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The Elizabeth Stories
The Elizabeth Stories serves as a legacy of Alfred Baroody's wife, Elizabeth--the author--who previously published several articles, short stories, and books. This is a collection of ten short stories and two novelettes compiled into one book. These are stories about adventure, action, mystery, and so much more.
Nicole Laurent
Nicole Longet never knew her father. She was born in Paris, France, living with her mother and grandmother until she received a scholarship to study in the United States. After graduation, she returns to France and meets and marries Rene Laurent, the owner of a jewelry store who designs and makes his own creations. Nicole, besides working in the store, also delivers the jewelry to customers in many countries. She comes to the attention of a US government agency that is always searching for investigators and agents. Nicole is followed, tested several times, and accepted into the world of spies and secret agents. After a year or two of training and aiding other agents, she was assigned the job...
That Summer at Windermere
Clellan Camfield, for the third summer, is teaching an art course at Windermere plantation during the six-week summer session. The plantation is owned by two brothers, Jonathan and Alex Graham, who are slowly going bankrupt. During the summer, they rent the house and grounds to Dr. Cary, a professor from New York who wants to buy the plantation to establish a year-round art school. Clellan and Jonathan are mutually attracted to each other, but because of the age difference, nothing has happened. Clellan's roommate, Diana Phalen, who teaches pottery making, has had problems with Dr. Cary in New York this past spring. One night she sees Kenny Sullivan, Dr. Cary's protégé, in a sexual encounter with an unseen partner. She receives a thousand-dollar payment from a mysterious source, and she asks Clellan to hide the money for her. Shortly thereafter, she is found hanging from the rafters in the barn, a suicide note nearby. Clellan does not believe it is suicide.
Amazing Stories Fall/WorldCon 2018 Edition
Amazing Stories, the home of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, publisher of the first stories of Ursula K. Leguin and Isaac Asimov, is back in print after an absence of more than a decade! This relaunch of the iconic first science fiction magazine is packed full of exciting science fiction, fantasy, and articles, all in a beautiful package featuring eye-catching illustrations and cartoons. The Amazing Stories Fall 2018 issue (the 614th issue since 1926) includes work by: Robert Silverberg Jack Clemons Allen Steele Lawrence Watt-Evans Rudy Rucker Dave Creek Shirley Meier Kameron Hurley Julie Czerneda Paul Levinson Drew Hayden Taylor Gary Dalkin Steve Fahnestalk Continuing a 92-year history - Amazing Stories returns as a print and digital publication!
That Half-barbaric Twang
Long a symbol of American culture, the banjo actually originated in Africa before European-Americans adopted it. Karen Linn shows how the banjo--despite design innovations and several modernizing agendas--has failed to escape its image as a "half-barbaric" instrument symbolic of antimodernism and sentimentalism. Caught in the morass of American racial attitudes and often used to express ambivalence toward modern industrial society, the banjo stood in opposition to the "official" values of rationalism, modernism, and belief in the beneficence of material progress. Linn uses popular literature, visual arts, advertisements, film, performance practices, instrument construction and decoration, an...
Bluegrass Breakdown
Bluegrass music is an original characterization, simply called a 'representation, ' of traditional Appalachian music in its social form.
The Search for Scheherazade
The kidnapping of Kara Winston sets off a massive search since the ransom demand is the death of four former secret agents. One of the agents, John Colter, enlists the help of his wife, Dania Colter, because of her experience as a freelance photojournalist and her knowledge of the area.
Simple Poems
This book is a collection of poetry with a variety of ideas and inspiration. Simple Poems serves as a living memory of Alfred Baroody's wife, Elizabeth-the author-who published several articles, short stories, and books. This book, though, encapsulates her thoughts about daily life and love turned into a literary piece of art.
Tangled Webs
Tangled Webs is Elizabeth Baroody's fifth novel--a romantic comedy whose characters are caught in layers of mishaps and shaped by life's unintended consequences. the story begins during the Christmas season when Kelly Severinson decides it is time to get married but not to her boyfriend. Instead, she decides to ensnare her wealthy and already-married lover, Charles Mandeley. That is a problem. the opportunity that Kelly needs to seduce Charles presents itself when Mrs. Mandeley's mother, living in another town, decides to sell the family home and move into an apartment, compelling Mrs. Mandeley to return to her childhood home to help her mother. There she renews her friendship with an old flame, and thoughts of divorce are uppermost in her mind. Both women, young and old, face challenges that change them forever. Lust, kidnapping, greed, death, and human error reshape their lives into a tangled web, and the author skillfully leads the reader to a surprising and satisfying conclusion.
Vengeance Is Mine
Nora Costain, a widow, half owner of a successful real estate company, is on vacation on a small island off the North Carolina coast, where she meets two elderly neighbors and finds a sawdust hill infested with rattlesnakes. She also finds that she likes to be around the captain of the mail boat that takes passengers to the different islands out in the bay. While she is away, her thirteen-year-old granddaughter, Holly, is caught and raped by two high school boys after a school dance. These two boys are from another nearby school. Holly refuses to allow her mother to go to the authorities about the rape, and two months later, she unexpectedly dies of an ectopic pregnancy. Nora is finally told...
