Bøker av John Owens

Paydirt: Jake Lydon Mystery Series (Book 6)>Toss in a suspicious hit and run, a late-night kidnapping, a vicious home invasion, a bullet through Jake's window, oh, and a dead pickleballer, and he's picking at a big ball of knots like a long string of old Christmas lights. Then the bodies pile up. And Jake and Alexandra find themselves on the verge of joining them. Throughout this sixth Jake Lydon misadventure, he is his usual blunt, clumsy, cranky, and irreverently foul-mouthed self-all the qualities that have made him beloved by a very, very few. And he just doesn't care.

Tactical drumming is a focused approach to learning drums that zeros in on the essential grooves you need to know. Most importantly, it eliminates drum set rhythms that are rarely used and prioritizes beats that are played all the time. This approach is similar to military basic training, where soldiers concentrate on the skills they need to be proficient, strong, and successful in a variety of combat situations. Likewise, this approach centers on rhythms that will make you a solid, skillful, and well-trained drummer. By learning the grooves in this book, you will be prepared to play in just about every style.Are you tired of drum methods that show you repetitious patterns and grooves that you do not use? Do you want a drum set guide that will give you exactly what you need to survive and thrive as a drummer? In Tactical Drumming: Groove Survival Guide you will find: Only the grooves that you need to know to play for just about every situation.How to play Top Popular Grooves, Classic Pop Grooves, Swing & Shuffle Grooves, and Latin Rhythms.Distinct variations for each groove, which will make you sound like a pro.Complete breakdown core grooves to strategically learn each rhythm.Video links to learn the rhythms, key background info, vital listening examples, and pro tips to make you sound awesome!

Copycat: Jake Lydon Mystery Series (Book 5)An elderly English literature professor is viciously stabbed to death on the expansive pastoral campus of Jake Lydon's alma mater.Weeks later, in a big city hipster neighbourhood a hundred miles away, a junior book editor meets the same grisly fate.Are the copycat murders connected? Jake thinks so. But then again, Jake thinks a lot of things that very few other people do.Mule-stubborn, he sets out to connect the dots. Among those "dots" are a fading superstar on the self-help scene, his high-powered literary agent, a money-hungry publisher, a vindictive philosophy professor, a low-level drug dealer, and an intimidating student with a deadly secret.Along the way, Jake manages to incite not one but three attempts on his life, all the while infuriating police in two jurisdictions, his best friend, his daughter, and his lover. All in a day's work for the foul-mouthed, bull-headed, stumbling senior really amateur sleuth.One might think that Jake might absorb some helpful positive life lessons from his misadventures.But, of course, one would be wrong.

A picture-book journey through the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in winter, snowshoeing the frozen lakes and silent forest with family, encountering the wonders of northern wildlife in the cold season  In winter the Boundary Waters, way up north in Minnesota, is not the same place you canoed last summer—but still it beckons and welcomes you. Grab a pack, strap on snowshoes, make a path (Oh! they take some getting used to!), and venture out across the frozen lakes and through the snowy woods. The vast wintery world here is so still and quiet, you might think you’re all alone—but no! Who made these tracks? A deer? A hare? A fox? And far off there’s a musher, making tracks with his sled dogs.It’s a magical place. The bright sun brilliant on the snow, the sparkling silence—wait, is that a wolf calling? Try to answer! And when the dark descends, the stars and pine trees holding up the night, your nose gets cold and it’s back to camp, to your warm winter tent, where Father feeds the stove with wood you gathered, Mother snuggles into her big sleeping bag, and you curl up in the fire’s glow and know that in your dreams and memories you will return again and again to this one winter up north. A wintery adventure that unfolds in pictures, John Owens’s delightful book gives readers a chance to discover—or rediscover—another season full of wonder in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

This book examines Richard Rorty's position that religious and metaphysical beliefs should simply be abandoned, and it proposes that Rorty's position is contradicted by what is a fundamental part of every human life: the phenomenon of human recognition of other people.

Come along to a place of wordless wonder: the wilderness of the Boundary Waters on the Minnesota-Canada border. Join a family of three as their journey unfolds, picture by picture, marking the changing light as the day passes, the stillness before the gathering storm, the shining waters everywhere, rushing here, quietly pooling there, beckoning us ever onward into nature’s infinite wildness one summer up north.