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Nikki's diary describes a frightful Halloween, on which she helps with her sister's ballet class party at the same time she is Brandon's date for their middle school Halloween dance, where she has promised to spend the evening with her two best friends.

Tor, undercover security operative for the British Jockey Club, masquerades as a waiter on a horse-racing junket called the Great Transcontinental Mystery Race Train.

En route to Germany in search of the maternal love she never had, eighteen-year-old Patty Bergen lingers in Paris and experiences her first love affair.

When a storm blows Dorothy to the land of Ev where lunches grow on trees, she helps Princess Ozma rescue the Queen of Ev and her ten children imprisoned by the Nome King.

Wealthy businessman Ralph Truitt advertises for a reliable wife to make a home for him on his estate in rural Wisconsin in the early twentieth century and although he knows immediately that Catherine Land is not the woman she presented herself to be, he decides to marry her anyway in what becomes a risky arrangement for them both.

After seven-year-old Lavinia is orphaned on the journey from Ireland to the United States, she begins work in the kitchen house of a tobacco plantation and bonds with the slaves who become her adopted family, but when Lavinia is accepted into the big house, her loyalties are challenged.

To escape a tragic love affair, Henry Childs enlists in the Marines and is thrown into the Korean War, and though the challenges of war leave him scarred and haunted, the difficulties he faces upon his return home are greater by far.

The author tells her life story, describing her Pennsylvania childhood, her college years in the midst of the Harlem Renaissance, her experiences as a welfare caseworker during the Depression, her four decades as president of the National Council of Negro Women, and her top-level involvement in the civil rights movement.

Outlines the Atkins diet, based on the control of carbohydrates, and includes research on its safety and effectiveness, tips for jump-starting weight loss, and recipes.