Edward Swift
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The magical saga of a remarkable family undone by madness, fate, and politics, and a dutiful daughter's lifelong pursuit of righteous retribution Josefina Esperon's parents came to Latin America together, but with separate missions. Her father, Dr. Alejandro Esperon, sought to better humankind by harnessing the curative powers of tropical plants. His wife, the beautiful, pious, and quite mad Eufemia, came seeking sainthood. Josefina enjoyed a privileged...
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The unbelievable (and unverified) life of Clarissa Spellbinder, as told by Miss Spellbinder herself Miss Clarissa Spellbinder has lived a truly astonishing life . . . or so she tells us. Her father was the intrepid adventurer Lord Andrew Spellbinder and her mother, the fiery Latin songbird Amelita de la Luna, who traveled the world and escaped almost certain death on numerous occasions. Miss Spellbinder relates their spectacular exploits to the patrons...
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The misadventures of a motley group of artists making their way in New York City A misfit collection of wannabes, has-beens, and never-weres, the Christopher Park Regulars gather frequently in the heart of New York's Greenwich Village. Here they share their hopes, dreams, and memories (and in the case of the abnormally obsessed C.C. Wake, an irrational fear of earthquakes), as they wait to become famous. Andrew T. Andrews left a fancy home, job, and...
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The new librarian in the tiny town of Splendora, Texas, has a big secret A stunning and stylish femme fatale named Miss Jessie Gatewood has arrived in the dusty hamlet of Splendora. Miss Jessie is the new town librarian-but she has much bigger plans than just shelving books. She intends to give the town and its people a much-needed makeover. But even as she is influencing the fashion sense of the local ladies-and winning the heart of the lovesick...
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The hilarious chronicle of the McAlister clan, a collection of bickering southern eccentrics whose family history is a parade of missteps, mishaps, and certifiable insanity In the later years of her life, widow and grandmother Pearl decides to return to East Texas and move in with her sister, Wanda Gay-despite the fact that the two have never agreed on anything. (It is no wonder that brother Frank preferred the relative quiet of a prison cell.) A...
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The magical multigenerational saga of an unforgettable Texas family At the turn of the twentieth century, Isaac Overstreet goes looking for a bride and finds Elizabeth "Bessie" Treadway standing in the middle of the Sabine River. Leaving her sisters without explanation, carrying her three pet cranes, Bessie slips into Isaac's boat and returns with him to Camp Ruby-a tiny backwoods East Texas community too humble to be called a real town. In Isaac's...
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A wide-eyed redhead finds her true calling as a Christian evangelist in a broken-down town in Southwest Texas A large redheaded girl from a small East Texas town, Principia Martindale is fairly directionless. But she finds purpose at Hillister Baptist College. Principia was born to be a missionary, she realizes, and her religious fervor wins her a bus ticket to the pathetic West Texas ghost town of Judson, population fifteen. Upon arrival, her days...