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Bish Denham

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Born

The United States

Website

http://bish-randomthoughts.blogspot.com/

Genre

Children's Books, Humor

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Bish Denham, whose mother’s side of the family has been in the Caribbean for over one hundred years, was raised in the U. S. Virgin Islands. She still has lots of family living there whom she visits regularly.

She says, “Growing up in the islands was like living inside a history book. Columbus named the islands, Sir Francis Drake sailed through the area, and Alexander Hamilton was raised on St. Croix. The ruins of hundreds of sugar plantations, built with the sweat and blood of slave labor, litter the islands. Then there were the pirates who plied the waters. It is within this atmosphere of wonder and mystery, that I grew up. Life for me was magical, and through my writing I hope to pass on some of that magic.”

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Average rating: 4.61 · 61 ratings · 37 reviews · 6 distinct works

	Anansi and Company: Retold Jamaican Tales 4.56 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Lizard's Tail it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bowl and the Stone: A Haunting Tale from the Virgin Islands 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dilly Dillo and the Texas Star: A Dilly Dillo Christmas Story 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Voyagers: The Third Ghost by Yvonne Ventresca (Goodreads Author), Sherry Ellis (Goodreads Author), Bish Denham (Goodreads Author) 4.57 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Summer Shorts by Madeline Smoot (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Bish Denham (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age

by Robert Leighton

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A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

by Eckhart Tolle

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This almost reads like a factual historical novel as it takes place in the Ottoman Empire right before the start of Italo-Turkish war of 1911. It is about Armenians struggling to be free of ruthless Turks. And, it is about 3 Englishmen an American ma ...more
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The subject matter of most of these stories are tough and hard to read, but the writing is so good, so beautiful, that even though the stories are dark, they deserve every star I give them. They take place in the South in the 1950s and 60s, so they d ...more
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Bish’s Quotes

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
― Jimi Hendrix

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“Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.”
― Mark Van Doren

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“I'm interested in having fun with ideas, throwing them up in the air like confetti and then running under them.”
― Ray Bradbury

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“Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out. Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.”
― A.E. Housman

tags: poetry-quotes

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“To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is as impossible as it is to live without being born.”
― A.P. Gouthe

tags: artistic-endeavor

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