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Pages: 352, Paperback, Hyperion Press

Pages: 304, Edition: 1st, Hardcover, Hyperion

Laura Moriarty''s debut novel is a simple story, but effectively told. Ten-year-old Evelyn Bucknow lives with her not very responsible young mother, Tina, on the outskirts of a small Kansas town. The Center of Everything follows a clean arc: How Evelyn, a gifted but poor student, negotiates the pitfalls of her background to become a college student. The book shows the scary tenuousness of poverty. When Tina''s car breaks down, their life falls apart like a flimsy cardboard edifice. Evelyn can...

ISBN-10: 1401300316 ISBN-13: 9781401300319. Edition: 1st.

For 10-year-old Evelyn Bucknow, there really is no place like home. On all the world maps she's ever seen, the United States has been smack dab in the middle, with Kansas in the middle of that. "I feel so lucky to live here, right in the center," she proclaims, in Moriarty's wonderfully down-to-earth debut. Dazzled by visions of Ronald Reagan on the television, the twinkle in his eye and his contention that "God put America between two oceans on purpose," Evelyn's youthful optimism is shaken by her...

Greeting Card. "My ex was the center of my universe; And by that I mean a place of darkness that sucks the life out of everything" ~ Grace Edwards

Super Science Sunday visitors are sure to enjoy this exciting day of exploration, fun and learning. Programs have been planned for both children and adults. This year’s SSS celebration will feature everything from the chance to create an edible solar system and explore lunar craters for kids, to presentations by astronomy experts and advanced computer simulations of space for adult participants. StarLab, the Discovery Center’s popular inflatable planetarium will provide shows throughout the day.

In <I>Gang of Five,</I> bestselling author Nina J. Easton reveals the hidden history of American politics in the last thirty years. It's the story of the <I>other,</I> less well-known segment of the baby-boom generation: young conservative activists who arrived on campus in the 1970s in rebellion against everything "sixties" and went on to overturn the political dynamics of our country. <I>Gang of Five</I> focuses on the lives and careers of five major figures.<P>BILL KRISTOL, the Harvard-educated...

The recipes in Vegetable Harvest include everything from appetizers, soups, and salads, to meats, poultry, and pasta. There are classics like Spicy Butternut Squash Soup, Roast Leg of Lamb with Honey and Mint Crust, and Pea and Mint Risotto, as well as innovative new dishes that are sure to become time-honored favorites, such as Potato-Chive Waffles with Smoked Salmon, Capers, and Cr??me Fra?®che, Tomato and Strawberry Gazpacho, and Zucchini Blossoms Stuffed with Goat Cheese and Basil. To finish...

Nora Mars - glamour girl, star of stage and screen, B-movie goddess - has slowly aged out of mainstream popularity and quickly slipped into a coma. Known as much for her astonishing looks, her five husbands, and her way with words as for her movie career, Nora Mars has been a tabloid's dream diva. Marie Brown is everything that Nora is not: too tall, too plain, too unmarried, and always too early. But she also happens to be Nora's number-one fan and knows enough to use the star's untimely near-death...

Located high in the New Mexico mountains, Las Ladronas has become a magnet for the very wealthy and very hip, but once upon a time it was the setting of a childhood trauma Tessa can only half remember. Now, as she rediscovers both her old hometown and her past, Tessa is drawn to search-and-rescue worker Vince Grasso. The handsome widower isn’t her type. No more inclined to settle down than Tessa, Vince is the father of three, including an eight-year-old girl as lost as Tessa herself. But Tessa and...

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