Middy Brown Journal V


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Middy Brown and I have been constant companions for twenty years. Journal V concludes the series. I’ll miss her. One day I logged into my computer and there she was, demanding my attention. She’s been on my case since that moment, at writers’ conferences, author panels and having fun. Middy’s struggles almost took her down before moving beyond her ‘empty nest. syndrome’. She refers to the days prior to her adventures as living with full-time postpartum depression. She’s taken me along during her fifteen-year journey, which has taken me twenty years to write. She’s intuitive, wonderful, compassionate and often a very nosey gal, charging forward where ‘angels fear to tread.’ She can’t remember how many times Cal, the dreamiest P.I. on the planet has carted her out of the E.R. when the angels (or Cal) almost didn’t make it in time...Whew! Every woman, at some point in her life, is a “Middy” finding herself and love again, at least we hope we are.




Middy Brown Journal Iv


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Middy Brown Journal IV finds our spunky gal continuing to attract complicated adventures that transpire simply because she is such a dear and compassionate meddlerbut in a really good and sincere way. Long divorced from old George Brown, a domineering chauvinist, she has risen above his constant degradation and verbal abuse; but the damage does remain. We find her finally enjoying a beautiful and romantic marriage with her former cop and private investigator boss, Calvin Cleere, the dreamiest PI on the planet. Time is marching on, and when she unexpectedly inherits Mosscreeka beautiful, large, and gracious mountain estateshe and Cal agree that she should fulfill her dream and utilize a portion of this large estate as a guest house and event center. Her now-husband, Cal, closed his Denver office and was tapped by the Department of Homeland Security for a highly classified and often-covert position. The department moves in for this highly prized contractor, installing an impenetrable workspace with top-of-the-line surveillance equipment and a bulletproof coded entry door, all in an upstairs corner of Mosscreek. Middy has her own security clearance, so she does have access to the code and Cal if she knocks fist. From this austere location, he is somewhat able to monitor his deeply adored, classy but often error prone problem-magnet wife. Middy has become an astute businesswoman, but she simply cannot avoid involving Cal in her well-intended and often-disastrous activities. When she worked for him as his not-so-perfect assistant in his PI practice, on many occasions he had to extract her from the ER, when her very best intentions went astray and she didnt quite dodge the bullet. Now, in a new and happy marriage and enjoying her position as proprietress of the lovely Mosscreek Manor, very little has changed; Cal just cant seem to keep her away from her inclination to innocently make disastrous and sometimes hysterically funny decisions.




Architectural Objects


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Three Generations of Architects HCM Hodson, Carter, McNeill Four Journeys - four paths a thousand conflicts one anchor. THE FIRM The Players: Jasper McNeill, Grandfather - contemporary of Frank Lloyd Wright Madison McNeill - Son, CEO, and pawn of his father Frank McNeill - Grandson, son heir golden child - source of all hope Meredith Carter McNeill; daughter of founder, wife of Madison Mother of Frank Ten years ago. Frank, spoiled, unhappy, a new college grad, committed a crime; one so heinous he has lived in fear, his guilt and horror of discovery has held him hostage by the worse sort of enemy; a foreign student, a young powerful Sheikh, his own age, from the Middle East, the only one who is aware of the murder haunting Frank. For ten years, every moment of his life is shadowed by the knowledge that his nemesis can continue to force Frank to do his bidding; holding him hostage by keeping his secret and threatening to reveal his crime to destroy Frank’s family architectural firm. Now, the two men are adults, more powerful, more established and Frank’s enemy has returned, Frank, the principal of the firm, has more than ever to lose; and the foreigner still wants more.




Flipped


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A classic he-said-she-said romantic comedy! This updated anniversary edition offers story-behind-the-story revelations from author Wendelin Van Draanen. The first time she saw him, she flipped. The first time he saw her, he ran. That was the second grade, but not much has changed by the seventh. Juli says: “My Bryce. Still walking around with my first kiss.” He says: “It’s been six years of strategic avoidance and social discomfort.” But in the eighth grade everything gets turned upside down: just as Bryce is thinking that there’s maybe more to Juli than meets the eye, she’s thinking that he’s not quite all he seemed. This is a classic romantic comedy of errors told in alternating chapters by two fresh, funny voices. The updated anniversary edition contains 32 pages of extra backmatter: essays from Wendelin Van Draanen on her sources of inspiration, on the making of the movie of Flipped, on why she’ll never write a sequel, and a selection of the amazing fan mail she’s received. Awards and accolades for Flipped: SLJ Top 100 Children’s Novels of all time IRA-CBC Children’s Choice IRA Teacher’s Choice Honor winner, Judy Lopez Memorial Award/WNBA Winner of the California Young Reader Medal “We flipped over this fantastic book, its gutsy girl Juli and its wise, wonderful ending.” — The Chicago Tribune “Van Draanen has another winner in this eighth-grade ‘he-said, she-said’ romance. A fast, funny, egg-cellent winner.” — SLJ, Starred review “With a charismatic leading lady kids will flip over, a compelling dynamic between the two narrators and a resonant ending, this novel is a great deal larger than the sum of its parts.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred review













The Publishers Weekly


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