Download or read book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil written by John Berendt and published by Random House. This book was released on 1994-01-13 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A modern classic of true crime, set in a most beguiling Southern city—now in a 30th anniversary edition with a new afterword by the author “Elegant and wicked . . . might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and breakfast for an extended weekend at the scene of the crime.”—The New York Times Book Review Shots rang out in Savannah’s grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. In this sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative, John Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely entertaining first-person account of life in this isolated remnant of the Old South with the unpredictable twists and turns of a landmark murder case. It is a spellbinding story peopled by a gallery of remarkable characters: the well-bred society ladies of the Married Woman’s Card Club; the turbulent young gigolo; the hapless recluse who owns a bottle of poison so powerful it could kill every man, woman, and child in Savannah; the aging and profane Southern belle who is the “soul of pampered self-absorption”; the uproariously funny drag queen; the acerbic and arrogant antiques dealer; the sweet-talking, piano-playing con artist; young people dancing the minuet at the black debutante ball; and Minerva, the voodoo priestess who works her magic in the graveyard at midnight. These and other Savannahians act as a Greek chorus, with Berendt revealing the alliances, hostilities, and intrigues that thrive in a town where everyone knows everyone else. Brilliantly conceived and masterfully written, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a sublime and seductive reading experience.
Download or read book Paula Deen s Savannah Style written by Paula Deen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its lush gardens, stately town houses, and sprawling plantations, Savannah is the epitome of old Southern style, and who better to give you the grand tour than Paula Deen, the city’s most famous resident and anointed Queen of Southern Cuisine? In this gorgeous, richly illustrated book, Paula Deen shares a full year of Southern living. Whether it’s time to put out your best china and make a real fuss, or you’re just gathering for some sweet tea on the porch at dusk, Savannah style is about making folks feel welcome in your home. With the help of decorator and stylist Brandon Branch, you’ll learn how to bring a bit of Southern charm into homes from Minnesota to Mississippi. For each season, there are tips on decorating and entertaining. In the spring, you’ll learn how to make the most of your outdoor spaces, spruce up your porch, and make your garden inviting. In the summer, things get more casual with a dock party. Sleeping spaces, including, of course, the sleeping porch, are the focal point of this chapter. In the fall, cooler weather brings a return to more formal entertaining in the dining room, and in the winter, attention returns to the hearth, as Paula and her neighbors put out their best silver and show you how they celebrate the holidays. Paula loves getting a peek at her neighbors’ parlors, so she’s included photographs of some of Savannah’s grandest homes. From the vast grounds of Lebanon Plantation to the whimsically restored cottages on Tybee Island, you’ll see the unique blend of old-world elegance and laid-back hospitality that charmed Paula the moment she arrived from Albany, Georgia, with nothing but two hundred dollars and a pair of mouths to feed. And she isn’t shy about giving you a window into her own world, either. From her farmhouse kitchen to her luxurious powder room, you’ll see how Paula lives when she’s not in front of the camera. Packed with advice and nostalgia, Paula Deen’s Savannah Style makes it easy to bring gracious Southern living to homes north and south of the Mason-Dixon Line.
Download or read book Discourse as Social Interaction written by Teun A Van Dijk and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1997-05-06 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume of this introduction to discourse studies focuses on the fundamental interactional, social, political and cultural functions of text and talk, and shows that discourse is not merely form and meaning, but also action.
Download or read book Does It Ever End written by Sky Love and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2020 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Savannah, Savannah what is going on with you? What have you gotten yourself into now? Is it one of those online dating guys? You met this great guy from church and he's a police officer. Now why are you desperately calling Dee and John to come to your rescue? Will Dee and John convince Savannah to leave Chicago and come back to Michigan with them? The Bentley and Williams Investigating Services has been very successful and now they are involved with a very wealthy ex-drug lord that has turn his life around and is starting up a foundation to help others. Three or four kidnappings in their small town. Who is lurking in their mist? Can Bentley and Williams solve the case before someone else gets taken? Now we have Nate who was left on the police station steps, when he was six-years old. Having been raised by his grandparents, who have now passed away, Nate has fallen in love. Will true love find its way?
Download or read book The Last Good Man written by Kathleen Eagle and published by Bell Bridge Books. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A poignant, satisfying romance." -Library Journal "Compelling."-Booklist "A good man is hard to find, but a romance by Eagle is a good place to start." -Kirkus Reviews Gorgeous, famous Savannah Stephens is back, and no one in her hometown, Sunbonnet, Wyoming, really knows why. Especially not Clay Keogh, the good-hearted rancher who has loved her from afar since they were kids. Savannah's young daughter looks just like Savannah's first love: local bad boy Kole Kills Crow, Clay's half-brother. Has Savannah come home to start a new relationship with Kole? Whatever her secrets, it's clear that she's deeply troubled and needs a shoulder to lean on. Clay is there for her, and she soon realizes that he's a very special man. But until she can bring herself to share the painful truth about her fall from stardom, the emotional distance between her and Clay may separate them forever. About the Author: Bestselling author Kathleen Eagle retired from a seventeen-year teaching career on a North Dakota Indian reservation to become a full-time novelist. The Lakota Sioux heritage of her husband and their three children has inspired many of her stories. Among her honors, she has received a Career Achievement Award from Romantic Times, the Midwest Fiction Writer of the Year Award, and Romance Writers of America's prestigious RITA Award. Library Journal named THE NIGHT REMEMBERS one of the five best romances of the year. Kathleen takes great pleasure in reading letters from readers who tell her that her books have tugged at their heartstrings, entertained, inspired, and even enlightened them. Visit her at www.KathleenEagle.com.
Download or read book Judd s Vow written by Kaylie Newell and published by Tule Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His heart has been grounded for so long. But she’s about to give it wings... Captain Judd Harlow is happiest in the air. It’s only when he’s flying that he can leave his childhood memories behind. But when he and his brothers find themselves the guardians of their 12-year-old half-sister, he knows moving back to the small Montana town where he grew up is the right thing. When Savannah Casteele learns that a local pilot has agreed to fly her and her little boy to Chicago for a long-awaited surgery, she’s overcome with gratitude. A young, single mother, her first priority has always been raising her son the best way she knows how. But when she sees Judd for the first time, she’s unprepared for the affect he has on her heart: He’s stoic, guarded, and a little out of reach, reminding her that she’s not the only one who’s trying to put aside a broken past. As they begin falling for one another, brought together by the children in their lives, they start seeing family not just as something you’re given, but something you create. And that the heart, no matter how scarred, is always capable of a tender, new beginning. But are they both willing to take a leap of faith to get there?
Download or read book Pies Prejudice written by Heather Vogel Frederick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Right before the start of their freshman year, Emma's family unexpectedly moves to England. The book club is stunned, but thanks to videoconferencing, they can keep the club alive. They decide to tackle Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, a particularly fitting choice. In England, Emma deals with a new queen bee, Annabelle, who makes her life miserable. And back home, Annabelle's cousins--who have swapped homes with the Hawthornes--whip the rest of the school into a frenzy. Cassidy clashes with moody Tristan, Concord's own version of Mr. Darcy, and everyone is taken with his younger brother Simon. Desperate for life to get back to normal, the girls throw a bake sale to raise money and bring Emma home--and suddenly, they have a thriving business, Pies & Prejudice. But when the plan they cook up falls short, will the book club ever all be together again?
Download or read book Hand Me My Travelin Shoes written by Michael Gray and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of a blind man who made light of his disability, who exploded every stereotype about blues musicians.
Download or read book Ghostoria Vintage Romantic Tales of Fright written by Tam Francis and published by Plum Creek Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-24 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you like scary stories with a little romance and a vintage twist? Welcome to Ghostoria. What happens when a WWII secretary is trapped in the office with a ghost and the only way out is to make an unwelcome choice? Drive-in movies, hot rods, and jitterbugs populate Long Way Home; can one young man survive a bloody night in a historic cemetery with his girlfriend? Young residents of a cursed Texas town grapple with what they’re willing to sacrifice in order to save their crops, animals and loved ones? Can a kindergarten teacher silence the talking doll that has frightened her students by solving a fifty year old mystery? A lone lady hitchhiker hops a ride in a 1959 El Dorado Cadillac by a roadside grave. Who will be alive at the end of the drive? Find out what happens when college coed gets more than she bargained for with her vintage swing dance dress. A turn of the century jail that housed murderers, liars, and thieves for over a hundred years is taken over by six teenagers on Halloween. What happens when a childhood chant turns deadly? Those are just a few haunts and haints that populate this world of unrequited love, woe and mystery. Ghostoria will gnaw the corners of your mind and challenge your ideas about life, love and death long after you leave.
Download or read book Restored written by Sheryl Brown-Norman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-10-23 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Savannah Hartford knows what its like to be alone. Never having had much success with love and life, shed given up on anything good ever happening. So when she received a letter explaining that she had inherited an old mansion, on a choice piece of land in Jamaica, she was stunned and suspicious. Yet, with the help of Cara, her best friend; Trinity, a fast-talking Jamaican chef; Marcus, a butler who moonlights as an architect; and a handsome contractor named Jacob Spencer, Savannah uses her design skills to turn the old mansion into a luxurious bed and breakfast. As she transforms the house, she learns that it is not just the house that is being restored. On this lifechanging journey, she may actually find what shes always wanted: love, faith, and family. Jacob Spencer is a content widower, a successful businessman, and a Christian. Although he has the looks to get any woman he wants, he has been unwilling to risk falling in love again that is, until he meets Savannah, who represents everything he wants in a woman. And unfortunately, everything he doesnt. Between their differences and a conniving attorney named Brandon Anderson, who will stop at nothing to acquire Savannahs property for his nefarious clients, her quest to keep the property could end up destroying their love and costing them everything. In this novel, a young woman works to restore an ancient mansion to its former glory while finding a new love and faith along the way.
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Download or read book Dirt Road Fantasy written by Sue Langford and published by Booktango. This book was released on 2015-02-23 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Savannah Davies decided to move herself and her friend Emma to Nashville, she was determined to be one of Nashville's top songwriters. One night of karaoke at her work changed everything. She was spotted by artists and record labels and ended up on one of the hottest tours around. Nothing could stand in her way. Her private life put on hold, she concentrated on soaking up all the inspiration that tour would give until a bad boy country singer changed it all. Brad Green, the hot bad boy country star, spotted her that first night. She sang like she'd seen the worst and survived it all. He may have been single, but if he had his way, it wouldn't be for long. He had his eyes set on Savannah and wasn't taking no for an answer. His idea: Get her on the back of his bike and drive her off into the sunset. The question was, would she even say yes? The bad boy had everyone watching as he rode her off into a Dirt Road Fantasy.
Download or read book Year s Best YA Speculative Fiction 2015 written by Julia Rios and published by Twelfth Planet Press. This book was released on 2016-10-12 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans of Kaleidoscope will find more tales of wonder, adventure, diversity, and variety in this collection devoted to stories with teen protagonists. Our goal is to uncover the best young adult short fiction of the year published in the anthologies dedicated to the form, the occasional special edition of a magazine, and individual pieces appearing in otherwise “adult” anthologies and magazines, and bring them together in one accessible collection. Table of Contents Songs in the Key of You - Sarah Pinsker Blood, Ash, Braids - Genevieve Valentine Mosquito Boy - Felix Gilman The Rainbow Flame - Shveta Thakrar The Sixth Day - Sylvia Anna Hivén For Sale: Fantasy Coffin (Ababuo Need Not Apply) - Chesya Burke Kia and Gio - Daniel José Older Bucket List Found in the Locker of Maddie Price, Age 14, Written Two Weeks Before the Great Uplifting of ll Mankind - Erica L. Satifka Function A.save (target.Dawn) - Rivqa Rafael Noah No-one and the Infinity Machine - Sean Williams Forgiveness - Leah Cypess Probably Definitely - Heather Morris I'm Only Going Over - Cat Hellisen The Ways of Walls and Words - Sabrina Vourvoulias Reflections - Tamlyn Dreaver Entangled Web - E C Myers Blue Ribbon - Marissa Lingen Bodies are the Strongest Conductors - James Robert Herndon Pineapple Head - Joel Enos Grass Girl - Caroline M. Yoachim The Birds of Azalea Street - Nova Ren Suma
Download or read book Samson written by Jacquelin Thomas and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samson Taylor has just been installed as assistant pastor at a thriving North Carolina church. He’s a man of God—and most definitely no saint. Handsome and charismatic, Samson is controlled by his lust for beautiful women, a weakness that stirs up trouble, heartache, betrayal, and damaging rumors—and soon costs him his marriage, his best friendship, and even his new job. Samson loves God and tries harder than ever to keep his temptations in check. Then he meets Delinda. . . . Beautiful, irresistibly sexy, and married to a famous NBA star, Delinda has Samson head-over-heels in love . . . in a dangerous affair that leads to a physical confrontation with Delinda’s husband. Now, the disgraced pastor begins a journey he could never have anticipated, where his heart is now his guide—not a heart of lust, but of new wisdom and a new kind of seeing. God will forgive Samson’s past—but will Samson himself be able to let go of bitterness and regret, and find a new light in his life? Inspired by the Biblical tale of Samson and Delilah, Jacquelin Thomas powerfully portrays a modern-day pastor’s dance with earthly desires . . . and the faith that made him whole.
Download or read book The Ghost of Valencia Dupree written by Tanya Orr and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world where decorum, duty, privacy, and family ties were of the utmost importance, it was sometimes made difficult for the innocence and timidity of a young woman such as Valencia Dupree to carry a strong voice. In an age where strength and position were thought to be safer in the hands of men, Valencia found a way from within her own self to be counted among the bearers of truth and justice. Although she could not grasp the entirety of it in life, she discovered a way to make her voice heard even in death. In life Valencia found only confusion, pain, and sorrow. However, in death she found acceptance, peace, and love. In the land of the living, life ends when death enters the room; but in the world of Valencia Dupree, death was just the beginning.
Download or read book Missing Part written by Udeesha Arora and published by Ukiyoto Publishing. This book was released on with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "“I wish my soul mate just… died.” In a world where the link to your soul mate is through sharing physical injuries, Ivan is someone who has grown to loathe his ‘missing part’ — all because she harms herself every night, imprinting cuts on his body along with hers as well. Meanwhile, Savannah, who has resorted to self-harm, had plunged into depression long ago. Unbeknownst to each other’s identity, what happens when the two finally meet in the crossroads of life? With hate embedded in his mind, and guilt in hers, how will the two seek complacency? Especially when Ivan and Savannah are not the only two knees-deep in the quicksand of this reality? "
Download or read book Five Against One written by B. Grigoletti and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Soul Patrol Returns In Five against One They're back... Caitlin and Nicole O'Conner return in the second installment of 'The Soul Patrol' series. Almost a year has passed since the girls and their friends uncovered the twisted secret that kept their dead friend Kelsey trapped here in this world. In that time, the family has been re-united now that their dad has moved back in. But all is not well for our heroines. Caitlin is finding life lonely and complicated since her best friend's death. To make matters worse, the perky and seemingly perfect Savannah Summers has just moved into the neighborhood, turning things upside for the entire O'Connor clan. Caitlin tries to be nice but her efforts to befriend this new girl turn sour in one unfortunate misunderstanding after another. The rivalry between the two girls soon turns bitter when Caitlin is replaced by Savannah as the lead in her school play due to an untimely case of Strep throat. Organizing her friends with nothing but vengeance on her mind, Caitlin convinces the other girls to begin a smear campaign against the 'Prima Donnas' pristine reputation. Tensions mount when one of the girls finally decides that the only way to teach Savannah a lesson, is through violence. Will the combined voices of her family and The Soul Patrol convince Caitlin to turn against her friends and warn her bitter enemy about the attack before it's too late?
