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The sister circle : sister circle, book 1 / by Bright, Vonette Z.(CARDINAL)776070; Moser, Nancy.(CARDINAL)355755;
Newly widowed 56-year-old Evelyn Peerbaugh must take in boarders to make ends meet. Her rooms fill up with a motley crew-Mae Fitzpatrick, an aging hippie who drives a old VW bug and runs a jewelry business called Silver-Wear; single mom Audra Taylor and her precocious five-year-old daughter, Summer; and the elderly Tessa Klein, a harsh Christian widow-described by Evelyn's horrified son Russell as "an overaged floozy, an unwed mother, an illegitimate child, and a judgmental grandma." Throw in her frequent visitors, and Evelyn is soon popping antacids like candy.
Subjects: Christian fiction.; Fiction.; Traffic accident victims; Widows; Female friendship; Boardinghouses; Women; Women's friendships.; Women.; Womyn.;
Available copies: 11 / Total copies: 11
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In France profound : the long history of a house, a mountain town, and a people / by Allman, T. D.,author.(CARDINAL)169435;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-450) and index.44°15'4" North, 1°08'18" East -- Discerning the face of the sky -- The constant proscenium -- Of wasps and wombs -- Frying pan boy -- In Bouvine's unseen wake -- The sleep of reason produces monsters -- Caedite eos -- Vulgarium numerus infinitus -- Secret routes -- The remembered Montfort -- Everything that rises -- Of all her ilk -- Swearing on the altar -- Uninventable denouements -- Our Quercy pope -- Loving the shepherd -- Brave widow Gandillonne -- The black prince syndrome -- Bridge of the devil -- Even ancient walls shall be destroyed -- Worth a mass -- Jerry-built by Bonaparte -- Paris is the pattern -- Incunabula of the ATM -- The voice in the loft -- The wisdom of old houses -- The pigeons are rrowing -- Parallel lives -- I stand with De Gaulle -- Holes -- For whom the bells tolled -- Ambassadors of progress -- Glass globe wars -- Triumph of the traffic circles -- Envoi : unto us the dead impart the sweetness of life."When T. D. Allman purchased an 800-year-old house in the mountain village of Lauzerte in southwestern France, he aimed to find refuge from the world's tumults. Instead, he found that humanity's most telling melodramas, from the paleolithic to the postmodern, were graven in its stones and visible from its windows. Indeed, the history of France can be viewed from the perspective of Lauzerte and its surrounding area-just as Allman, from one window, can see Lauzerte unfold before him in the Place des Cornières, where he watches performances of the opera Tosca and each Saturday buys produce from "Fred, the Foie Gras Guy"; while from the other side facing the Pyrenees he surveys the fated landscape that generated many events giving birth to the modern world. The dynastic struggles of Eleanor of Aquitaine, he finds, led to Lauzerte's remarkably progressive charter issued in 1241, which even then enshrined human rights in its 51 articles. From Eleanor's marriage to English king Henry II in 1154 dates the never-ending melodrama pitting English arrogance against French resistance; in 2016 Brexit demonstrated that this perpetual contretemps is another of the vaster conditions life in Lauzerte illuminates. Allman chronicles the many conflicts that have swirled in the region, from the Catholic Church's genocidal campaign to wipe out "heresy" there; to France's own sixteenth-century Wars of Religion, which saw hundreds massacred in the town square, some inside his house; to World War II, during which Lauzerte was part of Nazi-occupied Vichy. In prose as crystalline as his view to the Pyrenees on a clear day, Allman animates Lauzerte and its surrounding communities-Cahors, Moissac, Montauban-all ever in thrall to the magnetic impulse of Paris. Witness to so many dramas over the centuries, his house comes alive as a historical protagonist in its own right, from its wine-cellar cave to the roof where he wages futile battle with pigeons, to the life lessons it conveys."--
Subjects: Informational works.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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The sister circle [large print] : Sister circle, book 1 / by Bright, Vonette Z.,author.(CARDINAL)776070; Moser, Nancy,author.(CARDINAL)355755;
Newly widowed 56-year-old Evelyn Peerbaugh must take in boarders to make ends meet. Her rooms fill up with a motley crew-Mae Fitzpatrick, an aging hippie who drives a old VW bug and runs a jewelry business called Silver-Wear; single mom Audra Taylor and her precocious five-year-old daughter, Summer; and the elderly Tessa Klein, a harsh Christian widow-described by Evelyn's horrified son Russell as "an overaged floozy, an unwed mother, an illegitimate child, and a judgmental grandma." Throw in her frequent visitors, and Evelyn is soon popping antacids like candy.
Subjects: Large print books.; Christian fiction.; Fiction.; Traffic accident victims; Female friendship; Boardinghouses; Widows; Women's friendships.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6
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The hopefuls : a novel / by Close, Jennifer,author.(CARDINAL)395967;
"A brilliantly funny novel about ambition and marriage from the best-selling author of "Girls in White Dresses," "The Hopefuls" tells the story of a young wife who follows her husband and his political dreams to Washington, DC, a city of idealism, gossip, and complicated friendships among the young aspiring elite. When Beth arrives in DC, she hates everything about it: the confusing traffic circles, the ubiquitous Ann Taylor suits, the humidity that descends each summer. At dinner parties, guests compare their security clearance levels. They leave their BlackBerrys on the table. They speak in acronyms. And once they realize Beth doesn't work in politics, they smile blandly and turn away. Soon Beth and her husband, Matt, meet a charismatic White House staffer named Jimmy, and his wife, Ashleigh, and the four become inseparable, coordinating brunches, birthdays, and long weekends away. But as Jimmy's star rises higher and higher, the couples' friendship—and Beth's relationship with Matt—is threatened by jealousy, competition, and rumors. A glorious send-up of young DC and a blazingly honest portrait of a marriage, this is the finest work yet by one of our most beloved writers"--
Subjects: Political fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Humorous fiction.; Married people; Political culture; Married people.;
Available copies: 24 / Total copies: 26
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Whiskey at the wheel; the scandal of driving and drinking / by Grant, J. Marse.; NULL DATA,illustrator.;
Subjects: Drinking and traffic accidents.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Clinton Anderson's Training on the trail : practical solutions for trail riding / by Anderson, Clinton,author.(CARDINAL)463734; Meyer, Jennifer Forsberg.(CARDINAL)491689;
Overriding a spook -- Outsmarting a jigger -- Stopping a grass snatcher -- Longeing for respect: preperation -- Longeing for respect: circling -- Longeing for respect: changing directions -- Suppling on the trail -- Desensitizing to traffic -- Crossing water -- Gaining your horse's respect.Clinton Anderson's method for redirecting a horse's wayward energy and correcting his negative behavior while on the trail. You'll learn how to solve such common on on the trail problems as spooking, jigging, grass-snatching, fear of traffic and refusing to cross water.
Subjects: Horses;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Full circle : the remarkable true story of two all-American wrestling teammates pitted against each other in the war on drugs and then reunited as coaches / by Malkus, Chuck,author.(CARDINAL)401784; Langton, Jerry,1965-author.(CARDINAL)481027;
An unlikely friendship -- Iowa strong and Cuba proud -- Those championship seasons -- West Point blues -- Alex went up to Georgia -- War in South Florida -- Back to school -- Casualties of war -- Miami vice -- No mas -- Divine intervention -- The great escape -- The Twinkie -- "Kevin says hello" -- Full circle.
Subjects: Case studies.; Biographies.; Pedersen, Kevin (Drug enforcement agent); DeCubas, Alex.; Drug traffic; Drug traffic; Drug control; Drug enforcement agents; Drug dealers; Drug dealers; Wrestlers; Wrestling coaches; Male friendship; Men's friendships.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Reducing fatalities by half : AASHTO Safety Leadership Forum IV, May 17, 2009, Bedford Springs, Pennsylvania / by Mercer, Betty J.(CARDINAL)315775; American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials.(CARDINAL)138446; Mercer Consulting Group LLC.(CARDINAL)315774; National Cooperative Highway Research Program.(CARDINAL)281856; AASHTO Safety Leadership Forum(4th :2009 :Bedford Springs, Pa.);
Road to achieving AASHTO's safety goal -- Conversation circles--sharing challenges and success stories -- Innovative state program ideas -- Striving for the goal: federal, state, and industry partners -- How the vehicle industry has contributed to halving fatalities -- Forecasts of possible future areas ripe for attaining fatality reductions -- Commitment to the goal -- Resources --Suggestion box -- Safety forum bonus session-Mississippi report on hurricane evacuation.Final report.The road to achieving AASHTO's ambitious safety goal of reducing fatalities by half was made clearer at the fourth AASHTO Safety Leadership Forum. State Departments of Transportation (DOTs) are fully engaged in the implementation of their Strategic Highway Plans. Preliminary statistics from the past year are strongly suggesting that lasting progress is being made despite some contribution to the success by the lagging economy. The Forum was perfectly timed to share successful state strategies and consider the next critical actions which will be needed to achieve continuing significant reductions.Prepared by Mercer Consulting Group for National Cooperative Highway Research Program, Transportation Research Board of the National Academies.
Subjects: Conference papers and proceedings.; Traffic safety; Traffic fatalities;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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China white: a Mercy Johnson novel / by Pendry, Reita.;
The crime-- the theft of twenty million dollars worth of heroin. The prepetrator -- a local hustler from the projects a mile from the nation's Capital. The consequences -- a powerful businessman risks everything to recover the heroin and keep his secret life as a drug trafficker from his family and the Washington elite whole patronage has brought him to the city's inner circle.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; Johnson, Mercy (Fictitious character); Drug traffic; Heroin;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A small indiscretion : a novel / by Ellison, Jan,author.(CARDINAL)405466;
At nineteen, Annie Black trades a bleak future in her washed-out hometown for a London winter of drinking and abandon. Twenty years later, she is a San Francisco lighting designer and happily married mother of three who has put her reckless youth behind her. Then a photo from that distant winter in Europe arrives inexplicably in her mailbox, and an old obsession is awakened."--
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Mothers and sons; Traffic accidents; Coma;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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