Trying to save some feral cats living in a field about to be bulldozed, Megan receives an offer of help from an odd man. Feeling his offer isn't quite right; Megan then witnesses a car accident and receives disturbing notes. Not knowing who to trust, Megan relies on her wits to save the cats—and herself."Each part of the tale ties neatly together in this exciting book that children won't want to put down." —School Library Journal"An absorbing and suspenseful novel with a strong female main character." —Kirkus Reviews

Jillian Lawton and Lesley Adamski. Two girls from very different backgrounds. Jillian is the only child of wealthy parents, while Lesley's from a working-class family. They become best friends in the turbulent '60s, but their circumstances, their choices—and their mistakes—take them in virtually opposite directions. Lesley stays in their Washington State hometown. She gets pregnant and marries young, living a life defined by the demands of small children, not enough money—never enough money—and an unfaithful husband. Jill lives those years in a completely different way: on a college campus shaken by the Vietnam War, and then as an idealistic young lawyer in New York City.But they always remain friends.Through the years and across the miles, through marriage, children, divorce and widowhood, Jill and Lesley confide everything to each other—every grief and every joy. Because the quality of a friendship is the quality of a...

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Stanley Weyman was a celebrated English novelist, most famous for his classic historical romances.

Warning: experimental translation (hybrid) 1937, Sardinia, mines of Montevecchio. The accidental death of the small Giuseppino marks the beginning of an unstoppable fall for a whole country. In a segment of reality that moves, that tears to pieces, so many characters fill the life of the village. Emilio, destroyed by the remorse for the death of Giuseppino...Warning: experimental translation (hybrid) 1937, Sardinia, mines of Montevecchio. The accidental death of the small Giuseppino marks the beginning of an unstoppable fall for a whole country. In a segment of reality that moves, that tears to pieces, so many characters fill the life of the village. Emilio, destroyed by the remorse for the death of Giuseppino. Pietro, upset by the epilepsy of his daughter. Geneva, fought among two loves and threatened by a terrible danger. Lucio, the deformed deaf and dumb that all fear. The powerful family Minghetti, the alone one to be able to decide in every moment the fate of the wells of extraction. Between foreshortenings of stupendous territories and archaic popular traditions, ropes of pain and punishment they tighten epic characters. An interlacement of love and hate, able to push the man toward an introspective trip from which it is difficult not to return changed. A choral novel, a thin and musical Italian Dubliners, whose last note, to end volume, plays again in an accord between the cruelty of the life and the possibility of ransom.

America's bestselling author transports readers to magical Seville, Spain, at Easter time, a season of splendid pageantry, exciting bullfights, deep piety--and miracles. An American journalist, sent to Seville on assignment to cover the efforts of a rancher to revive his once proud line of bulls--uncovers a story that shakes his newspaperman's hard-bitten pragmatism. 26 illustrations.

First time in paperback-the saga of Mrs. Mike continues in the story of her granddaughter. From her Cree mother, Kathy Little Bird has heard stories of her grandmother, Mrs. Mike. She has also learned to sing in the Cree tradition. It is a talent that will serve her well-and soothe her shattered soul-when she becomes a famous country music singer in the 1970s.

Travis MacArthur has started his senior year of high school and just discovered his beloved cat has died unexpectedly. From this moment, a multitude of problems erupts in Travis' life, and while he tries to hold everything together, Ryan, a new love interest pops up out of seemingly out of nowhere, further complicating things. Will Travis be able to regain order and snag the boy of his dreams?Travis MacArthur, who recently started his senior year in high school, was comfortably settling into his seemingly ordinary life, living with his busy, mostly absent, divorced father in the New Jersey suburbs. Patrick and Kate are his witty and sarcastic best friends and happen to be the only people in the whole world that know Travis is gay. While life isn’t perfect (whose is?), things had been running pretty smoothly up until the day his feline companion unexpectedly dies. From that moment on, many complications begin to manifest in every aspect of Travis’ life. His father’s work schedule increasingly leaves Travis alone much of the time, his mother’s new live-in boyfriend is obnoxious and the last person he wants as a stepfather, and a series of bad decisions lands Travis in the hospital and at the mercy of his school’s rumor mill. To further complicate matters, in the midst of all his troubles, Travis falls madly for Ryan, a kind, charming, and insanely handsome guy he meets in the last place he would ever expect to find a love interest. While he is equally smitten with Travis, it is Ryan’s first same-sex relationship, and in his apprehension, pulls away, adding to Travis’ mounting problems. Travis copes the best way he knows how - by trying to find the humor in life with his best friends at his side. But what happens when those things aren’t enough to pull him out of despair? And will he really have to give up his first true love?

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**A searing satire of political corruption and social injustice from the celebrated author of *Things Fall Apart *In the fictional West African nation of Kangan, newly independent of British rule, the hopes and dreams of democracy have been quashed by a fierce military dictatorship. Chris Oriko is a member of the president's cabinet for life, and one of the leader's oldest friends. When the president is charged with censoring the opportunistic editor of the state-run newspaper--another childhood friend--Chris's loyalty and ideology are put to the test. The fate of Kangan hangs in the balance as tensions rise and a devious plot is set in motion to silence a firebrand critic.  From Chinua Achebe, the legendary author of Things Fall Apart, Anthills of the Savannah is "A vision of social change that strikes us with the force of prophecy" (USA Today).  **From Publishers Weekly Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, this bitterly ironic novel by the Nigerian author of Things Fall Apart, Arrow of God and The Man of the People is at times more of a polemic than dramatic narrative, but it presents a candid, trenchantly insightful view of contemporary Africa. Set in a undeveloped West African state called Kangan, the plot revolves around the figure of the new president, who has taken power in a military coup. The three main charactersChristopher Oriko, commissioner for information; his lover, Beatrice Okoh, who works in the ministry of finance; and Ikem Osodi, the gadfly editor of the National Gazettehave all known His Excellency since their youths (to them, he is merely Sam) and they have watched with dismay his moral deterioration and his assumption of totalitarian powers. Ikem, in particular, is unable to repress his stinging criticism of the Emperor, and his outspoken denunciations make Chris and Beatrice fear for his safety. As events move toward a violent crisis, Achebe skillfully demonstrates how the social fabric has been destroyed in Third World countries that have been alienated from their rich mythic roots by colonial powers. Though his major characters speak upper-class English to each other, they converse in the local patois with people of humble station. While this language is quite difficult for readers to comprehend, it serves to illustrate the alienation of the British-educated civil servants from the culture of their ancestors, and at the same time reveals the beauty and dignity of the folklore by which moral and behavioral standards were once transmitted. In the end, the novel must be deemed successful in its powerful portrayal of a society in crisis. Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. Review "[The writer] in whose company the prison walls fell down' Nelson Mandela "The Founding Father of the African novel in English" - The Guardian