She suff ers the trauma of her aunt’s death in childbirth and is catapulted on a voyage towards the nunnery to seek refuge from a fear of intimacy. Fate intervenes on the Feast of Crucifixion when Giacomo Scimenti enters the family shop, and Angelica f..
Patricia Stokes delves into the minds of famous creative artists and discovers the surprising source leading to their creative breakthroughs. From Picasso to Stravinsky, Kundera and Chanel to Frank Lloyd Wright, it is not boundary-less creative freedom tha..
Sophie is shocked when she realises that Joe Harrison, their tough guest producer from New York, is in fact the penniless actor she once helped out in the days when she had more heart than sense. When Sophie is catapulted into a dazzling new television car..
Devlin, a “nice enough guy” who managed a pizza parlor in Kirkwood, Missouri. One boy had been kidnapped four days earlier. The other, Shawn Hornbeck, had been missing for four years. How and why did this fifteen-year old, whose face appeared on thousa..
He found that supporting himself and his family was not easy--until the astonishing success of Lolita catapulted him to world fame and financial security.
Soon after the Battle of Britain, three young women - Prue a man-eating apprentice hairdresser from Manchester, Stella a dreamy Surrey girl, giddily in love, and Agatha, a Cambridge graduate - are catapulted from their contrasting worlds and find themselve..
This first book argues passionately for the interconnectedness of all our everyday actions with the larger, political and cosmic forces shaping the destiny of our species. It''s got the scope of Whitman, the sensuality of Keats, the ferocity of K..