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When Beth Michaels hightailed it out of the hole-in-the-road town she grew up in, she only had two goals. One - get as far away as quickly as possible, and two -never set foot in her parent's home again. But when she receives a heart breaking call from her childhood best friend, Jen, she has no choice but to turn her '56 Ford pickup back in the direction of Salem, Missouri to attend a funeral. There's a new local in town when Beth arrives, and suddenly, it ain't all that easy for her to remember her rules for dating.

Poetry in English and Spanish - Poems revealing a thread of commonality of growing up too fast, falling in and out of love and realizing mistakes made. Beautifully translated in Spanish by Liliana Ducoure'Caro. Revelan un hilo de lo común - los altibajos emocionales al enamorarse y desenamorarse, la necesidad y el deseo de crecer rápido, la revelación de los errores cometidos y la sabiduría que se obtiene al final.

This story describes USAC sprint car racing in the early 1960s and a driver named Stan Bowman. It captures Bowman's win at the first USAC sprint car race at Eldora Speedway in 1962. Bowman also captured the attention of Clint Brawner, the legendary Indianapolis 500 mechanic of that era. The story is told through the eyes of Diane Beck Lane, who was daughter of Harold Beck, the owner of Bowman's race car at Eldora in 1962.

Poesía en Inglés y español - poemas sobre relaciones y el amor - la vida - bilingüe para la enseñanza - contenido es adecuado para todas las edades. Grande como un regalo y para la enseñanza de clases de nivel de secundaria y en la universidad Revelan un hilo de lo común - los altibajos emocionales al enamorarse y desenamorarse, la necesidad y el deseo de crecer rápido, la revelación de los errores cometidos y la sabiduría que se obtiene al final.

Eat Your Heart Out opens on what promises to be another tediously annoying day at Ashbee's Furniture Outlet. Then the strip-mall calm of Nowhere, Ohio, is shattered by the sudden, simultaneous appearance of Renni Ramirez-hyper-competent star of the beloved Rising Evil B-movie franchise-and actual zombies, leaving Ashbee's hapless staff and Renni trapped behind an automatic door they can't lock. Can failed creative-writing student/apprentice store manager/eagle-eyed markswoman Devin escape the besieged furniture store to rescue her girlfriend?

The Colorado capital of today is a far cry from the cattle country of a generation ago. The growing city with a small-town ambiance has become a full-fledged metropolis. The Denver Center for the Performing Arts, for instance, is nearly as big as New York's Lincoln Center. Denver is the center of finance and commerce in the Southwest, the nation's fastest growing region. The new families have reclaimed old downtown neighborhoods, such as historic Capitol Hill.