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Skeeter, our narrator, is a boy lost between his hard-knock childhood and the mysteries of a larger world. Framed by the strain of war and the growing pains of the New South, this novel is part coming of age tale, part ghost story, and, at every moment, a searching evocation of small-town life in America.

Skeeter, our narrator, is a boy lost between his hard-knock childhood and the mysteries of a larger world. Framed by the strain of war and the growing pains of the New South, this novel is part coming of age tale, part ghost story, and, at every moment, a searching evocation of small-town life in America.

Kelly would not have had to die had her demands not been so crippling.Robert schemes that the body will never be found in the deep black water beneath the remote bridge. He does not know that in a swift-running current, concrete weights can be tossed and rolled like twigs.In less than two weeks, Kelly's asphyxiated body will be discovered.When Chase and Devin's mother dies and their father becomes the prime suspect, they are forced to forge ne...

Kelly would not have had to die had her demands not been so crippling.Robert schemes that the body will never be found in the deep black water beneath the remote bridge. He does not know that in a swift-running current, concrete weights can be tossed and rolled like twigs.In less than two weeks, Kelly's asphyxiated body will be discovered.When Chase and Devin's mother dies and their father becomes the prime suspect, they are forced to forge ne...

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Neal Austin has a burning desire for success, wealth, and significance. In relentless pursuit of his goal he is scarcely conscious of missing the happy lightning that occurs along the way. Just before his twenty-ninth birthday he meets a girl who is determined to teach him how to look for sunshine when it is raining, and rain when the sun cooks down. Struck by sudden and staggering tragedy, Neal begins to release hold on his dreams, but in doi...

The realistic, yet compassionate view of life that Donald Jordan passes on to his grandchildren in The Creation: A Letter encourages all of us to share our beliefs and faith with our offspring and serves as a simple model of how to do so. Coupled with short, illustrative anecdotes, Jordan's encouragement to be kind, responsible and honest, to express gratitude and to forgive, and most of all to love, provides genuine and humble guidance for an...

The realistic, yet compassionate view of life that Donald Jordan passes on to his grandchildren in The Creation: A Letter encourages all of us to share our beliefs and faith with our offspring and serves as a simple model of how to do so. Coupled with short, illustrative anecdotes, Jordan's encouragement to be kind, responsible and honest, to express gratitude and to forgive, and most of all to love provides genuine and humble guidance for any...

A vivid account of Japan's war on China in 1932

This book analyzes County Mayo in Ireland from the Elizabethan pacification of the county to the first stage of the Land War of the late nineteenth century. During those three centuries the county was transformed from being a remote, isolated, impoverished and hostile region of the country to being at the center of Irish politics and integrated into an agrarian capitalist economy. The book is divided into two sections. The first contains an an...