Seven writers unite to pen a collection of heartwarming and sometimes startling stories about families of all kinds. Their literary journey transitions from the simple life of a farmer to a divorced city dweller. With diversity in age, life experiences, and birthplaces, these award-wining writers create vivid characters and plot twists to interest everyone’s taste for a well-spun tale.

By Blood or By Marriage: A Harpeth River Writers Anthology

Literature & Fiction

Woods, Bill

Davis, John Neely

Bell, Sandy Ward

Brunson, Suzanne

Fuhrman, Micki

Tucker, Michael J.

Lebovicz, Ruth

Short Stories & Anthologies

Western Trail Blazer

Lebovitz, Ruth

Bill Woods has used his decades of experience as a successful bodhrán performer and teacher to create this integrated instruction book and online audio download for the beginning bodhrán player. Using photographs, text, and audio examples, it takes you in easy steps from holding the bodhrán and stick through playing along with traditional Irish dance tunes. It shows you the basic accompaniment patterns for reels and jigs and demonstrates ways to make these patterns more interesting using rests, accents, and rolls. In addition to the audio examples, the audio recording has traditional Irish dance tunes recorded at different tempos so you can start playing along almost immediately and increase your speed as your skill improves. Also covered are the correct pronunciation of bodhrán, the history of the bodhrán in traditional Irish music, suggestions on playing with other musicians, suggestions on what to look for when choosing a bodhrán and stick, instructions on a simple and inexpensive way to make your own stick, and the basic structure of Irish dance tunes

Bodhran: The Basics: A Beginner's Guide to Playing the Bodhran

Arts & Photography

Music

Mel Bay Publications,Inc.

This is the follow-up volume to Bodhran: The Basics and is designed for those who want to improve their technique and expand their rhythmic repertoire. It contains exercises and solos in 4/4, 6/8, 3/4, and 9/8 time. The 568 one-measure exercises are designed to improve a player’s technical skill and demonstrate how to use the basic building blocks of rests, accents, rolls, and syncopation to create interesting and varied rhythmic patterns. The 64 short solos show how to combine the one measure rhythmic patterns into longer compositions. In addition to the exercises and solos, there are sections on time signatures, counting, syncopation, playing on the backbeat, vocalizing rhythmic patterns, developing speed, controlling pitch and timbre, and playing with both hands. Includes access to online audio.

Bodhrán Beyond the Basics

This book and accompanying audio show you how to play the frame drum using your fingers and hand surfaces. The method uses text, photographs, and the audio examples to demonstrate the various strokes and rhythms. Three ways of looking at rhythms are presented: Middle Eastern, Western and Balkan, with over 160 demonstrated rhythms. Includes access to online audio

Playing the Frame Drum

Like new paperback book, has just slight signs of age on this lightly used book. Vintage 1981 54 trips on scenic backroads, away from the rush of traffic around Puget Sound. .

Bicycling the Backroads Around Puget Sound

Sports & Outdoors

Woods, Erin

Individual Sports

MOUNTAINEERS BOOKS+

An essential for Northwest cyclists, updating 46 trips from Gig Harbor in the north to the Columbia River in the south, and from Ocean Shores in the west to Mount Rainier National Park in the east. Includes mileage logs, maps, and elevation profiles for each excursion. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Bicycling the Backroads of Southwest Washington

This fully updated guide in the popular Bicycling the Backroads series presents information on 39 scenic bicycle loop tours in Whatcom, Skagit, Clallam, Jefferson, Kitsap, Island, King, and Snohomish counties, plus several tours in British Columbia. Longtime cycling enthusiasts Erin and Bill Woods provide the cycle touring buff with an expanded choice of day, weekend, and longer rides through low-traffic, rural, and semi-rural areas. Each tour description includes information on trip length, road conditions, starting point (usually a public parking area such as a park or school), lunch stops on the route, points of interest, ride complexity, and private property. Detailed mileage logs, maps, and elevation profiles, plus Dale Martin's humorous cartoons make Bicycling the Backroads of Northwest Washington, 4th Ed. a must-have for all Washington cyclists.

Bicycling the Backroads of Northwest Washington (Bicycling the Backroads Series)

A dressage book that references Michael Jordan, ocean liners, magnetic bottles, juke boxes, cannibalism, crop circles, Babe the Blue Ox, Mitt Romney, Dilbert, Barbra Streisand's brother, green Jello, and a further cast of thousands—it's Dressage Unscrambled! Author Bill Woods has put together dozens of stories and anecdotes that elucidate, illustrate, and demystify hoary dressage principles while managing to skewer the sacred bovines—both two- and four-legged—of our sport. Read his slightly off-center takes on perennially burdensome topics like attention, self carriage, and connection. Mix in the hits and near misses of insight that a lifetime of teaching brings. Add in 40 years of weirdness gleaned from scribes, riders, teachers, and unindicted dressage co-conspirators, and you get a book that will bring a pile of smiles, a bucket of chuckles, an occasional spasmodic episode, and more than a few "I never thought of that—I'll have to go try that!" moments.

Dressage Unscrambled

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Trafalgar Square Books

Celtic Airs

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