Ramona's father has lost his job and all the family are miserable. So Ramona decides to try and cheer them up, in her own inimitable way. This is the fourth title in the popular series about Ramona Quimby.
The novel opens with Ramona starting third grade and being excited about riding the school bus all by herself. At the same time, her older sister Beezus is enthusiastic about starting junior high, while their father begins taking college classes with a view to becoming a teacher.
A legacy of hatred can be a terrible force in life, over which not even an enduring love and all the fruits of material success may prevail. Catherine Cookson explores this theme in a major novel that will absorb and enthral her readers as irresistibly as any she has written. Roddy Greenbank was brought by his father to the remote Northumberland community of Langley in the autumn of 1807. Within hours of their arrival, however, the father had met a violent death, and the boy was left with all memory gone of his past life.
Added by: Terra_Incognita | Karma: 126.47 | Fiction literature | 8 May 2011
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Night Fall
Meg's parents are divorced — and when Meg's actress mother is killed in an accident in Hollywood, Meg finds it hard to adapt to a new life in England with an aloof father whom she has not seen since early childhood. And she is haunted by a mysterious dream which she is sure has something to do with her own past.
One of mystery fiction's most enduring and affecting male buddy teams--San Francisco defense attorney Dismas Hardy and police lieutenant Abe Glitsky--are back in Lescroart's newest thriller. Glitsky's been kicked upstairs (or sideways) to a desk job and warned off his usual homicide beat even though it's his father's best friend who's been murdered in a robbery-slaying, and it's Hardy's pal and client, John Holiday, who's been targeted as the killer. When two more killings follow, no one in the department believes that Hardy's client was set up.
