Jody gets a tip as to the whereabouts of her long-lost brother, Don. Ever since he took off eight years ago, when he was nineteen and she fourteen, she's missed him and worried about him incessantly. Finding him now and bringing him back to their home in Winona, Minnesota becomes her obsession. She persuades her boss, Elliot, to take a break from his failing motel business and go with her on the up-north trip. Due to some unexpected circumstances, a simple plan turns desperate and crazy. Returning home does not prove to be everyone's solace. Besides the brother and sister each having a nagging past that won't leave them alone, and an uncertain future to face, Jody struggles to reestablish their once close sibling relationship. Unusual obstacles work in strange ways toward keeping all of them, Jody, Don, and Elliot, searching for resolutions toward stable and meaningful lives.
The Way Forward A sequel to The Way Back Jody Mitchell, with her brother Don and friend Elliot Treggor, have moved to a heavily-wooded area in the northeastern corner of Minnesota. Together they have ventured into purchasing and running the Pinewood Motel. As each leaves a troubled past behind them and are looking forward to a new beginning, some new and unexpected challenges hit by way of a bartender named Nora and a seven-year old girl named Mad. Frenzy is soon back in their lives, proving that while The Way Forward is not always the smoothest road, its values run deep.
Carla Wade makes a mistake for which she is terribly sorry. But being sorry isn't enough to stop the unfortunate chain of events that follow The Mistake. Carla's life in the small town of Tag Lake, Minnesota is no longer sweet and simple. A bad decision suddenly turns it upside down. Along with the stress and complexity she has created, she also has her approaching fortieth birthday to contend with. For someone not liking much change, she's deep in it now.
Sunny Just because Sunny loves books doesn't mean she has to work in a library forever. A delightfully-charming single woman, made of spunk and compassion and love, still looks forward to reaching her lifelong dream despite a big setback in her past. When she quits her librarian job to go to work for a troubled man named Garrett, she finds that helping him fix his unsettled life may also be just the step she needs toward moving forward in her own. Except...can it really be this easy?
Sunny Just because Sunny loves books doesn't mean she has to work in a library forever. A delightfully-charming single woman, made of spunk and compassion and love, still looks forward to reaching her lifelong dream despite a big setback in her past. When she quits her librarian job to go to work for a troubled man named Garrett, she finds that helping him fix his unsettled life may also be just the step she needs toward moving forward in her own. Except...can it really be this easy?
Marilyn Monroe's image is so universal that we can't help but believe that we know all there is to know of her. Every word and gesture made headlines and garnered controversy. Her serious gifts as an actor were sometimes eclipsed by her notoriety -- and the way the camera fell helplessly in love with her. But what of the other Marilyn? Beyond the headlines -- and the too-familiar stories of heartbreak and desolation -- was a woman far more curious, searching and hopeful than the one the world got to know. Even as Hollywood studios tried to mold and suppress her, Marilyn never lost her insight, her passion, and her humour. To confront the mounting difficulties of her life, she wrote. Now, for the first time, we can meet this private Marilyn and get to know her in a way we never have before. Fragments is an unprecedented collection of written artifacts -- notes to herself, letters, even poems -- in Marilyn's own handwriting, never before published, along with rarely seen intimate photos. These bits of text--jotted in notebooks, typed on paper or written on hotel letterhead -- reveal a woman who loved deeply and strove to perfect her craft. They show a Marilyn Monroe unsparing in her analysis of her own life, but also playful, funny and impossibly charming. The easy grace and deceptive lightness that made her performances so memorable emerge on the page, as does the simmering tragedy that made her last appearances so heartbreaking. Fragments is an event -- an unforgettable book that will redefine one of the greatest stars of the twentieth century and which, nearly fifty years after her death, will definitively reveal Marilyn Monroe's humanity.
The Way Forward A sequel to The Way Back Jody Mitchell, with her brother Don and friend Elliot Treggor, have moved to a heavily-wooded area in the northeastern corner of Minnesota. Together they have ventured into purchasing and running the Pinewood Motel. As each leaves a troubled past behind them and are looking forward to a new beginning, some new and unexpected challenges hit by way of a bartender named Nora and a seven-year old girl named Mad. Frenzy is soon back in their lives, proving that while The Way Forward is not always the smoothest road, its values run deep.
Sunny Just because Sunny loves books doesn't mean she has to work in a library forever. A delightfully-charming single woman, made of spunk and compassion and love, still looks forward to reaching her lifelong dream despite a big setback in her past. When she quits her librarian job to go to work for a troubled man named Garrett, she finds that helping him fix his unsettled life may also be just the step she needs toward moving forward in her own. Except...can it really be this easy?
Jody gets a tip as to the whereabouts of her long-lost brother, Don. Ever since he took off eight years ago, when he was nineteen and she fourteen, she's missed him and worried about him incessantly. Finding him now and bringing him back to their home in Winona, Minnesota becomes her obsession. She persuades her boss, Elliot, to take a break from his failing motel business and go with her on the up-north trip. Due to some unexpected circumstances, a simple plan turns desperate and crazy. Returning home does not prove to be everyone's solace. Besides the brother and sister each having a nagging past that won't leave them alone, and an uncertain future to face, Jody struggles to reestablish their once close sibling relationship. Unusual obstacles work in strange ways toward keeping all of them, Jody, Don, and Elliot, searching for resolutions toward stable and meaningful lives.
Carla Wade makes a mistake for which she is terribly sorry. But being sorry isn't enough to stop the unfortunate chain of events that follow The Mistake. Carla's life in the small town of Tag Lake, Minnesota is no longer sweet and simple. A bad decision suddenly turns it upside down. Along with the stress and complexity she has created, she also has her approaching fortieth birthday to contend with. For someone not liking much change, she's deep in it now.
When Mark asks Tracy to marry him, she tells him about this brother she has. Evan has agoraphobia, a fear of open places, which she seriously feels could be a threat to their relationship. Mark, easy going and less of a worrier, doesn't foresee this. But when he meets Evan, he develops a strong desire to cure him. Despite her devotion to Evan's welfare, Tracy nevertheless observes Mark's endeavor as more hindrance than help. Which in turn makes Mark soon realize that she may be as much of a puzzle as is her brother. Arguments and small wars develop between the three of them amidst their learning about challenge, trust, and a better way of perceiving the truth.
Analysis of the great Revolution debate of late eighteenth century England, inspired by the French Revolution, reveals how the passions of oppositional writers were sufficiently aroused to create a "pamphlet war.
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