Terry and Laura Sheldon try to ease their grief over the drowning deaths of their twin daughters by adopting Albert, a ten-year-old African-American boy,whose history gives him little hope that this home will be his last, but while Terry and Laura struggle to keep their marriage together.in the face of infidelity, Albert meets an elderly neighbor who offers him friendship and gives him a sense of pride through stories of the buffalo soldiers of the old West.
Draws upon diary entries and letters to chronicle the Civil War experiences of Thomas Taylor, an Ohio lawyer and junior officer in the Union Army. Covers the military and personal aspects of his life, presenting correspondence with his wife and quoting his accounts of the battles of Vicksburg and Chattanooga and Sherman's march through Georgia.
Presents a short biography of President Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton, and chronicles their childhood, college years, entrance into politics and the Presidency.
Newland Archer, a young lawyer in upper-crust 1870's New York, becomes a victim of social expectations and restrictions when he becomes infatuated with his docile fiancee's nonconformist cousin, Countess Ellen Olenska.
A study guide to Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew," featuring a selection of criticism and commentaries from throughout history, a plot summary, analysis of key passages, a list of characters, and a profile of the playwright.
McTeague, a quack dentist in late nineteenth-century San Francisco, remains friends with Marcus even after stealing Marcus's girlfriend, but things sour between them when Trina wins the lottery and refuses to share with anyone.
Fleeing with her two daughters who have never seen the world outside of their polygamous compound, a desperate woman crashes her car in rural Oklahoma, where she finds unlikely help from a farmer grieving the loss of his wife.
