"A gripping Dust Bowl epic about five characters whose fates become entangled after a storm ravages their small Nebraska town."-- Provided by publisher.
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In this guide to social success, now revised for the modern era, communication expert Debra Fine reveals the techniques and strategies anyone can use to make small talk in any situation. Small talk is more than just chitchat; it's a valuable tool to help you climb the corporate l...
Small Reckonings is a work of historical prairie fiction set in the 1920s and 30s, and recently won the Saskatchewan Writers Guild John V. Hicks Award for Long Fiction. The Hicks jury consisted of Canadian fiction writers Elisabeth de Mariaffi and Rabindranath Maharaj, who said: ...
"Iceland is the best place on earth to be a woman--but why? For the past twelve years, the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report has ranked Iceland number one on its list of countries closing the gap in equality between men and women. What is it about Iceland that makes...
"A gripping Dust Bowl epic about five characters whose fates become entangled after a storm ravages their small Nebraska town."-- Provided by publisher.
"Two out of three soldiers who perished in the Civil War died of infected wounds, typhoid, and other infectious diseases. But no doctor truly understood what was happening to their patients. Twenty years later, the outcome might have been different following one of the most radic...
"Recently divorced and fresh off a Pulitzer Prize win, Harper Stewart is in a new era. He's working on a movie and living the ultimate bachelor life in his Brooklyn penthouse. But still, something is missing. What else explains the stubborn creative block? The carousel of women? ...
"For twenty years now--yes, twenty--John Scalzi has been writing on his blog Whatever, writing about, well, whatever: Politics, writing, cats, the internet and the great social and cultural events of our times. In that time he's gone from being just another crank online to being ...
'The Soo Line's Famous Trains To Canada' is a brief history of a small and unique Class 1 railway and its famous Canada-USA tourist trains. Initially chartered in 1883 to serve the needs of local millers in Minneapolis, the Soo would eventually come to join the Canadian Pacific l...
Oklahoma, 1935. Fifteen-year-old Faith Wilson takes her little sister Hope's hand. In worn-down shoes, they walk through the choking heat of the Dust Bowl towards a new life in California. But when a storm blows in, the girls are separated from their parents. How will they surviv...
"An intimate, revealing portrait of Frank Sinatra--from the man closest to the famous singer during the last decade of his life. More than a hundred books have been written about legendary crooner and actor Frank Sinatra. Every detail of his life seems to captivate: his career, h...
The financial meltdown from the perspective of a number of players: Michael Burry, a bizarre autistic-like stock-picking genius, and the first to realize that the market's housing boom is based on a house of cards sham; Mark Baum, self-loathing fictional character whose firm pick...
Facing his share of ordinary challenges, from local bullies to his father's failed expectations, eleven-year-old Jack Clark must also deal with the effects of the Dust Bowl in 1937 Kansas, including the rising tensions in his small town and the spread of a shadowy illness.
It's the spring of 1933 and times are tough all over. Banks are closing all over the country, and the small town of Darling, Alabama, is no exception. Desperate to avoid disaster, several town leaders hatch a plan to print Darling Dollars on the newspaper printing press to serve ...
The Postables take a road trip in an old Winnebago to track down a small boy who they fear may have been kidnapped. The discovery of an '80s era instant camera and the unusual photographs it contains, send our team on a wild ride across Colorado using the pictures as a guide.
Pickles is here to usher in a new era of playtime with mud kitchens! These outdoor play areas are perfect for art projects, games, and experiments that use mud and other natural supplies to get kids outdoors and away from screens, engaging with their senses. The mud kitchens are ...
More than a century after the Lumière brothers made their first movie, the magic of the silver screen refuses to fade. Even silent era classics, such as the futuristic Metropolis, still retain the power to astonish. The talkies introduced new genres-- among them the special-effe...
The coming-of-age of adolescent Brian O'Connal in small town Depression-era Saskatchewan is told. The son of the local pharmacist Gerald O'Connal, Brian is in many ways a typical boy, who dislikes school if only because of his run-ins with the nervous schoolteacher, Miss MacDonal...
"Small Town Southern Man" is the story of country music icon Alan Jackson - a driven artist who has played an essential role in bridging the old and new worlds of country music by blending mainstream country and traditional honky-tonk, which irreversibly jolted country music into...