![]() None of them will come out of this experience the way they went in. Cally just wants to break out of her dead-end life, and Digger just wants to get back together with Cally-though not like this. Ruth just wants to have a baby, and Hal just wants her to be happy. Who discovered she was gone? Who first saw the room? Who took the stuff out of here? I want their names.”-while her new husband, Hal, the divorced father of two teenage boys, struggles with his own ambivalence. I want to talk to your security team, the janitors, the nurses. What follows is an epic chase through frozen northern Minnesota as the intended mother, Ruth, a no-nonsense, 40-something journalist, goes into full investigative mode-“We need to see the evidence. ![]() ![]() Ten feet up, her body still aching, she crawls onto the hospital ledge, drops the bag to her ex-boyfriend Digger, and leaps into a snow drift. In Toni Halleen’s THE SURROGATE, it’s the middle of the night during a driving snowstorm, and 20-year-old Cally has had second thoughts about the surrogate baby she’s due to hand over the next day. In my head I called her Nell, even though the contract said the intended parents would have sole naming rights…” “Hold on, just hold on,” I said to the duffel bag, willing it not to jiggle, not to whimper. ![]() As I zipped the duffel shut over her face, she was quiet as a corpse…. To cushion her, I stuffed my extra clothes in the duffel, plus the white hand towels I stole from the bathroom. “I wrapped the baby in pink flannel blankets, tightly like they taught me. ![]()
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![]() ![]() His battle with an unfathomable foe is the stuff of epics and legends. Register for free to build your own book lists. The book reflects many of the experiences Texans, especially rural Texans, had. ![]() He is courageous and self-sufficient but as real as his harsh and unforgiving West Texas home country. What Should I Read Next Book recommendations for people who like The Time It Never Rained by Elmer Kelton. Elmer Kelton, embodies Texas drought of record that lasted from 1950 to 1957. Charlie Flagg, among the strongest of Elmer Kelton's memorable creations, is no pasteboard hero. Refusing the questionable assistance of federal aid programs and their bureaucratic regulations, Charlie and his family struggle to make the ranch survive until the time it rains again- if it ever rains again. To cranky Charlie Flagg, an honest, decent rancher, the drought of the early 1950s is a battle that he must fight on his own grounds. And Rio Seco, meaning dry river in Spanish, symbolizes the biggest enemy of the ranchers and farmers in 1950s Texas, an enemy they can't control: drought. The Time It Never Rained was inspired by actual events, when the longest and most severe drought in living memory pressed ranchers and farmers to the outer limits of courage and endurance.-Elmer Kelton Rio Seco was too small to afford a professional manager for its one-room Chamber of Commerce. DVDs and Cds have been resurfaced and are guaranteed to play. All Books are in good readable condition. ![]() ![]() HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Lauded by horror legends like Stephen King and named “the greatest haunted-house story ever written” by the Wall Street Journal, it has been adapted into films several times and served as a foundation for many modern ghost stories. The Haunting of Hill House is one of the most famous ghost stories in literary history, and was a finalist for the National Book Award of 1959. ![]() As time passes, the group experiences increasingly terrifying and unexplainable disturbances, and one guest-Eleanor Vance-seems to be a particular target of the strange occurrences. ![]() Luke Sanderson, inheritor of the mysterious Hill House, invites a supernatural investigator and several guests interested in the paranormal to his eighty-year-old mansion in the hopes that they can experience and record supernatural events. ![]() ![]() ![]() Banshees wail before deaths in the common folklore. Now, I can’t blame Vincent for Kaylee, as a banshee, being a screaming woman. I can get behind that being a bad subtext. Many reviewers dislike Vincent’s banshees because they are hysterical women who can only be calmed by a man. I just didn’t expect all of the comments about the gender politics to be completely opposite of my own observations. I expected comments about the gender politics. ![]() I expected remarks about the social satire and thinly veiled barbs aimed at Disney, which are particularly well-timed given the public meltdown of Lindsay Lohan. I expected more comments about the dark ending. For My Soul to Save, it was the latter situation. Sometimes it sharpens my focus, other times it confuses me. ![]() What has been less documented is the fact that sometimes I read other people’s reviews before I write my own. My changing feelings about Rachel Vincent’s novels have been well documented on the internet. Young adult urban fantasy released by Harlequin Teen 29 Dec 09 Liviania’s review of My Soul to Save (Soul Screamers, Book 2) by Rachel Vincent ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Conaway, Olga Idriss Davis, Vanessa Holford Diana, Evelyn Simien, Janice W. Carby, Patricia Hill Collins, Karen Baker-Fletcher, Kristin Waters, R. The distinguished contributors are Hazel V. Stewart, abolitionist Sojourner Truth, novelist and poet Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, educator Anna Julia Cooper, newspaper editor Mary Ann Shadd Cary, and activist Ida B. ![]() Written by leading scholars, Black Women’s Intellectual Traditions is particularly powerful in its exploration of the pioneering thought and action of the nineteenth-century black woman lecturer and essayist Maria W. The book meticulously reclaims this American legacy, providing a collection of critical analyses of the primary sources and their vital traditions. Conaway’s landmark edited collection, Black Women’s Intellectual Traditions: Speaking Their Minds, sophisticated commentary on this rich body of work chronicles a powerful and interwoven legacy of activism based in social and political theories that helped shape the history of North America. An astonishing wealth of literary and intellectual work by nineteenth-century black women is being rediscovered and restored to print in scholarly and popular editions. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A young man, Luis Horseman, thinking he had killed a man in a fight, drops out of sight. Leaphorn is a Navajo Tribal Police lieutenant. ![]() Leaphorn has a murdered young man as his case, which intertwines with McKee's encounters with a true Navajo witch.Īnthropologist and professor Bergen McKee comes to the Navajo Reservation to research tales of witches and visit his college friend, Joe Leaphorn. He learns of one on his first day of interviews, who unexpectedly visits his campsite in the night, beginning a saga of peril for him. McKee's interest is the Navajo witches and the role they play in the culture. Bergen McKee meets his college friend Joe Leaphorn, now a police officer, there. Two anthropology professors from New Mexico plan a summer research trip on the Navajo Reservation. First published in 1970, it introduces the character of officer Joe Leaphorn. The Blessing Way is the first crime fiction novel in the Joe Leaphorn / Jim Chee Navajo Tribal Police series by Tony Hillerman. Print (hardcover and paperback) & Audio book ![]() ![]() Sasha is an artist from Rhode Island who finds herself living in this massive limestone on Pineapple where nobody really wants her. She works at a not-for-profit, and she thinks that this means that she's really doing good in the world. Georgiana is spoiled but doesn't realize she's spoiled. And Georgiana is just this delightful brat. And then second, we have Georgiana, who is the baby of the Stockton family. ![]() Darley is the oldest sister, and Darley is a mother of two young children, and she's given up her career in finance to take care of her kids and is grappling with what that means for her. So the novel is the story of three women in the Stockton family. Tell us about the three main characters, because the novel follows the lives of what I'll refer to as the three Stocktons. And that was such a wonderful introduction. "Pineapple Street" is the debut novel from Jenny Jackson, vice president and executive editor at Alfred A. ![]() "Pineapple Street" - the novel, not the actual street in Brooklyn Heights - is a comedy of manners set among people who live in storied limestone homes, have prenups, set out tablescapes, summer between the Clintons and the Obamas, do good, sometimes conspicuously so, send their children to fancy schools, have their family names on libraries, try to keep up and keep current and be something to someone. ![]() ![]() But he can’t stay hidden for long – when a string of horrific terrorist attacks plagues the Western world, the CIA tracks him down and recruits him. True Beliver:įollowing his brutal quest for revenge, former Navy SEAL James Reece has fled the United States, emerging deep in the wilds of Mozambique. With breathless pacing and relentless suspense, Reece ruthlessly targets his enemies in the upper echelons of power without regard for the laws of combat or the rule of law. ![]() Now, with no family and free from the military’s command structure, Reece applies the lessons that he’s learned in over a decade of constant warfare toward avenging the deaths of his family and teammates. But when those dearest to him are murdered on the day of his homecoming, Reece discovers that this was not an act of war by a foreign enemy but a conspiracy that runs to the highest levels of government. ![]() ![]() On his last combat deployment, Lieutenant Commander James Reece’s entire team was killed in a catastrophic ambush. ![]() ![]() Don’t forget to check out my review for Nowhere by Here and Walk the Edge. This has no way influenced my thoughts and feelings about the book. I received a review copy of Long Way Home by Katie McGarry from Harlequin Teen via Inkslinger PR in exchange for an honest review. and forgiveness.Ĭaught in the crosshairs between loyalty and freedom, Violet must decide whether old friends can be trusted-and if she’s strong enough to be the one person to save them all. Which means re-evaluating everything: love, family, friends. To protect herself, and her vulnerable younger brother, she needs to cut all ties with the club-including Chevy, the boy she’s known and loved her whole life.īut when a rival club comes after Violet, exposing old secrets and making new threats, she’s forced to question what she thought she knew about her father, the Reign of Terror, and what she thinks she wants. Yet when her dad is killed carrying out Terror business, Violet knows it’s up to her to do the saving. It’s the code her father, a member of the Reign of Terror motorcycle club, raised her to live by. ![]() ![]() ![]() 200: 1, Sierra Hoffman LITC :26.04 2, Gracie Martzahl FR :26.81 3, Sophia Wunderlich FVL :26.95. Hoffman won the 100- and 200-meter dashes while Wilson took first in the 1,600 and 3,200.įox Valley Lutheran’s Emma Nilson was a double winner by sweeping the shot put and discus.ġ00: 1, Sierra Hoffman LITC :12.42 2, Mckaylee Stephenson CL :12.88 3, Annalise Patchett FVL :13.12. Sierra Hoffman and Ashley Wilson both had a pair of firsts for Little Chute. Little Chute finished with six first-place finishes as part of its conference-winning performance while second- and third-place finishing Freedom and Fox Valley Lutheran both had four first-place finishes. ![]() ![]() LITTLE CHUTE 160, FREEDOM 135.5, FOX VALLEY LUTHERAN 129.5, LUXEMBURG-CASCO 76.5, OCONTO FALLS 59, WRIGHTSTOWN 51.5, CLINTONVILLE 31, MARINETTE 22, DENMARK 18, WAUPACA 16 CHECK BACK FOR UPDATES TRACK AND FIELD North Eastern Conference Championships ![]() |