How well do we ever know the people we love? Chessman examines this question in three generations of women in a contemporary Connecticut family. As dementia overtakes Hannah Pearl, she slips backward in memory to her escape from France in 1940; boarding the ferry with her heavy bags; the whistle of bombs raining down on London; the family she left behind. Her daughter Miranda, distraught by Han…
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Rosamund's Pillowcase is missing. She needs it now because her cat Big Hex likes to sleep on it. Can Nate the Great find the missing piece of laundry before the sun comes up, and before his bedroom slippers wear out?
When badguy Buzzsaw Bart shows up with a challenge in the town of Cowlick, everyone discovers that scale drawing can be the secret of success. Who will walk away the winner from the showdown at high noon and who will be cut down to size?