Thirty-four year old Ruby Bridge is a not-too-successful comedienne who uses her mother, a nationally-syndicated "moral and spiritual counselor" as the main fodder for her cynical, rather bitter humor. Her mother Nora, long divorced from Ruby's father, is a woman whose past is just about to catch up with her―in the form of blackmail by a former lover.After an accident (an attempted suicide?) Ruby returns to care for her stricken mother―bitterly resenting the fact that once again her mother's life has colonized hers. When she is approached by a publisher to write a biography of her mother, Ruby is desperate for the princely sum offered. Yet her research into her mother's past reveals a woman very different from the one Ruby expected. And what began as "mommy dearest" ends as a love story―not only between mother and daughter, but involving two very different men who play a key role in linking the past to the present.

Chelsea Cassidy, official biographer of the Southern queen of good taste, Roxanne Scarbrough, begins to uncover secrets that Roxanne wants to keep buried, which lead her to Cash Beaudine, a man Roxanne is determined to have for herself.

Product Description: "An ingeniously plotted, beautifully written and hugely enjoyable book that raises tricky questions about... our need for heroes [and] the price of personal compromise.'"―The Daily Telegraph For the first time since his much-beloved tale Hemingway's Chair was published in 1998, Michael Palin pens a new novel featuring the warm and witty story of an everyman, a tantalizing offer, a journey to India, and the search for the truth...read more

At the pinnacle of success in Hollywood, international stage and film star Marshall Stone fears that the secret twist of fate that brought him fame and fortune could bring his idyllic world crashing down around him. Reprint.

Product Description: National Bestseller  Winner of England’s Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets...read more

Designed for undergraduates in chemistry and related subjects, this third edition has been updated to add material at the forefront of organic systhesis and to make the treatment of energy and mechanism more complete. The integrated CD-ROM allows students to manipulate and measure bond distances and angles as well as distances between non-bonded atoms, they can also rotate models in space and compare mirror images.