the courage to accept it?
Wise and heartbreaking, jubilant and loving, 'Round Midnight is about the intensity and intimacy of four women's lives, lives that are connected by secrets, courage, tragedies, and small acts of kindness. This brilliantly conceived, passionately written novel will resonate long after you turn the final page.
What do you do with the rest of your life when, shortly after moving from Manhattan to a small town up the Hudson, your beloved and successful writer husband suddenly dies? This is the dilemma that faces Frances Terry. In the profound shock of this reversal, Frances belatedly accepts the fact that her own life will continue. Money is not a problem, but how to fill the gap in her life is. So she accepts the first offer that comes her way--delivering meals to the needy of her small community. At the same time, she decides that now is the time to renew her neglected talent for painting. Many new friends come into her life...some welcome, and some not...but it is a small boy who provides the impetus for a new outlook on life and a special reason for going on.
Hong Kong, with its oriental life and overlay of western ways, is the setting of FRAGRANT HARBOR. Gwen Kimball, fleeing an unpleasant affari in New York, comes to visit her sister and brother-in-law who are stationed there with the intention of settling in the Colony. Through them she meets many ex-patriots and locals, among them an oriental ship owner, Lance, who is married but not living eith his wife. They are immediately attracted to each other. Then Todd, the New York man from whom Gwen fled, arrives.
When the worst in life brings out the best in us... A free sampler of an unforgettable story! In the predawn hours, a woman's marriage crumbles with a single confession. Across town, an immigrant family struggles to get by in the land of opportunity. Three thousand miles away, a soldier wakes up in hospital with the vague feeling he's done something awful. In a single moment, these disparate lives intersect. Faced with seemingly insurmountable loss, each person must decide whether to give in to despair, or to find the courage and resilience to rise. We Are Called to Riseis a story about a child's fate. It is a story about families - the ones we have and the ones we make. It challenges us to think about our responsibilities to each other while reminding us that compassion and charity can rescue even our darkest moments.
Two talented young people, Carrie and Chris, meet in summer theatre, fall in love and marry before going into New York in search of success on Broadway. But their rosy dreams for the future run into problems in the theatre world of the big city. The first problem is learning how to accept rejection and come back for more. When jobs do appear, further stumbling blocks come with them separation, loneliness and partings. Then Chris gets his big opportunity a film in Hollywood but will he be able to navigate the fleshy temptations of movie making? And has he grown up enough to accept responsibility for his own actions? Carrie and Chris discover that happy ever after' is a concept that applies if at all only in fairy stores and never in real life nor even in the world of entertainment.
De-Spook" Your Horse An umbrella opening, a tree branch creaking, a tarp flapping in the wind, a dusty shadow in the back of the barn -- what seems benign to the human eye often terrifies a horse. His immediate response? Screech to a halt, buck, twirl, and run like the dickens! What can a rider do but hang on? In fact, there is plenty a rider can do to "de-spook" a horse, and Teaching Your Horse to Overcome Fears tells you how. Following the advice of renowned trainers such as John Lotito, Pat Parelli, and Mark Rashid, you'll learn how to reprogram your horse's fear response so that, when startled, he may unnerve you, but he won't unseat you. These trainers offer proven tips on training your horse in a manner that is gentle, effective, and long-lasting. And you'll delve into the most exciting "alternative" therapies for high-strung horses, including herbal remedies, aromatherapy, shamaniac healing, and body work.
The world's best-kept secret seems to be that there is a rock in New Mexico that has the Ten Commandments etched into it in Ancient Hebrew! We even know approximately when it was written because there is also Star Chart near by that shows a solar eclipse that happened on September 15, 107 BC at 3:00 pm!! Yet, the only sign that points the way is a pile of rocks called a cairn! And, if you were to ask anyone of the locals about Hidden Mountain, they would probably give you a quizzical look and tell you they had never heard of it. Yet, this rock connects the Hisatsinoms (Anasazis) of the American Southwest to the Hebrew people of the Middle East! It even gives us a pretty good idea of how they got there since Hidden Mountain is situated next to a river that is a tributary of the Rio Grande, which can be entered from the Gulf of Mexico after crossing the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. From there, these natives can be traced over the next 2100 years as they foraged for food, hunted, built pit houses, farmed, raised their families, built great empires and fought to protect them!! Eventually, they returned to the area just north of Hidden Mountain, where they live to this day and still speak a language similar to Hebrew. And, now that we know that they are Hebrews and when they left the Middle East, we can find out what was happening there at the time that they left!!
How do you train a horse to get in and out of a trailer safely and calmly? With the renowned trailer-training method taught by the late Dr. Edwin Goodwin, long-time equine professor at the University of Maryland, it's simple. In Trailer Training Your Horse, journalist and equine enthusiast Laura Harrison McBride brings to publication for the first time the lessons and advice of Dr. Goodwin. The step-by-step training technique works quickly on green horses, it works fairly quickly on older horses that have already been led; and it works a bit more slowly on horse that have have negative trailering experiences. Most important, it works, almost without fail, and it can help your horse overcome fear, stubbornness, bad training, and bad handling. To accompany the training, you'll learn how to choose the right trailer, as well as how to prepare your horse for the trip and what supplies you need to make the trip as comfortable and stress-free as possible.
With 139, easy-to-follow, bread, snack, dessert and main course recipes, you will find recipes to make low-cost, nutritious meals for yourself and your family right at your finger tips! "Cooking with Ancient Grains" is the product of a lifetime of research and experimentation with organically grown, freshly ground, low-gluten and gluten-free ancient grains. Discover how to increase the nutritional quality and digestibility of your grains while buying in bulk and saving money. Now, you can experiment with simple, time-saving, traditional methods of preparing grains such as soaking, sprouting, fermenting and grinding to make no-knead and sourdough breads. You will also learn why you should use other natural ingredients such as healthy grass-fed meats, cage-free eggs, healthy oils, natural sweeteners and low-sodium salt when preparing food. But, best of all, you can experience the satisfaction of watching your family grow healthy and happy... naturally!!
The world's best kept secret today seems to be that there is a mesa in New Mexico that has the only rock in the world that has the Ten Commandments etched into it in Ancient Hebrew!! We even know approximately when it was written because there is also a Star Chart nearby that shows a solar eclipse that happened on September 15, 107 BC at 3:00 pm!! Yet, the only sign pointing the way is a pile of rocks called a cairn. And, surprisingly, if you were to ask anyone of the locals where it was, they would probably look at you quizzically and tell you that they had never heard of it. Yet, this rock connects the Hisatsinoms (Anasazis) of the American Southwest to the Hebrew people of Jerusalem in the Middle East!! It even gives us a pretty good idea of how they got there since Hidden Mountain is situated next to a river that is a tributary to the Rio Grande, which can be entered from the Gulf of Mexico after crossing the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. After leaving Hidden Mountain, these people may have traveled west and settled on a mesa top that they named "Kaatsiima," which has the possible, Hebrew meaning, "people who look toward the east." Could this mean that they looked toward the east, toward Hidden Mountain? Or, could it mean that the people of Hidden Mountain named themselves "Kaatsiima," since they were the people who had sailed from the east and longed for the homes and families they had left behind in Jerusalem? These natives can be traced as they migrated across the American Southwest. For the next 2000 years, they sojourned as they foraged for herbs and berries, hunted for meat, built pit houses and raised their families. Once they settled down, they cultivated the land, built great houses, grew to become great empires and fought great battles to protect all that they owned. During that time, they also studied astronomy, followed the Ten Commandments and worshipped YHWH. Eventually, they returned to the Rio Grande Region, just north of Hidden Mountain, where they live to this day. There, some of the people still speak their original language, Keresan. Keresan possibly means "pure" in Hebrew and has many similarities to ancient Hebrew. Amazingly, now that we know that their ancestors were Hebrews and when they arrived at Hidden Mountain, we can also discover what was happening in Jerusalem at the time that they left by reading the book, Josephus, an ancient, Hebrew history book.
“If McBride is trying to prove—that if you change one life, you change the world—she succeeds magnificently.”—Booklist From the author of the acclaimed novel We Are Called to Rise comes a “jewel of a novel” (BookPage) about four vivid and complicated women in Las Vegas whose lives become connected by secrets, courage, tragedies, and small acts of kindness. Fun-loving and rebellious, twenty-one-year-old June Stein abandons the safe world of her New Jersey childhood for edgy 1950s Las Vegas. For the next 60 years, June will dare to live boldly. She will upend conventions, risk her heart and her life, rear a child, lose a child, love more than one man, and stand up for more than one woman. June’s story will intertwine with those of three unlikely strangers: a one-time mail order bride from the Philippines, a high school music teacher, and a young mother from Mexico working as a hotel maid. Knit together around June’s explosive secret, they forge a future that none of them foresee. This jubilant, compassionate novel explores the unexpected ways that life connects us, changes us, and even perfects us. A powerful story of lust and of hope, of redemption and of compassion, In the Midnight Room is a smart, sagacious novel about womanhood, family bonds, and how we live in America now.
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