Barker: 1020 books

What drives us to be good? How do we even know how to be good? Philosophers and theologians have dealt with such questions for millennia, but Dan Barker thinks the answers are not so complicated. In Mere Morality, he argues there's no need to appeal to supernatural commandments or the fear of some...

AS HEARD ON RADIO 4 'Utterly wonderful' NINA STIBBE, author of Love, Nina Twenty hours have gone since I last wrote. I have been thinking of you. I shall think of you until I post this, and until you get it. Can you feel, as you read these words, that I am thinking of you now; aglow, alive, alert at...

He has a bloody, dismembered foot in a cooler, along with a pile of cucumbers, but that might not even be Darcy’s biggest problem. Darcy’s biggest problem may well be the trail of bodies behind him. Or the lady hit man in front of him. Or the old man, on the run from a murder...

Tara got more than she bargained for when she opened up The Frozen Scoop ice cream Shoppe in the small town of Caesar’s Creek, Georgia. Newly divorced and disgusted with corporate life, she feels a small town atmosphere is a welcoming change to her prior chaotic life. That is until the town is rocked...

Another murder has occurred in Caesars Creek, Georgia, but this time right inside The Frozen Scoop Ice Cream Shoppe. Tara and her pals, Stormi and Paige are front and center for the heinous crime, but their attempts to revive the victim may make them suspects.

Lily and her aunts find themselves with dates to the same function. Little do they know the event will end with some unfortunate soul staring into the great beyond. And as they say, hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

When Lily and her two aunts discover the dead body of the most vile and hated woman in the town of Sweet Home inside their coffee shop, the Coffee Cabana, tongues wag at who the culprit might be. With a list of suspects a mile long, it could be almost anyone Fannie Diddlemier wronged in her weekly...

Shelby Whitaker spends her days in period costumes and chatting with the dead. Life inside Mad River Olde Town reenactment village comes alive literally for Shelby who thinks of the Civil War Era ghosts as her friends.But when a reenactment actor is murdered with one of the town’s tools, it’s up to Shelby and her spirit friends to discover the fiend that hides among them.

Mad River welcomes a pair of ghost hunters and their television show to town only for a murder to occur as the cameras were rolling. Now Shelby's ghost friends are being accused of the dirty deed and the good reverend is calling for an exorcism. Can Shelby find the killer before the pastor...

When flying gavels and a levitating judge cause upheaval in a small rural town, it's up to Eden Patterson with her husband Luke and a team of ghost hunters to uncover the cause for the disruptions. But secrets hide within the walls and beyond the courthouse. What or who is this mysterious presence that wants to tear down the walls of justice?

Eden, Luke and the Paranormal Services gang investigate the strange occurrences in an old opera house. Sinister activities, like falling stage lights and moving furniture, are becoming dangerous for the actors and crew. And the new owner of the opera house may have a secret or two that pertains to the haunting.Find out what happens as Eden brings the dead and living together.

Be very Afraid when the Ghosts are Spooked! When Shelby's sister Harriet isn't acting herself and the ghosts of Mad River Old Town are in hiding, she knows something isn't quite right. Follow that with two inquisitive strangers, Shelby's in the fight for her sister's life.

I went to see the world and did, but what I also saw a lot of was the inside of a lot of pubs, and so came back with a lot of stories and an alcohol problem.I'd like to think that this book is not just a travel work, but a help for those to see some of the warning signs of alcoholism.

I started ranting to the internet, mildly enough, in Autumn, 2013.As the weeks went by things seemed to bug me more and more.So with a new audience (the internet) I began to get a few things down in ePrint.This is the second installment of my collected blogs, and you can see the steam staring to coalesce...