Product Description: In this carefully paced novella the author offers the reader an admixture of mystery and charm when an English professor promises his lover-colleague on her death bed that he will complete her landmark study of one of Britain's most illustrious novelists...read more

Product Description: Love Sketches explores the sensuality of romance and the varieties and vagaries of love.....Former colleagues, `almost lovers,' meet to discuss literature only to discover a yearning that rekindles their lost romance; teenagers infused with the early fl owering of romance struggle to maintain that romance against all odds; a young romantic learns a tragic lesson of love and redemption all too soon; an elderly professor devises a plan for one last try at romance; and amid an atmosphere rich in romance and sensuality two close friends reunite to reveal deep feelings they've held for one another, feelings which went unnourished for those years they had convinced one another they were `just friends...read more

A father's decision to undertake a do-it-yourself-project for his daughter is made not with love, but spite; a daughter returns to the home of her childhood not so much to attend her father's funeral, as to carry out a long-planned revenge; once a month a professor leaves campus to look in on her senile mother, only to find herself caught in a test of will and wit, and unaware that it is a contest in which the winners always lose; a waitress who nightly pines for the one she had allowed to slip away, uncharacteristically reaches out for one intense moment of intimacy with a mysterious stranger. Those are the stories of just a few of the people whose lives are played out in Moon Alley. David Appleby's carefully crafted stories are written in what the New England Review has termed, 'an easy, fluid style," and that, entwined with compassion, and an acute awareness of language, provides the reader of Moon Alley with a compelling look into the lives of those who live there.

Explores the cast and story of the motion picture 'Ella Enchanted', including interviews and facts about its stars--Anna Hathaway, Hugh Dancy, and Cary Elwes-- and photographs from the set.

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Photographs combine with the lyrics of songs by the rock and roll band, Pink Floyd, to vividly portray the alienation and disillusionment of a young boy