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A personal account of the iconic actress’s pre-fame life traces the time between her birth in 1935 and her discovery by Walt Disney during her 1962 Broadway performance in Camelot, a period marked by her relationships with a vaudevillian mother and teacher father, the World War II London Blitz, and her work as a Royal Command Performance child soloist.

With the fall of the last cities, demons and other minions of the dark roam the ravaged landscape of the former United States, while a small band of survivors—the Elves of Cintra, a ragtag group of human children, and their protectors, including two Knights of the Word—journeys northward toward a safe haven, led by a boy named Hawk, the legendary gypsy morph.

Having the ability to kill a man with her bare hands since she was a young girl, Katsa, a Graceling, has been forced to do the king’s dirty work for years in order to live in his kingdom, but things change dramatically when she falls in love with Prince Po and secrets about her powers are suddenly revealed.

A New York Times special correspondent presents a full-length memoir based on her acclaimed “African Odyssey” cover story for The Wall Street Journal, in a personal account that traces her childhood in war-torn Liberia and her reunion with a foster sister who had been left behind when her family fled the region.

Working with the injured following a devastating hurricane on the island of Kauai, Ana, a physician abandoned by her mother and raised by poor, native Hawaiian relatives, has a fateful encounter with Niki, a Russian documentary filmmaker with his own turbulent and deprived past. By the author of Song of the Exile.

Proposes an ambitious national strategy to address key issues in climate change and energy shortages, identifying the factors that have contributed to current circumstances while outlining an American-led revolution of clean-technology solutions.

Describes how thirteen women combined forces and funds to jointly purchase a valuable diamond necklace that they would share, with each woman holding the necklace for twenty-eight days each year, revealing how a simple agreement to share a piece of jewelry became a study in friendship, sharing, adventure, possibility, and the power of giving back.

Describes how the author, a successful attorney who worked with some of America’s most powerful people in Washington, D.C., returned to her Tennessee hometown to take on the job of receptionist at her father’s tiny rural doctor’s office while her mother recovered from a heart attack.

Unhappy about being teamed up with the parking fairy, fourteen-year-old Charlie turns to her friend Fiorenza for help, but when Fiorenza’s fairy succeeds in getting the boy Charlie wants to like her, things take an unexpected turn and suddenly ditching her fairy seems the only way to get things back to normal.

Traces the author’s discovery of a half-frozen kitten in the drop-box of her small-community Iowa library and the feline’s development into an affable library mascot whose intuitive nature prompted hundreds of abiding friendships, in a tale told against a backdrop of the town’s struggles with the 1980s farm crisis.

Returning to Gilead to care for her dying father, Glory Boughton, the daughter of John Ames’s closest friend, is joined by her long-absent brother, with whom she bonds throughout his struggles with alcoholism, unemployment, and their father’s traditionalist values.

Spencer shows that the earth is far more resilient than exopessimists pretend and that increasing wealth and technology ingenuity, far from being the enemies of the environment, are the only means we possess to solve environmental problems as they arise.