There was a moment in 1940, the bleakest year of the Second World War with the Wehrmacht carrying all before it, when Winston Churchill made the French government a curious offer.
The most popular books were from this series called Commando Crocodile, and no matter how many copies she bought, Ms. Masie couldn't keep them on the shelves.
The happiest and most successful people in the world do everything in their power to avoid bad decisions that confuse matters and drag them away from their goals.
‘Y- y-y-you’re crazy,’ Tom said, and I could tell he was scared, seeing as he stammered one more time than he usually does.
Look, I didn’t want to be a high school senior.
There’s only one thing that could make me agree to dress up like a playboy bunny and parade around half-naked in front of my colleagues and library patrons on a Wednesday night.
On his first night in the house, Mark lies on a mattress in the empty living room with all the windows open and listens to the neighbours beating their son.
When I look back on my career, I keep returning to an image I have of myself as a five-year-old boy, out in the backyard kicking goals.
Don shoved the back door open, banging it hard into the wall. Eve knew by the ferocity of his entrance he was certain to pick a fight with her tonight.
