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Historian Jean Sheridan attends her twenty year reunion for Stonecroft Academy in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York. One of her fellow honorees has died recently and Jean herself feels threatened by an anonymous note concerning her past. What Jean does not know is that she is on the h...
Historian Jean Sheridan attends her twenty year reunion for Stonecroft Academy in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York. One of her fellow honorees has died recently and Jean herself feels threatened by an anonymous note concerning her past. What Jean does not know is that she is on the h...
In these delightful essays, Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Dirda introduces nearly ninety of the world's most entertaining books.
Jean Sheridan, a college dean and prominent historian, sets out to her hometown on the Hudson, New York, to attend the twenty-year reunion of Stonecroft Academy, where she is to be honoured along with six other members of her class. However, Alison Kenall, a beautiful, high-powe...
No delicate ingenues, these. In the middle of the twentieth century, the Mary Pickfords of the movie world were replaced by a different sort of woman-drop-dead gorgeous, witty, not afraid to speak their minds, they could slay you with a look-and if that didn't work, look out for ...