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I likes to do fer a man. An' I must say I kinda likes the menfolks, despite all their unfortunate faults of design." So declares irrepressible Myrtle Flowers after arriving uninvited, one cold January afternoon, in the Iowa farm kitchen of shy widower Abner Holmes. "I Likes To Talk" covers a year in the life of Myrtle Flowers, a 78-year-old divorced farm wife, all from her ribald, fun-loving, and colloquial point of view. She tells it as she l...

After a chance visit to a colonial burying ground in Cape Ann, Massachusetts, Janet Longworth, a young and struggling Boston writer, is convinced that she is being commanded by the bitter and unhappy spirit of Hephzibah Cleaveland - a woman buried there in 1789 - to tell the spirit's story. After meeting the phantom-like Hephzibah during a bone-chilling nighttime vigil in the old cemetery, and being taken back in time to the 1700s to witness H...

Set in the exciting and deadly world of Spanish bullfighting, 'A Beautiful Way To Die' follows the story of Sid Granger, a shy Wyoming cowboy drawn unexpectedly into the brutal and tradition-rich sphere of matadors and fighting bulls. After inadvertently causing a horrific death at Pamplona's legendary running of the bulls, guilt-ridden Sid impulsively leaves cattle-ranching behind and moves to Spain to 'get even' with the deadly fighting bull...

The only way out is in a wedding dress or a pine box." So thinks Blackbird (Blackie) McGee, trapped by poverty in an abusive and dirt-poor mountain home in 1930s West Virginia, deep in the heart of coal-mining Appalachia. In "Wings Of A Blackbird", life for Blackie is grim. Isolated at her cold and drafty mountain-top home, Blackie is taken for granted and abused by her self-pitying stepfather and her sadistic and lewd cousin Denny. Unable to ...

A saga of romance, rivalry, and revenge in the world of ballet and billionaires...From the story's opening in snowy Montreal, Canada, travel to the sun-drenched playgrounds of the rich and famous in the Greek islands of the Mediterranean, from bustling modern New York to the lavish antiquity of Rome, from the impoverished existence of a working ballerina, to the mansions, sprawling co-op apartments, and lush lifestyles of the wealthy. Meet: JO...