A Special Providence

A Special ProvidenceBy: Richard Yates Bobby is eighteen and lost on the battlefields of Europe, stumbling his way through World War II. He has turned out to be the heroic soldier he imagined and his experience of battle principally involves fear and confusion. Back home, his mother Alice puts all her hopes in her son, and dreams of his return and starting a new life for them both. Richard Yates's novel is both tender and ironic as he follows Bobby's adventures and

from the amaryllis in spring

By: Jack Weatherford  A “provocative [and] vivid” (Minneapolis Star Tribune) look at the primitive cultures that have given many gifts to the modern world

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painfully honest

Mary Aiken clearly and calmly separates reality from myth

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'This is a fascinating tale which brings a quest

the essential city of the New World just beginning to rise across the southern rim of the United States

the author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Book of Longings

striking photography

they begin to wonder—could Edward’s house be haunted by the ghost of Harry Houdini

By: Mckay Jenkins     When World War II broke out in Europe