... and then with a string of “ Frost last night ” type of notes . ... cream soda after she'd done some shopping and I'd browsed through the comic books .
What I've discovered is that everyone has talent, but that talent is pretty useless without craft. However, craft is learnable. You can practice craft, and you can get better at it. Then, magically, as your craft improves, ...
In Ray Bradbury's powerful novel Fahrenheit 451, first published in 1953, he describes a culture that has banned books and devotes much of its time to destroying them. The title of the novel refers to the temperature at which paper ...
Six years after the apparent suicide of her fianc, Lenny Maxted, a member of Britain's best-loved comedy team, Alice Conway is delighted when Lenny's former stage partner reenters her life, until she discovers just how dangerous he is and ...
Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf in The Hours Oh , we could give it a try . I'll bring the wine , you bring your scarred psyche . Nicole Kidman as Dr. Chase Meridian in Batman Forever Control is an illusion , you infantile egomaniac .
“So how're you doing, Roxanne?” Ben asks cheerfully. Her eyebrows furrow in annoyance. “Oh, gee, fine, thanks. Ben, could you excuse us?” Relief washes over Ben's face and smoothes out the sand of nervous fear.
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“Jacobs.” “Amy Jacobs.” I nodded hazily. “Of course.” “Brookline High School.” “Of course.” “Seventeen years,” she said, parking the stroller out of the line of foot traffic on the sidewalk and pushing down the wheel brakes.
In her hilarious and heartbreaking new novel, Laura Zigman, bestselling author of Animal Husbandry, explores what happens when the life we've chosen isn't that life we expected it to be.
Praise for Sophie Kinsella and Shopaholic Ties the Knot “Kinsella has a genuine gift for comic writing.”—The Boston Globe “Witty and hilarious.”—Cosmopolitan (U.K.) “Another entertaining entry in Kinsella’s unabashedly ...
In this coming-of-age story, Marshall, a wisecracking African American teenager in suburban Saint Louis, deals with his mother's desertion of the family and his friend's abusive father A tale of the ties that bin
My nephew Lloyd was there visiting, and he was sitting at the foot of the bed, Sadie was sitting at the head of the bed, and I was just kind of hovering around. We noticed that Mama was breathing kind of heavy. Sadie whispered to Lloyd: ...
The congressman's daughter is Alexandra Pearson , only daughter of Harlow Pearson , a member of the United States House of Representatives . Both quintessential politician and sportsman , Harlow understands how the system works and ...
The disturbing story of the Soviet biological warfare program is told by the man who ran it, with details of the biowarfare programs in Cuba and India and information on the anthrax outbreak in Sverdlovsk. Reprint.
Nine desperate travelers attempt to outrun the devastation caused by the Black Plague in 1348 England, revealing the secrets that each person keeps from the others through individual stories.
Readers have been mesmerised by the intensely passionate story of magnetic Damien Stark and Nikki Fairchild in RELEASE ME. Their powerful and sensual romance continues in CLAIM ME...
And I was left behind, leaning against a bollard for support, as the rain sluiced down and shame lanced through me. In the months ahead, with the professional help I finally admitted to needing, I weaned myself off alcohol.
The bellhop at the Ambassador, a balding, woe-faced overthe-hill comic named Irving Kaye, who had worked for the Browns at the Arthur, drove him to his first paying engagement, a five-dollar premiere at a run-down restaurant nearby ...
Arriving at the water , I discover eight others have gathered to gawk at the hippie boat , its yin and yang sail Alapping in the wind . On the deck is the crew of two . One is a muscular black man and the other , white , is slender and ...
DE(}REES. CELSIUS. THE LIBYAN l)F.SF.RT is one of the most godforsaken wildernesses on earth. Its white sand dunes tower like cliffs, often 600 feet high, and there is no sign of a living thing. lts desolate nature was underlined on 3 ...