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Irene and Nate embark on a new life in Oregon with their two children, Bliss and Shep. But shortly after…
their move the family is devastated when Shep is gunned down by an intruder in their home. Irene struggles through the aftermath, awaiting the murderer's execution - but as time passes, she draws closer to a desperate and surprising act. 2009.
Growing up in Warner Robins, Georgia, with her parents - and their loving but rocky relationship - isn't always easy…
for Lauretta. It doesn't help that the rest of her family is a who's who list of misfits and petty criminals. Learning from them and their experiences, Lauretta develops a keen wit and an observant eye, talents she then takes on the road to Savannah and even to Europe. There she encounters even more oddballs and colourful characters - many of whom are profiled here. 2009.
Hours before a tense championship dart match in a small Idaho town, five locals must reassess their lives and make…
fateful decisions. Morris reveals quiet truths about rural America life. 2009.
Much has transpired since Earth's denizens found themselves resurrected along the shores of a river 22 million miles long. With…
the truth of this strange river's creators, the Ethicals, still shrouded in mystery, Sir Richard Francis Burton, Samuel Clemens, King John, and Cyrano de Bergerac face a fantastical voyage of discovery. Sequel to “The Fabulous Riverboat”. Followed by “The Magic Labyrinth”. 2010.
Continues the Arthurian-themed western begun in "Code of the West". Jimmy Goodnight's son Percy, or Pyg as he is known,…
comes of age. Returning to their ranch land in Texas, Pyg and his mother discover their family heirloom ax is missing. Now Pyg's leading a posse aiming to get it back. 2008.
Thirteen-year-old African American Tangy Mae Quinn and her siblings suffer the cruel madness of their mother, Rozelle, amid poverty and…
racial inequalities of rural Georgia. Tangy fights for the strength to survive, finish school, and one day escape Rozelle’s abuse. 2008.
In 2140 England, where drugs enable people to live forever and children are illegal, teenaged Anna, an obedient "Surplus" training…
to become a house servant, discovers that her birth parents are trying to find her. Junior and Senior High. 2007.
New York University professor, Lawrence Schiffman, discusses the Dead Sea Scrolls, the most important collection of Jewish texts from the…
centuries before the rise of Christianity. Only through efforts to understand what the scrolls can teach us about the history of Judaism is it possible for us to learn what they have to teach us about the history of Christianity, because Christianity came into being only after these texts were composed and copied. 2007.
Alcoholic, divorced former minister Riley Keep has been living on the streets since a devastating missionary experience. Now Riley returns…
to his hometown of Dublin, Maine, where hordes of homeless people seek a rumoured cure for addiction. But it may not be the miracle they hope for. 2007.
Rapaille's breakthrough notion is that we acquire a silent system of Codes as we grow up within our culture. These…
Culture Codes invisibly shape how we behave in our personal lives. We can learn to crack these Codes and achieve a new understanding of why we do the things we do. 2007.
High school freshman Willa holds fundraising events at her family's Cape Cod inn to save the local library and to…
hook up romantically with JFK (Joseph Frances Kennelly). Grades 5-8. 2007.
Dan Savage recounts his family's campaign to convince him and his boyfriend, Terry, to get married, and explores how his…
family's attitudes towards gay marriage reflect those of contemporary American society. 2011.
After moving with her husband to Macau, Grace Miller finds herself a stranger in a foreign land, confronting the devastating…
news of her infertility and a fraying marriage. She resolves to do something bold, and opens a café, where among fellow expatriates and locals alike, Grace carves out a new definition of home and family. But when her marriage reaches a crisis, secrets Grace thought she had buried long ago rise to the surface, and she realizes it’s now or never to lay old ghosts to rest and to begin to trust herself. Includes sex and violence. c2011.
Absaroka County, Wyoming. Sheriff Walter Longmire investigates the shooting death of Cody Pritchard, who was convicted of raping a young…
Native American girl two years ago. As tensions rise in the community, Walt begins to fear his friend Henry Standing Bear may be involved. 2006.
This new, groundbreaking book is written for women of all ages (including teens), stages and backgrounds who put everything and…
everybody before themselves and end up feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, depleted, and deprived. Not your run-of-the-mill, self-help book, "The Confident Woman" shows readers how they can have saner, better balanced, healthier, happier and more meaningful personal and professional lives by making small changes in their attitudes and behaviours. 2006.
Young Manhattanite Sylvia Mortimer can't help noticing that her friends "put almost as much effort into losing husbands as they…
once did into finding them." Lauren, the most recent to discard hers, has just had a champagne-fuelled divorce party. Although Sylvia is the blissful newlywed of the pack, her husband has started spending weeks away in Paris without her, and has hired a sleek temptress as his assistant. While Lauren happily changes boyfriends as often as shoes, Sylvia nervously wonders if she will be the next debutante divorcée. 2006.
The story of two Appalachian sisters, fun-loving party girl Anneth and deeply religious Easter. From the mid 1950s through the…
1960s, Easter and Anneth’s personalities clash, until tragedies and sacrifice finally bring them together. 2005.
Chang explores 150 years in the history of Chinese Americans. She traces three waves of immigration - the first during…
the 1849-era California gold rush - and explains each group’s differing motivations, reception in America, and accomplishments. Also includes experiences of individuals and their personal struggles for success. 2005.