Download or read book Oh My Gosh Virginia written by Kay Grafe and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My book doesn't have one plot like a novel. Oh My Gosh, Virginiahas a whopping 100 plots. This book is a collectionof my columns over the past fteen years. "Grin and Bare It" means exactly what it says. I have no secrets in my columns. I call my writing essays orcommentaries. Each column has a series of facts, combined with my opinions. At times, my writing is tongue-in-cheek, which confused my mother-in-law. She'd say, "Hon, I think I like your stories, but I don't understand them." My writing goal in the monthly news magazine Today in Mississippiand the George County Timesis to entertainand encourage people to lighten up. A few stories are sentimental, but the main thing is they are true life happenings.You will most likely nd yourself in many of the stories, since I write about things we all have in common. I frequently speak to civic organizations, women's clubs, bank socials, country clubs and church groups. Once I wasintroduced at a Methodist Church dinner in Columbia, Mississippi, and the president of the organization said, "Kayhas come to make us laugh." I'm not a comedian, so that made me very nervous. I call myself a humorist when I write or speak. The differencein a comedian and a humorist is that a comedian tells one joke after another, and in our day, many of them are off-color. No thank you. That's not me. On the other hand, a humorist writes about the fun side of life and, in the process, has an encouraging message to deliver. I believe we need all the encouragement we can get. I write some funnystories now and again, but I don't call them jokes. People like me I call "incident prone." Things just seem to happen to us. A few months ago in my ladies' SundaySchool class, I'd unbuttoned the top button of my suit skirt because it was tight after a ve-pound weight gain, andit fell off when I stood up. I froze in shock and stood at my chair like a statue. Two helpful members grabbed myskirt and pulled it up for me. My readers like pet stories, travelogues, memories, current events that are fun and different and, well, just look inthe Table of Contents for some other topics. I stress a good attitude in stories and speeches, though we're all faced with unwanted changes, unexpectedchallenges and unpleasant surprises. I've heard it said that things work out best for those who make the best outof the way things work out. I liked that, so I adopted it as my philosophy for life. Keep grinning Helen Kay Fountain Grafe"
Download or read book The Hill Witch written by JJ Christopher and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Lancaster, Connecticut, a boy has been murdered. His grave awaits him in the farmers field beside the killers other victims. And no one knows theyre out there. She wont allow it. She needs the killer, needs the boys he kills, and as long as she does, she will protect him... and the boys will continue to die... ...screaming... They always have to die screaming. And in the distance, a pair of eyes glowing with a midnight blue light... ...her eyes...watching... peeling back the layers of their minds... ...their souls... Margaret Adler has been searching for something. Shes waited, teaching ninth grade science at the high school, studying Lancasters sons, watching them, day after day... ...until now. Jeremy McKee, a popular fifteen-year-old, admired and respected by friends and family alike, has what she wants. He is the key to power such as the world has never seen. Power like unto a god. A power Margaret will claim for herself, even if she has to destroy Jeremy and everyone he loves in order to get it. Shes waited long enough. Its time for the endgame to begin.
Download or read book Shoulder Bags and Shootings written by Dorothy Howell and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2011-01-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fashion can be fatal: “The action is smoother than the butter-soft leather of a Prada bag, and the gritty details of working retail are spot-on.”—Publishers Weekly Life is almost perfect for fashionista and amateur sleuth Haley Randolph. She just vacationed in Europe with her boyfriend Ty Cameron, owner of Holt's Department Store. And now Ty's grandmother is letting Haley drive her Mercedes. If only Haley could get her hands on the new Sinful handbag. It's totally out of stock, and Haley would rather die than buy a knockoff. But when she finds the body of her designer purse party rival, Tiffany Markham, in the trunk of the Mercedes, she's not so sure she wants to trade places after all. . . Topping the list of suspects, Haley doesn't deny seeing red when Tiffany stole her purse party idea--and made more money. But she wasn't jealous enough to commit murder. Now she'll have to solve this mystery quickly--and find that Sinful bag--before she becomes a killer's next fashion fatality. . . "A clever, fast-moving plot." --Publishers Weekly "For fans of lightweight, humorous mysteries." --Booklist
Download or read book Hysterical Blindness written by Laura Cahill and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1999 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Debby is a typical Jersey girl in most ways, but things are changing for her. She's becoming aware of her life and ultimately she's too sensitive for her own good. Debby and her best friend, Beth, regularly go out after work looking for
Download or read book Library Management Problems Today written by Wayne Disher and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here’s the first comprehensive case studies in library management book to be published since 1981! The book use case studies gleaned from TODAY’S library world to help students take analytical approaches to library problems. Much research points to the fact that students are more inductive than deductive reasoners. Therefore, books like this which provide actual examples to explore and think about are far more useful than many of the existing texts which start with theory and basic principles. Case studies are often used in business, law, and medical schools. This book will facilitate instructors pushing want students to explore how what they have learned applies to real world situations. Cases are organized in six sections that parallel basic library management functions: Planning Organizing Leading Controlling Staffing Communicating Each section features case studies , each with the case description and three responses from library leaders from a wide variety of library types and sizes. Library Management Problems Today: Case Studies will allow students to put themselves in the center of actual library problems and ask “What would I do?”
Download or read book Under the Trestle written by Ron Peterson Jr. and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Under The Trestle” is the true story of the most compelling murder case in Virginia history. In 1980, beautiful Gina Renee Hall, a Radford University freshman, went to a Virginia Tech nightclub on a Saturday night. She was never seen again. Her abandoned car was found parked beneath a railroad trestle bridging the New River, with blood in the trunk. The investigation led police to a secluded cabin on Claytor Lake, where there was evidence of a violent attack. Former Virginia Tech football player Stephen Epperly was charged with murder, despite the fact that Gina’s body was never found. In Virginia’s “trial of the century,” prosecutor Everett Shockley presented an entirely circumstantial case. Key witnesses against Epperly included his best friend, his mother and a tracking dog handler later believed by many to be a fraud. Three former Virginia Tech football players testified, including a Hokies quarterback once featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated. Would Epperly become the first person in Virginia history convicted of murder without the victim’s body, an eyewitness or a confession? And would authorities ever find the body of Gina Renee Hall?
Download or read book written by S. A. Carter and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-01 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Novel Weaves Together Adventure, History and Romance Historical Two Volume Set Chronicles Battle between Slavery and Freedom, Love and Hate PORT COQUITLAM, British Columbia - Readers who have enjoyed historical fiction with a strong dash of adventure and a pinch of sex will surely love The Dark Side of the Mountain (published by AuthorHouse), the new epic in two volumes by S.A. Carter. Fueled by American historical events from 1854-1884, The Dark Side of the Mountain follows the adventures of John Saxton and Marcus Brown, who fight as Union guerillas against the Confederacy and all it stands for. Major Horatio Garrow and his son, Lucas, are mad men full of hate and greed, dedicated to one cause - their own. Along with a supporting cast of unforgettable characters both real and imaginary, these men are caught up in a vicious web of murder, dark secrets, betrayal and intrigue where only survival matters. In Volume One: The Dark Side of the Mountain; a young John Saxton watches helplessly as brutal slavers throw human cargo overboard to avoid capture by the "Africa Patrol." From then on, the Boston shipping heir becomes an implacable abolitionist bent on destroying slavery in America. Confederate spies, traitors and the dreaded Deacon Gang are arrayed against him. Can Saxton and his beautiful black bride, Virginia, survive a dangerous game of espionage, treachery and betrayal that culminates in the "honeymoon from hell?" As the Civil War divides and devours a nation, a black American guerilla force is carried behind Confederate lines by a unique sinking ship. Led by a giant Maasai warrior, they fight a determined and deadly foe from the eastern seaboard of America to its vast western plains. Even as the horror of war explodes around them, the Maasai Rangers embrace a common dream deep within the heart of Dixie. In Volume Two: The Dark Side of the Mountain; John Saxton is captured and thrown into the horror of Salisbury prison. Pursued by Major Horatio Garrow and his hapless brute of a companion Harley Blackstone, can Saxton survive? From his father's grave, a vengeful Lucas Garrow is led on a torturous search for stolen treasure. But a love fueled by the "Cause" and poisoned by greed, leads to a deadly confrontation. With America facing total ruination by blackmail; a battle erupts between a drug-addicted Lucas Garrow allied with the Klan, a militant underground colony of religious zealots, and the forces of justice bent on self-destruction. It all comes to an explosive conclusion not only deep within the heart of the Ozarks, but on Elder Mountain, Tennessee, where a utopia called Harmony Farm faces a forest fire out of control. Could Saxton and Marcus survive in an alien world and still find another dream called 'home'?
Download or read book Fatal Witness written by Michelle Godard-Richer and published by The Wild Rose Press Inc. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jessica opens her bedroom window in the middle of the night to catch a breeze, but instead, she witnesses something that will change the course of her life forever—her neighbor, David, loading his wife’s body onto the back of his truck. She soon learns David knows what she saw and will stop at nothing to eliminate the only witness to his crime. With her young son Bryce in tow, Jessica flees across the border to Montana. She discovers her first love, Jon Kent, is back in town after an early retirement from the FBI. But he isn’t the only one in town. David surfaces to unleash hell on Jessica and everyone she loves.
Download or read book Reclamation Practices and Environmental Problems of Surface Mining written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aura Leigh written by Deanna Ray and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-10-30 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was the spring of 1935. It seemed a wonderful time to grow up in the cozy, country town of Flanary. Little could one realize that soon everything they took for granted would change and could never be the same. The depression rages, death occurs in the home place and the women are left to adapt as they had no choice. Aura Leigh viewed her first look at life through a child's eyes and later as a beautiful young woman with so many hopes and dreams. Later she descends through the journeys of mental hell; she struggled to find her way out. This is an empowering story of one woman's journey through life, her courage to face the repercussions of the choices she made and the strength to not only survive, but to actually live again.
Download or read book Publish and Perish written by James Hynes and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-04-15 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three novellas set in the academic world. In Queen of the Jungle, an unfaithful husband is betrayed by the family cat, Casting the Runes is on a professor who exposes another's plagiarism, and in 99 an anthropologist's enthusiasm at his discovery of a human-sacrifice cult cools when he realizes he could be the sacrifice. By the author of The Wild Colonial Boy.
Download or read book The Secret She Kept written by ReShonda Tate Billingsley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her novel Say Amen, Again won the NAACP Image Award, proving that ReShonda Tate Billingsley’s storytelling “scores a direct hit” (Publishers Weekly), delighting and inspiring with powerful, soul-searching situations and unforgettable characters. How far will you go to save someone you love and trust when they’ve kept a dangerous secret for years? That’s the question facing Lance Kingston, a successful Houston magazine executive whose recent marriage to beautiful, high-powered attorney Tia Jiles seemed to promise a bright future for both of them. But under the surface, a fierce and frightening storm was brewing. That’s because Tia never revealed to Lance what she and her family have known since Tia was seventeen—she has an illness that takes over her mind, transforming her into a raging, violent woman hell-bent on destruction. Bipolar disorder. Schizophrenia. Or crazy, as Lance’s grandmother continually reminds him. “Crazy leaves clues,” she told him point-blank, and perhaps Lance should have listened. Tia’s mother tries to pray the problem away . . . and Tia’s doctors can’t help her if she won’t do what they advise. Now there’s more than their marriage and Tia’s survival at stake: Tia is pregnant, and Lance will stop at nothing to keep his troubled wife and unborn daughter safe. But at what price?
Download or read book Telling Moments written by Lynda Hall and published by Terrace Books. This book was released on 2003-11-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Telling Moments collects contemporary short stories by a diverse group of twenty-four lesbian writers. Engaging themes of life and death, aging, motherhood, race, love, work, and travel, the writers offer brief glimpses into lesbian lives. The stories are by well-known contemporary writers—Gloria Anzaldúa, Mary Cappello, Emma Donoghue, Jewelle Gomez, Karla Jay, Anna Livia, Valerie Miner, Lesléa Newman, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Ruthann Robson, Sarah Schulman, and Jess Wells—and exciting newer voices, such as Donna Allegra and Marion Douglas. There are also stories from performance artists Carmelita Tropicana, Peggy Shaw, and Maya Chowdhry. Anna Livia’s protagonist appreciates her mother’s artful garden creation. Ruthann Robson tells of a survivor of the health care system. In Marion Douglas’s story a teenager dances with an alluring classmate. Donna Allegra’s strong construction worker copes with the death of her mother. And Karla Jay sets her character forth to swim with sharks. Most of the stories are accompanied by an author photo, biographical sketch, and—a most significant feature—a commentary from the author on her writing process and the autobiographical nature of her story, illustrating the truth behind the fiction.
Download or read book A Really Nice Prom Mess written by Brian Sloan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this dynamic debut novel, Sloan infuses a senior-year tradition with hilarity and irreverence, as a gay teenager endures a surreal, endless evening that not only turns his life upside down, but lands him in an unlikely romance.
Download or read book My Father written by Karin Starick and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-10-17 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Ruth Guthrie, the news of her birth mother's death begins a series of events that will change her life forever, leading her on a life-changing exploration. Venturing on her own to New York City to identify her mother's body, what she discovers in the days following finally reveal the answers to the questions that she had been looking for her entire life. Why had her mother turned to alcohol after she was born? Why had she left her on the doorstep of an orphanage at the age of eight and disappeared from her life? And the biggest questions of all, why had she never talked about Ruth's father? Who was he? What was she hiding? Over the course of the next several days, Ruth will make new friends, meet a handsome New York City police officer, and finally reveal the truth about her father. What she finds out will leave her questioning everything she has ever known, everything she has always dreamt of, and nothing she could have ever imagined.
Download or read book Literacy and Longing in L A written by Jennifer Kaufman and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2006-05-30 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some women shop. Some eat. Dora cures the blues by bingeing on books—reading one after another, from Flaubert to bodice rippers, for hours and days on end. In this wickedly funny and sexy literary debut, we meet the beguiling, beautiful Dora, whose unique voice combines a wry wit and vulnerability as she navigates the road between reality and fiction. Dora, named after Eudora Welty, is an indiscriminate book junkie whose life has fallen apart—her career, her marriage, and finally her self-esteem. All she has left is her love of literature, and the book benders she relied on as a child. Ever since her larger-than-life father wandered away and her book-loving, alcoholic mother was left with two young daughters, Dora and her sister, Virginia, have clung to each other, enduring a childhood filled with literary pilgrimages instead of summer vacations. Somewhere along the way Virginia made the leap into the real world. But Dora isn’t quite there yet. Now she’s coping with a painful separation from her husband, scraping the bottom of a dwindling inheritance, and attracted to a seductive book-seller who seems to embody all that literature has to offer—intelligent ideas, romance, and an escape from her problems. Joining Dora in her odyssey is an elderly society hair-brusher, a heartbroken young girl, a hilarious off-the-wall female teamster, and Dora’s mother, now on the wagon, trying to make amends. Along the way Dora faces some powerful choices. Between two irresistible men. Between idleness and work. And most of all between the joy of well-chosen words and the untidiness of real people and real life.
Download or read book The Orphan of Salt Winds written by Elizabeth Brooks and published by Tin House Books. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Eowyn Ivey, Rose Tremaine, and Kate Atkinson, The Orphan of Salt Winds is a bewitching debut about the secrets that haunt us. England, 1939. Ten-year-old Virginia Wrathmell arrives at Salt Winds, a secluded house on the edge of a marsh, to meet her adoptive parents—practical, dependable Clem and glamorous, mercurial Lorna. The marsh, with its deceptive tides, is a beautiful but threatening place. Virginia’s new parents’ marriage is full of secrets and tensions she doesn’t quite understand, and their wealthy neighbor, Max Deering, drops by too often, taking an unwholesome interest in the family’s affairs. Only Clem offers a true sense of home. War feels far away among the birds and shifting sands—until the day a German fighter plane crashes into the marsh, and Clem ventures out to rescue the airman. What happens next sets into motion a crime so devastating it will haunt Virginia for the rest of her life. Seventy-five years later, she finds herself drawn back to the marsh, and to a teenage girl who appears there, nearly frozen and burdened by her own secrets. In her, Virginia might have a chance at retribution and a way to right a grave mistake she made as a child. Elizabeth Brooks’s gripping debut mirrors its marshy landscape—full of twists and turns and moored in a tangle of family secrets. A gothic, psychological mystery and atmospheric coming-of-age story, The Orphan of Salt Winds is the portrait of a woman haunted by the place she calls home.
