Standing in the Rainbow

Standing in the Rainbow
Title Standing in the Rainbow PDF eBook
Author Fannie Flagg
Publisher Ballantine Books
Pages 562
Release 2004-08-03
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0345478630

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Good news! Fannie’s back in town—and the town is among the leading characters in her new novel. Along with Neighbor Dorothy, the lady with the smile in her voice, whose daily radio broadcasts keep us delightfully informed on all the local news, we also meet Bobby, her ten-year-old son, destined to live a thousand lives, most of them in his imagination; Norma and Macky Warren and their ninety-eight-year-old Aunt Elner; the oddly sexy and charismatic Hamm Sparks, who starts off in life as a tractor salesman and ends up selling himself to the whole state and almost the entire country; and the two women who love him as differently as night and day. Then there is Tot Whooten, the beautician whose luck is as bad as her hairdressing skills; Beatrice Woods, the Little Blind Songbird; Cecil Figgs, the Funeral King; and the fabulous Minnie Oatman, lead vocalist of the Oatman Family Gospel Singers. The time is 1946 until the present. The town is Elmwood Springs, Missouri, right in the middle of the country, in the midst of the mostly joyous transition from war to peace, aiming toward a dizzyingly bright future. Once again, Fannie Flagg gives us a story of richly human characters, the saving graces of the once-maligned middle classes and small-town life, and the daily contest between laughter and tears. Fannie truly writes from the heartland, and her storytelling is, to quote Time, "utterly irresistible."

The Whole Town's Talking

The Whole Town's Talking
Title The Whole Town's Talking PDF eBook
Author Fannie Flagg
Publisher
Pages 418
Release 2016
Genre Fiction
ISBN 140006595X

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Elmwood Springs, Missouri, is a small town like any other, but something strange is happening out at the cemetery. 'Still Meadows, ' as it's called, is anything but still. Tells a surprising story of life, afterlife, and the mysterious goings-on of ordinary people"--Amazon.com.

The Chalk Rainbow

The Chalk Rainbow
Title The Chalk Rainbow PDF eBook
Author Deborah Kelly
Publisher Exisle Publishing
Pages 35
Release 2017-07-01
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 1775593444

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Can't Wait to Get to Heaven

Can't Wait to Get to Heaven
Title Can't Wait to Get to Heaven PDF eBook
Author Fannie Flagg
Publisher Random House
Pages 332
Release 2006-11-28
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1588366197

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Combining southern warmth with unabashed emotion and side-splitting hilarity, Fannie Flagg takes readers back to Elmwood Springs, Missouri, where the most unlikely and surprising experiences of a high-spirited octogenarian inspire a town to ponder the age-old question: Why are we here? Life is the strangest thing. One minute, Mrs. Elner Shimfissle is up in her tree, picking figs, and the next thing she knows, she is off on an adventure she never dreamed of, running into people she never in a million years expected to meet. Meanwhile, back home, Elner’s nervous, high-strung niece Norma faints and winds up in bed with a cold rag on her head; Elner’s neighbor Verbena rushes immediately to the Bible; her truck driver friend, Luther Griggs, runs his eighteen-wheeler into a ditch–and the entire town is thrown for a loop and left wondering, “What is life all about, anyway?” Except for Tot Whooten, who owns Tot’s Tell It Like It Is Beauty Shop. Her main concern is that the end of the world might come before she can collect her social security. In this comedy-mystery, those near and dear to Elner discover something wonderful: Heaven is actually right here, right now, with people you love, neighbors you help, friendships you keep. Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven is proof once more that Fannie Flagg “was put on this earth to write” (Southern Living), spinning tales as sweet and refreshing as iced tea on a summer day, with a little extra kick thrown in.

Star Spangled Banner

Star Spangled Banner
Title Star Spangled Banner PDF eBook
Author Francis Scott Key
Publisher
Pages 24
Release 1907
Genre National songs
ISBN

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Feynman's Rainbow

Feynman's Rainbow
Title Feynman's Rainbow PDF eBook
Author Leonard Mlodinow
Publisher Vintage
Pages 194
Release 2011-11-29
Genre Science
ISBN 0307946495

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Some of the brightest minds in science have passed through the halls of the California Institute of Technology. In the early 1980s, Leonard Mlodinow joined their ranks to begin a postdoctoral fellowship. Afraid he was not smart enough to be there, despite his groundbreaking Ph.D. thesis, he took his insecurities to Richard Feynman, Caltech’s intimidating resident genius and iconoclast. So began a pivotal year in a young man’s life. Though a series of fascinating exchanges, Mlodinow and Feynman delve into the nature of science, creativity, love mathematics, happiness, God, art, pleasures and ambition, producing a moving portrait of a friendship and an affecting account of Feynman’s final creative years.

The Rainbow Bridge

The Rainbow Bridge
Title The Rainbow Bridge PDF eBook
Author Adrian Raeside
Publisher Harbour Publishing
Pages 32
Release 2020-09-08
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 9781550179422

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A gently humorous story that is a valuable fable for pet lovers of all ages.