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Vicki and C.J. are expecting a week of fun and relaxation on the cruise when a groom disappears just before his wedding.
A young woman and her group of friends in Sport, Maine, are immediately on the case when a priceless diamond is stolen from the Heritage Museum. Can they piece together the puzzle and discover the thief's identity, or will he discover theirs first?
Gay high school sweethearts struggle to maintain their relationship when one of them relocates for a job in this witty, heartfelt debut. Some people spend their whole lives looking for the right partner. Nate Schaper found his in high school. In the eight months since their cautious flirting became a real, heart-pounding, tell-the-parents relationship, Nate and Adam have been inseparable. Even when local kids take their homophobia to brutal levels, Nate is undaunted. He and Adam are rock solid. Two parts of a whole. Yin and yang. But when Adam graduates and takes an off-Broadway job in New York—at Nate’s insistence—that certainty begins to flicker. Nate’s friends can’t keep his ins...
The Cañon City area's high points have been literal, starting with the magnificent Royal Gorge. Here the Royal Gorge Bridge crosses the Arkansas River, 1,053 feet below, as the highest suspension span in the world. From the scenic and geological diversity to some of the initial oil discoveries in the United States, this Fremont County seat has been a hub of coal mining and archaeological discoveries, particularly of dinosaur remains. The temperate weather means long growing seasons, celebrated each May by the Blossom and Music Festival. Once a commerce center supplying food, lumber, and other goods to surrounding gold towns--from Cripple Creek to Leadville--Cañon City also once was a silent-film capital, the base for hundreds of motion pictures produced after the beginning of the 20th century. Prisons and their residents have always been a huge part of Cañon City history; the first territorial prison was located here and many more prisons operate here today.
Before the rise of private homes as we now understand them, the realm of personal, private, and local relations in England was the parish, which was also the sphere of poverty management. Between the 1740s and the 1790s, legislators, political economists, reformers, and novelists transferred the parish system’s functions to another institution that promised self-sufficient prosperity: the laborer’s cottage. Expanding its scope beyond the parameters of literary history and previous studies of domesticity, Be It Ever So Humble posits that the modern middle-class home was conceived during the eighteenth century in England, and that its first inhabitants were the poor. Over the course of the...
ABOUT THE SERIES: The Sonshine Girls is a series created to inspire young girls to exercise their faith in God, while enjoying Christian story telling. The series is similar to The Baby-Sitters Club where you get to know the characters by how they react to the various challenges in their daily lives. Each character is unique, and loosely based on the author's own daughters and childhood friends, so each holds a special place in her heart. SYNOPSIS: A new girl, Kristin, comes to town, and a group of three friends quickly becomes four. Kristin is immediately confronted by the church bully, Greta, and has to learn how to deal with harassment in a Christian manner. But, there's a bigger secret lurking in this little town church. A secret between Ellie and Alma that has lasted over 50 years. What could it be? See how the girls, and adults, learn how to extend forgiveness and understanding to their friends as well as their enemies.