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Rick Stanton was a promising professional baseball player with dreams of playing in the major leagues and starting a family with his young wife, Francesca, when World War II changed everything. Rick returns from the war with his body broken and his dreams shattered. But it was not just body and spirit he sacrificed for the war. He and Francesca volunteered their beloved dog, Pax, for the Army's K-9 Corp, not knowing if they'd ever see him agai...

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Rescue comes in unexpected ways for one man and his dog in this moving and redemptive novel, The Dog Who Saved Me, by New York Times bestselling author Susan Wilson Cooper Harrison, a member of the Boston K-9 unit, never thought he would return to Harmony Farms. But when tragedy strikes and he loses his job, Cooper has no choice but to return to his hometown. It is a place where Cooper's father was known as the town drunk, his brother, Jimmy, ...

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When Alexandra Miller takes off for a remote spot in New Hampshire to paint Leland Crompton's portrait, nothing has prepared her for what's in store. The house is almost a castle, with its massive chimney, mullioned windows, and iron-work gate with wrought-iron roses. The housekeeper is unnerving. And Lee himself is hideously disfigured by a rare genetic disease. But in their long hours of work together deep in the wintry woods, Alix discovers...

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Written by a champion athlete and long-time coach, this practical resource is designed to encourage young women to start, and continue with, sports that teach girls enduring lessons about success and self-esteem.

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-> Chloe (USA/Kanada 2009, 92 Min., FSK 16): Catherine (Julianne Moore) ist eine erfolgreiche Ärztin und schon lange glücklich mit dem attraktiven Musikprofessor David (Liam Neeson) verheiratet. Doch mit den Jahren kam auch die Unsicherheit. Um die Treue ihres Mannes zu testen, heuert sie die betörende Chloe (Amanda Seyfried) an, ein Luxus-Callgirl. Chloe berichtet bald von ihren leidenschaftlichen Treffen mit David. Doch anstatt ihren Mann ...

-> Chloe (USA/Kanada 2009, 96 Min., FSK 16): Catherine (Julianne Moore) ist eine erfolgreiche Ärztin und schon lange glücklich mit dem attraktiven Musikprofessor David (Liam Neeson) verheiratet. Doch mit den Jahren kam auch die Unsicherheit. Um die Treue ihres Mannes zu testen, heuert sie die betörende Chloe (Amanda Seyfried) an, ein Luxus-Callgirl. Chloe berichtet bald von ihren leidenschaftlichen Treffen mit David. Doch anstatt ihren Mann ...

One Good Dog is a wonderful novel: a moving, tender, and brilliantly crafted story about two fighters-one a man, one a dog- hoping to leave the fight behind, who ultimately find their salvation in each other. Susan Wilson's clear and unflinching style is perfectly suited for her story that strips away the trappings and toys we all hide behind, and exposes our essential need to give and accept love in order to thrive."-Garth Stein, New York Tim...

Angus' family is musical. Everyone has their own instrument and everyone knows how to make music. But Angus can only hum along to his family's playing, and humming isn't good enough. Angus wants to join his family's orchestra.When Angus' father tells him the family will give him an instrument, he can't choose until he hears the fiddle at a ceilidh. But fiddling is hard, he can't make the music he wants. With patience, practice, and lots of les...

In Susan Wilson's The Dog Who Saved Me, former Boston K-9 unit policeman turned animal control officer in bucolic Harmony Farms is up against rescuing a gun shy and wounded dog gone feral, and proving that his low-life older brother is back in the drug business.Boston police officer Cooper Harrison never thought he'd go back to his hometown, Harmony Farms. But when his faithful K-9 partner Argos is killed in the line of duty, Cooper, caught in...

No city in America can match the literary heritage of Boston. Just as the city has a Freedom Trail connecting its Revolutionary sites, it also has a Literary Trail connecting the homes, workplaces, and final resting places of its great writers. This revised second edition of Susan Wilson's expert guidebook (originally published 2000, ISBN 0-618-05013-2) brings the story up to the minute. Winding its way through Cambridge and finding its way to...

Francis Graham Wilson was a central figure in the revival of interest in political philosophy and American political thought in the mid-twentieth century. While he is best known as a Catholic writer and conservative theorist, his most significant contribution is his original interpretation of the development of American politics. Central to his thought was a process of self-interpretation by the citizenry, a quest for ultimate meaning turning ...

Order and Legitimacy argues for the uniqueness of Spain among the other countries of Europe. For Wilson, the most salutary attribute of Spanish politics is found in the assemblage of smaller groupings of the citienry within the larger society in communities, and it is in the smaller association that the most important aspects of moral, social and political life were nurtured. The recovery of Spanish traditionalism, according to this book, is d...