October 24, 2006 – 11:00 am
Jessica is a worrier.
She worries about everything, and that includes what to bring to class for 100th Day. Nothing she can think of seems right.
100 ice cubes?
Too melty.
100 marshmallows?
Too sticky.
100 toothpicks?
Too pointy.
Come count, add, and multiply with Jessica as she, with the help of her family, finds the perfect answer to her 100th Day worries.
“100th Day Worries” is a story about a girl named Jessica whose first-grade teacher asks each student to bring in a collection of 100 things to mark the the day. Read More »
October 23, 2006 – 10:30 am
The Story Line of The Ruins starts out really slow but it builds, introducing the reader to each of the four characters.
Jeff and Amy and Eric and Stacy are two couples. Eric is the party guy who has settled into his future, planning on marrying Stacy, and being a high school sports coach.
Stacy is okay with her lot in life, but she’s still sowing a few wild oats when Eric’s not looking – but only up to a point. Jeff is a survivor, someone who always has a plan no matter what the situation. Amy tends to be selfish and needy, but a good person in a good situation, but this group left “good situation†back at the edge of the jungle.
While spending three weeks in Cancun, Mexico after graduation from college. They meet Mathias, a young German man who is also vacationing on the Yucatan Peninsula with his brother. During his rendezvous, Mathias tells everyone he’s worried about his brother, who has been missing for several days. He’d gone off into the jungle to follow a woman working on an archaeological dig and never returned. He’d left behind a map of his intended destination, though. Matthias grows increasingly nervous each day when his brother fails to return, and eventually wants to go in search of him. Spurred on by Jeff despite their uneasiness about the idea, the four Americans agree to go with Matthias and head into the jungle. They are accompanied by one of the Greeks, nicknamed Pablo, who makes a copy of the map and leaves it behind for his friends. Read More »
October 20, 2006 – 10:32 am
In this inspiring paperback, David McCullough tells the powerfully human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence – when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for independence would have been dashed and the noble ideals of the Declaration would have amounted to little more than words on paper.
Based on extensive research in both American and British archives, 1776 is a powerful drama written with extraordinary narrative vitality. It is the story of Americans in the ranks, men of every shape, size, and color, farmers, schoolteachers, shoemakers, no-accounts, and mere boys turned soldiers. And it is the story of the King’s men, the British commander, William Howe, and his highly disciplined redcoats who looked on their rebel foes with contempt and fought with a valor too little known.
Here also is the Revolution as experienced by American Loyalists, Hessian mercenaries, politicians, preachers, traitors, spies, men and women of all kinds caught in the paths of war.
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October 19, 2006 – 9:15 am
Memorable characters, sizzling romance, and interesting suspense: These are the trademarks of author Judith Mc Naught. With millions of devoted fans and ten New York Times bestsellers to date, Mc Naught is a writer whose work just gets better with each new novel-and Every Breath You Take is the book readers have been waiting for.
Returning to the lavish Chicago setting of her popular novel Paradise, and revisiting some of that book’s characters as well, this story will captivate in inimitable Judith Mc Naught style.
The plot begins with the missing and supposed dead of Mitchell’s half brother William. Mitchell Wyatt is under suspicion of murder by the D.A. Gray Elliott. It seems that since Mitchell has surfaced from his life in Europe, people have died unexpectedly.
Mitchell is the illegitimate son of a man who was rich and had plenty of influence. His grandfather, Cecil Wyatt, had even more. So Mitchell was send off to Europe as a baby, raised first by a foster family in Italy and later in a several of boarding and prep schools. He attended as a “scholarship student of an anonymous donor.†He was never quite good enough for the parents of the boys he became friends with and thus, he was isolated much of his life. But this same isolation served him well and he strove for business acumen and wealth. One of his friend father took him under his wing and taught him how to succeed, the Greek aristocratic way. Mitchell learned well and soon built a fortune of his own. Read More »
October 18, 2006 – 6:23 am
THREE WEEKS WITH MY BROTHER is a journal by Nicholas Sparks and his brother Micah, about their travel to some very exotic spots in the world. The adventures of the two brothers, fun-loving Micah, and introspective Nicholas, also flashes back to scenes from their childhoods as they consider their relationship, and also how they overcome struggles in life. Having lost their parents to an accident, and their only sister to cancer, the two brothers are the only links left to their family tree.
In the middle of deadlines and other stresses of life, Nicholas Spark gets a piece of junk mail that changed many things in his life. It was a pamphlet advertisement offering a unique trip around the world. Now whom should he ask to accompany him to the trip. He first asked his wife and she didn’t want to leave the kids. Then he thought that he could travel the world with his brother his other best friend. Nicholas took his brother Micah on this journey around the world – and he kept a log of the trip, which later got developed into Three Weeks With My Brother. Read More »