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The Price of an Orphan Johnnie is a nine-year old city orphan (his mother is dead, his father in prison). He has recently been placed with Stuart and Kay Heath, a childless couple who live in the Australian outback on a cattle station which Stuart manages for its wealthy owner. Hoping for a "real" boy, they are bitterly disappointed. Johnnie is not quite the foster child they had in mind: he is "cheeky and lazy, cowardly and stubborn." So when he claims to have witnessed a murder they remind him of the boy who cried wolf. But then Johnnie and Kay are invited on a camping trip. A special treat to give Johnnie another chance to adjust to life in the outback? Or a cunning trap by a ruthless killer?
The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll One of H. G. Wells' earliest (and funniest) novels, The Wheels of Chance is a whimsical romance between a Walter Mitty-like draper's assistant, one Mr. Hoopdriver, and The Young Lady in Grey, whom he encounters while on a bicycle trip. The entire breathless story takes place as the characters pedal over dirt roads through the English countryside, in the too-brief halcyon era between the invention of the bicycle and the advent of the automobile. The shy Mr. Hoopdriver perceives that the Young Lady in Grey is being seduced by a cad (also on a bicycle), and over the course of several days and many miles of cycling, gallantly comes to her aid. With hilarious descriptions of the early days of cycling, delirious pastoral visions, a romping plot of high adventure, and H. G. Wells' sublime prose, The Wheels of Chance will find many happy readers in this automotive age.
The Book Borrower On the first page of The Book Borrower, Toby Ruben and Deborah Lardlaw meet in 1975 in a New York City playground, where the two women are looking after their babies. Deborah lends Toby a book, Trolley Girl, a memoir about a long-ago trolley strike and three Jewish sisters, one a fiery revolutionary, that will appear, disappear, and return throughout the years in which the women are friends. Through two decades Deborah and Toby raise their children, embark on teaching careers, and argue about politics, education, and their own lives. With sensitivity and grace, Alice Mattison shows how books can rescue us from our deepest sorrows; how the events of the outside world play into our private lives; and how the bonds between women are enduring, mysterious, and laced with surprise.
Complete Baby & Child Care Miriam Stoppard, MD, is an acclaimed expert and bestselling author on all aspects of parenting and child care. Her simple, practical style, and ability to clarify complicated issues have won her a devoted following around the world. Complete Baby & Child Care includes an updated, authoritative and comprehensive illustrated guide to the first five years of life; the latest recommendations for day-to-day care, plus suggestions for enhancing your child's physical and emotional health; revealing case studies on specific areas of parental concern, including children in need of special care; and how boys and girls develop differently and how to celebrate those differences.
What Kind of Nation: Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the Epic Struggle to Create a United States What Kind of a Nation is a riveting account of the bitter and protracted struggle between two titans of the early republic over the power of the presidency and the independence of the judiciary. The clash between fellow Virginians (and second cousins) Thomas Jefferson and John Marshall remains the most decisive confrontation between a president and a chief justice in American history. Fought in private as well as in full public view, their struggle defined basic constitutional relationships in the early days of the republic and resonates still in debates over the role of the federal government vis-à-vis the states and the authority of the Supreme Court to interpret laws.
The Cap Uncompromisingly frank and unsparing, The Cap is an unconventional Holocaust memoir that defies all moral judgment and ventures into the darkest terrain imaginable, that of a soul blackened by the unforgiving cruelty of its surroundings. Roman Frister's memoir of his life before, during, and after his imprisonment in the Nazi concentration camps sparked enormous controversy upon its publication in Israel and went on to become an international bestseller. With bone-chilling candor, Frister illustrates how the impulse to live unhinges all our comfortable notions of morality, blurring the boundary between victim and oppressor, dissociating heroism form survival, and leaving absolutely no room for martyrdom. |
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The Advancement of Learning Francis Bacon, lawyer, statesman, and philosopher, remains one of the most effectual thinkers in European intellectual history. We can trace his influence form Kant in the 1700s to Darwin a century later. The Advancement of Learning, first published in 1605, contains an unprecedented and thorough systematization of the whole range of human knowledge. Bacon's argument that the sciences should move away from divine philosophy and embrace empirical observation would forever change the way philosophers and natural scientists interpret the world.
Dark Matter, Missing Planets & New Comets "This is the most interesting new book on any subject that I've read in years… Van Flandern is an astronomer with such impeccably well established credentials that his peers can't completely dismiss his 'maverick' theories. From a simple, sensible starting point he carries the reader, by purely deductive reasoning, to a new view of the basic nature of things: from electrons to galaxies, from the nature of a photon to the cause of gravity to the origin of the solar system. Along the way, several paradoxes of existing theories (relativity, quantum mechanics, etc.) are explained and then resolved in the most simple and easily understandable expositions I've ever seen. Those acquainted in some detail with existing theories will appreciate the creative brilliance of Van Flandern's insights, the kind that seem to turn on a mental switch that blasts away every shadow in your field of vision at once…" Morry on the Market
Kingdom of Shadows Paris, 1938. As Europe edges toward war, Nicholas Morath arrives in Paris on the night express from Budapest. Morath, urbane and handsome at forty-four, spends his days as the owner of a small advertising agency and his nights in the bohemian circles of his Argentine mistress. Looming over this elegant existence, however, is the shadow of Adolf Hitler. Morath has been recruited by his uncle, Count Janos Polanyi, for a secret mission of the utmost importance. Polanyi is a diplomat tat the Hungarian legation in Paris; desperate to stop his country's drift into alliance with Nazi Germany, he lives in a shadow world and trades in conspiracy. In this, Furst's most accomplished novel to date, the quotidian details of Europe on the brink of war are brilliantly evoked. With Furst's deft use of suspense, each rendezvous, each foray behind enemy lines, and each checkpoint crossing is a breathtaking work of narrative tension.
The Boxer Rebellion "The Boxer Rebellion offers an unforgettable picture of China and the West in cultural, political, and religious conflict. Here is comedy and cruelty, charm and deceit, high culture and low invective, human pathos and dynastic gyrations, as Europeans and Americans encounter the half-crazy Boxers while China's monarchy sinks to its end. Much has changed since 1900, yet Diana Preston's riveting, beautifully written story suggests that some things endure; the West and China still have the capacity to misunderstand, demonize, and overrate each other. The Boxer Rebellion is important for grasping today's nationalism and China's love-hate posture toward America into the twenty-first century." Ross Terrill, author of Mao, China in Our Time, and Madame Mao
Comfort Me with Apples In this delightful sequel to her bestseller Tender at the Bone, the beloved food writer Ruth Reichl returns with more tales full of love, life, humor, and marvelous meals. When readers left Ruth at the end of Tender at the Bone, she was in Berkeley, California, working as a chef at The Swallow restaurant. Comfort Me with Apples picks up in 1978; Ruth is still living in a commune with her husband, Doug, but she has decided to put down her chef's toque and embark on a career as a restaurant critic. After a bumpy start (at the end of her very first on-the-job dinner, her credit card is unceremoniously rejected), she is soon visiting restaurants all over the world in search of a meal to write home about. The story that follows is an affectionate look at the apprenticeship; funny, daunting, always entertaining; of one of our best food writers.
My Venice Harold Brodkey first visited Venice in 1960, and his love of the city; its churches and vaporetti, its capacity to bewilder and seduce; brought him back time and again to the shores of the Adriatic in search of fresh inspiration. Brodkey's Venice is a city marked by powerful contrasts: solemn, fatalistic religiosity alongside exuberant mercantile optimism; pride beside humility; the sacred next to the profane. Illustrated with photographs by the renowned Italian photographer Giuseppe Bruno, My Venice combines passages from several of Brodkey's greatest works with previously unpublished notes and essays to create a portrait as rich, subtle, and beguiling as the city itself. |
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