Ryan: 4123 books

Your suitcase is packed.  Half full of insect repellent, shark repellent, and any other repellent you could find to fight off the death wave of creepy creatures that you’ve heard await your arrival. You’ve gotten half drunk or swallowed the most powerful black market sleeping pill you could get...

"Onward toward What We’re Going Toward is a deeply tender, unflinchingly wry, and deftly written account of one man’s desire for deeper meaning... Combining the authorial style of Jeffrey Eugenides and Richard Russo with themes of loss, desperation, and reconnection, Onward toward What We’re Going...

Walls: They’re anything that keeps you from living the life God intended for you. They cut you off from family, freedom, and friends. And when you’re faced with a wall—whether it goes up after a life circumstance like losing your job or divorcing, or whether there just seems to be an emotional/spiritual...

How the melodic strings of a priceless Amati violin continue to influence the lives of two people after sailing the seas from England to Australia at the turn of the nineteen century is again masterfully portrayed in Australian author Andrew Ryan’s second book of the Amati series. Rustic panoramic...

Noirvember 2015 is a series of essays by Ryan K Lindsay about 30 different noir things that interest him. Originally uploaded to his website in a post-a-day format over the month of Noirvember, he aimed to steer clear of the usual classic noir works and instead dove into great comics, mad scientist...

How the talented violinist Charles Kinsmith's chance encounter with the beautiful but mysterious Claudia Bertolini is revisited one year later on board a passenger liner en-route to Australia in 1885 is poignantly revealed in this most unusual yet fascinating historical romantic novel by Australian...

Dieses Buch geht runter wie Öl – denn Ryan Rufus verkündet darin eine klare, heilsame Botschaft für wunde Christenseelen. Ein an falschen Vorstellungen ausgerichteter Glaube führt in die geistliche Sackgasse. Darum stellt Ryan Rufus in aller Deutlichkeit dem unheilvollen Pfad der Gesetzlichkeit...

Andrew Ryan’s narrative presents a poignant reminder how the human spirit overcomes heartache and anguish through an intriguing series of both tragic and hilarious intervals that begins at the time of the 1930’s great depression. Estranged from his wife and baby daughter following a harrowing...

Tom Ryan soll Atticus überallhin mitnehmen − so der Rat des Hundezüchters. Dass das einst alle 4000 Fuß hohen Berge der White Mountains sein würden, hatte er wohl nicht gedacht. Doch als eine Freundin an Krebs stirbt, wollen sie mit ihrer ambitionierten Bergtour auf eine Krebsstiftung aufmerksam...

“Living a better life…with less stuff.” —National Post What if everything you ever wanted isn’t what you actually want? Twenty-something, suit-clad, and upwardly mobile, Joshua Fields Millburn thought he had everything anyone could ever want. Until he didn’t anymore. Blindsided...

The story of Nintendo's rise and the beloved icon who made it possible. Nintendo has continually set the standard for video-game innovation in America, starting in 1981 with a plucky hero who jumped over barrels to save a girl from an ape. The saga of Mario, the portly plumber who became...

Both a medical drama and meditation on motherhood, The Water Giver is Joan Ryan's honest account of her doubts and mistakes in raising a learning-disabled son and the story of how his near-fatal accident gave her a second chance as a parent.

Like many hikers who’ve completed the Appalachian Trail, Jeffrey Ryan didn’t do it in one long through-hike. Grabbing weekends here and days off there, it took Jeffrey twenty-eight years to finish the trail, and along the way he learned much about himself and made many new friends, including his...

Cnut, or Canute, is one of the great 'what ifs' of English history. The Dane who became King of England after a long period of Viking attacks and settlement, his reign could have permanently shifted eleventh-century England's rule to Scandinavia. Stretching his authority across the North Sea to become...