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Book Digest: The Lilac Bus, McNally's Secret, Dance While You Can, and The Duchess
Book Digest The Lilac Bus McNally's Secret Dance While You Can and The Duchess Author:Maeve Binchy, Lawrence Sanders, Shirley Maclaine, Jude Deveraux McNally's Secret — Stealing rare stamps is not your ordinary caper, nor is Palm Beach your ordinary town. The stamps are "Inverted Jennies" and someone is willing to kill for them. Private investigator Archy McNally soon finds out that the stamps are the center of a web of love, despair, and death that entangels some of Palm Beach's most glamorou... more »s people, including a real-life Jenny who is not so upright either.
The Duchess
Crumbling old Bramley Castle and handsome Harry Montgomery in his kilts-- it's enough to make a young woman feel a little giddy. Soon Harry will marry American Heiress Claire Willoughby, and she will become the duchess of his Scottish realm. It would be a romantic dream come true... if it weren't for some odd, disturbing characters lurking in the castle's dusty rooms and secret passages.
Dance While You Can
Here, in text and pictures, is a revealing self-portrait of a woman in the prime of her life and at the height of her powers as an artist. At the age of fifty-seven, the Academy Award-winning actress is astonishingly frank about her sometimes wobbly self-esteem and her physical frailties, what it is like to be alone at this time in her life, how she deals with creative pressures, and her incessant quest to understand her deeper identity.
The Lilac Bus
Every Friday night young Tom Fitzgerald's lilac-colored minibus leaves Dublin for the small Irish town of Rathdoon with seven weekend commuters aboard. Like small-town people everywhere, they all know something of each other's lives. But deeper currents run beneath their superficial friendships. Their fascinating, interconnected stories reveal the private worlds of the riders of the lilac bus as they face personal tragedy, family secrets, or difficult, even dangerous life-altering decisions.« less