Peppermill wrote:
Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea by Steven Callahan (follow link for more information)
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Hi Pepper, this one looks really good.
I am the One, the all and the only. I live in the Pendleton as surely as I live everywhere. I am the Pendleton's history and its destiny. The building is my place of conception, my monument, my killing ground. . . . The Pendleton stands on the summit of Shadow Hill at the highest point of an old heartland city, a Gilded Age palace built in the late 1800s as a tycoon’s dream home. Almost from the beginning, its grandeur has been scarred by episodes of madness, suicide, mass murder, and whispers of things far worse. But since its rechristening in the 1970s as a luxury apartment building, the Pendleton has been at peace. For its fortunate residents—among them a successful songwriter and her young son, a disgraced ex-senator, a widowed attorney, and a driven money manager—the Pendleton’s magnificent quarters are a sanctuary, its dark past all but forgotten. But now inexplicable shadows caper across walls, security cameras relay impossible images, phantom voices mutter in strange tongues, not-quite-human figures lurk in the basement, elevators plunge into unknown depths. With each passing hour, a terrifying certainty grows: Whatever drove the Pendleton’s past occupants to their unspeakable fates is at work again. Soon, all those within its boundaries will be engulfed by a dark tide from which few have escaped.
Zkullis wrote:
I am the One, the all and the only. I live in the Pendleton as surely as I live everywhere. I am the Pendleton's history and its destiny. The building is my place of conception, my monument, my killing ground. . . . The Pendleton stands on the summit of Shadow Hill at the highest point of an old heartland city, a Gilded Age palace built in the late 1800s as a tycoon’s dream home. Almost from the beginning, its grandeur has been scarred by episodes of madness, suicide, mass murder, and whispers of things far worse. But since its rechristening in the 1970s as a luxury apartment building, the Pendleton has been at peace. For its fortunate residents—among them a successful songwriter and her young son, a disgraced ex-senator, a widowed attorney, and a driven money manager—the Pendleton’s magnificent quarters are a sanctuary, its dark past all but forgotten. But now inexplicable shadows caper across walls, security cameras relay impossible images, phantom voices mutter in strange tongues, not-quite-human figures lurk in the basement, elevators plunge into unknown depths. With each passing hour, a terrifying certainty grows: Whatever drove the Pendleton’s past occupants to their unspeakable fates is at work again. Soon, all those within its boundaries will be engulfed by a dark tide from which few have escaped.
Hi Zack, it's good to see you on the board, must be boring over at UF/Paranormal huh 
thanks for visiting and come back soon and anytime
Thanks for saying Hi, Debbie!well this thread has had a lull so I thought I'd add one to the numbers
Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom
Overview
A top tarotist's secrets to personal growth, one card at a time. The two volumes of Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom have inspired a whole generation of tarot students. It has often been described by readers, booksellers, and teachers as the "Bible of tarot readers." It is also often cited as one of the landmark books in modern tarot, and it helped to launch the "Tarot Renaissance" of the 1980s. The two texts-one for The Major Arcana and one for The Minor Arcana--appear together in this volume, which is a reissue of the 1998 edition first published by Thorsons. Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom draws on mythology and esoteric traditions and delves deeply into the symbolism and ideas of each card. It also gives the cards a modern psychological slant based on the pictures rather than a system of occult symbolism. This endlessly useful reference tool provides a concise history of tarot, introduces common spreads, and is a clear and readable book for both the beginning and advanced tarot student.
79 anyone
high96 wrote:
Around the World in 80 Days --Jules Verne
Hi high, it's good to see a new avatar on the forum
And what a great choice for 80
I hope you come back to visit often, and thanks for the post
Around the World in Eighty Days
and really no description of this one is necesary.
With the heart of Stand By Me and the genius horror of Christine, Mile 81is Stephen King unleashing his imagination as he drives past one of those road signs...
At Mile 81 on the Maine Turnpike is a boarded up rest stop on a highway in Maine. It's a place where high school kids drink and get into the kind of trouble high school kids have always gotten into. It's the place where Pete Simmons goes when his older brother, who's supposed to be looking out for him, heads off to the gravel pit to play "paratroopers over the side." Pete, armed only with the magnifying glass he got for his tenth birthday, finds a discarded bottle of vodka in the boarded up burger shack and drinks enough to pass out.
Not much later, a mud-covered station wagon (which is strange because there hadn't been any rain in New England for over a week) veers into the Mile 81 rest area, ignoring the sign that says "closed, no services." The driver's door opens but nobody gets out.
Doug Clayton, an insurance man from Bangor, is driving his Prius to a conference in Portland. On the backseat are his briefcase and suitcase and in the passenger bucket is a King James Bible, what Doug calls "the ultimate insurance manual," but it isn't going to save Doug when he decides to be the Good Samaritan and help the guy in the broken down wagon. He pulls up behind it, puts on his four-ways, and then notices that the wagon has no plates.
Ten minutes later, Julianne Vernon, pulling a horse trailer, spots the Prius and the wagon, and pulls over. Julianne finds Doug Clayton's cracked cell phone near the wagon door — and gets too close herself. By the time Pete Simmons wakes up from his vodka nap, there are a half a dozen cars at the Mile 81 rest stop. Two kids — Rachel and Blake Lussier — and one horse named Deedee are the only living left. Unless you maybe count the wagon
(Novella -- 80 pp -- Kind of wish it had been 81 pp 
)
PS: I'm sorry I wasn't in on this game when you were doing title + author alphabet. For "O" I would happily have put Outside the Ordinary World, by Dori Ostermiller--a wonderful work of literary fiction by a talented author, introduced to me by Debra and the general fiction book club.
whiteginger wrote:
With the heart of Stand By Me and the genius horror of Christine, Mile 81is Stephen King unleashing his imagination as he drives past one of those road signs...
At Mile 81 on the Maine Turnpike is a boarded up rest stop on a highway in Maine. It's a place where high school kids drink and get into the kind of trouble high school kids have always gotten into. It's the place where Pete Simmons goes when his older brother, who's supposed to be looking out for him, heads off to the gravel pit to play "paratroopers over the side." Pete, armed only with the magnifying glass he got for his tenth birthday, finds a discarded bottle of vodka in the boarded up burger shack and drinks enough to pass out.
Not much later, a mud-covered station wagon (which is strange because there hadn't been any rain in New England for over a week) veers into the Mile 81 rest area, ignoring the sign that says "closed, no services." The driver's door opens but nobody gets out.
Doug Clayton, an insurance man from Bangor, is driving his Prius to a conference in Portland. On the backseat are his briefcase and suitcase and in the passenger bucket is a King James Bible, what Doug calls "the ultimate insurance manual," but it isn't going to save Doug when he decides to be the Good Samaritan and help the guy in the broken down wagon. He pulls up behind it, puts on his four-ways, and then notices that the wagon has no plates.
Ten minutes later, Julianne Vernon, pulling a horse trailer, spots the Prius and the wagon, and pulls over. Julianne finds Doug Clayton's cracked cell phone near the wagon door — and gets too close herself. By the time Pete Simmons wakes up from his vodka nap, there are a half a dozen cars at the Mile 81 rest stop. Two kids — Rachel and Blake Lussier — and one horse named Deedee are the only living left. Unless you maybe count the wagon
(Novella -- 80 pp -- Kind of wish it had been 81 pp
PS: I'm sorry I wasn't in on this game when you were doing title + author alphabet. For "O" I would happily have put Outside the Ordinary World, by Dori Ostermiller--a wonderful work of literary fiction by a talented author, introduced to me by Debra and the general fiction book club.
Thanks whiteginger, Outside the Ordinary World was a good read wasn't it and Dori was a great guest too. At least you found the game now and what a great choice in Mile 81, hmm, 80 pages yes you'd think he especially would draw it out to 81 pages
good to see you
dhaupt wrote:
whiteginger wrote:
Thanks whiteginger, . . . you found the game now and what a great choice in Mile 81, hmm, 80 pages yes you'd think he especially would draw it out to 81 pages
good to see you
Thanks, Debbie. I love the new games on the board and the January and May reads sound really good--I found the May read at Kobo (35% off coupon), so it's already in my library.
whiteginger wrote:
dhaupt wrote:
whiteginger wrote:
Thanks whiteginger, . . . you found the game now and what a great choice in Mile 81, hmm, 80 pages yes you'd think he especially would draw it out to 81 pages
good to see you
Thanks, Debbie. I love the new games on the board and the January and May reads sound really good--I found the May read at Kobo (35% off coupon), so it's already in my library.
Cool, It'll be great to have you there.
Well we haven't done this for a while so how about we pick it up again
"How would you react to the sudden realization of where death might actually lead?
At fifty-nine, George Harvey, a retired teacher, makes just this discovery—and his life changes in ways he could never have imagined.
George finds himself propelled on a headlong journey to another world, where he searches for the truth. Though they are strangers at first, George joins forces with a single mother and two young men, each seeking their own truth. With no easy answers, George, Luba, Philip, and Alyosha experience what seems impossible. Now they must decide if what they have learned is not just real—but inevitable.
Each answer inspires more questions, and these four apparent survivors of death must now decide for themselves:
When does life really end?
Can broken lives ever be reconnected and restored?
How dangerous are our beliefs and our faith?
Are we destined to be put on trial at some time and place in the cosmos?
Can our darkest fears ever be overcome or our most cherished dreams realized?
Is there only one path after death?
What does time really mean?
Their search for truth challenges everything they once believed about life, death—and what may follow."
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