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Evenson, Nan

Humor

CK Books Publishing

Wallace Nutting: Father of the Colonial Revival Movement

Indispensable reading for historians, novice antique collectors, antique connoisseurs, dealers, museums and historical societies. Wallace Nutting was an American hero, who grew up in poverty without a father. He started his illustrious career as a Congregational minister, but was forced to retire due to ill health. Despite these hardships Wallace came to be known as the "Father of the Colonial Revival Movement."He is best known for his monumental "Furniture Treasury", which became the Bible for every antique collector and dealer of American furniture. His collection of Pilgrim Century furniture was the finest in the country. In this book you will learn the many facets of Wallace Nutting:Congregational MinisterPhotographer of hand-colored platinum printsAuthorAntique CollectorHistoric PreservationistReproduction Furniture MakerBenefactorLecturerThe author includes pictures of Nutting's lovely hand-colored photographs and stories of the colorists who worked for him; details behind his Colonial Chain of Picture Houses; and photographs of his reproduction furniture - treasures for any household. David McCullough, our beloved American historian, said, "History is a story."This is the story of Wallace Nutting.

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Palmer, Linda B.

Antiques & Collectibles

What in the world IS a salt sandwich?Follow Chef Abdul Abdullah on his travels around the world searching for the recipe for a salt sandwich to please his King.This book was published posthumously by her sister, Jan Nash, who thanks other family members who helped with photos, writing and moral support.

How to Make a Salt Sandwich

Scheeley, Doris

Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

After forty-seven years living with his mother, Steven, a man with severe cerebral palsy, creates a new life for himself. He falls in love with a stripper but searches for a girlfriend, wanting love. Steven lives in a group home being told by staff, "No one cares about you." He meets new friends, who show him he is loved. I Found Love portrays a man who becomes independent and doesn't let his disability define his abilities.

I Found Love

Biographies & Memoirs

Salmon, Steven

Community & Culture

Review\nBackstory is an "exciting thriller...that compares rewriting the past to bolster one's own narrative to the concept of fake news," as a series of "betrayals, alliances, lies, and secrets show how the past is never truly past." - BookLife Reviews\n"An original and deftly crafted novel that is an inherently riveting read from cover to cover, Backstory showcases author William Michael Ried's genuine flair for the kind of narrative storytelling style that brings his characters to life and holds the reader's rapt attention from first page to last." - Midwest Book Review\n"Backstory is a smart, fast-paced, edgy whodunnit/ whodiditagain that keeps the reader guessing until the very end." - BookLife Prize Critic's Report\n"A deftly written and fully engaging novel that showcases the author's genuine flair for originality, Backstory by William Michael Ried is an unreservedly recommended." - Small Press Bookwatch Review\nBackstory displays "exemplary writing style and near-perfect pacing. While the story is unique in topic and theme, it will still have strong appeal for most readers of mysteries." - Judge, 29th Annual Writer's Digest Self-Published Book Awards\n"Backstory is a masterpiece, an intriguing read with a perfect blend of anger, resentment, love, hatred, excitement, and displeasure." - OnlineBookClub Review\nBookLife Prize Critic's Report: 
Ried's Backstory is a smart, fast-paced, edgy whodunnit/ whodiditagain. The novel features the kind of overprivileged New Yorkers it's a pleasure to detest as readers turn yet another page to see just how entitled and amoral they can possibly get.Ried is as smooth and confident a writer as any of his well-educated characters. He writes with the certainty of one who knows just this world and just these people.The device of a professor of "revisionist history" who is continually revising his own somewhat murky past is a happy one, particularly in the era of "fake news." The novel keeps the reader guessing until the very end.A murder mystery with elements of a modern-day Liasons Dangereuses, the fun of this book lies in judging the narcissistic, entitled villains. While these are, in a sense, stock characters, there's a reason for that; this version of NYC is a town filled with the ostentatiously successful who are simultaneously deeply shallow.\nMidwest Book Review:\nAn original and deftly crafted novel that is an inherently riveting read from cover to cover, "Backstory" showcases author William Michael Ried's genuine flair for the kind of narrative storytelling style that brings his characters to life and holds the reader's rapt attention from first page to last.\nAnsel Tone has been named “The Golden Boy of Popular History.” He teaches propaganda at Columbia University and writes Redux Revisionist History best-sellers. His looks and family wealth help him to hawk his books on late night talk shows. He speaks to packed auditoriums. Undergraduates are said to swoon over his lectures. The public sees a professor who drives fast cars and runs with glamorous women, but his personal life is poised between an overbearing father and a son he hardly knows. Ansel spent his junior year at Trinity College in Dublin, on a campus cloaked in four centuries of student pranks and mayhem. Twelve years later a classmate comes to New York and organizes a reunion. Ansel attends mostly to see how time has treated the beautiful Tess, his girlfriend that year who married their classmate, Charlie. Charlie and Tess live in “Mountain House” in the Hudson Valley. She’s a big-firm lawyer. He’s trying to replicate the success of his first novel and overcome the train-wreck of his second. At the reunion Charlie announces he will fictionalize the story of how he won Tess away from Ansel. He’ll change the facts to improve the story, but he first wants help remembering what really happened. Ansel panics. Digging into the past could reveal secrets that could overturn his life, and so he sets out t

Backstory: a novel

Literature & Fiction

Ried, William Michael

Dramas & Plays

Product Description Ian Padraic Murphy harbors a scandalous secret. To avenge the death of his best friend in a Belfast raid, Ian joins the Provisional IRA, which he conceals for 30 years. He meets investigative reporter Eileen Donohue and friendship blossoms into a love affair. Eileen inadvertently discovers the man she thought was a reclusive novelist is actually the brain trust for the IRA. Eileen betrays her lover by disclosing his secret in Ireland's leading newspaper. Driven by guilt and remorse, Ian atones for his years in the IRA by working with Sinn Fein to negotiate the 1998 Peace Accord, which ended The Troubles in Ireland. After deserting the IRA, Ian's own troubles are far from over when they order his assassination. The assignment is given to his friend, IRA Commander, Kieran Fitzpatrick. Will Ian pay the ultimate price for disloyalty to the IRA? Book 1 of Rex Owens’ Irish Troubles series. About the Author Rex Owens published his first novel in the Irish Troubles Series, Murphy's Troubles, in November 2013, the second, Out of Darkness, in June 2015, and the third, Dead Reckoning, in April 2018. His fourth novel, The Life and Times of Rowan Daly will be published in May 2021. UW Madison writing instructor Christine DeSmet describes his writing as cinematic. Rex is very active in supporting local libraries. He serves as the President of both the Sun Prairie Public Library and the Dane County Library Service. He is also the discussion leader for the Wednesday Afternoon Book Club which meets monthly. He supports authors as the host of the award-winning radio talk program My World and Welcome to It, which airs on the first and third Monday every month at 10:30 a.m. CST. The interview program is live streamed at: www.sunprairiemediacenter.com. To learn more about Rex's work visit: www.rexowens.us. To connect with Rex, you can e-mail him at rexowens00@gmail.com.

Murphy's Troubles: A Novel (The Irish Troubles Series)

Owens, Rex

British & Irish

Ian Murphy buries his life-long friend Kieran Fitzpatrick. As a result his life is adrift; Ian is incapable of overcoming dependence on whiskey. Every day, he battles the eternal dark night. Ian reluctantly accepts his friend's last wish, to mentor Kieran's twenty-two-year-old nephew, William Butler Boyle. Five years after approving the Good Friday Peace Agreement, Northern Ireland struggles to break Britain's shackles. Sinn Fein recruits Ian Murphy to convince Catholics to vote in the 2003 national election because the party is on the brink of huge gains. Murphy naively believes if he works on the election, he will finally be able overcome the guilt and remorse he bears for his days as an IRA volunteer. Following the successful election for Sinn Fein, Ian returns to Cork exhausted and still burdened by guilt. His new friend, Oisin O'Leary, convinces Ian he can fulfill has obligation to mentor William and make an act of contrition to the Irish people by writing a memoir stage play. Ian's play is presented and at the closing curtain, he offers it as his act of contrition to the Irish people. DEAD RECKONING is the third and final book in the Ian Murphy Irish Troubles series.

Dead Reckoning (The Irish Troubles Series)

Genre Fiction

With no living relatives, 18-year-old Rowan Daly leaves the only home she's ever known to be with her beloved, Eli. They settle in the mining town of New Hope. In 1934 the best paying job is dynamiting rock in the pit-a job Eli volunteers to do with disastrous consequences. When he's killed, Rowan is alone and abandoned with no way to support herself. Rowan is recruited to be a Pack Horse Librarian and soon finds herself delivering books to hill families, facing her fears of abandonment, and learning about the unique rural folks she serves. It's just the beginning for Rowan-being a Pack Horse Librarian changes her future, giving her a life she could never have imagined.

The Life and Times of Rowan Daly

United States

Searching for atonement author Ian Murphy drafts the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 ending the 30-year Troubles in Ireland.\nMurphy’s years in the Provisional Irish Republican Army and his battle with depression cast him into a hellish darkness. He finds atonement elusive and begins on a path for public redemption. In the fall of 1998 British authorities propose building additional peace walls in Belfast to create a self-imposed apartheid between Catholics and Protestants. Northern Ireland politicians are struggling to form a government and see peace walls as interference and sabotaging their work to create an independent nation. Northern Ireland’s political leaders challenge Murphy to help put a stop to building additional peace walls and give meaning to the peace accord he drafted. Murphy sees this as a path to find the redemption he desperately desires.\nBook 2 of Rex Owens’ Irish Troubles Series

Out of Darkness: A Novel (The Irish Troubles Series)

The Collector's World: More Musings on Collecting and American Antiques

Perlman, Baron

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