Author: Donna Frantz Publisher: MBS Press ISBN: 1921883146 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 34
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The latest in the Silly Gilly Gil series. After his grandpa dies, Gil goes to a big church party called a funeral. But when he gets in trouble for using his outside voice inside the church, Gil feels embarrassed and squeezes his eyes closed. That's when something incredible happens. He gets to be with his grandpa and give him a humongous hug, just like always. Afterward, even though he's not sure if anyone believes it, Gil knows that what happened was real.
Author: Ronald L. Grimes Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429720718 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 379
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Significant life passages are marked by ritual in virtually every culture. Weddings and funerals are just two of the most institutionalized yet troubled ones in our own society. A wide variety of rites, both traditional and invented, also mark birth, coming of age, and other major transitions. In Marrying & Burying Ronald Grimes, a founder of the n
Author: Donna Frantz Publisher: MBS Press ISBN: 9781921883385 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 30
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The last time Gil played Truth or Dare with his friends, Gil was dared to eat something gross - a strawberry covered with mustard. In Silly Gilly Gil-Gay L-U-V, Jamal draws a truth card in which he has to share something about himself that his friends do not know. That's how Gil, Poncho, and Grace find out Jamal's parents are two moms, instead of a mom and a dad. While Gil is not old enough to understand grown up relationships, he can easily accept that loving families do not always look the same.
Author: Jane Mitchell Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 0595187633 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 346
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Following the murder of their childhood friend, Grace Ann, Ellott—a single, 40-something librarian—and her roommate, Rosie—a divorced mother of three—confront the effects of her death and the flux of their own lives. Set in North Alabama and Birmingham, this richly detailed mystery unfolds a story of obsession, past loyalties, love, murder, and saving grace. Old Time Music, hits from the '60s, and the spirit of Elvis provide a harmonious backdrop.
Author: Garrison Keillor Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1951627695 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 191
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Bestselling author and humorist Garrison Keillor returns to one of America's most beloved mythical towns, beset by a contagion of alarming candor. A mysterious virus has infiltrated the good people of Lake Wobegon, transmitted via unpasteurized cheese made by a Norwegian bachelor farmer, the effect of which is episodic loss of social inhibition. Mayor Alice, Father Wilmer, Pastor Liz, the Bunsens and Krebsbachs, formerly taciturn elders, burst into political rants, inappropriate confessions, and rhapsodic proclamations, while their teenagers watch in amazement. Meanwhile, a wealthy outsider is buying up farmland for a Keep America Truckin’ motorway and amusement park, estimated to draw 2.2 million visitors a year. Clint Bunsen and Elena the hometown epidemiologist to the rescue, with a Fourth of July Living Flag and sweet corn feast for a finale. In his newest Lake Wobegon novel, Garrison Keillor takes us back to the small prairie town where for so long American readers and listeners have found laughter as well as the wry airing of our foibles and most familiar desires and fears—a town where, as we know, "all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average."
Author: Cynthia D. Grant Publisher: Atheneum Books ISBN: 9780689307775 Category : Families Languages : en Pages : 160
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A 14-year-old dreams of a life much different from that of the counter culture in which he and his sister live with their divorced mother and her friends.
Author: David Mitchell Publisher: Random House ISBN: 158836528X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 306
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By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas | Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize Selected by Time as One of the Ten Best Books of the Year | A New York Times Notable Book | Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The Washington Post Book World, The Christian Science Monitor, Rocky Mountain News, and Kirkus Reviews | A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist | Winner of the ALA Alex Award | Finalist for the Costa Novel Award From award-winning writer David Mitchell comes a sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of adulthood and the old on the cusp of the new. Black Swan Green tracks a single year in what is, for thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in muddiest Worcestershire in a dying Cold War England, 1982. But the thirteen chapters, each a short story in its own right, create an exquisitely observed world that is anything but sleepy. A world of Kissingeresque realpolitik enacted in boys’ games on a frozen lake; of “nightcreeping” through the summer backyards of strangers; of the tabloid-fueled thrills of the Falklands War and its human toll; of the cruel, luscious Dawn Madden and her power-hungry boyfriend, Ross Wilcox; of a certain Madame Eva van Outryve de Crommelynck, an elderly bohemian emigré who is both more and less than she appears; of Jason’s search to replace his dead grandfather’s irreplaceable smashed watch before the crime is discovered; of first cigarettes, first kisses, first Duran Duran LPs, and first deaths; of Margaret Thatcher’s recession; of Gypsies camping in the woods and the hysteria they inspire; and, even closer to home, of a slow-motion divorce in four seasons. Pointed, funny, profound, left-field, elegiac, and painted with the stuff of life, Black Swan Green is David Mitchell’s subtlest and most effective achievement to date. Praise for Black Swan Green “[David Mitchell has created] one of the most endearing, smart, and funny young narrators ever to rise up from the pages of a novel. . . . The always fresh and brilliant writing will carry readers back to their own childhoods. . . . This enchanting novel makes us remember exactly what it was like.”—The Boston Globe “[David Mitchell is a] prodigiously daring and imaginative young writer. . . . As in the works of Thomas Pynchon and Herman Melville, one feels the roof of the narrative lifted off and oneself in thrall.”—Time
Author: layla Audeamus Publisher: Anita D Boseman ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 183
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Lace: Lucy Harding – The only surviving child of an energy tycoon, returns home to care for her father in his final illness. He had been a distant father, having been caught up in the running of Harding Energy. She vows to never have to live like her mother did, always waiting for a husband to care more for her and their children than he did about his company. Leather: Bobbie Bittle – The only son and heir of the owner of a multinational conglomerate, he casually meets Lace when her car breaks down and he gives her a ride on his motorcycle. They are both unaware of who the other is or who their fathers are. They fall in love, but when Lace learns who he really is, she ends their chance of a life together. His father intervenes but Leather makes the mistake of going out with a girl Lace had been roommates with in college, the one she caught having sex with her boyfriend in her own bed. It takes Lace's father to try and correct the problems between the two young people. Operation Leather and Lace will either bring them together or forever separate them. Billion-dollar fortunes are at stake on both sides. Love, marriage, and a future or two souls living lonely, loveless lives are what's on the line!
Author: Kathryn R. Wall Publisher: Minotaur Books ISBN: 1429925515 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 333
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Greed and deception drive the action in this tenth entry in the awardwinning series, set in South Carolina's sultry Lowcountry When bank employee Cecelia Dobbs approaches Bay Tanner's inquiry agency, Bay has no idea her association with the awkward young woman will lead to murder. Concerned that one of her colleagues may be running a scam on the elderly and very wealthy Castlemains of Hilton Head Island, Cecelia is seeking proof she can take to the authorities. The other object of her suspicion is the couple's caretaker, flamboyant Kendra Blaine, whose interest in teller Dalton Chambers may be more than just as partners-incrime. When Mrs. Castlemain dies suddenly of an apparent heart attack, less than twenty-four hours after she accepts the case, Bay is stunned. Still mourning the loss of her father, Bay is also trying to adjust to her recent marriage. Since joining Bay's staff, Red has been chafing under the constraints of working for his wife, and Bay finds herself wondering if something deeper is amiss with their relationship. Then Cecelia disappears, and the Castlemains' grandson, Washington lobbyist Nicholas Potter, tries to hire the agency to investigate Kendra. He, too, believes she could be dangerous— or so he claims. Torn between her unwilling attraction to the charismatic Nick and her growing fears about Cecelia, Bay discovers that divided loyalties can be painful—and sometimes fatal.
Author: Lanford Wilson Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc ISBN: 9780822214526 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 92
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THE STORY: The time is Independence Day, 1944, the place the parlor of the Talley homestead in Lebanon, Missouri. As World War II rages across the seas, the Talleys are beset with crises of a different sort. Slipping into senility, the elder Mr. Ta
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