Doc Ebersole lives with the ghost of Hank Williams—not just inthe figurative sense, not just because he was one of the lastpeople to see him alive, and not just because he is rumored to havegiven Hank the final morphine dose that killed him. In 1963, ten years after Hank's death, Doc himself is wracked byaddiction. Having lost his license to practice medicine, hismorphine habit isn't as easy to support as it used to be. So helives in a rented room in the red-light district on the south sideof San Antonio, performing abortions and patching up the odd knifeor gunshot wound. But when Graciela, a young Mexican immigrant,appears in the neighborhood in search of Doc's services, miraculousthings begin to happen. Graciela sustains a wound on her wrist thatnever heals, yet she heals others with the touch of her hand.Everyone she meets is transformed for the better, except, maybe,for Hank's angry ghost—who isn't at all pleased to see Doc doingwell. A brilliant excavation of an obscure piece of m
Strange things were happening in Drake House: A perfect roseappearing on a pillow...an antique dress materializing out ofnowhere...a mysterious spirit roaming the halls... Five years afterRachel Lindquist had left California to chase her dreams, shereturned home to care for her aging mother, only to find herselfchasing a ghost Addie Lindquist insisted a presence haunted DrakeHouse and had hired noted parapsychologist Bryan Hennessy toinvestigate, but Rachel knew better than to believe in what shecouldn't see-- or to surrender to the strong current of desirepulling her towards Bryan. Bryan had dealt with skeptics before,but convincing Rachel was the biggest challenge of his life. Theenchanting beauty had lost faith in everything that wasn'tpractical, and that included matters of the heart. As Bryan foughther reluctance to succumb to feelings she couldn't control, asecond, more sinister force began to stalk them, threatening todrive them from Drake House and from each other-- a force thatcould be banished only
Book De*ion Remember when flying was glamorous and sexy, even fun? Whenairline food was gourmet, everyone dressed up for a flight, andstewardesses catered to our every need-at least in ourimaginations? This classic memoir by two audaciously outspokenyoung ladies, who lived and loved the free-spirited stewardesslife, jets you back to those golden days of air travel-from thecaptain who's as subtle as a 747 when he's on the make to thepassenger who mistakes the overhead luggage rack for an upperberth; from the names of celebrities who were a pleasure to serve(and some surprising notables on the "bad guy" list) to the originsof some naughty stereotypes-Spaniards "are" the best lovers, actorsthe most foul-mouthed. This huge bestseller, a First Class jet-agejournal, offers a hilarious gold mine of outrageous anecdotes fromthe high-flying and amorous lives of those busty, lusty,adventuresome young women of the swinging '60s known as"stews." About Author Trudy Baker and Rachel Jones were name
Despondent over the futility of life in the South, black tenantfarmer Grange Copeland leaves his wife and son in Georgia to headNorth. After meeting an equally humiliating existence there, hereturns to Georgia, years later, to find his son, Brownfield,imprisoned for the murder of his wife. As the guardian of thecouple's youngest daughter, Grange Copeland is looking at his third-- and final -- chance to free himself from spiritual and socialenslavement.
WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT is an incredibly exciting debut from anextraordinary new voice in fiction. Spanning four decades, from1968 onwards, this is the story of a fabulous but flawed family andthe slew of ordinary and extraordinary incidents that shape theireveryday lives. It is a story about childhood and growing up, lossof innocence, eccentricity, familial ties and friendships, love andlife. Stripped down to its bare bones, it's about the unbreakablebond between a brother and sister.
This is a unique tribute to Florence, combining history,artistic de*ion, and social observation. A memorable portraitof the Florentine spirit and of those figures who exemplify thisspirit, such as Dante, Michelangelo, Brunelleschi, Donatello, andMachiavelli.
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of theDay comes a devastating new novel of innocence, knowledge, andloss. As children Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham,an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside.It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules whereteachers were constantly reminding their charges of how specialthey were. Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy havereentered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to lookback at their shared past and understand just what it is that makesthem special–and how that gift will shape the rest of their timetogether. Suspenseful, moving, beautifully atmospheric, NeverLet Me Go is another classic by the author of The Remains ofthe Day
Everybody who is anybody is seen at the glittering partiesheldin millionaire Jay Gatsby's mansion in West Egg, east ofNew York. The riotous throng congregates in his sumptuous garden,coollydebating Gatsby's origins and mysterious past. None of thefrivoloussocialites understands him, and among various rumours is theconviction that 'he killed a man'. A detached onlooker,Gatsby isoblivious to the speculation he creates, though always seems to bewatching and waiting, but what for no one knows.As the tragic storyunfolds, Gatsby's destructive dreams andpassions are revealed,leading to disturbing consequences. Abrilliant evocation of 1920shigh society, The Great Gatsby peels away the layers of thisglamorous world to display the coldness and cruelty at itsheart.
FBI Special Agent Pendergast is taking a break from work to takeConstance on a whirlwind Grand Tour, hoping to give her closure anda sense of the world that she's missed. They head to Tibet, wherePendergast intensively trained in martial arts and spiritualstudies. At a remote monastery, they learn that a rare anddangerous artifact the monks have been guarding for generations hasbeen mysteriously stolen. As a favor, Pendergast agrees to trackand recover the relic. A twisting trail of bloodshed leadsPendergast and Constance to the maiden voyage of the Britannia , the world's largest and most luxurious oceanliner---and to an Atlantic crossing fraught with terror.
This unusual fictional account, in good part autobiographical,narrates without self-pity and often with humor the adventures of apenniless British writer among the down-and-out of two greatcities. In the tales of both cities we learn some soberingOrwellian truths about poverty and society.
PreS-Gr 3-In a mythic long ago when the only season is dark and cold, Tupag is ridiculed for his dream that there would be moonlight "warm as firelight." Labeled as lazy, he is banished from his ocean-side village for his refusal to help look for berries or hunt whale, walrus, or fish. In his exile, he encounters Raven, creator of the world. He agrees that Tupag is lazy, but has appreciated his dreams, so he grants him one wish. According to Brown, "All his years of dreaming had made him a wise thinker, and so he made the wisest choice." Tupag returns home and shows the villagers a brilliant aurora, Raven's sign of a season of light to come. The protagonist is honored as a storyteller, and gradually a new season of light appears. Life becomes easier, but it is acknowledged that winter has its place as well. Luminous pastels picture a darkened igloo-dwelling northern village that awakens to an orange-gold sun. Saport's economy of style contrasts with the somewhat labored text. The story, an imaginative rather
Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham, abeautiful and secretive young woman who has moved into nearbyWildfell Hall with her young son. He is quick to offer Helen hisfriendship, but when her reclusive behavior becomes the subject oflocal gossip and speculation, Gilbert begins to wonder whether histrust in her has been misplaced. It is only when she allows Gilbertto read her diary that the truth is revealed and the shockingdetails of the disastrous marriage she has left behindemerge...Told with great immediacy, combined with wit and irony,"The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" is a powerfully involving read.
" Roberts] is at her best here" ("Publishers Weekly," starredreview) in the first book in her enchanting trilogy set in Ardmore,Ireland.
Nine strokes from an old country church toll out the death ofan unknown man and call Lord Peter Wimsey to one of his mostbaffling cases. Set in the strange, flat fen-country of EastAnglia, this is a classic tale of suspense by a master ofmystery.
In this collection of five Christmas-themed stories, belovedauthor Mary Balogh brings together tales of love, marriage,friendship, loneliness, and healing. Includes four Balogh holidayclassics, "The Star of Bethlehem," "The Best Gift," "PlayingHouse," and "No Room At the Inn," as well as "A Family Christmas,"which is only available in this anthology.
For Dr. David Beck, the loss was shattering. And every day forthe past eight years, he has relived the horror of what happened.The gleaming lake. The pale moonlight. The piercing screams. Thenight his wife was taken. The last night he saw her alive. Everyone tells him it’s time to move on, to forget the pastonce and for all. But for David Beck, there can be no closure. Amessage has appeared on his computer, a phrase only he and his deadwife know. Suddenly Beck is taunted with the impossible–thatsomewhere, somehow, Elizabeth is alive. Beck has been warned to tell no one. And he doesn’t. Instead,he runs from the people he trusts the most, plunging headlong intoa search for the shadowy figure whose messages hold out a desperatehope. But already Beck is being hunted down. He’s headed straightinto the heart of a dark and deadly secret–and someone intends tostop him before he gets there.
The enthralling international bestseller. We are in the centerof Paris, in an elegant apartment building inhabited by bourgeoisfamilies. RenA(c)e, the concierge, is witness to the lavish butvacuous lives of her numerous employers. Outwardly she conforms toevery stereotype of the concierge: fat, cantankerous, addicted totelevision. Yet, unbeknownst to her employers, RenA(c)e is acultured autodidact who adores art, philosophy, music, and Japaneseculture. With humor and intelligence she scrutinizes the lives ofthe buildingas tenants, who for their part are barely aware of herexistence. Then thereas Paloma, a twelve-year-old genius. She isthe daughter of a tedious parliamentarian, a talented andstartlingly lucid child who has decided to end her life on thesixteenth of June, her thirteenth birthday. Until then she willcontinue behaving as everyone expects her to behave: a mediocrepre-teen high on adolescent subculture, a good but not anoutstanding student, an obedient if obstinate daughter. Paloma andRenA(c
Second in the breathtaking Irish trilogy from the #1 New YorkTimes bestselling author. Nora Roberts returns to Ireland in thistale of a talented musician and the beautiful tomboy who's beensecretly in love with him for years.
In the spring of 1804, Lewis and Clark set outon a voyage launched by Thomas Jefferson, to explore the wildernessbetween the Missouri River and the Pacific coast. This volumecontains the vivid daily record of their epic trek.
Kate was lissa’s best friend. they’ve shared everything for four years. then one night at a drunken party, Kate leaned in to kiss lissa, and lissa kissed her back. And now Kate is pretending lissa doesn’t exist. Confused and alone, lissa’s left questioning everything she thought she knew about herself, and about life. but with the help of a free-spirit new friend, lissa’s beginning to find the strength to realize that sometimes falling in love with the wrong person is the only way to find your footing.
