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In January 1972, Aretha Franklin joined with the choir at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Watts, and the live gospel album that resulted, "Amazing Grace," became her personal best-seller as well as the genre's. The documentary chronicle that Sydney Pollack shot of the...
A sophisticated screwball comedy, rife with smart dialogue, the Philadelphia Story centers on the society event of the season: the second marriage of icy, judgmental, moneyed socialite Tracy Lord to nouveau riche George Kittredge. Her first husband, suave and devilish C.K. Dexter...
The story of what happens one day in New York when a young lawyer and a businessman share a small automobile accident on F.D.R. Drive and their mutual road rage escalates into a day-long feud that will change both their lives.
From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout comes the first in an icy-hot duology following two friends and the boys who complicate everything for them. "No one could replace me in his life. I knew that. I was the friend who knew everything about him and whom he...
A Christmas carol: Miser Ebenezer Scrooge has a change of heart after spirits whisk him into the past, present and future.
"Suspendu à une branche, Sydney s'imagine être un paresseux qui se déplace trèèèès lentement sous un soleil éblouissant. Samira préfère être un singe-araignée bondissant et voilà qu'Édouard arrive... quel animal choisira-t-il ? L'un après l'autre, les amis de Sydne...
An illustrated history of more than sixty notable structures of the ancient and modern world. Includes detailed diagrams and a glossary of architectural terms.
Bonjour! Today is Snailentine's Day, and Escargot is on his way to a party. Will his Snailentine be there? When he arrives, Escargot is a bit nervous and wants to hide in his shell. But in the end, he makes a surprising new friend in a fellow party guest. From New York Times-best...
"In the wake of her grandmother's passing, Sydney Singleton finds a hidden photograph of a little girl who looks more like Sydney than her own sister or mother. She soon discovers the mystery girl in the photograph is her aunt, Carol, who was one of six North Carolina Black girls...
"Am I my brother's keeper?" To 10-year-old Keagan, this isn't a question, but a way of life. After learning to help others by watching his parents work as legal aid attorneys, Keagan puts his lessons to good use by watching out for his aging neighbor, Jake. Years ago, after a fir...
Françoise Frenkel was a Jewish woman born in Poland and enamoured of all things literary and French. In 1921 she set up the first French-language bookshop in Berlin, recognising the craving for French culture in that city in the wake of the First World War. Her business was a su...
Toby Small is determined to prove his brother innocent of the murder of a US marshal by tracking down the real killer. But his quest proves dangerous when the foreman of the Crooked L ranch goes for his gun ... With more problems ahead, Small is helped by the feisty Ella and adve...