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Cabin Fever (Schenkar)
by Joan SchenkarBlack comedy / 2m, 1f / Unit Set / This comedy of menace features three malevolent New England oldsters on a country porch reciting horrifying and hysterically funny stories about local customs. "Cabin Fever" has been produced around the globe.
Cabin Girl (Orca Currents)
by Kristin ButcherSixteen-year-old Bailey struggles with her job but stays because she loves the stories of the area—including the legend of a local ghost. Bailey is working at her first summer job, as a cabin girl at a fly-in fishing camp at Witch Lake. April, an older waitress with street smarts, takes Bailey under her wing and the two girls become friends. It’s all good until another waitress burns her arm and has to leave. Bailey gets a sudden promotion, and April is asked to help clean the cabins. April becomes far from friendly and Bailey finds herself alone again and messing up on the job—and possibly seeing the ghost. This short novel is a high-interest, low-reading level book for middle-grade readers who are building reading skills, want a quick read or say they don’t like to read! The epub edition of this title is fully accessible.
Cabin Six Plays Cupid (Camp Sunnyside Friends #2)
by Marilyn KayeIt is summer and the girls in bunk 6 at Camp Sunnyside hear that their counselor broke up with her boyfriend. Both of them seem to miss each other so the girls try to get them together again.
Cabin Stories: The Best of Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
by Rob PrinceCabin Stories: The Best of Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska is a collection of favorite stories selected by the executive producers of the hit live event, radio show, and podcast Dark Winter Nights. These hilarious, heartwarming, and riveting stories depict true adventures, impossible situations, and the stranger side of life in Alaska—falling through ice, surviving a plane crash, living through a shipwreck in a hurricane, discovering a bear trapped in a woman’s front entryway, finding a pet goose frozen to a porch in a pile of its own poop, and more—as told by the everyday Alaskans who experienced them. From the humorous to the heart-wrenching, these are the stories told up north on dark winter nights. Anyone curious about what living in Alaska is really like will appreciate this wild and fun anthology. Contributors: Glenner Anderson, Kat Betters, Randy Brown, Melissa Buchta, JB Carnahan, Philip Charette, Roy Churchwell, Richard Coleman, Michael Daku, Wendy Demers, Alexandra Dunlap, Alyssa Enriquez, Jan Hanscom, Mike Hopper, James Mennaker, Ken Moore, Steve Neumeth, Kaiti Ott, Lori Schoening, Bill Schnabel, Guy Schroder, Ed Shirk, Eric Stevens, Chris Zwolinski
Cabin in the Snow
by Deborah Hopkinson Patrick FaricySTORMS ARE BREWING When Charlie and Papa arrive in Lawrence for supplies, they find the bustling Kansas town threatened by border ruffians from proslave Missouri. Papa decides to remain behind with other free-soil settlers to defend the town, so Charlie must drive the wagon back to the family's isolated claim by himself. At home a different sort of storm is brewing -- gray skies, bitter cold, and vicious winds warn that a prairie blizzard is coming. Charlie is always getting into trouble for daydreaming and forgetting his chores. Now he has to show he's grown-up enough to help Momma, his sisters, and his newborn baby brother survive in their tiny cabin in the snow.
Cabin on Trouble Creek
by Jean Van LeeuwenAfter clearing enough forest to build a log cabin for their new home, Pa returns east to fetch the rest of the family, while young brothers Daniel and Will stay behind to watch the land. Pa had planned to return within six weeks ... but something must have gone wrong. Now the boys must survive the winter with only a few supplies and their ability to invent and improvise. But are they alone in the woods? Jean Van Leeuwen''s engrossing novel of pioneer survival is based on a true incident.
Cabin on the Hill
by Shae ConnorJesse hadn't planned for anything more than a break from the noise and heat of Atlanta when he returned to the cabin he rented each year in the Smoky Mountains - but that was before he met Eli, the handsome man renting the other side of the cabin. Eli's plans to mix a little hiking with his relaxation match Jesse's perfectly, and before long the two men are sharing more than just a wall and a view. Jesse's not one to let an opportunity like this pass him by, though it remains to be seen whether the weekend encounter can turn into something more permanent.
Cabin, Clearing, Forest (The Alaska Literary Series)
by Zach Falcon“People break my heart. Every single one of them does.” In settings that range from rural fishing communities to the urban capital, the stories of Cabin, Clearing, Forest are a lyrical road map to the human landscape of contemporary Alaska. In “Blue Ticket,” a stranger finds solace in a Juneau homeless encampment. Old friends argue over the pleasures and perils of small-town life in “A Beginner’s Guide to Leaving Your Hometown,” and in “Every Island Longs for the Continent,” a young family falls apart after moving to Kodiak. In these thirteen stories, Zach Falcon explores the burdens of familiarity and the pains of estrangement through characters struggling with their place in the world.
Cable Car to Catastrophe: A QUIX Book (A Miss Mallard Mystery)
by Robert QuackenbushWorld-famous duck-tective Miss Mallard&’s ski vacation is a bust when she finds herself on the tail of a bundled-up bandit in this engaging Aladdin QUIX mystery.When the police are baffled by an eerie robbery, Miss Mallard interrupts her ski vacation in the Alps to track down a burglar who has been stealing all the ski masks!
Cable From Kabul
by Nigel TranterMACREADY BELIEVED DEAD STOP PROJECT IN BALANCE STOP PLEASE COME STOP said the cable which reached the respectable Fenchurch Street office of Cranstoun and Macready, Importers and Exporters. Plain words, but enough to baffle David Cranstoun, since his partner, Jim MacReady, was not supposed to be anywhere near Kabul, the project was a complete mystery, and the signature, "Coldstrom", rang no bells. Impulsively, David gets on the next plane to Afghanistan - and finds himself in the midst of an intrigue that involves the three nations that surround Afghanistan - China, Russia and Pakistan - and a beautiful woman. It will also lead to a terrifying trek through some of the most unforgiving mountains on the planet. Cranstoun learns a lot about himself, about the murky ruthlessness of international politics and about the sheer savagery of the great ice mountains of the Hindu Kush. 'One of Scotland's most prolific and respected writers' The Times
Cable From Kabul
by Nigel TranterMACREADY BELIEVED DEAD STOP PROJECT IN BALANCE STOP PLEASE COME STOP said the cable which reached the respectable Fenchurch Street office of Cranstoun and Macready, Importers and Exporters. Plain words, but enough to baffle David Cranstoun, since his partner, Jim MacReady, was not supposed to be anywhere near Kabul, the project was a complete mystery, and the signature, "Coldstrom", rang no bells. Impulsively, David gets on the next plane to Afghanistan - and finds himself in the midst of an intrigue that involves the three nations that surround Afghanistan - China, Russia and Pakistan - and a beautiful woman. It will also lead to a terrifying trek through some of the most unforgiving mountains on the planet. Cranstoun learns a lot about himself, about the murky ruthlessness of international politics and about the sheer savagery of the great ice mountains of the Hindu Kush. 'One of Scotland's most prolific and respected writers' The Times
Cable Harbor
by Donald BowieAffairs, pills, and politics collide among the summer houses set in this &“au courant, fine-tuned&” satire of an exclusive New England resort town (Kirkus Reviews). Welcome to Cable Harbor, Maine, a quaint seaside refuge where gossip, vanity, and revenge make for a potent summer cocktail. Meet Marie, a rich middle-aged divorcée hell-bent on getting even with her ex; Arthur and Herbert, Cable Harbor&’s resident gay couple and the happiest marriage in town; Marjorie, wife of the local caterer and an ardent crusader against the corrupt summer vacationers; and Laura, in her twenties and recently fired from a New York publishing house. Cavorting at the beach club, sipping vodka and lemonade, the idle rich while away the days—until the townies declare open warfare and no one&’s secrets are safe. In this debut novel, Donald Bowie captures the craziness that overcomes us all in the summertime.
Cabo Trafalgar
by Arturo Pérez-ReverteUn combate naval que cambió el destino del mundo Trafalgar 1805: Habrás estado allí En vísperas del bicentenario de la batalla de Trafalgar, Alfaguara pidió a Arturo Pérez-Reverte un relato sobre su particular visión del combate naval más famoso de la historia, que enfrentó a la armada combinada hispano-francesa con la británica, mandada por el almirante Nelson, en las aguas españolas del cabo Trafalgar. La combinación de rigor histórico y acción espectacular, unida a la habilidad narrativa del autor, convierten estas páginas en una apasionante pieza clave para comprender la trágica jornada de aquel 21 de octubre de 1805 que cambió la historia de Europa y del mundo. La guerra y el mar, el coraje y la cobardía, el destino y la memoria histórica, en definitiva, las distintas batallas a las que nos enfrenta la vida son el paisaje por el que navega Cabo Trafalgar. La críticaha dicho...«El autor ha procedido con su probada habilidad en la dosificación y distribución de la copiosa documentación histórica y técnica, que produce sus mejores frutos en la descripción de los navíos y la evolución de los mismos en el transcurso de la batalla...»Ángel Basanta, El Cultural «Aquí los personajes que invoca Pérez-Reverte fueron alguna vez de carne y hueso, aunque sus méritos y sus errores los hayan convertido, con la perspectiva que da el tiempo, en figuras fronterizas entre la leyenda y la realidad implacable: son formidables, trágicas, heróicas, brillantes, desdichadas...»Luis Domingo, ABC
Cabo de Gata: A Novel
by Eugen RugeA witty, philosophical novel by the author of the internationally bestselling In Times of Fading LightSometimes a cat comes into your life when you least expect it.An unnamed writer finds himself in Cabo de Gata, a sleepy, worn-down Andalusian fishing village. He's left behind his life in Berlin, which it turns out wasn't much--an ex-girlfriend, a neighborhood that had become too trendy for his taste. Surrounded by a desolate landscape that is scoured by surprisingly cold winds (not at all what he expected of southern Spain), he faces his daily failures: to connect with the innkeeper or any of the townsfolk, who all seem to be hiding something; to learn Spanish; to keep warm; to write. At last he succeeds in making an unlikely connection with one of the village's many feral cats. Does the cat have a message for him? And will their tenuous relationship be enough to turn his life around?With sharp intelligence and wry humor, Eugen Ruge's Cabo de Gata proposes the biggest questions and illustrates how achieving happiness sometimes means giving oneself up to the foreign and the unknown.
Caboose Mystery (Boxcar Children #11)
by Gertrude Chandler Warner David CunninghamHenry, Jessie, Violet and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a home with their grandfather and are spending the summer traveling on a train-in their own caboose, number 777. At one train stop, a man startles the Boxcar Children when he runs away after hearing the number of their caboose. It isn't long before the Aldens learn the mysterious history behind caboose Number 777-a history that involves a circus clown, a high wire artist, and a valuable necklace. Come aboard and join the Boxcar Children in the Caboose Mystery.
Caboose Mystery (The Boxcar Children Mysteries #11)
by Gertrude Chandler WarnerFour brave siblings were searching for a home – and found a life of adventure! Join the Boxcar Children as they investigate the mystery of a curious train caboose in this illustrated chapter book series beloved by generations of readers.The Aldens take a train journey! And at every stop, someone has something to say about the train car the children are riding in. It turns out Caboose Number 777 has an unusual past—one that comes with its very own mystery!What started as a single story about the Alden Children has delighted readers for generations and sold more than 80 million books worldwide. Featuring timeless adventures, mystery, and suspense, The Boxcar Children® series continues to inspire children to learn, question, imagine, and grow.
Cabot Wright Begins: A Novel
by James PurdyCabot Wright Begins, first published in 1964, may be one of the most neglected masterpieces in post-World War II American literature. Cabot Wright is a handsome, Yale-educated stockbroker and scion of a good family. He also happens to be the convicted rapist of nearly three hundred women. Bernie Gladhart is a naive used-car salesman from Chicago, who--spurred on by his ambitious wife--decides to travel to Brooklyn and write the Great American Novel about the recently paroled Cabot Wright. As Bernie tries to track down Wright in Brooklyn, he encounters a series of bizarre and Dickensian characters and sets in motion an extraordinary chain of events. In this merciless and outrageous satire of American culture, cult writer James Purdy is unsparing and prophetic in his portrayal of television, publishing, Wall Street, race, urban poverty, sex, and the false values of American culture in a work compared to Candide by Susan Sontag. Considered too scabrous for the stifling culture mores of the early 1960s, Purdy's comic fiction evokes "an American psychic landscape of deluded innocence, sexual obsession, violence and isolation" (New York Times).
Cabs, Cameras and Catastrophes (Unmistakably Cooper Ellis #4)
by Wendy Lee NentwigBook 4 of "Unmistakably Cooper Ellis". Cooper tries to find comfort with her friends but still wonders whether her break-up was right. Then, when a photo shoot turns risky, she has another difficult test of her faith.
Caca Dolce: Essays from a Lowbrow Life
by Chelsea MartinFor anyone who has ever felt weird or poor or misunderstood or just . . . weird, well, this is the book for you. Martin chronicles her own bizarre upbringing in such a way that the strangeness of it all manages to still feel universal. She recounts everything from her attempt to manifest an alien invasion (she was just 11; what 11-year-old doesn't want E.T. to visit?) to the fights she had with her family, to what it was like to be diagnosed with Tourette's Syndrome as an adolescent. It's a wild ride of a memoir, and a true glimpse into the mind of an artist as she's figuring out what life is all about. Kristin Iversen, NylonFunny, candid, and searchingly self-aware, this essay collection tells the story of Chelsea Martins coming of age as an artist. We are with Chelsea as an eleven-year-old atheist, trying to will an alien visitation to her neighborhood; fighting with her stepfather and grappling with a Tourettes diagnosis as she becomes a teenager; falling under the sway of frenemies and crushes in high school; going into debt to afford what might be a meaningless education at an expensive art college; navigating the messy process of falling in love with a close friend; and struggling for independence from her emotionally manipulative father and from the family and friends in the dead-end California town that has defined her upbringing. This is a book about relationships, class, art, sex, money, and familyand about growing up weird, and poor, in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Cacaphonies: The Excremental Canon of French Literature
by Annabel L. KimExploring why there is so much fecal matter in literary works that matterCacaphonies takes fecal matter and its place in literature seriously. Readers and critics have too long overlooked excrement&’s vital role in the twentieth- and twenty-first-century French canon. In a stark challenge to the tendency to view this literature through sanitizing abstractions, Annabel L. Kim undertakes close readings of key authors to argue for feces as a figure of radical equality, both a literary object and a reflection on literature itself, without which literary studies is impoverished and sterile. Following the fecal through line in works by Céline, Beckett, Genet, Sartre, Duras, and Gary and the contemporary authors Anne Garréta and Daniel Pennac, Kim shows that shit, far from vanishing from the canon after the early modern period, remains present in the modern and contemporary French literature that follows. She argues that all the shit in the canon expresses a call to democratize literature, making literature for all, just as shit is for (or of) all. She attends to its presence in this prized element of French identity, treating it as a continually uttered desire to manifest the universality France aspires to—as encapsulated by the slogan Liberté, égalité, fraternité—but fails to realize. In shit there is a concrete universalism that traverses bodies with disregard for embodied differences. Cacaphonies reminds us that literature, and the ideas to be found therein, cannot be separated from the corporeal envelopes that create and receive them. In so doing, it reveals the aesthetic, political, and ethical potential of shit and its capacity to transform literature and life.
Caccia alle Streghe: Un giallo delle streghe di Westwick (I gialli delle streghe di Westwick #1)
by Alessandra Lorenzoni Colleen CrossCaccia alle Streghe: Un giallo delle streghe di Westwick Serie: I gialli delle streghe di Westwick FATE ATTENZIONE A QUELLO CHE DESIDERATE... Un giallo paranormale delle streghe di Westwick "...Una chicca soprannaturale che vi stregherà. Se vi piacciono i misteri e le magie adorerete Cendrine West e la sua stravagante famiglia di streghe!" Cendrine West ha un segreto: non vuole essere una strega. D’altra parte come strega non è molto brava e sua zia Pearl non fa che ricordarglielo. Ma Cendrine non può sfuggire alla sua natura, soprattutto non nella piccola Westwick Corners, dove la famiglia di streghe West crea problemi da generazioni. I problemi sorgono quando viene scoperto un cadavere poco prima del matrimonio di Cendrine. Le sue indagini portano alla luce una connessione soprannaturale e un segreto sul suo fidanzato che avrebbe preferito non scoprire. Cendrine è costretta a mettere alla prova la sua capacità come strega. Sarà in grado di salvare la sua famiglia e la città? Gli indizi sulla scena del crimine indicano l’irascibile zia Pearl, che si è votata a impedire a ogni costo il turismo, così importante per la piccola Westwick Corners. Pearl è anche determinata a mandare via Tyler Gates, il nuovo affascinante sceriffo, come ha fatto con i suoi predecessori. E se questo non bastasse, ci si mette anche il fantasma di nonna Vi, che vuole partecipare all’azione. Cendrine fa di tutto per scagionare la zia, anche se questo non andrà necessariamente a suo vantaggio. Volano scintille tra Cendrine e Tyler, mentre si accumulano le prove contro zia Pearl. Cendrine riuscirà a spingere le indagini, e il suo cuore, nella giusta direzione? Se vi piacciono i gialli con un pizzico di humor e di soprannaturale, quest’avventura paranormale fa per voi!! libri italiani
Cacciatore (Cacciatore e Raining Men #1)
by Rick R. Reed Diletta WilliamsQualcuno definirebbe Caden DeSarro un cacciatore di uomini grassi. Gli piacciono i ragazzi con qualche chilo di troppo. Quando incontra Kevin Dodge nei bagni di un locale, non riesce a togliergli gli occhi di dosso, anche se non fa una bella figura. Secondo Caden, Kevin è fisicamente perfetto: un biondone barbuto con l'attrezzatura perfetta (si sono incontrati in bagno, non poteva non sbirciare!). Caden però si blocca e perde la sua occasione. Quando s'imbatte di nuovo in Kevin quella notte, sul treno verso casa, pensa che il destino gli abbia offerto una seconda possibilità. Fa in modo di farsi invitare a casa di Kevin per un'avventura di una notte che si trasforma, invece, nel tipo di relazione che Caden ha sempre sognato. Ma il vero amore non trova mai il suo compimento senza ostacoli e l'idillio di Kevin e Caden non fa eccezione. Quando Caden ritorna da un viaggio di qualche settimana, Kevin lo sorprende con un fisico nuovo e 'migliorato', che si addice benissimo agli ideali di Bobby, l'amico vanesio di Caden, ma non a quelli di Caden. Lui non sa più cosa fare e la sua esitazione è l'occasione che Bobby stava cercando. Perché quello non è più lo stesso Kevin di cui si è innamorato..., vero?
Cacciatore e preda (I Mutaforma #4)
by Ernesto Pavan M. D. GrimmI Mutaforma: Volume 4L'orfano Hunter Landon desidera una famiglia che lo ami senza condizioni. Quando viene adottato dai Cavalieri, un'organizzazione dedita a distruggere i mutaforma, Hunter è felice, ma la loro ideologia non lo convince. Finalmente, nel corso di un rito di passaggio durante il quale dovrebbe uccidere il suo primo nemico, Hunter scopre la verità: conosce Glenn Lightfoot, un mutaforma cervide, e ha l'occasione di fargli molte domande. Glenn odia i Cavalieri e teme per la sicurezza del proprio branco, avendone proprio uno così vicino. Dopotutto, quell'organizzazione ha fatto del male alla sua famiglia in passato. Questa è, però, l'occasione per convertire un nemico, e l'istinto gli dice che Hunter non lo tradirà. Presto Hunter vede i cavalieri per ciò che sono realmente, dei mostri, e quando il tempo per la sua prova scade, decide di allontanarsi dal branco del mutaforma per proteggerlo. Ma Glenn non permetterà che la crudeltà dei Cavalieri gli faccia perdere l'uomo che ha imparato ad amare e rispettare.
Cacciatrice
by W. J. May Silvia StefaniSolo la morte potrebbe fermarla ora "The Daughters of Darkness" (le figlie delle Tenebre) è una serie di quattro eroine che potrebbero o no conoscersi, ma che tutte hanno lo stesso padre, Vlad Montour. La cacciatrice ora diventa la preda Victoria è una cacciatrice vampira, una delle ultime della sua specie. È il meglio del meglio. Quando scopre che uno dei suoi bersagli è effettivamente sua sorella, la lascia andare, solo per ritrovarsi così dalla parte sbagliata rispetto al consiglio. Costretta a dimostrare il suo valore, va a caccia del suo prossimo bersaglio, un lupo mannaro. Ferita e affamata, è obbligata a fare ciò che deve per sopravvivere. Le sue azioni provocano l'ira dell'antico consiglio, ritrovandosi così a essere l'unica cosa che aveva sempre disprezzato. La Preda. Tori non ha altra scelta e scappa. Ha deluso il consiglio, attaccato e ucciso un anziano e ora, Vlad, il suo terribile padre, è determinato a trovarla. Quando i segreti del passato vengono a galla, si ritroverà a un bivio. Incerta sulla giusta strada da percorrere, dovrà affidarsi ad altre creature soprannaturali e lasciarsi guidare, cosa che non aveva mai permesso prima. Obbligata a combattere contro altri cacciatori vampiri, viene messa all'angolo e l'unico modo per uscirne è combattere, o morire provandoci. ***Questa è una serie pensata per un pubblico adulto e contiene scene per lettori maggiori di sedici anni***
Cacería en el hielo (¡Arriba la Lectura! Level O #1)
by Dave Gunson Bruce NaylorNIMAC-sourced textbook