Just Call Me Maggie is a prairie tale set in the city of Winnipeg and the fictional settlement of MacNabb's Crossing, located somewhere in south-western Manitoba. It is 1978. Maggie Barnett is a successful lawyer, a high achiever, in a prestigious firm in Winnipeg. She is single but has a steady boyfriend. She is well off financially but weary of travelling for her job. She does not remember her childhood. She is obsessed with the time of day, the day of the week, the food she consumes, professionalism and the clothes that she wears. A former schoolmate seeks her professional help when her husband of eleven years abruptly walks out. Maggie and Sandy MacNair have not seen each other since Sandy's wedding. The sudden appearance of her school mate awakens Maggie's dormant memories of life on her parent's farm and suddenly Maggie's well-ordered life falls apart.
Just Call Me Maggie is a prairie tale set in the city of Winnipeg and the fictional settlement of MacNabbs Crossing, located somewhere in south-western Manitoba. It is 1978. Maggie Barnett is a successful lawyer, a high achiever, in a prestigious firm in Winnipeg. She is single but has a steady boyfriend. She is well off financially but weary of travelling for her job. She does not remember her childhood. She is obsessed with the time of day, the day of the week, the food she consumes, professionalism and the clothes that she wears. A former schoolmate seeks her professional help when her husband of eleven years abruptly walks out. Maggie and Sandy MacNair have not seen each other since Sandys wedding. The sudden appearance of her school mate awakens Maggies dormant memories of life on her parents farm and suddenly Maggie's well-ordered life falls apart.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Raven Boys, a mesmerizing story of dreams and desires, death and destiny. The dreamers walk among us . . . and so do the dreamed. Those who dream cannot stop dreaming - they can only try to control it. Those who are dreamed cannot have their own lives - they will sleep forever if their dreamers die.And then there are those who are drawn to the dreamers. To use them. To trap them. To kill them before their dreams destroy us all.Ronan Lynch is a dreamer. He can pull both curiosities and catastrophes out of his dreams and into his compromised reality.Jordan Hennessy is a thief. The closer she comes to the dream object she is after, the more inextricably she becomes tied to it.Carmen Farooq-Lane is a hunter. Her brother was a dreamer . . . and a killer. She has seen what dreaming can do to a person. And she has seen the damage that dreamers can do. But that is nothing compared to the destruction that is about to be unleashed. . . .
Maggie ScratchSearching for seeds... How does a rebel from the Jewish suburbs of Philadelphia ultimately find a home in the Son of Moses Valley on the island of Ibiza? Maggie Scratch tells this story in three parts, each dedicated to a boyfriend, or husband. During 1979-1980, about to turn thirty-two, a self-styled columnist for The Ibiza News, Maggie reports current events from her century old farmhouse while reliving past adventures. From coming of age with H.G. Blumberg in the 60's in Elkins Park, Pa., to college in Boston in the 70's, to a teepee in the California redwoods with her Native American husband, P.P. Goldfeather, and then to a palapa in Mexico where she meets Izzy, Maggie explores the world. It is men she apparently pursues, but her best friend, Seneca Stone sums up Maggie with a metaphor: "Maggie Scratch searching for seeds." Maggie wonders if she will find a way to get pregnant or have to break up with Izzy, the charismatic painter, because of his vasectomy. While driven to plant a seed in herself, Maggie hears her grandmother's voice, "Certain paths are meant to be." She stumbles upon a man in a forest and wonders if he is meant to be...her stud. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Susana Gross grew up in Philadelphia where Harry Gross, her happy-go-lucky grandfather, gave her the nickname Maggie Scratch. In the late 70's Susana used the name for a weekly byline in The Ibiza News. Maggie Scratch's humoristic column Adventures with Paco offered readers offbeat stories of island life. Susana later moved to Barcelona where she worked as a scriptwriter for Spanish TV, creating sitcoms and pilots, while raising her daughter and re-writing the novel, Maggie Scratch, the first book of the upcoming The Maggie Scratch Trilogy. Throughout the 80's and 90's until the present, she has continued reporting the adventures of Maggie Scratch, spanning four generations from the USA to Spain and Mexico, and ending up in Southern France. Susana and Maggie share a blog (https://susanagross.wordpress.com) and Maggie Scratch has her own page on Facebook. One of Susana's readers once described their relationship, "She's the character that still lives within the author." REVIEWS"Maggie Scratch, the central character, explores relationships and all their foibles, across the years and across continents, before finally settling in Ibiza...What is fuelling her restlessness... Of course, the answer is not an easy one, she wants a child - and one can imagine what follows, in light of the fact this part of the book is based in Ibiza, island of 'anything goes'..." --Cat Milton, Ibiza Spotlight "Dreamy, sensuous and evocative: 'In the late evening, the earth cools down so loud I can hear it crack.' Maggie Scratch is filled with beautiful, contrasting images and situations. It is a synesthetic journey, a portrait of a time, of the people she finds while she builds and searches for her identity. A really powerful book!" --Gabriela Nadal, Barcelonogy "The book is a psychological jigsaw puzzle. While fitting the pieces together and fantasizing about how she will get pregnant, a surprise piece falls in Maggie's lap. Destiny? Or, Maggie wonders, are the pieces meant to be?" --Barcelona Metropolitan "Maggie's roller-coaster narrative goes down easy in Gross' clean and elegant prose. The book opens in the front seat of a Corvair, a signpost of what's to come: the reader is instantly passenger in a car that speeds, skids, halts, crashes and coasts along familiar and foreign roads. Whether Maggie reminds you of yourself, your mother, or someone you once saw, she is rendered with an openness and a tenderness that makes her as compelling and accessible as kin." --Winter Miller, playwright, In Darfur
It is late autumn 1756, Jacob Murray and a band of rangers are locked in desperate pursuit of a Delaware raiding party that overran and massacred the garrison at Fort Stevens. Among the women and children taken prisoner is Jacob's wife, Maggie. Driven by guilt and anger, Jacob sets a furious pace that leads his men into dangerous unknown territory. Meanwhile the fate of the prisoners is made all the more tenuous when raiding party scouts report the death of Chief Tewea at Kittanning, and Maggie will soon be forced to reconsider everything she has ever thought about the 'savages' that have inflicted such havoc on her life. In a world at war where blood debts are constantly paid and incurred, decisions made can change the course of lives forever. For Maggie, Jacob and their son James, the pull of their blood will draw them into a winter none of them could foresee. The fourth book in the award-winning Gauntlet Runner series, Blood Lines once again transports readers to colonial America during the French and Indian War and offers a clear unsentimental glimpse into the history of the period through the eyes of its characters.
MAGGIE'S SHADOW is a novel that explores the emotional dynamics between family, friends and lovers. After a long absence and some misgivings, Maggie Resnick decides to return to her childhood home in the UK. While there, she endeavors to resolve the lifelong conflicts with her mother, claim a promised heirloom denied her, and properly put to rest the loss of her father. Maggie expects to have problems. What she least expects is to open her heart to new friendships. This is an intimate window into the depth of a woman. Revealing and heartfelt, Maggie exposes her inner darkness and shadow cast by irrational fears. With each step of her journey, she uncovers the gifts of love and compassion that provides invaluable insight and lets her own strength shine through.
This is a book about a thirteen-year-old African American boy; his best friend, Enoch; and a man known as Mr. Snake. It is about becoming president of the United States.
You can choose your friends, but you cannot choose your family … or can you? Under normal circumstances, Maggie and Lizzie would be delighted to meet their long-lost relatives and be reunited with those who had believed them dead, but when are the Mopsies’ circumstances ever normal? With her half-brother Claude Seacombe, Lizzie travels to Cornwall to meet her mother’s parents. Maggie goes along, too, since she is part of the family … or so one might assume. But the more time she spends in her grandparents’ clifftop mansion, the more she realizes that something is not right, and the events surrounding her own mother’s death are more mysterious—and dangerous—than anyone alive suspects. For an old nemesis is preying on the weak and proud, and she cannot stand by and watch. Maggie must straighten her spine, plunge into danger for Lizzie’s sake … and prove that no matter the name she bears, she is first and foremost what the Lady of Devices believes her to be … a lady of spirit. “Another excellent book in an excellent series. The world is wacky and immense fun, the stories exciting and all well written and well paced (and with chickens for even more fun). But the backbone of this great series is and has always been the characters—their issues, their layers, their complexity, their solid relationships and loyalties all elevate a good book to a really great one.” —Fangs for the Fantasy, on A Lady of Spirit A Lady of Spirit is the sixth novel in the Magnificent Devices steampunk series. Books 5 and 6 form a duet. No strong language, just a very proper kiss or two and a satisfying solution. If you like books by Gail Carriger, Lindsay Buroker, or Emma Jane Holloway, you’re in the right place. Enjoy!
This two-book set contains the “Mopsies Twin Set”—A Lady of Resources and A Lady of Spirit, an edition of over 140,000 words. You can choose your friends, but you cannot choose your family … or can you? Under normal circumstances, sixteen-year-old twins Maggie and Lizzie would be delighted to meet their long-lost relatives and be reunited with those who had believed them dead, but when are the Mopsies’ circumstances ever to be considered normal? They are joyfully ready to embrace family and welcome them into the loyal circle that the Lady of Devices, Claire Trevelyan, has created from a formerly ragtag lot of alley mice. But the more time the Mopsies spend in Lizzie’s father’s castle in the Cotswolds and then their grandparents’ clifftop mansion in Cornwall, the more they realize that the events surrounding their mothers’ deaths are more mysterious—and dangerous—than anyone alive suspects. Worse, the events of the past are still reaching out to trigger the dangers of the present, and only a lady of resources and a lady of spirit may stand between the people they love … and certain death.
SaraSara's life is forever changed - Waking up, buried & hidden deeply in the last place anyone would want to be, will do that. She is determined to find out how she ended up there & why, but when the only person who can help her, continuously lies to her, she finds herself forced to suffer alone. She can't ignore the strange things that begin to happen to her nor can she hide from the nightmares that haunt her sleep. And when her world collides with Adan - the mysterious boy whom she can't seem to stay away from, literally - she is consumed by the flutter that sparks whenever he is around and she is desperate to discover the reason why. AdanAdan's mission to find Sara has finally begun - It seemed simple: bring her back to the enchanted world that lives, breathes and survives because of her, but he quickly finds himself faced with an entirely new challenge. Immediately, Adan realizes that staying unknown to Sara is a task he will fail before he even begins; the pull to her is far too strong to refuse, but being with her will defy the very reason he existed. He is the key to her survival and being with her is not part of the path that he was born to follow. Can he find it in himself too resist the urge to be with or will he destroy everything that had been left to Sara to protect and defend.FlutterAs Sara and Adan struggle to overcome their own separate battles - There is a far more determined evil that is stalking the shadows and waiting to annihilate them both. Together they will fight to change the rules and rewrite their fate.
