Title: The Royal Shepherdess. A tragi-comedy in five acts and in prose and verse. Altered by T. Shadwell, from the Rewards of Virtue, by J. F.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The POETRY & DRAMA collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The books reflect the complex and changing role of literature in society, ranging from Bardic poetry to Victorian verse. Containing many classic works from important dramatists and poets, this collection has something for every lover of the stage and verse. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Fountain, John; Shadwell, Thomas; 1691. 4 . 644.i.41.

Retired Detective A.C. LaFleur is back in Oswego, New York, from a well-deserved winter in Florida. But as soon as he returns, his friend, nurse Maggie Malone, calls from the Syracuse burn ICU, with a request: a young girl has been severely burned in an apartment fire, and local authorities are slow to investigate. LaFleur's efforts to get at the truth lead him in unexpected directions, and he becomes a target of the arsonist.

A newspaper article from 1964 appears mysteriously one day in an Oswego, New York hospital operating room. It's an obituary describing the bizarre suicide of a young nurse, found dead in a hospital lounge, hooked up to an anesthesia machine. Retired police detective A.C. LaFleur is asked to find out why the article has appeared again, after all these years--and what really happened that day? Based on a true story.

John W. Fountain grew up on some of the meanest streets in Chicago, where drugs, crime, decay, and broken homes consigned so many black children to a life of despair and self-destruction. A father at seventeen, a college dropout at nineteen, a welfare case soon after, Fountain was on the verge of giving up all hope. One thing saved him,his faith, his own true vine. True Vine is John Fountain's remarkable story,of his childhood in a neighbourhood heading south of his strong-willed grandparents, who founded a church (called True Vine) that sought to bring the word of God to their neighbours of his mother, herself a teenage parent, whose truncated dreams help nurture bigger dreams in him of his friends and cousins, whose youthful exuberance was extinguished by the burdens they faced and of his religious awakening that gave him the determination to rebuild his life. Today John Fountain is an award-winning reporter for The New York Times , based in his hometown. His return to Chicago marks how his story has come full circle, this time in triumph. True Vine is an inspiring, moving, gripping story of one man's American dream,a dream that all of us can share.