it's a beautifully written evocative old fashioned family saga with a strong sense of time and place and a mystery hanging over the family that you wonder if it will be solved or not. A book with memorable characters and both pathos and humor.
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From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret
“One of the best books I’ve read in my entire life. It’s epic. It’s transportive . . . It was unputdownable!”—Oprah Winfrey, OprahDaily.com
The Covenant of Water is the long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese, the author of…
of the historical fiction and realism. Hannah focuses on a little known aspect of the Vietnam War, the women who served. In her characterization, she makes us feel for Frankie the protagonist, especially in the problems she faces on her return to the States, with her family and society. Hard to put down!
From master storyteller Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds, comes the story of a turbulent, transformative era in America: the 1960s. The Women is that rarest of novels—at once an intimate portrait of a woman coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided by war and broken by politics, of a generation both fueled by dreams and lost on the battlefield.
“Women can be heroes, too.”
When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these unexpected…
it's such an intriguing idea to take a certain place and look at it through time and generations in a variety of narrative voices. The writing really has joy and rapture in it.
A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the centuries—“a time-spanning, genre-blurring work of storytelling magic” (The Washington Post) from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Piano Tuner and The Winter Soldier.
“With the expansiveness and immersive feeling of two-time Booker Prize nominee David Mitchell’s fiction (Cloud Atlas), the wicked creepiness of Edgar Allan Poe, and Mason’s bone-deep knowledge of and appreciation for the natural world that’s on par with that of Thoreau, North Woods fires on all cylinders.”—San Francisco Chronicle
Do you remember teachers who inspired you? Teaching is like no other career; we teachers daily give our whole selves to our students. My book is above all a memoir of my teaching journey and how I developed as a language and literature teacher. It’s what I learned from my students and school colleagues.
For both new and experienced teachers, I present teaching ideas to make class a fun place for learning. With chapter epigraphs, poetry, and student excerpts, my book recommends that a firm teaching philosophy and a sense of humor go a long way toward handling a classroom of teenagers. The book is not only for teachers but for anyone who’s ever been inside a classroom!
