My baby bassets have been asking me to go to McDonald’s just about everyday, and a million times each day, so I had them watch “Super Size Me” problem solved. I think carrots and celery will be on the top ten most requested food list for the next month.
Freeman
Leonard Pitts
Genre: United States
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Freeman, the new novel by Leonard Pitts, Jr., takes place in the first few months following the Confederate surrender and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Upon learning of Lee’s surrender, Sam–a runaway slave who once worked for the Union Army–decides to leave his safe haven in Philadelphia and set out on foot to return to the war-torn South. What compels him on this almost-suicidal course is the desire to find his wife, the mother of his only child, whom he and their son left behind 15 years earlier on the Mississippi farm to which they all “belonged.”
At the same time, Sam’s wife, Tilda, is being forced to walk at gunpoint with her owner and two of his other slaves from the charred remains of his Mississippi farm into Arkansas, in search of an undefined place that would still respect his entitlements as slaveowner and Confederate officer.
The book’s third main character, Prudence, is a fearless, headstrong white woman of means who leaves her Boston home for Buford, Mississippi, to start a school for the former bondsmen, and thus honor her father’s dying wish.
At bottom, Freeman is a love story–sweeping, generous, brutal, compassionate, patient–about the feelings people were determined to honor, despite the enormous constraints of the times.It is this aspect of the book that should ensure it a strong, vocal, core audience of African-American women, who will help propel its likely critical acclaim to a wider audience. At the same time, this book addresses several themes that are still hotly debated today, some 145 years after the official end of the Civil War. Like Cold Mountain, Freeman illuminates the times and places it describes from a fresh perspective, with stunning results. It has the potential to become a classic addition to the literature dealing with this period. Few other novels so powerfully capture the pathos and possibility of the era particularly as it reflects the ordeal of the black slaves grappling with the promise–and the terror–of their new status as free men and women.
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The Man Who Ended the World
Jason Gurley
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When Steven Glass’s third grade teacher asked his class what they wanted to be when they grew up, Steven’s classmates shouted the usual answers: “A fireman!” “A teacher!” “The President!” When his turn came, Steven said, “When I grow up I’m going to be the last man on Earth.”
Warning signs don’t come much clearer than that.
Nearly thirty years later, Steven Glass is a billionaire. Surrounded by groupies, yes-men, investment opportunities and glamor, all Steven really wants is to be alone.
Really, really alone.
In secret, Steven builds a personal sanctuary nearly a mile underground. He vanishes from public life, goes off the grid. He’s finally alone. Well, except for an artificial intelligence companion named after the only girl he ever loved.
There, Steven plays video games, heckles the news, and waits for the apocalypse. When the end doesn’t come soon enough, Steven goes to work. He still has billions of dollars to spend — and there must be something he can do to accelerate the coming storm.
Wrestling with his own destiny, unaware of the young stowaways who have discovered his underground paradise, and battling his duplicitous A.I. companion at every turn, Steven Glass struggles to create the reality he has always hoped for — at the expense of the future of every single living human being on Earth…
Unless a pair of eleven-year-old children can stop him and save the world, that is.
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Remembering Redbank
Jack Coleman
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense | Religion & Spirituality
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REMEMBERING REDBANK is a coming of age novel that is certain to capture the hearts of young and old alike. In these pages, you will become acquainted with some close friends from the high school class of 1952 and walk with them through the best of times and the worst of times. You will read about the local soda fountain, a winning football team, the senior prom and an old car named Lizzy. Certainly these things represent the best of times. But then suddenly the worst of times are also experienced: a murder, an accusation, a prison cell and a verdict. Young lives are forever changed as the storm clouds roll in, This book will captivate your heart as these fictional friends quickly become your personal friends when you travel back in time with them to a small town in Virginia and find yourself Remembering Redbank.
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Faith and Hope in Lancaster (The Amish of Lancaster County #1)
Daisy Fields
Genre: Romance | Religious & Inspirational Fiction | Religion & Spirituality
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(Part One of the Amish of Lancaster County serial. Please note that while Shelfari calls this a series, it is actually a serial.This novella-length section is the first third of the novel. If you want to read the entire story at once, please click on my author name and look for the complete megabook, titled The Amish of Lancaster County, or feel free to enjoy the installments one by one.)
Plain Amish Hannah Stoltzfus of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, has her hands full! Her youngest daughter is about to go on rumspringa in New York City, her middle daughter has to choose between the two men vying for her hand in marriage, and her son brings home an English girl. What’s a mother and wife to do? Turn to God’s guidance and her own belief in hope, trust, and love to get her family through, of course. But will it be enough?
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The Goodwill Vultures Club:A Day of Heroes
Hugh Willard
Genre: Children’s eBooks
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“You’d better keep that wrinkled-headed, alien freak away,” was not an uncommon thing to hear when 10 year old, Elton “Buzz” Stewart takes his pet vulture out in public places. Roberta, who prefers to be called Rob, is a gentle spirit and often misunderstood by people who don’t see beyond her outward appearance. The Goodwill Vultures Club is the story of Buzz and Rob who learn that even an ugly, ailing bird is capable of bringing life and happiness to the lives of others.
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