In the dramatic conclusion to the Martas Legacy series, Martas granddaughter, Carolyn, comes of age during the turbulent 1960s, struggling to navigate a tense family life. Though college offers a taste of freedom, tragedy shatters Carolyn’s confidence and she disappears into the heady counterculture of San Francisco. When she reemerges, more lost than ever, she reluctantly turns to her family to help her rebuild a life for herself and her own daughter,...

Cubriendo los años desde 1950 hasta el siglo XXI, esta dramática conclusión a la historia de dos tomos explora las vidas de cuatro generaciones de mujeres. Cada una ha presentado un frente valiente para disimular heridas profundas, a menudo sin comprender el amor sacrificial de una madre por su hija. La pequeña Carolyn Arundel siempre tuvo un vínculo especial con su abuelita Marta, debido a que la tuberculosis mantuvo a su madre, Hildie, alejada...

"A penetrating, personal look at contemporary India--the world's largest democracy at a moment of transition. Somini Sengupta emigrated from Calcutta to California as a young child in 1975. Returning thirty years later as the bureau chief for The New York Times, she found a vastly different country: one defined as much by aspiration and possibility--at least by the illusion of possibility--as it is by the structures of sex and caste. The End of Karma...

"Mommy says that some things can't be said with just words . . . Sometimes you have to say it with your feet. A young girl watches her mommy proudly take to the streets to march for what she believes in. Mommy marches through the sunshine, through the rain and through the deepest snow, on her own or hand-in-hand with others, to give voice to causes that need to be heard. Inspired to join the next generation of young activists, her daughter dreams...

20 easy piano arrangements of favorites from this Grammy-nominated pianist. Includes: Before the Last Leaf Falls * Behind the Waterfall/Desert Rain Medley * Courage of the Wind * Cristofori's Dream * The Dragon's Daughter * Dream of the Forgotten Child * Dreamer's Waltz * Farewell Amparo * Leaves on the Seine * London Blue * Madre De La Tierra * Madrona * Nightfall * A Path with Heart * Return to the Heart * Reverie * Sitting in an English Garden...

Widower Jack Ransom's family-owned café is going bankrupt. He needs help, but not the kind his eight-year-old daughter dreamed up. Writing a letter to her favorite television celebrity, Sydney Ryan, star of Ryan to the Rescue, is bad enough. Now the station decides to use his restaurant and sends the star to seal the deal. Chef Sydney Ryan built an empire turning around failing restaurants. If she doesn't get Jack's approval, her latest episode could...

Betrothed from Birth It was decided from their infancy that Tris Enders would wed Juliet Branscombe. Yet, growing up on adjoining estates in Derbyshire made that the last thing that either wanted, especially after Tris had found the girl of his dreams in London and the handsome Lord Canfield moved into a nearby estate. Tris and Juliet each believed that if the other became engaged to someone else, then Juliet's mother, the formidable Madge Branscombe,...

A collection of science fiction stories and novelettes by the Hugo and Philip K. Dick Award-winning author of Desolation Road and Luna: New Moon. Published in conjunction with his Locus Award-winning debut novel, Desolation Road, Empire Dreams collects some of Ian McDonald's finest early short fiction, including a several stories that first appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction magazine. In "Vivaldi," an astrophysicist contemplates the death of the...

"Mazie Hirono is one of the most fiercely outspoken Democrats in Congress, but her journey to the U.S. Senate was far from likely. Raised poor on her family's rice farm in rural Japan, Hirono was seven years old when her mother left her abusive husband and sailed with her two elder children to the United States, crossing the Pacific in steerage in search of a better life. Though the girl then known as "Keiko" did not speak English when she entered...