Father! Father! Burning Bright was the original title of a BBC television film written in 1982 but was subsequently entitled Intensive Care. The main part, Midgley, had been hard to cast. The hope of finding more to the character made the Author, Alan Bennett to write the story in prose before shooting.
With his own boat, the motor yacht sea fox, formal naval officer Philip Vivian had hoped to earn a living free from the petty restrictions of everyday life, close to the sea he loved.
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Fiona Sweeney wants to do something that matters, and she chooses to make her mark in the arid bush of northeastern Kenya. By helping to start a traveling library, she hopes to bring the words of Homer, Hemingway, and Dr. Seuss to far-flung tiny communities where people live daily with drought, hunger, and disease. Her intentions are honorable, and her rules are firm: due to the limited number of donated books, if any one of them is not returned, the bookmobile will not return.
But, encumbered by her Western values, Fi does not understand the people she seeks to help. And in the impoverished small community of Mididima, she finds herself caught in the middle of a volatile local struggle when the bookmobile’s presence sparks a dangerous feud between the proponents of modernization and those who fear the loss of traditional ways.
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When a job goes awry or private detective Vic Malloy, he is saved from imminent death by percelli. In gratitude, he promises perelli his help wherever he needs it.
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The busy physician has a pediatrics practice in Dallas, Texas, and meeting and falling in love with surgeon Tom Peterson is adding a rich layer to her life. She’s sorting out how to introduce Tom to her family- she’s the youngest of seven and thinking about marriage.
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Synagogue Carey’s life is just as she’d always dreamed it would be. Engaged to a wonderful man, the daughter of doting parents, a faithful child of God, she has it all.
But in one horrific, terrifying moment, Dinah’s world is shattered by rape, her future irrevocably altered by an unwanted pregnancy, her family torn apart by the tragedy and the long-held secrets it brings to light.
The Bloomfield Garden club, an all ages group of lovable oddballs that will stop at nothing to make everything beautiful, maintains this piece of heaven on earth. But even such idyllic places as this have their share of dramatic characters and stories to be told.
You’ve spent all that hard work planning your wedding -right down to the color of the roses on the cake. But when the last piece of wedding cake is eaten and the rice is thrown, you realize that than booking the reservations for your honeymoon, you haven’t given it much thought.
All that matters for Cardi Forbes is finding the one man who can set her free from the sun that plagues her days and nights…the sun that has stolen her mother’s love from her and made her wish she could flee life and its terrible justice.
When Paul Conrad is called to investigate the murder of six people, one of whom is a famous actress,little did he know that his chase of the world’s most elusive monster would lead to love death and betrayal.
A respectable banker jeopardizes his happiness and future in one night of misadventure. In an attempt to clean up his indiscretion while his wife is still away, he lands himself in a bitter pot of political intrigue and murder.
Jay Franklin Cerf, the president of a six-million-dollar navigation company, keeps a check on his wife’s expenditure and passbook. Suddenly, he notices an increase in her bank withdrawals up to the tube of fifteen thousand dollars which he suspects his wife is using to pay as ransom. He employs the services of a private investigator to monitor her movement, and then…
Disillusioned, Cooper abandons the Wiccan circle and Kate and Annie are left without her. But when an illness threatens someone close to one of them, Cooper returns. Can the circle, once broken, ever be restored?
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The island of Antigua is a magical place: growing up there should be a sojourn in paradise for young Annie John. But, as in the basket of green figs carried on her mother’s head, there is a snake hidden somewhere within.
When Keynon Baker moves with his parents to the coast, he faces a grim summer renovating holiday cottages- like he’s suddenly a partner in their dumb idea to enter the tourism business. Still, in exchange for painting cottages, he’s allowed to stay in one of his own, with space for his own darkroom to print his photographs.
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