![]() ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Her evocative descriptions, observational humor, and talent at rendering romantic scenes will earn her many fans. Could Lainie actually make a life in this little hick town? Or will the past catch up to her even here in the middle of nowhere?Ĭathleen Armstrong pens a debut novel filled with complex, lovable characters making their way through life and relationships the best they can. A single mom running her diner and worrying over her teenage son. An old church lady who always has room for a stranger. Yet in spite of herself, Lainie finds that she is increasingly drawn in to the dramas of small town life. These people are entirely too nice, too accommodating, and too interested in her personal life for Lainie's comfort-especially since she's on the run and hoping to slip away unnoticed. But as she encounters the people who make Last Chance their home, it's her heart that is flashing bright red warning lights. The red warning light on her car dashboard drove Lainie Davis to seek help in the tiny town of Last Chance, New Mexico. ![]()
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Kaira rouda the favorite daughter5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() For ten years, she was the "Connections" columnist for This Week, a publication of The Columbus Dispatch. Early writing career Īs a freelance writer, Rouda has contributed articles to Columbus Monthly and Midwest Living. The Real Living real estate franchise was eventually sold to Berkshire Hathaway. ![]() Built as the first female-focused residential real estate brand, Rouda grew the brand to more than 22 states before its sale to Brookfield Residential Property Services, a Toronto-based firm. In 2002, she created the Columbus, Ohio-based franchise company, Real Living Real Estate. She later worked as an account executive for Fahlgren & Swink, a regional advertising agency, before assuming the role of vice president of marketing at Stanley Steemer in 1995. In the early-1990s, Rouda began her career as a reporter for Business First newspaper, a member of the American City Business Journals chain. Rouda earned a Bachelor of Arts in English, magna cum laude, from Vanderbilt University in 1985. Kaira Sturdivant was born on May 17, 1963, in Evanston, Illinois, to Patricia Ann Robinson Sturdivant, a community volunteer from Santa Cruz, California, and Frederick David Sturdivant, a retired professor and management consultant from San Jose, California. Her novel, The Favorite Daughter, was released in May 2019. She is best known for her psychological suspense novels, including Best Day Ever and All the Difference. ![]() Kaira Sturdivant Rouda (born May 17, 1963) is an American author and businesswoman. ![]() A true home heartwood hotel5/22/2023 ![]() This particular one introduced you to the hotel and the purpose it was was established. This is the first book of two that I read about characters at Heartwood Hotel. A sequel, The Greatest Gift, publishes simultaneously.Ī plucky mouse finds her true home in this warm, winning tale. Delicate pencil illustrations reinforce Heartwood’s cozy home theme. ![]() Charming anthropomorphic characters, humorous mishaps, and outside threats add to the drama. ![]() As Mona secretly leaves Heartwood, she discovers marauding wolves planning to crash Heartwood’s Snow Festival and devises a daring plan to save the place she regards as home. But when Mona accidentally breaks a rule, Tilly convinces her she will be fired. Mona’s clever approaches with a wounded songbird, an anxious skunk, and a wayward bear win Mr. Grateful to be at Heartwood, Mona strives to prove herself despite Tilly’s unfriendly attitude. ![]() Heartwood, takes pity on homeless Mona, allowing her to stay for the fall to assist the maid, Tilly, a red squirrel. When Mona presses the heart, a door opens, and she enters the lobby of Heartwood Hotel, where small forest critters hibernate, eat, and celebrate in safety. After a storm forces her to flee her latest forest shelter, she discovers an enormous tree with a heart carved into its trunk. ![]() Selected reviews for The Heartwood Hotel seriesĪn orphan mouse unexpectedly arrives at Heartwood Hotel, which she hopes will become the home she’s seeking. ![]() Get a life chloe brown by talia hibbert5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Redford 'Red' Morgan is a handyman with tattoos, a motorcycle, and more sex appeal than ten-thousand Hollywood heartthrobs. What Chloe needs is a teacher, and she knows just the man for the job. ![]() Travel the world with nothing but hand luggage.īut it's not easy being bad, even when you've written step-by-step guidelines on how to do it correctly. Have meaningless but thoroughly enjoyable sex. After almost-but not quite-dying, she's come up with seven directives to help her "Get a Life", and she's already completed the first: finally moving out of her glamorous family's mansion. Perfect for fans of Sally Thorne, Jasmine Guillory, and Helen HoangĬhloe Brown is a chronically ill computer geek with a goal, a plan, and a list. ![]() a flawless balance of humor, heat, sweetness, and depth, and I loved every page." - Helen Hoang,Ī witty, hilarious romantic comedy about a woman who's tired of being "boring" and recruits her mysterious, sexy neighbor to help her experience new things ![]() Novel lincoln in the bardo5/22/2023 ![]() Melvin McLeod: How did the idea for this story come to you? I spoke to George Saunders about this unusual and thought-provoking meditation on love, loss, and the very nature of life and death. The book is a tragic father-and-son story-Abraham lost in grief, Willie lost in a ghostly and confusing realm-told simultaneously from two points of view: the living and the recently dead. The Lincoln who is in the bardo-the realm between death and rebirth-is Abraham and Mary’s son Willie, who has just died in the White House at the age of eleven. ![]() ![]() Lincoln in the Bardo, by renowned American short story writer (and Buddhist) George Saunders, is surely the first major novel to use the Tibetan word bardo in the title. ![]() Uzma jalaluddin books5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() She finds herself looking into the rumors and finds more than she expects and now has to face the truth about Khalid and herself. Ayesha finds herself torn between how she feels about the straightforward Khalid and the gossip she is hearing around about his family. Then one day there is a marriage announcement that shocks Ayesha to her core: Khalid and Hafsa are engaged. ![]() She is very attracted to him, but he looks down on her life choices while looking like he lives in the seventh century. Praise For Much Ado About Nada I’ll read anything Uzma Jalaluddin writes. ![]() Her life takes a turn when she meets Khalid – a smart, handsome, and judgmental man. A high school teacher, she has also written a regular. Ayesha is looking for love, but she doesn’t want an arranged marriage for her. Uzma Jalaluddin is the internationally bestselling author of Ayesha at Last and Hana Khan Carries On. Ayesha lives with her Muslim family, inlcuding her cousin Hafso who is close to rejecting her one hundredth marriage proposal. The book features a woman named Ayesha Shamsi who dreams of being a poet, but had to set those dreams aside to get a teaching job so that she can pay her wealthy uncle back what he owes him. If You Like Uzma Jalaluddin Books, You’ll Love…Īyesha at Last is Uzma Jalaluddin’s smash debut novel. ![]() The half made world by felix gilman5/22/2023 ![]() Felix Gilman writes like a modern-day Dickens drunk on rich invention and insane war.” - Stephen R. “The Half-Made World is refreshingly unlike any other novel I've read. Le Guin, National Book Award-winning author of The Farthest Shore and The Left Hand of Darkness “Vivid and accurate prose, a gripping, imaginative story, a terrifically inventive setting, a hard-bitten, indestructible hero, and an intelligent, fully adult heroine-we haven't had a science-fiction novel like this for a long time.” -Ursula K. And the servants of the Line are on the march. John Creedmoor, reluctant Agent of the Gun and would-be gentleman of leisure, travels west, too, looking to steal the secret or die trying. Now Liv Alverhuysen, a doctor of the new science of psychology, travels west, hoping to heal the general's shattered mind. But locked in his memories is a secret that could change the West forever, and the world's warring powers would do anything to take it from him. ![]() ![]() The Republic is now history, and the last of its generals sits forgotten and nameless in a madhouse on the edge of creation. ![]() The world that now exists has been carved out amid a war between two rival factions: the Line, enslaving the world with industry, and the Gun, a cult of terror and violence. Thirty years ago, the Red Republic fought to remake the West-fought gloriously, and failed. Between the wild shores of uncreation, and the ancient lands of the East lies the vast expanse of the West-young, chaotic, magnificent, war-torn. ![]() Roots book alex haley5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The television miniseries garnered many awards, including nine Emmys and a Peabody. ![]() ![]() Haley earned a Pulitzer Prize special award in 1977 for Roots. Together, the success of the novel and its 1977 television adaptation, sparked an explosion of interest in the fields of genealogy and researching family histories. Ultimately, it was on the list for a total 46 weeks. In total, Roots spent 22 weeks at the #1 spot on The Times' list, including each of the first 18 weeks of 1977. The television adaptation of the book aired in January 1977 and within seven months of its release, Roots had sold over 1.5 million copies. By mid-November, it had risen to the #1 spot on the list. Published in October 1976 amid significant advance expectations, Roots was immediately successful, garnering a slew of positive reviews and debuting at #5 of The New York Times Best Seller list. and you know that especially I do in deep appreciation of your great help with Roots- Sincerely, and with brotherly love! Alex Haley October 22, 1976.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Lengthily inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, “For Jinx, and Molly, and Ellis, and Abel- Kunta Kinte’s family wishes the very warm best to all of you. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1976.įirst edition of “the most highly acclaimed book of our time” (Washington Post). Octavo, original half cloth. ![]() Scott westerfeld pretties series5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() Other than the pretty operation, what are the main differences between the pretty society and our own? (Are there any ways in which the pretty society is healthier than ours?)ĩ. If Shay could have gone back in time and never have met Tally, do you think she would?Ĩ. ![]() How did David see Tally differently than she saw herself?ħ. Would you give up your ability to think independently in exchange for being happy, beautiful, perpetually healthy, and rich?Ħ. In what ways did Tally’s trip through the wild prepare her for what she learned in the Smoke?ĥ. Have you ever found yourself trusting someone more or paying more attention to what they said not because they deserved it, but just because of their looks?Ĥ. At first, did you hope Tally would get the operation? When did you change your mind? (Or did you?)ģ. Have you ever had a friend like Peris, who abandoned your friendship after they moved away?Ģ. ![]() (But it would be polite if you gave me credit.)ġ. Feel free to copy, adapt, distribute, and otherwise use these questions in any way you desire. Here are ten questions that I wrote to generate discussions about my book Uglies. ![]() An enchantment of ravens series5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() But everything changes when she meets her first royal fair folk patron, the Autumn Prince, Rook. For that reason, the fair folk crave Craft objects with a near desperation - and Isobel is the best at what she does, so they come to her for their paintings. ![]() ![]() The story revolves around Isobel, a prodigy portrait artist whose clients are fair folk - immortal creatures who cannot perform any Craft of their own, such as baking, painting, weaving, or writing, without crumbling to dust. But a fantasy book that introduces a new world, with different rules, unlike anything I’ve ever heard of before? Count me in! That’s why I was so interested when I heard the premise of An Enchantment of Ravens, Margaret Rogerson’s debut novel. I’m a sucker for a good fantasy book any day of the week. ![]() |