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conversations.value: a title for a book about Tammy, Homecoming, Nebraska with the genre: Biographies & Memoirs, True Crime
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conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'The Homecoming'
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conversations.value: Give me a description for a book titled The Homecoming about Bryna, Picture, Irish with the genre: Romance, Historical.
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conversations.value: Picture an Irish character doll come to life?long red hair, fiery temper, big heart, tiny waist?and you have predictably feisty Bryna Cassidy. En route to join relatives in the colonies in 1763, Bryna is suddenly orphaned when a villain throws her gambler father overboard. She travels to New Eden, Pennsylvania, only to discover that, except for her five-year-old cousin, all of her relatives have been slaughtered or kidnapped by Indians. In order to survive, penniless Bryna accepts the marriage proposal of rich landowner Dominick Crown, an exiled English lord who dresses in deerskin and refuses to powder his hair. She learns a lot about the persecution of the Lenni-Lenape tribe and meets the challenge of the New World while living in Dominick's cushy Old World mansion. Even with the author's attempts at historical and political correctness, this is flat, self-righteous stuff. <BR>Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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conversations.value: Picture an Irish character doll come to life?long red hair, fiery temper, big heart, tiny waist?and you have predictably feisty Bryna Cassidy. En route to join relatives in the colonies in 1763, Bryna is suddenly orphaned when a villain throws her gambler father overboard. She travels to New Eden, Pennsylvania, only to discover that, except for her five-year-old cousin, all of her relatives have been slaughtered or kidnapped by Indians. In order to survive, penniless Bryna accepts the marriage proposal of rich landowner Dominick Crown, an exiled English lord who dresses in deerskin and refuses to powder his hair. She learns a lot about the persecution of the Lenni-Lenape tribe and meets the challenge of the New World while living in Dominick's cushy Old World mansion. Even with the author's attempts at historical and political correctness, this is flat, self-righteous stuff.
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conversations.value: Give me a description for a book titled The Homecoming about North, London, Max with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Dramas & Plays.
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conversations.value: In an old and slightly seedy house in North London there lives a family of men: Max, the aging but still aggressive patriarch; his younger, ineffectual brother Sam; and two of Max's three sons, neither of whom is married-Lenny, a small-time pimp, and Joey, who dreams of success as a boxer. Into this sinister abode come the eldest son, Teddy, who, having spent the past six years teaching philosophy in America, is now bringing his wife, Ruth, home to visit the family she has never met.
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conversations.value: The Homecoming (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine): Quark gives Kira a Bajoran earring, which she immediately recognizes as belonging to Li Nalas, a Bajoran war hero long thought dead.\nLi is being held on the desert planet Cardassia IV, so Kira requests a runabout for a rescue mission.\nSisko tells her he will consider it, but while he considers the matter, O\'Brien discovers graffiti from an extremist faction called "The Circle", who want to expel all non-Bajorans from Bajor.\nSeeing this convinces Sisko that Bajor needs a leader like Li Nalas and he grants Kira the runabout.\nKira and O\'Brien, disguising their runabout as a Lesseppian transport, travel to Cardassia IV and discover a labor camp with more than a dozen Bajorans.\nO\'Brien pretends to solicit Kira to one of the soldiers, tricking him into lowering the force field that surrounds the camp.\nThey rescue Li and several other prisoners.\nBefore Kira and O\'Brien return to DS9, Gul Dukat contacts Sisko to inform him that the Cardassian government has issued a formal apology and that the remaining prisoners are en route to Bajor.\nBajor\'s provisional government, on the other hand, chastises Kira, because her actions might have resulted in war with Cardassia.\nDS9\'s Bajoran population greets Li Nalas as a returning hero.\nSisko and Kira urge him to help bring stability to Bajor, but shortly thereafter Li is caught trying to stow-away on a departing freighter.\nHe relates to a puzzled Sisko that he never wanted to be a hero; he killed a Cardassian out of necessity in a purely chance encounter, and his fellow Bajorans eventually turned him into a legend.\nSisko convinces Li to stay, because Bajor needs a legend like him.\nAfter a trip to Bajor, Li Nalas returns with Minister Jaro Essa of the provisional government.\nThe Chamber of Ministers has invented a new title for Li: "Navark".\nHowever, the title means little; seeing Li as a threat to their power, the politicians have made him liaison officer to DS9 and "promoted" Kira to Bajor, where they believe she can do them no more danger.
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conversations.value: \nLi is being held on the desert planet Cardassia IV, so Kira requests a runabout for a rescue mission.\nSisko tells her he will consider it, but while he considers the matter, O\'Brien discovers graffiti from an extremist faction called "The Circle", who want to expel all non-Bajorans from Bajor.\nSeeing this convinces Sisko that Bajor needs a leader like Li Nalas and he grants Kira the runabout.\nKira and O\'Brien, disguising their runabout as a Lesseppian transport, travel to Cardassia IV and discover a labor camp with more than a dozen Bajorans.\nO\'Brien pretends to solicit Kira to one of the soldiers, tricking him into lowering the force field that surrounds the camp.\nThey rescue Li and several other prisoners.\nBefore Kira and O\'Brien return to DS9, Gul Dukat contacts Sisko to inform him that the Cardassian government has issued a formal apology and that the remaining prisoners are en route to Bajor.\nBajor\'s provisional government, on the other hand, chastises Kira, because her actions might have resulted in war with Cardassia.\nDS9\'s Bajoran population greets Li Nalas as a returning hero.\nSisko and Kira urge him to help bring stability to Bajor, but shortly thereafter Li is caught trying to stow-away on a departing freighter.\nHe relates to a puzzled Sisko that he never wanted to be a hero; he killed a Cardassian out of necessity in a purely chance encounter, and his fellow Bajorans eventually turned him into a legend.\nSisko convinces Li to stay, because Bajor needs a legend like him.\nAfter a trip to Bajor, Li Nalas returns with Minister Jaro Essa of the provisional government.\nThe Chamber of Ministers has invented a new title for Li: "Navark".\nHowever, the title means little; seeing Li as a threat to their power, the politicians have made him liaison officer to DS9 and "promoted" Kira to Bajor, where they believe she can do them no more danger.
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conversations.value: The Homecoming (film): Teddy (Michael Jayston) brings his wife (Vivien Merchant) home to meet his estranged family.
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conversations.value: Give me a plot for a book titled The Homecoming about North, London, Max with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Dramas & Plays.. Start with the sentence 'The Homecoming: After having lived in the United States for several years, Teddy brings his wife, Ruth, home for the first time to meet his working-class family in North London, where he grew up and which she finds more familiar than their arid academic life in America'.
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conversations.value: The Homecoming: After having lived in the United States for several years, Teddy brings his wife, Ruth, home for the first time to meet his working-class family in North London, where he grew up and which she finds more familiar than their arid academic life in America.\nMuch sexual tension occurs as Ruth teases Teddy\'s brothers and father and the men taunt one another in a game of oneupmanship, resulting in Ruth\'s staying behind with Teddy\'s relatives as "one of the family" and Teddy and their three sons returning home to America without her.\nThe play begins in the midst of what becomes an ongoing power struggle between the two more dominant men, the father, Max, and his middle son, Lenny.\nMax and the other men put down one another, expressing their "feelings of resentment," with Max feminising his brother Sam, while, ironically, himself claiming to have himself "given birth" to his three sons.\nTeddy arrives with his wife, Ruth.\nHe reveals that he married Ruth in London six years earlier and that the couple subsequently moved to America and had three sons prior to his returning to the family home to introduce her.\nRuth\'s and Teddy\'s discomfort with each other, marked by her restless desire to go out exploring after he goes to bed and followed by her sexually suggestive first-time encounter with her brother-in-law Lenny, begins to expose that there are problems in the marriage.\nAfter a sexually charged conversation between Lenny and Ruth, Ruth exits.\nAwakened by their voices, Max comes downstairs.\nLenny does not tell Max about Teddy\'s and Ruth\'s arrival at the house and engages in more verbal sparring with Max.\nThe scene ends in a blackout.\nWhen the lights come up the scene has changed to the following morning.\nMax comes down to make breakfast.\nWhen Teddy and Ruth appear and he discovers that they have been there all night without his knowledge, Max is initially enraged, assuming that Ruth is a prostitute.\nAfter being told that Ruth and Teddy have married and that she is his daughter-in-law, Max appears to make some effort to reconcile with his son Teddy.\nThis act opens with the men\'s ritual of sharing the lighting of cigars after lunch, ending with Teddy\'s cigar going out prematurely and symbolically.\nMax\'s subsequent sentimental reminiscences of family life with Jessie and their "boys" and his experiences as a butcher also end abruptly with a cynical twist.\nAfter Teddy\'s marriage to Ruth receives Max\'s blessing, Ruth appears to let her guard down.\nShe relaxes and, focusing their attention on her ("Look at me".\n), she reveals some details about her previous life before meeting Teddy and how she views America (68–69).\nAfter Max and his brothers exit, Teddy abruptly suggests to Ruth that they return home immediately (70).\nApparently, he knows about her past history as "a photographic model for the body" (73) and about which she reminisces when talking to Lenny alone after Teddy has gone upstairs "to pack" for their return trip to America.\nWhen he returns with the suitcases and Ruth\'s coat, he expresses concern about what else Lenny may have gotten Ruth to reveal.\nAs Teddy looks on, Lenny initiates dancing "slowly" with her (74).\nWith Teddy, Max, and Joey all looking on, Lenny kisses Ruth and then turns her over to Joey, who asserts that "she\'s wide open"; "Old Lenny\'s got a tart in here" (74).\nJoey begins making out with Ruth on the sofa, telling Lenny that she is "Just up my street"(75).\nMax asks Teddy if he is "going" so soon; ironically, he tells Teddy, "Look, next time you come over, don\'t forget to let us know beforehand whether you\'re married or not.\nI\'ll always be glad to meet the wife".\nHe says that he knows that Teddy had not told him that he was married because he was "ashamed" that he had "married a woman beneath him" (75), just before peering to look at Ruth, who is literally still lying "under" Joey.\nMax adds that Teddy doesn\'t need to be "ashamed" of Ruth\'s social status, assuring Teddy that he is a "broadminded man" (75), and "she\'s a lovely girl.\nA beautiful woman," as well as "a mother too.\nA mother of three".\nContrary to the concurrent action, even more ironically, Max observes that Teddy has "made a happy woman out of her.\nIt\'s something to be proud of"; right after Max further asserts that Ruth is "a woman of quality" and "a woman of feeling," clasped in their ongoing embrace, Joey and Ruth "roll off the sofa on to the floor" (76).\nSuddenly pushing Joey away and standing up, Ruth appears to take command, asking for food and drink, and Joey and Lenny attempt to satisfy her demands (76–77).\nAfter Ruth questions whether or not his family has read Teddy\'s "critical works" — leading Teddy to defend his own "intellectual equilibrium" and professional turf (77–78) — Ruth and Joey go upstairs for what Lenny later says turns out to be a two-hour sexual encounter in bed, without going "the whole hog" (82).\nWhile Ruth is still upstairs, Lenny and the others reminisce about Lenny\'s and Joey\'s sexual exploits.\nLenny, whom the family considers an expert in sexual matters, labels Ruth a "tease," to which Teddy replies, "Perhaps he hasn\'t got the right touch" (82).\nLenny retorts that Joey has "had more dolly than you\'ve had cream cakes," is "irresistible" to the ladies, "one of the few and far between" (82).\nLenny relates anecdotes about Joey\'s sexual prowess with other "birds" (82–84).\nWhen Lenny asks Joey, "Don\'t tell me you\'re satisfied without going the whole hog.\n", Joey tentatively replies that "sometimes" a man can be "happy" without "going any hog" (84).\nLenny "stares at him".\nJoey seems to be suggesting that Ruth is good at "the game" that Lenny ultimately gets the "idea" to "put" her "on": Lenny proposes to Max that he "take her up with me to Greek Street" (88).\nMax volunteers that Ruth could come to live with the family, suggesting that they "should keep her" while she works for them part-time as a prostitute.\nThe men discuss this proposal in considerable detail, seemingly half-joking to irritate Teddy and half-serious (86–89).\nSam declares the whole idea "silly" and "rubbish" (86), Teddy adamantly refuses to "put" anything "in the kitty," as Max asks (87), and Lenny suggests that Teddy could hand out business cards and refer Americans he knows to Ruth when they visit London, for "a little percentage" (89–90).\nRuth comes downstairs "dressed" and apparently ready to join Teddy, who is still waiting with his coat on and their packed suitcases (90).\nTeddy informs her of the family\'s proposal, without going into explicit detail about their intention to engage her in prostitution, saying euphemistically that she will "have to pull [her] weight" financially because they are not "very well off"; then he offers her a choice to stay in London with the family "or" to return to America with him (91–92).\nRuth appears far more interested in the idea of staying with them.\nShe negotiates the terms of their "contract" (93) using business terminology in a professional manner that makes her seem adept at getting what she wants in such transactions (92–94).\nTeddy prepares to return to America without her.\nHaving spoken up a few times earlier to voice his objections, Sam blurts out a long-kept secret about Jessie and Max\'s friend MacGregor, then "croaks and collapses" and "lies still" on the floor (94).\nBriefly considering the possibility that Sam has "dropped dead" and become a "corpse" (94), the others ascertain that he is still breathing ("not even dead"), dismiss his revelation as the product of "a diseased imagination," and mostly ignore his body.\nAfter a pause, Ruth accepts their proposal: "Yes, it sounds like a very attractive idea" (94).\nTeddy focuses on the inconvenience that Sam\'s unavailability poses for him: "I was going to ask him to drive me to London airport" (95).\nInstead, he gets directions to the Underground, before saying goodbye to the others and leaving to return home to his three sons in America, alone.\nAs he moves towards the front door, Ruth calls Teddy "Eddie"; after he turns around, she tells him, "Don\'t become a stranger" (96).\nHe goes out the door, leaving his wife with the other four men in the house.\nThe final tableau vivant (96–98) depicts Ruth sitting, "relaxed in her chair," as if on a throne.\nSam lies motionless on the floor; Joey, who has walked over to Ruth, places his head in her lap; and Lenny, stands looking on.\nAfter repeatedly insisting that he is not an old man, and getting no reply from Ruth, who remains silent, Max beseeches her, "Kiss me" – the final words of the play.\nRuth sits and "continues to touch JOEY\'s head, lightly," while Lenny still "stands, watching" (98).\nIn this "resolution" of the play (its dénouement), what might happen later remains unresolved.\nSuch lack of plot resolution and other ambiguities are features of most of Pinter\'s dramas.
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conversations.value: The Homecoming
  Laine Ellis issued a hard promise backed by the hammer cocking on the Colt everyone knew she carried.
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conversations.value: She spoke softly, telling him about Tater's hidden place, unconsciously stroking his thickly stubbled cheek that enhanced the masculine contours of his face. She listened to his uneven breathing.
  But she was worried. Her heart raced. She rose and pulled Rachel away from the bed as she strapped on her gun.
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conversations.value: She rose and pulled Rachel away from the bed as she strapped on her gun. She listened to his uneven breathing.
  But she was worried. Her heart raced.She spoke softly, telling him about Tater's hidden place, unconsciously stroking his thickly stubbled cheek that enhanced the masculine contours of his face.
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conversations.value: Believing she has a responsibility to protect and redeem the women formerly in Kellian's employ, Annie soon realizes she's made a terrible mistake inviting them, and especially Kellian, into her home. Unsure whether he's trying to torture her or seduce her, Kellian's striking presence is beginning to rouse the passionate nature she's tried to hide. Annie decides to take her fate, and Kellian's, into her own hands, and learns a few tricks of the trade from her boarders, before turning the tables on Kellian. Will the saint redeem the sinner? Or the sinner seduce the saint?
  A young woman is tempted from her path by a handsome cowboy as mysteries about her past are revealed.
  Before taking her vows at a convent to become a young novice, Dominica Kirkland is summoned to an isolated Idaho ranch by Toma Colfax, a friend of her deceased father. Alone and naïve as to the ways of the world, Dominica soon finds herself overwhelmed, and reluctantly accepts the help of Luke, a ruggedly handsome cowboy. Drawn in by her beauty and her innocence, Luke makes it clear that he's interested in Dominica, no matter what vows she's considering.
  But at Toma Colfax's ranch await more questions than answers for Dominica. Toma claims no knowledge of the letter that called Dominica to the untamed wilderness. Slowly long-kept secrets are revealed, about Dominica's family, about Toma Colfax, and about Luke. Dominica must make painful choices, to return to the safety of the convent and live a life of solitude, or risk everything, including her heart, to stay with Luke.
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conversations.value: Dominica must make painful choices, to return to the safety of the convent and live a life of solitude, or risk everything, including her heart, to stay with Luke. Unsure whether he's trying to torture her or seduce her, Kellian's striking presence is beginning to rouse the passionate nature she's tried to hide. Annie decides to take her fate, and Kellian's, into her own hands, and learns a few tricks of the trade from her boarders, before turning the tables on Kellian. Will the saint redeem the sinner? Or the sinner seduce the saint?
  A young woman is tempted from her path by a handsome cowboy as mysteries about her past are revealed.
  Before taking her vows at a convent to become a young novice, Dominica Kirkland is summoned to an isolated Idaho ranch by Toma Colfax, a friend of her deceased father. Alone and naïve as to the ways of the world, Dominica soon finds herself overwhelmed, and reluctantly accepts the help of Luke, a ruggedly handsome cowboy. Drawn in by her beauty and her innocence, Luke makes it clear that he's interested in Dominica, no matter what vows she's considering.
  But at Toma Colfax's ranch await more questions than answers for Dominica. Toma claims no knowledge of the letter that called Dominica to the untamed wilderness. Slowly long-kept secrets are revealed, about Dominica's family, about Toma Colfax, and about Luke.Believing she has a responsibility to protect and redeem the women formerly in Kellian's employ, Annie soon realizes she's made a terrible mistake inviting them, and especially Kellian, into her home.
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  A few steps later, her son was standing there in the proper slacks and dress shoes he'd also objected to her buying, his corn-silk cowlicks slicked down, and in his face, so like his father's, Kara saw the man he would become.
  As if Mother Nature were smiling on the happy couple, the day of Cole and Kelli's wedding had dawned bright and sunny.
  The ceremony, limited to family and close friends, was held in the intimate parlor of the Shelter Bay lighthouse keeper's cottage, which had been restored with antiques replicating how the keeper's family would have lived during the 1870s.
  Cole introduced a black-haired stranger with unsettling steel gray eyes as Gabriel St. James, a former Marine war photojournalist and friend, who Kara couldn't help noticing didn't speak more than a dozen words the entire day. And he certainly didn't appear to be in a very celebratory mood.
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conversations.value: The ring lay on a bed of white satin. Three stones had been set into a woven, white gold band. "I had it made by that Celtic jeweler up in Cannon Beach," he told Kara. "Where we bought those earrings."
  She took the ring from the box and slipped it on her finger. "It's lovely." The thought that had gone into it was even more so.
  She held the ring up, admiring how it gleamed so warmly in the ruby sunset light streaming in through the window. "I believe it's already working."
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conversations.value: ". Three stones had been set into a woven, white gold band. "I had it made by that Celtic jeweler up in Cannon Beach," he told Kara. "Where we bought those earrings."
  She took the ring from the box and slipped it on her finger. "It's lovely." The thought that had gone into it was even more so.
  She held the ring up, admiring how it gleamed so warmly in the ruby sunset light streaming in through the window. "I believe it's already working.The ring lay on a bed of white satin.
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conversations.value: She rolled her expressive eyes. Then smiled in a way that had him thinking things. Hot, sweaty things. Things he had no business thinking.
  But that didn't stop him from imagining shooting her naked. Lying in the middle of tangled sheets. Or maybe on a blanket in a mountain meadow, looking flushed and satisfied.
  He was just trying to convince himself that walking across the room and attempting to pick her up would be the mother of all bone-headed moves when the wedding party moved on to the pyramid of cupcakes the bride had chosen instead of a traditional wedding cake.
  At the same time, the vet tossed the bouquet back into the clutch of eager females, wagged her fingers at him, and, slender hips swaying above a pair of ice-pick heels that matched her dress, walked out of the door. And out of his life.