Famous American, chorus leader, showman, glee club pioneer, golf tournament host, and entrepreneur. Fred Waring was all of these and more, an enigma who held together a major musical organization for sixty-seven years, a man at ease on stage but loathe to sit through meetings, a man so earnest in his patriotism that by the 1980s he was considered almost an endangered species. Virginia Waring, his wife of thirty years, chronicles both his many achievements and his shortcomings with candor and affection in Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians."" Her gracefully written biography traces Waring's...

Tejas Verdes (-Green Gables-), once a seaside hotel, was an infamous Chilean torture and detention center during the early Pinochet years. One of the leading Spanish playwrights of his generation, Fermin Cabal's evocative play traces the life of a young woman who vanished one night in Santiago.