Laura McDonald
“The Professor’s House” by Willa Cather
The Professor’s House by Willa Cather was first published in 1925. Split into three parts, the first and last take place in a small college town on Lake Michigan. These two parts tell the story of Professor St. Peter and the changing relationships within his family. The middle section is Tom Outland’s narrative about his adventures in the Southwest where we enter with him into a world of desert mesas and long hidden civilizations.
“Anne of the Island” by LM Montgomery
If the prior two books lacked romance, this one makes up for it. Anne and two college friends share a quaint house in Kingsport, and there is a constant stream of “beaus” coming through the door. One of the friends, Phillippa Gordon, is an excellent addition to the book. She is vain, but knows it, and that somehow makes her utter superficiality less annoying. Even she has her share of romance, happening upon it–as seems the theme of this novel–where she least expects to find it.
“One of Ours” by Willa Cather
A winner of the 1923 Pulitzer Prize, One of Ours tells the story of Claude Wheeler, a young Nebraska man who is struggling to find meaning in his life. The novel is divided thematically into two parts. The first part is set in the Nebraska wheat fields where Claude works on his father’s farm. The second part takes place in France where Claude serves in the American army during WWI.
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You may have noticed a little slowdown in site activity at Girlebooks. We’ve been doing some website housekeeping. Notably, our entire catalog is now available through Amazon’s Kindle ebook store. You can take links from our ebook catalog to the appropriate page on Amazon’s website to send the ebook to your Kindle.
“Anne of Green Gables” and “Anne of Avonlea”
Perhaps suprising for a book about a young girl, readers of both genders and all ages have posted reviews about how wonderful Anne’s story is, “without violence, sexual situations, or earthy language.” We marvel that we still have the capability of being taken in by such a simple story. Somehow these novels help us tap into a primal instinct for nature and simplicity that reminds us of what life’s really about, and they do it most absorbingly.
“A Humble Romance and Other Stories” by Mary E Wilkins Freeman
This collection catch you from its “humble” beginning. Each story is engrossing, yet surprising in its simplicity of characters and plot. Far from beautiful heiresses or men on panting steeds, the main characters are mostly old spinsters and sometimes a plain niece or two. The plot rarely goes beyond a long held grudge or–at the extreme–a woman left at the alter. But the stories pull you in from the start, as if you had known the characters all you life and are unavoidably invested in their fates.
“Wives and Daughters” by Elizabeth Gaskell
First published as a serial from August 1864 to January 1866 in the Cornhill Magazine, the story revolves around Molly Gibson, the only daughter of a widowed doctor living in a provincial English town in the 1830s. When Gaskell died suddenly in 1865, it was not quite complete, and the last section was written by Frederick Greenwood.
5,000 More eBooks Available on Amazon
After a deal with publisher Simon & Schuster Inc, Amazon is adding 5,000 more books to their Kindle ebook store bringing the total amount of ebooks available to 125,000. Read an article about it here. Now if only they’d put up Wide Sargasso Sea and some Georgette Heyer ebooks, I mght plunk down some money [...]
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