A beautiful autumn has swept through Firefly Junction, and Sunni Taylor is looking forward to attending the annual season opener at the cider mill with her friend, Raine Lawford. Raine has a new boyfriend, and he works at the mill. Sunni is excited to meet him. Everything about the day is a celebration of tastes and smells and crisp fall weather. The only gray spot on the day is the mill owner, Shawn Griswold. He’s unfriendly, unlikable, and he’s spent a good part of the day firing his staff, including the mill’s baker. Emily is recruited to bake apple pies for the second day of the event, but when Sunni goes with her to deliver the pies, they are shocked to discover that someone has murdered the mill owners. When Jackson’s main suspect turns out to be Raine’s new boyfriend, Sunni is determined to solve the case and clear his name. Unfortunately, Shawn Griswold’s disagreeable personality left him with a lot of enemies, so Sunni has her work cut out. Book 19 of the Firefly Junction Cozy Mystery series

A member of the famed Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne Division, Donald J. Rich went ashore on D-Day at Utah Beach, was wounded in the bloody conflict at Carentan, landed in a flimsy plywood-and-canvas glider on the battlefields of Holland, and survived the grim siege with the "Battling Bastards of Bastogne" during the Battle of the Bulge. Glider Infantryman is his eyewitness account of how he, along with thousands of other young men from farms, small towns, and cities across the United States, came together to answer the call of their nation. It is also a heartfelt tribute to the many thousands who gave their lives in this struggle. Coauthored by Kevin Brooks, the son of Rich's best friend and World War II comrade, Glider Infantryman covers a span of nearly three years; his return home, five months after the war's end, as a toughened bazooka gunner and veteran of five campaigns. Rich's first-person narrative includes vivid coverage of the action, featuring an especially rare account of arriving on a combat landing zone by glider. Detailed, day-to-day depiction of some of the heaviest fighting in Holland follows, including the action at Opheusden, the center of the infamous "Island." Later highlights include the Battle of the Bulge, where Rich recounts his experiences in some of the hottest defensive fighting of the European Theater, including the epic tank battles at Marvie, Champs, and Foy.

Discover the pleasures of making and drinking cider. From choosing the right apples through reaping the liquid rewards of a successful pressing, this classic guide has you covered. With detailed drawings of cider-making equipment, methods, and set-up, even a novice juicer will enjoy sweet and spicy gallons in no time. Annie Proulx and Lew Nichols provide insightful, time-tested advice enlivened by a smattering of historical anecdotes. Whether you like your cider sweet or hard, you’re sure to find a recipe that satisfies.

Take a trip back two hundred years to Firefly Junction 1815, when Edward Beckett was young and alive and desperately in love with Kathy “Kat” Garfield… It’s mid-December in Firefly Junction, and there’s a lot of buzz around the local figgy pudding contest. When the winner winds up face down in her winning pudding, the local constable arrests her husband. But Kat is convinced he has the wrong person. Edward, looking for any excuse to be with Kat, volunteers his services to help her find the real killer. They soon discover that their quaint little town has numerous secrets, and they all seem to connect to the victim. And while Edward is enjoying his long, investigative days at Kat’s side, he also knows it won’t be long before she leaves him for good, and his heart will be forever broken. Book 18 of the Firefly Junction Cozy Mystery series

For 25 years, Ferri's Clinical Advisor has provided immediate answers on the myriad medical diseases and disorders you're likely to encounter in a unique, easy-to-use format. A bestselling title year after year, this popular "5 books in 1" reference delivers vast amounts of information in a user-friendly manner. It is updated annually to provide current and clinically relevant answers on over 1,000 common medical conditions, including diseases and disorders, differential diagnoses, clinical algorithms, laboratory tests, and clinical practice guidelines?all carefully reviewed by experts in key clinical fields. Extensive algorithms, along with hundreds of high-quality photographs, illustrations, diagrams, and tables, ensure that you stay current with today's medical practice. - Contains significant updates throughout all 5 sections, covering all aspects of diagnosis and treatment. - Features 27 all-new topics including coronary artery dissection, perimandibular abscess, retinal vein occlusion, performance enhancing hormones, aphasia, hemorrhagic ovarian cyst, pelvic fracture, lung transplant, penile cancer and obsessive rumination syndrome, among others. - Includes useful appendices covering care of the transgender patient, palliative care, preoperative evaluation, nutrition, poison management, commonly used herbal products in integrated medicine, and much more. - Offers online access to Patient Teaching Guides in both English and Spanish.

Clear, simple language, numerous illustrations, and detailed step-by-step instructions, lead you through making fresh and delicious sweet and hard ciders - including blended and sparkling ciders; building your own working apple press; enhancing your cooking with cider as an ingredient; choosing the right apple cultivar for the flavor you want; and planning and planting your very own home orchard for the freshest batch of cider ever! Plus, interesting bits of history and lore shed light on cider's colorful past.

Throughout Western memory the apple has been the fruit of trouble, immortality, and temptation: Paris and the Trojan War, Nordic Loki and the apples of eternal life, and, of course, that infamous couple in the Garden.

Vaughn Harper, a young boy born into generational trauma navigates a chilling and unpredictably dangerous world of domestic and urban violence as he seeks peace and his true calling. Based on true events, this gritty, memoir-styled journey spans from the mid 1970’s through the late 80’s in South Los Angeles.

A serene citizen becomes plagued with the Neighbors from Hell. Through this series of letters and journal entries, written to prevent irrevocable revenge and retaliation, Mommer 'n' Diddy's world becomes scathingly vivid. Our cultivated citizen documents his decline from annoyance to addiction to near insanity, as the surreal dysfunctions of his problematic neighbors continue to defy belief. The good neighbor battles revenge fantasies and continual waves of ignorance as his months of agony turn into years of desperation; he turns to writing as his only means to avoid vigilantism. In the course of these intensely comic epistles, the citizen reveals the true toll of the horror what live next door. Humor. In English. Sort'a.

Following the most solemn moments in recent American history, comedians have tested the limits of how soon is “too soon” to joke about tragedy. Comics confront the horrifying events and shocking moments that capture national attention and probe the acceptable, or “sayable,” boundaries of expression that shape our cultural memory. In Tragedy Plus Time, Philip Scepanski examines the role of humor, particularly televised comedy, in constructing and policing group identity and memory in the wake of large-scale events. Tragedy Plus Time is the first comprehensive work to investigate tragedy-driven comedy in the aftermaths of such traumas as the JFK assassination and 9/11, as well as during the administration of Donald Trump. Focusing on the mass publicization of television comedy, Scepanski considers issues of censorship and memory construction in the ways comedians negotiate emotions, politics, war, race, and Islamophobia. Amid the media frenzy and conflicting expressions of grief following a public tragedy, comedians provoke or risk controversy to grapple publicly with national traumas that all Americans are trying to understand for themselves.