Sheila’s Bucket

Sheila’s Bucket
Author: Johannes Black
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2013-11-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1304565831

Chants of "Whack 'em! Whack 'em!" signal the creation of the University Anti-Corruption Movement (UACM)-a movement that will find itself in the center of a tempest, including a financial scandal and a tragic act of violence that ends up galvanizing an entire city, state, and nation. As an increasingly intransigent university administration continues to ignore a student strike, the protesters slowly escalate their action-as does the police captain in charge of crowd control. When rumors of student abductions begin to surface, things really begin to get out of hand. It is in this powder-keg environment that a fall semester begins and ends for the soon-to-retire university president Arlan Bellows and political science majors Kyle Remington and Sheila MacLise. Sheila's Bucket is a novel set on an unnamed university campus in the United States. It addresses the issue of higher education affordability and the ever-increasing debt today's students get saddled with-before that first job...

Show Me Good Land

Show Me Good Land
Author: Shonna Milliken Humphrey
Publisher: Down East Books
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2011-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1608930017

Set in fictional Fort Angus, Maine, Show Me Good Land tells the story of a small rural town struggling with poverty and decay after decades of prosperity. Loosely linked through a grisly murder, its characters must navigate the ambiguous moral landscape of a waning community. It is a moving, sometimes melancholy, often funny novel about family, community, loss, redemption, and coming home. The pleasure lies in exploring the personalities of the characters, none of whom are all good or all bad, and eventually deciding where the reader's own moral lines are drawn. Not since Carolyn Chute's The Beans of Egypt, Maine, has a cast of characters been so shocking, beautifully rendered, and ultimately likeable.

Stolen Identity

Stolen Identity
Author: Daniel B Austin
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 302
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 0557726867

The Chairs Are Where the People Go

The Chairs Are Where the People Go
Author: Misha Glouberman
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2011-07-05
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1429968648

Should neighborhoods change? Is wearing a suit a good way to quit smoking? Why do people think that if you do one thing, you're against something else? Is monogamy a trick? Why isn't making the city more fun for you and your friends a super-noble political goal? Why does a computer last only three years? How often should you see your parents? How should we behave at parties? Is marriage getting easier? What can spam tell us about the world? Misha Glouberman's friend and collaborator, Sheila Heti, wanted her next book to be a compilation of everything Misha knew. Together, they made a list of subjects. As Misha talked, Sheila typed. He talked about games, relationships, cities, negotiation, improvisation, Casablanca, conferences, and making friends. His subjects ranged from the sublime to the ridiculous. But sometimes what had seemed trivial began to seem important—and what had seemed important began to seem less so. The Chairs Are Where the People Go is refreshing, appealing, and kind of profound. It's a self-help book for people who don't feel they need help, and a how-to book that urges you to do things you don't really need to do.

Sheila Roberts Life in Icicle Falls Series Books 4-6

Sheila Roberts Life in Icicle Falls Series Books 4-6
Author: Sheila Roberts
Publisher: MIRA
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2017-04-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1488031770

Join bestselling author Sheila Roberts in the town of Icicle Falls, where life’s full of surprises, and happiness is just around the corner! Together for the first time in one box set, books 4-6 in her popular Life in Icicle Falls series: The Cottage on Juniper Ridge Muriel Sterling’s guide to plain living, Simplicity, inspires Jen Heath has left her stressful, overcommitted life and moved to Icicle Falls, where she rents a lovely little cottage on Juniper Ridge to enjoy simple pleasures—like joining the local book club—and complicated ones, like falling in love with her sexy landlord, Garrett Armstrong. Other women in town are also inspired to unload their excess stuff and some of the extra responsibilities they’ve taken on. But as they all discover, sometimes life simply happens. It doesn’t always happen simply! The Tea Shop on Lavender Lane After a fake food poisoning incident in L.A., Bailey Sterling’s dreams of becoming a caterer to the stars collapse faster than a soufflé. But the Sterling women close ranks and bring her back to Icicle Falls, where she’ll stay with her sister Cecily. All goes well between the sisters until Bailey comes up with a new business idea—a tea shop on a charming street called Lavender Lane. She’s going into partnership with Todd Black, who—it turns out—is the man Cecily’s started dating. It looks to Cecily as if there’s more than tea brewing in that cute little shop. And she’s not pleased... So now what? Should you have to choose between your sister and the man you love? The Lodge on Holly Road James Claussen has played Santa for years, but now that he’s a widower, he’s lost interest—in everything. So his daughter, Brooke, kidnaps him from the mall (in his Santa suit!) and takes him to Icicle Falls. She’s arranged a special Christmas at the lodge owned by long-widowed Olivia Wallace and her son, Eric. Brooke wants Dad to be happy, and yet…she’s not ready to see someone else’s mommy kissing Santa Claus. Single mom Missy Monroe brings her kids to the lodge, too. They’ve each got Christmas wish lists, but what Missy wants is an attractive, dependable man. A man like John Truman… But John’s girlfriend will be joining him in Icicle Falls, and he’s going to propose. Of course not everything goes as planned. But sometimes the best gifts are the ones you don’t expect!

Out There

Out There
Author: Mikael Covey
Publisher: Andromache Books
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2009-07-24
Genre:
ISBN: 1409288692

This is what it's like to be young during the greatest time in history. Days of total freedom, wild times, real times, free sex, free love, and rock 'n roll forever. In 'Out There' Mikael Covey writes in a prose as wildly lyrical, as harsh and beautiful as the stark prairies and wide open country. A hymn to eternal youth that takes you on a trip you'll never forget ' from little towns in Nebraska to the blighted paradise of California. Every page sings with the wise and delicate poetry of a free spirit. An Andromache Books title.

Dust & Grooves

Dust & Grooves
Author: Eilon Paz
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Total Pages: 577
Release: 2015-09-15
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1607748703

A photographic look into the world of vinyl record collectors—including Questlove—in the most intimate of environments—their record rooms. Compelling photographic essays from photographer Eilon Paz are paired with in-depth and insightful interviews to illustrate what motivates these collectors to keep digging for more records. The reader gets an up close and personal look at a variety of well-known vinyl champions, including Gilles Peterson and King Britt, as well as a glimpse into the collections of known and unknown DJs, producers, record dealers, and everyday enthusiasts. Driven by his love for vinyl records, Paz takes us on a five-year journey unearthing the very soul of the vinyl community.

Reagan

Reagan
Author: Bob Spitz
Publisher:
Total Pages: 914
Release: 2018
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1594205310

"More than five years in the making, based on hundreds of interviews and access to previously unavailable documents, ... [this is a] chronicle of the full arc of Ronald Reagan's epic life--giving full weight to the Hollywood years, his transition to politics and rocky but ultimately successful run as California governor, and ultimately, of course, his ... presidency, filled with storm and stress but climaxing with his peace talks with the Soviet Union"--

The Wicked Heart

The Wicked Heart
Author: Christopher Pike
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2022-10-07
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1665940638

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Club—now an original Netflix series! Dusty Shame was a high school senior, and a serial killer. Already he has murdered three young women, and he has more planned. Yet Dusty did not want to hurt anybody. There was something inside him, or perhaps outside him, that compelled him to kill. Sheila Hardolt has lost her best friend to Dusty’s brutal attacks. It will be her task to probe the clues Dusty has left at the site of each of his murders. Clues that will point her into the past—to a time when a large portion of mankind lost all sense of decency. There she will find the seed of Dusty’s evil compulsion, the Wicked Heart, and the reason why it did not die the first time it was destroyed.

Last Reunion

Last Reunion
Author: E. C. Craver
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2001-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0595190812

Murder brings terror to the tiny town of Pine Ridge, Washington. Amy, the murder victim is one of the girls returning for the class reunion. The sheriff realizes, at the scene of the murder, this is a death so hideous, it must be solved quickly for the peace of mind of all the people in his county. He knows his old high school buddy, Dain Barlow, a trained Los Angeles Homicide Detective, returning home for the reunion, is just the person he needs to make sure this crime will come to a successful conclusion, so he enlists his help. The sheriff, the only Indian boy in the class which is returning for the reunion, suddenly begins to have headaches and black outs. Consulting a doctor he is stunned to discover he has an inoperable brain tumor. He is unaware the savage, Chief Looking Glass, a direct ancestor of long years ago, is taking over during his fugues.