In Fannie Flagg’s high-spirited first novel, we meet Daisy Fay Harper in the spring of 1952, where she’s “not doing much except sitting around waiting for the sixth grade.” When she leaves Shell Beach, Mississippi, in September 1959, she is packed up and ready for the Miss America Pageant, vowing “I won’t come back until I’m somebody.” But in our hearts she already is.
Added by: KundAlini | Karma: 1594.10 | Fiction literature | 2 December 2010
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The Man Who Planted Treesby Jean Giono
Translated by Peter Doyle
This is a fictional account of a simple and unassuming man who changed the face of the earth. As such it is a parable for modern times. Each one of us can plant a tree and save the world. Readers, adults and children alike, will enjoy this story of a miracle wrought by one human being. They will also
experience the challenging task that faces us today of rebuilding our earth.
The plot concerns a clinic that treats people with AIDS. Just as the scientists working there are on the brink of a breakthrough the create a cure for the disease, one of them dies. Initially it looks like suicide but after a journalist investigates, she finds that it is murder, and there is a killer targeting the patients of the clinic as well
Hilarity abounds in Moore's latest satirical gem. Sleepy Pine Cove, Calif., is abuzz with Christmas spirit, but Lena Marquez is fed up with her despicable ex-husband, Dale Pearson. On his way home from playing Santa Claus at the local lodge, Dale spies sneaky Lena uprooting his Monterey pines; he pulls a gun on her, she lashes out with a shovel and—oops!—kills him. Seven-year-old Josh Barker, thinking he's just seen the murder of Santa, prays for a miracle to save Christmas. To Lena's rescue comes Tucker Case, a slimy, reformed Casanova and DEA pilot, who gives her an alibi....
