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|  | | Enter Three Witches
A boy struggles to keep his new girl friend away from his witch-infested home.
Bren has always been a loner and with good reason. It is hard to have a normal social life when your house is full of witches—three of them in fact. His mother, Miranda, is a gifted weaver of spells, his grandmother a successful fortune teller, and their friend and tenant a black practitioner of voodoo. So it was only after meeting Erika as he worked the lights for a school production of <i>Macbeth</i> that Bren began to wonder how he would ever bring a girl friend home. To make matters worse from his point of view, Erika was playing First Witch in Shakespeare’s terr | |  | | Remembrance of the Sun
The love story of an American girl and a young Iranian revolutionary in the year before the fall of the Shah.
When Jill and her family come to Tehran in 1977 they are only vaguely aware that hatred of the Shah has brought a tense city almost to the boiling point. For them the challenge is coping with life in a very foreign place, learning its language and customs, getting around in the vast maze of Tehran streets.
Then Jill meets Shaheen, the charismatic first horn player of the high school band, and the difficult, almost hostile city becomes a place of wonder and fascination. At first the two are constantly together, sharing their love of the french horn and clim |
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