Born in 1894, e.e. cummings is the sort of modernistic poet you either admire or despise and vilify at every opportunity.
Donald wants to marry his childhood sweetheart, Leticia Findley, but her father, the irascible real estate mogul, has branded him a brain-dead moron and persona non grata in their lavish house.
Ice cream is very strange. So is a codfish ball. But the people people marry Is the strangest thing of all.
Nate Berenson has been waiting a quarter century to ask his eighty-six year-old friend, Andy Walters, a nagging question. If he waits much longer there won’t be any answer to offer.
Today at Teddy Scholnik’s first day of Hebrew school things got off to a rocky start before going terribly tohoo vah-vohoo.
I am lying on my deathbed surrounded by devoted family and loved ones. Well, sort of.
Walter Weiner is a reference librarian who knows his stuff, but he may have met his match with Yuna, the Oriental woman trying to salvage a failing marriage and rediscover a semblance of normalcy.
Iris Murdoch is going to hire Ned Ogilvie, who knows next to nothing about plants, shrubs, herbs or fruit trees, to work at the Edgemont Garden Center. Ned’s major area of expertise is Hindu mysticism.
Walter Weiner is a reference librarian who knows his stuff, but he may have met his match with Yuna, the Oriental woman trying to salvage a failing marriage and rediscover a semblance of normalcy.
After the Thanksgiving debacle Gerald’s sister-in-law will never set foot in the house or talk to him again. Worse yet, Gerald will be sleeping on the couch until his wife decides what to do with the wretch.
One of Grace Paulson’s high school students is losing his mind, and she doesn’t know what to do to fend off the inevitable or cope with the impending tragedy.
Never heard of Gene Stratton-Porter? Born in the later eighteen hundreds, the novelist was as famous in the early 1900s as J.K. Rowling is now.
Hazel’s car broke down twenty miles shy of Bangor with wolves howling in the underbrush and the late November sun fading away to bone-chilling darkness.
George Elliot was one of the most memorable Victorian writers, some might say even more so than her contemporary counterpart, Charles Dickens.
Phyllis Moon, who works with the frail elderly at the Caring Hearts Home Care, is a full-blooded Blackfoot Indian. Phyllis will teach her boss, Alex Winthrop, a thing or two about Native American folklore while camping in the White Mountains.
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