Bøger af Karen Jones

Fifty-two-year-old Jack Ramsden has spent the last five years trying to rebuild his life after a very public and very scandalous divorce. His ex, Josephine Jackson, is an ill-tempered Texas-bred heiress who made Jack's life miserable for nearly twenty years. Nonetheless, he has no one but himself to blame for the drinking and bad behavior that nearly cost him his career. After the divorce, he fled Florida for horse country, returning home to Kentucky and the only work he has ever known: training thoroughbred racehorses. Along with his longtime friend, Viet Nam veteran Nate Washington, his lazy dog Harley, and a foul-mouthed pet parrot, Jack spends his days at the helm of a small horse-training business in Lexington. Business takes a turn for the better when one of Jack's former clients, wealthy car salesman Sid Blackstone, hires him to train a promising three-year-old colt called Savant. After winning a prestigious stakes race, Savant is a favorite to win the Kentucky Derby, a triumph that could permanently repair Jack's sullied reputation. But when Sid disappears, Savant's ownership comes into question. Sid's wife, Bunny Lee Blackstone, is a former showgirl who hasn't made a decision on her own since the day she married Sid. Now suddenly she is tasked with deciding how to handle the valuable thoroughbred, a matter complicated by the attentions of a charming gangster who may know more about Sid's disappearance than he is letting on. As he delves into the mystery behind Sid's disappearance and Savant's ownership, Jack slowly becomes aware of just how dangerous his and Bunny's situation really is. Together with Nate, Jack's former flame Katy Alexander, and Katy's best friends Lauren and Todd Hendricksen, Jack will stop at nothing to uncover the truth, discovering along the way that no one is quite what they seem. With its roster of colorful characters and surprising plot twists, Silent Partner is an engaging and suspenseful must-read for literary mystery buffs.

This is the fourth in a series of skits, puppet shows and plays by author Karen Jones. This edition focuses on Christmas with skits, plays, puppet shows and musicals. The other holidays featured are Thanksgiving, New Year's Day, September 11, and Back to School.

This first book is composed of skits and puppet shows which use humor to teach the message of Christ. These skits and puppet shows are great for all ages and are sure to leave the audience laughing while teaching important topics such as soul-winning techniques, tithing, sin, rapture, plan of salvation, lying, prayer, anger, and faith. This is an updated version of the first in a series by Karen Jones. Section Titles are Pew Grannies, Bring in the Clowns, Holy Hillbillies, and Bible Action News.

Double tragedy leads Sarah to a high mountain lake, unable to endure her pain. She is given a second chance to find a path to happiness by passing through a mystical archway. Sarah takes the risk, not knowing where the adventure will lead. Stumbling down the mountain, she falls into the hands of a calculating Madam, and the arms of John. With the archway ready to close, she must weigh the benefits of new dear friends and a wedding against the dangers of 1882 and a bitter enemy, Sarah: I'm trapped in a brothel and need to get freeTo explore this place, find what is for me.Let John be my groom, But is our love doomed?I'm frightened by all the dangers I see. John: She is a woman, a bit different you know. Dropped into our town, to the brothel below. Passionate and sassy, I asked, be my lassie? She went back; Sarah please stay, do not go.

This ninth book in a series by Karen Jones features twenty skits and puppet shows. The skits, musicals, and puppet shows in this book can be performed in a well-lighted room; however they were specifically created for an immersive black-light environment. The themes include Cars, Trains, & Diggers; Life Is a Game; and Soldiers in God's Army. There are two Christmas skits/puppet shows and two Easter skits/puppet shows in this book.

The third in a series of skits, puppet shows, and now plays by author Karen Jones. This book is 80 pages of Easter plays and skits and puppet shows for other holidays such as Mother's Day, Father's Day, Independence Day, Memorial Day, Tax Day, Valentine's Day, and Day of Pentecost.

Are you frustrated or bored and feel unappreciated for your knowledge and experience? Want to know why your dissatisfaction is holding you back? Do you want clarity and focus to help identify underutilized skills and talents? Just Let Go, Embrace Change and Have Fun! Is your personal guide to have the courage to embrace what is outside your comfort zone which will lead to a more fulfilled life.This book is your personal guide to have the courage to embrace what is outside your comfort zone which will lead to a more fulfilled life.Why Read This Book: The Book guides you on your personal journey to discover the most important relationship in your life

This fifth book in a series by Karen Jones features two full-length plays about the Tabernacle and the Temple, the former a perfect Easter performance. If you want to learn about the intricacies of the Temple and the step-by-step process of the sacrifice, this is the perfect book for you and your church. The name of Jesus is also glorified in an Easter skit. In addition to that, there are six funny skits depicting how Bible characters would behave in the modern world. There are also four musical skits with a medley of hymns.

"The mark is gone...""....glamoured it?"I was floating through a sea of emptiness. My bones had been replaced with lead and my muscles were so drained I couldn't open my eyes to see the danger. My mind was too confused to keep me conscious long enough to actually fear the danger anyway."Something is wrong. He did something.""...there. Take this next left, we'll lose them in the slums.""They weren't supposed to arrive until morning. What the hell are they doing here?"I knew I should fear the world outside the emptiness that had settled around me but I couldn't find the strength to. I felt it reaching for me again just as I was beginning to follow their words more coherently. Just as I was beginning to understand I was being pulled under again."...upstairs. We'll board up the windows. It's our only option.""...think I would have those lying around. You'll have to go and get some."Boarded up windows. Like a cage. A terrible cage with iron bars. Panic gave me the adrenaline I needed to make my muscles move and I wanted to shout with excitement because it meant the emptiness was receding and I despised the nothingness.".... twitching like that?""The drugs are wearing off too quickly. Damnit! Get my bag!""Why is she doing that?""I don't know! It shouldn't be filtered through her system for hours..."My fingers. I could feel something soft beneath me. It felt like silk. A blanket?".... back. I don't know how long this will keep her out and I don't have much left.""I'll make sure to grab a stake while I'm out."Something brushed my bare foot and I could faintly sense a presence on my left side though I still didn't have the strength to open my eyes. Fingertips traced my skin. My marked skin."You don't need a stake. She's not a vampyre." The presence snapped, sounding exasperated. "Now hurry and go."There was a pause. I felt the silk move beneath me as I was successful in making my foot move, however slight it was."She's definitely not human." Another voice growled as something sharp jabbed into my arm. Warmth blossomed in my elbow and began to spread like molten lava through my veins.I was slipping back into the emptiness again...Moving through the emptiness was like moving through syrup. It was void of all light so I couldn't see myself drowning. Claw like fingers reached for me from beneath the waves and a strong undertow clawed at my ankles as I treaded the darkness. A part of me knew this wasn't real but I also couldn't find the surface which made this my reality none the less."... did experiments on her? The military does it all the time.""... would have killed her instead of toyed with her. Or at least kept her in a prison cell.""There is nothing else then. No reasoning behind this.""I suppose not."Damn the emptiness. Damn the void that was trying to pull me deeper into it. I could catch glimpses of the surface but just as I was getting close to it I was dragged down again. I was beginning to lose my will power and soon I wouldn't want to struggle anymore. I'd give in and just let the undertow take me where it willed.And I'd die....But I'm too stubborn to die.

This eight book in a series by Karen Jones features nineteen skits and puppet shows. The skits, musicals, and puppet shows in this book can be performed in a well-lighted room; however they were specifically created for an immersive black-light environment. The themes include Frankentruth's Lab, the Toxic Factory, and Life Lessons. In Frankentruth's Lab, science experiments are performed with spiritual aspects interwoven throughout.

This second book in a series by Karen Jones features twenty skits and puppet shows. This book is great for ladies', youth, and Sunday school ministries. The skits include sections such as living toys, Noah's ark puppet shows, high school heroes, and angels and imps.

This tenth book in a series by Karen Jones features twenty skits and puppet shows. The skits, musicals, and puppet shows in this book can be performed in a well-lighted room; however they were specifically created for an immersive black-light environment. The themes include a Valentine's Day or Easter play, the King's Palace, Rapunzel, and Heaven or Hell. There are two Christmas skits/puppet shows and two Easter skits/puppet shows in this book.

This sixth book in a series by Karen Jones features twenty skits and puppet shows. The skits and puppet shows in this book can be performed in a well-lighted room; however they were specifically created for an immersive black-light environment. The themes include Creation Critters, Cowboys, Funny Fables, and Preacher Cat. There are two Christmas skits and one Easter skit in this book.

This seventh book in a series by Karen Jones features twenty skits, musicals, and puppet shows. The skits, musicals, and puppet shows in this book can be performed in a well-lighted room; however they were specifically created for an immersive black-light environment. The themes include Under the Sea, the Sea of Galilee, and Shipwrecked Pirates. There are two Christmas skits/puppet shows and two Easter skit/puppet shows in this book.

Karen Jones' new chapbook, Gold Ray, presents an invitation to see "...farther into the forest . . . enticing us from the trail into enchantment..." ("Winter Moss"). In the voices of keen observer, scientist, outdoorswoman, and educator, Karen takes us through forest, sand beaches, river, and bay to preserve the natural world with her acutely articulated observations. Her poems incorporate nostalgia, resilience, and ultimately, celebration, exhorting the reader to experience this world fully.-Rachel Barton, Editor, Willawaw JournalIn Gold Ray, Karen Jones gives us a world that is beautiful, complex, and fragile, and most of all, a world worth saving. Her poetry will dazzle you with language as beautiful and magical as the world she describes.-Doug Stone, Author of Sitting in Powell's Watching Burnside Dissolve in Rain

"A talented storyteller, and a master at creating memorable characters," -BookLife Review, Editor's PickIn 1951 Tidewater, VA ten-year-old Gracie sits, tears streaming, clutching her dog. Her daddy is sending her and Brown Hound to Grandma Emily for the summer. They are too rowdy for her high-strung mother.On the North Carolina farm Gracie meets her family. Great Granny Jane smokes a pipe and is fast with her cane, Grandma Emily is loving but firm, and cousin Jane has a swashbuckler's heart. It is a wild and heady freedom, away from her mother's scorn and her father's indifference. The girls explore ancient cemeteries, brave the conjure woman, fight, make up, and sleep tangled like puppies. But Marcell looms.With unreadable eyes, dark skin that holds a tragic history and a deep hatred of dogs, the solitary housekeeper's power lies in concealing family secrets. Can she send Brown Hound away? With reckless courage born of fear and hope, the girls resolve to save Brown Hound, smash through shuttered layers of yesteryears secrets and reveal the families' truth."Beautifully written with raw insight and a quick wit. A story of three generations of women that find strength in one another, despite the grip of an intolerable past." - Carine McCandless, Author of The Wild Truth, the New York Times bestselling follow-up to Into the Wild

Karen Jones' new chapbook, Seasons of Earth and Sky, is a beautiful lyric to nature in all its splendor, from its vast vistas ("John Day River Canyon") to the first dogwood flower in spring ("Narrow Trail in April"). -Doug Stone, author of The Season of Distress and Clarity and The Moon's Soul Shimmering on the Water

Following their dreams, Bob and Karen Jones set out from Corpus Christi, Texas, in their 15 year-old, 30-foot sailboat, Watercolors, to explore the Gulf and Atlantic Coasts taking them to Chesapeake Bay. Their adventure mostly follows America's Intracoastal Waterway that winds through remote bays and inlets formed by numerous barrier islands. In these estuaries, they encounter an abundance of osprey, pelicans, herons, ducks, geese, cormorants, and dolphins, as well as the rarer bald eagles and whooping cranes. The Waterway also leads to villages and towns that make their livelihood from the water as is very much evident in the delicious oysters, blue crab, and shrimp served up at local cafes. Other stops are at major seaports including Galveston, New Orleans, Pensacola, Jacksonville, Savannah, and Charleston which serve a delightful dose of history extending back to early colonial times.The Chesapeake is an ideal cruising ground with villages such as Deltaville, Onancock, Crisfield, St. Michaels, and Oxford wedded to the water by crabbing, oystering, and boatbuilding. Bob and Karen enjoy exploring rivers with such enticing names as Wicomico, Choptank, Piankatank, Rappahannock, Patapsco, and Potomac, as well as the major cities of Baltimore and Washington, and the sailing center of Annapolis. In the late fall they return to Florida where they abandon their plans to return to Texas in the spring in favor of returning to the Chesapeake for further sailing adventures and a chance to traverse the Dismal Swamp.They encounter the usual cruising challenges of navigation, dragging anchors, provisioning, mechanical and electric breakdowns, water leaks, and approaching hurricanes.Karen's Living Aboard sections describe life aboard a boat for many months from a women's perspective.Bob's Nature Notebook sections explore conservation efforts preserving wetlands and migrating birds as well as looking at future challenges of overfishing, protecting sea turtles, and rising sea levels.303 pages, 109 B&W photographs, 3 maps

This book develops the reader's knowledge of how and when gender stereotypes form and how they can be perpetuated in various ways through and during a child's education.

Everyone has the same starting place and ending place. What happens in the middle is your choice!You have a path to follow just as I do. The only difference is you choose which path to follow. Just like the plane flying overhead, you see its path across the sky. You too have a path. You can either follow what you see left by someone else or pave your own way. The path the plane travels across the blue sky is clear and distinct. With time, the path fades. Similarly, you can follow a clear path or wait, and push through the blurred path, or figure it out on your own.This book is about the journey to connect with the most important person in your life. We have many distractions on our journey. When you focus on what provides clarity for you, you will find the path you were meant to follow.

The Upside-Down Jesus and other stories is a collection of published and prize-winning short stories, flash fiction and micro-fiction giving voice to a variety of different characters. A child struggles to overcome her fear of the upside-down Jesus, a man dons his 'egg-stealing coat' once a week, a teenager becomes obsessed with the colour purple, an old man keeps his wife closer than others would like, a psychiatrist considers the folly of his patients, and a little girl watches her neighbour slowly disappear.