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When four-year-old Teensy Whitman prisses one time too many and stuffs a big old pecan up her nose, she sets off the chain of events that lead Vivi, Teensy, Caro, and Necie to become true sister-friends. Told in alternating voices of Vivi and the Petite Ya-Yas, Siddalee and Baylor Walker, as well as other denizens of Thornton, Louisiana, Ya-Yas In...

Max Bhagat never told Gina Vitagliano he loved her, and now it might be too late. From the moment FBI negotiator Max first met Gina on a plane hijacked by terrorists, she left his orderly, workcentric world shaken and stirred. Their ensuing hot (then cold) romance finally ends when Gina becomes fed up. The last Max hears is that Gina is...

The year is 1922, and Amelia Peabody, Emerson, Ramses, and their familiar company have returned to Egypt for another season of excavation. Before they have a chance to begin, however, they receive an unexpected visitor, flamboyant writer Magda Petherick, who spins an outrageous story about a cursed artifact and implores Emerson to exorcise its...

It is 1942. Eleven-year-old American Phillip Enright loves his life on the sunny Caribbean island of Curaçao, but the world is at war. When German submarines arrive off the coast, his mother decides to take him home to the safety of Virginia. But the submarines sink their ship, and Phillip finds himself in a lifeboat with Timothy, an old black...

Przejmujące studium ojcostwa i graniczącej z obłędem miłości rodzicielskiej, jest jedną z tych powieści, gdzie bohaterem, wbrew tytułowi, nie jest konkretna osoba, ale cała galeria postaci, których ambicje, namiętności i marzenia wypalają się w tyglu wielkiego miasta....

This classic story of the March family women and their lives in New England during the Civil War has remained enduringly popular since its publication in 1868. Poor, argumentative, loving, and optimistic, the March sisters struggle to supplement their family's meager income and realize their own dreams. This highly autobiographical novel shows us...