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This famous satire of life on Main Street, Gopher Prairie, mirrors with devastating honesty life on Main Streets from Albany to San Diego.

Rich people know a secret. In this book, former Wall Street investor Codie Sanchez pulls back the curtain. Most people look for wealth in all the wrong places. From dropshipping and startups to grinding for promotions, you might believe you have to trade your life to be one of the few who win...

A biting satire that countered the American myth of wholesome small-town life with a depiction of narrow-minded provincialism, it was to some degree based on Lewis's own experience of growing on Sauk Centre, Minnesota. Set in mid-1910s, it depicts the struggles of Carol Kennicott, a city girl, as she tries to adapt to small town life, having left her librarian job and St. Paul, Minnesota to marry Dr. Will Kennicott of Gopher Prairie. Dismayed by the town’s drabness and the conforming, petty inhabitants, Carol optimistically sets out to improve the town.

"This is America ... its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere ..." With the first line of his novel, Sinclair Lewis captures an America on the brink of change. Main Street vividly draws the lines of tension between tradition and progress in ways that make them timeless, yet...

The lonely predicament of Carol Kennicott, caught between her desires for social reform and individual happiness, reflects the position in which America's turn-of-the-century "emancipated woman" found herself.

KUDZU SCULPTURES Dorie Hudson, a new journalism graduate from Virginia Tech, moves to small town Daelin, GA, to work for the Daelin Beacon as the Lifestyles Editor. Within the first weeks of her time in Daelin, she finds the town up in arms about the kudzu ‘sculptures’ swallowing the loblolly pines on the road into Daelin. Why won’t the mayor allow the nursery man Ross MacAvoy to tear down and destroy the overgrowing vines? What’s hiding in the kudzu? As the mystery deepens, Dorie finds most people are like the kudzu, beautiful and polite on the outside, but dead and self-serving on...

An early 20th century American story written in the Theodore Dreiser style of each word and chapter building on the previous ones, telling the saga of evangelical religion & people with irony throughout.

She came to Riverside to disappear. She didn't plan to stay. Emma Reynolds has spent years making art under her initials — E.R. — because she liked the separation between the work and the woman. Then one piece went wide. Really wide. And suddenly strangers were accusing her of being a machine. She books a month at the Riverside Historic Inn and tells herself she just needs quiet. She isn't wrong about that. What she doesn't expect is a town that needs exactly what she's good at — and an innkeeper who seems to notice everything she doesn't say out loud. James Porter is steady in a way ...

""A pure delight from start to finish!""--Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Diamond Eye Acclaimed author Trisha R. Thomas delivers a masterful new tale of scandal and intuition. In 1950s oil-rich Oklahoma, Bailey Dowery, a dressmaker with the gift of “second sight,”...

My stress levels skyrocketed after I discovered the deadly vampire who has taken over downtown is Considine Maledictus, one of the most powerful vampires alive. Now I’m even more reluctant to tangle with him, but he’s started showing up in the middle of my investigations, even if they’re outside his territory. I never know if he’s there to fight or to lend me some unexpected help. I don’t have time to ponder his weird behavior, because a group of local wizards are up to some shady practices.

Nora Callahan lleva tres meses de vuelta en Riverside cuando descubre que el único camino para salvar la Ruta del Vino que acaba de organizar pasa por asociarse con el hombre al que evitó durante todos sus años de ausencia. Reid McCallister es tranquilo, fiable y propietario de la cervecería que está justo al final de la calle. Y, según resulta, es exactamente lo que ella necesita para resolver el problema legal que amenaza su evento más importante. Lo que empieza como un acuerdo práctico —wine walk, cerveza artesana, una ordenanza municipal de 1887 que ninguno de los dos esperaba...

A girl learns how the history of redlining has affected her neighborhood in this intergenerational audiobook about racism, community action, and resilience by two New York Times bestselling authors. Olivia can’t wait to invite her friends to the 62nd annual Main Street Block Party. But when...

There’s a murdered mayor on Main Street and Winnie’s pup finds a secret poison garden in her new small town. Flamingos cause chaos and felonies follow… Former banker Winnie Cooper inherits more than a café. She gets troublesome town hall colliding with guerrilla gardeners, corporate vultures picking apart Juniper Point, a corpse in the courtyard and her new best buddy is blamed! Luckily, she has friends on her side - quirky and quaint gossiping grandmas. The butcher beside her is grumpy but gracious. Best of all she has her sidekick Jack Russell terrier - Cookie, intent on tennis ...

In the long run, economies grow. Over the shorter-term business cycle, economic activity contracts and expands. From Main Street to Wall Street examines both the long-run relation between economic growth and stock returns and the shorter-term business-cycle relation. It examines the complex relationship between the economy and the stock market, and guides listeners through the fascinating interaction between economic activity and financial markets.

Brought to you by Penguin Rich people know a secret. In this book, former Wall Street investor Codie Sanchez pulls back the curtain. Most people look for wealth in all the wrong places.. From dropshipping and startups to grinding for promotions, you might believe you have to trade your life to...

Knit One, Kill Two A Cozy Small-Town Mystery with a Twist of Murder A skein of silk. A strangled shopkeeper. A cozy town unraveling at the seams. When Ivy Green stops by her favorite yarn shop for a quiet afternoon of knitting and gossip, she never expects to find the owner dead—strangled with her own luxurious silk thread. But Ivy isn’t just a tea shop owner with a knack for comfort—she’s got a sharp eye and an instinct for secrets. As the police unravel slowly, Ivy dives into a mystery filled with jealous rivals, tangled relationships, and a killer who’s stitching lies with ...

All three books in the Hearts of Main Street series, bundled in one binge-worthy collection. Back to Main Street — Charlotte Whitaker came back to Riverside to sell her grandmother's cottage and leave. She didn't plan on Henry Caldwell, a fake-dating scheme, or a town that refused to let her go. Art of Main Street — Emma Reynolds chose Riverside because no one would know who she was. The inn was quiet, the Winter Artisan Market needed a designer, and the innkeeper definitely wasn't supposed to notice her. Perfect Pairing on Main Street — Nora Callahan has the town's first Holiday Wine...

When women start disappearing from the community, neighbors began to suspect a serial killer could be lurking in their midst, but without bodies or links to any suspects, authorities have ignored claims an elusive predator could be stalking Main Street. Is he a drifter, a jobless loner, an ex-con, or maybe the guy next door? As the mystery deepens and hysteria builds, the killer prepares to target yet another victim. Adam, a dirt poor and downtrodden 17-year-old, has his luck turnaround when he meets Mel, a wild and beautiful new student who develops an instant connection with him. But when...

A greedy, philandering Baptist minister, Elmer Gantry turns to evangelism and becomes the leader of a large Methodist congregation. Often exposed as a fraud, he is never fully discredited. Elmer Gantry is considered a landmark American novel and one of the most penetrating studies of hypocrisy in modern literature. It portrays the evangelistic activity that was common in 1920s America as well as attitudes toward it.

A never-married postmaster. A widowed carpenter. A Christmas charade that fools everyone—including themselves. Judith Petrov has operated the Silver Sound post office for thirty years. At sixty-two, she is content with her life—until Eleanor Matthews decides that Judith's single status needs fixing. When the town's matchmaker begins her holiday meddling, Judith realizes she needs a solution fast. Ben Carlson keeps his life simple and his heart guarded. The widowed carpenter has no interest in romance, but when Judith proposes a fake relationship to keep Eleanor off their backs, the ...