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Like a well-crafted stage play, Just Passin' Thru delivers one suspenseful scene after another. But in this historic setting a store on the Appalachian Trail called Mountain Crossings the characters who show up are no fictional creations. Like any good drama, there are the good guys (and gals) and the weirdos, too. Some show up once (and that’s enough), and some appear again and again. But all are united by two things: the author’s story-capturing talent, and whatever it is that lures them to attempt (or conquer) a 2,200-mile path that climbs and plummets from Georgia to Maine.

A compassionate, modern, science-based approach to help you (and your dog!) with common training problems “Zak George takes his dedication to humane and effective dog training from the screen to the written page.”—Dr. John Ciribassi, DVM, DACVB, coeditor of Decoding Your Dog ...

Throughout Reduce, Reuse, Re-imagine, Beth Porter provides a great resources about recycling, explaining the complexity, guiding individual action, and contextualizing its history. This book reveals how we arrived at this state of dysfunction, and what steps we need to employ to be an active participant in strengthening our recycling system. Nature knows how to recycle itself, decomposing waste back into the soil to continue the circle of growth. We should follow its lead.

We Were Liars meets Looking for Alaska in a uniquely funny and heartbreaking teen novel about a passionate-yet-doomed friendship set against a backdrop of wealth and glamour. Willa Parker, 646th and least-popular resident of What Cheer, Iowa, is headed east to start a new life. Did she choose...

This is a captivating, good-humored look at family life in a small farming community in Indiana in the early 1900s.

This is the sequel to Freckles - the moving story of a young girl whose kindness and wholesome philosophy brightens the lives of everyone she meets.

Scotch-Irish immigrants Jimmy Malone and Dannie MacNous are partners in an earlier Indiana trapping and fishing enterprise; a picture of life and relationships in conflict, with each partner in love with the same woman.

This is the charming story of David Langston, a young man in search of the woman of his dreams. She came to him in a vision and he knows he must find her.

Es gibt viele Menschen, für die es oft ein Wunschtraum bleibt, tief zu schlafen, erfrischt und erholt aufzuwachen. Die Ursachen für Schlaflosigkeit sind so vielfältig wie die Menschen selbst. Manche griffen vielleicht sogar zu medikamentösen Schlafmittel, um einschlafen zu können. Kennst du das? Welche Verschwendung! Wir Menschen besitzen die mächtigste Apotheke der Welt - das menschliche Gehirn.

When reformed bad girl Maria Lewis takes a dull job in local government back in her home town, the quiet life she was looking for is quickly disrupted by the enigmatic presence of her boss, Director Robert Stone. A dangerous and unlikely object of lust, Stone touches something deep in Maria's sensual psyche and draws her to an erotic underworld, a far cry from life in the dusty offices of Borough Hall.

Tara er TV-producer, singlemor og på jagt efter kærligheden. Eller i hvert fald en mand, der kan overbevise hende om at give den en chance. En aften tager hun på date - en date, der ikke går helt som planlagt. Dagen efter er hun en internetsensation, da en video af hende er gået viralt.

Tara muss sich als berufstätige Single-Mutter Anfang 40 und einzige Frau in ihrer Firma einiges anhören. Auch die Feministin Cam, die aus Überzeugung Single und kinderlos ist, wird von ihrem Umfeld nicht gerade gefeiert. Und die Mittzwanzigerin Stella wünscht sich sehnlichst ein Kind, doch um an einen Erzeuger zu kommen, muss sie tief in die Trickschublade greifen. Als ein haarsträubender Fehltritt von Tara sie zum Gespött der Nation macht, springen ihr unverhofft zwei Komplizinnen zur Seite.

Anfang der sechziger Jahre weht Hoffnung durch das Land. Martin Luther King marschiert auf Washington, Amerika hat einen Traum. Der junge James will seine ärmliche irische Herkunft hinter sich lassen und träumt von einer strahlenden Zukunft als Anwalt. Nur wenig später wird die schöne Afroamerikanerin Agnes auf einer Landstraße von einem weißen Polizisten angehalten. Schreckliche Momente folgen. Agnes zweifelt, ob sie überhaupt eine Zukunft hat. James und Agnes ahnen nicht, auf welch unerwarteten Wegen die Geschichte der nächsten Jahrzehnte sie und ihre Familien zusammenführen wird.

“American history comes to vivid, engaging life in this tale of two interconnected families (one white, one black) that spans from the 1950s to Barack Obama’s first year as president. . . . The complex, beautifully drawn characters are unique and indelible.”—Entertainment Weekly “An...

Trina FastHorse Goldberg-Oneka is a fifty-year-old trans woman whose life is irreversibly altered in the wake of a gentle--but nonetheless world-changing--invasion by an alien entity called The Seep. Through The Seep, everything is connected. Capitalism falls, hierarchies and barriers are broken down; if something can be imagined, it is possible. Trina and her wife, Deeba, live blissfully under The Seep’s utopian influence--until Deeba begins to imagine what it might be like to be reborn as a baby, which will give her the chance at an even better life.

Gene Stratton-Porter (1863-1924) was an early naturalist and nature photographer who wrote several best-selling novels. Her novel, Laddie: A True Blue Story (1913), includes autobiographical elements that corresponded to her early life. The story is told by Little Sister, the 12th child of a large family, while the character of the title is based on the author’s older brother, who has a strong connection to the land. The narrative has a country ambiance with lovely descriptions of nature.

Miss Polly Harrington was content in her solitary life as a wealthy spinster, enjoying her quiet and orderly homestead in Vermont. She didn't care that her staff whispered and grumbled about her behind her back...she liked things the way they were. Until one day, a letter arrived from a far Western town, informing her of a newly-orphaned niece with nowhere to go.

Home for a pony. When Harry wins a pony in a contest, he is very excited. But Harry's father says that a pony can't live at their house, and Harry will have to find another place for it to stay. How will Harry find a good home for his pony?...

The bestselling author of Anatomy of Misfit and The Fall of Butterflies, Andrea Portes, is back with another irresistible snarky heroine in Liberty. What is a hero? Paige Nolan knows. Edward Raynes, the young man who exposed America’s unconstitutional spying techniques, is a hero, even if half...

As soon as Pollyanna arrives in Beldingsville to live with her strict and dutiful maiden aunt, she begins to brighten up everybody's life. The 'glad game' she plays, of finding a silver lining in every cloud, transforms the sick, the lonely and the plain miserable - until one day something so terrible happens that even Pollyanna doesn't know how to feel glad about it.