Author: Penny Brooke
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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A sense of calmness returns to the seaside town of Somerset Harbor, and Rue Collier is spending her time running her gran's bookstore. Meanwhile, Rue's best friend, Elizabeth, is putting a book together to benefit the Literacy Foundation of Southeastern Massachusetts, filled with saved and treasured letters from the families in town. But not long after a local furniture store owner submits a family letter to the book project, she is found dead, a victim of poisoning-the same fate her mother had met years prior. It doesn't take long for Rue to realize that the collected letters may contain the answers needed to solve the crime. Will Rue be able to piece together the clues before the killer strikes again? This fun-filled and clean bookshop cozy mystery will have you guessing until the very end.
Author: Penny Brooke
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 168
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A sleepy seaside town in Massachusetts. A quaint bookshop. And a murder. Returning to Somerset Harbor, Rue Collier looks after her gran's bookstore while she's kicking off her retirement with a dream trip to Paris. As Rue settles in, she reunites with old friends and is excited to start a new chapter in her life. But not long after she rings up her first customer, the town is in an uproar over the murder of a local bakery owner. It doesn't take long until Rue finds herself smack dab in the middle of a murder investigation that threatens to upend life in her new home. Will Rue unmask the killer before it's too late? Or will she unwittingly become their next victim? This fun-filled and clean bookshop cozy mystery will have you guessing until the very end.
Author: Josh Lanyon
Publisher: JustJoshin Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1945802634
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 229
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Ellery Page is back--and in hot water again! Unlike everyone else in Pirate's Cove, Ellery Page, aspiring screenwriter, reigning Scrabble champion, and occasionally clueless owner of the village's only mystery bookstore, is anything but thrilled when famed horror author Brandon Abbott announces he's purchased legendary Skull House and plans to live there permanently. Ellery and Brandon have history. Their relationship ended badly and the last thing Ellery wants is a chance to patch things up--especially when his relationship with Police Chief Jack Carson is just getting interesting. But then, maybe Brandon isn't all that interested in getting back together either, because he seems a lot more interested in asking questions about the bloodstained past of his new home than discussing a possible future with Ellery. What is Brandon really up to? Ellery will have to unscramble that particular puzzle post haste. Because after his former flame disappears following their loud and public argument, Ellery seems to be Police Chief Carson's first--and only--suspect.
Author: Penny Brooke
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 154
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It's the off-season in the seaside town of Somerset Harbor, and Rue Collier is splitting her attention between running her gran's bookshop and coordinating a local event, Martinis in the Garden. In conjunction with Rue's event, her best friend, Elizabeth, is curating an exhibit of old photographs from the area. But when a local hotel owner winds up dead, a victim of strangulation, strange clues begin to emerge in Elizabeth's seemingly innocuous photo collection. Soon, it's clear to Rue that the collected photos may help her develop a better image of who the killer is-and their motive. Will Rue be able to solve the murder before her own life is at risk? This fun-filled and clean bookshop cozy mystery will have you guessing until the very end.
Author: Tom Perrotta
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429921382
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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The Abstinence Teacher illuminates the powerful emotions that run beneath the placid surface of modern American family life, and explores the complicated spiritual and sexual lives of ordinary people. It is elegantly and simply written, characterized by the distinctive mix of satire and compassion that has become Tom Perrotta's trademark. Stonewood Heights is the perfect place to raise children: it's got good schools, solid values and a healthy real estate market. Parents in the town are involved in their children's lives, and often in other children's lives, too—coaching sports, driving carpool, focusing on enriching experiences. Ruth Ramsey is the high school human sexuality teacher whose openness is not appreciated by all her students—or their parents. Her daughter's soccer coach is Tim Mason, a former stoner and rocker whose response to hitting rock bottom was to reach out and be saved. Tim's introduction of Christianity on the playing field horrifies Ruth, while his evangelical church sees a useful target in the loose-lipped sex ed teacher. But when these two adversaries in a small-town culture war actually talk to each other, a surprising friendship begins to develop. "Perrotta is that rare combination: a satirist with heart....Those who haven't curled up on the couch with this writer's books are missing a very great pleasure."—Seattle Times "Tom Perrotta is a truth-telling, unshowy chronicler of modern-day America."—The NewYork Times Book Review (in a front-page review)
Author: Jennifer Sinor
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Twenty-one writers answer the call for literature that addresses who we are by understanding where we are--where, for each of them, being in some way part of academia. In personal essays, they imaginatively delineate and engage the diverse, occasionally unexpected play of place in shaping them, writers and teachers in varied environments, with unique experiences and distinctive world views, and reconfiguring for them conjunctions of identity and setting, here, there, everywhere, and in between. Contents I Introduction Writing Place, Jennifer Sinor II Here Six Kinds of Rain: Searching for a Place in the Academy, Kathleen Dean Moore and Erin E. Moore The Work the Landscape Calls Us To, Michael Sowder Valley Language, Diana Garcia What I Learned from the Campus Plumber, Charles Bergman M-I-Crooked Letter-Crooked Letter, Katherine Fischer On Frogs, Poems, and Teaching at a Rural Community College, Sean W. Henne III There Levittown Breeds Anarchists Film at 11:00, Kathryn T. Flannery Living in a Transformed Desert, Mitsuye Yamada A More Fortunate Destiny, Jayne Brim Box Imagined Vietnams, Charles Waugh IV Everywhere Teaching on Stolen Ground, Deborah A. Miranda The Blind Teaching the Blind: The Academic as Naturalist, or Not, Robert Michael Pyle Where Are You From? Lee Torda V In Between Going Away to Think, Scott Slovic Fronteriza Consciousness: The Site and Language of the Academy and of Life, Norma Elia Cantu Bones of Summer, Mary Clearman Blew Singing, Speaking, and Seeing a World, Janice M. Gould Making Places Work: Felt Sense, Identity, and Teaching, Jeffrey M. Buchanan VI Coda Running in Place: The Personal at Work, in Motion, on Campus, and in the Neighborhood, Rona Kaufman
Author: John Fraser
Publisher: eBookIt.com
ISBN: 1456612913
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 125
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Nihilism, Modernism, and Value consists of three jargon-free lectures addressed to the general reader. It explores a variety of ways in which writers responded to the phenomenon of nihilism in the 19th and early 20th centuries, By "nihilism" here is meant a sense, at times paralyzing, of the instability and perhaps groundlessness of all values. The book goes into some of the factors— psychological, sociological, philosophical—involved in that destabilizing. But its principal focus is on reintegration, and it draws freely on real-world experiences to illuminate concepts and strategies. Among the writers whose names figure in it are Conrad, Nietzsche, Beckett, Woolf, Heidegger, Rhys, Pushkin, Baudelaire, Hemingway, Lessing, Stevens, Valéry, and James (William), with particular attention at one point to Kafka and Borges. But no prior knowledge of them is required for following the argument, with its numerous lively quotations. The author himself is advancing heuristically, not just performing an academic exercise. The problems confronted are as relevant still as they were generations ago. A reviewer of John Fraser's first book spoke of "an extremely agile and incessantly active mind which illuminates almost every subject it touches." A reviewer of the second one, both of them published by Cambridge University Press, called it "a brilliant and utterly absorbing work," and said that "There are not many learned books which have the unputdownable quality of a thriller; this is one of them."
Author: Thos. D. Murphy
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 215
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In Unfamiliar England is a book by Thos. D. Murphy. A fascinating travelogue where the author takes the reader on an all-England tour by car, with excursions into Ireland as Scotland as well. Excerpt: "Ipswich, though a city of some seventy thousand people and of considerable activity, is by no means shorn of its old-time interest and picturesqueness. There are many crooked old-world streets where the soft, time-mellowed tones of the gray walls and antique gables are diversified by carved beams, plaster fronts and diamond-paned windows, each of which has its box of brightly colored flowers."
Author: Agatha Ball
Publisher: Kate Danley
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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The Founders' Festival has come to the sleepy island town of Seaside. It's a week of live music, crafts, homemade goodies, and fun. But when one of the village's residents ends up dead, it's clear things are not all fun and carnival games. It will be up to coffee shop barista Paige, rich island founder Nate, and surfer dude Johnny to figure out whodunit. Book Two in the Paige Comber Mystery series cozy mystery, cozy mysteries, clean, clean romance, light romance, funny romance, comedic mysteries, summer, beach, island, book, books, coffee shop, small town, bakery, culinary, fun, sweet romance, bookshop, cozies, cozy culinary mysteries For Fans of Kathi Daley, Kate Danley, Leighann Dobbs, Lexy Baker, Dianne Harman, Cindy Bell, Amber Crewes, Leena Clover, Pelican Cove, Susan Harper, Rosie A Point, Joanne Fluke, Sheri Richey
