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Lutherville, MD: HSB Press, 2007. Presumed First Edition/First printing. Hardcover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author.. 288 p. Index. This book contains Modern-Day Canterbury Tales to Entertain, Enlighten & Empower. "You can't make this stuff up." You hear this refrain many times throughout The Innkeeper Tales. Modeled loosely on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, this collection of stories is told by business travelers whiling away a long day, stranded at The Abacrombie by an early spring blizzard. With Herman (the real-life Abacrombie owner) keeping the food and conversations going, each traveler tells a story drawn from his own life. All the stories are true, coming from conversations heard in the inn's breakfast room. Several men talk about how their career paths diverged quickly and completely from their original intent (and training). At the heart of the Tales is the rebuilding of lives, the refurbishing of the teller's sense of self. Like the…
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