Firefly and the Cotswolds Murders

Firefly and the Cotswolds Murders
Author: Elaine Hatfield
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2010-09-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1453578145

This novel is a gentle mysterypart dreamscape and part history. In this, the third and last of the Firefly stories, Firefly reminisces about Tiny Tims and her days at Captain Barneys Circus, their time spent dealing with the silent film greatsEadweard Muybridge, Thomas Edison, and the Lumire brothersand their adventures in the Cotswolds, in Victorian England. She recalls the delights of the early Hollywood film industry and Tims bravery during World War II, entertaining troops with the USO. And most importantly, Firefly recounts the role played by the two little detectives in defending Atlas and their Circus friends, when they were accused of the Cotswolds Ripper murders. This is a wistful and elegiac novel of a lost world.

Flimflam Artists

Flimflam Artists
Author: Elaine Hatfield
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2011-09-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 146536031X

In the 17th century, critics of John Milton observed that in Paradise Lost, Lucifer steals the show. The same thing holds true today. We begin with a fanciful tale of God and Satan. What follows is a collection of true stories about Societys roguesthe flimflam artists, whores, painted ladies, voodoo queens, and honky-tonk angels that inhabit the world. We depict the lives of a few favorites among these captivating, infuriating, (sometimes) horrifying, and larger than life frauds.

Under an English Heaven

Under an English Heaven
Author: Alice K. Boatwright
Publisher:
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2014-02-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781939816368

When Ellie Kent moves to an English village with her new husband Graham, she fears the villagers will always see her as that young American who snared their attractive vicar during his sabbatical in California. But this challenge is nothing compared to what happens when she stumbles across a body in the churchyard. The villagers insist they don't know the murdered man, so suspicion mounts that the killer must be the incomer - the vicar's new wife. As evidence piles up against her, Ellie tries to stay one step ahead of the police to unravel a decades-old literary mystery and love story. Will others die before she can solve it? And what will be left of her new life and marriage, even if she succeeds?

Sequels

Sequels
Author: Janet G. Husband
Publisher: American Library Association
Total Pages: 793
Release: 2009-07-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0838909671

A guide to series fiction lists popular series, identifies novels by character, and offers guidance on the order in which to read unnumbered series.

Sea, Sky, Islands

Sea, Sky, Islands
Author: Alice K. Boatwright
Publisher: Noontime Books
Total Pages: 58
Release: 2019-01-11
Genre: San Juan Islands (Wash.)
ISBN: 9780991618576

In this trilogy of stories about life in the San Juan Islands, a teacher fantasizes about her favorite author to ease her loneliness, an islander finds love with a precariously sober alcoholic, and a young couple has to make sacrifices to keep their dreams afloat - but all find strength and inspiration in the sea, sky, and islands.

Dangerous Characters

Dangerous Characters
Author: Elaine Hatfield
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2008-11-19
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1462805868

Dangerous Characters is about people of all kinds, stuck with their unique personalities and trying to negotiate their ways through lifes bramble strewn path. As intellectual historians, psychologists of love, and psychotherapists, Elaine Hatfield and Richard L. Rapson bring to bear their sharp and wry observations upon a constellation of vivid characters.

Love and Sex

Love and Sex
Author: Elaine Hatfield
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005
Genre: Interpersonal relations
ISBN: 9780761832324

In this volume, noted scholars Elaine Hatfield and Richard Rapson focus on the cross-cultural research concerning the passionate beginnings of relationships: how people meet, fall in love, make love, and fall out of love, usually only to risk it all over again. Through in-depth analysis and astute assessment, they compare the way cultures try to set rules for these incendiary matters. Two main questions addressed are: 'What seems to be biological and universal?' and 'What seems to be socially constructed and transient?' Taking a historical perspective, the authors ask where different societies, and the world itself, are headed?

Man Descending

Man Descending
Author: Guy Vanderhaeghe
Publisher: New Canadian Library
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2010-12-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1551995689

These superbly crafted stories reveal an astonishing range, with settings that vary from a farm on the Canadian prairies to Bloomsbury in London, from a high-rise apartment to a mine-shaft. Vanderhaeghe has the uncanny ability to show us the world through the eyes of an eleven-year-old boy as convincingly as he reveals it through the eyes of an old man approaching senility. Moving from the hilarious farce of teenage romance all the way to the numbing tragedy of life in a ward for incurables, these twelve stories inspire belief, admiration, and enjoyment, and come together to form a vibrant chronicle of human experience from a gifted observer of life’s joys and tribulations. This is Guy Vanderhaeghe’s brilliant first book of fiction.