The Nature of Fragile Things -- Susan Meissner, Paperback Sharpless including Myrna Loy and William

including Myrna Loy and William Powell

The Rolling Stones and The Specials

Track: 8 - Bankrupt :/

Curated by 78-rpm record collector Pat Conte

The Nature of Fragile Things -- Susan Meissner, Paperback Sharpless including Myrna Loy and WilliamApril 18, 1906: A massive earthquake rocks San Francisco just before daybreak, igniting a devouring inferno. Lives are lost, lives are shattered, but some rise from the ashes forever changed. Sophie Whalen is a young Irish immigrant so desperate to get out of a New York tenement that she answers a mail order bride ad and agrees to marry a man she knows nothing about. San Francisco widower Martin Hocking proves to be as aloof as he is mesmerizingly