Julie Harris

Marie Corelli was a best-selling author whose 30 books were published from 1886 until a year after her death in 1924. Many of these works are still available today.From an abandoned, illegitimate newborn to Queen Victoria's favorite author, this is the story of Minnie Mackay's transformation into Marie Corelli.A lonely child, a lonely woman.Beyond Laughter is a fictional account of Corelli's private life, based on what little fact is known.

Gray's a country kid who finds Boo, a magical critter that came out of the farm's bore.He's cute, he talks, he's great company, but the best thing about Boo is his poo.Yep, Boo is a little diamond factory, and he's been on the surface too long and needs to go home to his family.But home is deep underground.

"A love story that won't disappoint." Australia, 1867 With baby in arms, Anna follows her husband into their new beginning-a hot, dusty gold mining camp called Bitter Creek. Always dreaming of the hat shop she will have one day, Anna finds new friends in this no-man's land: a Chinese girl, an old American prospector whose son, Sam, often visits. There's a spark, but she is married and Sam's a wanted man with just cause to hate the district's sergeant. When...

In 1911, a young John Shaw from South Carolina had his first taste of flying.In 1926, two years after the plane crash death of his best friend, he attempted a solo flight record in a refitted 1923 Curtiss Jenny. Then, with half the journey completed, his plane was caught in a storm, went down, and for seventeen years he was listed as missing, presumed dead.The Longest Winter is a work of fiction, the tale of one man's life. His story is one of despair...

Compassion doesn't feature as a reality in Ruth's life. Compassion is always something that other people have in their hearts and so to Ruth it remains one of life's unsolved mysteries. 'Just one act of kindness can alter your life', her hapless brother once said. But his words meant nothing to Ruth, for when one lives within a fortress of one's own creation, there can be no conqueror. Once she was happy. Once she even loved somebody and his name...

Some promises are easy to break and harder to forget. Billy Shaw lives on the edge of nowhere. Half Aleut, half American, he escapes his old life in Alaska for a taste of the real world, the world his father came from, promising his sister and the remaining elders he will return to lead them into a new beginning, a real future. Just like his American father, flying is in his blood. But unlike his father, he wants more from life. He wants somewhere...

In wartime Holland, the Ten Boom family joins the underground resistance to help save persecuted Jewish families and quietly shelters Jews in their small house---until Nazis discover the ''hiding place.'' When they are arrested and imprisoned in concentration camps themselves, they're left with nothing to cling to but their faith. This is the remarkable true story of Corrie and her sister Betsie's endurance of the death camp, and their sure hope that...

Story of a shy little mouse whose great adventure comes at the age of seven, when he sets out to find his dearest friend, Margalo, a bird who stayed in the Littles' Boston fern.

Gerrie and Arthur Mason discover that their daughter, Maxie, is a drug-addict. Guessing their son Artie is responsible, they turn him out. Maxie flees, into the arms of her drug addict partner, but her parents find them and forcibly bring her home. A bad trip now leads the young girl to hospital. Her parents hear with amazement that her dealer is an exemplary student, Sandy, their respectable neighbors' son...

The shipwrecked Robinson family finds new life on a deserted island far from civilization until their makeshift paradise is threatened by the arrival of cutthroat pirates.