Natalie hates being a call girl. Answering an ad, she becomes a chaperone for two teenaged girls on vacation in Europe. The girls are wicked. When the travelers return to America, one of them arrives with a baby.

MEMOIRS OF A PIANO is a whimsical chronicle of the vicissitudes of fortune of a French piano during more than a century of historical upheavals.
In its own voice Piano regales us with many stories, thus joining some of its famous predecessors such as Voltaire's bed or Jonathan Swift's tub, or even Gogol's nose and Kafka's cockroach, who all talked
And what stories piano tells It tells us how it had almost ended up on the barricades during the French Commune. It describes Franz Liszt who had used it at a concert.
It meets young prodigy Claude Debussy and travels with him to Russia where it becomes a house piano of the wealthy patroness of Tchaikovsky.
Fate interferes with piano's happy collaboration with Debussy, sending the young man back to France to become eventually world famous composer and the founder of the Impressionism, while piano becomes a witness to the mutiny on the battleship Potemkin on the Black Sea in 1905.
Piano's adventures continue with the dramatic escape from the Red Revolution aboard the yacht Renaissance belonging to a Russian Count. Safe in Turkey, the Count sells the yacht along with the piano to an eccentric American millionaire who renames the boat and sails her among the Greek Islands, buying antiquities.
The yacht and the piano barely survive vicious Atlantic storms on their way to New Orleans, where the ruined piano is discarded and abandoned on the beach. It is rescued by a group of black musicians, who repair it and move it to a club where it has to learn the new music- Jazz
The saga of the French piano continues in America, eventually leading to piano's vainglorious participation in the cruelest sport of the Great Depression-Marathon Dancing.
The piano survives it all. Finally, when it ends up among the props at the MGM Movie Studio, and is sold at the famous MGM auction in 1970, piano is an old and wise instrument, which views its history with a touch of nostalgia.
It still wants to serve Apollo, the god of light and music, but it has a secret desire to work with young musicians on the threshold of their fame, as it did once with Debussy, at the start of his life.
And at last, the great piano's desire is fulfilled.

Lively, colorful characters and vivid details about this brutal period of modern Soviet history make Shurik a poignant and educational book for all ages.
This is the poignant story of a beautiful young Russian nurse and a homeless orphan boy during the three-year siege of Leningrad in World War II.
Among the many people trapped in Leningrad by the advancing German Armies were a teenage actress named Kyra and an orphan boy called Shuik. Kyra, her brilliant stage career interrupted by the war, was serving as a military nurse when she found a small orphaned boy and saved him from a certain death by starvation after his family home was bombed.
The story revolves around the efforts of these two, the small boy and the young nurse, to survive in the face of great hardships of starvation and despair during the longest siege in modern history.
How the young nurse braves the bitter weather, privation and the dangers of the front lines to carry her duties to the wounded and how Shurik becomes a hero to a Leningrad military hospital as a moving, adventurous and human story based upon the author won experiences.

Natalie Cummings hates being a Hollywood call girl. She would've given anything to be an educated professional woman. When an opportunity presents itself to change her occupation, she grabs it, even though it means keeping a secret for the rest of her life.
Following an ad in a newspaper, Natalie applies for a job to chaperone two teenaged girls on their prolonged vacation in Europe. Natalie is ecstatic, however soon her enthusiasm turns into a deep disappointment: the girls are wicked.
As Natalie battles with the girls on their travels through Europe, there are three men who influence their lives - for good or evil.
When the travelers finally return to America, one of them arrives with a baby.

Max The Dog That Refused To Die retells the true adventure of Max, who becomes lost and severely injured but makes his way over rugged terrain reaching a cabin where he is befriended and rushed to a veterinarian. Almost totally emaciated from his ordeal, Max's chances for recovery are slim. Still, his indomitable will bolsters him against all obstacles. A tag with his owner's telephone number allows the kindly strangers to notify the owners of Max's condition. Helped by several specialists and the devotion of his family, Max eventually recovers.

Pepper's Ordeal is the true story of another of Kyra Wayne's beloved Dobermans. An open gate leads Pepper to a sinister character and rusty cages full of raging Pitbulls. After some shrewd detective work, Kyra and a pair of courageous boys rescue Pepper from a dogfight training farm, but not without an encounter with the woman with "one long earring".