A chapter book for young readers.Vincent Bear has a problem. He does not clean his teeth and puff s out horrifi c breath. His friends refuse to sit with him. They have refused to come to his birthday party. Olli his pet parrot warned him about that. Mrs. Bear is outraged with him. His molars, gums and tongue are angry and they are on strike. Who is going to fix the problem? Can Vincent do something to win them back? If you enjoyed reading this book, you might want to try the next one too, coming in series.
An instant New York Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick from beloved author Alice Hoffman—the spellbinding prequel to Practical Magic. Find your magic. For the Owens family, love is a curse that began in 1620, when Maria Owens was charged with witchery for loving the wrong man. Hundreds of years later, in New York City at the cusp of the sixties, when the whole world is about to change, Susanna Owens knows that her three children are dangerously unique. Difficult Franny, with skin as pale as milk and blood red hair, shy and beautiful Jet, who can read other people’s thoughts, and charismatic Vincent, who began looking for trouble on the day he could walk. From the start Susanna sets down rules for her children: No walking in the moonlight, no red shoes, no wearing black, no cats, no crows, no candles, no books about magic. And most importantly, never, ever, fall in love. But when her children visit their Aunt Isabelle, in the small Massachusetts town where the Owens family has been blamed for everything that has ever gone wrong, they uncover family secrets and begin to understand the truth of who they are. Yet, the children cannot escape love even if they try, just as they cannot escape the pains of the human heart. The two beautiful sisters will grow up to be the memorable aunts in Practical Magic, while Vincent, their beloved brother, will leave an unexpected legacy. Alice Hoffman delivers “fairy-tale promise with real-life struggle” (The New York Times Book Review) in a story how the only remedy for being human is to be true to yourself. Thrilling and exquisite, real and fantastical, The Rules of Magic is “irresistible…the kind of book you race through, then pause at the last forty pages, savoring your final moments with the characters” (USA TODAY, 4/4 stars).
Vincent J. Salandria, a Philadelphia attorney, was the first person to publish a critique of the Warren Report. He was an intimate and trusted adviser to Jim Garrison, and like Garrison, has always maintained that the assassination of President Kennedy was a CIA operation in which the U.S. national security establishment was fully complicit. This correspondence touches all the bases, a full discussion of all the consequences of this terrible conclusion.
Secrets for Getting Things Done is chock full of useful and innovative strategies that will help you take your productivity to the next level. When you apply the strategies in this book, you'll find that getting things done is not only easier, and much faster, but that you enjoy the process as well.
Vincent Dellamaria grew up in Queens New York, the son of Sicilian immigrants. When he was tapped to be a Justice of the United States Supreme Court in 2001, he tacitly consented to be guided by the Administrations neoconservatives on major cases. Years later, Dellamarias former college roommate, Patrick OConnor, a law school dean, found out about Dellamarias corrupt deal from a former CIA agent. OConnor organized a team to kidnap Dellamaria in order to break his corrupt connections. Through a combination of psychotherapy, conversation, and soul-searching, Dellamaria grudgingly came around. A year after the snatch, the kidnappers covertly returned Dellamaria to Washington and the Supreme Court, just in time for him to participate on five major cases: abortion, torture, gay marriage, Miranda warnings, and the Pledge of Allegiance.
After losing her mother to cancer, sixteen-year-old Ruby Everhart had no choice but to pick up her life in Los Angeles and move it to the tiny, snow-banked town of North Swallow. Adjusting to life in Montana with her Uncle Harvey and Aunt Emeline wasn't going to be easy...or so she thought. Ruby was surprised to find that North Swallow, and all of the people in it, felt more like home than any other place she had ever lived. She quickly found herself with a best friend, a great job, a loving and supportive family, and a boyfriend who just so happened to be the most gorgeous boy in school. On the surface, North Swallow appeared to be a quaint little town, nestled in the mountains of Montana-a town where the coolest place to hang out was the local diner. But, Ruby isn't the only one trying to hide a tragic past. North Swallow seems to have quite a few secrets of its own and Ruby is determined to unravel the truth.
In the second installment of the Secrets trilogy, things are not always as serene as they seem in the little Florida Panhandle village of Port St. Joe. When bluesman Reggie Robinson is wrongly arrested for the gruesome murder of Sheriff Byrd “Dog" Batson, old Doc Berber mounts a Quixotic search for the real killer on savage St. Vincent Island. If he survives the frightening adventure, he'll return with shocking secrets that will shatter the town's tranquility forever. Next in series > > See all of the books in this series
The best-known and most sensational event in Vincent van Gogh’s life is also the least understood. For more than a century, biographers and historians seeking definitive facts about what happened on a December night in Arles have unearthed more questions than answers. Why would an artist at the height of his powers commit such a brutal act? Who was the mysterious “Rachel” to whom he presented his macabre gift? Did he use a razor or a knife? Was it just a segment—or did Van Gogh really lop off his entire ear? In Van Gogh’s Ear, Bernadette Murphy reveals, for the first time, the true story of this long-misunderstood incident, sweeping away decades of myth and giving us a glimpse of a troubled but brilliant artist at his breaking point. Murphy’s detective work takes her from Europe to the United States and back, from the holdings of major museums to the moldering contents of forgotten archives. She braids together her own thrilling journey of discovery with a narrative of Van Gogh’s life in Arles, the sleepy Provençal town where he created his finest work, and vividly reconstructs the world in which he moved—the madams and prostitutes, café patrons and police inspectors, shepherds and bohemian artists. We encounter Van Gogh’s brother and benefactor Theo, his guest and fellow painter Paul Gauguin, and many local subjects of Van Gogh’s paintings, some of whom Murphy identifies for the first time. Strikingly, Murphy uncovers previously unknown information about “Rachel”—and uses it to propose a bold new hypothesis about what was occurring in Van Gogh’s heart and mind as he made a mysterious delivery to her doorstep. As it reopens one of art history’s most famous cold cases, Van Gogh’s Ear becomes a fascinating work of detection. It is also a study of a painter creating his most iconic and revolutionary work, pushing himself ever closer to greatness even as he edged toward madness—and one fateful sweep of the blade that would resonate through the ages.
