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Kathryn Kramer

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Born October 2, 1952 (73 years old)
United States
16 books
3.3 (4)
36 readers

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Kathryn Kramer is the author of several novels, most recently Sweet Water, short fiction, and non-fiction articles. She’s currently completing a memoir entitled Missing History: The Covert Education of a Child of the Great Books, about the experience of being brought up in the Socratic tradition. Her first novel, A Handbook for Visitors from Outer Space (1984), is set in an unspecified but Near Future land – which turns out to be New Jersey – in a state of constant War with an unknown enemy. On a volunteer basis she teaches English as a second language to migrant workers in Vermont and has an Undergraduate Collaborative Research Fund grant from the college to work with a student to develop an ESL textbook for this population. Kathryn received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1996

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Desire's Deception

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Sixteenth-century Scotland and the courts of Mary Queen of Scotts and her cousin Elizabeth I of England serve as a backdrop for the passionate coupling of Scottish lady-in-waiting, Kylynn Gowrie, and the handsome Englishman, Roarkee MacKinnon

Destiny and Desire

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Three young women journey to the glorious city of San Francisco determined to follow their passions and dreams as the United States plunges itself into World War I

Handbook for Visitors from Outer Space

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A sharply fresh vision of our time conveyed through the experiences of a boy filled with classic yearnings for family wholeness and national honesty, on a quest to uncover his elders' secrets. Beginning with a mysterious, unlocatable, war and concluding with a battle on the New Jersey Turnpike, this is a mad fairy tale that unexpectedly turns out to be true by such an engaging storyteller that we willingly submit, believing the impossible. A combination of inspired tenderness and brilliant technique & it reads as if it were written by a very witty angel.

DESIRE'S MASQUERADE

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LOVE'S DISGUISE Rich stonework and tapestry surrounded them in the castle's banquet hall, but Lady Madrigal and the stranger saw only each other. Stephen Valentine had come to seek an audience with the king, but had found the princess of his dreams--hair golden as an angel's, lips pink as summer roses. To slip away from the crowd, to feel her trembling in his arms, to burn with her in a fire of hot kisses seemed his destiny... and hers. But a dark truth would soon reveal that Lady Madrigal was the daughter of his father's betrayer, the woman he had vowed to destroy. And as treachery stalked the castle's dark corridors, she must desperately flee for her life...disguising her identity but unable to hide the passion that burned for her enemy... her beloved.

Handboek voor buitenaardse bezoekers

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Een scherp frisse visie op onze tijd, overgebracht door de ervaringen van een jongen gevuld met klassieke verlangens naar heelheid van het gezin en nationale eerlijkheid, op een zoektocht om de geheimen van zijn oudsten te onthullen. Beginnend met een mysterieuze, onvindbare oorlog en eindigend met een gevecht op de New Jersey Turnpike, is dit een waanzinnig sprookje dat onverwachts waar blijkt te zijn door zo'n boeiende verteller dat we ons graag onderwerpen, in de overtuiging dat het onmogelijk is. Een combinatie van geïnspireerde tederheid en briljante techniek en het leest alsof het door een zeer geestige engel is geschreven.

Highland Bride

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Once, long ago in Scotland, matchmaking members of the Secret Clan wove magical mischief to encourage romance among the mortals they assisted. Sometimes the results weren't quite what they expected.....return to Scotland for the third novel of a sexy adventure series

Siren song

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Seymour Stein is America's greatest living record man. Not only has he signed and nurtured more important artists than anyone alive, now sixty years in the game, he's still the hippest label head, travelling the globe in search of the next big thing. Since the late fifties, he's been wherever it's happening: Billboard, Tin Pan Alley, The British Invasion, CBGB, Studio 54, Danceteria, the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame, the CD crash. Along that winding path, he discovered and broke out a skyline full of stars: Madonna, The Ramones, Talking Heads, Depeche Mode, Madonna, The Smiths, The Cure, Ice-T, Lou Reed, Seal, and many others. Brimming with hilarious scenes and character portraits, Siren Song's wider narrative is about modernity in motion, and the slow acceptance of diversity in America - thanks largely to daring pop music. Including both the high and low points in his life, Siren Song touches on everything from his discovery of Madonna to his wife Linda Stein's violent death. Ask anyone in the music business, Seymour Stein is a legend. Sung from the heart, Siren Song will etch his story in stone.