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![]() ![]() ![]() Review: Told from the perspectives of three young women living in the Unity community, Sister Wife by Shelley Hrdlitschka explores the role of women in a polygamous community in a thoughtful, well-rounded manner. Fearful of losing her family and hindered by strict religious life she has always known, Celeste’s unlikely friendship with a boy who builds inuksuik in the river opens her eyes and heart to new possibilities, helping her find the courage to choose something different. Spurred on by the stories of Tatianna, a girl taken in by the community while she gets back on her feet, and discouraged by her sister Nannette, a fervent believer in the way of the community who dreams of the day when she will become a sister wife, Celeste must decide for herself whether she will submit to becoming the multiple wife of an older man. Summary: Faced with an impending arranged marriage within her Unity community, Celeste finds herself having doubts and falling for a boy named Jon instead. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is the strange rippling effects of a tragedy that will bring these five characters together in a large, neglected estate house near the Scottish fishing town of Creagan. Business takes him to northern Scotland, where he falls in love with the lush, craggy landscape and set his sights on a house. He is without home and without roots all he has is his job. Sam Howard is trying to pull his life back together after his wife has left him for another. With Christmas approaching, Carrie agrees to look after her sister's awkward and quiet teenage daughter, Lucy, so that her mother might enjoy a romantic fling in America. They have a beautiful daughter, Francesca, and it is only because of their little girl that Oscar views his sacrificed career as worthwhile.Ĭarrie returns from Austria at the end of an ill-fated affair with a married man to find her mother and sister sharing a home and squabbling endlessly. Oscar Blundell gave up his life as a musician in order to marry Gloria. Gradually she settled into the comfortable familiarity of village life - shopkeepers knowing her tastes, neighbors calling her by name - still she finds herself lonely. ![]() In Winter Solstice, best-selling author Rosamunde Pilcher brings listeners into the lives of five very different people.Įlfrida Phipps, once of London's stage, moved to the English village of Dibton in hopes of making a new life for herself. ![]() ![]() ![]() He is accidentally released by his brother George. ![]() He has an adventure in which he gets caught in a window-blind while exercising, and Snowbell, the family cat, places Stuart’s hat and cane outside a rat hole and panicking the family. First we learn of Stuart’s birth to a family in New York City and how the family adapts, socially and structurally, to having such a small son. It is a realistic fantasy about a talking mouse, Stuart Little, born to human parents in New York. Stuart Little was illustrated by the subsequently award-winning artist Garth Williams, also his first work for children. White, his first book for children, and is widely recognized as a classic in children’s literature. Stuart Little is a 1945 children’s novel by E. Unfortunately, one page has a child’s scribble on it, though all text is legible. Dust jacket missing, some wear to covers and inscription on front page. White, Garth Williams (illus)Ĭondition: Stated first edition, 1st printing of this famous children’s book. ![]() ![]() Nick, Seth, Gibby, and Jazz are back in action bringing justice, protection, and disaster energy to the people of Nova City.Īn unexpected hero returns to Nova City and crash lands into Nick’s home, upturning his life, his family, and his understanding of what it means to be a hero in the explosive finale of the thrilling and hilarious Extraordinaries trilogy by New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune.Ībout TJ Klune: TJ KLUNE is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling, Lambda Literary Award-winning author of The House in the Cerulean Sea, The Extraordinaries, and more. Heat Wave is the explosive finale to the thrilling and “uproariously funny” (Sophie Gonzales) Extraordinaries trilogy by New York Times and USA Today bestselling author TJ Klune! ![]() Books will be available for purchase and signing.Įvent is presented in partnership with The Frederick Center and Frederick County Public Libraries. This event is free and open to the public. Burr Artz Public Library as TJ Klune is in conversation with MK England to discuss his latest YA novel, Heat Wave. Join us on Tuesday, July 19 at 7 pm at C. ![]() ![]() This incident prompted Thoreau to write his famous essay, “Civil Disobedience” (originally published in 1849 as “Resistance to Civil Government”). Someone, probably a relative, anonymously paid Thoreau’s taxes after he had spent one night in jail. In July 1846, the sheriff arrested and jailed Thoreau for his tax delinquency. The local tax collector had ignored his tax evasion, but decided to act when Thoreau publicly condemned the U.S. ![]() Thoreau had already stopped paying his taxes in protest against slavery. Thoreau and other Northern critics of the war viewed it as a plot by Southerners to expand slavery into the Southwest. In 1846, the United States declared war against Mexico. For the next few years, Thoreau lived simply off the land, meditated, and wrote about nature. In 1845, he built a hut at Walden Pond on property owned by Emerson. ![]() The leader of the movement was Ralph Waldo Emerson, a writer and lecturer.Īt first, Thoreau agreed with Emerson’s teaching that social reform begins with the individual. He soon joined a religious, philosophical, and literary movement called Transcendentalism. ![]() ![]() He worked a short while as a schoolmaster, but then began writing poetry. Henry David Thoreau, the son of a Concord pencil-maker, graduated from Harvard in 1837. ![]() ![]() ![]() But for now Stella and Luka will fake it and deal with the fake breakup fallout later. And Luka's mom, grandmother, and aunts think it's the real thing, too. Of course the town thinks it's about time, they've known the pair were in love for the last ten years. Luka Peters and Stella would never want anything to hurt their best friend-ness but they can make this fake thing work. Stella's best friend of ten years is a good fit. No worries, she'll get someone to fake it with her. ![]() To help spruce up her story she says she owns the farm with her boyfriend despite the fact she doesn't have a boyfriend. So Stella enters a contest that could win her farm publicity and $100,000. The trees in the south field have all died, the fence has been damaged, pumpkins have been destroyed, decorations have been ruined, shipment orders have never arrived and now the farm is in the financial hole. ![]() She loves the place and has been trying to make it all work but a lot of bad things have been happening that have caused the farm to be in financial trouble. Stella Bloom is the owner of Lovelight Farms. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Although almost all the essays have appeared elsewhere, bound together, this fascinating volume makes a passionate defense for the "borderlands" of literature, "the spaces between genres," "the secret shelves between the sections in the bookstore." It is a diverse assortment of writings, including serious literary criticism, some autobiographical sketches and a few more opinionated polemics, all of which in one way or another endeavor to counter the "disdain and neglect" Chabon finds too often heaped upon "nonliterary" fiction.Ĭhabon contends that the lines between serious literature and genre were far less clear in prior times. Now, after 20 years, six more novels and two books of short stories, McSweeney's has published "Maps and Legends," Chabon's first collection of nonfiction. For a typically angst-ridden college student working a summer job just a short walk from the very building now christened "the cloud factory," Michael Chabon's "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh" was both a solace and a revelation, and it marked the beginning of a truly remarkable literary career. ![]() Word was quietly circulating through the city about a new novel - "our 'Catcher in the Rye' " was how a high school friend described it. ![]() By Michael Chabon McSweeney's 222 pages $24īelieve it or not, to be young and living in Pittsburgh in the summer of 1988 was something very special. ![]() ![]() ![]() A father leaves his daughter in Israel to pursue a painting career in New York a sex worker falls in love with the Israeli photographer who studies her. A couple discovers the ability to stop time together another couple lives with a constant loud beeping in their apartment, though only one of them can hear it. Author Shelly Oria explores the joys and pitfalls of contemporary relationships in her debut short story collection New York 1, Tel Aviv 0( FSG Originals).Įnter the world of New York 1, Tel Aviv 0, where the characters are as intelligent and charming as they are lonely. Love in the modern age is anything but easy. ![]() New month, new books! November is upon us, and so are a slew of new and noteworthy LGBT books. New in November: Andy Cohen, Shelly Oria, Barbara Smith, D.A. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Miss Marple arrives to make some gentle inquiries and finds chilling danger lurking surprisingly close to home. Carrie Louise, a quirky philanthropist with a string of ex-husbands, runs a correctional facility for young men on her estate. Glamorous Ruth Van Rydock (Joan Collins) is convinced her sister Carrie Louise is in danger, and confesses her suspicion to Miss Marple over tea. Here's the story summary from the PBS website: :P They Do It With Mirrors was the third entry in this series, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Miss Marple and PBS's run of six Agatha Christie adaptations concluded this Sunday on Masterpiece Mystery, and due to a variety of reasons I am once again, way behind in blogging. ![]() |