There once was a man named Frederick, who had a wife named Catherine. But she was always doing such foolish things that everyone called her simple Kate. Even though she always seemed to do the wrong thing at the wrong time, she eventually did something right when it really counted.
Heartwarming and redemptive, OOGY is the story of the people who were determined to rescue this dog against all odds, and of the family who took him home, named him "Oogy" (an affectionate derivative of ugly), and made him one of their own.
The Green Man is an English country pub run by a smart, ironical alcoholic philanderer named Maurice Allingham. The pub is haunted by a wicked seventeenth-century scholar and murderer in the Faustian mode named Thomas Underhill. In his dealings with the supernatural dark side, Underhill also raised an evil spirit of the forest apparently made of tree parts, known as The Green Man, who rises again when Allingham tries to sort out the skeletons in his closets.
Added by: C_Sean_McGee | Karma: 8.13 | Fiction literature | 15 October 2013
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Coffee and Sugar (2nd Edition) This is the story of Joao, an uninspiring country boy who moves to a slum in the city with his drunken, violent, preacher father; The Bishop and falls for amiable prostitute named Charity.
