Barry: 429 books

Harry Murphy has it all: A happy marriage, robust health, a successful career. Yet as he approaches fifty Harry begins to wonder about an issue which has not previously interested him: How well is he doing spiritually? Follow Harry as he begins to examine his spirituality by recording and analysing his dreams: What he finds there will alarm and amaze him, and will radically change his life.

A relatively new small business phenomenon is taking place in America: More couples, especially those in the boomer generation, are starting businesses together. Sometimes they do it because they’ve lost or left their jobs. Sometimes they want to pursue encore careers. But one thing is clear: For...

Responding to a press-conference question in February, 1980 about the United States role in the 1953 return to power of the shah, President Carter replied that the events were not worth going into because they were “ancient history.” Clearly this was a tactical response—there was no sense adding...

Relationships: A Survival Guide is the first in a series of short, direct and quick reads on topics that face us all. Each one spans our daily life issues and offers both insight and practical actions. Each book contains important lists to consider and a reverent test for you and those impact your...

Going Back to Bangkok tells the story of traveling with my girlfriend in South East Asia. In many ways it follows from the more than six months I spent in South East Asia five years earlier which I detail in How to Get to Bangkok. She and I traveled up and down the country of Thailand and into Laos,...

The Dieppe raid is the most traumatic day in Canadian Military History. This book examines the raid by comparing it with other amphibious landings. The questions raised by the raid are examined in comparison with battles which used bomber support. Drawing from Official Reports, lessons learned are compared with actual battle results and a Shadowy Verdict on what was possible is reached.

An eclectic collection of short stories which first saw the light of day as finalists in various writing contests. Nothing heavy, nothing complicated, just something to pass the time on your plane trip, or your train trip, or a wet Sunday afternoon (and half the price of a magazine!)

In this project I ground my reading of historiographic metafiction in a series of postmodern texts which work out of and subvert traditional notions of historical writing. I use Linda Hutcheon’s construction of this postmodern genre to investigate the particular literary and historical strategies...

* Bethany Glaspell approached the first-ever meeting with Great-uncle Vern, a man who returned from the jungles of Vietnam with a Hmong bride and warped personality, much as a cat burglar might plan his next heist, telling no one, neither friend nor family, her intentions. * There are five levels...

This is the 2nd Edition of The Totally Unauthorized Obamacare Jokebook. Things have changed a lot in the 14 months since the 1st Edition of the joke book was published. ISIS. Ebola. Executive staff changes. Critical Supreme Court challenges. Democrat control of the Senate vanishing after the 2014...

In this project I ground my reading of reader-oriented criticism in a particular text, Rudy Wiebe’s The Mad Trapper. Positioning this novel as representative of the contradictory characteristics of all texts--”always already” open to multiple interpretations--I use these multiple readings both...

Koro, the old one, is the Keeper of the Sacred Lore. Seven elders gather in his little seaside shack to try to chart a path for the tribe’s survival, a path that will bring together the ancient and the new: a knife-edge dangerous course. Confronting their people with the old tribal mantra… "we...

The rainbow doesn't fade as rainbows normally do. This one mysteriously sinks away while Christina, Gordy, Sandy and Brian watch in amazed disbelief. When they decide to investigate the mystery, they meet Duncan, an unfriendly boy with a strange ability. Why does he do what he does--and how does...

Utini, Hera and Eroa gather about them those cloaked in compassion to challenge the waves and reach the distant islands of Aotearoa. Here they penetrate deep within the mountains to reach sacred waters that open the way for the healing of the women of the planet. They travel the ancient trails the...