A powerful tale of passion and loss-and the wretched consequences thereof- Ethan Frome is one of American literatures great tragic love stories.Īlso included in this volume are four of Edith Wharton’s finest short stories: “The Pretext,” “Afterward,” “The Legend,” and “Xingu.” Her sensitivity to natural beauty and human psychology, however, make this slim novel a convincing and compelling portrait of rural life. Unhappily married herself, Edith Wharton projected her dark views of love onto people far removed from her social class in Ethan Frome. As Mattie is forced to leave his household, Frome steals one last afternoon with her-one that culminates in a ruinous sled ride with unspeakably tragic results. A poor farmer, Ethan finds himself stuck in a miserable marriage to Zeenie, a sickly, tyrannical woman, until he falls in love with her visiting cousin, the vivacious Mattie Silver. One of Edith Wharton’s few works of fiction that takes place outside of an urban, upper-class setting, Ethan Frome draws upon the bleak, barren landscape of rural New England.
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You’d be shocked to realise how few times I get asked for my opinions. I appreciate being asked to write this post. It’s Charles the library cat here, and happy to be so. With The Legend of Sleepy Hollow on everyone’s minds and ghoulish gossip on everyone’s lips, Lucy will need to separate the clues from the boos if she wants to crack this case without losing her head in The Spook in the Stacks, the delightful fourth in national bestseller Eva Gates’ Lighthouse Library mysteries. Is Lucy at her wit’s end? Or can it be that the Bodie Island Lighthouse really is haunted? Meanwhile, very strange things are happening at the library―haunted horses are materializing in the marsh, the lights seem to have an eerie life of their own, and the tiny crew of a model ship appears to move around when no one is watching. Now, it’s up to Lucy Richardson and her fellow librarians to bone up on their detective skills and discover who is responsible for this wicked Halloween homicide. Unfortunately, while the library is hosting a lecture on ghostly legends, Jay becomes one of the dearly departed in the rare books section. Wealthy businessman Jay Ruddle is considering donating his extensive collection of North Carolina historical documents to the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library, but the competition for the collection is fierce. Halloween in North Carolina’s Outer Banks becomes seriously tricky when librarian Lucy Richardson stumbles across something extra unusual in the rare books section: a dead body. Excerpt from The Wise Woman and Her Secret, by Eve Merriam, text copyright © 1999 by Eve Merriam, reprinted with permission of Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division. Excerpts from See the Ocean, by Estelle Condra, copyright © 1994 by Estelle Condra, reprinted with permission of Inclusive Books, LLC all rights reserved. While extensive effort has gone into ensuring the reliability of information appearing in this book, the publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, on the accuracy or reliability of the information, and does not assume and hereby disclaims any liability to any person for any loss or damage caused by errors or omissions in this publication. Reading Comprehension M a x i m i z i n g Y o u r Im p a ctĪMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION Chicago 2007 The neighborhood is near the site of the 1939 World's Fair and the Belmont Park racetrack, an important venue for horse racing. Most of the novel takes place in New York City, albeit one of its less developed areas: Flushing, in the borough of Queens. He finished it and had it published in 1941 while still an undergraduate at Columbia College of Columbia University, where he received a B.A. Farley began to write The Black Stallion while he was a student at Brooklyn's Erasmus Hall High School and Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylvania. 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Kids Blog of middle grade Christmas-time fantasy books, and I am vexed at myself for not having read Bounce, by Megan Shull (Katherine Tegen Books, September 2016), before I wrote it because it would have been a lovely addition-I didn't have any other contemporary, realistic (except for the fantasy) book. KING GAIUS: A desperate King of Blood flees Mytica and sails to Kraeshia, where he attempts to ally with the famously brutal emperor across the Silver Sea. JONAS: The defeated rebel leader reunites with Princess Cleo, only to become a pawn in the dangerous hunt for the elusive Kindred. LUCIA: Heartbroken and blind with fury, the betrayed sorceress allies with the awoken Fire god, who also seeks revenge. MAGNUS: The steely prince of Limeros is once again torn between love and duty, leaving him wondering whether he's strong enough to rule his people. 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Studying city life and understanding the factors that encourage or discourage use is the key to designing inviting public space. Jan Gehl has been examining this question since the 1960s, when few urban designers or planners were thinking about designing cities for people. How do we accommodate a growing urban population in a way that is sustainable, equitable, and inviting? This question is becoming increasingly urgent to answer as we face diminishing fossil-fuel resources and the effects of a changing climate while global cities continue to compete to be the most vibrant centers of culture, knowledge, and finance. Pierre Berton has received over 30 literary awards including the Governor-General's Award for Creative Non-Fiction (three times), the Stephen Leacock Medal of Humour, and the Gabrielle Leger National Heritage Award. He was a columnist and editor for the Toronto Star, and a writer and host of a series of CBC programs. He wrote columns for and was editor of Maclean's magazine, appeared on CBC's public affairs program "Close-Up" and was a permanent fixture on "Front Page Challenge" for 39 years. He spent his early newspaper career in Vancouver, where at 21 he was the youngest city editor on any Canadian daily. He spent four years in the army, rising from private to captain/instructor at the Royal Military College in Kingston. From narrative histories and popular culture, to picture and coffee table books to anthologies, to stories for children to readable, historical works for youth, many of his books are now Canadian classics.īorn in 1920 and raised in the Yukon, Pierre Berton worked in Klondike mining camps during his university years. |