Twelve-year-old Greta's dad wakes her up before dawn and crams her and her siblings into a station wagon. They set off on a journey from New England to California. On the way, Tom assures the kids that Mom will soon join them. Greta believes him at first, older sister Caroline no...
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Arcudi, John
Orcutt, Jane
Ascending to the throne in 1838, the young Victoria spends the early years of her reign struggling with her duties as monarch, harboring a romantic interest in Prime Minister Lord Melbourne (Rufus Sewell) before eventually marrying Prince Albert (Tom Hughes).
"She Walks in Beauty" is Kennedy's selection of poetry that tells the story of a woman's life, including first love and lasting love; marriage, motherhood, and work; times of silence and solitude, and times of awe. The collection includes works by Elizabeth Bishop, Sharon Olds, E...
Tells the story of the difficult loves of insular Englishman Charles Ryder and his peculiarly intense relationship with the wealthy but dysfunctional family that inhabited Brideshead. While at Oxford, Charles Ryder meets boyish, flamboyant Sebastian Flyte, who introduces Charles ...
Tom Stoppard's Arcadia merges science with human concerns and ideals, examining the universe's influence in our everyday lives and ultimate fates through relationship between past and present, order and disorder and the certainty of knowledge. Set in an English country house in...
Presents stories, poems, journal writings, and letters together with Typee, Billy Budd, and portions of four of Melville's novels.
"Arcadia's defense corps is mobilized against what appears to be a routine assault, one of many that the community repulses from paramilitary forces every year. But as sensors record a breach in the perimeter wall, even eighty-year-old Rachel Leopold shoulders a weapon and report...
"Ben Sladeen had come to Two Mile and taken a job as ramrod of the Barbed Wire spread with the intention of starting a new life. He wanted nothing to remind him of the old days in New Orleans, when he had been carefree and in love until the King brothers and Curly Temper had shat...