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Presents a collection of humorous stories from over two dozen contemporary female writers, as well as autobiographical essays, comics, poems, and comic strips.

Sister, who constantly feels overlooked, especially when the family gets a pet of Brother's choice, decides to send him letters expressing how she feels, and to her surprise, he thoughtfully responds.

Behind the music of Nashville lies a web of betrayal, heartbreak, and rivalry second to none. Rayna James is the Queen of Country, but there's a new 'royal' on the rise. Meet Juliette Barnes, a hot, young diva poised to knock Rayna off her throne, both on the charts and in the he...

Twelve year old Charlotte Blackburn receives a diary from her brother serving overseas in France during World War One and uses it to record the events leading up to and following the Halifax Explosion of December 6, 1917.

When war breaks out between the United States and Great Britain in 1812, eleven-year-old Susanna chronicles her experiences when her father and brother go off to fight leaving the women to fend for themselves on the family farm on the Niagara Peninsula of Upper Canada.

Five "New York Times" bestselling authors-five superlative stories. From J.D. Robb: Eve and Rourke return to investigate a series of murders connected to a brilliant young surgeon in "Chaos in Death." From Mary Blayney: A shopkeeper's solitude is complicated by a magic coin, a da...

A girl's diary records the year 1848 during which she, her brother, mother, and stepfather traveled the Santa Fe trail from Independence, Missouri, to Santa Fe.

"In 1917 the Communist Revolution explodes across Russia, and Hans Gerein is rocked by the same reverberations felt around the world. In a new Russia rife with danger and treachery, he is constantly plagued by starvation, internment in a gulag camp and devastating twists of fate....

Brother chronicles life with his frequently-annoying Sister, from the time she is born until she is ten and he leaves for college, through a series of letters and drawings.

" ... Your dad is coming back home." As far back as nine-year-old Jay Jay Patton can remember, her dad, Antoine has been in prison. Growing up in Buffalo, New York with her mom and younger brother, she's only been to visit him twice. Instead, the two have sent each other numerous...

British television comedy series about the employees of the Grace Brother's department store in London. Sales clerks in Ladies' Lingerie and Gentlemen's Ready-made departments are often at odds with each other and with store management.

Nuneaton, 1880. Twenty year old Daisy Armstrong lives a happy life with her loving father, Jed. They have a special bond, particularly after losing her beloved Irish mother and younger brother. But when Jed falls in love with a local widow, everything is set to change for them bo...

From J.D. Robb: Eve and Rourke link a series of murders to a brilliant young surgeon; from Mary Blayney: a shopkeeper's solitude is complicated by a magic coin; from Patricia Gaffney: a lonely woman, a hotline psychic, and romance; from Ruth Ryan Langan: the shattered soul of an ...

Hanna is no stranger to dark thoughts: as a young child, she tried to murder her own mother. But that was more than sixteen years ago. And extensive therapy--and writing letters to her younger brother--has since curbed those nasty tendencies. Now twenty-four, Hanna is living an o...

After being orphaned during the influenza epidemic of 1918, 11-year-old Lydia Pierce and her 14-year-old brother are taken by their grieving uncle to be raised in the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake, where Lydia struggles to learn a new lifestyle.

"When Emily Warren Roebling marries Captain Washington 'Wash' Roebling-the handsome, charming soldier of her dreams, and her brother's dear friend and aide during the Civil War-a lifetime of family fun and happiness seems within her grasp. But then Wash accepts the position as Ch...

The Hollies were one of the most successful British groups of the sixties and early seventies and have continued to perform up to the present day. 'Look Through Any Window' tells the story of their peak years from 1963 to 1975 when the band clocked up 27 UK Top 40 singles, 17 of ...

A couple who were radicals in the '60s now face the problems of raising children in suburbia. With a young Republican for a son, one daughter that's only concerned with fashion, and another who is a tomboy, life is never dull in the Keaton household.

After losing his wife and father on the same day, Brandon Moore felt there was nothing left to live for. His dream of finding a cure for cancer to save his wife and win approval for his father was gone. When he decides to take his brother's suggestion and spend the night at the f...