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"Harriet and the Piper" by Kathleen Thompson Norris is a romance novel that narrates the ambitions and thoughts of the main character, Harriet. She is governess to a wealthy but distracted family. The husband is always busy in the business and wishes to have a smooth household. Harriet, the wife, thinks this is a boring life. She is a smart flirt, her husband knows, and badly spoiled by her lovers. Harriet is concerned for her daughter, Nina, as she is about to come of age. A scam artist has his eyes on Nina who is also a man from her mother's past flirty scene. The artist comes with some wicked plans as Harriet tries to save her daughter...
THE STORY: As the critic of the Miami Times describes EVERYBODY'S GIRL and its central character: Vivian Vance is the key to the plot. She plays a kookie 'widow' living in a town called Harmony, and her activities range from being mayor to running
The author of this book started writing the stories in it when he was starting to recover from mental illness. At first, the stories were only written in his head to help ease the confusion of reality within himself. That was decades ago, and over the many years since then, he has written them down on paper.
Rockers! celebrates the biker style with panache and wit, showing how a love affair between bikes and speed became the original touchstone of a youth cult which continues to fascinate and endure, with its myths, magic and melancholy. In essence, and although they did not know it, rockers – with their raw edginess, studied cool and search for excitement, sex and violence – were icons. Rockers! achieves that rare marriage of immediacy and knowledge, through research and first-hand experience.
LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
"Punishment Will Be Served" It was a day like any other at the West Palm Beach courthouse -- that is until the bomb went off and set the mayhem in motion. Bailiff Casey Portman arrived too late for her morning coffee, but early enough to see the beginning of a series of mishaps, mistakes, and murders that would tie the justice system in knots. At the center of it all is the trial of the decade in her judge's courtroom, a case nicknamed a "Dogicide" for the man charged with murder using his pit bull as a weapon. Hotshot prosecutor Charlie Graham is ready to put someone behind bars, but is he up to the legal challenges? And does anyone think that the victim's wealthy parents might want justice...
A year into marriage, Jack Culligan's ambition of assuming a paternal role to his two stepsons, introverted Chris and rebellious Ricky, is proving nothing more than a pipe dream. His wife, Betty, has all but given up on her husband when Jack, in an act of desperation, moves the family out of Baltimore to his nearby hometown of Creighton. That summer, a city street becomes the stage for a gruesome suicide. Nine months later, two of the witnesses, Jack and Chris, find themselves experiencing nightmares so realistic they fear not only for their sanity, but for their lives. The shared dilemma draws the boy and his stepdad together in an effort to stop the tidal wave of "Dreality" from washing away their dream of becoming a family.