Michael Parker
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
Many families and almost all schools spend a great deal of time developing children academically, but studies show that scholastic achievement is not the only key to future success. Developing non-cognitive skills, which children often learn from their parents, is equally relevant.
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Description
"Two strangers meet over the hood of a used car in Texas: Marcus, who is fleeing both his financial and personal failures; and Maria, who after years of dodging her mistakes has returned to her hometown to make amends. One looking forward, the other looking back, they face off over the car they both want and think they need: a low-slung sky-blue 1984 Buick Electra. The car, too, has seen its share of failures. Each dent and ripped seam represents...
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Set along the Outer Banks of North Carolina in the 1800's and the 1970s, the novel follows Theodosia Burr, daughter of Aaron Burr, who by many accounts was captured by pirates and lived out the rest of her life on a remote island, and the island's descendants hundreds of years later.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
n the early 1970s, in Stovall, Texas, seventeen-year-old Earl—a loner, dreamer, lover of music and words—meets and is quickly infatuated with Tina, the new girl in town. Tina convinces Earl to drive her to see her mother in Austin, where Earl and Tina are quickly separated. Two days later, Earl is being questioned by the police about Tina’s disappearance and the blood in the trunk of his car. But Earl can’t remember what happened in Austin,...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"A riveting, atmospheric dream of a novel." --Dominic Smith, author of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos Set in the hardscrabble landscape of early 1900s Oklahoma, but timeless in its sensibility, Prairie Fever traces the dynamic between two sisters: the pragmatic Lorena and the chimerical Elise. Their connection to each other supersedes all else, until the arrival of a schoolteacher sunders the sisters' relationship as they both begin to fall for...
8) Jingle Cats
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Description
"An excited little boy dashes out of bed one Christmas morning to discover a meowing box with his name on it."
Pub. Date
c2002, p2000
Description
Three men and three women fall in and out of love and back again. Eleanor, a sophisticated and slightly anal art restorer, is pitted against Frankie, a smartly dressed divorcee who still shares a flat with his bitter ex-wife, who meet one night at a salsa club. Another pairing sees Mo, a tough, love-'em-and-leave-'em kind, reunite with Eddie, a clumsy bloke who was in love with Mo years before and now dreams of winning her back. Meanwhile, Jocelyn,...
10) Born Romantic
Pub. Date
2002
Description
Three men and three women fall in and out of love and back again. Eleanor, a sophisticated and slightly anal art restorer, is pitted against Frankie, a smartly dressed divorcee who still shares a flat with his bitter ex-wife, who meet one night at a salsa club. Another pairing sees Mo, a tough, love-'em-and-leave-'em kind, reunite with Eddie, a clumsy bloke who was in love with Mo years before and now dreams of winning her back. Meanwhile, Jocelyn,...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
For too long, Carrie Bradshaw had been looking for love in all the wrong places...but in all the right shoes. Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda are back, four years after the hit TV series ended. As they continue to juggle career, relationships, motherhood and life in Manhattan, the girls realize that more than ever, true friendship never goes out of style.