Rosemarie

A new voice in the tradition of Anne Tyler and Anita Shreve

Christmas Eve 1967: the night the lives of the McDonald children, Deborah, Robert, James, and Meredith, changed forever. Th eir mother, Rosemarie, told them she was running out to buy more lights for the tree. Instead, she boarded a plane bound for London, leaving the children with their father and the gnawing question: Why did their mother abandon them?

Over the years the siblings have become practiced in concealing their pain, remaining close into adulthood and forming their own families. But long-closed wounds are reopened and secrets that each sibling has locked away come to light, as their father progresses into dementia and James encounters Rosemarie after nearly forty years of her absence. Veitch’s family portrait reveals the joys and sorrows, the complexity and ambiguity of family life, and poignantly probes what it means to love and what it means to leave.

The fifth album by The Monkees gets the deluxe treatment with a superb 3-CD reissue containing the original stereo album, the first CD release of the rare mono LP mix, plus 64 rarities, many previously unreleased. Peaking at #3 on the Billboard album charts in 1968, it was the first Monkees album not to reach #1. It was held out of the top spot by a pair of Simon and Garfunkel albums (The soundtrack to “The Graduate” and “Bookends”). Features “Daydream Believer” and “Valleri.” With complete booklet and packaging scans.

Well-known for her doll clothing, German designer Rosemarie Ionker now turns her creative hand to clothing today’s popular fashion dolls. Drawing on her background as a fashion student in Germany in the late 1950s and 1960s, Ms. Ionker has created a collection of patterns reflecting the prêt-a-porter styles of those days, which are now viewed as classics of fashion design. In this book she offers patterns for basic pieces from which seamstresses can create a skirt, jacket, pants and dresses, using a variety of fabrics and embellishments.

Modern mathematics isn't quite capable of counting how many R&B bands existed in Great Britain during the 1960s, but like a significant number of them, the V.I.P.s were destined to win greater recognition after they called it quits than while they were together. The final version of the V.I.P.s evolved into Spooky Tooth, who enjoyed chart success in both Europe and the United States during their late-'60s/early-'70s heyday, while guitarist Luther Grosvenor became a member of Mott the Hoople after changing his name to Ariel Bender (he also received some less than flattering reviews from several young women in the documentary Groupies, but that's another story).

Die Apothekerin Hella Moormann liegt in der Heidelberger Frauenklinik mit Rosemarie Hirte als Bettnachbarin. Um sich die Zeit zu vertreiben, vertraut Hella der Zimmergenossin die abenteuerlichsten Geheimnisse an. Rosemarie Hirte wird zur unberechenbaren Beichtmutter.