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Young Jack Easy, full of his wealthy philosopher father's impractical notions of the rights of man and perfect equality—and failing to find much sympathy for them on land—resolves to join the navy, reasoning that "although the whole earth has been so nefariously divided among the few, that the waters at least are the property of all." He soon finds, though, that life in the Royal Navy is not quite the egalitarian ideal that he had expected, and is a good deal more eventful.

It was easy to call us forbidden and harder to call us soul mates. Yet I believed we were both. Forbidden soul mates. When I arrived in Edgewood, Wisconsin, I didn't plan to find him. I didn't plan to stumble into Joe's bar and have Daniel's music stir up my emotions. I had no clue that his voice would make my hurts forget their own sorrow. I had no idea that my happiness would remember its own bliss.

Als die beiden dank dieser Eigenschaft gezwungen sind, ihre Heimat Hals über Kopf zu verlassen, landen sie unplanmäßig auf einer windgepeitschten Insel vor der Küste Neufundlands. Lita freundet sich schnell mit der gehörlosen Tochter der Gastgeber an, der einzigartigen Oona McGregor. Als sie den auf der Insel lang herbeigesehnten Mr. Saito das erste Mal begegnet, der mit seinem Wanderkino Nachrichten aus aller Welt zu ihnen bringt, ahnt Lita nicht, dass er ihr Leben für immer verändern wird.

"A joyful, life-affirming story.... A lovely tribute to creatives everywhere." —Uzma Jalaluddin, author of Much Ado About Nada In this charming, delightfully original rom-com, a struggling writer’s muse suddenly comes to life, but can they create their own happily-ever-after? Legal secretary...

It is the late 1920's, the era of Babe Ruth, Charles Lindbergh, and Al Capone, and Walt is a Saint Louis orphan rescued from the streets by the mysterious Hungarian Master Yehudi, who teaches Walt to walk on air. The vaudeville act that results from Walt's marvelous new abiltiy takes them across a vast and vibrant country, where they meet and fall prey to sinners, thieves, and villains, from the Kansas Ku Klux Klan to the Chicago mob.

Calista Frangopoulos è una donna sposata di cinquantasette anni, con due figlie in procinto di lasciare casa. Francesca, la grande, andrà a fare l’università negli Stati Uniti e Arlene, la piccola, è stata presa per l’anno successivo a Oxford. Dopo aver lasciato Francesca all’aeroporto, Calista ricorda quando lei stessa era stata in America per tre settimane nel 1976 e l’incontro casuale che le aveva segnato l’esistenza, quando una sera a Los Angeles, con la sua amica Gill, si era ritrovata a tavola con Billy Wilder, senza sapere chi fosse.

Declan dreams of becoming a writer. It's a dream that helps him escape the realities of his life—going through the motions at college and stacking supermarket shelves part-time, whilst fighting a battle with the ever-darkening thoughts in his head. James Cavani—Declan's idol and his hometown's claim to fame—is a renowned writer, director and actor. But despite his success, his past hasn't relinquished its hold of him, and through his younger sister's battle with drug addiction, he finds himself returning to a world he thought he had escaped.