The Folding Star
The Folding Star

Author: Alan Hollinghurst

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2005-10-03

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 1596910038

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Obsessed with one of his pupils, teacher Edward Manners becomes embroiled in affairs with two other men, but only after discovering the life and work of Symbolist painter Edgard Orst does he come to understand the implications of obsession. Reprint.

The Florist's Daughter
The Florist's Daughter

Author: Patricia Hampl

Publisher: HMH

Published: 2009-01-15

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 0547416466

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This New York Times Notable memoir of a middle-class, middle-America family is a “beautiful bouquet of a book” (Entertainment Weekly). They say “a daughter is a daughter all her life,” and no statement could be truer for Patricia Hampl. Born to a Czech father—an artistic florist—and a wary Irish mother, Hampl experienced a childhood in St. Paul, Minnesota, that couldn’t have been more normal, the perfect example of a twentieth century middle-class, middle-American upbringing. But as she faces the death of her mother, Hampl reflects on the struggles her parents went through to provide that normal, boring existence, and her own struggles with fulfilling the role of dutiful daughter as she grew through the postwar years to the turbulent sixties and couldn’t help wanting to rebel against the notion of a “relentlessly modest life.” Named a Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year, The Florist’s Daughter is Hampl’s most extraordinary work to date—a “quietly stunning” reminiscence of a Midwestern girlhood, and a reflection on what it means to be a daughter (People).

Sunsets, Twilights, and Evening Skies
Sunsets, Twilights, and Evening Skies

Author: Aden Meinel

Publisher: CUP Archive

Published: 1991-01-25

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 9780521406475

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Explains what causes color variations in sunsets, tells how volcanic eruptions can change the sun's light, and discusses comets, meteors, city lights, and the aurora borealis.

The Charge of the Light Brigade and Other Poems
The Charge of the Light Brigade and Other Poems

Author: Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-03-05

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13: 0486113604

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Treasury of verse by the great Victorian poet, including the long narrative poem, Enoch Arden, plus "The Lady of Shalott," "The Charge of the Light Brigade," selections from The Princess, "Maud" and "The Brook," more.

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Author: Denny Bradbury

Publisher: Authorhouse UK

Published: 2013-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781481783163

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This is the author's second volume of poetry. The poems reflect the need for balance between nature and people and a sometime-forgotten spirituality. As many strive for a greener world, the author hopes that the thoughts behind her poems encourage that sentiment.

Let Evening Come
Let Evening Come

Author: Jane Kenyon

Publisher:

Published: 1990-04

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13:

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Somber poems deal with the end of summer, winter dawn, travel, mortality, childhood, education, nature and the spiritual aspects of life.

A People's History of English and American Literature
A People's History of English and American Literature

Author: Eugene V. Moran

Publisher: Nova Publishers

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9781590333037

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With special emphasis on literary merit, this book chronicles the literature of the great nations of Britain and America from their earliest origins to the twenty-first century.

Meet Me at Sunset
Meet Me at Sunset

Author: Olivia Miles

Publisher:

Published: 2023-05

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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The Morgan sisters spent many blissful summers at their family's lake house growing up, but as they grew older, their lives took very different paths. Hope adores her twin girls, but she doesn't love being a stay-at-home mom. When her workaholic husband doesn't support her career aspirations, she packs up the kids and goes to Sunset Cottage, thinking that some time apart will help her decide what she really wants-but when the life she dreamed of becomes a possibility, she is more torn than ever. Gemma was supposed to be planning her wedding, not trying to get back deposits. And she was supposed to be finished writing her latest romance novel, not staring at a blank screen. Lost and down on her luck, she heads north to Evening Island, hoping to find the inspiration she needs to fill the page, and maybe, her heart. Ellie is almost perfectly content living in the house that once belonged to her grandmother, even if it does get a little lonely sometimes. Still, work is steady at her art studio and the island continues to serve as a muse, especially when her first love makes a surprise return. In the course of a month, the Morgan sisters learn that despite their differences and their personal struggles, they might just have more in common than the old summer cottage that they inherited.