Barry: 429 books

continueing my thoughts in verse on a variety of subjects from adventures to disastrous journeys, some amusing while others my bring a tear. You may enjoy trying to translate the odd dialect poems.

After a reckless affair destroys her marriage heartbroken Isobel flees to California wanting nothing more than to rebuild her shattered life. Pursued by two men with secrets to hide, struggling Hollywood actor Ryan and mysterious millionaire Lance, when she is arrested on the Mexican border she must...

Aesop's works aren't really outdated, but he wrote for a simpler time. He never had to deal with a cranky computer, a politically correct moron, a suffocating committee meeting, a manager who could not manage or a leader who has no idea how to lead. For those of us who do, or did, or one day might,...

* A young boy spends a magical weekend with his sister, a former collegiate track star crippled in a freak accident. During the visit he learns a poignant lesson about the resilience of monarch butterflies and the human heart * Mrs. Chowdhary named her youngest daughter after Saint Theresa, the Little...

The alien threat was over. The world had been given a second chanceWater ran crystal clear.The air was rich with the odour of new growth.Pollution was no more. But still the signs of man's manipulation of the earth was everywhere. Cory and Shannon wondered if their little group could really...

E.W.F.S. / Chronicle I - Hanging butt-naked from the ceiling fan in a storefront's back room while Max hits her spot isn't what May had in mind when she returned to the cell phone store on her lunch break, but she wasn't one to complain. May is a hard working, thirty-three year old single mother who...

Following his divorce, Dr. Stanley Gilford, chief of cardiology at Our Lady of Fatima Hospital, restructured his life on the guiding principle of maximum gain, minimum pain. So what is the well-heeled doctor doing with Ruby, a high school dropout and waitress at the local greasy spoon, and what are...

John Livingstone stood and slowly made his way to the kitchen. Detective Gary 'Schoolbags' Samson followed close behind. He grabbed the jug off the bench top, filled it with water and turned it on.  "W-We were at a friends place, Maggie, playing cards. Her new boyfriend, Peter somebody. He was...

Maria Santos, who just bought the Breakfast Nook, knows nothing about cross-contamination, pest control, immersion gauges or reduced-oxygen packaging. The new health inspector is every restaurant owner’s worse nightmare, but Maria needn’t worry. She’s got an ace up her culinary sleeve.

In the rear of Levinson's Wholefood Market, the owner's son, Ernie, just told Shifrah Fienberg that he wants to marry. The emotionally irascible Israeli would have preferred a first date or dozen long-stemmed rose.

Jewish Lightning (So , what could go wrong?)Where will the lightning strike next?A Coming of Age novel about young man who never quite comes of age. Just when you think he has risen above his earlier challenges, the protagonist, Henry Katz creates new ones, even more hazardous than before.Henry's...

Some things hadn’t changed at all.  The sun still came up every morning and set every night.  It rained sometimes, though not much,  and yet even that was normal,  for this time of year.  The nights were cool and the days were hot.  Winds were light for the most part,  and carried beautiful...

My latest trip to South America resulted from a collision between my schedule and the timing of my friend Silvio’s latest project. I flew to Santiago, Chile to travel in the RV he has spent two years building on the frame of a Mercedes truck.Perhaps because we didn’t have a firm destination in...

Life on the Water is meant to collect the accounts I’ve kept of living in the Cook Islands, in the South Pacific, in 1991, and the voyages I made with the Whimsey, a wooden sailboat I built in 2003 so I could sail around the Strait of Georgia. I kept an account of tide and points of sail, as well...