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Ward James is a reclusive, obsessed young reporter, half of a famous investigative team in Miami, the son of a newspaper family. His younger brother, Jack, recently expelled from the University of Florida's swimming team, and then from the university itself, drives a delivery truck for their father's paper in northern Florida. The brothers are brought together when Ward returns home to investigate the case of a man awaiting execution for the revenge killing of the county's legendary sheriff. Ward is accompanied by his opportunistic partner, Yardley Acheman, and Charlotte Bless, an inordinately sexual and determined woman who has fallen in love through the mail with the sheriff's murderer. What is uncovered in the months that follow, in the exploration - and then exploitation - of the murder of Sheriff Thurmond Call, goes beyond the crime itself to the heart of the characters, and to the heart of the business of journalism.

Two novellas: "A Match for the Season"--Lady Cecily has snared the heir to a dukedom, but it's his cousin, a mere doctor, who makes her heart beat faster; "He Stoops to Conquer," previously published as "The Christmas Party"--Lord Rusholme tries to win Prudence, an actress playing in She Stoops to Conquer for his father's Christmas house party, by taking the role of the oafish Tony Lumpkin. Novellas originally published in Zebra collections A WINTER WEDDING and A CHRISTMAS COURTSHIP.Regency Romance Novellas by Carola Dunn; published by Belgrave House/Regency Reads in 2007

On a visit to the museum, Katie climbs into five Impressionist paintings and has wonderful adventures. Includes information about Impressionism, the paintings shown, and their artists.

Paul Bunyan, his wife, and their children do some ordinary things which result in the formation of Niagara Falls, Bryce Canyon, and other natural monuments.

Two lonely characters, one black and one white, meet on the street and become friends.

School children on a field trip to Mack Nugget's farm save the lives of eight turkeys in this poem based on "The Night Before Christmas."

Hoover's house is overrun with dust until he marries a vacuum cleaner, but he soon discovers that humans and appliances are not meant to wed.

In this rhythmic cumulative tale Rosa Maria spends the week getting ready for her granddaughter's birthday party and trying to avoid attracting mice--unaware that the mice in her walls are preparing for a party of their own.

Follows the adventures of the Dumb Bunnies, a rabbit family that does everything without any rhyme or reason.

After the principal of P.S. 88 is turned into a frog by a bumbling magician, the frog bargains for the chance to act as principal until Mr. Bundy returns from his "family emergency."

A boy gets a rocking horse for Christmas that takes him to faraway places.