The historic Alaskan frontier makes a wonderful setting for romantic adventures. Trek into the wilds alongside three women who have strong faith, determination, and no need for a husband. Can they surrender their independent hearts when love comes to call in the form of a friendly neighbor, a grieving widower, and a secretive gold miner?
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A dazzling, lavishly illustrated new social history of the decade that took Paris, its artists, and celebrated expatriates to the brink of the Second World War. Despite the stock market crash of 1929, Paris began the new decade extravagantly with Elsa Maxwell's celebrated masquerade ball. And even as the war drums reverberated across Europe at decade's end, aristocrats and arrivistes alike continued to revel in Montparnasse and Montmartre, on the Left Bank and the Right. Throughout the 1930s, Paris retained its allure and remained a magnet city for expatriates. The arts continued to flourish, and the champagne corks to pop, as Henry Miller, Helena Rubinstein, Anais Nin, and Katherine Anne Porter joined such illustrious exiles of the twenties as Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, Sylvia Beach, Picasso, Janet Flanner, and Man Ray at salons, galleries, palaces, and cafes. The vibrant narrative in this informed new volume tells their story, and the city's, in the ten years before the flame of the brilliant creative revolution of the expatriate era flickered out in the face of perhaps the grimmest event in modern French history - the fall of Paris and the Nazi occupation in 1940. Praise for William Wiser's The Crazy Years: Paris in the Twenties: "William Wiser gives us almost everything and everybody ... better balanced than any preceding history of the times and richer in character." - Malcolm Cowley; "It is alive with people and events, and the style has the velocity of a high-speed train." - New York Times Book Review.
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How would you react if your son told you he was gay? Out of the Twilight: Fathers of Gay Men Speak explores and discusses how fathers have dealt with discovering that their sons were gay and what effect it had on their own development as parents and people. This revealing, moving book will help you understand the difficulties and joys of a father/gay son relationship. Out of the Twilight draws from literary sources such as poems, fairy tales, plays, novels, and movies, as well as psychoanalytic theories, to highlight the obstacles that a father must overcome to understand and identify with his son. In Out of the Twilight, you will discover the personal and intimate struggles of these fathers, including: Mitchell, whose son, Jay, came out at the age of twenty-one, and who describes the coming-out process as a means of forging a closer father-son relationship Juan Miguel, who knew and accepted that his son was gay before his son told him, and who discusses how his love and complete acceptance made the coming-out process easier for his son Peter, whose response to his son, Richard, was ordering him to live at home so the family could look for a 'cure' for Richard's homosexuality Daniel, who admitted that he himself was gay after being married to a woman, and who was very accepting when one of his sons came out,a providing them with a special bond Marty, whose response to his son Gary's coming out was to join P-FLAG, an organization for parents of gay and lesbian children, so he could find support and acceptance among other parents who were going through the same thing Out of the Twilight allows you to see how fathers have struggled with the truth about their sons' sexuality. This book presents a unique opportunity to develop a greater awareness of and appreciation for father/son similarities and differences. This moving book suggests that through time, communication, and love, fathers can become comfortable with and respectful of their sons' homosexuality.
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A sequel to William A. Donohue's "The Politics of the American Civil Liberties Union", but with a marked change in emphasis. Instead of challenging the ACLU's non-partisan reputation, he now seeks to demonstrate why and how recent ACLU policy undermines the process of liberty.
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In Twilight at Mac's Place, the quiet death of an aged spy triggers a desperate race to control his memoirs, which threaten to reveal Cold War secrets many would prefer stayed secrets. When the spy's estranged son receives the then dizzying sum of $100,000 for all rights to the work, he is properly dizzied. He is also smart enough to seek the help of veteran Cold Warriors McCorkle and Padillo, owners of a D.C. bar called Mac's Place that is both a capital landmark and a nest of intrigue.
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Earth is ravaged by tornadoes, and in their aftermath everyone becomes sterile. Certain people acquire psychic powers and can experience "trips" in each other's company, during which their consciousness appears to dislocate itself in time and space. Richard Cowper also wrote "Clone".
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Five young people addicted to a fantasy role-playing game are transformed into characters with remarkable powers and sent into a strange and dangerous parallel world.
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Amelia Weinreb takes readers deep inside the everyday life of middle class Cubans - arguably the majority of citizens on the island. Un-theorized and under-described, it is a group that is portrayed honestly, accurately, and empathetically. The political and economic systems of Cuba in the post-Soviet period pose ongoing challenges to ordinary Cubans as they try to survive and thrive in the waning years of the Castro regime. Weinreb demonstrates that the major reason they have been ignored in the scholarly literature is because remaining obscure is one of their strategies for coping with these challenges. Weinreb has made repeated visits to the island, frequently living in local communities along with her family. Thus her ethnography of this 'shadow public' is based upon traditional participant-observer methodology. Her experiences - from the clothesline, the back bedroom, the kitchen table, and the living room sofa - allow her an unprecedented opportunity to bring to outside readers the reality of daily life in Cuba. No other book reveals so much about the anxieties and clandestine plans that have shaped Cuban's lives during the final years of the Fidel Castro era. It even includes an epilogue that addresses citizen and consumer changes that have taken place since Raul Castro became president in February 2008.
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