Character

Character
Author: Henry Varnum
Publisher:
Total Pages: 434
Release: 1903
Genre: Character
ISBN:

The Fame Game

The Fame Game
Author: Sergey Knazev
Publisher: Select Books (NY)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 9781590791257

"Founder of entertainment and brand management company who manages careers of the stars tells behind-the-scenes stories of how they reached their fame and offers information and practical advice on how to become a celebrity"--

Plainsong

Plainsong
Author: Kent Haruf
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2001-04-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0375726934

National Book Award Finalist A heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of Denver. In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high school teacher is confronted with raising his two boys alone after their mother retreats first to the bedroom, then altogether. A teenage girl—her father long since disappeared, her mother unwilling to have her in the house—is pregnant, alone herself, with nowhere to go. And out in the country, two brothers, elderly bachelors, work the family homestead, the only world they've ever known. From these unsettled lives emerges a vision of life, and of the town and landscape that bind them together—their fates somehow overcoming the powerful circumstances of place and station, their confusion, curiosity, dignity and humor intact and resonant. As the milieu widens to embrace fully four generations, Kent Haruf displays an emotional and aesthetic authority to rival the past masters of a classic American tradition.

Claim to Fame

Claim to Fame
Author: Margaret Peterson Haddix
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2010-11-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1416939180

Lindsay, a former child star who suffered a nervous breakdown after developing the ability to hear what anyone says about her, comes to see this as an asset when, after her father's death, she learns that she is not alone.

Woman of Ill Fame

Woman of Ill Fame
Author: Erika Mailman
Publisher: Heyday
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2006
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Fiction. Looking for a better life, Nora Simms sails from the East Coast to gold rush San Francisco with a plan for success: to strike it rich by trading on her good looks. But when a string of murders claims several of her fellow "women of ill fame," Nora grows uneasy with how closely linked all of the victims are to her. Even her rise to the top of her profession and a move to the fashionable part of town don't shelter her from the danger, and she must distinguish friend from foe in a race to discover the identity of the killer. "WOMAN OF ILL FAME deftly sidesteps all the hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold clichA[a¬As you think you see coming as it follows its heroine through the muddy two-fisted brawl that was gold rush San Francisco. The book starts with a bang, and for me it never lets up; I enjoyed the hell out of it"--Tamim Ansary

Plain Christmas

Plain Christmas
Author: Sarah Price
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Amish
ISBN: 9781503934832

It's been nine years since Cuban singer Alejandro Diaz's limousine collided with a young Amish woman named Amanda Beiler as she was crossing a New York City street--an accident that ignited the couple's cross-cultural romance. Amanda loves her husband and their three children, but their fast-paced, lavish Miami lifestyle troubles her. Will her kids grow up never knowing what it's like to simply be, without chauffeurs, social media, and paparazzi complicating their lives? When she receives a letter from her mother in Pennsylvania inviting the family to visit for Christmas, she seizes the chance to show her children a different way of life. During their weeklong stay among the Amish community of her youth, Amanda and her family will bake cookies and milk cows, sled and crochet--and reconsider what's truly important in life. As they prepare for their family Christmas holiday, they'll have to make momentous decisions about their future and what "happily ever after" truly means.