Cherry reunites with her old Spencer classmates Gwen, Bertha, Josie, Vivian, and Mai Lee, when they all decide to take an apartment together in New York City, and work for the Visiting Nurse Service of New York.
The war is over, and Cherry is sent home. Her new assignment is working in a veteran's hospital, where she finds her biggest challenge in raising the spirits of men who have lost arms, legs, or other body parts. Will they be welcomed back to their families and able to work again? Jim Travers, the woodworker who has lost a leg and was the sole ......
We may have eyes that look - but how clearly do we see? This compelling novel of art and adventure, Julia Grigg's debut, is set in the feverish creativity of mid-sixteenth century Italy. Francesco Bassano wants to find out how and why an extraordinary painting was made; the story traces his quest to discover the secrets of the portrait's past. ......
A lost classic of the historical thriller genre by beloved mystery writer Joseph Heywood. The Berkut revolves around an elite Soviet team--Special Operations Group--tasked in 1945 with tracking down Hitler, attempting to escape Berlin with the aid of SS Colonel Gunter Brumm, a man considered the best of the best among Nazi Germany's most highly ......
Like all revolutions, this one too has led to a regime more despotic than the one it replaced." So observes an omniscient narrator in Ghazaleh Alizadeh's monumental novel The House of the Edrisis, offering a darkly comedic glimpse at the aftermath of an unnamed twentieth-century uprising. In this concluding volume, the revolutionary tumult that ......
The Auspicious Time is a novel focusing on life in Beijing before and after the founding of New China, observing the earthshaking changes around them from the perspective of a child named Auspicious. It is a children's novel with deep Beijing charm and Chinese feelings. With restrained and peaceful brushstrokes and poetic and tender narratives, ......
As the Great War rages across Europe, Rand Brandt, an idealistic young forester in the northwoods of Wisconsin, discovers a remarkable gift: his touch can grow any plant in minutes. Overjoyed, he dreams of devoting his life to conservation, restoring to its former glory a landscape devastated by lumbering. At night, Rand tests his powers, pushing ......
Volume 3: Spanish Golden Age Drama in Mexican Translation
Don BartolomE de Alva was a mestizo who rose within New Spain's ecclesiastical hierarchy when people of indigenous heritage were routinely excluded from the priesthood. In 1640 and 1641 he translated several theatrical pieces from Spanish into Nahuatl, yet this prodigious accomplishment remained virtually unknown for centuries.Nahuatl Theater, ......