Books with author Isabella L.

Sometimes danger isn’t found on a battleground—it’s sitting at your front door.Nic Caldwell is back Stateside, working the job she was supposed to have before her most recent deployment, and living her best life at home. At least she thought she would be, except her PTSD is always in the background, dragging her back to her tour in Afghanistan. As she struggles to control her demons privately, her public life with Claire is almost picture perfect. However, a picture can’t show everything hiding just under the surface.Claire Monroe has the love of her life back in one piece—almost. She’s trying to help Nic adjust to her new normal both physically and emotionally while also going back to school and raising their daughter, Grace. With all the difficulties Nic’s re-entry poses along with the new challenges of being an adult student, she wonders how she can guide them back to their old life while building a new one for herself.Cece Ramirez has decided that the Army has served its purpose and she is ready for a new chapter in her professional and personal life. Retiring from active duty and moving on to a new role as a police officer on a college campus, she realizes that she’s traded camo, discipline, and rifles for book bags, bikes, and rowdy post-adolescents. While she and the students at Cal State Monterey Bay might be the same age, their pasts are vastly different, and the transition from soldier to college cop may not be as smooth as she hopes.When a chance encounter at a near-base shopette challenges Nic’s authority and leaves her and her family in potential peril, Cece and Claire must pull together to back Nic up in peacetime, and right at home.

***Winner*** The Jemma Prize for Speculative Fiction 2019International Book Award 2019 Finalist"...author Isabella Ides has written what will surely become a classic." IndieReader: Judges Verdict A rogue order of nuns, in tucked away in Humboldt County, are raising an undocumented deity on the down-low. Persecuted by the patriarchs of the Great Church and decimated by a plague of prayer eaters, The Sisterhood is on the verge of extinction when a white monkey appears in a snowstorm and makes a special delivery.It is a holy night like no other—complete with a wandering star, three disreputable magi, and a babe mangered in a cardboard box.Scandal alert!The mere existence of the misbegotten baby god is a provocation. In celestial realms, the reputations of celebrity A-list Gods are at stake. On Earth, the undocumented deity is a threat to the birdmen of the Great Church—Cardinals, Hooded Crow, Cloistered Ravens, and gay Budgies, plus a malevolent Cassowary and an ancient Hierophant: His Holiness, the Divine Mallard of All Mysteries.Luckily, a white monkey with impeccable spiritual credentials has broken out of bounds and jumped into this world!Expect literary enchantments!Discover the cognate soul-group at the heart of the Sisterhood.Enter the Byzantine world of the Birdmen of the Great Church when the seven-year-old boy is kidnapped and brought to Mount Quoborium. Witness the heartstopping moment when the Hierophant questions the boy. Thrill to the astonishing spectacle when the divine monkey attempts a rescue. And don't miss a spirituous whiff of Humboldt Snow #9, a psychedelic game-changer like no other.OUT OF THIS WORLD(Literary Review)"WHITE MONKEY CHRONICLES shows author Isabella Ides to be a self-assured, equal-opportunity paradigm demolition expert. Storming entrenched temples of orthodoxy, shattering icons, upending conventions—the eponymous monkey blinks his eyes and worlds collide.But it’s in the reconstruction that the story wins our hearts. When bohemian Sister Merry Berry fires up her pink 1959 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz convertible, top down, in preparation for heavenly ascent, readers will aspire to hitch a ride, relishing the mind-expanding experience the transit has in store."Alexandra BonifieldCritical rant.comNEA/Annenberg and O’Neill Critics Institute FellowA CLASSIC(Literary Review)"WMC: The Complete Trilogy is a delightful and thought-provoking walk along a multi-faceted road of philosophy, spirituality, and dystopia. Its pages are filled with marvelous word play, intriguing characters, and most importantly, a phenomenal plot surrounding the offspring of two transgressing gods and a group of lovable, resolute nuns. Funny, intellectual, and insightful, author Isabella Ides has written what will surely become a classic." --IndieReader: Judges Verdict.

Writing a book is no easy task, but trying to do it without guidance is almost impossible as a beginner, not to say time consuming. You don’t need to be a professional writer in order to publish a book, as long as you have something to say that’s worth saying then I say go for it. With this book on how to write books I will help you with some techniques that have helped me write and publish over 10 books in one year. Everything I wish I knew before starting writing and publishing my own books will be included in full detail in order to help you out as much as I can.I’m sure that you’re a busy individual who values his or her time, therefore this book is focused on teaching you as much helpful information as possible in the least amount of pages. I’m going to cut out the fluff and leave as much juicy meat for you to consume fast. This way, you can start writing your own book this month without wasting any time trying to figure out how to do it. If you want a 100,000 word book on how to write and publish then this is not for you but if you’re into efficiency and getting things done then you’ve come to the right place.Throughout the book there will be tips and techniques I’ve used myself and seen other successful writers use themselves. Keep in mind that what works for me might not work for you and vice versa. I can give you all the tools you need but nothing will work unless you do. It might feel frustrating at first because you’ll want to try many different styles but this book and what I’m planning to teach you goes beyond that and it is probably going to be more valuable than just learning how to write a book. I will teach you how to get to know yourself. Some of the lessons included in this book are:- Where to start.- How to write a book.- Where to write it.- What to do before publishing.- How to publish your book.- How to publish books as a business.And much more!

This classic of Hawaiian literature offers a charming glimpse at the splendid and fascinating world of pre–American Hawaii.Isabella Lucy Bird won fame in her own time as the most remarkable woman traveler of the nineteenth century, and Six Months in the Sandwich Isles, in which she describes her sojourn in Hawaii in 1873, is one of the gems of Pacific literature. It is safe to say that no other book about Hawaii surpasses it in fascination. Much of the charm of Isabella's writing is due to her use of personal letters for conveying her her experiences and her impressions. The thirty–one letters that compose the book were written to her beloved sister Henrietta, who dutifully stayed at home in Edinburgh to take care of the household while Isabella was away on her travels.The book is an authentic record of daily life in Hawaii in the late nineteenth century. It describes a life style during the brief reign of King Lunalilo, not too may years before the sad reign of Queen Liliuokalani ended her dethronement by revolution. Isabella Bird met royalty, missionaries, cowboys, and ordinary, everyday Hawaiians. It is fortunate that she left such a vivid narrative of her Hawaiian Interlude.

This evocative and lively travelogue by Isabella L. Bird lifts the veil of the culture of Colorado and the Rocky Mountains as it was in the 1870s. We find in this classic travel book an authentic and eloquent portrayal of the beautiful peaks and breathtaking landscapes of rural North America. Braving the craggy landscape on horseback and on foot, the author manages to conquer some of the area's most awe-inspiring ranges, while also observing life in several settlements and towns around the state of Colorado. The sheer toughness of the author shines through each of her letters. Her descriptions do not flinch from accuracy, as she notes the sub-zero temperatures, fierce drafts of wind, and other perils of the untamed landscape. Most notably of all however is Isabella Bird's steely determination and doggedness in confronting, and surmounting, the Rocky Mountains. Only a few decades prior to Isabella L. Bird's arrival in the Rockies, it was an uncharted wilderness, settled only by the Native American populations and explored only by fur trappers. Even in the 1870s, nearly all of the locale remained untouched; nature, in all its glory, offered travelers a myriad of beautiful sights. For her part, the author was drawn to the locale due to her health; the brisk mountain airs were said to invigorate the lungs and spirit. Throughout her life, the author wrote many accounts of her travels. Her descriptions are frank yet poetic, grand yet down-to-Earth - despite the hardships, Bird rarely lapsed into complaining. Instead we receive an impression not merely of awe-inspiring and exotic locales, but of the fierce and capable personality of the journeys' narrator.

Writing a book is no easy task, but trying to do it without guidance is almost impossible as a beginner, not to say time consuming. You don’t need to be a professional writer in order to publish a book, as long as you have something to say that’s worth saying then I say go for it. With this book on how to write books I will help you with some techniques that have helped me write and publish over 10 books in one year. Everything I wish I knew before starting writing and publishing my own books will be included in full detail in order to help you out as much as I can.I’m sure that you’re a busy individual who values his or her time, therefore this book is focused on teaching you as much helpful information as possible in the least amount of pages. I’m going to cut out the fluff and leave as much juicy meat for you to consume fast. This way, you can start writing your own book this month without wasting any time trying to figure out how to do it. If you want a 100,000 word book on how to write and publish then this is not for you but if you’re into efficiency and getting things done then you’ve come to the right place.Throughout the book there will be tips and techniques I’ve used myself and seen other successful writers use themselves. Keep in mind that what works for me might not work for you and vice versa. I can give you all the tools you need but nothing will work unless you do. It might feel frustrating at first because you’ll want to try many different styles but this book and what I’m planning to teach you goes beyond that and it is probably going to be more valuable than just learning how to write a book. I will teach you how to get to know yourself. Some of the lessons included in this book are:- Where to start.- How to write a book.- Where to write it.- What to do before publishing.- How to publish your book.- How to publish books as a business.And much more!

Isabella Lucy Bird (1831-1904) was a nineteenth-century English traveller, writer, and a natural historian. Bird finally left Britain in 1872, going first to Australia, which she disliked, and then to Hawaii (known in Europe as the Sandwich Islands), her love for which prompted her second book (published three years later). While there she climbed Mauna Loa and visited Queen Emma. She then moved on to Colorado, then the newest member of the United States, where she had heard the air was excellent for the infirm. Dressed practically and riding not sidesaddle but frontwards like a man (though she threatened to sue the Times for saying she dressed like one), she covered over 800 miles in the Rocky Mountains in 1873. Her letters to her sister, first printed in the magazine Leisure Hour, comprised her fourth and perhaps most famous book, A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains. Bird's time in the Rockies was enlivened especially by her acquaintance with Jim Nugent, a textbook outlaw with one eye and an affinity for violence and poetry. "A man any woman might love but no sane woman would marry," Bird declared in a section excised from her letters prior to their publication. Nugent also seemed captivated by the independently-minded Bird, but she ultimately left the Rockies and her "dear desperado" Nugent was shot dead less than a year later. At home, Bird again found herself pursued, this time by John Bishop, an Edinburgh doctor in his thirties. Predictably ill, she went traveling again, this time to the far east: Japan, China, Vietnam, Singapore and Malaysia.

Dressed practically and riding not sidesaddle but frontwards like a man (though she threatened to sue the Times for saying she dressed like one), she covered over 800 miles in the Rocky Mountains in 1873. Her letters to her sister, first printed in the magazine Leisure Hour, comprised her fourth and perhaps most famous book, A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains. Bird's time in the Rockies was enlivened especially by her acquaintance with Jim Nugent, "Rocky Mountain Jim", a textbook outlaw with one eye and an affinity for violence and poetry. "A man any woman might love but no sane woman would marry," Bird declared in a section excised from her letters before their publication. Nugent also seemed captivated by the independent-minded Bird, but she ultimately left the Rockies and her "dear desperado." Nugent was shot dead less than a year later. Other notable books by Isabella Bird include Unbeaten Tracks in Japan, Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Among the Tibetans, and The Englishwoman in America.