In 1920s London, Cecilia Summers, a recent widow, and her sister-in-law, Emmeline, face difficulties in their relationships with, respectively, the kind, but unemotional Julian Tower, and Mark Linkwater, who dictates the terms of his love affair. Reprint.
They keep them locked up and make them go hungry just to get drunk . " " Is that how they treat the ... But one of the guides and I fell in love , and when we got here we spent three days and nights making love like newlyweds .
This novel in verse is a powerful first-person account of Misael Martínez, a Salvadoran boy whose family joins the caravan heading north to the United States.
Landscape, Liberty andAuthority: Poetry, Criticism and Politics from Thomson to Wordsworth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Fulford, Tim, Debbie Lee and Peter J. Kitson. 2004. Literature, Science and Exploration in the Romantic ...
Can Emmeline face one of the greatest legends of all time—and live to tell the tale?
Written in Brad Kessler’s sharp, beautiful, and observant prose, and grounded in the author’s own corner of Vermont, where there is a Carthusian monastery, a vibrant community of Somali asylum seekers, and a hole left after a ...
Then Mr. Jackson told Alvin he had talent and he could come to the music room to practice extra at recess. So Alvin played new songs, sounding them out. Experimenting. When he told Mrs. Sullivan, the librarian at the 16th Street public ...
A brilliant Sudanese student takes his mix of anger and obsession with the West to London, where he has affairs with women who are similarly obsessed with the mysterious East....
Newbery Medalist Jean Craighead George lovingly tells the story of three wolf pups--from the moment they open their eyes to the time they lead the hunt.
Karen once again became wide - eyed . “ What the heck's that all about ? Scouting out firewood ? ” I shrugged . “ He's never said anything about firewood . ” “ Now what the — ? ” Karen broke off , because her father trudged out onto the ...
Find all the answers in James Oliver Curwood’s adventure novel "Flower of the North" from 1912. James Oliver Curwood (1878 - 1927) was an American writer as well as an unwavering nature lover and conservationist.