When Tom Seymour, a child psychologist, plunges into a river to save a young man from drowning, he unwittingly reopens a chapter from his past he'd hoped to forget. For Tom already knows Danny Miller - when Danny was ten Tom helped imprison him for the killing of an old woman. Now out of prison with a new identity, Danny has some questions - questions he thinks only Tom can answer.
Hannah Fairchild is having a boring summer at home after all her friends leave town for the break. However, the day after having a horrifying dream about her room being on fire, she meets her new next door neighbor, Danny. While Hannah comes to believe that Danny is a ghost, he demonstrates to her that it is in fact she who is a ghost, having been killed in a fire five years prior.
Just before Danny Cadogan's fourteenth birthday, his father leaves. Having drunkenly run up a gambling debt he cannot pay, Big Dan Cadogan takes the easy way out. Leaving behind his wife and children to face the wrath of the men sent to collect the debt. Determined to protect his mother, brother and sister, something changes in Danny and, overnight, he turns into a young man set on making his way in a violent and dangerous world. He becomes a Face. Not just a Face, but the most feared Face in the Smoke. Out for all he can get. At any cost.
DANNY KAYE - Grimm's & Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales
GRIMM'S & HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN'S FAIRY TALES retold by DANNY KAYE
Legendary comedian and performer Danny Kaye gives brilliant performances of the fairy tales on this album. Includes the favorites "Rumpelstiltskin", "The Princess And The Pea", "The Ugly Duckling" and more.
Added by: susan6th | Karma: 3133.45 | Fiction literature | 25 March 2010
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Feels Like Home
Growing up in a dead-end South Texas town, Mickey had two things she could count on: her big brother, Danny—the football hero everyone loved—and a beat-up copy of The Outsiders. But after the accident—after Danny abandoned her to a town full of rumors and a drunken father—all Mickey had left was a smoky memory, her anger, and the resolution to get out of town for good.
