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The comfort food of cottage life books — satisfying, unforgettable, and inevitably nostalgic. Cottage Daze celebrates life at the cottage where the cottage is the main character, and family, friends, pets, and fellow cottagers are the supporting cast. Whether writing about cottage routine ("First Ski," "Of Mice and Men," "Cottage Guests"), cottage tasks ("Splitting Wood," "Boat Launch"), nature ("A Gathering of Loons," "The Sting," "Autumn Spell"), cottage fun ("The Cottage Duel"), or cottage touchstones ("Start the Day," "Bonfire," "The Perfect Storm"), the stories are told with humour, compassion, insight, and nostalgia. Who doesn’t remember sitting in a frigid lake, trying to help a youngster get up on water skis for the first time, launching a boat while the whole world seems to be watching, or getting caught up in a nest of wasps? This collection of stories, elegantly organized into four seasons (spring, summer, autumn, and winter), will make readers laugh, cry, and long to be at the cottage a "must have" for every cottage bookshelf.
This special bundle contains both of James Ross’ essential companion volumes to the great Canadian tradition of life at the cottage. Who doesn’t remember sitting in a frigid lake, trying to help a youngster get up on water skis for the first time, launching a boat while the whole world seems to be watching, or getting caught up in a nest of wasps? These collections of stories, elegantly organized into four seasons (spring, summer, autumn, and winter), will make readers laugh, cry, and long to be at the cottage a "must have" for every cottage bookshelf. Cottage Daze Still in a Daze at the Cottage
Whether you're a regular cottage-goer or have fond memories from childhood, Cottage Daze will bring the warmth of the campfire and the musty pine smell of an old cabin to life no matter where you read it.
Hamilton Spectator columnist Paul Benedetti’s essays paint a wonderfully funny portrait of family life today. Paul Benedetti has a good job, a great family, and successful neighbours — but that doesn’t stop him from using it all as grist for a series of funny, real, and touching essays about a world he can’t quite navigate. Benedetti misses his son, who is travelling in Europe, misplaces his groceries, and forgets to pick up his daughter at school. He endures a colonoscopy and vainly attempts to lower his Body Mass Index — all with mixed results. He loves his long-suffering wife, worries about his aging parents and his three children, who seem to spend a lot of time battling online trolls, having crushes on vampires, and littering their rooms with enough junk to start a landfill.
Kiley Thompson is a typical high school senior dealing with the stress of preparing for graduation and falling in love for the first time. Unlike most high school students, Kiley has a major problem ghosts. When her family buys a cottage in England, she finds herself in the middle of a murder mystery. Can she dig through the bitter rivalries, love affairs and betrayals of the past to find the truth, or will she be doomed to share the same fate as the ghosts who haunt her?
Rowena despises the woman she's become. Her ex-husband has bent her mind to believe in third and fourth chances, but this time she's done with him. He's left her with nothing but a broken heart, shattered promises and a stack of bills. Looking down at her mail, she finds a certified letter that will change her life forever. She inherits a cottage in Cornwall, U.K., located in the Bodmin Moors. With the vacated home come spider webs, a rusty faucet, and a window that seems to open on its own. But Rowena is not turning back. She's determined to start her life anew, even with a murderer on the loose, which keeps her close to a neighbor and trusted dog. When blood spills from her small hand after an accident, she meets a doctor in Morcant, the small village on the outskirts of the Moors. Dr. Reader is handsome and infatuated with Rowena. Butthere are two obstacles standing in their wayone, the doctor is the top suspect in one of the murdersand the other is a secret Rowena keeps close to her heart...something that cant be hidden forever. Rowena uses her laptop for her writing career and to communicate with family residing back in the states, yet not all of her e-mails are good news. Letters from her ex-husband and a disturbed cousin, only add to her troubles. She passes a man in the streets of Morcant, someone she'd met years before one dark moonless night on a lonely highway and is almost convinced he's only a figment of her imagination. Rowena is not the only one who has secrets, Morwen Cottage holds a few of its own----- She's learned not to give second chances, but will she fall again and walk into the arms of a killer?
In a bizarre love triangle, a man becomes increasingly desperate for the attention of a woman obsessed with her little dog. A hapless unromantic develops an algorithm to help him succeed at dating. And a divorcee becomes consumed with jealousy when a man she likes begins to date her 60 year old mother. In these tales of love pursued, yet rarely caught, characters find themselves tripping, sometimes painfully, sometimes hilariously, toward self-revelation.ÊHere is life in all of its clumsiness, humor, and beauty.Ê
Donegal has a rich heritage of myths and legends which is uniquely captured in this collection of traditional tales from the county. Discover the trails where Balor of the Evil Eye once roamed, the footprint left by St Colmcille when he leapt to avoid a demon and the places where ordinary people once encountered devils, ghosts, and fairies. In a vivid journey through Donegal's varied landscape, from its spectacular rugged coast line to the majestic mountains of Errigal and Muckish, and on to the rich farmland of the east, local storyteller Joe Brennan takes the reader to places where legend and landscape are inseparably linked.
Obeah owns the resort located in a secluded woodland setting, complete with peaceful lake, fir trees, trails, and cabins. It’s an idyllic place vacationers seek when they need to get away from it all. Catherine and her family have been long-time guests, but she eventually returns by herself as a young woman. An unexpected romance blossoms between Obeah and Catherine, but she ends up leaving him without explanation or closure. Brokenhearted, the resort owner creates a magical set of nesting dolls that are meant to get Catherine back. Decades later, the dolls end up in the hands of young Isabella, who is immediately attracted to them and senses some kind of magic. As Isabella grows up, she secretly relies on the smallest doll to guide her through different relationships, hoping to find love. She experiences a crush, her first kiss, and her first true love but also loss. She questions her ability to understand love and is scared she might never find a way to make love last. Are Isabella’s broken relationships her fault, or is it the magic doll? Perhaps this tiny doll, manipulated by heartbreak, is a force to be reckoned with.