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Millions adored Daphne Fields, for she shared their passion, their pain, their joy, and their sorrow. But America’s most popular novelist remained … [ more info ]

Smart, likable, Bernie Fine was the wonder boy of Wolffs, New Yorks most glamorous department store. A senior VP moving up, he arrives in San Fransisco to open a West Coast store. His career … [ more info ]

Her beloved Italian homeland shattered in the wake of World War II, exquisite Serena, Principessa di San Tibaldo, has nothing left except … [ more info ]

When Samantha Taylor’s husband leaves her for another woman, she retreats to a ranch in California where she finds joy in the simplicity of ranchlife and in an affair with the ranch foreman. But Samantha’s trials are not over–her lover disappears form the ranch and a chance fall from a horse paralyzes her. Can Samantha … [ more info ]

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Freelance journalist Olivia Joules (”as in the unit of kinetic energy”), formerly Rachel Pixley (her whole family got run over when she was 14), gets bumped from the Sunday Times’s international coverage down to the style pages thanks to the titular imagination (e.g., a story about a “cloud of giant, fanged locusts pancaking down on … [ more info ]

Kenneth Grahame was born Mar. 8, 1859 and died July 6, 1932. He was a Scottish author best known for this classic which he completed in 1908. He wrote the book for his only son, Alastair, while Kenneth was serving as a secretary of the Bank of England. He wrote only three other books: Pagan … [ more info ]

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A colorful caravan of Eastern oral and written literature, this collection includes many best-known teaching stories of the dervish philosophers and mystics, writings by Idries Shah on Mecca and on Islam, poetry, proverbs, allegories, and symbolic tales of amazing richness and variety as “The Story of Mushkil Gusha”, “The Magic Horse”, and “The Two Brothers”.
The … [ more info ]

The little world of Don Camillo is to be found somewhere in the valley of the Po River. It is almost any village on that stretch of plain in Northern Italy. There, between the Po and the Apennines, the climate is always the same. The landscape never changes and, in country like this, you can … [ more info ]