Annie Pickels, a 65 year old widowed pickle entrepreneur is in real trouble.
Annie Pickels, a 65 year old widowed pickle entrepreneur is in real trouble.
Thirty popular expressions such as "straight from the horse's mouth" and "white elephant" are amusingly explained and illustrated.
In a Pickle is a warmly told children's tale about a precocious little boy and his schoolyard predicament. The title quandary involves a classic case of bullying, yet is elevated with a clever solution and ends on a touching bon mot.
Thirty common English phrases, such as "a chip off the old block" and "cry over spilled milk" are illustrated and explained.
In 1955, Andy Meyer, a young farmer and manager of the pickle factory in Link Lake, Wisconsin, and his fellow farmers are confronted by the arrival of the powerful H. H. Harlow Pickle Company, which uses heavy-handed tactics to force the ...
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The year is 1955. Andy Meyer, a young farmer, manages the pickle factory in Link Lake, a rural town where the farms are small, the conversation is meandering, and the feeling is distinctly Midwestern.