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- The Arlington Years: My Brush With Elvis
The Arlington Years Thoughts from County Native and Arlington Public Library Director, Diane Kresh Yesterday was the King's birthday. He would have been 74, which once seemed old. Maggie remembered seeing him (and paying no attention) on the...
- You Can Shape Your Life ? Take A Step.
So many times I hear students and teachers make reference to the ?REAL WORLD?. ?You?re going to need to know this when you get out in the real world.? ?I don?t need Shakespeare in the real world.? The ?real world? seems to be some time in the future when...
- Inklings: Fall Reading Highlights
Welcome back, Scots!We are off and running with a great year ahead of us. Don?t you love September? Everyone?s energy is up; people are catching up with friends and teachers, new friends are forming connections, 9th graders are making new friends and...
- New Arrivals...
Tom Harry has a streak of frost in his black pompadour and a venerable bar called the Medicine Lodge, the chief watering hole and last refuge of the town of Gros Ventre, in northern Montana. Tom also has a son named Rusty, an "accident between the sheets"...
- New Books!
In the early 1970's, two idealistic young people-Gwen Carpenter and Calvin Voisin-decided to leave civilization and re-create the vanished simple life of their grandparents in the heart of Louisiana's million-acre Atchafalaya River Basin Swamp....
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New Arrivals!
Meet Maggie Fortenberry, a still beautiful former Miss Alabama. To others, Maggie's life seems practically perfect--she's lovely, charming and a successful real estate agent at Red Mountain Realty. Still, Maggie can't help but wonder how she wound up in her present condition. She had been on her hopeful way to becoming Miss America and realizing her childhood dream of someday living in one of the elegant old homes on top of Red Mountain, with the adoring husband and the 2.5 children, but then something unexpected happened and changed everything.
Maggie graduated at the top of her class at charm school, can fold a napkin in more than forty-eight different and interesting ways, and can enter and exit a car gracefully, but all of the finesse in the world cannot help her now. Since the legendary real estate dynamo Hazel Whisenknott, founder of Red Mountain Realty, died five years ago, business has gone from bad to worse--and the future isn't looking much better. But just when things seem completely hopeless, Maggie suddenly comes up with the perfect plan to solve it all.
As Maggie prepares to put her plan into action, we meet the cast of high-spirited characters around her. To Brenda Peoples, Maggie's best friend and real estate partner, Maggie's life seems easy as pie: Slender Maggie doesn't have to worry about her figure, or about her Weight Watcher sponsor catching her at the Krispy Kreme doughnut shop. And Ethel Clipp, Red Mountain's ancient and grumpy office manager with the bright purple hair, thinks the world of Maggie but has absolutely nothing nice to say about their rival Babs "The Beast of Birmingham" Bingington, the unscrupulous real estate agent who hates Maggie and is determined to put her out of business.
Maggie has heartbreaking secrets in her past, but through a strange turn of events she soon discovers, quite by accident, that everybody, it seems--dead or alive--has at least one little secret.
Maggie graduated at the top of her class at charm school, can fold a napkin in more than forty-eight different and interesting ways, and can enter and exit a car gracefully, but all of the finesse in the world cannot help her now. Since the legendary real estate dynamo Hazel Whisenknott, founder of Red Mountain Realty, died five years ago, business has gone from bad to worse--and the future isn't looking much better. But just when things seem completely hopeless, Maggie suddenly comes up with the perfect plan to solve it all.
As Maggie prepares to put her plan into action, we meet the cast of high-spirited characters around her. To Brenda Peoples, Maggie's best friend and real estate partner, Maggie's life seems easy as pie: Slender Maggie doesn't have to worry about her figure, or about her Weight Watcher sponsor catching her at the Krispy Kreme doughnut shop. And Ethel Clipp, Red Mountain's ancient and grumpy office manager with the bright purple hair, thinks the world of Maggie but has absolutely nothing nice to say about their rival Babs "The Beast of Birmingham" Bingington, the unscrupulous real estate agent who hates Maggie and is determined to put her out of business.
Maggie has heartbreaking secrets in her past, but through a strange turn of events she soon discovers, quite by accident, that everybody, it seems--dead or alive--has at least one little secret.
Here are a couple more.........
American Assassin, by Vince Flynn
Her Daughter's Dream, by Francine Rivers
American Assassin, by Vince Flynn
Her Daughter's Dream, by Francine Rivers
- The Arlington Years: My Brush With Elvis
The Arlington Years Thoughts from County Native and Arlington Public Library Director, Diane Kresh Yesterday was the King's birthday. He would have been 74, which once seemed old. Maggie remembered seeing him (and paying no attention) on the...
- You Can Shape Your Life ? Take A Step.
So many times I hear students and teachers make reference to the ?REAL WORLD?. ?You?re going to need to know this when you get out in the real world.? ?I don?t need Shakespeare in the real world.? The ?real world? seems to be some time in the future when...
- Inklings: Fall Reading Highlights
Welcome back, Scots!We are off and running with a great year ahead of us. Don?t you love September? Everyone?s energy is up; people are catching up with friends and teachers, new friends are forming connections, 9th graders are making new friends and...
- New Arrivals...
Tom Harry has a streak of frost in his black pompadour and a venerable bar called the Medicine Lodge, the chief watering hole and last refuge of the town of Gros Ventre, in northern Montana. Tom also has a son named Rusty, an "accident between the sheets"...
- New Books!
In the early 1970's, two idealistic young people-Gwen Carpenter and Calvin Voisin-decided to leave civilization and re-create the vanished simple life of their grandparents in the heart of Louisiana's million-acre Atchafalaya River Basin Swamp....