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Where can I find Shiner Holiday beer in town? It's supposed to have been out for a while now, I can't find it anywhere. Last year HEB had tons of it, anyone know where it is in town? Thanks!

What I remember is really vague, but I'm hoping that any suggestions fitting this theme will lead me to the book I'm looking for.

What I remember:

Heroine is the mother of the bride, but I don't remember who the hero was - old boyfriend? Father of the groom? Totally random dude? No idea. Heroine is definitely the Mom - not a mother figure.

It's a contemporary humorous romance that I read late 90s - early 00s and published close enough to that that I bought it new at WalMart. Definitely not a Harlequin/Silhouette.

There may or may not have been a subpolot involving the bridal daughter and the groom (as in one or both gets cold feet, not someone trying to sabotage them)

That's really all I remember, but if anyone knows ANY books with a mom-of-the bride plot maybe one will jog my memory.

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I'm looking for a book in which a boy and his father visited Africa - I think they were from England - and the boy ended up walking a great distance, with an old male lion following him. Near the end of the story, he ended up petting the lion before he (the lion) died. There were also poachers in the story somewhere. I read this in the early 2000s, but it might have been written in the '80s or '90s.

I'm trying to remember what book this was from, and this is all I remember from it; I can't even remember the main plot. But two adult friends had gone to India as young women, and fallen in love with men there. They push their children (one has a son and one has a daughter) to go as well but they want nothing to do with it. At the end of the book, the daughter tells her mother that she is going to India, and that she's going with the friend's son because they've been secretly dating and are in love.

Thank you for any ideas, this has been driving me crazy.

My crazy uncle gave this to me for Christmas when I was 14 or so, so in the early 80s. I was both fascinated and creeped out by both the contents and the cover-a face, but mostly eyes, staring out of flames. (I used to leave it turned face down so it wouldn't look at me.)

It's an autobio by a guy who did a lot of past-life regression therapy. His therapist was a clinical hypnotist and possibly a psych professional of some sort who specialized in it. I remember he was a knight, and a woman a couple of times, and a baby that died at birth. He traced his self back through dozens of lifetimes, back at least through ancient Rome, and I vaguely remember Mongols? Some tribal group predating that, anyway. The same people kept turning up in his lives, including his gf. His gf also did the regression therapy, and kept dying violent deaths. A flowing white dress/gown/grave clothes figured in somehow, and were in her nightmares, which caused her to do the therapy.

I'm sorry this is so vague, but I was really creeped out by this as a teen. I'd like to read it again as an adult. Does this ring any bells for anyone?

I'm looking for a book from at least twenty years ago. It was about a young girl, maybe ten, whose grandmother comes to live with her. I can only remember the following details about the plot:

- When the grandmother moved in, she took the bed (out of two) that was under the window - the girl's bed, though she didn't mention anything to the grandmother.
- The girl had a fifteen-year-old sister named Muriel, who was a cranky, crabby teen that liked to call the couch the davenport.
- The grandmother taught the girl how to grow African violets.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

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Still "couch sick". Advantage: catching up on all my recorded "Criminal Minds" and "Queer as Folk" reruns. Disadvantage: Beginning to confuse the two.

I need to sell some adult VHS/DVDs & comics, but I'm not sure where to go.

Anyone have ideas?

Thanks to this comm, I've a short list of places to take games and consoles, so thanks for that!

(yes, I'll definitely entertain individual buyers for the above, if any exist)

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I want (need) a Christmas tree! We can only afford about $50 and it can't really be taller than four feet or we'll have to put it on the floor where it'll just become a pine-scented chew toy for our dog. Any recommendations? My family always used to just get them from stands on the side of the road or in front of the grocery store, but I haven't seen any of those (yet?).

Book 1: The first book is a paranormal book that I read probably six years ago. All I remember is the girl moves into a house with her brother (or they are cleaning it or something) and the girl, the main character goes into the building next to it and experiences flashbacks of another life. I do remember that it is centered around Oh My Darling, Clementine.

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Book 1: The second book I read some years before the above was about a girl who had a friend (His name, I'm fairly sure, started with a W) she would talk about her problems with. Throughout the book it would jump to scenes of her and W by the sea on a dock or cliffs, I think. But when she sees him suddenly when she's driving (or riding a bike) she realizes that he doesn't exist. When she was young, her babysitter and her boyfriend kidnapped the main character and the MC, scared, saw the name of the store and turned him into someone she could go to (the guy with the W name)

I'm sorry if this seems vague but it is all I remember. Thank you to anyone who helps!

Ok, the book I'm looking for is a series of separate, but intertwined stories about people in an apartment building, I'm guessing in NYC.

One of the guys is really lonely and talks to the elevator...

One woman and her husband have a ritual where she gives him a bath every night and it somehow gets told to a reporter who writes a story about it, humiliating the husband...

Another is about a high school teacher who goes to dinner with a student and her parents and they end up telling him that she wants to marry him, and even though he's shocked and weirded out by it, they end up being engaged.

Help?

Perhaps you've seen those cute little stickers some people use in their car rear windows, little stick figures identifying Mommy, Daddy, and all the kids by name and relative size? At our house we refer to them as "the pedophile's menu."

Tonight on Dexter, serial killer Trinity uses them to kidnap a young boy, using the family names to convince the kid he's a figure of authority who knows his family.

Seriously folks—rethink those name stickers!

That otter above is not snuggly and asleep, she has a slamming headache and her sinuses hurt.

Great week with my son, great Thanksgiving, and then a Leftovers Night & Dominoes with friends last night. Today? Total collapse. I think my fibro is kicking up again. Too much rich food and salt; too little sleep. Amazing what you can get done in your bathrobe on the couch, including watching a string of Criminal Minds reruns and reviewing three teas, not to mention some galley editing. Just think what I could have done with a working brain.

Almost Dexter time. What a full day.

So, what's your favorite Hill Country campsite? We are looking for a good spot to try for early spring. Cabins are good, but not necessary.

My mother and 19 year old sister are coming to visit mid-December. I want to show them the greatness that is Austin, but I've only been here a few months myself and have spent most of it stuck at work trying to make enough money to pay for school, so I haven't actually done as much exploring as I would like.

So, HELP. They're going to be here for like 5 days and I've got to keep us busy.

Two things I definitely need to know:

-best sushi in Austin
-best Mexican restaurant in Austin

(nothing *too* fancy/expensive, plz!)

Other than that, I'm going to make them swim at Barton Springs (we're from Kansas so winter in Austin is like late spring to us), probably take them to an improv show at the Hideout, my mother and I will go drinking at Sister's Edge II (I'm a gay; she's not), and I will take my sister to Toy Joy and a few of the great thrift stores here.

Anyone have any ideas that I'm not thinking of?!

It's a kid's book, I'd say for 2nd or 3rd graders. I think it's set in the 50's, it's about a kid that lives in Japan with his American father (who is a sailor) and his Japanese mother. The story is about the kid (I can't remember boy or girl...) telling the reader about how daily activities, such as dinner, are switched between his mother's and father's cultures. Ex: American dinner on certain days and Japanese dinner other days. That's all I can remember about it right now, I hope somebody recognizes it. Kthx =^.^=

My granny was telling me about a book, which she cannot remember the title of, so I thought I would see if anyone here knew of it. It's a book by J.B. Phillips, she thinks it was one his last books. She remembers it as being a slim volume, slightly taller than it was wide. The important part was that it contained a description of C.S. Lewis appearing to Phillips after Lewis' death. Phillips was in the bath, and C.S. Lewis appeared just as he had in life. My granny thinks that C.S. Lewis was even smoking his pipe.

I have done a few searches, and found references to this account, but not what book it appears in. Can anyone help?

The first was a childrens book about a caterpilar couple and they traviled with this group of catarpillars and they all eventually started climbing into this big pile. The male caterpillar was afraid to go and the girl tried to convince him to go, but she finally gave up and climbed the pile and became a butterfly. I'm not sure about all the details but that's the basics.
And the second I have nothing to give other than that it was, I think the second book in the series and the title was a girls name. And the cover was light brown with the silhouette of a girl surrounded by branches.
Thank you so much and I'm sorry I couldn't give you more :)