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In a rare and gorgeous departure, beloved novelist Alice Hoffman weaves a web of tales, all set in Blackbird House. This small farm on the outer reaches of Cape Cod is a place that is as bewitching and alive as the characters we meet. These interconnected narratives are as intelligent as they are haunting, as luminous as they are unusual. Inside Blackbird House more than a dozen men and women learn how love transforms us and how it is the one lasting element in our lives.

Savanna Tate has loved the same guy since she was 14yrs old. Now she and Tyler are in their second year of college. While Savanna is concentrating on maintaining her high grade point average and academic scholarship, Tyler is busy partying with his frat brothers and screwing around on his girlfriend behind her back. Savanna decides they need a break, just so she can focus and maybe change his mind about his priorities.

We all make promises to ourselves. But only a handful of us are able to follow through on those promises. Why? Because we never learned how... making and achieving personal goals is not a skill taught in school or covered on-the-job training. But now popular author and motivational speaker John Powers provides a roadmap to keeping those private commitments.

Ty and Miranda have always considered themselves cousins, due to the fact that they both share a common relative - Colt - even though they aren't really related at all. After helping Miranda deliver her baby in the backseat of a car, Ty becomes closer to both she and her baby. Their long-distance friendship keeps them platonic, even though in the past they both have wondered if there was something more happening between them. When something happens, and Miranda is forced to leave Kentucky and stay at Ty's parents farm, sparks start to fly.

A hot swimmer is seduced into gay passion! Phil, a hunky stud, had never noticed the bodies of the other men swimming at his pool. Not until he feels Craig's eyes upon him. The buff guy has a hungry look in his eyes. But things change when Craig makes his move. Kissed by a hunky man, Phil is shocked by how much he loves it. Invited to the showers to explore these gay passions, he'll have to make a choice. Is he a straight man? Or will he let himself be seduced gay?

Anne McKenzie is missing. Unfortunately for her, the only person who cares is Beck Sherwood, an alcoholic hipster she befriended after meeting him at a house party they were both a decade too old for. Now, she’s gone. Everyone else thinks Anne ran away - that she’s one of hundreds of girls fleeing lives they’re tired of living, but Beck decides to investigate anyway. Soon, he’s chasing her ghost through grimy Baltimore streets, probing her dark online past, and fighting his demons every step of the way.

When there really did seem to be more stars in Hollywood than in heaven, Hollywood Stage had them performing films as radio plays - on the sponsor's dime, of course. Classic films now become audiobooks, with many featuring the original stars from way back when. Here's She Wore a Yellow Ribbon starring John Wayne and Mel Ferrer.