“Could we have a booth in the back?” she asked the hostess. The hostess appeared dumbstruck, her mouth open slightly. “Could you show us to a booth?” Myna asked again. “Oh, right,” she said, coming around. “This way.
When he heard Morrison's assessment of the president's intentions, he began to think that he might have to follow through on his condition. Finally, someone, somewhere, took the path followed by countless disgruntled Washington players ...
2. John Wesley Powell, Canyons of the Colorado (Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent, 1895), p. 123. Darrah, “Three Letters by Andrew Hall,” p. 506. 4. John Cooley, ed., Exploring the Colorado River: Firsthand Accounts by Powell and His Crew ...
From the chambers of the Emperor of Japan to the American White House, from the decks of aircraft carriers to the playing fields of the Japanese Naval Academy, this powerful story stretches from the nightmare slaughter of China in the 1930s ...
How far must you run to leave the past behind in order to find love? In Where the Wild Cherries Grow by Laura Madeleine, it is 1919, and the end of the war has not brought peace for Emeline Vane.
Can Tim open up to her? Would it matter, he wonders, if he did? Marcia Willett, the master of the charming country novel, once again weaves the stories of her vibrant, lovable characters into this heartwarming read.
It is nearly five years since Fiona was headhunted by a London practice of architects following her brilliant designs for the conversion of some waterside flats in Salcombe. Ambitious, longing for change, missing Andy, ...
But when Evie discovers a secret that threatens their future, a shadow falls over them all: this summer by the river could be their last together . . .
The Education of Lieutenant Kerrey is an incredible story and a modern morality tale about a man of compassion and promise trapped by a horrible secret.
15 In The New Yorker, Joshua Rothman gave Vance credit for putting the spotlight on family disintegration, addiction, and domestic violence in white workingclass communities and showing us how complex is the problem of poverty—he ...
For details of Milton's career, see the standard biography, Haley, Jeff Milton. Ibid., pp. 252–53. Ibid., pp. 253–54. Karen Holliday Tanner and John D. Tanner, Jr., Last of the OldTime Outlaws: The George West Musgrave Story (Norman: ...
Then “Maggie May” exploded, and it became Rod Stewart and the Faces. On the one hand, Stewart's superstardom benefited everyone. On the other hand, he skipped the first two weeks of recording their fourth album, Ooh La La.
They stayed the night in the Corbett Arms Hotel before starting on the next leg north to Liverpool. For all his good intentions, Lennon was aware he faced a frosty reception from the network of aunts, uncles and cousins who thought he ...
General manager John Severino and news director Dennis Swanson had assembled some of the best talent in the country: anchors Jerry Dunphy, Christine Lund, Paul Moyer, Ann Martin, Tawny Little, and Harold Greene; meteorologists “Dr.
... 110 Briggs, Michael, 34 Brock, Stan, 128 Brown, Suzi, 219 Browner, Carol, 14 Bryce, Randy, 150–52 Burr, Richard, 75 Bush, George H. W., 90 Bush, George W., 89, 170 Callanan, Brian, 157 Cannick, Jasmyne, 220 Carter, Jimmy, 68 Carter, ...
Medical history is replete with stories of scientists who pursue an idea, sometimes for their entire lives, without definitive results. One of the greatest involved a young New York surgeon named William Coley, who entered practice in ...
Now Israeli journalist Ben Caspit puts Netanyahu’s life under a magnifying glass, focusing on his last two terms in office.
at the return, before introducing Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist David Cay Johnston, author of the The Making of Donald Trump, to discuss how he had discovered an envelope inside his mailbox, with no return address, containing a copy ...
outset of the chase—and now Spencer-Lee yanks the steering wheel. The crew cab careens wildly off-road. For a moment, Spencer-Lee considers calling out to the child. Maybe he can save this kid, teach him a more noble approach to ...
Lewis Cole--a man with a mysterious past and a thirst for justice--encounters deadly dangers along the New Hampshire seacoast in winter.