Praise for Georgia Beers's <I>96 Hours</I>:"<I>96 Hours</I> is a page-turner. . . . It is a riveting story rich with detail."—<I>EDGE Boston</I>What happens to lovers after the happy-ever-after moment? What goes on behind the closed doors of a relationship once the commitment is made? What does romance turn into when the hands of time keep turning? <I>Olive Oil and White Bread</I> is a novel that dares to answer those questions.
In Cooling, a visiting inventor and two young islanders, Olive and Troy, try to beat the heat on a hot summer day by cooling off in the river -- only to find that the Island’s mammoth population has already beaten them to the water, and there’s no room left for the humans! Olive suggests that they build a machine to create a breeze for them. After tinkering in the inventor’s workshop for a time, they apply what they learn about how refrigerators work and wind up building some machines that are really cool
After the death of a close friend, Elly, Sable, Barbara Ann, and Beth gather at her house for a weekend to sort through her personal papers, as well as to come to terms with what their own lives have become.
In Light, young Olive and her cousin, Troy, learn all about the properties of light with the help of a visiting inventor and a room full of his crystal trophies. They discover that light behaves in different ways to change the way we see things. When light waves hit something, three things can happen: the light can bounce, it can pass through or it can be absorbed. Troy, Olive and the inventor also examine a variety of devices, which use lenses to bend light and help us see images correctly, such as telescopes, periscopes and binoculars.