Jennifer Jones
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Teaches kindness to all people and things. A hilarious, rhyming, read loud book that's perfect for the first or any day of school.
The classroom chairs have had enough!
You know, sitting’s not the only thing
That happens in our seats.
Sometimes, a kid sits pretzel-style,
And we have to smell their feet!
Author
Formats
Description
Dolly Lane is a dreamer; a downtrodden maid who longs to dance on the London stage, but her life has been fractured by the Great War. Memories of the soldier she loved, of secret shame and profound loss, by turns pull her back and spur her on to make a better life. When she finds employment as a chambermaid at London's grandest hotel, The Savoy, Dolly takes a step closer to the glittering lives of the Bright Young Things who thrive on champagne, jazz...
15) Beat the Devil
Pub. Date
2003.
Description
An offbeat tale of adventure and suspense involving the passengers on a steamer who attempt to outfox each other for illegal control of a parcel of land in East Africa believed to be rich with uranium deposits.
16) Duel in the Sun
Series
Pub. Date
2004.
Description
A woman taken into the home of a wealthy rancher becomes the subject of a tug-of-war between his two sons.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
"It's been seven long years since his people last tasted freedom. So when Cuban-born expatriate Tony Fenner finally returns to Havana, he joins the Organization, a small band of revolutionaries dedicated to ending the tyrannical rule of President Gerardo Machado. Aided by fellow rebel China Valdes, Fenner proceeds with his audacious master plan: to execute the head of the senate and then assassinate all of Cuba's leaders at his well-attended state...
Description
In Hong Kong in 1949, Mark Elliott (William Holden) is an American reporter covering the Chinese civil war. Undergoing a trial separation from his wife, he meets the beautiful Dr. Han Suyin (Jennifer Jones), a widowed physician from mainland China. As the pair fall in love, they encounter disapproval from both her family and his friends about their interracial romance. Although the film was a commercial success upon release, the casting of Jones in...
Pub. Date
p2003
Description
Mark Elliott is an American journalist stationed in the Orient during the Korean War. Han Suyin is a Eurasian doctor, the widow of a Chinese officer. The two meet in Hong Kong and are irresistably drawn to each other in spite--or perhaps partly because--of the different worlds they call home. Cultural obstacles prove insurmountable, however, when it comes to winning family approval for their relationship. When Elliott must travel away from Hong Kong...