Combining the modern-farm-life realities of Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres with the quirky humor and eccentric characters of Carolyn Chute's The Beans of Egypt, Maine, Q Road is a charming debut from Bonnie Jo Campbell.

Greenland Township, Michigan: On the same acres where farmers once displaced Potawatomi Indians, suburban developers now supplant farmers and prefab homes spring up in last year's cornfields. All along Q Road--or "Queer Road," as the locals call it--the old, rural life collides weirdly with the new.

With a cast of lovingly rendered eccentrics and a...

The Lake Louise Winter Institute is held annually to explore recent trends in physics. The proceedings contain pedagogical and review lectures by invited experts and contributed presentations by participants.

This volume contains pedagogical lectures on particle physics, nuclear astrophysics, relativistic heavy ion interactions and gravitational waves. In addition, numerous contributions provide up-to-date information on new experimental results at colliders, underground laboratories and nuclear astrophysics. This combination of pedagogical talks and topical short talks provide a comprehensive amount of information to the researchers.

Hi Almost Cool Girls and Boys, This book combines Book 1 and Book 2 of the Diary of an Almost Cool Girl series. In Book 1, you get to meet the main character, Maddi and find out what happened at her old school (before she was asked to leave). Hope you enjoy this prequel to the BEST SELLING Diary of an Almost Cool Girl Series. Included after Book 1 is Book 2 - Diary of an Almost Cool Girl: My New School... A new school...a new start. Well, that is what Madonna is hoping for. She is a "normal" girl, well kind of. Not in the cool group and not a nerd either. Just in between and trying to fit in....