FICTION · CHILDREN
Jane Claypool Miner
IN LOWER MANHATTAN there is an improbable point where Waverly Place intersects Waverly Place.
— from Veronica, 2005
Most acclaimed
A Winter Love Story
1998
A surprise proposal Claudia Ramsay first met Mr. Thomas Tait-Bullen when he was asked to discuss the health of her great-uncle, Colonel Ramsay. Claudia wasn't at all sure what she thought of the eminent surgeon -- and she was astonished when, after the Colonel's death, Thomas unexpectedly proposed! Claudia longed to accept, but was friendship alone a strong enough basis for marriage? It took a delightful Christmas with Thomas's family for Claudia to realize she loved her new husband. Now she had to find a way to persuade Thomas to love her....
Joanna
From her simple farm life in Vermont, Joanna bravely joins the growing number of girls working in the textile mills in 1836. With her she carries the painful memory of Jed, a young man who has left her, loving the sea more then he loves her. In the Lowell, Massachusetts, mill, Joanna is horrified to find the work both grueling and dangerous. Even a romance with the mill owner's roguish nephew, Theo, can't keep the daily work from becoming terrifying drudgery. To strike with the other mill women seems Joanna's only way out of a job that threatens her very existence. But defying the miller owner's will certainly mean losing her job and Theo. And if Jed ever returns from the sea, would he recognize -- could he love -- the new Joanna?
Saddam Hussein
2005
"In Saddam Hussein: The Politics of Revenge, the author draws on his own knowledge of and extensive contacts within the Arab world to produce both a thorough biography and a penetrating psychological profile of the Iraqi leader.". "Said Abolish worked with Saddam Hussein in the 1970s and is therefore able to add dimension and personal experience to the reader's understanding of the terrifying, yet charismatic, dictator. The author explains why Saddam behaves as he does by suggesting that his life has been marked by a series of personal quests: for recognition after being orphaned and brought up by a destitute uncle; for control of his country; for leadership of the Arab world; for mastery of the technology of destruction."--BOOK JACKET.