The thing about being a burglar is it's a secret best kept to yourself. Bernie Rhodenbarr discovers that his dentist knows he's a burglar and it seems that Dr. Sheldrake needs a burglar to steal back some valuable diamonds form his soon-to-be-ex-wife, Crystal. Bernie's visit to the Sheldrake home is thwarted by a visitor, so he hides in the closet. When Bernie emerges he finds Crystal lying dead on the floor a dental instrument the apparent murder weapon and the diamonds gone.
Introducing Bernie Rhodenbarr, N.Y.C.'s prince of thieves - who really should have known better! When the mysterious pear shaped man with a lot of uncomfortably accurate information about Bernie and his career offered him five big ones to liberate a blue leather box - unopened - from an East Side apartment, it would have been a good time to plead a previous engagement..but times were tough.
The fortunes and foibles of the Wapshots - the patriarch Leander, his wife Sarah and two sons, and Aunt Honora. The story moves from a small New England river town to New York and Europe; from the early 20th century to the 1960s. John Cheever won the 1958 National Book Award for "Chronicle".
Ray Charles (1930-2004) led one of the most extraordinary lives of any popular musician. In Brother Ray, he reveals his story unsparingly, from the chronicle of his musical development to his heroin addiction to his tangled romantic life. Overcoming poverty, blindness, the loss of his parents, and the pervasive racism of the era, Ray Charles was acclaimed worldwide as a genius by the age of thirty-two.
A sassy magazine editor searches for romance among flamboyant artists and social climbers in Sydney. Georgia Abbott has all but given up on love after walking in on her cheating fiance. Tired of sulking around London, Georgia decides a change of scenery will be just the thing to cure her broken heart. On a whim, she accepts an editorial job at Glow Magazine and heads down under. Alderson, an editor at British Elle, understands the magazine business and does a magnificent job of sweeping the reader up in the glamorous world of fashion.
