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The year is 1945, and young Pedrito is discovering what life is all about in America. Join him as he goes to the movies for the first time, helps his papa with chores on the ranch and begins to understand the importance of race...

Graduation has finally arrived After everything she has been threw to get to here this should be a day filled with happiness but it isn't for Shuntay Phillips. The more she tries to move on with her life the past doesn't seem to want...

Souls in the Mist: A tale I lived is a novel where the people, places and customs portrayed represent the life of a rural community in Mexico in the time leading up to the Day of the Dead celebration.The common thread of the story...

An emotional exploration of the frayed bond between a father and daughter...and what it takes to mend it.After Sara's father, famous sculptor Thomas "TR" Harlow, is badly injured in a fire, she's suddenly forced to care for a man who is more of a...

It is 1880: after visiting his mistress in the London suburbs, Colonel Pargiter returns home to his children and his dying wife. In a series of snapshots we meet all the Pargiter siblings: twenty-year-old Eleanor, whose concern is to help the poor; her younger...

When Laura Gardner immigrated to Sweden from Zimbabwe, she renamed herself Sahara, to accord with what she took as the world's impression of her: a dry and rocky landscape. But this act of creative appropriation is lost on her younger sister Jessica, left behind...

Nikki Tagger is the third volume in a series of books pertaining to the rescue, rehabilitation and life's of The Tagger Herd and the Tagger family. Volume One: THE TAGGER HERDVolume Two: THE TAGGER HERD: WAGE TAGGERIntroduction to THE TAGGER HERD: NIKKI TAGGERNikki deals...

Overwhelmed by a move to a new state, Sonnet is afraid of her new surroundings and does not want her parents to leave her side. See how Sonnet develops the courage to welcome the new and unknown, while overcoming a bully who wants to...

Sienna has no memory of her late mother, yet every significant day of her life--birthdays, the first day of high school, graduation--has been marked by a letter written during her last weeks of life. Sienna knows her father feels grateful to be able to...

For eighteen years, she tried to believe she had made the right decision--for him.But if she never saw him again, how could she ever be sure?Melissa had clung to the thin thread of hope given by the adoption agency that someday her newborn son...

This timeless Christmas tale set in contemporary America answers one of the most pressing questions of all time: How does Santa get into an apartment without a chimney? Read this delightful tale to find out. When times get tough many families have to leave...

Virginia Woolf's 1919 novel "Night and Day", her second novel, is an examination of the relationships of its four main characters: Katharine Hilbery, Mary Datchet, Ralph Denham, and William Rodney. The granddaughter of a distinguished poet, Katherine Hilbery, is struggling with the expectation that...

First published serially in "The Atlantic Monthly" between 1880 and 1881, Henry James' "The Portrait of a Lady" is widely regarded as one of the author's finest literary achievements. As is common with James' work a contrast is drawn between the cultural and social...

D. H. Lawrence's controversial 1915 novel "The Rainbow" is the story of three generations of the Brangwen family. While it may be considered tame by today's standards, due to its frank treatment of human sexuality, "The Rainbow" was banned and Lawrence was prosecuted on...

When her Hollywood career goes haywire, a young woman must say good-bye to all that . . . or must she? Raquel Azorian has worked her way from temp to executive assistant and is this close to a promotion to junior marketing exec at...

*FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF CALLING MAJOR TOM* 'I loved it!' - Joanne Harris, Sunday Times bestselling author of Chocolat 'I loved it. Nostalgic without being saccharine, hopeful, real characters with edge. A brilliant book.' - Hayley Webster'I adored it! Truly uplifting. Exactly...

Two families - and their secrets . . . A superb Liverpool saga from bestselling author Maureen Lee 'The queen of saga writing' MY WEEKLY 'Maureen Lee is one of those hugely talented authorswho writes great women for women readers. Her books don't just...

"War messes with us; makes us do things we wouldn't normally contemplate." As war encroaches on the idyllic young life of Ali Conroy in the lush and undulating countryside of Northern England, she and her childhood love are swept to opposite ends of the...

Parker, her younger sister, and their grandmother are the model example of the bond between grandparent and grandchildren. They are three peas in a pod. Ethel has spent the last 16 years rearing and caring for her granddaughters to the point of giving all...

Tales from Wexford Falls"Tales from Wexford Falls" is a collection of nine short stories featuring characters and familiar locales from Pilotte's novel "In the Garden of Aeden". Some stories can stand on their own, whereas others function as a sequel. Father Chris Tosi from...

HAVE YOU EVER had a long running feud with anyone? Well this story wraps around one that lasted for almost three decades. The feud between Samuel Conners and Will Smithton had lasted over twenty five years. It started back in high school and just...

Fitz Hugh Ludlow's short stories are collected here for the first time. He burst on the literary scene in 1857 with the unlikely best seller The Hasheesh Eater. Written when he was just 20 years old, the book swept him into a career as...

An ex-husband, two potential lovers, one reckless decision. Will Connie ever be happy in love?When Connie Stone leaves behind a cheating husband and heartache in the UK for her aunt's beach retreat, the last thing she wants is for her life to once again...

Sophie's life is perfect. Three years after moving to Cephalonia with her baby daughter, she's in love with a handsome man and her creative business is thriving. But returning to the UK for her mum's hen party introduces unwanted feelings, memories and people. When...

Life is messy, uncertain, and full of surprises-both good and bad. This compelling collection of short stories captures the humour, heartache, and humanity of everyday life. From a man trying to make sense of the afterlife after being hit by a bus, to a...

Based on a true story. Dreaming of America covers the lives of the Fielden family from 1900 to 1914 on both sides of the Atlantic. In 1905, Clara left her husband, Walter, in Accrington, Lancashire. She sailed off to Philadelphia in America with her...

Police Detective Paul Tuomi has his hands full: He has just been assigned the highest profile murder case of his career, is in the middle of investigating the strange death of a family member, and is about to cross the line on a long...

ON 174th STREET (The World of Willie Mittleman) presents the hilarious and always heart-warming experiences of an American family in the years of the Great Depression. Contrary to popular belief, everyone did not fall apart during the catastrophic 1930s. Life went on. Most families...

Sarah Sewell abandons a "difficult" family situation to run away from her farming roots to make her mark in town. A bad marriage yields one good result: a loving daughter on whom Sarah dotes, but her offspring has more than her share of problems...

Hennessy Greypath is a twenty-two year old serial screw-up who doesn't know how to take care of herself, let alone anyone else. But, when her older, and far more perfect sister, Lara, dies Hennessy is granted guardianship of her three young kids. Reluctantly, she...

They say you can't go home again, but sometimes you can't help trying. When Mitch's father dies, his New York City law firm collapses, and his marriage to Sandi starts to crack under the strain, he is forced to return to the small, upstate...

Fifteen-year-old Lauren Muchmore has spent her life walking on eggshells. Ruled by her father's controlling nature and obsession with her basketball career, Lauren's adolescence isn't easy. Things start looking up, though, when Lauren becomes the star point guard for basketball powerhouse Saint Agnes. But...

Once upon a time, a young girl lived a life full of wonder and imagination. Three farm family stories in one book: Tally-Ho & Family, Tally-Ho Bees & Honey, and Tally-Ho & The Dear Little Critters. Wholesome family adventures with loving parents, strong, big...

A single mother fights poverty. She believes she can win.Sara has worked her entire life to overcome the name Barefield. To be a Barefield in the Appalchian town where she grew up means that you are the poorest of the poor, that you are...

"The book is by turns humorous, witty, moving, upbeat. Jenny is a warm, sensitive heroine. It's a pleasure to watch her and a privilege to eavesdrop on her thoughts. Highly recommended..." LIBRARY JOURNALJenny Weaver is smart and funny and so lonely it hurts.Jenny and...

When a hip 17 year old leaves Liverpool at the height of Beatlemania to enter an Irish convent, little did she know that her life as a nun would include a unique relationship with Beatle George Harrison. Nan is a grandmother who once was...

Author: Denise RogersISBN-10: 0986716006ISBN-13: 9780986716003Publisher: Big Toe PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2010Pages: 26Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.24lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.07d

Jamie McAlister was born Chaim Metzger. He survived Buchenwald as a four-year-old; now it's 1953 and he's been adopted by an American family in which he's the only Jew. At his bar mitzvah, he realizes he needs to come to terms with his identity...

Seeking a future, the Carter families move from their bootlegging home in the mountains to middle Georgia. By 1946, they expand their enterprises to include murder, bootlegging, cattle rustling, election fraud, and interracial affairs. Revenge for attempted rape is best served up by two...

Book 7 in the beloved Mossy Creek Hometown Series about life in a tiny Georgia mountain village. Springtime brings thoughts of love to people all over the world, and Creekites are no exception. Although love to Creekites isn't necessarily romantic. Take, for example, how...

Hidden in her mother's closet, Alexandra Crenshaw discovers a hatbox crammed full of her mother's old letters. All of them are written to the same person, CiCi Dolan, her grandmother who died of breast cancer four decades earlier. Guilt pricks at Alex's conscience when...

Jacob and Noah Garrett are brothers harboring a lifelong resentment towards each other while dealing with their own compulsive obsessions. One is a liberal gay man who forsakes his family and moves to New York City from Tennessee where he travels deep into a...

"The Burning House is an achingly lovely novel about the things that bind us together in this life and the things that pull us apart. Paul Lisicky has an extraordinary gift for exploring emotional nuance and the rhythms of desire. With this book he...

It's 1974 in DeKalb County, Illinois and the planets have failed to align for Roy Conlon. Widowed and broke, his eight-year-old son Eric is suddenly a mystery to him. The boy has become aware of a sky awhirl with stars and of the universe...

Rehan Tabassum has grown up in a world of privilege in Delhi. His mother and her new husband embody the dazzling emergent India everyone is talking about. His real father, however, is a virtual stranger to him: a Pakistani Muslim who lives across the...

Meet the Corleys: Mom and Pop and their three grown kids-Jeff, Ida, and Junior-a zany but lovable family living in a changing neighborhood in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Mom wants to fix each of her children's problems-Jeff's gambling, Ida's promiscuity, Junior's drinking-and to create a...

EVERYBODY NEEDS SOMEBODY, SOMETIMES . . . Lorenzo Cuni is a fourteen-year-old loner. His wealthy parents think he is away on a school skiing trip, but, in fact, he has stowed away in a forgotten cellar. He plans to live in perfect isolation for...

Matthew Sharpe's debut collection, Stories from the Tube, was praised in the Los Angeles Times Book Review for its "wildly effective-and often touching-collisions of the banal and the surreal." Wiredcalled it "unsettling, lovely, creepy"; Forbes FYI heralded it as a "remarkable fiction debut." In...

For the first time in paperback, here is the bestselling novel by "a writer of extraordinary gifts" (Tobias Wolff). Stunning, hypnotic, spare, The Seal Wife tells the story of a young scientist and his consuming love for a woman known only as the Aleut,...

Posthumously published in 1914, Vandover and the Brute is probably Frank Norris's first complete novel, much of it written when he was a student at Harvard in 1894-1895. The subject matter made it unacceptable to turn-of-the-century taste, and when the book finally did appear...