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Kate’s 2¢: “Long shadows by David Baldacci
“Long shadows by David Baldacci
Kate’s 2¢: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as, describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read. I’m just saying…
Keith Brewer and Corla Cassidy did a great job of reading this tory for HashetAudio , which was adapted for the NLS Book Program. I’m glad they kept the music at the beginning and end of the story.
I enjoyed this narrative arc and how the characters inter-acted with each other…or not. Amos becomes a multi-facetted man as he deals with is own demons and other people’s demons, too. I particularly liked the way he inter-acted with the teenage children in the story.
Baldacci does not disappoint with his mastery of craft as he parses the issues into the truth.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
David Baldacci (born August 5, 1960) is an American novelist. An attorney by education, Baldacci writes mainly suspense novels and legal thrillers.[1]
Baldacci was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia. He graduated from Henrico High School and earned a B.A. in political science from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law, after which he practiced law for nine years in Washington, D.C. He is of Italian descent.
Baldacci began writing stories as a child, when his mother gave him a notebook in which to record them.[2] He wrote for more than two decades, penning short stories and later screenplays without much success.[3]
While practicing law, he turned to novel writing, taking three years to write Absolute Power.[4] Published in 1996, it was an international best seller. To date, Baldacci has published 46 best-selling novels for adults as well as seven novels for younger readers.
Baldacci resides in Fairfax County, Virginia, with his family.
Baldacci and his wife, Michelle, are the co-founders of the Wish You Well Foundation,[5] which works to combat illiteracy in the United States by funding adult literacy and education programs.[6] Baldacci became involved with the National Multiple Sclerosis Society after his sister, author Sharon Baldacci, was diagnosed with MS.[7]
Baldacci served for 10 years on the board of trustees of the Mark Twain House & Museum in Hartford, Connecticut. In 2019, he donated $1 million to the home.[8]
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Long shadows DB110795
Baldacci, David. Reading time: 12 hours, 6 minutes.
Read by Orlagh Cassidy.
Suspense Fiction
Adventure
Mystery and Detective Stories
“When Amos Decker is called to South Florida to investigate a double homicide, the case appears straightforward: A federal judge and her bodyguard have been found dead, the judge’s face sporting a blindfold with two eye holes crudely cut out, a clear sign that she’d made one too many enemies over her years on the bench. What at first seems cut and dry is anything but: Not only did the judge have more enemies than Decker can count—from violent gang members, drug dealers, and smugglers to a resentful ex-husband—but the bodyguard presents additional conundrums that muddy the waters even further. Who was the real target in this vicious attack? Meanwhile, Decker must contend with a series of unsettling changes, including a new partner—Special Agent Frederica “Freddie” White—and a devastating event that brings Decker’s own tragic past back to the present . . . and forces him to reckon with his future. As potential witnesses start disappearing, Decker and White are inexorably pulled down
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Kate’s 2¢: “Murder at the lobstah shack” by Maddie Day
“Murder at the lobstah shack” by Maddie Day
Kate’s 2¢: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as, describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read. I’m just saying…
I’d call this story a light murder mystery. Murder is no laughing matter, but with Mackenzie “Mac” Almeida and her fellow Cozy Capers book club sleuths, they have some interesting escapades to out-smart the sheriff to solve who did what, when, and where.
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Maddie Day (born 1952) is a pseudonym for Agatha Award-winning mystery author Edith Maxwell. As Maddie Day, Edith writes the Country Store Mysteries, from Kensington, set in southern Indiana. She writes books under her own name, Trace Baker, and Maddie Day.
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Murder at the lobstah shack DB109837
Day, Maddie. Reading time: 7 hours, 32 minutes.
Read by Rachel Dulude.
Mystery and Detective Stories
“When murder turns out to be the special of the day at her friend’s seafood restaurant, bicycle shop owner Mackenzie “Mac” Almeida and her fellow book club sleuths have to net a killer…. From clam chowdahs to oysters on the half-shell, Tulia Peters’ Lobstah Shack offers locals and tourists in Westham, Massachusetts, some of Cape Cod’s most amazing cuisine. But when the body of Annette DiCicero is discovered in the kitchen’s walk-in freezer–with a custom-made claw-handled lobster pick lodged in her neck–spoiled appetites are the least of Tulia’s worries. After a heated public argument with Annette, Tulia is a person of interest in the police’s homicide investigation. To clear Tulia’s name, Mac and the Cozy Capers Book Group snoop into Annette’s personal life. Between her temperamental husband, his shady business partner, and two women tied to Annette’s past life as “Miss New Bedford”, there are now several suspects and multiple motives. And they’re getting crabby about Mac intruding
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Kate’s 2¢: “Hussein” by Patrick O’Brian
“Hussein” by Patrick O’Brian
Kate’s 2¢: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as, describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read. I’m just saying…
This story reminds me of “The Iliad and the Odyessee”. Hussein just keeps going from one ill-fated adventure to another. I enjoyed this story and learned some things about elephants and Hussein’s culture. Annice Blake did a good job of reading this story from the Marrakesh collection.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
O’Brian was christened as Richard Patrick Russ, in Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire, a son of Charles Russ, an English physician of German descent, and Jessie Russ (née Goddard), an English woman of Irish descent.[citation needed] The eighth of nine children, O’Brian lost his mother at the age of four, and his biographers describe a fairly isolated childhood, limited by poverty, with sporadic schooling, at St Marylebone Grammar School from 1924 to 1926, while living in Putney, and then at Lewes Grammar School, from September 1926 to July 1929, after the family moved to Lewes, East Sussex,[1] but with intervals at home with his father and stepmother Zoe Center.[2]
His literary career began in his childhood, with the publication of his earliest works, including several short stories. The book Hussein, An Entertainment published by Oxford University Press in 1938, and the short-story collection Beasts Royal brought considerable critical praise, especially considering his youth.[3] He published his first novel at age 15, Caesar: The Life Story of a Panda Leopard, with help from his father.[3]: 50 [4][5]
In 1927 he applied unsuccessfully to enter the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth.[6] In 1934, he underwent a brief period of pilot training with the Royal Air Force, but that was not successful and he left the RAF. Prior to that, his application to join the Royal Navy had been rejected on health grounds.[2] In 1935, he was living in London, where he married his first wife, Elizabeth Jones, in 1936. They had two children. The second was a daughter who suffered from spina bifida, and died in 1942, aged three, in a country village in Sussex. When the child died, O’Brian had already returned to London, where he worked throughout the war.
The details of his employment during the Second World War are murky. He worked as an ambulance driver, and he stated that he worked in intelligence in the Political Intelligence Department (PID).[7] Dean King has said O’Brian was actively involved in intelligence work and perhaps special operations overseas during the war.[3]: 89–104 Indeed, despite his usual extreme reticence about his past, O’Brian wrote in an essay, “Black, Choleric and Married?”, included in the book Patrick O’Brian: Critical Appreciations and a Bibliography (1994)[8] that: “Some time after the blitz had died away I joined one of those intelligence organisations that flourished during the War, perpetually changing their initials and competing with one another. Our work had to do with France, and more than that I shall not say, since disclosing methods and stratagems that have deceived the enemy once and that may deceive him again seems to me foolish. After the war we retired to Wales (I say we because my wife and I had driven ambulances and served in intelligence together) where we lived for a while in a high Welsh-speaking valley…” which confirms in first person the intelligence connection, as well as introducing his wife Mary Tolstoy, née Wicksteed, as a co-worker and fellow intelligence operative.
Nikolai Tolstoy, stepson through O’Brian’s marriage to Mary, disputes that account,[9] confirming only that O’Brian worked as a volunteer ambulance driver during the Blitz when he met Mary, the separated wife of Russian-born nobleman and lawyer Count Dimitri Tolstoy. They lived together through the latter part of the war and, after both were divorced from their previous spouses, they married in July 1945. The following month he changed his name by deed poll to Patrick O’Brian.
Sailing experience[edit]
As background to his later sea-going novels, O’Brian did claim to have had limited experience on a square-rigged sailing vessel, as described within his previously-quoted 1994 essay:
The disease that racked my bosom every now and then did not much affect my strength and when it left me in peace (for there were long remissions) sea-air and sea-voyages were recommended. An uncle had a two-ton sloop and several friends had boats, which was fine, but what was even better was that my particular friend Edward, who shared a tutor with me, had a cousin who possessed an ocean-going yacht, a converted square-rigged merchantman, that he used to crew with undergraduates and fair-sized boys, together with some real seamen, and sail far off into the Atlantic. The young are wonderfully resilient, and although I never became much of a topman, after a while I could hand, reef and steer without disgrace, which allowed more ambitious sailoring later on.[8]
However, in 1995, venture capitalist Thomas Perkins offered O’Brian a two-week cruise aboard his then sailing yacht, a 154-foot (47 m) ketch. In an article about the experience written after O’Brian’s death, Perkins commented that “… his knowledge of the practical aspects of sailing seemed, amazingly, almost nil” and “… he seemed to have no feeling for the wind and the course, and frequently I had to intervene to prevent a full standing gybe. I began to suspect that his autobiographical references to his months at sea as a youth were fanciful.”[10]
Life after the Second World War[edit]
Between 1946 and 1949 the O’Brians lived in Cwm Croesor, a remote valley in north Wales, where they initially rented a cottage from Clough Williams-Ellis. O’Brian pursued his interest in natural history; he fished, went birdwatching, and followed the local hunt. During this time they lived on Mary O’Brian’s small income and the limited earnings from O’Brian’s writings.
In 1949 O’Brian and Mary moved to Collioure, a Catalan town in southern France. He and Mary remained together in Collioure until her death in 1998. Mary’s love and support were critical to O’Brian throughout his career. She worked with him in the British Library in the 1940s as he collected source material for his anthology A Book of Voyages, which became the first book to bear his new name – the book was among his favourites, because of this close collaboration. The death of his wife in March 1998 was a tremendous blow to O’Brian. In the last two years of his life, particularly once the details of his early life were revealed to the world, he was a “lonely, tortured, and at the last possibly paranoid figure.”[11]
Media exposure and controversy in his final years[edit]
O’Brian protected his privacy fiercely and was usually reluctant to reveal any details about his private life or past, preferring to include no biographical details on his book jackets and supplying only a minimum of personal information when pressed to do so.[11] For many years reviewers and journalists presumed he was Irish,[12] and he took no steps to correct the impression. One interviewer, Mark Horowitz, described the man in his late seventies as “a compact, austere gentleman. … his pale, watchful eyes are clear and alert.”[13] He is polite, formal, and erudite in conversation, an erudition that Horowitz said could be intimidating. He learned from those who worked with O’Brian that the erudition did not go unnoticed, while they remained friends.
Richard Ollard, a naval historian, calls this particular habit “blowing people out of the game.” Ollard, who edited the early Aubrey–Maturin novels, urged O’Brian to tone down the most obscure allusions, though the books remain crammed with Latin tags, antiquated medical terminology and an endless stream of marvellous sounding but impenetrable naval jargon. “Like many who have struggled themselves”, Ollard said of his friend, “he thought others should struggle, too.” One longtime acquaintance put it more bluntly: “Patrick can be a bit of a snob, socially and intellectually.”[13]
In 1998, a BBC documentary and an exposé in The Daily Telegraph[14] made public the facts of his ancestry, original name and first marriage, provoking considerable critical media comment. In his biography of O’Brian,[11] Nikolai Tolstoy claims to give a more accurate and balanced account of his late stepfather’s character, actions and motives, particularly in respect of his first marriage and family.
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Hussein: an entertainment DBG05636
O’Brian, Patrick Reading time: 8 hours, 7 minutes.
Annice Blake. A production of CNIB.
Adventure
Animals and Wildlife
Hussein, a young mahout (elephant handler) in India, takes charge of his elephant, becomes a farmer, loses his crop, murders a money-lending priest, saves a sahib from a tiger, goes on the run, becomes involved in a political assassination, and falls in love. O’Brian’s second novel, written thirty years before the “Master and Commander” series. Some descriptions of violence. c1938. Marrakesh title.
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Kate’s 2¢: “Into the deep” by Colleen Coble
“Into the deep” by Colleen Coble
Kate’s 2¢: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as, describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read. I’m just saying…
Dana Hopkins read this story for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind and was included in the Marrakesh titles and shared with the NLS.
From her website at www.colleencoble.com.
Best-selling romantic suspense author Colleen Coble’s novels have won or finaled in awards ranging from the Best Books of Indiana, the ACFW Carol Award, the Romance Writers of America RITA, the Holt Medallion, the Daphne du Maurier, National Readers’ Choice, and the Booksellers Best. She has over 4 million books in print and her books have been on the USAToday bestseller list, the ECPA, CBA, Publishers Weekly, and Amazon bestseller lists. She writes romantic mysteries because she loves to see justice prevail. Colleen is CEO of American Christian Fiction Writers. She lives with her husband Dave in Indiana.
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Into the deep DBG07887
Coble, Colleen Reading time: 9 hours, 9 minutes.
Dana Hopkins. A production of CNIB.
Religious Fiction
Mystery and Detective Stories
In the untamed beauty of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, a local scientist misses his son’s birthday party and turns up dead in Lake Superior. A radical environmental group blames a mysterious lab for the dead fish found in a remote stream. Then an Alzheimer’s patient goes missing and his home is ransacked. 2004. Unrated. Marrakesh title.
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Kate’s 2¢: “The icepick surgeon: murder, fraud, sabotage, piracy, and other dastardly deeds perpetrated in the name of science BY Sam Kean
“The icepick surgeon: murder, fraud, sabotage, piracy, and other dastardly deeds perpetrated in the name of science BY Sam Kean
There certainly are some chilling tales in this book. Yet, some advanced medical practices came from these misguided blunders.
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Sam Kean is an American writer. He has written for The New York Times Magazine, Mental Floss, Slate, Psychology Today, and The New Scientist. He has also published six books which discuss scientific discoveries in a narrative style.[1][2] His books received positive reviews in The Wall Street Journal [3] Library Journal,[4] and The New York Times.[5] He was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota and lives in Washington, D.C.
Sam Kean was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He studied Physics and English Literature at the University of Minnesota, and later earned a master’s degree in Library Science from Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.[2]
Currently, Sam Kean is the editor for the 18th edition of The Best American Science and Nature Writing and has been featured on multiple NPR’s (National Public Radio) shows, such as Radiolab, Science Friday, All Things Considered, and Fresh Air.[2]
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The icepick surgeon: murder, fraud, sabotage, piracy, and other dastardly deeds perpetrated in the name of science DB104354
Kean, Sam Reading time: 11 hours, 48 minutes.
Ben Sullivan
Science and Technology
Author of The Disappearing Spoon (DB 72176) and The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons (DB 80933) profiles the development of science through stories of practitioners who allowed their obsessions to cross ethical lines and the ways those choices reverberate into the twenty-first century. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2021.
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Kate’s 2¢: “Adrift: a true story of love, loss, and survival at sea” by Tami Oldham Ashcraft; Susea McGearhart
“Adrift: a true story of love, loss, and survival at sea” by Tami Oldham Ashcraft; Susea McGearhart
I enjoyed this tale.
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Tami Lee Oldham Ashcraft (née Oldham) is an American sailor and author who, in 1983, survived 41 days adrift in the Pacific Ocean.[1] Her story inspired the 2018 film Adrift.
1983 shipwreck[edit]
In 1983, Ashcraft’s fiancé, 34-year-old British sailor Richard Sharp, was hired to deliver the 43-foot (13 m) yacht Hazaña from Tahiti to San Diego. The then 23-year-old Ashcraft accompanied him on the crossing.[2][3][4] The couple set sail from Papeete Harbor on September 22.[5]
On October 12, the vessel was caught in the path of Hurricane Raymond. As the ship was being hit by 40-foot (12 m) waves and 140-knot (72 m/s) winds, Sharp sent Ashcraft below deck. Moments later, she heard him scream “Oh my God!” The yacht capsized and Ashcraft was thrown against the cabin wall and knocked unconscious. When she regained consciousness about 27 hours later, Sharp was gone and the Hazaña was severely damaged: the cabin was half-flooded, the masts had broken off the yacht, and the radio and navigation system were inoperable.[3][6]
Ashcraft rigged a makeshift sail from a broken spinnaker pole and a storm jib (a triangular sail) and fashioned a pump to drain the cabin.[6] Due to the boat damage and the local wind conditions, she determined that her original route to San Diego was no longer viable and decided instead to make the 1,500-mile (2,400 km) journey to Hawaii.
Without a radio navigation system, Ashcraft was forced to navigate the yacht manually with the help of a sextant and a watch. She survived mainly on canned food during this time. On November 22 – 41 days after the shipwreck – Ashcraft reached Hilo, Hawaii.[6]
• 2002: Red Sky in Mourning: A True Story of Love, Loss, and Survival at Sea by Tami Oldham Ashcraft and Susea McGearhart.
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Adrift: a true story of love, loss, and survival at sea DB93382
Ashcraft, Tami Oldham; McGearhart, Susea Reading time: 6 hours, 1 minute.
Laurence Bouvard A production of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress.
Travel
Adventure
Woman recounts her experiences sailing from Tahiti to San Diego with her fiancé in 1983. Discusses encountering one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history, the loss of her fiancé to the storm, and her forty-one days at sea without a motor or mast. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2018.
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Kate’s 2¢: “The horsewoman” by James Patterson and Mike Lupica
“The horsewoman” by James Patterson and Mike Lupica
Chloe Cannon did a good job of reading this story for the NLS. She brought the drama of Grandmother vs Mother vs daughter to its fullest. I would recommend this book to all horse-lovers.
I even liked the ending.
Chloe Cannon is a non-union multi-genre audiobook narrator living in the Mid-Hudson Valley region of New York. Audiobook narration seized her interest when reading aloud to local seniors, who informed her that her reading sounded “just like their audiobooks!”
Tantor Media – Chloe Cannon
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Michael Lupica ( / ˈluːpɪkə /; born May 11, 1952) is an author and former American newspaper columnist, best known for his provocative commentary on sports in the New York Daily News and his appearances on ESPN .
Lupica was born in Oneida, New York, where he spent his pre-adolescent years, having attended St. Patrick’s Elementary School through the sixth grade. In 1964, he moved with his family to Nashua, New Hampshire, where he attended middle school and subsequently Bishop Guertin High School, graduating in 1970. In 1974 he graduated from Boston College. He first came to prominence as a sportswriter in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. Lupica wrote “The Sporting Life” column at Esquire magazine for ten years beginning in the late 1980s, and currently writes a regular column for Travel + Leisure Golf. He has also written for Golf Digest, Parade, ESPN The Magazine, and Men’s Journal, and has received numerous awards including, in 2003, the Jim Murray Award from the National Football Foundation.[1]
Daily News columnist
Lupica wrote several sports columns during the week for the Daily News, as well as a signature Sunday column, “Shooting from the Lip,” which featured a traditional column followed by a series of short, acerbic observations from the week in sports. Later in his career he began writing a regular political column entitled “Mondays with Mike,” which is strongly liberal in orientation. He left the Daily News in July 2018.[2]
Favorite Lupica targets include the New York Yankees, (and will often state their massive payroll in most of his articles) James L. Dolan, Isiah Thomas, Notre Dame football, Rudy Giuliani, Michael Bloomberg, former President George W. Bush, and former Vice President Dick Cheney. Lupica has also been a harsh critic of the new Yankee Stadium and was a vehement opponent of the proposed West Side Stadium. He has likewise been highly critical of the Atlantic Yards project and the attendant construction of the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
Author
Lupica co-wrote autobiographies with Reggie Jackson and Bill Parcells and collaborated with screenwriter William Goldman on Wait Till Next Year and Mad as Hell: How Sports Got Away From the Fans and How We Get It Back. Lupica also wrote Summer of ’98: When Homers Flew, Records Fell, and Baseball Reclaimed America, which detailed how the 1998 and the Mark McGwire/Sammy Sosa home run chase had allowed him to share a love for baseball with his son. Lupica has been listed a vocal critic of the steroid era.[citation needed]
Lupica is also a novelist; his work includes mysteries involving fictional NYC television reporter Peter Finley. One of them, Dead Air, was nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Mystery and the 1987 Anthony Award in the same category; and was also adapted into a television movie called Money, Power, Murder.[1][3] He has written a novel for younger audiences called Travel Team. Lupica’s Bump and Run and Wild Pitch were best sellers. 2003 saw a sequel to Bump and Run, entitled Red Zone.In April 2006, his second children’s book, Heat, was published by Philomel. Heat is a fictional story based on the Danny Almonte scandal in the South Bronx Little League. In October 2006, Lupica’s third children’s novel, Miracle on 49th Street, was published. Summer Ball, a sequel to Travel Team, was released in 2007.
Television and radio work
Since 1988 Lupica has been one of the rotating pundits on The Sports Reporters on ESPN.[4] He also briefly hosted an unsuccessful television chat program, The Mike Lupica Show, on ESPN2, as well as a short-lived radio show on WFAN in New York City in the mid-1990s. He has been a recurring guest on the CBS Morning News, Good Morning America, and The MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour. Lupica has made frequent radio appearances on Imus in the Morning since the early 1980s.[5] Lupica hosted a daily radio show on WEPN-FM from May 9, 2011 until August 21, 2015.[6][7]
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The horsewoman: a novel DB106198
Patterson, James; Lupica, Mike Reading time: 11 hours, 9 minutes.
Chloe Cannon
Suspense Fiction
Maggie Atwood and her daughter Becky McCabe, both champion horse riders, vowed never to go up against each other in competitions–until the ones leading to the Paris Olympics. Both share the same dream to be the best horsewoman in the world. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2022.
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Kate’s 2¢: “Just After Sunset: Stories by Stephen King
“Just After Sunset: Stories by Stephen King
Kate’s 2¢: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as, describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read. I’m just saying…
If you’re a Stephen King fan, this book won’t disappoint you.
From Wikipedia
Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. His books have sold more than 350 million copies,[2] and many have been adapted into films, television series, miniseries, and comic books. King has published 61 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman, and five non-fiction books.[3] He has also written approximately 200 short stories, most of which have been published in book collections.[4][5]
King has received Bram Stoker Awards, World Fantasy Awards, and British Fantasy Society Awards. In 2003, the National Book Foundation awarded him the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.[6] He has also received awards for his contribution to literature for his entire bibliography, such as the 2004 World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement and the 2007 Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America.[7] In 2015, he was awarded with a National Medal of Arts from the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts for his contributions to literature.[8] He has been described as the “King of Horror”, a play on his surname and a reference to his high standing in pop culture.[9]
His other Pen names John Swithen, and Beryl Evans.
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Just after sunset: stories DB67854
King, Stephen. Reading time: 14 hours, 11 minutes.
Read by Don Hagen. A production of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress.
Short Stories
Suspense Fiction
Bestsellers
Thirteen suspenseful short stories. In “The Gingerbread Girl” a grieving woman whose baby has died retreats to the Florida Keys only to encounter a serial killer. In “The Things They Left Behind” a man finds items belonging to his murdered coworkers in his apartment. Violence and strong language. Bestseller. 2008.
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Kate’s 2¢: “The Forever Dog: surprising new science to help your canine companion live younger, healthier, and longer ” by Rodney Habib; Karen Shaw Becker; Kristin Loberg
“The Forever Dog: surprising new science to help your canine companion live younger, healthier, and longer ” by Rodney Habib; Karen Shaw Becker; Kristin Loberg
–Many people spend thousands of dollars searching for the solution, when the solution is to stop feeding their dog the wrong food.
–Metabolic stress can cause illness.
–By moving more (exercise) we lower the risk of early death, disease, depression, and anxiety, which is true for people and our dogs.
–Gut bacteria (biome) can influence brain activity and mood.
–The mor microbially rich and diverse your dog’s gut flora is, the healthier they will become.
–The power of poop; fecal transplants from a healthy dog to the sick dog.
–Environmental issues can be toxic and influence the health of our dogs and people
–food and medicines come from the same source; choose natural foods
–you and your dog need to get up and get moving for a healthier, longer life.
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Habib opened Planet Paws, his pet store in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia on October 15, 2011. In 2012, he posted a digital image and write-up on his Facebook page of all the separate ingredients that compose a typical bag of commercial dog food; the post received half a million shares overnight.[1]
One of his most popular posts was about rawhide chews and has been shared over 1 million times. It was followed by a video on how rawhide is made which has been viewed over 45 million times, and raised awareness of the chemicals and processes used in the creation of some rawhide chews. These video also resulted in one veterinarian, Patrick Mahaney, stating rawhide toys can be safe to use, and only chemical free rawhides should be considered.[4]
In 2014, Habib reportedly argued booster shots for pet vaccines increased risk of immune disorders, whereas medical experts cited large, long-term studies that show the benefit of vaccination outweighs the minimal risk of the adverse immune response.[5] He supports “core vaccinations” for young dogs and remains opposed to booster shots due to his belief that it could increase risk of immune disorders, though veterinary scientists continue to defend giving regular booster shots to maintain immunity.[6]
By 2015 Habib was recognized by Facebook for his successful use of his blog to promote his business[7] and was being sought around the world for advice on pet health.[8][9][4][10]
By March 2016, the Planet Paws Facebook page received national news coverage when an article in the National Post stated the page had over 860,000 likes and was reported to appear in 110 million newsfeeds every six days, and had deeper Facebook reach that Canadian corporations Tim Hortons, Canadian Tire, Air Canada, Cirque du Soleil and Shoppers Drug Mart.[1] By end of March 2016, the page was approaching 1 million likes,.[11] By July 2017 the page had exceeded 1.9 million followers, at which time Facebook administrators informed Habib that Planet Paws had become the most popular pet health page in the world.[12]
Karen Shaw Becker was born in Waterloo, Iowa, and grew up in Cedar Falls, Iowa. She graduated from Northern University High School in 1989. In 1990 she completed a raptor rehabilitation internship at the Raptor Center of Pueblo, Colorado. She interned at the Berlin Zoo in 1992.
Veterinary Career
Dr. Becker has been a practicing Veterinarian since 1997. In 2015 she co-founded the Companion Animal Nutrition and Wellness Institute (CANWI) with board-certified veterinary nutritionist Dr. Donna Raditicto fund independent, unbiased, university .
Kristin Loberg is the #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling co-author of Grain Brain, A Short Look at a Long Life and others.
Loberg is a professional writer and book collaborator who specializes in transforming experts’ knowledge and ideas into engaging, reader-friendly works for general audiences. More than a dozen of her projects have spent weeks on the New best seller list.
She attended Cornell University and lives in L.A. with
her husband and two sons.
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The forever dog: surprising new science to help your canine companion live younger, healthier, and longer DB105331
Habib, Rodney; Becker, Karen Shaw; Loberg, Kristin Reading time: 15 hours, 29 minutes.
Jean Ann Douglass
Animals and Wildlife
A veterinarian and an expert on pet health have gathered the best wisdom from top geneticists, microbiologists, and longevity researchers to delay aging and provide a longer, happier, healthier life for your dog. They also interviewed people whose dogs have lived into their 20s and even 30s. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2021.
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Kate’s 2¢: “Miss Julia Delivers the Goods” by Ann B. Ross
“Miss Julia Delivers the Goods” by Ann B. Ross
Kate’s 2¢: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as, describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read. I’m just saying…
This book was published in 2009 and, as I read it, I thought it wouldn’t be published today in 2021. I suspect it would be criticized by the Black Lives Matter movement. I see Lilian as a main-stay for Julia, kind of the voice of reason, rather than a stereotyping of a person of color.
During the beginning of the story, I thought Julia’s stream of consciousness was annoying. Toward the end of the book, I came to realize the humor in her ramblings. I liked the book, but would classify it as a ‘chicklette’.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ann B. Ross is the author of a series of New York Times bestsellers[1] set in her home state of North Carolina[2] that generally share a group of returning characters.[1] Comic by genre, the series features a central character, “Miss Julia,” whose name appears at the beginning of each title and from whose point of view the novels are written. She believes the universal truths are “that family and faith and doing what is right and proper make up the core of a healthy and happy life.”[2] However, “being well acquainted with the consequences of womanly submission,” by book two of the series, Miss Julia also believes that “a woman ought to take up for herself, if you ask me.”
Ross completed an undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Asheville in 1984,[3] while her children were also at university.[4] She earned a PhD in Old English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1991.[5] In 2010 UNC-Asheville honored her as a “Distinguished Alumna” “for her notable career as a novelist.”[3] She has also been a teaching staff member there.
when Miss Julia just “came into her head.”[6] “For the first time in my life, I was no one’s daughter, niece, wife or mother. I was just Ann, and my identity came from my classroom performance alone. … It was absolutely liberating.”[2] A full-time writing career followed on from the success of her first Miss Julia book.”[7]
She is “the mother of two daughters and one son, and the grandmother of four grandsons (including twin boys) and two granddaughters, both of whom are her namesakes.”[4] One of her sons’ experiences working as a police officer in Atlanta inspired her to write a fictionalized version that she offered to a New York agent, but when the agency expressed interest she submitted her first Miss Julia novel instead.[8]
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Miss Julia delivers the goods: a novel DB68898
Ross, Ann B. Reading time: 11 hours, 39 minutes.
Read by Mitzi Friedlander. A production of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress.
Humor
Human Relations
After breaking up with J.D. Pickens, Hazel Marie, the former mistress of Miss Julia’s late husband, discovers that she is expecting. While Miss Julia scrambles to reconcile Hazel Marie and J.D., someone breaks into the office of Miss Julia’s husband, lawyer Sam Murdoch, and steals his files. 2009.
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