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Wedding planning can be daunting, but with Your Perfect Day, you will have the tools and knowledge to plan a healthy, stress-free celebration. is guide will lead you through the labyrinth of wedding planning, drawing on personal experiences and professional tools. Not only will you be prepared for the big day, but you'll also have the skills to ward o any post-celebration blues by using coping strategies to navigate the transition into your ...

What happens to an oil industry lobbyist when climate change gets personal? In a world where the devastating effects of climate change can seem inconsequential to the lives of the wealthy, Daniel Lazaro thrives as a powerful Washington lobbyist for the fossil fuel industry. With a dream life on the Guadalupe River, a loving wife and a young daughter, Daniel is blind to the repercussions of his work. But when a flash flood in the Texas Hill Cou...

Today women have a glass ceiling. In the 1930s that ceiling was made of wood, so following your dream only took you so far-especially if you went against societal norms and what your friends and family told you you should or should not do. This is the story told in A Burnished Rose, the much-anticipated sequel to the award-winning Rosebloom. Rose Krantz, a soon-to-be eighteen-year-old, has just come home to the family farm in southwest Wiscon...

And you're going to say 'it was good to know you' to the guy in the sexy hat . . . the guy you were going to marry today?" Promises, promises. Vows to do and vows to undo. A summer weekend in the Hudson Valley is supposed to be devoted primarily to the third marriage of psychologist Marguerite Ariston. However, a tangle of characters is forced by a variety of circumstances to unsnarl feelings about Marguerite and one another: her estranged par...

A resupply missing for the six US military units in the Central Highlands of Vietnam is no easy task for the 573 - a rag-tag group of young men with seemingly nothing to lose but their very lives. In Mang Yang Pass, you'll experience the raw intensity and heart-stopping fear of men like Flunky, Sink, JV, Shotgun Eddie, who risked their lives every day trying to keep Vietnam's Central Highlands out of the hands of the North Vietnamese and the...

Shell shock, battle fatigue, post traumatic stress disorder¿it all means the same thing to veterans who have served their country by putting themselves in harm's way. But for women veterans of WWII like Rose Krantz, it also meant coming back to a country that, even during the war, hadn't given them the rights that the lowest-ranking male soldier enjoyed, barely acknowledged the sacrifices they had all made, and, in some cases, chastised them f...

When you think you don't have anything to lose, you'll risk it all not to lose what you have. Billie Jensen has anger issues. Growing up in prison among societies less than stellar citizens, fighting for his dignity and his very life has given Billie a lot to be angry about. He'd like to blame it on his past: An abusive stepfather, an absent mother, being sent to prison for escaping a living hell the only way he knew how. But Doctor Scott, t...

Rose - a precocious young girl in 1930s Wisconsin - runs away from home to avoid going onto high school and what she sees as a certain path to marriage and motherhood. What she seeks is adventure. What she finds is much more. ---------- Rose is thrown into the lives of the varied people and towns of the Mississippi while working on river boats, going to a prep school in St. Louis where she lives with a black family in the Ville, and working in...

-- Midwest Book Award Finalist -- If you didn't already know, Carolyn Keene, of the famous Nancy Drew mystery series, is not a real person. Neither is the Hardy Boys' Franklin Dixon or Laura Lee Hope of the Bobbsey Twins. They are all the brain child of one of the country's most prolific writers for children and young adults to date: Edward Stratemeyer. Edward was so prolific, in fact, that he had to eventually hire ghostwriters to help him fl...

When Lea's family is murdered by Mertonan soldiers from the North, her misery is unleashed in a powerful force that causes the ground to quake. Unable to control her unusual gift, she wanders the woods alone, grieving for her lost people. When Lea discovers she is pregnant by the soldiers who raped her, she falls into deep despair. Elmond is a mystic aligned with the wind and is far from home when the Mertonans attack the southern towns alon...

Atticus Forester is the son of a billionaire, living a life of privilege between a Manhattan townhouse and Pandion, the family compound on the coast of Maine. But young Atticus misses a flight on his father's jet, and that changes everything. Suddenly alone and on the street, Atticus must fend for himself armed only with his wits. He crashes in a Loisaida tenement and invents one scheme after another to feed himself and his dog. But tragedy p...

Searching for atonement author Ian Murphy drafts the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 ending the 30-year Troubles in Ireland. Murphy's years in the Provisional Irish Republican Army and his battle with depression cast him into a hellish darkness. He finds atonement elusive and begins on a path for public redemption. In the fall of 1998 British authorities propose building additional peace walls in Belfast to create a self-imposed apartheid betwee...

With no living relatives, 18-year-old Rowan Daly leaves the only home she's ever known to be with her beloved, Eli. They settle in the mining town of New Hope. In 1934 the best paying job is dynamiting rock in the pit-a job Eli volunteers to do with disastrous consequences. When he's killed, Rowan is alone and abandoned with no way to support herself. Rowan is recruited to be a Pack Horse Librarian and soon finds herself delivering books to hi...

Ian Padraic Murphy harbors a scandalous secret. To avenge the death of his best friend in a Belfast raid, Ian joins the Provisional IRA, which he conceals for 30 years. He meets investigative reporter Eileen Donohue and friendship blossoms into a love affair. Eileen inadvertently discovers the man she thought was a reclusive novelist is actually the brain trust for the IRA. Eileen betrays her lover by disclosing his secret in Ireland's leading...

Ian Murphy buries his life-long friend Kieran Fitzpatrick. As a result, his life is adrift, Ian is incapable of overcoming dependence on whiskey. Every day, he battles the eternal dark night. Ian reluctantly accepts his friend's last wish, to mentor Kieran's twenty-two-year-old nephew, William Butler Boyle. Five years after approving the Good Friday Peace Agreement, Northern Ireland struggles to break Britain's shackles. Sinn Fein recruits Ian...

Ansel Tone has been named "The Golden Boy of Popular History." He teaches propaganda at Columbia University and hawks a series of "Redux Revisionist History" best-sellers on late night talk shows. He trades on his good looks and family wealth to drive fast cars and run with glamorous women, though his personal life is poised between an overbearing father and a son he hardly knows. Ansel attends a reunion of six friends who studied at Trinity C...

As a child in 1980s, Chicago Willie stole to help feed his brothers, sister, and himself. In grade school his teacher told him to have his parents help him with his homework, but his mother, the only parent around, didn't know how. As a young man Willie started smoking pot, which easily turned into harder drugs. This eventually led Willie to a life under someone's front porch, two prison sentences, numerous trips to jail, and various recovery ...

I turn to see where Grandma and Reggie are and run right into a brick wall. Well, it's not exactly a brick wall but it feels like it. It's a really big man in a dark suit and tie, who kind of reminds me of Officer Miller, the CIA officer that saved us from Georg and Inger when we were in Norway."Oh! I'm sorry." I step to my right to move around the man, but he does something really strange, he steps back in front of me as if to block my way.I ...

What better time to learn about chakras than when you are young.The seven chakra fairies in Chakra Magic teach young children about the basics of the seven main chakras in a fun and entertaining way. They will learn • that energy centers in the body have been talked about within many cultures • what color is associated with each chakra • what the energy in each chakra can affect • multiple ways to help balance their own chakras.There is a simp...

The Award-winning Intrigue in Istanbul: An Agnes Kelly Mystery Adventure is set in 1961, a time of the cold war and space race. But that isn't on Agnes' radar. Her dad has died and during a trip with her grandmother to Istanbul, she accidentally finds out it was under suspicious circumstances, but that's just the beginning!Agnes Kelly is the 1960s American version of Alan Bradley's Flavia de Luce. Agnes has a propensity for books and words, an...