| Author | : Richard Chizmar |
| Publisher | : Cemetery Dance Publications |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2023-02-20 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781587678820 |
When the Tuckers' next door neighbor mentions someone rang their doorbell late the previous night, Sarah and Kenny Tucker check their home's security camera and discover something shocking: the doorbell ringer also visited their house... and it was a terrified young woman with a shackle hanging from her right wrist.
| Author | : Sharon Creech |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Total Pages | : 95 |
| Release | : 2013-09-03 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0062207776 |
“This quiet novel sings. A graceful profound story for all ages that speaks well beyond its intended audience.” —Kirkus (starred review) Fans of Newbery Medal winner Sharon Creech's Ruby Holler will love this tween novel about opening your heart and finding family when you least expect it. When a young couple finds a boy asleep on their porch, their lives take a surprising turn. Unable to speak, the boy, Jacob, can't explain his history. All John and Marta know is that they have been chosen to care for him. And as their connection and friendship with Jacob grow, they embrace his exuberant spirit and talents. The three of them blossom into an unlikely family and begin to see the world in brand-new ways.
| Author | : Taylor Bennett |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2018-04-16 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781943959457 |
What if friendship cost you everything? Dumped at her grandmother¿s house in Hawaii after a family tragedy, sixteen-year-old Olive Galloway is desperate to return to Boston before her dad loses all common sense and sells the family house. But plane tickets cost money. With the help of a quirky guy named Brander, and a mysterious girl named Jazz, Olive lands a summer job and launches a scheme to buy a plane ticket home by the end of the summer. They talk her into hanging out at their church youth group, but Olive can¿t help remembering how God didn¿t answer her prayers the last time it was really important. Why should He help now? It¿s up to her to make it home. When Jazz reveals a painful secret, Olive¿s plans are challenged. Jazz needs money¿lots of it. Olive and Brander are determined to help their friend but, when their fundraising efforts are thwarted, Olive is caught in the middle. Helping Jazz means giving up her ticket home. And time is running out.
| Author | : Susan Richards Shreve |
| Publisher | : Yearling |
| Total Pages | : 199 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0440419697 |
Twelve-year-old Ellie's boring summer becomes exciting when she develops a crush on her new next-door neighbor, an older boy with a troubled past, whom her parents have forbidden her to see.
| Author | : Beth L. Bailey |
| Publisher | : JHU Press |
| Total Pages | : 209 |
| Release | : 1989-08-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1421412470 |
From gentleman callers to big men on campus, from Coke dates to "parking," From Front Porch to Back Seat is the vivid history of dating in America. In chronicling a dramatic shift in patterns of courtship between the 1920s and the 1960s, Beth Bailey offers a provocative view of how we sought out mates-and of what accounted for our behavior. More than a quarter-century has passed since the dating system Bailey describes here lost its coherence and dominance. Yet the legacy of the system remains a strong part of our culture's attempt to define female and male roles alike.
| Author | : Jill McCorkle |
| Publisher | : Algonquin Books |
| Total Pages | : 283 |
| Release | : 2012-05-07 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1616202025 |
Jo Spencer is a girl who knows what to be and how to be it-straight-A student, cheerleader, May Queen, popular and cute and virginal, and in perfect control. But halfway through her first year in college in the early seventies, her carefully normal life explodes and she comes completely undone. In The Cheerleader, Jo Spencer looks back, as if she were watching reruns of old syndicated TV shows, to figure out what happened. Ordinary chance has dumped Sam Swett, age twenty-one, in the Marshboro, North Carolina, Quik Pik in the middle of a murder. Sam has shaved his head, given away all his belongings except his typewriter; he's drunker than he's ever been and running as fast as he can from his upper-middle-class upbringing. For the next twenty-four hours, Sam is propelled straight into the very core of this small Southern town as it sorts through the facts.
| Author | : A J Rivers |
| Publisher | : Independently Published |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 2020-01-10 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781658306850 |
Knock...Knock... When Emma finds a dead body on her porch with her name written on the dead man's hand she uncovers a sinister clue to the mystery that has haunted her since childhood. FBI agent Emma Griffin is sent undercover to the small sleepy town of Feathered Nest to uncover the truth behind the strings of disappearances that has left the town terrified. To Emma there is nothing that can lay buried forever. Even though her own childhood has been plagued by deaths and disappearances. Her mother's death, her father's disappearance, and her boyfriend's disappearance. The only cases that she hasn't solved. Her obsession with finding out the truth behind her past was what led her to join the FBI. Now, she must face what may be her biggest case. In Cabin 13 there lies an uneasy feeling. The feeling of her movements being watched. When a knock on her door revealed a body on her porch and her name written on a piece of paper in the dead man's hand. Suddenly her worlds collide. With the past still haunting her, Emma must fight past her own demons to stop the body count from rising. The woods have secrets. And this idyllic town has dark and murderous ones. Either she reveals them or risk them claiming her too. In Feathered Nest, nothing is what it seems. The Girl in Cabin 13 is about to find out that the dead may have secrets of their own.
| Author | : Delores Oakes Hughes |
| Publisher | : Post Hill Press |
| Total Pages | : 134 |
| Release | : 2020-10-07 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1642936227 |
Trouble seems to seek out Delores, but she never backs down from a challenge. From her humble beginnings as a sweet Georgia peach, to her rise to late-in-life reality television stardom, Delores always faces everything head-on with a headstrong will. Discover the shocking truth about her trials and tribulations along the way: How she dealt with spousal abuse by giving as good as she got. How she suffered the loss of a child from a forced abortion. How she nearly died in a car wreck that rendered one of her children catatonic. Life might give her lemons, but Delores makes the best lemonade this side of the Mason-Dixon line, then sells that lemonade back to life for a large profit!
| Author | : Lewis Nordan |
| Publisher | : Algonquin Books |
| Total Pages | : 310 |
| Release | : 1996-01-05 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1565128435 |
Introduction by Richard Howorth and foreword by the author. The incomparable Lewis Nordan's first two collections of short fiction--WELCOME TO THE ARROW-CATCHER FAIR and THE ALL-GIRL FOOTBALL TEAM--originally published in 1983 and 1986, have long been out of print in all editions. Collectors' items, these two books are now almost impossible for Nordan fans to find anywhere.To rectify that, Algonquin is delighted to announce a selection of fifteen of the best stories from the two books, newly arranged and introduced by fellow Mississippian, bookseller Richard Howorth, and with a foreword by the author. Critics have called Lewis Nordan's fiction "extraordinary" and "marvelous" and "stunning" and "scorching" and "story-telling genius." The selected stories show that genius in the making. "Characters that people the South hobble and dance across the pages of his short stories."--United Press International; "Delightfully eccentric situations and colorful language add up to a work that is even stronger than WOLF WHISTLE."--Library Journal.
