![]() With the wedding day looming, an emotional and sensitive sister, a selfish maid of honor, and intense pressure from Crystal’s soon-to-be in-laws, Mari fears her attempts to make her sister’s wedding perfect will be for naught. In fact, he treats her like she’s a home run. Wrapped up in dress fittings, bridal showers, and baking teacup-shaped cookies, she is shocked when Derrick has taken notice of her. Meanwhile, Mari is determined to keep the glamorous event afloat. She’s catty, selfish, and totally into herself, and when Sienna discovers handsome professional baseball player Derrick Richardson is the best man, she sets her sights on her next boyfriend instead of on the wedding plans. But she soon finds her expected role of maid of honor has been delegated to the worst possible choice: Sienna Jameson. Mari Hays’s older sister Crystal is getting married, and Mari is ecstatic to be part of the wedding. But a poorly-chosen maid of honor may turn it into a disaster. Mari wants her sister Crystal’s wedding to be perfect. ![]() ![]() Now twelve new couples will find themselves in the wedding spotlight in the second Year of Weddings novella collection. Rating details 19 ratings 11 reviews GET A CLUE WITH THE CAMP CLUB GIRLS Join Kate and the Camp Club Girls as they embark on a series of clue-filled adventures and crack the case in this entertaining and action-packed 4-in-1 mystery collection. ![]() They’ve helped orchestrate the perfect day for countless couples. ![]()
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![]() From the very first page, Kingsolver's characters tug at the heart and soul." - Ms. ![]() It leaves you open-mouthed and smiling." - Los Angeles Times "A major new talent. ![]() It is the southern novel taken west, its colors as translucent and polished as one of those slices of rose agate from a desert shop." - New York Times Book Review "An extraordinary good novel, tough and tender and gritty and moving." - Anne Rivers Siddons "So wry and wise we wish it would never end.The chatty, down-home audacity of Barbara Kingsolver's remarkable first novel hooks us on the first page." - San Francisco Chronicle "The Bean Trees is the work of a visionary. It leaves you open-mouthed and smiling." - Los Angeles Times "As clear as air. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ticket information is available on the Liberty Theater Arts website, which can be found through the Liberty Splash page. “We have done the other Uhry plays and thought this would be a nice contrasting piece that would fit nicely between our two musicals this fall, ‘Hairspray’ and ‘A Christmas Carol.’” Alfred Uhrys Tony Award-winning look at anti-semitism in the South centers on the planning of the Atlanta Jewish communitys annual Ballyhoo ball during the excitement surrounding the premiere of Gone with the Wind. With Arija Bareikis, Terry Beaver, Jessica Hecht, Dana Ivey. The three plays, ‘Parade,’ ‘Driving Miss Daisy’ and ‘The Last Night of Ballyhoo,’ all concern Jewish people living in Atlanta, Ga.,” Director Neal Brasher said. The Last Night of Ballyhoo: Directed by Ron Lagomarsino. “This play is part of a trilogy of plays written by Alfred Uhry. The play follows the ups and downs of the family as they struggle to maintain high standing in their elite Atlanta, Ga., country club. The Last Night of Ballyhoo takes place in 1939 and follows a German-Jewish family, the Freitags, who have become so assimilated into American culture they have a Christmas tree in their living room. Ballyhoo from the balcony - “The Last Night of Ballyhoo” give audiences a chance to see how a “smaller, more intimate production works in the Tower Theater,” according to Director Neal Brasher. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gandhi’s call for non-cooperation gave respectable women the scope to join the freedom movement in large numbers, although the narrow social base of women political activists-elite and upper-caste-has been widely noted. ![]() The bhadramahila began their political journey in the late nineteenth century, their participation ranging from moderate Congress Party activism to militant terrorism. The freedom movement already had a half-century history by the 1920s, when the labour movement began to gather momentum under the leadership of middle-class men, many of whom operated at the margins of mainstream nationalist politics. The core gender narrative of politics in this period has been of middle-class women’s participation in the nationalist movement. Asked in the 1980s about women in the labour movement in India prior to Independence, the octogenarian labour leader, Santoshkumari Devi, said: ‘We could not get men to work in the movement, where would we find women?’ Footnote 1 Santoshkumari was one of a handful of bhadramahila (middle-class Bengali women) who were active in the labour movement from the 1920s to the 1970s. ![]() ![]() ![]() What is Adoption? Helping Non-adopted Children Understand Adoption This gentle book conveys a warmth and affection about adoption that is well worth sharing with your young child. I Wished for You - An Adoption Story by Marianne RichmondĪ small teddy bear asks his mother about his adoption and she answers him with love and affection. It is a hopeful story of the joy of adoption and becoming a mixed-race family. This picture book celebrates the hopes of a young blond haired girl for her little sister from Ethiopia. The Magical Friendship Garden by Rebekah Barlow Rounce It is perfect for a sibling waiting for a new child to join the family through adoption. The wait drags on past her first birthday. This picture book tells the gentle story of eight year old Arun who finds it difficult to wait for the adoption and arrival of his new sister from India. ![]() ![]() ![]() “ In Jesus Among Other Gods, Ravi Zacharias demonstrates that he is one of the most intellectually gifted as well as spiritually sensitive writers of today’s leading apologists for the Christian faith. ![]() In addition to an impressive breadth of reading and study, he shares his personal journey from despair and meaninglessness to his discovery that Jesus is who He said He is. In each chapter, Zacharias considers a unique claim that Jesus made and then contrasts the truth of Jesus with the founders of Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism with compelling insight and passionate conviction. Can one study the life of Christ and demonstrate conclusively that He was and is the way, the truth, and the life?.Aren’t all religions fundamentally the same?.Jesus Among Other Gods provides the answers to the most fundamental claims about Christianity, such as: All religions, plainly and simply, cannot be true. But as Ravi Zacharias points out, such unquestioning acceptance of all things spiritual is absurd. In the name of “tolerance,” our postmodern culture embraces everything from Eastern mysticism to New Age spirituality. We are living in a time when you can believe anything, as long as you do not claim it to be true. ![]() ![]() In a world with so many religions, why Jesus? ![]() ![]() The Sutherland Brothers series (Historical Romance) The MacCarrick Brothers trilogy (Historical Romance) The Game Maker series (Contemporary Romance) ![]() The Arcana Chronicles series (Young Adult Fiction) 1.
![]() ![]() But it's mostly the act itself that brings relief, the self-forgetfulness, the diving and plunging into other lives." One could do worse in terms of an explanation of the appeal of fiction, yet too few of these stories offer that sense of depth, skating instead on the surfaces of the lives they depict. ![]() In the opening story, "Complainers," about the lengthy friendship of two elderly women named Cathy and Della, he writes of Della's experience of reading: "Since her last reading, she's forgotten enough of the book that the story seems new again, yet familiar. This collection contains flashes of what makes his longer work a pleasure to read - fraught situations, keenly observed behaviors, and senses of complicated humor and empathy - but on the whole, it feels uneven. ![]() Peter Luce, the sexologist from "Middlesex" and the aforementioned "Air Mail," whose protagonist, Mitchell, also appears in "The Marriage Plot." Each story includes the year it was written at the end, instructively calling attention to the development of Eugenides' approaches and themes across the decades. A couple of the 10 pieces here contain crossover characters from his longer works, notably "The Oracular Vulva," which features Dr. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pared down, gritty, and subtly expressive, these stories show the young Hemingway emerging as America's finest short story writer. And "Hills Like White Elephants" is a young couple's subtle, heartwrenching discussion of abortion. Nick Adams makes an appearance in "Ten Indians," in which he is presumably betrayed by his Indian girlfriend, Prudence. "The Killers" is the hard-edged story about two Chicago gunmen and their potential victim. In these fourteen stories, Hemingway begins to examine the themes that would occupy his later works: the casualties of war, the often-uneasy relationship between men and women, sports and sportsmanship. "In Another Country" tells of an Italian major recovering from war wounds as he mourns the untimely death of his wife. First published in 1927, Men Without Women represents some of Hemingway’s most important and compelling early writing. In "Banal Story," Hemingway offers a lasting tribute to the famed matador Maera. In these fourteen stories, Hemingway begins to examine the themes that would occupy his later works: the casualties of war, the often uneasy relationship between men and women, sport and sportsmanship. CLASSIC SHORT STORIES FROM THE MASTER OF AMERICAN FICTION First published in 1927, Men Without Women represents some of Hemingway's most important and compelling early writing. ![]() ![]() Set in one of the most remote and desolate yet strikingly beautiful landscapes on earth, Jerri Nielsen's narrative of her transforming experiences is a thrilling adventure of researchers and scientists embattled by a hostile environment, a chronicle of marvels - and limits - of modern medical technology, and a penetrating exploration of the dynamics of an isolated, intensely connected community faced with adversity.īut at its core this is a powerfully moving drama of one woman's voyage of self-discovery and courage and the fierce dedication of scores of colleagues - both known and unknown to her - whose aid proved to be her salvation. Nielsen states, 'Since I have chosen to tell you about my journey to the South Pole, and the community of friends and strangers who rescued me, I need to tell you something about my life and why I made the choices that brought me there' (pg. ![]() ![]() A daring rescue by the Air National Guard ensued, who landed, dropped off a replacement physician, and in less than five minutes took off with Dr. Consulting via satellite e-mail with doctors in the U.S., she was forced to perform a biopsy and in June began to treat herself with chemotherapy, in order to insure that she could survive until conditions permitted her rescue in October. Nielsen, the only physician on a staff of forty-one people, discovered a lump in her breast. The Antarctic winter, with temperatures 100 degrees below zero, shuts supply lines down completely conditions are too treacherous for planes and boats and the only connection with the rest of the world is satellite hook-up. ![]() |