Sixteen-year-old grim reaper Lex Bartleby tries to redeem herself among her fellow Grims by finding renegade Zara, who is indiscriminately damning souls, and stopping her once and for all.
Mansfield Park
by Oakley, Jacqui, Danielson, Julie, Austen, Jane
fromComplete Jane Austen collection
Mansfield Park is a study of three families-the Bertrams, the Crawfords, and the Prices-with the isolated figure of the heroine, Fanny Price, at its center. Fanny's quiet passivity, her steadfast loyalty and love for the son of the family who regard her as the poor relation, and…
"Mansfield Park is Austen's darkest and most complex novel. In contrast to the confident and vivacious heroines of Emma and Pride and Prejudice, its central character, Fanny Price, is a shy and vulnerable poor relation who finds the courage to stand up for her principles and des…
Réflexions sur les liens du sang et la violence avec laquelle l'histoire peut les défaire. Témoignages d'une Haïtienne transplantée aux États-Unis. [SDM].
Réflexions sur les liens du sang et la violence avec laquelle l'histoire peut les défaire. Témoignages d'une Haïtienne transplantée aux États-Unis. [SDM].
Andy looks back from the perspective of fifty years to the summer of 1944 when, as a nine-year-old boy, he was staying at his grandparents' farm near Port William, Kentucky, when his Uncle Andrew was murdered in a fight Andy thought he could have prevented.
It is 1987, and only one person has ever truly understood fourteen-year-old June Elbus -- her uncle, the renowned painter Finn Weiss. Shy at school and distant from her older sister, June can only be herself in Finn's company; he is her godfather, confidant, and best friend. So …
It is 1987, and only one person has ever truly understood fourteen-year-old June Elbus -- her uncle, the renowned painter Finn Weiss. Shy at school and distant from her older sister, June can only be herself in Finn's company; he is her godfather, confidant, and best friend. So …
It is 1987, and only one person has ever truly understood fourteen-year-old June Elbus -- her uncle, the renowned painter Finn Weiss. Shy at school and distant from her older sister, June can only be herself in Finn's company; he is her godfather, confidant, and best friend. So …
"Tells the story of Philip Ashley, a Victorian young man whose placid life in the English countryside is turned inside-out by an older woman the beautiful, sophisticated, mysterious widow of his uncle."--Back cover
Robin Perry, from Harlem, is sent to Iraq in 2003 as a member of the Civilian Affairs Battalion, and his time there profoundly changes him.
Once upon a time, in a gloomy castle on a lonely hill, where there were thirteen clocks that wouldn't go, there lived a cold aggressive Duke and his niece, the Princess Saralinda. She was warm in every wind and weather, but he was always cold. His hands were as cold as his smile…
The 13 clocks
by Thurber, James, Simont, Marc
fromThe New York Review children's collection
This is James Thurber's revamped fairy tale in which a wicked Duke who imagines he has killed time, and the Duke's beautiful niece, for whom time seems to have run out, both meet their match, courtesy of an enterprising and very handsome prince in disguise.