Touchwood

Author: Karin Kallmaker
Publisher: Bella Books
ISBN: 1594937419
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 275

Book Description
Twenty-nine-year-old Rayann Germaine, betrayed by her lover, flees in grief and rage. She meets book store owner Louisa Thatcher, a woman many years her senior, who offers shelter and work... and soon, passion, and a loving place in her life. But Rayann encounters challenges to this new love—from friends who question its wisdom, from her mother who disapproves of this liaison with a woman her own contemporary, from Louisa's son who learns for the first time his mother's true sexuality. And there are profound differences between Rayann and Louisa themselves, two women who come from dramatically different places in the spectrum of age and life experience. Their only common ground seems to be the searing attraction that they both try to deny...

Touch Wood

Author: Brock Barrack
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1450270050
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372

Book Description
Mutilated bodies of young women are being deposited about the city. The police are top heavy, understaffed and indifferent. Something should be done, however. People are encountering corpses in strange places. And complaining about it. So private security firm CORE is asked to step in. Investigate. If possible, dispatch the perpetrators. Who better to follow up the assignment than rugged contractor Mitch Milligan? Ex-hockey enforcer and partyboy thug. Just about anyone, actually. Because Milligan's true forte is terrorgating those citizens CORE has determined need their heads screwed on tighter. That includes Islamic fanatics, government dickheads, loudmouth women and bad engineers. It's a great job, he loves doing it, and he's good at it. Too good. He gets promoted. So, with the aid of new partner Yaz Maeda, acting detective Magnet Milligan sets out in half-assed fashion to find the killer or killers. Despite failing to follow up several promising leads, the team learn a shadowy organization known as The Ovarians may be responsible. After that, it's a full-on ride of madness and mayhem. Obvious clues are finally acted on, villains turn tummy up, and an evil rat takes the long bath in Florida. Mitch Milligan and the CORE crew. They get things done, undercover or under the covers. Illustration from http://haircraft.org

Touch Wood

Author: Renée Roth-Hano
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140340853
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
In this autobiographical novel set in Nazi-occupied France, Renee, a young Jewish girl, and her family flee their home in Alsace and live a precarious existence in Paris until Renee and her sister escape to the shelter of a Catholic school in Normandy.

Knock on Wood

Author: Jeffrey S. Rosenthal
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 1443453099
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 361

Book Description
Jeffrey S. Rosenthal, author of the bestseller Struck by Lightning: The Curious World of Probabilities, was born on Friday the thirteenth, a fact that he discovered long after he had become one of the world’s pre-eminent statisticians. Had he been living ignorantly and innocently under an unlucky cloud for all those years? Or is thirteen just another number? As a scientist and a man of reason, Rosenthal has long considered the value of luck, good and bad, seeking to measure chance and hope in formulas scratched out on chalkboards. In Knock on Wood, with great humour and irreverence, Rosenthal divines the world of luck, fate and chance, putting his considerable scientific acumen to the test in deducing whether luck is real or the mere stuff of superstition.

Knock on Wood

Author: W. Scott Prudham
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136072349
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
Scott Prudham investigates a region that has in recent years seen more environmental conflict than perhaps anywhere else in the country--the old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest. Prudham employs a political economic approach to explain the social and economic conflicts arising from the timber industry's presence in the region. As well, he provides a thorough accounting of the timber industry itself, tracing its motivations, practices, and labor relations.

Knock on Wood

Author: Janet S. Wong
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48

Book Description
A collection of seventeen original poems about superstitions, including walking under a ladder, breaking a mirror, and knocking on wood.

Touching Light

Author: Ronelle Wood
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781517236625
Category : Manipulation (Therapeutics)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
You have inside you a cloak of gossamer connective tissue that surrounds and supports everything and functions like fiber optics. This tissue is called fascia. In these pages, myofascial release expert Ronelle Wood translates the scientific language for the chemistry, function, and physiology of fascia, shares her hands-on expertise, and explains in layman's terms how our fascia affects us all in everyday life and its potential as a prime source of health and rejuvenation. Gay Hendricks says in his foreword: "I've been blessed to know many great healers and teachers over my forty-five years in the field of transformation; Ronelle is right at the top of the list of masterful practitioners I've known." Read this book and you'll no longer perceive your body as a misbehaving slave to be punished into submission, but as a communicative partner-always supporting you.

Tiggy Tiggy Touch Wood

Author: Madelyn Grape Rohrer
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781500254667
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 186

Book Description
Tiggy Tiggy Touch Wood is a compilation of ten favorite Christian-based short stories by professional storyteller Madelyn Grape Rohrer. The collection includes a fictional story of Tiggy Tiggy Touch Wood, a centuries-old Celtic children's game of chase; other Celtic fiction, a true story of the attack on Pearl Harbor told by someone who was there on December 7, 1941; an historically correct fictional story of WWII, true family stories including one with an indication of possible ties to author and evangelist Charles Colson, original stories of faith, and others of just pure imagination.

The Touchwood Chronicles

Author: Corin Thistlewood
Publisher: Corin Thistlewood
ISBN: 1802274634
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 249

Book Description
Entertaining, Educating and Spiritually Awakening Combining science, spirituality and fiction, this semi-biographical novel is the story of a Ministry of Defence aerospace engineer embarking on an adventure to discover his spiritual self. Along the way, he encounters some fascinating characters who seem to be able to live outside of society’s norms. Eventually admitted to a Wiccan coven, where he encounters a mysterious Priestess, who takes him beyond his wildest dreams. These are the real-life confessions of a modern-day Wiccan who later went on to establish the Australian Collage of Druidry, which was dubbed by the press as the Australian real-life Hogwarts. But which is true, and which is fiction? You decide.

Gnawing Around

Author: Marcie Colleen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781338166354
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 137

Book Description
"When a few beavers come to town, the Grumpy Woods are even more grumpy than usual. These beavers are chewing down the trees and drying up their river water with a dam. Everyone gets even angrier when the Super Happy Party Bears throw a dance party to celebrate the new dam, but when they dance that dam right down the river, everyone admits the bears aren't so bad after all"--