Here are a dozen stories to delight all Wodehouse addicts: A crooning tenor is attempting to captivate the affection of Rev. Rupert Bingham's fiancee; Lord Emsworth is striving to remove a pumpkin-shaped blot on the family escutcheon; the Hon. Freddie Threepwood is making a last-ditch attempt to convert Lady Alcester to the beneficial quality of Donaldson's Dog-Joy; and in the bar-parlor of the Angler's Rest, Mr. Mulliner facinates everyone with the secret history of old Hollywood.
Eric Chalmers is one of the most popular teachers at Muirpark Secondary School in Glasgow. So when precocious teenager Julie Donaldson accuses Chalmers of rape, the school goes into shock. How could a deeply religious family man like Chalmers do anything like that? And then things get much worse - Julie Donaldson goes missing and the police are called in. For DCI William Lorimer, this is the second missing person's case in a week. Julie's disappearance adds a further burden to Lorimer's already overstretched workload. With hope fading, it becomes a breakneck race against time to find both missing girls...
Added by: naokokt | Karma: 186.54 | Fiction literature | 24 February 2011
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Digging to America: a novel
Two families arrive at the Baltimore/Washington International Airport in August 1997 to claim the Korean infants they have adopted. Strangers until that evening, they are destined to begin a friendship that will span their adoptive daughters' childhoods. Bitsy and Brad Donaldson are the quintessential middle-class, white American couple. Sami and Ziba Yazdan are Iranian Americans.
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