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Welcome to Carthage, South Carolina - a town that consists of Republicans, and independents who split from that party because they believe Republicans aren't conservative enough. As lines are crossed and lives ruined, Dre’s increasingly cutthroat campaign threatens the last remnants of his own humanity and the very soul of Carthage County.Ī piercing portrait of our fragile democracy and one man's unraveling, THE COYOTES OF CARTHAGE may very well be the political novel of our times.įifteen minutes he's been in Carthage, and he already hates this place. Under Dre's cynical direction, a land grab is disguised as a righteous fight for faith and liberty. Fitz's well-meaning yet naïve grandson Brendan on his "team." A local is needed as a strawman to collect signatures, and Dre hires blue-collar couple, oafish Tyler Lee and his pious wife Chalene, to act as the initiative's public face. The goal: to manipulate the locals into voting in favor of the sale of pristine public land to the highest bidder.ĭre arrives in God-fearing, flag-waving Carthage County, an area America's New Economy has left behind, with only Mrs. Fitz, who plucked him from juvenile incarceration and shepherded his career, is exiling him to the boondocks of South Carolina with $250,000 of dark money to introduce a ballot initiative on behalf of a mining company. Despite being a successful African-American political consultant, his aggressive tactics have tarnished his firm's reputation.
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But as she delves further into the mystery, Tempest can’t help but wonder if the Raj family curse that’s plagued her family for generations-something she used to swear didn’t exist-has finally come for her. Fearing she was the intended victim, it’s up to Tempest to solve this seemingly impossible crime. When Tempest visits her dad’s latest renovation project, her former stage double is discovered dead inside a wall that’s supposedly been sealed for more than a century. Secret Staircase Construction specializes in bringing the magic of childhood to all by transforming clients’ homes with sliding bookcases, intricate locks, backyard treehouses, and hidden reading nooks. Though she resists, every day brings her closer to the inevitable: working for her father’s company. After a disastrous accident derails Tempest Raj’s career, and life, she heads back to her childhood home in California to comfort herself with her grandfather’s Indian home-cooked meals. The intrigue of hidden rooms and secret staircases. 'Wildly entertaining.' -The New York Times Book Review A Lefty Nominee for Best Mystery NovelKnown for her wonderfully addictive characters, multiple award-winning author Gigi Pandian introduces her newest heroine in this heartfelt series debut. Under Lock & Skeleton Key layers stunning architecture with mouthwatering food in an ode to classic locked-room mysteries that will leave readers enchanted. Known for her wonderfully addictive characters, multiple award-winning author Gigi Pandian introduces her newest heroine in this heartfelt series debut.
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Rediscovering Values by Jim Wallis6/7/2023 His book, God's Politics (2006), was a New York Times bestseller. Over the years, Wallis' influence has steadily grown, as he has delivered lectures and sermons in various locations around the country and around the world, and has published a series of books such as Call to Conversion (1981), The Soul of Politics (1995), The Great Awakening: Reviving Faith and Politics in a Post-Religious Right America (2008), and Rediscovering Values: On Wall Street, Main Street, and Your Street (2010). Wallis is the founder and editor-in-chief of Sojourners and the convener of Call to Renewal, an interfaith effort to combat the systemic causes of poverty. That magazine and that community formed the seed for Sojournersmagazine and the community of "social justice Christians" around it. Raised in a traditional evangelical family, Jim Wallis became active in the civil rights movement in Detroit and then, after he finished his graduate training at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, founded a magazine entitled The Post-American with a circle of like-minded seminarians.
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A dirty business tijan6/7/2023 She’s an absolute spitfire, and he wants to stoke that flame. Especially when it’s a brunette bombshell with attitude and legs for days. The last thing Trace needs is a romantic anything with law enforcement, and parole officer Jess has trouble written all over her. And forgetting is exactly what she wants to do when she learns he’s not just a successful Wall Street suit but the heir to one of New York’s biggest Mafia families. What she does know is there’s an instant attraction that’s impossible to ignore-or forget. When Jess Montell meets Trace West at a hockey game, she doesn’t know his name or occupation. From New York Times bestselling author Tijan comes a raw, tempestuous romance between the criminal underworld and a parole officer that paints a thin line between right and wrong.
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And some would probably find their way underground, where such a thing is possible. There would surely be groups of people, entire communities that would go back to old values. (Hot water has been banned and the government controls fish byproducts, or something along those lines.) But in a world destroyed by a disease, with no government, internet or means of transportation, extremely violent gangs would undoubtedly form, as they did in Deuce’s world. I need them to make sense, but sometimes they truly do appear as if they’d been created by YA Dystopia Story Generator. Let’s start with the worldbuilding, shall we? I can be rather nitpicky when it comes to dystopian worlds. I’m very familiar with her work – I’ve read everything she’s published under her own name, some books more than once even, and I’ve long ago stopped being surprised by how consistently good she is. The list of reasons why Ann Aguirre’s books always affect me so deeply is about three miles long. There’s a reason for everything, and a million reasons for some things. No, I was terrified because, even before starting it, I knew it would crush me into tiny Maja bits. After reading 11 of her books and loving them all, I know perfectly well what she’s capable of. (Oh, stop trying to run away, I’m not about to start singing for real.) I must admit I was terrified of reading this book, but not because I doubted Aguirre in the least. Here we are again: me singing praise to Ann Aguirre and you guys putting up with me.
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One last stop book6/7/2023 With all the fun and camp of a drag show (of which this novel features more than one) but grounded in the tenderness of first love, this time-slip rom-com is an absolute delight. Together with her found family of queer misfits, August sets out to save Jane and find herself. Worse, she’s stuck on the bizarrely malfunctioning Q line, doomed to ride the Subway forever in an amnesiac’s fog-unless August can find a way to rescue her. Jane’s circumstances are also far from ordinary: she’s from the 1970s, displaced in time by a mysterious event. Cole Williams Quoted from her instagram: 'NYT bestselling author of RED, WHITE & ROYAL BLUE Casey McQuistons ONE LAST STOP, pitched as a queer Kate & Leopold, in w more. But before long she finds herself falling for Jane Su, a punk lesbian she sees everyday on her commute. Also ECSTATIC that you are writing another book as Red, White, and Royal Blue is my favorite book right now. She is, as her new roommate puts it, “a reformed girl detective,” and she’s jaded and bitter enough to earn the title. At 23, August Landry moves to Brooklyn with few belongings but heaps of emotional baggage from a childhood spent helping her conspiracy theorist mother work to track down a long-missing relative. McQuiston’s joyful sophomore romp mixes all the elements that made Red, White & Royal Blue so outstanding-quirky characters, coming-of-age confusion, laugh-out-loud narration, and hilarious pop-cultural references (“Bella Swan, eat your horny little Mormon heart out”)-into something totally its own.
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In fact, the entire school begins to see James as "Super-Jim."īut the "makeover" creates a surprise that nobody saw coming, especially Jana. The makeover might take some extra work, but she's ready for the challenge. James will just have to be president instead. Not to worry - Jana has everything under control. The problem is, Alex doesn't want to be president, and James has no interest in becoming popular. She's determined to turn James Orville Wickenbee, her brother's new best friend, into one of the "cool kids." After all, Jana can't afford to have James - a "nobody," not to mention a Mormon - ruin her plans to get her brother elected as student body president. Your new picture, the after picture, which shows you as Super-Jim."Īt Fairport High School, Jana has taken on a special project. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. A day or two before the election we place a picture of the new and improved you in that spot. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for The Makeover of James Orville Wickenbee at. Under it we write 'Fairport's Next President.' As the campaign progresses, James, you improve. But on the other end, we leave a blank square for another picture of you. "On one end we place a large picture of what you look like now. "A before picture?" James looked confused. The banner reads: 'Watch James Wickenbee turn into Super-Jim!'" "Picture a huge banner with a before picture of you, James, on one end. "I have a plan!" I said excitedly to James and Alex. The Makeover of James Orville Wickenbee E-Kitap Açıklaması
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Merivel a man of his time6/6/2023 I was fortunate in having read it but had forgotten or half-forgotten a good deal of it, so the revisiting was a pleasure. If you hadn’t read Restoration, a lot of the reprising of the action in that book in this one would be annoying. It has the same central character, Sir Robert of that name – a randy, witty, somewhat cowardly but resourceful doctor, enjoying the favour of the king and a handsome estate he’s been granted for veterinary service to the royal spaniels. Merivel is a sequel set twenty years later. It was a romp through the early years of Charles II’s reign, with lots of sex, silk, satin and lace. When, in my constant search for a readable historical novel, I encountered Rose Tremain’s Restoration in 1980, my day was made (several days actually). This sequel to Restoration is a hectic, witty adventure set in seventeenth-century England and Europe. Tags: Charles II/ historical fiction/ Louis XIV/ Restoration
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Deathless divide by justina ireland6/6/2023 But after the hell she has endured, she knows friends are hard to come by - and that Jane needs her, too, whether Jane wants to admit it or not. Katherine Deveraux never expected to be allied with Jane McKeene. Caught between mysteries and lies, the undead, and her own inner demons, Jane soon finds herself on a dark path of blood and violence that threatens to consume her. What's more, this safe haven is not what it appears - as Jane discovers when she sees familiar faces from Summerland amid this new society. The sequel to Dread Nation is a journey of revenge and salvation across a divided America.Īfter the fall of Summerland, Jane McKeene hoped her life would get simpler: Get out of town, stay alive, and head west to California to find her mother.īut nothing is easy when you're a girl trained in putting down the restless dead, and a devastating loss on the road to a protected village called Nicodermus has Jane questioning everything she thought she knew about surviving in 1880's America.
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Hardy cates lisa kleypas6/5/2023 This story sure did pull at the heart strings. I’ve seen rave reviews of this book everywhere and when I finally picked it up, I read and read and read until I was at the end and sad that it was all finished. It’s been quite a long time since I read the first book, Sugar Daddy but I hecka loved that book and knew that I was going to enjoy this one as well. And Hardy Cates, a family enemy, is the last person she needs darkening her door-or setting her soul on fire. This time, she is determined to guard her heart. But when Haven marries a man her family disapproves of, her life is set on a new and dangerous course. Despite her family’s money, she refuses to set out on the path they’ve chosen for her. He’s made enemies in the rough-and-tumble ride to the top of Houston’s oil industry. He’s a self-made millionaire who comes from the wrong side of the tracks. |