Have you ever reminisced about the part of life where you were ending your journey as a senior in high school and becoming a freshman in college? In the 70s and 80s era, the book, Chasing a Dream, life begins anew for seven teenagers who have been friends throughout high school with two of them being friends since birth. Add another teenager whose dream does not include college, but he has definitely established his dream as a professional race car driver, you enter a world of self-discovery with relationships that range from survival, validation, scripted, acceptance, and individuation-assertion all wrapped up within the characters of Chase, Stacey, and Eric (the main characters). As with most graduating seniors who are promising to always stay in touch, so goes the story of these eight with their correspondences sort of being a hit and miss from time to time. Some friends are rarely heard of again while others remain close with communication and build a solid tight relationship that shares moments of joy, endurance, tragedy, and romance. Not all their dreams come true and new dreams emerge. However, some dreams are worth chasing no matter the cost as Chase, Stacey, and Eric set their course for their new life’s adventure.
It’s springtime, and everyone’s at the ballpark! Join a team of exuberant seven-year-olds on and off the field as they get their uniforms; practice throwing, catching, and batting; learn to work as a team; and even play in a game. These good sports demonstrate that anyone who plays is a winner and they will have readers of all ages cheering!
This is one of the most personal cookbooks you'll find because it's written by the hands-on owners of a popular tea room called Cinnamon Sticks. Paul and Peggy Harrison were there every day making the soup, chopping the fresh fruits and veggies that went on every plate, baking the pies, greeting the patrons, and sometimes waiting and bussing the tables. Many of the recipes in this book are from Paul and Peggy's families and friends, from the wonderful ladies who worked for them, and from a few loyal customers. The book includes recipes for everything from appetizers to fancy teas, clear directions for making the recipes, notes on variations you might try, and encouragement about some of the more difficult- sounding dishes. Each recipe has been tried, tested, and enjoyed!
Born in a drafty house, Jessie, the first born of Mary and her abusive husband, Bill, was born for better things. Throughout her childhood, she tells stories that enable her to escape into her own made-up world. She cares for her siblings and manages to establish lifelong friendships. As a teenager, her parents divorce, and Jessie begins to experience days without the need to weigh every action or word. She no longer fears the night or the soft footsteps that once came to her bedside. Because of her capacity for forgiveness and compassion, Jessie refuses to be a victim. Later, she is reunited with a high school friend who becomes the man who makes her frightening memories dissolve into distant shadows that hover at the outer fringes of her mind but are rarely allowed in. As a wife and mother, Jessie again turns to storytelling not as a way to escape her fathers' cruelty but to entertain and teach her children. She introduces them to characters that leave them wanting more, but appreciating what they have. Jessie weaves make-believe with reality to create a tapestry of lasting memories that make bedtime a time to be savored.
Someone's been playing with the gazpacho in this satirical drawingroom mystery. Marla Stone's nine-acre island estate has sadly fallen into disrepair. Her twentyfour room French Normandy mansion, guesthouse, stables, cabanas and outbuildings are showing their age. Marla earns a paltry sum teaching cooking and birdsong identification classes in her home, and she's having trouble maintaining the elegant way of life to which she had always been accustomed. Even Acumulada, her loyal maid of thirty years, has agreed to work without wages. Marla's financial salvation arrives in the form of Jack Trumpet, CEO of Conglomotron. He appears on her doorstep one day, asking her to co-host a lifestyle television show with his wife, Barbie Lee. Barbie Lee's dearth of talent is only part of the problem. Marla's dinner guests are stranded overnight on the island. They each question who among them could be capable of murder. Who isn't? With the bridge out, roads closed, phone lines down, and electricity out, the frightened guests must survive another night in the house and another night with the killer.
Peggy Barnes has written a remarkable, wise, and generous memoir about her search for her birth mother, Pauline, a young woman from the back hills of Alabama. It takes a gutsy and determined person to embark upon such a quest, armed with nothing but a name. It takes a truly gifted writer to tell the story with such warmth and wit. Her story is their story: a deeply moving portrait of two women, separated by circumstances but united through the power of words. In I Knew You By Name, Peggy has written a gorgeous love letter to the courageous woman she never had a chance to know. I only wish Pauline could have read it, too. Stephanie Harrison, Author of Adaptation: From Short Story to Big Screen. For sixty-five years all Peggy Barnes knew of her beginnings was what she could recall: herself at age two, a child with big feet and a vocabulary that included little baby talk. The only mother she ever knew claimed she never, ever cried. Then, Alabama unsealed the records of adoptive children’s births. Peggy learned she is the daughter of Pauline Miller, unwed daughter of a sharecropping family and the man for whom her mother ironed shirts. The letters Pauline wrote back to the home from which she’d fled in shameful exile reveal her heartbreaking life. In lush Southern language laced with surprising wit, Peggy extrapolates from these letters—saved by an unknown cousin in the proverbial dust-covered trunk—to venerate the woman who gave her birth, uncovering striking similarities to the life she herself has lived. Nancy Pinard, Author of Shadow Dancing and Butterfly Soup.
This is a story of our time, compelling and topical as today's headlines—an action adventure about a group of men and women from divergent and disparate backgrounds who pit their climbing skills, stamina and ambitions against a towering mountain range in the Middle East. As the expedition's men and women encounter the stress of harrowing high-altitude climbing, they are also challenged by their own inner demons affecting marriage, personal relationships and even basic self-esteem. Battling these wrenching forces and faced with the drama of heartbreaking heroism, two leading characters, Nic and Laura, are catapulted along a path of discovery at once painful and inspirational, yet tempered by modern humor. Heightened by the mosaic of contemporary tensions and international intrigue, amid clashes of personal conflicts, a breathtaking story unfolds until the powerful legend of the mountain rises again in a climax at once terrifying and awesome.
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