Young Tessa is a diminutive girl, far too small for farm work and the object of ridicule by both her own family and the other children in their isolated Midwestern community. Her father seems to believe in nothing beyond his crops, certainly not education for his misfit daughter. When a mysterious, entrancing librarian comes to town, full of fabulous stories, earthy wisdom and potions for the lovelorn, she takes Tessa under her wing, teaching he ...
Tears of the Mountain chronicles a single dayin one man's life—July 4, 1876—along with aseries of flashbacks that all lead up to an eventfulCentennial Independence Day celebration inSonoma, California. Over the course of thissurprisingly pivotal moment in his life, JeremiahMcKinley prepares for the celebration and for areunion with old friends and family.However, as he reflects on past love, thehazardous pioneer journey of ...
In 1961, when Amazing Grace Jansen, a firecracker from Appalachia, meets Mary Elizabeth Cox, the daughter of a Black southern preacher, at Kentucky’s Berea College, they already carry the scars and traces of their mothers’ troubles. Poor and single, Maze’s mother has had to raise her daughter alone and fight to keep a roof over their heads. Mary Elizabeth’s mother has carried a shattering grief throughout ...
As the California borderland newspaper where they work prepares to close, three reporters are oddly given assignments to return to stories they’ve covered before—each one surprisingly personal. The first assignment takes reporter Aaron Klinsman and photographer Rita Valdez to an abandoned motel room where the mirrors are draped with towels, bits of black tape cover the doorknobs, and the perfect trace of a woman’s bo ...
Louisa May Alcott's «A Christmas Dream, and How It Came to Be True» has been characterized as «A Christmas Carol» for children. It is a charming Christmas tale for the young and young at heart. By the author of «Little Women.» ...
When Ben Grady accepted the post as ship’s doctor, he expected to have a free hand to practice medicine. But the captain and the prominent passengers were more concerned with their own reputations than with Grady's medical ethics – especially a beautiful, blonde debutante who was used to having her way with men…in particular medical men! ...
Fletcher Flora enjoyed a long career as a pulp fiction and mystery writer, and among his works we discovered a number of «daring» (for the time – they are quite modest by modern standards) novels of lesbian love (some with crime elements). All were published as paperback originals from somewhat-less-than-respectable publishing companies – Strange Sisters in 1954 and Desperate Asylum in 1955 from Lion Books, and Take Me Home in 1959 from Monarch. ...
Young Ishta found it in the forest, buried beneath dead leaves: a rounded, flattened stone as black as onyx. One side held a golden oval that glowed with a unnatural light. Of course, it had to be magic. <P> But what did farmers know of magic? It could be dangerous, or it could be some harmless toy. They had to find out. <P> Since Ishta was too young to bring her discovery to the Baron of Varag’s stronghold, her older brother, Ga ...
Beneath the trackless sands and shifting wastelands of the Sahara lies a world unknown to modern man: the underground world of Zanthodon. In its vast unmapped terrain are great jungles, strange seas, and forbidding mountains…and here can be found many of beings long since vanished from the surface of the Earth: dinosaurs, flying monsters, and primitive cavemen. Join Eric Carstairs as he explores the strange world beneath the Earth's crust, ...
