Kirjahaku

It is time for the most dreaded of occasions.It isn't that socialite Evelyn Chatsblythe is merely difficult. She's impossible. Tensions are mounting as she puts the finishing touches on plans for her elaborate 43rd birthday celebration. And if you didn't know; everything must be absolutely perfect. When a family of hillbillies and their ghastly pink trailer "drop in" just in time for the celebration, impossible becomes a fond memory of better times.Big brother Sausalito and little brother Cincinnati declare the grounds of Evelyn and Carter's palatial estate "home sweet home." They're bathing in the pool while their goats are eating the roses.Evelyn's ongoing quarrels with the household staff are nothing compared to the feud that is brewing just outside the mansion's absolutely perfect walls. Potshots, hostilities, and a battle cry of no surrender no retreat begin to crumble when a little thing called love creeps in. The hearts of the arrogant mistress of the estate and the two belligerent hillbilly boys that ruined it, find that perfection may not be all that perfect after all. "Surprisingly meaningful." "What fun "

America was on the edge of greatness. The world was on the edge of war. It was the summer of 1916 - the last days of innocence - when two young men, Joe Bruce and Lester Atkinson mounted their bicycles in Colorado Springs, Colorado and pedaled off for New York City. The Lincoln Highway was little more than a muddy path across the nation. Automobiles were in their infancy. Few had ever heard a radio. Fewer yet had seen an aireoplane. Suffrage and prohibition were confronting the conscience of voters. Labor was rising up. Wall Street had begun an experiment called capitalism. As two completely obscure high school boys make their way across the nation, shark attacks begin to terrorize New Jersey's shore. A parade is bombed in San Francisco. A railyard of munitions is blown up on Black Tom Island. The shadow of the great war raging across the Atlantic is creeping toward America. Woven into this coming-of-age tale of independence, unfulfilled destinies, and simpler times are thought provoking themes of equality, freedom, and the cost of liberty.