Stephanie Plum

someone reading a book and absolutely loved the way the person seemingly animated hundreds of words on the page? This was exactly me while traveling to Ohio when I was approximately ten years old. My grandma was driving she and I to Ohio, we decided instead of changing the radio every 10 minutes we would listen to a book she had rented for our trip. She had many books that I could choose from so I chose one that would turn out to be one of my favorite series I have ever read. It was about an amateur bounty hunter hired by her cousin to make ends meet after she was laid off. The bounty hunter, Stephanie Plum, is from a large Italian family and is seen having multiple love interests with a cop that she grew up with and a professional bounty hunter. As we listened to the suspense and drama that the character goes through that book had me hooked and forever instilled my love of the Stephanie Plum series. As I put To The Nines in the CD…

Two for the Dough is the second book in a mystery series, written by Janet Evanovich. Two for the Dough is about a dynamic character, Stephanie Plum, who was recently employed by a bond collection agency. She chases criminals who have been released on bail and have failed to appear for their court date. She is recently assigned to apprehend a criminal named Kenny Mancuso. He has recently been charged with shooting a gas station attendant in the knee, also his friend. His bond is worth $50,000.…

The cuisine of pork and plums, blends the theme of food in, “Ode to Pork” by Kevin Young and “The Word Plum” by Helen Chasin, and are displayed through tone, assonance, and imagery. First on the menu, poet Young writes a love letter to all things pork, and takes us into his taste buds through assonance. Lastly on the menu, poet Chasin takes readers into her mind on binging plums, and tosses onomatopoeia and imagery to depict her sense of eating plums. In “Ode to Pork,” Kevin Young sings an ode…

character, the children realize that their negative impressions and fear of him were unfounded. Through gradual stages of change, from total misunderstanding of Boo, to a realization of an error in judgment, to a reevaluation followed by a change of heart, to a growing trust and acceptance of Boo, and finally to an appreciation of his true character, Jem's, Scout's, and Dill's impressions of Radley are dramatically altered. In the beginning of the novel, many falsehoods by the townspeople…

The stories in this chapter are typical of the times and vividly portray the gradual, disarming, and even confusing nature of the transformation that took place shortly after the war as the Valley began to shed its agricultural roots. I was born in San Jose in 1947 (a third generation native), and started working on my grandfather’s ranch of apricots, prunes, and walnuts at the age of eight. Like the other younger children, I starting out picking up "ground fruit" from under the trees. I…

Thea Kozak Calls Racetrack Accident a Murder in Death at the Wheel by Kate Flora New England, USA Smart and funny, Thea Kozak is carving out a career for herself while trying to win her critical mother's approval. Home for Easter, Thea's mother introduces her to Julie Bass, a young widow whose husband died in a horrific accident at the local auto racetrack. Julie is the woman Thea's mother wants her to be—married to a suitable man and producing adorable children. While resisting her…

Booth Delaney is hired to solve a murder. She has to figure out if Hamilton Garrett V and his sibling killed their mother and father two decades ago or not. Sarah, in a moment of desperation to make some quick money, ransoms her friend's valuable dog to pay the mortgage on the property. It is this friend that also asks her to look into the murder. Through no fault of her own, she becomes a suspect of another murder that pops up, after she starts digging into what happened to Hamilton's parents.…

is a stray and strays are forbidden in this territory. She decides that she should spy for them on another territory, but quickly realizes that she is no good at it. Sophie hopes that she is not on the wrong track because of her animal instinct; she has three different men to consider in this book. Just like in the first book, in gets worse than this; she has to prove to a local group of werewolves that she is one of the group, otherwise they may take her out. She never seems able to limit the…

her children’s future. Hannah blatantly asks if Eva ever loved her children because of her nontraditional expressions of food and shelter instead of the typical hugs and kisses. Eva responds: “You settin’ here with your healthy-ass self and ax me did I love you? Them big old eyes in your head would a been two holes full of maggots if I didn’t…” “I didn’t mean that Mamma… Did you ever, you know, play with us?” “Play? Wasn’t nobody playin’ in 1895… when I set in that house five days with you and…

It is a hysterical action comedy that focuses on a greenhorn bounty hunter named Stephanie Plum (Katherine Keigl) who has the opportunity to get back at the man who stole her virginity in high school. With $50,000 and both of their lives on the line, the heroine and her target must come to terms with the situation at hand and the sexual tension between them before they’re killed. Admittedly, in the end, the movie has mixed reviews and ended up tanked at the box office. However, that doesn’t mean…