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The Tin Drum deals with the rise of Nazism and with the war experience in the unique cultural setting of Danzig. To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the original publication of this runaway... |
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Meet Pierpont Tree and China Carlyle. He's the devastatingly handsome and urbane scion of an old Santa Barbara family; she's the ravishingly beautiful, flame-haired film star who retired at the peak... |
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"It's a muddle, thought Monica. A muddle and I can't get it straight. I wish I knew what I should do. I wish I even knew what I want to do…I want to go on in the life that has somehow or other... |
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It started with a promise, a pact. It became a secret that no one must tell: that their parents were dead and gone, including the one they'd buried in the backyard. Now the McNair children are... |
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The Cornish Foundation, set up with money left by the late art expert, collector, and notable eccentric Francis Cornish, must choose a worthy undertaking upon which to expend a portion of its... |
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Dr. Amin Jaafari, an Arab-Israeli citizen, is a respected, dedicated surgeon at a hospital in Tel Aviv. He has learned to live with the violence that plagues his city and works tirelessly to help... |
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Caterina was fifteen years old when she fell in love with a man much above her station. The daughter of a humble village apothecary, she was considered unmarriageable by her lover's wealthy and... |
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Glen Runciter is dead. Or is everybody else?Chip works for Glen Runciter's anti-psi security agency, which hires out its talents to block telepathic and paranormal crimes. But when its special team... |
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It happened in broad daylight. The pretty fifteen-year-old had saddled up for an afternoon ride and never came back. Left behind was only a splintered fence, the tracks of a pickup truck, a... |
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When one of her company falls ill on a return journey to Tyndal, Prioress Eleanor accepts lodging at a nearby manor. There, Master Stevyns's wife is having an affair with the groom, while a local... |
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