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""I've dreamed about them ever since I was a child..." Pharm is a skittish but friendly young man who is excited to start his new life as a college student. He'll make friends, join a club... and maybe figure out why he's always sensed that there's a certain someone he's fated to meet. The moment he locks eyes with Dean, the captain of the swimming club, he's attracted to him in a way he's never experienced before. Is this who he's been looking for...

Tohru Honda is an orphaned teenager who comes to live with the Sohma family in exchange for housekeeping duties, but she soon comes to know the family secret. In this episode, Tohru realizes she will have to create a trigger to break Kyo's curse.

Elsie Lavender and Homer Hickam (the father of the author) were high school classmates in the West Virginia coalfields, graduating just as the Great Depression began. When Homer asked for her hand, Elsie instead headed to Orlando where she sparked with a dancing actor named Buddy Ebsen (yes, that Buddy Ebsen). But when Buddy headed for New York, Elsie's dreams of a life with him were crushed and eventually she found herself back in the coalfields,...

"High-school senior and notorious wallflower Hawkins finally works up the courage to remove her mascot mask and ask out her longtime crush: Regina Moreno, head cheerleader, academic overachiever, and all-around popular girl. There’s only one teensy little problem: Regina is already dating Chloe Kitagawa, athletic all-star…and middling English student. Regina sees a perfectly self-serving opportunity here, and asks the smitten Hawkins to tutor...

Born into slavery in 1854, Nat Love grew up to become the most famous African-American cowboy in the Old West. A contemporary (and acquaitance) of Bat Masterson and Billy the Kid, Nat was widely known as an expert roper and driver, a crack shot and a realy Wild West character. In 1907, he published his autobiography, The Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Better Known in Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick," on which this book is based. -- Jacket flap...