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English
Description
Recalling the past at her daughters' request, Lara tells the story of a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance, which causes her daughters to examine their own lives and reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.
"In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor...
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Series
Language
English
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"Beauty has been nothing but a curse to Penelope Snow, so she hides her fairness when she becomes a personal maid for a famous actress. But when her beauty is discovered, her mistress arranges her disappearance and leaves her stranded. Rescued by a Texas Ranger, Penelope is prepared to build a new life for herself . . . except the handsome Ranger she fancies suspects her of being a conniving jewel thief"--
Beauty has been nothing but a curse to Penelope...
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In The long high noon, cowboys Randy Locke and Frank Farmer, who have spent years trying to kill one another, decide to take their final duel public and sell tickets to an event where the winner takes all, and in The adventures of Johnny Vermillion, a Pinkerton detective must set a clever trap for an acting troupe that is robbing banks.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Set in 14th century England, the story involves a priest who leaves the church after committing adultery. He falls in with a troupe of traveling actors. The group ends up in a small town where a mute woman is accused of witchcraft and murder. Drawn to the woman, the troupe re-creates the events in hopes of drawing a crowd and solving the crime.
Author
Publisher
Vertico/DC Comics
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The third book of the Sandman collection is a series of four short comic book stories. In each of these otherwise unrelated stories, Morpheus serves only as a minor character. Here we meet the mother of Morpheus's son, find out what cats dream about, and discover the true origin behind Shakespeare's A Midsummer's Night Dream.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Rose investigates the disappearance of her irresponsible and impetuous sister who fell followed a cult-like cabaret troupe that only appears at night on a mysterious red boat that sails around New York and is blamed for several disappearances"--