The Big Cookout


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Phil gets to go camping with his cousins. He helps his uncle build a tent while his parents and aunt prepare the big cookout. In this fictional narrative, specific vocabulary and bright illustrations will help readers learn about family structure in relation to aunts, uncles, and cousins. This fiction title is paired with the nonfiction title Camping with My Cousins.




Ainsley's Big Cook Out


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Offering concise, research-based content in a consistent format, this text highlights relevant and challenging topics for nursing students, including patient teaching, community and home care, gerontology, cultural and ethnic considerations, collaborative care, nutrition, and critical thinking. Nursing management content is discussed in a levels-of-care approach, with separate headings for Health Promotion, Acute Intervention, and Ambulatory and Home Care. More than just a textbook, it is a comprehensive resource with the essential information that students need to prepare for lectures, classroom activities, examinations, clinical assignments, and comprehensive care of patients.




Holy Smoke


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North Carolina is home to the longest continuous barbecue tradition on the North American mainland. Authoritative, spirited, and opinionated (in the best way), Holy Smoke is a passionate exploration of the lore, recipes, traditions, and people who have helped shape North Carolina's signature slow-food dish. Three barbecue devotees, John Shelton Reed, Dale Volberg Reed, and William McKinney, trace the origins of North Carolina 'cue and the emergence of the heated rivalry between Eastern and Piedmont styles. They provide detailed instructions for cooking barbecue at home, along with recipes for the traditional array of side dishes that should accompany it. The final section of the book presents some of the people who cook barbecue for a living, recording firsthand what experts say about the past and future of North Carolina barbecue. Filled with historic and contemporary photographs showing centuries of North Carolina's "barbeculture," as the authors call it, Holy Smoke is one of a kind, offering a comprehensive exploration of the Tar Heel barbecue tradition.




Pax Samson Vol. 1


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Pax Samson: The Cookout is the first volume in a new action-packed, fantasy trilogy that depicts a world struggling to find peace in the midst of threats, and a young superhero chef torn between following his passion and following in his family’s footsteps. When it comes to the kitchen, no one knows cooking better than twelve-year-old Pax Samson. He’s a hero when it comes to testing recipes and supplying copious amounts of Dragon Noodle Soup at his family’s cookouts. It’s tough being a master chef, though, when the rest of his family are world-famous superheroes, and they expect Pax to take up the beacon to keep the world safe with his telekinetic powers. Pax's home planet of Soltellus is home to all walks of life, including humans, gods, as well as elves, orcs, dragons, sprites and other fantasy races known as the “Enchanted” all living in a modern society similar to our own. Among them is the Samson family, led by the fearless and mighty Grandma Samson, the greatest superhero to ever live and the person responsible for always saving Soltellus when trouble strikes. She’s been doing it for hundreds of years, but she’s ready for the younger generation of Samsons, including Pax, to step up. When the mad god Odin, long-time enemy to the Enchanted race and arch-rival to Grandma, resurfaces in another attempt to regain power, Pax will attempt to put his training into practice, but ends up just making things worse. Tempted to hang up the superhero cape and stick to the kitchen, Pax faces the toughest decision yet when a legendary savior of the Enchanted people arrives, along with a startling discovery that there might be parts of the Soltellus history that are wrong. Pax, determined to protect his family and friends, will do everything he can to stop the new threats set on disrupting the peace between humans and the Enchanted.




You Be the Judge


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Brian Rodgers dreamed of becoming a police officer from the time he was a child. Struggling to earn a college degree, financial pressures forced him from school and into a job as a dispatcher. Contending with supervisors that are prejudiced against him because of his race, Brian suffers a series of career setbacks that frustrate and disillusion him. A long period of unemployment and near despair conclude as Brian finds employment as a uniformed officer in a town where racial discrimination is not a factor and his path to success is secured.




The Ghost of Spruce Point


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A young boy must unravel a curse to save his family’s beloved Maine motel in this spooky, “tightly paced” (Publishers Weekly) middle grade novel sure to delight fans of Whispering Pines and The Peculiar Incident on Shady Street! Twelve-year-old Parker has grown up in his family’s Home Away Inn, nestled on a wooded peninsula in Maine called Spruce Point. His best friend, Frankie, has been staying at the inn every summer for years with her family. Together, they’ve had epic adventures based out of a nearby old treehouse that serves as their official headquarters for Kids Confidential Meetings. But lately, business at the inn hasn’t been great, and Parker is pretty sure he knows why. It’s long been rumored that Mrs. Gruvlig, one of the few year-rounders on Spruce Point, has unique abilities of the supernatural kind. And Frankie is absolutely sure she saw a ghost on Mrs. Gruvlig’s property! As more and more spooky happenings occur around the Point, Parker and Frankie are convinced Spruce Point has been officially cursed.




Weeds & Wildflowers


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Weeds and Wildflowers is a psychological thriller that dives in and exposes the cruel reality of spousal abuse, rape, and mental maladies while proving that the human condition can be strong enough to overcome excruciating experiences. Author, Barbara Vansickle Cook, begins this heart-wrenching true story with the birth of baby Jennifer in an Appalachian coal town hospital. Jennifer is immediately adopted as an infant and whisked away by her surrogate parents from what would have been a life




Remembering the Dragon Lady


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Gabriel's Creek


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Ralphie the border collie seemed to the operators of Gabriel's Creek Golf Course to have come out of nowhere to become their course mascot. This 18-hole track wasn't listed anywhere when Chris Collins looked for someplace to play the last round of golf of his life. When old, worn road signs draw him to this uncharted arena, it seems perhaps destiny has brought them together. With Ralphie as his guide through the round, Collins experiences the magic of Gabriel's Creek. Along the way, he meets friends and foes of his past at memorable holes across two continents. Is it time travel or just the enchantment of Gabriel's Creek? Through an emotional day, his inspirational escapades provide the reminder that we should all treat each day as a gift. The 18th hole is more than the end of the round, as Collins finds that Gabriel's Creek Golf Course exists in neither the earthly world nor the next, but somewhere in between.




Emily's Wedding


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-a Night Stalkers Wedding story- Shortly after Night Stalkers #1, The Night Is Mine... Major Emily Beale of the US Army’s Night Stalkers helicopter regiment found true love and the wedding looms imminent. But an emotional firestorm aims her toward a hard landing. Major Mark Henderson knows she’s the woman of his dreams, but he never considered that an aerial battle in the Hindu Kush ranked as a lower hazard mission than reaching the altar intact. When her long-time friend the President decides to help, none of them may survive Emily’s Wedding.