Added by: susan6th | Karma: 3133.45 | Fiction literature | 11 March 2010
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Wild Highland Magic
She's a Scottish Highlands werewolf, but no one's ever shown her how to use her powers Growing up in America with a father who hates his own nature, Catrionna MacInnes has always tried desperately to control her powers and pretend to be normal. Now her father has brought her and her sisters to Scotland to reunite with the pack they fled years ago Bastian an Morgaine has found sanctuary among the MacInnes werewolf clan but no relief from the soul-searing curse that haunts him. The minute Cat lays eyes on Bastian, she knows she's met her destiny.
Added by: susan6th | Karma: 3133.45 | Fiction literature | 19 February 2010
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Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
Alan is a middle-aged entrepreneur in contemporary Toronto who has devoted himself to fixing up a house in the bohemian neighborhood of Kensington. This naturally brings him in contact with the house full of students and layabouts next door, including a young woman, who, in a moment of stress, reveals to him that she has wings, moreover, that grow back after each attempt to cut them off. Alan understands. He himself has a secret or two. His father is a mountain, his mother is a washing machine, and among his brothers is a set of Russian nesting dolls.
Added by: arcadius | Karma: 2802.10 | Fiction literature | 15 February 2010
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Paula Power inherits a medieval castle from her industrialist father who has purchased it from the aristocratic De Stancy family. She employs two architects, one local and one, George Somerset, newly qualified from London. Somerset represents modernity in the novel. In the village there is an amateur photographer, William Dare, who is the illegitimate son of Captain De Stancy an impoverished scion of the family. Captain De Stancy represents a dream of medieval nobility to Paula. She is attracted to both men for their different virtues but William Dare decides to intervene to promote his father in her affections.
The novel is narrated by Addie, an orphaned girl, who travels with confidence man "Long Boy" Moses Pray during the early 1930s. Their travels are mainly in the State of Alabama, but they do go elsewhere on occasion. Addie states at the beginning of the novel that Long Boy may or may not be her father; she says that her late mother was the "wildest" girl in her town, and that Long Boy is one of three possible fathers for her.
Make Room for Daddy: The Journey from Waiting Room to Birthing Room
In Make Room for Daddy, historian Judith Walzer Leavitt offers a fascinating look at an important but long-neglected aspect of childbirth in America—the changing role of the expectant father.