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This warm, loving, and often hilarious personal history of My Fair Lady, Camelot, and Gigi describes the cast of a great era in American musical theater: Moss Heart, Fritz Loewe, Julie Andrews, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Cecil Beaton, Louis Jourdan, Maurice Chevalier, Leslie Caron, Vincente Minelli, Arthur Freed, and many others. How these people worked together to conceive, finance, write, produce, stage, and present these brilliant shows is detailed here.

After just 18 months of marriage, Clare has fled from her highly esteemed but sadistic husband, Gerald, in Ceylon and boarded a ship back to England. Onboard, she meets a charming but penniless expatriate named Tony Croom, who falls madly in love with her. They develop a close but platonic relationship, unaware that Clare's husband has set detectives on her. When Clare refuses to return to her husband, he accuses her of adultery with Tony in a highly public divorce case.

An anthology featuring famous sleuths: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Purloined Letter", Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Crooked Man" and G.K. Chesterlon's "The Man in the Passage".

Galsworthy¿s masterly portrait of the Forsyte family continues here with the fifth novel, The Silver Spoon, coming second in the second trilogy, called A Modern Comedy.

This Charles Dickens classic is the powerful satiric novel of selfish hypocrisy and financial speculation as it bloomed in insular England and in the spacious but narrow minds of the US. It is a novel that has relevance to today’s frequent financial crises.

In this biography, written long before the significance of Mozart's work was fully realized, Holmes reveals the musician's character and genius, his struggles, his influence on art, and the brilliant reputations that surrounded him.

In To Let, Irene's son Jon and Soames' daughter Fleur, now both 19 years old, fall in love. But when Jon learns of the past feud between their families, he decides that he cannot marry Fleur. To drive her from his mind, he travels to America with his mother Irene. Fleur now throws herself at her long-standing admirer, Michael Mont, a fashionable baronet's son, and the two are married.

Published in 1853, Bleak House is one of Dickens' most mature and ambitious novels. From London's slums to the Court of Chancery, where the endless case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce devours the future of several generations, the author's canvas of Victorian society vividly conveys an indictment of legal corruption, a riveting tale of detection, and a compelling emotional drama.

The three Geste brothers, orphaned early in life, are raised by an aunt. Their raucous youths are filled with the literature of adventure and ritualized horseplay centered around these myths and legends. So when the family's prized Blue Water sapphire turns up missing, each of the young men confesses to being the thief in order to protect the others and one by one they head off to join the French Foreign Legion.

In this first book in the series, Doctor Dolittle discovers that he can talk to the animals - Jip the dog, Dab Dab the duck, and Polynesia the parrot.

John Galsworthy's epic Forsyte Chronicles, a nine-volume series of novels dramatizing the fictional but entirely representative family of propertied Victorians, the Forsytes, has become established as one of the most popular and enduring works of 20th century literature. He made their lives and times, loves and losses so real that readers accused him of including real individuals whom they knew as the characters in his drama.

Is he Auguste Dupin? Or Edgar Allan Poe? Friend or enemy? Sane or mad? Helper or hindrance? Acclaimed author Avi has penned a novel of great intrigue, bringing alive this New England seacoast town in the mid-1900's, haunting the listener with a tale of things which are not what they seem to be. Or are they?

Maid in Waiting is the beginning novel in the last trilogy of John Galsworthy's Forsyte Chronicles. In this 7th installment, the story continues of the lives and times, loves and losses, fortunes and deaths of the fictional but entirely representative family of propertied Victorians, the Forsytes.

Marcos nunca ha tenido mucha suerte en el amor. Bueno, eso es lo que diría él, pero la suerte no tiene nada que ver, la verdad es que Marcos es un poco lerdo con las chicas. Por eso sus amigos se ponen pesados para que se haga un perfil en tinder: cuantas más opciones, más posibilidades de éxito, por pura estadística. Después de algunas citas desastrosas (o épic fails como las llaman sus amigos), Marcos ha hecho match con Julia.

Studies have shown that one-on-one ministry is key to evangelizing in today's society. Filled with incredible stories and a study guide in each chapter, Releasing God's Life equips listeners to engage in life-changing one-on-one ministry. By presenting the reality of the spiritual realm to the listener, this book explains how one may become more aware of an individual's spiritual walk and how to use that knowledge to help others walk in victory.

Forgive and forget. That is the mantra of many in our society. The problem is that “forgive and forget” goes against almost every part of the design that makes us human. David walks us through what true forgiveness looks like and how to remove all those dead dogs from your highway.