Michael Parker
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Language
English
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"Set in the hardscrabble landscape of early 1900s Oklahoma, but timeless in its sensibility, Prairie Fever traces the intense dynamic between the Stewart sisters: the pragmatic Lorena and the chimerical Elise. The two are bound together not only by their isolation on the prairie but also by their deep emotional reliance on each other. That connection supersedes all else until the arrival of Gus McQueen. When Gus arrives in Lone Wolf, Oklahoma, as...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"In the early 1970s, in Stovall, Texas, seventeen-year-old Earl--a loner, dreamer, lover of music and words--meets Tina, the new girl in town. Tina convinces Earl to drive her to see her mother in Austin, where Earl and Tina are quickly separated. Two days later, Earl is being questioned by the police about Tina's disappearance and the blood in the trunk of his car. But Earl can't remember what happened in Austin, and with little financial support...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Calling all Hamilton fans! Spend more time with the remarkable Theodosia Burr by reading this fascinating novel inspired by a little-known incident in her life. It's the stuff of song.
Michael Parker’s vast and involving novel about pirates and slaves, treason and treasures, madness and devotion, takes place on a tiny island battered by storms and cut off from the world. Inspired by two forgotten moments in history,...
Michael Parker’s vast and involving novel about pirates and slaves, treason and treasures, madness and devotion, takes place on a tiny island battered by storms and cut off from the world. Inspired by two forgotten moments in history,...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Two strangers meet over the hood of a used car in Texas: Marcus, who is fleeing both his financial and personal failures; and Maria, who after years of dodging her mistakes has returned to her hometown to make amends. One looking forward, the other looking back, they face off over the car they both want and think they need: a low-slung sky-blue 1984 Buick Electra. The car, too, has seen its share of failures. Each dent and ripped seam represents...
Author
Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A guide for parents to help their children better understand the world around them by helping them think through the questions they face regarding honesty, friendship, sensitivity, fairness, dedication, individuality and 103 other character-building issues. Many families and almost all schools spend a great deal of time developing children academically, but studies show that scholastic achievement is not the only key to future success. Developing...
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Language
English
Description
When it's time to sleep, the night might seem scary. But if you take a journey out of this world, past the moon and through the universe, you'll discover millions of stars. Once bright fires in space, those stars grew so hot they exploded into tiny pieces that flew around and came to rest in the place where Earth began, where the animals, trees, and fruits would someday grow. All living things have a little bit of stardust inside them, and so do you!...
8) Jingle cats
Author
Publisher
Tommy Nelson
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In this variant of the traditional song "Jingle Bells," two siblings are delighted by the cats they receive on Christmas day. On board pages.
Author
Publisher
Diana
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
Si el terror de hablar en público te acecha a la hora de la gran presentación, si solicitar un aumento te da más pánico que lanzarte del paracaídas, si tu discurso de ventas es débil y nada convincente, ¡tenemos la solución! Sin importar el reto, No es lo que dices, sino cómo lo dices te explica los tres poderes de un orador convincente: pasión, contundencia y persuasión. El arte de la persuasión está presente en cada página de este...
Author
Publisher
Blair
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Haunted by a secret tragedy, Edwin, son of the richest family in a small Southern town, fights to overcome his addiction to morphine and face the truth that his parents have worked to obscure. This timeless debut novel of master Southern storyteller Michael Parker takes readers to a small Southern town in the 1950s where Edwin Keane suffers from the lasting effects of a horrible accident-a broken back, a morphine addiction, and a town of enabling...
Author
Publisher
Worldwide
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Babs Mason is the perfect political wife. Accomplished, principled and fearless, she charms enemies while always staying several moves ahead. She'll do whatever it takes to help her charismatic senator husband become president of the United States and give every American a bright future. Until a ruthless power broker opposing him mysteriously turns up dead. Until others in her husband's way go silent or disappear ... and every victory raises disturbing...
13) Calendar girls
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
When Chris' best friend Annie loses her husband, Chris derives a scheme to memoralize him. The two women, along with some of their friends - all fiftysomething women - will make a nude calendar to raise money for the hospital where he died.
Series
Criterion collection volume 277
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Mike, a sensitive narcoleptic who dreams of the mother who abandoned him, and Scott, the rebellious son of a prominent family and the object of Mike's desire, embark on a quest from the grungy streets of Portland to the open highways of the Pacific Northwest, in search of an elusive place called home. A crazy friendship develps between the two that takes on tragic overtones when Scott falls in love and Mike realizes he's about to lose the only important...
Author
Publisher
Plough Publishing House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The life of reformer Martin Luther in graphic novel format. Five hundred years ago a brash young monk single-handedly confronted the most powerful institutions of his day. His bold stand sparked the Protestant Reformation and marked one of the great turning points in history"--Amazon.com.
Publisher
Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The O. Henry Prize Stories 2015 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. The winning stories span the globe - from the glamorous Riviera to an Eastern European shtetl, from a Native American reservation to a tiny village in Thailand. But their characters are universally recognizable and utterly compelling, whether they are ex-pats in Africa, migrant workers crossing the Mexican...
Series
Criterion collection volume 277
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Mike, a sensitive narcoleptic who dreams of the mother who abandoned him, and Scott, the rebellious son of a prominent family and the object of Mike's desire, embark on a quest from the grungy streets of Portland to the open highways of the Pacific Northwest, in search of an elusive place called home.