Is “True Blood” your new addiction? Do you have a fascination with vampires or the occult? Wait no longer, Charlaine Harris’ new book is here! Follow Sookie Stackhouse in book ten of the Southern Vampire series. From the phenonmenon that inspired the hit series “True Blood” comes “Dead in the Family,” a renowned adventure sure to quench your thirst for a bloody good read.
Man’s best friend + summer flower garden = total disaster. . .right? Well, not with the help of master gardener Tom Barthel! This book not only helps with understanding your canine’s wants and needs in an outdoor setting, it also focuses on organic gardening and warns against plants that may be harmful to your pet. There’s even an entire chapter devoted to recipes to share with your canine while de-stressing by your new waterfall rock pond. So while you enjoy “Hot Madras Curry over Rice,” your pet can happily munch on some “Canine Curry,” of it’s own.
While it may be hard to find mouth-watering fruit during the long, cold winter, wait no more, summer is here! The tantalizing recipes in Deborah Madison’s innovative cookbook use only the freshest summer berries and fruits. From a decadent black raspberry cream tart to exotic pleasures such as “chocolate bark with cardamom and sea salt, apricots and pistachios,” this easy to follow collection of recipes is sure to be a treat after a hot, fun day in the summer sun.
This modern day version of Swan Lake is the perfect choice for those looking for a great read to celebrate National Poetry Month. With striking illustations by Javaka Steptoe, this book tells the bittersweet tale of love with a rythmic heartbeat. So ” ‘come, so she can meet you, and rejoice when I beg your hand.’ And thus the pact is set, the bargain sealed, both agony and love revealed.”
Having grown up in the remains of a hippie commune where money has no value, fourteen-year-old Cap knows only the ideal concept of life. But when his grandmother is hospitalized his life takes a dramatic change. Forced to live with a social worker until she can recover, Cap is thrown into a society he knows little about. At first he is teased and taunted due to his unconvetional ways, but as time goes by Cap still sees only the good in everyone around him and soon things change in a way no one ever thought was possible.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to hitchhike across the country? Well, it may not be as romantic as one may think. That turns out to be the cold, harsh reality that Jamie faces on a daily basis. On his way to see his brother who is dying from cancer, Jamie discovers that the other side of America can be ugly and unforgiving. For every person who is kind to him, it seems as though there are two waiting for him in the shadows. Told through letters, this story is of Punkzilla’s past and coming to terms with it as well as a cross-country trek he makes against the clock to get to his sick brother before it is too late.
The year is 1973 and it’s the first day of Karl Shoemaker’s senior year and hopefully the end of a turbulent past. Being a member of the Madman Underground, a group of troubled students forced to go to group therapy, makes it so that Karl is anything but normal. During the next few days a wild turn of events have him thinking that being normal might not be as important as true friendship and love.
Imagine keeping a secret from your parents and almost everyone else close to you. This is every day life for Dade Hamilton. The ceiling fan knows his secret . . . and so does the soap dish and blue drinking glass. But until Dade can meet someone who fully accepts him for who he really is, his life will continue in shambles.
Could anything be worse than being known as “the ice princess” throughout your high school career? Nothing could be more humiliating than all the lame jokes about being “thawed”. Nothing, that is, except finding yourself in more than a couple of compromising situations. As the events unfold in the life of Parker Prescott, she learns that not everything is what it may seem.
Micheal knew his teacher was not a murderer . . . or did he? Is Without a Trace merely a show on TV, or has it somehow turned into real life? Even if there was some truth in this wild thought, would anyone even believe a kid whose parents couldn’t even spell his name right? When the line between reality and fantasy blurs into a dangerous one, trouble bodes deep for Micheal and his hoodlum friends in this exciting thriller.