![]() ![]() Her parents approve of Josiah, who is a hardworking roofer. Salina has been dating Josiah for almost a year now, but he feels more like a friend than a boyfriend. ![]() She also feels the pressure of having to be the perfect daughter for her parents. They are a very close family, yet sometimes she tires of being compared to her older brother, Neil, who is married and has two children. Her father is the bishop of her church district, and her brother is a deacon. ![]() Salina Petersheim runs her own booth at the Amish market, where she's known for having the freshest and most delicious produce in the area. Experience some sweet, garden-fresh romance in The Farm Stand, the second installment of Amy Clipston's Amish Marketplace series. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Each stop along the way has something new, exciting, and occasionally scary interaction to offer. THE HALLOWEEN TREE is a delightful children’s book that can still capture the hearts of a Halloween-loving adult! Bradbury had created an exciting journey through the history and evolution of Halloween traditions. ![]() When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die. Here they will face the ultimate decision to save Pipkin. Eventually they will arrive in Mexico, just in time to celebrate Dia de los Muertos. They will see mummies in ancient Egypt, cavemen discovering fire, Druid rite, the persecution of witches, and the gargoyles of Notre Dame. They will come together and form the tail of kite to fly through the sky, as they search through time and space for Pipkin. Moundshroud takes the boys to the Halloween Tree, where they will start their journey through time. A twice-times-a-thousand glares and winks and blinks and meetings of fresh-cut eyes. There must have been a thousand pumpkins on this tree, hung high and on every branch. Instead, they are greeted by Carapace Clavicle Moundshroud, who takes them on a journey through the origins of Halloween while searching for their lost friend Pipkin. Pipkin tells them to go on ahead and he will meet them at the haunted house outside of town. They realize their friend Pipkin hasn’t met up with them and decide to head to his house. On Halloween night, eight costumed boys meet, ready to head out for a night of tricks and treats. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ZUCKED is McNamee's intimate reckoning with the catastrophic failure of the head of one of the world's most powerful companies to face up to the damage he is doing. Still a large shareholder in Facebook, he had every good reason to stay on the bright side. He had mentored many tech leaders in his illustrious career as an investor, but few things had made him prouder, or been better for his fund's bottom line, than his early service to Mark Zuckerberg. If you had told Roger McNamee even three years ago that he would soon be devoting himself to stopping Facebook from destroying our democracy, he would have howled with laughter. The New York Times bestseller about a noted tech venture capitalist, early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg, and Facebook investor, who wakes up to the serious damage Facebook is doing to our society - and sets out to try to stop it. ![]() ![]() ![]() And her uncle is not inclined to let her back out of the betrothal, even once Gregory comes to his senses and realizes that it is Lucy, with her sharp wit and sunny smile, who makes his heart sing. And now, on the way to the wedding, Gregory must risk everything to ensure that when it comes time to kiss the bride, he is the only man standing at the altar … And her uncle is not inclined to let her back out of the betrothal, even once Gregory comes to his senses and realizes that it is Lucy, with her sharp wit and sunny smile, who makes his heart sing. It’s in this way Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story stays pretty close to the truth on their journey down the aisle although we don’t know whether the real Charlotte tried to climb over. But her best friend, the ever-practical Lady Lucinda Abernathy, wants to save Hermione from a disastrous alliance, so she offers to help Gregory win her over. In fact, the ravishing Miss Hermione Watson is in love with another. And he is convinced that when he finds the woman of his dreams, he will know in an instant that she is the one. Unlike most men of his acquaintance, Gregory Bridgerton believes in true love. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn comes the story of Gregory Bridgerton, in the final installment of her beloved Regency-set novels featuring the charming, powerful Bridgerton family, now a series created by Shondaland for Netflix. ![]() ![]() "Hunger" is largely an autobiographical work, and slightly raises the curtain on those terrible and bitter times that Hamsun experienced himself in Christiania during his hungry youth. Chronic hunger and a provoked consequent overstimulation allows the narrator of the novel to look at the world differently. The reason is a state of a long effect caused by hunger. Hunger has exacerbated internal vision of the narrator, and he notices the smallest external facts of life, inadvertently shifting and increasing their scale. ![]() ![]() We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own.Įvents included in the novel, are important of the understanding of a psychological state of the narrator. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() ![]() Its popularity is unrivaled and it’s a cultural phenomenon that took not just the U.S., but the whole world by storm. I Love Lucy is a classic show whose humor and storytelling has survived decades of cultural, political, and technological change. But no matter how hard Lucy tried, she always seemed to run into pushback, mostly in the form her husband Ricky Ricardo (played by Desi Arnaz, also her husband in real life.) Launched in 1951, the show starred Lucille Ball as Lucy, a housewife on a mission to find fame. Today, October 15th, marks the 68th anniversary of famed sitcom, I Love Lucy. “How ‘I Love Lucy’ was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we’d profit from them.” - Lucille Ball ![]() ![]() ![]() So when the lights flicker and a knock sounds at the door, there can only be one explanation: he's back and a frightening new game is afoot.But before the three friends can unravel the smiling man's latest nightmarish scheme, they set sail on Lake Champlain, where it's said Vermont's very own Loch Ness monster lives. ![]() ![]() And as the trio knows, the smiling man always keeps his promises. That was the chilling promise the smiling man made to Ollie, Coco, and Brian after they last outsmarted him. New York Times bestselling author Katherine Arden returns with another creepy, spine-tingling adventure in this follow-up to the critically acclaimed Small Spaces and Dead Voices. ![]() ![]() One eccentric individual galvanizes thousands of others to build a massive complex of pylons linked by cable-cars. There's a lovely example of this mental experiment in Look to Windward. In Look to Windward Banks' even imagines the boredom of those living in a society without exploitation, conflict, poverty and oppression. ![]() Everything, from sexuality and language, is up for grabs.īy setting the bulk of his stories in a society that has left the inequality and oppression of capitalism far behind, and replaced it with the joyous utopia that results from a society (the Culture) were resources are managed in the interests of all, Banks' is free to explore what things might be like. Banks' loves playing around with his imagination. ![]() ![]() His science fiction, and Look to Windward is a beautiful example, is full of experiment. Re-reading some of Iain Banks' works I'm constantly reminded how much we have lost with his untimely death. ![]() ![]() ![]() With Hammer, Spillane secured his place in the pantheon, alongside such mystery greats as Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. Its success led to a dozen more Mike Hammer mysteries over the decades, including, in quick succession, “My Gun Is Quick” (1950), “Vengeance Is Mine” (1950), “One Lonely Night” (1951), “The Big Kill” (1951) and “Kiss Me, Deadly” (1952). Dutton, “I, the Jury” did not become a worldwide phenomenon until it was released as a 25-cent Signet paperback by 1952, some 4 million copies had reportedly been sold. What I want to read is the royalty checks.”įirst published in hardback by E.P. ![]() In another, he said: “I don’t give a hoot about reading reviews. “I pay no attention to those jerks who think they’re critics,” he proclaimed in one interview. glorification of force, cruelty and extra-legal methods.” The Saturday Review denounced its “lurid action, lurid characters, lurid plot, lurid finish.”įor his part, Spillane let the critical barbs roll off him like Jack Daniels over ice. Mystery expert Anthony Boucher called it a “vicious. I only had a moment before talking to a corpse, but I got it in. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ellen leaves Manhattan and her Kennedy-esque fiancé for Beacon, Maine. ![]() Ellen Branford is going to fulfill her grandmothers dying wish, to find the hometown boy she once loved, and give him her last letter. Agent: Deneen Howell, Williams & Connolly. A compelling and well written novel, set in beautiful Maine, this book will transport you from the sophisticated life of Manhattan to the simple pleasures of. In this novel a high-powered Manhattan attorney finds love, purpose, and the promise of a simpler life in her grandmothers hometown. The answers that come to light will drive Ellen to make a choice that will change the course of her life. A strong rip current catches her and she is saved from drowning by local boy Roy Cummings, who pulls her to safety and lands them both on the front page of the local paper, gaining Ellen much notoriety as “the Swimmer.” Fighting her budding feelings for Roy, Ellen digs deeper into her grandmother’s past, unearthing not only her grandmother’s jilted hometown crush but also a whole host of new questions. : The Irresistible Blueberry Bakeshop & Cafe (9780316225878) by Simses, Mary and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books. After leaving her fiancé in Manhattan, Ellen heads to Beacon and promptly falls through a rotted pier. As she lays dying, Ellen’s grandmother extracts a promise from Ellen: that she will deliver a long-overdue apology letter to the man her grandmother jilted back home in Beacon, Maine, nearly six decades earlier. In this bittersweet debut, Simses tells the story of Ellen Branford, who sets out to investigate her grandmother’s mysterious past and ends up finding herself. ![]() |