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Local history of pioneering district, WA

This account of expatriate life in the 'city of the lily' begins by asking why Florence has always proven to be such a popular destination for suicides, then moves into an analysis of wha

Journalist Jim Qwilleran and his Siamese cats, Koko and Yum Yum, investigate the disappearance of a backpacker near Lake Superior. By the author of The Cat Who Sang for the Birds.

"The denizens of Pickax are starstruck: Thelma Thackeray, a native of Moose County, has returned to spend her declining years 400 miles north of everywhere, after a nearly six-decade-long care

The advent of the town's Power House not only supplied electricity, but, wonder of wonders, ICE! Wheat farming, sheep mustering, learning to fly and coping with city ways are all recounted.

"I thought that I would see if the private life of a house could be made to bear witness to the public traumas of a century".

Blessed are Corrie and Fee, for theirs is the kingdom of the world's tastiest cheese.

Tatiana is eighteen years old and pregnant when she miraculously escapes war-torn Leningrad to the West, believing herself to be a widow.

Fourteen-year-old Mia, who is trying to lead a normal life as a teenage girl in New York City, is shocked to learn that her father is the Prince of Genovia, a small European principality, and that

Destiny can take many shapes. For Henry, a writer struggling to finish a book about the Holocaust, it arrives in the form of a puzzling envelope from a stranger.

Abbi Devereaux lies flat on her back, her arms and legs tied down, her head covered with a hood. She senses the eyes that watch her. She feels the unknown hands that touch her in the dark.

To entertain his dinner guests, Masrur, a Muslim soldier, weaves a story about his encounter with a vampire on an ill-fated caravan through the Caucassian Mountains years before.

The magically long-haired Rapunzel has spent her entire life in a tower, but now that a runaway thief has stumbled upon her, she is about to discover the world for the first time, and who she reall